Mark Reynolds, Baltimore Orioles 1B/3B
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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 Thursday, September 6th.
5 Good Nights
- Mark Reynolds: 2-3, 2 R, 2 HR, 3 RBI
- Lorenzo Cain: 3-5, R, 2 steals
- Kurt Suzuki: 3-5, 2 R, HR, 3 RBI
- Tim Hudson: 7.0 IP, 6 H, 0 ER, 2 K’s, W
- Jordan Zimmerman: 7.0 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 9 K’s, W (not a GREAT game, but there were only five pitchers who went more than five innings yesterday, so I’ll take what I can get)
5 Bad Nights
- Justin Germano: 4.0 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, 2 BB, 2 K’s
- David Phelps: 4.0 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 2 BB, 3 K’s
- Marco Estrada: 5.0 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, 5 K’s
- Billy Butler: 0-4
- Rickie Weeks: 0-4
Daily Grab Bag
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- Brett Lawrie has been activated and will play tonight. I’m not sure what the Blue Jays are doing here, but get him back in your lineups if you held on.
- David Price is dealing with a sore shoulder and will miss Saturday’s start.
- Mark Teixeira (back) will not play today (as he had expected), but is hoping to be in tomorrow’s lineup.
- 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. (.330, 108 Runs, 25 HR, 75 RBI, 44 steals on the season).
Bryce Harper: Harper went 2-5 with two runs yesterday. (.260, 79 R, 17 HR, 47 RBI, 13 steals on the season).
Anthony Rizzo: Rizzo went 3-4 with one run, one home run, and one RBI yesterday. (.298, 31 R, 12 HR, 33 RBI, 2 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
Felix Hernandez vs. Oakland A’s
Stephen Strasburg vs. Miami Marlins
Cliff Lee vs. Colorado Rockies
3 Down
Luke Hochevar vs. Texas Rangers
Ervin Santana vs. Detroit Tigers
David Phelps at Baltimore Orioles
Throwing Darts
Homer Bailey vs. Houston Astros
A.J. Griffin at Seattle Mariners
Jonathon Niese vs. Atlanta Braves
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 – like today.
Swings
- Evan Longoria is 8-for-19 (.421) with two home runs in his career against today’s starter, Derek Holland.
- Jason Heyward is 5-for-14 (.357) with one home run in his career against today’s starter, Jonathon Niese.
- B.J. Upton is 8-for-17 (.471) with one home run in his career against today’s starter, Derek Holland.
- Adrian Gonzalez is 8-for-39 (.205) in his career against today’s starter, Tim Lincecum.
- Billy Butler is 6-for-29 (.207) in his career against today’s starter, Francisco Liriano.
- Jhonny Peralta is 3-for-20 (.150) in his career against today’s starter, Ervin Santana.
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
- Albert Lang previews today’s pitching matchups in the latest edition of Pitch or Ditch.
- Albert Lang is back with his Hot N Cold Fantasy Baseball All-Stars.
- Patrick DiCaprio gives another update to his patented Closer Identifier Algorithm Results.
- Joshua Kay brings some perspective on a few late-season call-ups.
- Need Week 1 Rankings and Cheat Sheets? Look no further…
- Looking for some help with your Survivor pick? Collin Hager’s here to help.
- It’s finally Start ‘Em, Sit ‘Em time and Steve DeAngelo has you covered for Week 1.
- I guarantee you there will be some busts this week, and Dan Leason did us all the favor of identifying the players we all need to avoid in Week 1.
- Collin Hager kicks-off (pun intended) the season with his first Players in the News column.
- Chuck Anderson picks out some Week 1 Offensive Sleepers to help you get a leg up this week.
- Dan Leason answers some big questions about some big names in his newest update.
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