MLB Daily Notes - June 6
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We begin with Adley Rutschman, for some reason. He’s kind of a boring dude to talk about and he’s not available in any fantasy leagues, but he had four hits yesterday so here he is:
He’s back to his 2023 form, except with even more homers. Career high 4.1% HR% by far.
The Orioles went off yesterday:
It was a good day to be a team with orange and black in your team colors:
That’s 30 runs for the Giants in two Wrigley games. Even Matt Chapman is getting in one the action.
1.341 OPS in June. He was one of the worst in the league up until a couple of weeks ago, but he’s got an .840 OPS in his last 85 PAs with three homers.
Willy Adames hit two homers, walked twice, scored four times, and drove in four. That’s 40 fantasy points as he heads up the shortstop charts in a hurry. Since May 1st, he’s the #2 SS on the player rater:
And Casey Schmitt joined the party as well with four hits, two homers, three runs, three RBI, and 38 fantasy points. Schmitt’s now the #2 2B in the fantasy game:
Jake McCarthy is also a dude to consider adding.
He has a .260 xBA this year. He’s hitting .300 over the last month and has 11 steals this year. He’s become the lead off hitter. But the home/road stuff is happening:
Tonight he’ll see Jacob Misiorowski, so you don’t even want to use him there. But they have four more Coors games after this.
Colt Emerson wacked one out of the ballyard. That was his fourth in 61 PAs. He’s slugging .582.
But the xwOBA is .247. That’s awful. 29.5% K% and weak contact. Max EV 104.6.
But he’s air pulled it 25% of the time. The league leaders in that are round 30%, so he’s way up there. But he wasn’t that good at that in the minors (12% this year). So I’m thinking this power display is totally fake. Last night’s wasn’t even an air pull… it was an air push. A little slice-daddy down the line.
Big game for the Nationals as well.
Luis Garcia with six RBI while hitting his sixth and seventh homers of the season. He’s been kinda meh this year:
But definitely a big league hitter.
Daylen Lile:
If you knew the Nats were going to have this huge offensive season before the season started, you’d have assumed they were getting breakouts from Lile and Crews. At least I would have. But it’s really been Wood and Abrams doing the damage with OPS above .920, and everybody else has been just fine.
I suppose the lineup just fits together nicely and complements itself. But it’s weird to see the Nats scoring runs like this.
Travis Bazzana had three hits with a homer. He’s up to four homers and nine steals on a .288/.371/.472 slash. So he’s been great.
Corey Seager and Wyatt Langford returned and gave Parker Messick a little bit of trouble. Seager homered, Langford had a hit and a run scored. And the Rangers won the game 3-2.
That’s a highly improved lineup overnight there with Langford and Seager coming back at the same time.
Pitchers
Roki Sasaki - 7.0IP 2H 0ER 0R 10K 2BB
Shout out to ME.
Every year, I have to be first on at least a few players. Spencer Schwellenbach a few years ago gave me a lot of CRED. So we have to hit one or two of those yearly so people will remember and keep believing me. Even if we miss on everything else.
And we’ve been on Sasaki big time for 3-4 weeks now. And that looks to be paying off. His four starts since May 17th:
This is a wild plot:
He is throwing a ton of strikes and the fastball velo is in the upper-90s again.
The splitter was untouchable last night and the fastball is improved enough to put up some decent results even though it still doesn’t get whiffs. He looks like one of the best in the league right now and he should be owned absolutely everywhere.