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Pitchers Kyle Hendricks and Drew Smyly put on injured list by Chicago Cubs
About 1 minute reading time. CHICAGO (AP) — Right-hander Kyle Hendricks and left-hander Drew Smyly were placed on the 15-day injured list by the Chicago Cubs before Tuesday night’s series opener against the Houston Astros. Hendricks has a lower back strain. The 34-year-old is 0-3 with a 12.00 ERA in five starts, allowing major league highs of eight home runs and 28 earned runs along with 37 hits in 21 innings. Hendricks is the last player with the Cubs from their 2016 World Series championship team.
Garrett Cooper Bryan De La Cruz Miami Marlins beat New York Mets
NEW YORK (AP) — Garrett Cooper hit a two-run homer off the right field foul pole and Bryan De La Cruz doubled three times as the Miami Marlins beat the New York Mets 5-2 Friday night for their seventh win in nine games. Pablo López (6-4) allowed one run and four hits in five innings for the Marlins, who had lost two straight after a six-game winning streak. “Very good lineup, very deep,” López said of the Mets.
Cooper's go-ahead double in eighth lifts Marlins past Rockies - TSN.ca
MIAMI (AP) — Garrett Cooper lined a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning, and the Miami Marlins overcame a four-run deficit to beat the Colorado Rockies 9-8 on Tuesday night for just their third win in nine games. Colorado led 4-0 before Miami scored five times in the fourth and three in the fifth to take an 8-5 lead.
MLB DFS Core Plays- June 18
It's Saturday in June and that means another big day of fantasy baseball at DFS Alarm. The MLB DFS slate starts at 4:05p ET as DraftKings and FanDuel offer us nine-game slates while Yahoo has 12 games scheduled which will include the contest in Coors later tonight. We have plenty of pitching with future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander taking the mound today along with Aaron Nola and Jeffrey Springs.
Fantasy Baseball June 13 Round Up: Monster Day for Matt Carpenter
It’s Monday morning and we are already beginning Week 10 of the MLB baseball season. Before we look forward to what is ahead with your fantasy baseball teams we need to take a quick look back at the top fantasy baseball news and headlines from yesterday’s games which included another New York Yankees offensive explosion, big bat days from Matt Carpenter and Adam Duvall and a few players added to the injury list including Nathan Eovaldi and possibly Michael Kopech.
MLB Streaks & Trends: Garrett Cooper Shines, While Adley Rutschman Struggles
It’s Saturday, so it’s time to grab your coffee, tea, or whatever your morning/early afternoon beverage of choice is and dive into some notable streaks and trends across Major League Baseball. We’ll look at some stars like Yordan Alvarez who is white hot, and guys like Garrett Cooper and Luis Guillorme that look like decent fantasy baseball waiver wire pickups. On the other hand, we look at some big name players, including rookie Adley Rutschman, who are struggling at the dish.
Fantasy Baseball Closer Report April 20: Aroldis Chapman Struggling Already
As if fantasy baseball managers didn’t already have enough obstacles affecting how we manage the closer position, increasing COVID-19 case totals across the MLB are making things even harder. It's impacting our fantasy baseball lineups and, specifically, our ability to compete in the saves and holds categories of our leagues. Moving forward, fantasy managers will need to monitor both MLB’s restricted list and the COVID-19-related IL to make roster moves and keep lineups competitive.
Fantasy Baseball Daily Round Up April 17: Justin Verlander Pitches a Shutout & Hunter Greene Hype Continues
Week 1 of the fantasy baseball season comes to a close today but not before we take a look at some of the outstanding performances from players that were high up on many fantasy baseball player rankings and rookie rankings coming into your fantasy baseball drafts this season.
Fantasy Baseball Player Spotlight: Buying Low on Eugenio Suarez
During the winter the Seattle Mariners were left with a huge void at third base when the face of the organization for years, Kyle Seager, declared for free agency and then decided to retire. This was a player that not only had power and solid defense for years, but was a commanding voice in the clubhouse. An immediate void appeared until the Mariners picked up Eugenio Suárez in a blockbuster trade with the Reds.
