MLB Daily Notes - July 18
A daily automated report of what happened yesterday in Major League Baseball, along with other recent trends and further analysis
Check out yesterday’s box scores here
The Pirates were tied with the Nationals for the league lead in runs yesterday. And now they are 23 runs behind.
Eight RBIs from one Andres Chaparro as the Nationals kept pouring it on. Everybody got a hit, everybody scored; only Nasim Nunez didn’t get a drive one in. Here are some numbers on Chaparro:
In the minors:
He’s 27 and has been in the Majors before. Not much of a big leaguer, but he hit 3rd against the lefty last night and was part of the winning lineups on DraftKings, that’s for sure.
It wasn’t super hard to stack a bunch of Nationals since they were in Sacramento. I didn’t think that was a perfect idea because of the ownership and the fact that Gage Jump is kinda good. So I didn’t have a ton of Nats and did not have a winning night, needless to say!
Harry Ford made his Major League debut in that one and got right to business with two hits, three runs, three RBI, and a homer. He’s been a long-awaited catching prospect, highly touted for a while with the Mariners, but he was traded to Washington for Jose Ferrer. Minors last two seasons:
Not much to get excited about for fantasy leagues here. Maybe he’ll end up being a good OBP catcher with 15-20 homer power in there, but for right now I wouldn’t be very interested.
Gage Jump didn’t do all that poorly, I guess, but he left 5.1 innings for their bad bullpen, and that pen gave up 19 runs.
Pretty wild game out there in Sacramento.
The projections were all about run-scoring in the SD/KC game last night. And it happened! But not until very late.
That’s seven runs in the tenth to make the projections look smart.
The White Sox lineup is ready for a big second half, apparently. They came out of the gate ripping with 12 runs on 12 hits. Only one homer and one steal. Probably rare to see the same number of hits as runs with just one homer in a big game like this.
It’s a pretty good lineup top to bottom. No obvious weak spots, and three guys in the middle there that are pretty close to stud tier.
Sam Antonacci might still be a little bit under the radar, still. 85% owned in fantasy leagues, and certainly not available in competitive leagues at this point, but look at the numbers:
The homers aren’t anything special, I believe one of those was an inside-the-parker. And that will probably be the thing keeping him away from being a fantasy stud. He does not hit the ball hard:
The 102.2 EV90 on fly balls is bad. So he’ll have that problem. But he’s shown the ability to get hits, get on base, steal bags, and that has him at the top of the lineup with a bunch of good hitters behind him. And his 6.7% Brl% isn’t awful - this isn’t like an Arraez-type second baseman.
Wilyer Abreu used the double header to score 35 fantasy points. Three hits, two homers, two runs, three RBI, and a walk.
Abreu’s season:
Hitting lefties very well! He just doesn’t hit homers at a great rate and the steals aren’t really there. But he’s been hurt by the Red Sox lineup not doing much around him, but they are really turning it on.
Drake Baldwin powered the Braves to a big game
Good start to the 2H for Baldwin who was not doing much since getting off the IL.
That .075 average in June… but he’s looking like himself in July.