Max Scherzer is giving up a lot of home runs, but that hasn't prevented him from being the most dominant starter in the majors over the past two months. Plus, Patrick Corbin, Eugenio Suarez, Travis d'Arnaud, and Jedd Gyorko.
With roughly two months left in the season, Christian Yelich has already surpassed his career high in HR. Is the power for real? Plus Anthony DeSclafani, Tyler Thornburg, Cesar Hernandez and Nick Hundley.
Jose Abreu topped 30 HR/100 RBI in his first two seasons, but hasn't come close to that in 2016. Can he boost his production over the next two months? Also Estrada, R. Davis, S. Dyson, and Kiermaier.
An unknown commodity entering the season, Aledmys Diaz has quickly turned into one of the better NL shortstops in 2016. Can he sustain it? Plus Jeff Samardzija, Ben Zobrist, Jeremy Jeffress, and Ryan Schimpf.
D'Backs SP Robbie Ray has useful tools, especially an elite K rate, but he has to get better command do better limiting contact—especially hard contact—to be anything more than an average pitcher.
Hidden beneath some of the bad surface stats recently posted by Bud Norris is an elite collection of skills that haven't been able to translate into shiny stats due to extreme bad luck with his H%, S%, and hr/f rates.
How has Rougned Odor earned $20+ with a sub-.300 OBP and is Edwin Encarnacion showing signs of wear beneath the surface? Plus performance validation analysis of Ivan Nova, Billy Butler, and David Robertson.
Max Scherzer is giving up a lot of home runs, but that hasn't prevented him from being the most dominant starter in the majors over the past two months. Plus, Patrick Corbin, Eugenio Suarez, Travis d'Arnaud, and Jedd Gyorko.
With roughly two months left in the season, Christian Yelich has already surpassed his career high in HR. Is the power for real? Plus Anthony DeSclafani, Tyler Thornburg, Cesar Hernandez and Nick Hundley.
Jose Abreu topped 30 HR/100 RBI in his first two seasons, but hasn't come close to that in 2016. Can he boost his production over the next two months? Also Estrada, R. Davis, S. Dyson, and Kiermaier.
An unknown commodity entering the season, Aledmys Diaz has quickly turned into one of the better NL shortstops in 2016. Can he sustain it? Plus Jeff Samardzija, Ben Zobrist, Jeremy Jeffress, and Ryan Schimpf.
D'Backs SP Robbie Ray has useful tools, especially an elite K rate, but he has to get better command do better limiting contact—especially hard contact—to be anything more than an average pitcher.
Hidden beneath some of the bad surface stats recently posted by Bud Norris is an elite collection of skills that haven't been able to translate into shiny stats due to extreme bad luck with his H%, S%, and hr/f rates.
How has Rougned Odor earned $20+ with a sub-.300 OBP and is Edwin Encarnacion showing signs of wear beneath the surface? Plus performance validation analysis of Ivan Nova, Billy Butler, and David Robertson.