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On Mets Off Day Live, host of The Mets Pod Joe DeMayo and The Athletic's Tim Britton join SNY's Chelsea Sherrod to discuss the value of New York's top prospects in the farm system and assess what the front office should do at the trade deadline.
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Fantasy Baseball Steals Report: Chandler Simpson returns, Drake Baldwin struggling on defense
As stolen bases continue to rise league wide, I will be here every Wednesday to help you track important stolen base trends so you can find more speed for your fantasy teams. Stealing a base is as much about the opposing pitcher and catcher as it is the actual base runner themself. So, being able to spot which teams and pitchers specifically are being run on most frequently will help you to figure out who can swipe some bags over the next week. Advertisement Last week , I mentioned that stolen bases had trended down over the prior seven days. Well, they were low again this week. Not quite as low, but the 104 steals were the second-lowest in a week all season, only more than the 99 from the week before. We've dealt with some extreme heat across most of the country lately. Perhaps that is leading to some more tired legs. MLB: Texas Rangers at Pittsburgh Pirates MLB Starting Pitcher News: Chase Burns' debut, Kumar Rocker cuts it up Eric Samulski discusses four trending starting pitchers and how interested we should be for fantasy baseball. Before we get to this week's important trends, here is the stolen base leaderboard over the past seven days. Player SB CS José Caballero 4 1 Sam Haggerty 3 1 Ronald Acuña Jr. 3 0 Tyler Freeman 3 1 Victor Scott II 3 0 Brady House 2 0 Christian Yelich 2 0 Carlos Santana 2 0 Jacob Young 2 3 Seven Others Tied 2 0 Hello Ronald Acuña Jr. After swiping one base in his first 24 games since returning from his second torn ACL, he's now stolen three over his last five without being caught. He's blatantly been the best hitter in baseball since returning. Stealing bases again would be icing on the cake. Advertisement Also, pay attention to Tyler Freeman and Brady House. Both are playing everyday and their teams – the Rockies and Nationals – are so bad that they want to see what they have in them. So, they'll probably keep running as long as they're playing. Now, here is the overall stolen base leaderboard on the season. Player SB CS José Caballero 29 6 Oneil Cruz 26 3 Pete Crow-Armstrong 24 4 Luis Robert Jr. 22 6 Victor Scott II 22 1 Bobby Witt Jr. 21 6 Elly De La Cruz 21 6 José Ramírez 20 4 Trea Turner 19 5 Chandler Simpson 19 3 José Caballero remains atop the leaderboard. He may not play everyday, but is a weapon on the basepaths when he does. That can make him a bit of a headache to roster in weekly leagues and a potential league-winner in daily leagues. Victor Scott II has been on base a bit more often lately. In turn, he's also stealing more bases. If only he could steal first base too. Advertisement Next, here are some players that we'd hoped would be more aggressive or efficient on the base paths. Player SB CS Jonathan India 0 3 Agustín Ramírez 1 2 Luis Rengifo 2 5 Seiya Suzuki 2 2 Bryan Reynolds 3 2 Ernie Clement 3 3 Willy Adames 4 2 Masyn Winn 4 5 Nolan Jones 4 3 Bo Bichette 4 3 Lars Nootbaar 4 4 Jose Altuve 6 5 Jacob Young 7 8 Luis Garcia Jr. 7 4 Jackson Holliday 8 6 Taylor Walls 9 6 Shohei Ohtani 11 4 Xavier Edwards 12 6 Luis Rengifo and/or Jacob Young might be on their way to the least efficient base stealing seasons of all time. It's impressive how much they continue to run with such little success. Shohei Ohtani only pacing for 20 or so stolen bases hurts his value a lot. If that's his ceiling there while pitching – and he's only still just building up – it will be nearly impossible to