MLB Daily Notes - June 27
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So I faded the Mizz in DFS last night. And it didn’t work. He scored 28 points, which was barely over 2x on his $13,000 salary, but JT Ginn didn’t really get the job done for me, and I ended up not having nearly enough Chicago White Sox bats, even though I wrote extensively about how good of a play they were last night. That’s the way she goes. Back at it today. Playing DFS cash is the most fun fantasy baseball thing I’ve found.
The White Sox scored 22 runs on 23 hits.
So that was a pretty bad day for Mitch Spence, who was called up from AAA to fill in for Stephen Kolek. He gave up ten runs on eight hits, getting four outs.
That seems really hard to do. The bullpen came in and did more of that. That KC pitching staff is a big old mess.
Jacob Misiorowski - 6 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 4 BB, 8 K, 1 HR
Seiya Suzuki got to him, and he did walk four. So it wasn’t the most amazing start in the world, but still excellent and the Brewers ended up winning the game 6-2, scoring all six runs after the fifth.
The pitchers of the day:
Payton Tolle owns the Yankees so far. His best two starts are against them. 12.5% SwStr% last night, which isn’t great, but a 52% Strike% overall and a 31% Ball%. He came right at the Yankees. His stuff is good enough to do that with.
Max Meyer continues his All Star season. He used his sweeper at a season-high rate. Here’s the pitch mix for the season:
55% Sweepers + Sliders. Not a lot of guys can get away with that, but the ball rate on his slider makes the difference. He’s getting so, so many strikes with that.
The fastball still sucks, though! That’s eventually going to get him into some trouble.
Trevor Rogers had another good one
6.33IP 5H 1ER 1R 7K 0BB
This was arguably his best of the year. The fastball velo has been up:
And he has three straight with double-digit whiffs.
That was definitely his best start of the year. The fastball has been awesome in the last four:
17.3% SwStr%
58% Strike%
The changeup still has not… so that’s limiting. But last year he had a lot of great outings with the fastball being so dominant, and that’s been the case against lately. It might be time to give him an add.
Joey Cantillo had his second consecutive nine-strikeout game.
6.0IP 2H 1ER 1R 9K 2BB
18 whiffs for the lefty. So has anything changed in these last two?
It is more curveball usage. That’s at 23% for the year and 48% the last two. So there’s something different.
That pitch is good:
115 Stuff+
16.2% SwStr%
50% Strike%
36% Ball%
.215 xwOBA
So it’s interesting to see him throwing that a lot. The fastball has gotten by these last two and the changeup has also been great. So that’s a recipe for success, but it’s not going to last, methinks. He has a 91 MLB DW grade on the four-seamer. That’s second-worst in the league to Zac Gallen.
That’s with requiring at least 500 pitches. Dropping it to 250:
The best four-seamers in the league:
It’s a pretty nifty grading system. You can check that out on the main dashboard.
I wouldn’t be buying Cantillo in 10-12 team leagues.