Hot Ice: Players who are hot and cold in fantasy baseball (4/14/21)

It’s Hot Ice! Where we heat up... the ice cubes! It’s the best of both worlds! In Fantasy Baseball we rarely see Hot Ice, we typically see more fire streaks or cold streaks. The purpose of this article is to look at the “2’s”:

1. Which players are hot and cold over the last two weeks.
2. Which players have been historically hot in the coming week, over the last two years (The fun part of this is while you may research which players were hot in April vs. June, what I did was take a culmination of each players game individually and then put a count on each one. So what you will see here are how each player fared between their 12th and 22nd games over the last two years. Who might have struggled or been average through the first week of games and then really got a fire going after that. Obviously there are a lot of variables when looking at this data, including: rookies, injuries, Covid-related absences and being scratched—so I notated any player who only had ONE year’s worth of data due to one of those situations.

For now it’s just batters, but if the appetite is there, I will start to add in pitchers as well.

Hot Ice Last Week

Hot (last seven days)

• Top 3 Hits: Ronald Acuna, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Byron Buxton, Juan Soto, Tommy Edman
• Top 3 Runs: Ronald Acuna, Juan Soto, Mark Canha
• Top 3 HR: Rafael Devers, Wilson Ramos, Eduardo Escobar
• Top 3 RBI: Jed Lowrie, Kyle Seager, Rafael Devers
• Top 3 SB: Ramon Laureano, Garrett Hampson, Myles Straw

Gone Cold (last seven days)

• Mookie Betts: 1 HR, Run and RBI; batting .200
• Trevor Story: 1 run, 2 RBI, 0 HR
• Alex Bregman: no runs, HR or RBI; batting .071
• Jose Abreu: 1 run, 0 RBI, 1 SB, batting .211
• Pete Alonso: 0 Runs, 0 HR, batting .167