justify him as the number one overall pick in standard, weekly leagues next season. Now, let's go over the most important stolen base trends over the past week. Fantasy Baseball Stolen Base Targets The usual suspects – Marlins, Rockies, and Astros – each had solid weeks in terms of limiting the run game. So, we must look elsewhere for stolen base targets over the last seven days. Advertisement No team allowed more stolen bases last week than the Cardinals with eight. Three of those eight came in one game against the White Sox. Not coincidentally, that was their only game of the last seven where Iván Herrera started at catcher. Herrera has been a revelation at the plate this season with a .320 batting average and .925 OPS through 42 games surrounding a trip to the injured list. At the same time, 15 bases have been stolen against him in just 13 starts behind the plate. He also hasn't caught a single runner. He's hit so well and defended so poorly that he'd basically become the Cardinals' every day designated hitter. That is, until a hamstring strain put him on the IL again just a few days ago. Since he's gone out, Nolan Gorman has started most games at DH and finally shown genuine signs of life. If Gorman is still hitting when Herrera returns in a few weeks, they'll likely play him at catcher more often. That will open the door for tons of stolen bases against this team. Advertisement Otherwise, the Braves allowed the second most stolen bases of the week with six. That's surprising, since they've saved their season by throttling the formerly first place Mets in five straight games. Still, they've been susceptible in the run game all season and that's mostly a symptom of Drake Baldwin's breakout. He's forced his way into a 50/50 timeshare with the incumbent Sean Murphy because he's hit too well to come out of the lineup. At the same time, he's been poor behind the plate. Five of the six stolen bases the Braves allowed last week came with Baldwin catching. And, Murphy caught the only would-be base stealer. Spencer Strider has also become a great pitcher to stream stolen bases against. Advertisement Three of those six steals came with him on the mound and the 13.9 feet he's allowing on secondary leads is one of highest for any starting pitcher in the league. On one of those steals he gave up, Juan Soto simply took a running start to second while Strider was still in the stretch. Keep an eye on Herrera's return to the Cardinals plus Strider's starts, especially when Baldwin is catching, to grab some easy stolen bases. Chandler Simpson Back for Good? Our long national nightmare is over. Chandler Simpson has been recalled back from Triple-A by the Rays. His demotion a few weeks ago sent the fantasy baseball world into a frenzy after he swiped 19 bags in 35 games. At the same time, he struggled both at the plate and in the field, so it made sense for the Rays to give him a spell in the minors. Advertisement Now, he's back. Kameron Misner was sent down in the corresponding move which seems to open a starting spot for Simpson. Misner had been playing center field for the Rays most days and Simpson started there on Tuesday in his return. So, it looks like that could be his spot if he can handle it. Jake Mangum is a capable center fielder as well, but has been playing left more often while stolen base king José Caballero mixes in at right against left-handed pitchers when Jose Lowe is on the bench and shortstop, where he splits time with Taylor Walls. As usual, the Rays are certain to move most of these players around to fit their chess pieces together in the best way possible. Simpson looks to have a starting job at the moment, just don't be surprised if he loses it should he struggle again. Especially with both Richie Palacios and Ha-Seong Kim out on rehab assignments.
