Hot Ice: Players who are hot and cold in fantasy baseball (8/11/2021)

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”...

• 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 games individually and then put a count on each one. So what you will see is how each player fared between their 115^th and 130^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 (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: George Springer, Rafael Ortega, Teoscar Hernandez
Top 3 Runs: George Springer, Jonathan India, Teoscar Hernandez, Brandon Lowe
Top 3 HR: George Springer, Jorge Polanco, Joey Votto
Top 3 RBI: George Springer, Teoscar Hernandez, CJ Cron
Top 3 SB: Starling Marte, Whit Merrifield, David Fletcher

Cold over the last 2 weeks

Javier Baez: 4 runs, 2HR, 3 RBI, 0 SB; batting .205
Michael Conforto: 3 runs, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 0 SB; batting .171
Matt Chapman: 2 runs, 1 HR, 5 RBI, 1 SB; batting .163
Tommy Pham: 5 runs, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 0 SB; batting .163

Last 2 Years (games 115-130) –

In a nutshell:

Trust in: Bryce Harper and Jonathan India
Possible Rebound/Upswing coming: Javier Baez
Keep an Eye on/be cautious about: Tommy Pham