Luke Raley (illness) remains out Sunday vs. Red Sox

Farmer landed on the injured list with a forearm strain back on May 18th. With Ha-Seong Kim struggling and Jorge Mateo hitting .120 in June, there is a chance for Farmer to come back and push for a spot on the active roster in a few weeks.

Pérez made just one rehab start after missing three weeks with a thigh strain. He hit 99 mph during that rehab start and was allegedly “sneezing 95 mph” fastballs during his pitch design session. Even though a matchup against the Rangers is a solid one, Pérez only threw 51 pitches in his rehab start, so he is unlikely to be fully stretched out for this one. We might hold him on the bench for one start before throwing him back in your lineup.

Houston was the 16th overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft. He hit .325/.406/.461 with five home runs and 24 steals in 56 games at High-A this season before being promoted. He’s the seventh-ranked prospect in the Twins’ system, according to MLB Pipeline.

Machado’s 11th homer in the fourth off Grant Holmes accounted for the only run in the finale of what was an incredibly low scoring day of baseball; 24 teams combined to scored 64 runs, with no team scoring more than six runs. Seven of the 12 games saw the teams total five runs or fewer. Machado, a future Hall of Famer, is currently hitting .185/.265/.384, probably due to analytics and algorithms and Driveline, which could all be fixed if someone would hire John Smoltz as a GM and Jeff Frye as a manager.

King had a 6.41 ERA in his previous five starts, but he succeeded tonight even though 12 of the 20 balls in play against him were hard hit. It helped that he walked none, and he struck out five in an outing for the first time in six starts. We’d still be nervous about using him in shallow leagues at the moment, especially since he’s due to face the Dodgers in his next two outings.

Miller made things a little interesting by allowing a single and a walk with two outs, but he struck out Mike Yastrzemski to end the game. He’s second in the majors in saves, three behind Cade Smith and two ahead of Bryan Baker and Riley O’Brien.

Holmes walked five. He’s pitched a total of 10 1/3 innings and walked 10 in his last three starts, which should have him on thin ice with the Braves. His 4.17 ERA for the season isn’t bad, but that he’s gotten fewer than 15 outs in seven of his 15 starts and more than 15 outs just five times suggests should have his rotation status in question. He’ll likely face the Giants on Sunday.

Riley wasn’t very good last year and certainly hasn’t been any good in batting .219/.295/.355 this season, but it’d still be very dangerous to write him off while his power remains intact. Maybe he won’t fully rebound, but it’s hard to imagine him not being somewhat better the rest of the way.

Maybe it shouldn’t be a total surprise that Bradish places on the short list of the league’s most inconsistent starters in his first full year back from Tommy John, but his strong showing at the end of the year did suggest more was in store. Still, things do seem to be getting better; he has a 2.78 ERA in his last nine starts after coming in at 5.03 in the first seven. Overall, he’s allowed one or no runs six times and four or more runs five times. He’ll take a 5-7 record and a 3.64 ERA into his next start versus the Nationals.