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Tons of injuries, the promotion of a highly touted prospect, and some continued struggles from Boston in the fourth week of MLB action.
AL East
Baltimore Orioles: Alex Cobb has a 60% HR/FB rate, the highest among any pitcher with 100IP this season.
Boston Red Sox: I am floored that Chris Sale is leading the league with 5 loses (and he has no wins!)
New York Yankees: DJ Lemahieu is pulling 37.5% of hits to the opposite field, 2nd highest in the league.
Tampa Bay Rays: The Rays have 7 players with a triple so far this year.
Toronto Blue Jays: Eric Sogard with a 1.077 slugging percentage over the last seven days including two doubles, two home runs and four runs. (I picked him up in two leagues)
AL Central
Chicago White Sox: Jose Abreu sporting a .545 AVG over the last seven days, this is great, but also means regression to the mean will be in the near future.
Cleveland Indians: Jose Ramirez has three stolen bases over the last week. This sort of offsets the .183 batting average over that same time.
Detroit Tigers: May is historically Miguel Cabrera’s best month
Kansas City Royals: Jorge Soler rocking 43 strikeouts over the last 30 days, that’s the most in MLB.
Minnesota Twins: Max Kepler with a 1.091 Slugging percentage over the last seven days; Also Eddie Rosario has the most Home Runs over the last month.
AL West
Houston Astros: Jose Altuve leads the team with nine home runs
Los Angeles Angels: Mike Trout has the best BB/K rate in the league but David Fletcher is #2 with a 1.75 given LAA the top two players.
Oakland Athletics: Uncertainty in closer role?
Seattle Mariners: Mallex Smith tops MLB league with a SPD of 9.4, 4.5% higher than Byron Buxton, the next highest in SPD
Texas Rangers: Shin Soo Choo has the 3rd most hits in MLB over the last 30 days (34)
NL East
Atlanta Braves: Luke Johnson (10%) is the only pitcher with a 75% GB rate or higher and 100IP.
Miami Marlins: Curtis Granderson was caught stealing twice this week. I respect the hustle making the attempt at 38.
New York Mets: Michael Conforto has 23 walks over the last month, that’s the 2nd most in MLB (behind Mike Trout).
Philadelphia Phillies: Rhys Hoskins in 2nd in the league pulling 58.9% of his hits, the shift will be used heavily here.
Washington Nationals: Max Scherzer has 722 pitches, this is 2nd most in the league behind Trevor Bauer who has 795.
NL Central
Chicago Cubs: Brad Brach has the highest BB/9 for any pitcher with over 10 IP (10.95 walks per nine)
Cincinnati Reds: Derek Dietrich was hit by 3 pitches this week, OUCH!
All Derek Dietrich does is get hit by pitches (that's 98 for his career). And now vee dance to first. Bases loaded, two outs. pic.twitter.com/p8Hsd7RDjN
— Jerry Beach (@JerryBeach73) May 2, 2019
Milwaukee Brewers: Zach Davies 1.38 ERA leads the major leagues right now
Pittsburgh Pirates: Bryan Reynolds is co-leading the league with 4 doubles this week.
St. Louis Cardinals: Six of the Cardinals 8 opening day position players are in the top 100 fWAR board (fangraphs Wins Above Replacement)
NL West
Arizona Diamondbacks: (PROSPECT UPDATE) Ryan Weiss is at single A but he has shown a good K rate and forcing ground ball contact from his batters. Taken in the 4th round in the 2018 draft, he has 1 1.23 ERA with 20k’s in 22 innings
Colorado Rockies: Nolan Arenado did not play in the April 20th game against the Philadelphia Phillies getting a day of rest. Since then he has 13 hits with 11 RBI, three home runs and 10 runs.
Los Angeles Dodgers: A.J. Pollock underwent surgery on his elbow and is likely out for the season
San Diego Padres: Craig Stammen (17% owned) with a league leading 8 holds, 3.12 ERA, 3 wins and 1 loss.
San Francisco Giants: (PROSPECT UPDATE) Logan Webb, one of San Francisco’s top pitching prospects was suspended 80 games for PED use, he had a 2.00 ERA and 31 strikeouts in 27 innings.