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Although many players disappointed this year, a few are driving fantasy managers crazy to a greater degree than all others. I’ve identified three players — Eugenio Suarez, Francisco Lindor, and Brandon Lowe — who deserve a deep dive on their early season struggles. Are these players about to turn things around? Let’s find out. Eugenio Suarez, Cincinnati Reds What has gone right: Suarez continues to hit for power and is on pace for roughly 35 homers, 90 RBIs, and 80 runs scored. What has… Source link

You have roster needs, we have sensible solutions. All players featured here are available in a majority of Yahoo leagues and all can (hopefully) help your fantasy squad. Let’s go prospecting… Jarren Duran, OF, Boston Red Sox (10% rostered) Let’s get ahead of the next buzzy call-up by getting Duran stashed today — right now. Do it. Duran has homered six times in his last 12 games, including a walk-off opposite-field bomb on Sunday: He’s up to 13 homers on the season at Triple-A along with… Source link

(Photo by Rod Mar/MLB Photos via Getty Images) A former sports reporter who covered the Texas Rangers wrote in an essay published Sunday that she was raped by an MLB player in 2002.  Kat O’Brien wrote about the alleged attack in an essay for the New York Times headlined “I am breaking my silence about the baseball player who raped me.” O’Brien declined to name her alleged attacker but clarified that he was not a member of the Rangers.  O’Brien described the attack as taking place in a hotel… Source link

The App is Back! Don’t forget to download the NBC Sports EDGE app to receive real-time player news, mobile alerts and track your favorite players. Plus, now you can check out articles and player cards. The Rockies were rightly maligned for the Nolan Arenado trade, but it does look like they got a pretty good one back in the deal in Austin Gomber. Gomber twirled a gem on Monday in Colorado against the Padres, hurling a career-high-tying eight shutout innings in the Rockies’ 3-2 victory…. Source link

There’s never a right person to hit in the knee with a baseball bat on an MLB field, but a person you definitely don’t want to hit is the reigning American League MVP. And yet, we got what happened during Wednesday’s Chicago White Sox game, which saw a brief scare when home plate umpire Erich Bacchus attempted to clear away a bat before a play at the plate. Unfortunately, Bacchus tossed the bat without seeing White Sox star Jose Abreu running behind him: Abreu, who had been on deck for the… Source link

Andrew Benefield lived the baseball dream on Monday. The Dallas Baptist redshirt freshman stepped up to the plate with two outs in the seventh inning of an NCAA baseball tournament game against Oregon State. The bases were loaded as his Patriots trailed, 5-2. The winner would advance to the Super Regionals. The loser would go home.  When Beavers pitcher Joey Mundt sent a first-pitch fastball over the plate, Benefield responded with this: Umpire runs out of patience  Yep, that’s a go-ahead grand… Source link

You can never have too many friends. You can never have too much pizza. You can never have too many guitars. You can never have enough pitching, either. That goes for real-life baseball and the fake-stat-grab baseball we love so much. So count me in on Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin, with a high level of excitement. He’s coming back from a shoulder injury and has been fine in three short rehab outings (10.1 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 9 K). The real selling point is what he’s done in 86.2… Source link

Anthony Rizzo is out here teaching life lessons in between at-bats.  The Chicago Cubs first baseman was mic’d up for Saturday’s contest against the St. Louis Cardinals. He was caught in the dugout working out a trade with a young baseball fan: nachos for Rizzo, a ball for the youngster.  “Nachos first, then you get the ball,” Rizzo, all smiles, yells above the dugout with teammates milling about. “It’s a business. This is a business. I’ll teach you life lessons early.” Rizzo explained the… Source link

Shuffle Up season is here. How would we rank and sort players if a fantasy league were assembling from scratch right this second? That’s what I’m trying to figure out. Included on this list is everyone roster-worthy who qualifies at outfield in the Yahoo game. I will not debate ranks on injured players. Of course, baseball is most fun when the best players are healthy and doing their thing; I root for everybody. But these weekly staples are not meant to be injury arguments. If you have… Source link

Revenge Of The Klubot In what has become a weekly occurrence in 2021, Corey Kluber etched his name in the history books Wednesday night by throwing a no-hitter versus the Rangers. The right-hander threw exactly one inning for Texas last season before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury and now has achieved baseball’s sixth no-hitter of the season and the first of his amazing career. The only wart on the scorecard for Kluber was a four-pitch walk to Charlie Culberson in the third inning… Source link