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 hot streaks or cold streaks. The purpose of this article is to look at the “2’s,” but since we are a few games past the All-Star break we can manually select games from one week past the All-Star break to the end of season. Here are the “2’s”:
- A look at which players are hot and cold over the last 2 WEEKS
- 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 is how each player fared between their 90th and 162nd 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 (especially since 2020 only had around 60 games).
Hot over the last 2 weeks
(If more than 3 players are listed, there is a tie)
Top 3 Hits: David Fletcher, John Nogowski, Juan Soto, Miguel Rojas
Top 3 Runs: Juan Soto, Mookie Betts, Tommy Pham
Top 3 HR: Juan Soto, Freddie Freeman, Matt Olson, AJ Pollock
Top 3 RBI: Juan Soto, Jesus Aguilar, Justin Turner
Top 3 SB: Kyle Tucker, Starling Marte, Raimel Tapia, Fernando Tatis Jr.
Cold over the last 2 weeks
Cody Bellinger: 3 runs, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 0 SB; batting .079
Eugenio Suarez: 5 runs, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 0 SB; batting .119
Yordan Alvarez: 2 runs, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 0 SB; batting .132
DJ Lemahieu: 1 run, 0 HR, 3 RBI, 1 SB; batting .200
Nolan Arenado: 3 runs, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 0 SB; batting .133
Last 2 Years (games 90-162):
Hot Ice (games 90-162)
Row Labels | Total Sum of Rank RBI | Total Sum of Rank Run | Total Sum of Rank HR | Total Sum of Average | Notes |
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Row Labels | Total Sum of Rank RBI | Total Sum of Rank Run | Total Sum of Rank HR | Total Sum of Average | Notes |
Jorge Soler | 3 | 8 | 3 | 5 | One Year Blank |
Alex Bregman | 5 | 3 | 11 | 6 | One Year Blank |
Ronald Acuña Jr. | 15 | 4 | 5 | 8 | One Year Blank |
Paul Goldschmidt | 2 | 13 | 10 | 8 | One Year Blank |
Marcus Semien | 21 | 2 | 5 | 9 | One Year Blank |
Pete Alonso | 9 | 15 | 4 | 9 | One Year Blank |
Juan Soto | 15 | 9 | 11 | 12 | One Year Blank |
Bryce Harper | 9 | 19 | 8 | 12 | One Year Blank |
Trey Mancini | 6 | 15 | 17 | 13 | One Year Blank |
Rafael Devers | 11 | 5 | 23 | 13 | One Year Blank |
Eugenio Suárez | 19 | 25 | 2 | 15 | One Year Blank |
Starlin Castro | 11 | 21 | 17 | 16 | One Year Blank |
Nolan Arenado | 15 | 29 | 5 | 16 | One Year Blank |
Freddie Freeman | 7 | 21 | 23 | 17 | One Year Blank |
Cody Bellinger | 26 | 9 | 17 | 17 | One Year Blank |
J.D. Martinez | 14 | 25 | 17 | 19 | One Year Blank |
Mookie Betts | 33 | 7 | 17 | 19 | One Year Blank |
Nick Castellanos | 37 | 15 | 11 | 21 | One Year Blank |
Eduardo Escobar | 11 | 41 | 11 | 21 | One Year Blank |
Josh Donaldson | 23 | 25 | 17 | 22 | One Year Blank |
Paul DeJong | 28 | 31 | 11 | 23 | One Year Blank |
Anthony Rendon | 7 | 21 | 44 | 24 | One Year Blank |
José Abreu | 4 | 25 | 44 | 24 | One Year Blank |
Michael Conforto | 23 | 31 | 23 | 26 | One Year Blank |
Gleyber Torres | 37 | 38 | 8 | 28 | One Year Blank |
In a nutshell:
Trust in: Juan Soto, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman
Possible rebound/upswing coming: Eugenio Suarez, Nolan Arenado
Keep an eye on/be cautious about: Yordan Alvarez