Hot ice! I heat up...the ice cubes! It’s the best of both worlds! Well 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. A look at which players are hot and cold over the last 2 WEEKS
2. A look at players who were historically hot over the last 2 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 player’s game individually and then put a count on each one. So what you will see here are how each player fared between their 30^th and 40^th 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 noted 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.

Last 2 Weeks:

Hot (last 14 days)

Top 3 Hits: Giancarlo Stanton, Kris Bryant, David Peralta, Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Raimel Tapia
Top 3 Runs: Fernando Tatis Jr., Jose Ramirez, Kris Bryant, Jesse Winker, Trevor Story and Chris Taylor
Top 3 HR: Jesus Aguilar, Fernando Tatis Jr., Adolis Garcia, Shohei Ohtani, Xander Bogaerts, Ramon Laureano, Rhys Hoskins, Jesse Winker
Top 3 RBI: Trevor Story, Jesus Aguilar, David Peralta, Adolis Garcia, Yuli Gurriel
Top 3 SB: Whit Merrifield, Fernando Tatis Jr. Trent Grisham, Sam Haggerty, Shohei Ohtani, Robbie Grossman, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Jazz Chisholm Jr.

Cold (last 14 days)

Francisco Lindor: 4 runs, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB, batting .156
Manny Machado: 3 runs, 1 HR, 9 RBI, 1 SB, batting .146
George Springer: 3runs, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 1 SB, batting .200
Jose Altuve: 2 Runs, 0 HR, 4 RBI, 1 SB, batting .152

Last 2 Years (games 30-40) – take note, a good number of players who have only done it for one year. A bunch of third basemen rank highly: Machado, Devers and Suarez

In a nutshell:
Trust in: Xander Bogaerts, Fernando Tatis and Trevor Story
Possible rebound upcoming: George Springer & Manny Machado (both historically thrive between games 30-40)
Keep an eye on/be cautious about: Francisco Lindor. He has been in one continual slump to begin this season.