Dan Uggla, Atlanta Braves 2B
Each and every day, I’ll be combing over box scores and scouring local beat writers’ reports to make sure you have all the information you need in order to make the right decisions for your fantasy baseball lineup. Make sure you check back at this very spot for Hot/Cold Streaks, Injury News, Closer Updates, Daily Stats, and more so that you can stay one step ahead of the rest of your league.
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5 Good Nights, 5 Bad Nights
It’s a fact of life that every baseball player goes through hot and cold streaks. It’s important not to let those streaks influence a player’s fantasy baseball value too much, but it is important to be aware of how a player is doing within a short period of time (a seven-day sorter is always a good tool to use). A player’s short-term numbers can be the difference between winning and losing in daily games, and it can also make a huge difference in year-long leagues. For instance, if you can keep finding the second basemen on hot streaks and dropping them for another streaking second basemen once they get cold, you can piece together a very useful middle infielder-by-committeefor your roto team. So before we get to today’s games, let’s take a spin through last night’s box scores to identify who had a good night and who had a bad night on Monday, September 17th.
5 Good Nights
- Dan Uggla: 2-3, 2 R, HR, 3 RBI
- Jacoby Ellsbury: 3-5, R, HR, 3 RBI
- Martin Prado: 4-4, R, 2 RBI
- Kevin Correia: 7.0 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 6 K’s, W
- Cliff Lee: 8.0 IP, 7 H, ER, 10 K’s, W
5 Bad Nights
- Doug Fister: 4.0 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 2 K’s
- Wade LeBlanc: 4.0 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, BB, 2 K’s
- Jose Quintana: 4.0 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 3 Ks
- Michael Bourn: 0-5
- Chris Davis: 0-5
Daily Grab Bag
Check back here for daily updates on injuries, closer battles, player news, and anything else that might affect your fantasy baseball team.
- Giancarlo Stanton will not be in tonight’s lineup due to an oblique injury.
- Danny Espinosa will miss at least the next three games after having an MRI on his injured shoulder yesterday. Sounds like it’s time to drop Mr. Espinosa.
- Trout/Harper/Rizzo/Bauer Watch: With three of baseball’s best prospects being called-up earlier this season, I’m going to dedicate this space to keeping tabs on the youngsters. Here’s to hoping that you were able to grab some of them!
Mike Trout: The Angels did not play yesterday. (.329, 116 Runs, 27 HR, 77 RBI, 45 steals on the season).
Bryce Harper: The Nationals did not play yesterday. (.263, 84 R, 19 HR, 50 RBI, 13 steals on the season).
Anthony Rizzo: Rizzo went 0-3 yesterday. (.296, 37 R, 14 HR, 43 RBI, 3 steals on the season).
3 Up, 3 Down, and Throwing Darts
Starting and sitting the right pitchers on a day-to-day basis is often the linchpin of winning any fantasy baseball league – roto, head-to-head, daily, and otherwise. In order to give you some help picking your pitchers for today, I’ve gone through all of the stats that I could (pitchers’ career numbers vs. certain hitters and lineups, home/road splits, lefty/righty splits, etc) and have made nine recommendations. I’m not going to proclaim that I’ll get these 100% correct all season, but anyone that does should be sitting on an island that they own in the Pacific – not writing fantasy baseball articles. The goal here is to play the odds the entire season and slowly build your “win” percentage closer to 100% than to 50%.
Here’s today’s recommendations with, 3 Up (three pitchers you shouldn’t think of sitting), 3 Down (three pitchers with some warning flags for today), and Throwing Darts (three pitchers that I’ll be taking a flier on):
3 Up
Kyle Lohse vs. Houston Astros
Yovani Gallardo at Pittsburgh Pirates
Max Scherzer vs. Oakland A’s
3 Down
Felix Doubront at Tampa Bay Rays
Ryan Dempster at Los Angeles Angels
Ricky Romero at New York Yankees
Throwing Darts
A.J. Griffin at Detroit Tigers
Wei-Yin Chen at Seattle Mariners
Matt Harvey vs. Philadelphia Phillies
Swings and Misses
A hitter’s career numbers against a pitcher don’t always tell the whole story, but it can be informative if used correctly. I’m of the opinion that some information is better than none, and while there are other pieces to the puzzle of setting your daily lineup (splits, weather, etc.), I think a hitter’s career numbers against a pitcher can be very indicative of future success or failure. Some guys just own certain pitchers, and vice versa. As such, I’ve gone through today’s matchups and picked the best (and worst) matchups I could find. Anything less than 10-12 career at-bats is a relatively small sample-size (so take those with a grain of salt), but sometimes that’s all that is available.
Swings
- Elvis Andrus is 22-for-54 (.407) with two home runs in his career against today’s starter, Jered Weaver.
- Albert Pujols is 20-for-57 (.351) with seven home runs in his career against today’s starter, Ryan Dempster.
- Hanley Ramirez is 7-for-15 (.467) in his career against today’s starter, Paul Maholm.
- Jacoby Ellsbury is 2-for-14 (.143) in his career against today’s starter, Jeremy Hellickson.
- Billy Butler is 8-for-37 (.216) against today’s starter, Gavin Floyd.
- Curtis Granderson is 4-for-21 (.190) in his career against today’s starter, Ricky Romero.
Don’t forget to check out the rest of the great content on FantasyPros911.com, starting with some of our most recent updates:
Fantasy Baseball
- Collin Hager takes a look at today’s pitching matchups in the latest edition of Pitch or Ditch.
- Albert Lang is back with his weekly Hot N Cold Fantasy Baseball All-Stars!
- Patrick DiCaprio shares the penultimate update to the Closer Identifier Algorithm Results.
- Matthew Dewoskin takes a look at O-Swing% with his latest Leaders and Laggards post.
- Chuck Anderson gets you ready for the last two weeks of the season with his weekly Added and Dropped update.
- Missed any of Sunday’s games? Dan Stack has the 411 on all of Week Two’s action.
- Wanna see how Paul Greco did on his Week Two FanasyPros911 Challenge entry? Here it is!
- And here’s a quick guide on how to play the FantasyPros911 Challenge by Dan Stack.
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