2022 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide: Undervalued Catchers
I mentioned it in last week’s catcher preview where we profiled catchers that are boosted by the Universal DH, but this position isn’t exactly loaded with glamorous offensive options. However, most leagues require you to start one catcher, or in some cases, two catchers. If you don’t want to pay up for Salvador Perez, Willson Contreras or another guy in the top 10 of the position, there are some guys outside of the top-10 that you’ll want to be aware of in your drafts.
NHL Injury Report October 30th
Welcome to another edition of the Fantasy Hockey Injury Report. The injury report is going to keep you up to date on all the important injuries going on around the league, and how that might affect your fantasy hockey team. Make sure to check back regularly for any updates. Let’s take a look at some players that are either ruled out, or that we need to monitor. Rickard Rakell The Ducks have placed winger Rickard Rakell on IR and it doesn’t sound like he will return anytime soon.
MLB Streaks & Trends: Starling Power
Published: Aug 13, 2021 Who's Hot Starling Marte, Oakland Once again, a trade at the deadline lit a fire under Marte. He's slashing .429/.462/.612 over the last two weeks in 52 plate appearances in 11 games. Within this time frame, he leads the majors with eight stolen bases while scoring nine runs, hitting two home runs and driving in nine for the A's.
Sandy Alcantara Garrett Cooper Miami Marlins Atlanta Braves
ATLANTA (AP) — Sandy Alcantara pitched six strong innings, Garrett Cooper homered and drove in two runs, and the Miami Marlins beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 on Saturday. Tempers were calm a day after Pablo López was ejected for hitting Ronald Acuña Jr. on his first pitch of the game. The Marlins got a big assist from Alcantara, who saved the bullpen from extra work a day after Miami had to use five relievers to cover nine innings. “It starts with Sandy," Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.
Fantasy Baseball Interleague Impact: June 7 - June 13
Published: Jun 07, 2021 It’s Sunday, so you know what that means! It’s time to take a look at the interleague matchups for the upcoming week and determine how it will affect our fantasy lineups. Obviously, with the National League not adding the designated hitter spot, we’ll have to examine American League teams that lose that luxury for a series. On the other hand, when a National League team travels, what fantasy players stand to gain some value?
All About The Curve: Hitters Lagging Behind
Published: May 11, 2021 One of the peculiarities of this 2021 Fantasy Baseball Season is shaping up to be how far ahead of hitters pitchers seem to be. We are five weeks into the season and we have already seen not one but FOUR (and arguably five) no-hitters! Conversely, the league batting average is hovering around .233, which would be the lowest of all-time should it continue. So, what is going on? Is it all about this new ball?
Miami Marlins rally for 1st win of season, beat Tampa Bay Rays
Garrett Cooper , The Canadian Press MIAMI — The Miami Marlins beat the Tampa Bay Rays for the first time in three years with a 12-7 victory on Saturday night. After seven straight losses to the American League champions, the Marlins broke loose with 14 hits, getting the better of their in-state rivals for the first time since July 21, 2018. It was also Miami’s first win this season.
2021 MLB Draft Guide Player Profile: Shane Bieber
Published: Mar 27, 2021 Some may argue the truncated 2020 season cannot define a player's breakout, but Shane Bieber took a major step forward as a pitcher. Bieber became the first pitcher since Johan Santana in 2006 to win the Triple Crown (wins, strikeouts, ERA) in the majors and the ninth pitcher overall. Bieber went 8-1 during his 12 starts logging 77.1 innings, 122 strikeouts against 21 walks, a 1.63 ERA, 2.52 SIERA and 0.87 WHIP.
2021 MLB Draft Guide Player Profile: Jeimer Candelario
Published: Mar 25, 2021 Small sample sizes can cloud fantasy outlooks. Jeimer Candelario owned prospect status for years but languished after being traded to Detroit. Then things came together in 2020 resulting in a .297/.369/.503 slash line with seven home runs, 59 runs plus RBI and a stolen base over 52 contests spanning 206 plate appearances. Always an on-base threat during his development, the power displayed during the truncated season needs to be analyzed before declaring it can carry over.
2021 MLB Draft Guide Player Profile: Evan White
Trying to succeed in the majors as a rookie comes with high expectations. Evan White logged 400 plate appearances before breaking camp with Seattle during the 60-game sprint 2020 provided. He struggled making contact slashing .176/.252/.346, not good, but still finished with decent counting statistics. Through 54 contests, White scored 19 runs, launched eight home runs, drove in 26 and stole a base.