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Marlins pitcher Max Meyer to undergo season-ending hip surgery
SAN FRANCISCO — Marlins right-hander Max Meyer will undergo season-ending labral repair surgery on his left hip on Friday, the club told reporters ahead of Tuesday's game at the San Francisco Giants. Meyer had gone on the 15-day injured list on June 3 with a left hip impingement a day after a rough outing in which he allowed five runs (four earned) on 10 hits with five strikeouts and a walk against Colorado. Dr. Thomas Byrd in Nashville, Tennessee, will perform the surgery, which has an expected recovery timeline of around six-to-eight months. 'Disappointed to get the news that Max's season this year is over,' manager Clayton McCullough said ahead of Miami's 4-2 win over the Giants. 'And then now, just turn the page to him getting right, getting back healthy for next year. Max is — and we all are — bummed out for him that it ended up having to go this direction to get him back.' Meyer went 3-5 in 12 starts this season, posting a 4.73 ERA with 68 strikeouts. It's the fourth straight season that has been marred by injury for the 26 year old. His 2022 season was cut short when he tore an ulnar collateral ligament during his second Major League start and underwent Tommy John surgery. He missed the entire 2023 season. Right shoulder bursitis sidelined Meyer last September. The Marlins are also without left-hander Ryan Weathers, who was placed on the 60-day injured list on June 9 with a left lat strain, but they have the rotation of Sandy Alcantara, Eury Pérez, Cal Quantrill, Edward Cabrera and Janson Junk. McCullough did not say Tuesday if Meyer would be back by spring training. 'I think that's going to be very much dependent on how the rehab process goes,' he said. 'I think we certainly hope so, but that'll be just depending on how Max comes out of the procedure and how the rehab ends up going with him through the winter.' ___ AP MLB:
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NHL's first decentralized draft is a logistical challenge to make the event fit for TV
NHL teams for the first time in a non-pandemic environment will not be gathering in one place for the draft, and the mind-boggling logistics of decentralizing the annual event are right up Steve Mayer's alley. The league's president of content and events has masterminded how to put on outdoor games, All-Star weekends, the Stanley Cup Final in a bubble and last year's draft at the Sphere. Holding a smaller get-together at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles with similar pageantry and coordination between 32 teams spread across North America has become his department's next big challenge. 'We thought this would be simpler, and it's actually become way more complicated,' Mayer said Tuesday from LA. 'Everything has to be spot on. It was so much easier when you can look at table No. 6 and they were making their pick and it was easy. I just think this is way more complicated than it had been in the past.' Commissioner Gary Bettman will be on site, along with nearly 100 of the top prospects, 32 of whom will be selected in the first round Friday night and the others expected to hear their names called Saturday when the draft resumes. Then there are 90-plus remote cameras for the draft rooms in the various markets — including the Philadelphia Flyers setup down the shore in Atlantic City — and the guest selectors who will be announcing the picks, such as Jeremy Jackson and Marguerite Moreau of 'Mighty Ducks' movie fame for the Anaheim Ducks. There won't be a crowd of more than 100,000 fans in attendance like the NFL draft, though the NHL is hoping to put on a different kind of spectacle that translates well to TV. That includes a virtual environment a player will walk into and be able to interact with the staff of the team that just picked him. 'They're going to have a back-and-forth interaction with the kid they just drafted (and) the kid will have an opportunity to say a few words back at this group, which will be captured for television and it will be quite unique,' Mayer said. 'That moment in that environment ... is what I think will set us apart from the NBA and Major League Baseball and the NFL, to an extent.' The NHL also gave itself a tough act to follow with the spectacle at the Sphere last year. That was a celebration of the last in-person draft (or so everyone thought) for a while, and the venue on the Las Vegas Strip stood out as the star. This is nothing like a sequel, but some of the graphics that debuted in the Sphere will be back. 'We're taking some of those same elements, as you'll see, to give our environment depth,' Mayer said. 'On television, I think it'll look spectacular. Whether it's decentralized, centralized, we don't care. Just tell us what we need to do, and as an event team we're willing and ready to pull it off.' Pull it off now. But for how long? Bettman has repeatedly said teams — not the league office — asked and then voted for the draft to be decentralized. There's some regret about that, so decentralizing may be a one-off, one-year thing. 'If after this experience the clubs say, 'You know what, on second thought let's go back to the old format,' we'll do that,' Bettman said in Edmonton at the final. 'What we do will be totally in response to what the clubs tell us they want.' Club officials aren't quite sure what they want. This will be Washington Capitals assistant general manager Ross Mahoney's 28th NHL draft, and he compares it to the virtual ones in 2020 and '21. 'It gives you more freedom to talk,' Mahoney said. 'When you're on the draft floor, the next table's right here with scouts on other teams and that, so I guess it gives us a lot more freedom to speak freely and talk about things. But yeah we'll have a better idea after Saturday.' Mathieu Darche, GM of the New York Islanders who have the No. 1 pick, enjoys being on the draft floor with everyone in the same city. Maybe he'll get his wish next year, but he's fine with this as he runs a team for the first time. 'I'm comfortable with both situations,' Darche said. 'Whatever the league decides, I'll be doing my job.' ___ AP NHL:
