MLB Daily Notes - May 16
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A complete game from Merrill Kelly in Coors, and an 0/5 from Ketel Marte. Hilarious stuff in Coors.
And the Pirates blew a six-run lead and then a three-run lead in the ninth. That really sucked. It was a super fun eight innings, and then it all went away, and they lost a heartbreaker.
The hitter of the day was Kyle Schwarber who now has 20 homers. This guy is unreal.
Nine dingers in May, and we’re halfway through it.
Sammy Sosa once hit 20 in a month, so I don’t think we’re going to see that record broken by Schwarber.
His home run rates keep improving with age…
He’s a real problem
Brandon Lowe also popped two homers in that game to bring him to 12 on the season. He’s been a great fantasy baseball 2B, leading that position in HR and RBI, and he’s achieved a .927 OPS so far.
Daylen Lile and Matt McLain both stayed very hot. Lile hit a double and a homer, McLain had a homer and a steal plus 3 RBI. They’re both getting going and have scord a whole bunch of fantasy points lately. I’d be more interesting in having Lile than McLain, but I’d consider a McLain add if you need a second baseman.
I found this site yesterday → https://boxscore.email/mlb
That does what my thing does, but way better. And it says it can e-mail it to you every morning. I signed up for it, but it didn’t work. But maybe it will tomorrow, or maybe I did something wrong?
We should put together a list of all of the great baseball resources. They have exploded in size with the AI stuff making everything so do-able. Anybody with a small amount of technical expertise can make some sick stuff now.
So let me know what other stuff you’re using! I have found Bubba & The Bloom’s notes emails very helpful. They summarize injury stuff for you a few times a week. Like I don’t think I would have realized that Clay Holmes broke a bone on a comebacker last night and will be out for awhile.
I also did an fScore update yesterday. You can find those fScores on the dashboards and on the web app. Here’s an explanation of what those are and how they work if you don’t know:
Your top minor league hitters by the fScores:
If you’re viewing them on the web app, you can either search for a player or go to a team organization filter.
I mostly use those for prospects, but they are definitely useful for MLB stuff as well.
I should probably find some way to fully incorporate them with stats and player info onto one page. But the best place to go for minor league stuff is to the Hitter Profile & Pitcher Profile tab on the Prospect Analysis Dashboard.
Find that in the Resouce Glossary here:
Trey Yesavage was awesome yesterday - 6.0IP 4H 2ER 2R 6K 3BB
The updated look:
That’s all very encouraging. Maybe some luck on the zero homers allowed so far on a 31% FB%, but a .229 xwOBA overall and a 49% Strike% with the 16.3% SwStr% shows that he’s pitching very well. Just a 19.6% Hard Hit% against. That’s wild stuff. And this slider has been pretty nasty too at 16% usage!
So he’s tough on righties with three different pitches. And those pitches are very different. Fastballs move up (aka stay flat), sliders move side to side, splitters drop down. Nasty approach there.
Against lefties, he’s confined to the heater and splitter. That will probably get him into some trouble when he’s falling behind and has to bring a fastball to a lefty. They’ll see it coming. But he’s good, and he has his whole career ahead of him. Remember, this guy was drafted in 2024.