2021 MLB Draft Guide: Identifying Relievers To Draft
Published: Feb 26, 2021 With an increasing number of teams using a closer-by-committee approach and some starting pitchers potentially having their innings pitched limited as a result of 2020’s abbreviated season, familiarizing ourselves with relief pitchers who can positively impact our 2021 fantasy baseball season is extremely important. Get ready for big league teams to be even more creative when it comes to managing their real life pitching staffs this season.
2021 MLB Draft Guide: Second Basemen
Published: Feb 03, 2021 Remaining flexible targeting second base in fantasy drafts may be easier and more difficult than the surface suggests. Take a breath, not trying to get too deep here, but with shortstops, starting pitchers, and outfielders occupying most of the first two rounds in 12-team drafts, patience can be administered until the third round when looking to target a second baseman.
2021 MLB Draft Guide Player Profile: Gerrit Cole
Published: Jan 24, 2021 Signing a massive free agency deal with the Yankees can scare away some in drafts due to a change in scenery along with the volatility tied to pitching. However, Gerrit Cole stayed the course winning seven of his 10 decisions during his first season in New York making 12 starts with a 94:17 K:BB, 2.84 ERA, 3.21 SIERA and 0.96 WHIP over 73 innings.
Fantasy Baseball Waiver Advice: September 5
Brad Miller (STL – 3B) For a while, I wasn’t understanding the Brad Miller craze. However, I’m now on board after he stroked three home runs between Tuesday and Wednesday. Entering Saturday night, Miller was slashing .319/.448/.638 so while he does strike out quite a bit he’s getting on base via walks as well and he’s put the power on display lately.
Two-Start Pitchers/Pitching Streamers: Week 2
Published: Jul 27, 2020 Welcome back, Major League Baseball! And welcome back to action, fantasy baseball owners! It feels odd, to be sure, to start the MLB season in late July, but that is the state of affairs in 2020. Let us simply rejoice in finally having baseball back in our lives. With the abbreviated season, we are combining the 2-Start Pitching article with the Streaming Pitcher article this year.
2019 Fantasy Hockey Injury Report: December 18
Welcome to another edition of the Fantasy Hockey Injury Report. The season is now in full swing, and so are the injuries. You can’t avoid them, but we can get a head start and plan around them. The injury report will be out every week to help you plan the rest of your fantasy hockey week. Let’s take a look at which key players are dealing with injuries. Ryan Murray - Columbus Blue Jackets - Defence Injury: lower-body, week-to-week.
Fantasy Hockey Waiver Wire Report-- November 29
Welcome back to another fantasy hockey season! As usual, every week, the weekly waiver wire report will help you target some players that you should be adding, or monitoring, on the waiver wire. You can’t win a championship with the team you drafted, which means, you’ll need to be active on the waiver wire to help replace injured players, and other who are just not getting the job done. Let’s get right into it for this week.
2019 Fantasy Baseball Weekly Planner: August 5-11
Published: Aug 08, 2019 It’s after the trade deadline and time for the last two-month push for the playoffs are trying to make claims to roster spots for next year. With that in mind let’s see how this next week shapes up for fantasy rosters. Max Kepler , OF MIN – The Twins have needed all the offense they can muster as they try and keep their lead over the Indians in the AL Central and Kepler has been providing it.
2019 Fantasy Baseball Weekly Planner: July 22-28
Published: Jul 25, 2019 As I sit here at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, New York awaiting the newest class of MLB Hall of Fame inductees to go in, it’s time to start looking forward. Forward in a relative sense as we look at the next week of the schedule as opposed to full careers on display or who’s going in next year.
Fantasy Baseball Daily Round Up: June 18
The Braves dropped 12 runs on the Mets last night, and they have now scored 90 runs in their past 11 games, 10 of which they won. They have reached double digits nine times this season, five times this month and seven times in the 31 games since Austin Riley was joined up. They rank ninth in wRC+ against both left and right-handed pitching and eighth overall. They’re particularly dangerous at home with the fourth best wRC+ in home games.
Fantasy Baseball Daily Round Up: June 12
Yesterday was a day filled with solid performances, but none that really stood out. That being said, any number of players could have been the spotlight performer, with no real standout day from anyone. So without further ado, today’s pick is Spencer Turnbull . Turnbull hurled six shutout innings in a no-decision against the Royals. He gave up four hits while striking out five. He left the game with a 2-0 lead, but unfortunately the bullpen was unable to hold it.
