MLB Daily Notes - July 1st
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Welcome to July! It is hot out, and we saw the scoreboards light up yesterday. 10.5 runs per game last night. Some of the big performances:
MARLINS - 14 RUNS, 21 HITS
Pretty predictable here in Coors against Tanner Gordon and their horrible bullpen. But they came through.
They didn’t start Otto Lopez, and the projections talked me off of the Kyle Stowers play. So the only Marlin in I had in DFS last night was Marsee, who found a way to squeak an 0/6 in while while there were 21 hits around him. Good stuff there, Jakob. That guy has been a real jag this year.
RAYS - 10 RUNS
Caminero has now hit eight homers in seven games.
Caminero before June 23rd: .276/.369/.477, .846 OPS, 15 HR
Caminero now………………….: .294/.384/.555, .939 OPS, 23 HR
That is pretty insane.
Ten-homer month for Caminero there. The Rays top three is all hitting at least .290, which you don’t find these days. Noah Cameron really sucks, if you didn’t know that. Maybe that’s the lesson here. He gave up nine hits and six earned runs there with three walks and zero strikeouts. You can’t do a lot worse than that.
And then we had the Dodgers, Tigers, White Sox, and Cubs all scoring nine runs. The Nationals, Mariners, Phillies, and D’Backs scored eight. THe Padres and Brewers scored seven.
There were five starts with negative fantasy points and a few more that couldn’t esclipse five:
The surprising ones are Joe Ryan and Cam Schlittler. You’d think my DFS night wuld have gone really well because I didn’t have either of those guys and went with the good combo of Skubal + Woo plus a bunch of dingers from the Cubs / Padres game. But nope, you had to be PERFECT last night. I lost because I didn’t have Stowers or Bregman, which is dumb. The Sean Keys guy screwed me and now I hate him.
Schlittler had his worst start of the year by far. This was his second actually bad start.
He just didn’t have it, I guess. The velo was at the lower range. It wasn’t down a lot, but it was near the low point of his season. He got seven whiffs with an 8.2% SwStr% and gave up four homers. That’s the kicker there. He just kinda randomly gave up four homers all at once. He only had given up six before that. It happens.
Landen Roupp had a really bad one, giving up six runs on five hits walking six. He had two quality starts before that and has been mostly decent at preventing runs. He’s given up just six homers in 17 starts, but the walk rate is a problem and the strikeout rate has been falling. So he’s not good.
The K-BB% holds decently at 15.5% right now:
But in June he went for a 7.14 ERA, a 23% k%, and a 13.5% BB%.