It was always the contention of their trade with the Rays that Baltimore was buying in on their ability to make Baz’s pitches play up. Now they’re paying up for the opportunity to keep him in their rotation for the next several years after apparently liking what they saw in Spring Training. Baz was set to be arbitration eligible for the second time next offseason, so the Orioles have bought out two years of free agency in this deal. It’s a reasonable price considering Baz’s talent.

He’ll make his season debut after sitting for Opening Day. It’s unclear exactly why the Astros sat him yesterday when they sent him to Triple-A Sugar Land to take live at-bats, but fantasy managers can overlook that as long as Peña is ready to go. Against LHP Yusei Kikuchi, the Astros will use a lineup of: Peña, LF Yordan Alvarez, DH Isaac Paredes, 2B Jose Altuve, 3B Carlos Correa, RF Cam Smith, 1B Christian Walker, C Yainer Diaz and CF Brice Matthews.

The Jays have a deep enough lineup that this shouldn’t mess with his run and RBI opportunities too much, but fantasy managers probably were hoping he’d hit higher than this. The full lineup against RHP Luis Severino is: DH George Springer, LF Nathan Lukes, 1B Vladimir Guerrero Jr., RF Addison Barger, C Alejandro Kirk, CF Daulton Varsho, Okamoto, 2B Ernie Clement, and SS Andrés Giménez.

He hit first in 18 games last year, so it’s not a total surprise, but we hope it doesn’t cut into his RBI totals too much. The rest of the Athletics lineup against RHP Kevin Gausman is pretty much as expected: Kurtz, C Shea Langeliers, LF Tyler Soderstrom, DH Brent Rooker, SS Jacob Wilson, RF Lawrence Butler, 3B Max Muncy, 2B Jeff McNeil, and CF Denzel Clarke.

DeLauter, who got into two postseason games last October, got the Guardians on the board with a 353-foot homer in the first and then added some insurance with a one-run lead with a 422-foot blast in the ninth. He also had a single and another run scored in between. DeLauter’s struggles staying healthy as a minor leaguer don’t bode well, but there’s no questioning the former first-rounder’s talent. He’d seem to be worth using in mixed leagues for now.

That’s no good. Bibee was removed while warming up for the sixth inning tonight. After the game, he said the injury was a new one, and he got to the point where he felt like he “couldn’t battle through it.” Given his comments, even if the injury proves to be relatively minor, we imagine he’ll spend some time on the IL. Logan Allen is the obvious choice to replace him in the Cleveland rotation, though the Guardians could recall Codi Heuer until a start is needed against the Dodgers on Tuesday.

The Dodgers entered the home half of the fifth inning facing a two-run deficit until Max Muncy and Teoscar Hernandez set the table with a couple of singles. Pages then followed with a mammoth 400-foot (100.6 mph EV) three-run shot that changed the entire complexion of the game and put the Dodgers ahead to stay. He also singled in the eighth inning. Pages appears to be back in the Dodgers’ good graces after being benched down the stretch of their run to the World Series.

The 21-year-old phenom came to the dish with the bases loaded in the opening inning and laced the first pitch that he saw from Nick Pivetta for a two-run single into right field that increased the Tigers’ early lead to 3-0. In the third inning, he worked his way back from an 0-2 count before crushing a 2-2 fastball (105.9 mph EV) off the top of the wall in right field for another double. He also reached on an infield single in the fifth — exhibiting elite speed with a sprint speed of 30.2 ft/s — before riding home on Dillon Dingler’s two-run blast. If he keeps this up, he won’t be hitting sixth in the Tigers’ lineup for very long.

Misiorowski gave up a leadoff homer to Chase Meidroth, but the White Sox couldn’t get to him after that. He got 19 whiffs on his fastball alone and ended up with a 41% CSW. It’s Misiorowski’s third 10-strikeout game in 15 career starts. His high was 12 against the Dodgers last July. Misiorowski is due make his next start Wednesday against the Brewers.

It was a three-true-outcome day for Benge, as he struck out in his other two at-bats. The homer to right-center came off Justin Lawrence in the sixth. Benge was able to make the Mets this spring without ever homering, finishing up at .366/.435/.439 in 46 plate appearances in Grapefruit League action. Especially with him being due to sit against a lot of lefties, it’s hard to say if the homers and steals will be there to make Benge a viable mixed-league outfielder as a rookie. However, he should be a solid major league contributor with his OBP skills.