He's somehow still just 79% rostered and just 64% rostered despite Scott White leading with him in just about every article we've had on the site for the last two weeks.

He threw a four-hit shutout against the Pirates with seven strikeouts, 15 swinging strikes induced and a 35% called swinging strike rate on 97 pitches. Phillies P Ranger Suarez is easily one of the best stories of the second half of the season and his continued dominance since moving into the rotation (though he was just as dominant if not more as a reliever) carried over into his start against the Pirates. Instead, he's turning those groundballs into fly balls and that has made the difference. So what has led to this hot run? Well, after a 49% groundball rate in the first half, he has brought that number down to 40% in the second half and just 36% in September. 299 with nine of those homers in September. He's now up to 34 home runs on the season and he's batting. On Saturday, Stanton rocked a go-ahead grand slam and followed it up on Sunday with a clutch two-run homer to extend the Yankees lead. Of course, as always, you can follow to make sure you get the latest episodes of Fantasy Baseball Today right when they drop on Apple and Spotify.įor those of you wise enough to spend a mid-round pick on Stanton, he likely won you your finals matchup and/or gave you new life in three Roto categories this weekend and over the entire month of September. It will be interesting to see where each settles in ADP for 2022 following their big seasons. At 41 years old we keep waiting for Cruz to fall off but, crazy enough, we might have another David Ortiz situation on our hands. The same thing could be said for Alvarez and his knees. You can read more about Stanton below but a huge key for him has obviously been staying healthy.

Martinez, Nelson Cruz, Giancarlo Stanton, and Franmil Reyes have all turned an easy profit at their preseason ADPs. One of the few things I got right this season were the utility-only bats. He's 27% rostered and has vaulted all the up to number three in Scott White's final sleeper hitters article of the season. In four games he collected 10 hits including three homers and two steals. Perhaps the hottest hitter on the Cardinals is Harrison Bader following his massive weekend.

16 in a row! The Cardinals are the number one story in baseball right now and I feel for bad for whoever has to face them in the National League Wild Card game between the Dodgers and Giants.

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