Miami Marlins use 11-run inning to pound Milwaukee Brewers
MILWAUKEE — Garrett Cooper had two hits and scored twice during Miami's franchise-record, 11-run fifth inning, helping the Marlins pound the Milwaukee Brewers 16-0 on Tuesday night. Cooper matched a career high with four hits and scored four times, leading the way as last-place Miami rolled to its 12th win in its last 17 games.
Marlins rally for fifth straight win
DETROIT — Garrett Cooper hit his first major league home run in the sixth inning, and that was the start of an impressive comeback by the Miami Marlins, who rallied for their fifth straight victory, 6-3 over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night. The Tigers led 3-0 before Cooper's solo shot. The Marlins then scored three runs in the seventh, and Brian Anderson added a two-run homer in the eighth.
2019 MLB Prospect Report: Next Round of Call-ups
Published: May 09, 2019 We’ve already had quite a few prospect called up to the majors for good this year and that doesn’t include those that came up for a brief time and then went back down, most notably Carter Kieboom. However, that doesn’t mean that the young guns are done being called up, especially as we get nearer to the typical Super Two timeframe in early June.
MLB Two Start Pitchers: Week 3
Two-Start Pitchers Week 3 The second full week of baseball is soon to be upon us fantasy players, and having an idea about the starting pitchers that can provide two potential quality appearances on the hill is valuable information, especially but not exclusively for those who need to set a weekly lineup. Making correct choices early on can get your team off to a fast start to open your fantasy efforts.
Fantasy Baseball Daily Round Up: August 3
Describing Thursday night’s slate of game as wild would be an understatement. Three teams scored 15 runs or more, Rougned Odor set a major league record for walks in a game and the three best active pitchers in terms of ERA all won on the same day for the second time of their careers. Boston scored 15 runs at home against the Yankees in a game Aaron Boone came under fire for how he deployed his bullpen.
MLB Closing Bell: Davis on the Rocks?
In the midst of a pennant chase and trying to make the playoffs, maximizing every win will matter for the Rockies. Following a team best ERA in home games by its starting pitching, can Colorado afford to keep Wade Davis as the closer? It’s not like he’s been terrible. Entering game action in St. Louis, Davis had converted his last 11 saves dating back to June 20th.
MLB Managerial Tendencies: The Opener?
In late May, we put out a piece here in the managerial tendencies section of Fantasy Alarm where we broke down “The Opener”. We had a look into the mind of Rays manager Kevin Cash and what the Rays organization was looking to get out of this strategy soon after they started using it. This week we’re going to take a deep dive back into it to see how it’s working out and break it down to better understand the implications “The Opener” is having on the fantasy world.
MLB Closing Bell: Say It Ain't Sano
Trying to avoid injuries or bad selections so far in 2018 has proven problematic. Add to the litany of issues the demotion of Miguel Sano to High-A Fort Myers by the Twins following their game. Sano entered the season a former All-Star from the year before with an average draft position near the top-100 in NFBC drafts (112th overall) with prodigious power and a huge hole in his swing.
MLB Closing Bell: Caddyshack Economics
Growing up with a father who possessed a terrific sense of humor, watching Caddyshack together (cut version) on television proved to be special times shared. With the early returns starting to come in for fantasy baseball, it calls to mind the scene in which Rodney Dangerfield’s character talks to his accountant on the phone: From the mountain tops, many will be screaming to sell high, buy low and manipulate one’s league for dominance. However, can one sell high, buy high, sell low and buy low?
2018 MLB Prospect Report: Catchers
Catchers Backstops, not the fences you played in front of on little league fields, but the live human beings donning the gear, are an important position in baseball as one half of the battery. However in the fantasy realm they have long been known as the shallowest position in the game with only two-three guys that are above average producers each year.
2018 MLB Draft Guide: Hurler Workload Concerns
With fantasy baseball season quickly approaching, it is now time to begin the process of evaluating pitching talent that you will want to target at your drafts. You need to determine in which round starting pitchers and relievers should be added to your rosters, or for those of you participating in an auction format, how much of your budget you need to set aside to allow you to populate your starting rotation and bullpen.
Video: Fantasy Doctor: Ryan Johansen
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