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    Riley Greene homers, drives home four in victory

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    Riley Greene homered, tripled and drove in four runs while going 3-for-4 in a 6-3 win for the Tigers over Rangers on Sunday.

    Greene also drew a walk, so it was a four-reach day for the 25-year-old talent. His homer was his 13th of the season; a two-run blast off Kumar Rocker. He came a double short of the cycle, and in the process he saw his slash improve to .292/.380/.474. He hasn’t shown as much power as he did in 2025, but he’s been a more well-rounded player in 2026. It’s a fair trade-off.
    - Christopher Crawford
Padres break through with Merrill's RBI single
Looking to get things going amid an eight-game losing streak, the Padres broke through thanks to Jackson Merrill's RBI single in the top of the fourth on Sunday Night Baseball.

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  • DET Left Fielder #31
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    Greene has 12 homers in 88 games, putting him just one-third of his way to his 2025 total of 36, but with his OBP having jumped from .313 to .375, his OPS is up some anyway and he’s on track to have a more valuable season than he did last year. We’ll find out soon whether that gets him a third straight All-Star appearance or not.
  • DET Left Fielder #31
    Greene spearheaded Detroit’s unexpected offensive explosion against Yankees rising ace Cam Schlittler by taking him deep in the first and third innings for his first multi-homer performance of the year. It hardly feels like a coincidence that Greene erupted with an epic power display after receiving his first day off of the entire season during Monday’s series opener. The 25-year-old middle-of-the-order force is slashing .288/.378/.450 with 43 runs scored, 11 homers, 37 RBI and one steal through 85 games.
  • DET Left Fielder #31
    Greene receives his first day following 84 consecutive starts to open the season. The 25-year-old fantasy stalwart appears unlikely to match last year’s career-high 36 home runs, but a quick glance under the hood reveals that he’s making just as much hard contact while also displaying vastly improved plate skills. He’s still delivering early-round fantasy value, just in a completely different package. It’ll be Matt Vierling getting the nod in left field to face Yankees lefty Ryan Weathers.
  • DET Left Fielder #31
    Greene’s home run was his ninth of the year. He hit a solo shot off Gerritt Cole in the fifth inning. Greene is a career .268 hitter who hit .258 in 2025, but is hitting .292 this year. While his power production has decreased this year, his .385 OBP would be a career-best by over 30 points and his .830 OPS would also be a career-high.
  • DET Left Fielder #31
    Greene’s home run was his sixth of the year. He hit a solo shot off Ian Seymour in the seventh inning. Greene is still hitting .308, though much of that is due to his .434 BABIP. Since May 14, he’s hitting .271 over his last 19 games. Greene has a career .354 BABIP, so his average should continue to come down. The likely trade-off will be that Greene falls back on his power hitting after hitting 36 home runs last season.
  • DET Left Fielder #31
    Greene kicked off the scoring with a two-run double down the right-field line in the opening frame before clobbering a gargantuan 428-foot moonshot to right-center field a couple innings later. It was his fifth long ball of the season. The 25-year-old fantasy standout isn’t hitting for a ton of over-the-fence pop, but he’s slashing a robust .309/.399/.450 across 253 plate appearances through 61 games.
  • DET Left Fielder #31
    Greene started the scoring in the first inning as he blasted an RBI double that was a foot away from being a home run. The 25-year-old outfielder made adjustments to his approach this offseason and his average and walk percentage have increased while his power has decreased. Greene’s strikeout percentage of 30 percent last year is only slightly down at 27 percent this year, but his walk percentage has nearly doubled from seven percent last year to 13.6 percent this year. His average is up to .327 after hitting .258 last year, though his ISO has slipped from .235 to .158. Greene’s .450 BABIP this year is the highest among qualified batters and over 100 points higher than his career .353 BABIP. His average is unsustainable unless he significantly cuts into his strikeout rate, but Greene has patience and power in his profile to fall back on.
  • DET Left Fielder #31
    Greene came through with a two-run knock in the first inning to give the Tigers an early lead. Those stood as their only two runs in an extra inning loss against the Mets. Oddly enough, Greene has foregone power this season in favor of more contact with just four home runs, but a .325 batting average so far this season. His strikeout rate remains relatively high, so expect that average to dip while the home runs likely follow as the weather warms up in Detroit.
  • DET Left Fielder #31
    Greene now has a four-game hitting streak going and is slashing an impressive .423/.464/.538 this month despite having only one RBI to show for his efforts over that span. Greene doubled in the second inning and later came around to score on a ground ball double play. Hopefully, the homers and RBI start to come for Greene, who has just one homer and two RBI in his last 12 games despite being hot at the dish.
  • DET Left Fielder #31
    Greene golfed a curveball out to left-center in his first at bat against Brandon Sproat. It was a welcome sight for fantasy managers desperate for some power from Greene, who is now up to two homers and a stolen base in his first 26 games. The .840 OPS tells the story of a good hitter who just hasn’t found the right launch angles and pitches yet, and we mostly believe that story.

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    Emerson Hancock limited the Blue Jays to two hits over seven innings in the Mariners’ 4-0 shutout victory Sunday.

    It’s the fourth straight Mariners game to end in a shutout, and they were on the right side of three of them (they beat the Angels 1-0 on Thursday, lost to the Jays 2-0 on Friday and won 11-0 on Saturday). Hancock was originally supposed to piggyback with Logan Gilbert on Saturday, but the Mariners scratched that the night before and Gilbert went out and pitched one-hit ball for seven innings. Now, Hancock has gone seven scoreless for the first time. He previously pitched six scoreless innings twice and seven innings of one-run ball once. He struck out five and generated 14 whiffs today, finishing with a 32 percent CSW. The Mariners probably won’t engage in any funny business in the rotation this week with six games in a row after the off day on Monday. Just like this weekend, they’ll likely go with Luis Castillo on Friday, Gilbert on Saturday and Hancock on Sunday against the Rays.
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    Trey Yesavage worked six innings and allowed three runs — two earned — in a loss to the Mariners on Sunday.

    The unearned run was a product of Ernie Clement committing an error prior to Mitch Garver’s two-run homer in the third. Yesavage racked up seven strikeouts, his second highest total of the year. He allowed just three hits. He still hasn’t surrendered more than five hits in any outing this year, and he’s given up a total of eight in 18 1/3 innings over his last three outings. He’s 4-4 with a 3.31 ERA, and he’ll finish off the first half with a start in San Diego next weekend.
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    Mitch Garver hit a two-run homer off the Blue Jays’ Trey Yesavage in the Mariners’ win Sunday.

    After doing a nice job while Cal Raleigh was on the injured list (.238/.304/.476 with three homers in 15 games), Garver, who was starting for the first time in seven days, is back to playing pretty seldomly since Raleigh returned. The homer today was his first this season with Raleigh on the active roster. He’s hitting just .194/.325/.330 overall.
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    Alejandro Kirk finished 0-for-4 against the Mariners in Sunday’s loss.

    Kirk is batting .204 with one homer and five RBI in 16 games since returning from a fractured thumb. He did have four hard-hit balls in his previous start on Friday, but in addition to striking out once, his balls in play today were hit just 62, 48 and 80 mph.
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    Triston Casas has been shut down from hitting again, this time due to a wrist problem.

    Casas still hasn’t played since suffering a ruptured patella tendon last May. As he was making his way back from that, he suffered an abdominal strain during the first week of this season. He resumed swinging in the second half of June, but now his return is on hold again.
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    Pete Fairbanks allowed three runs — two earned — over an inning of work in a non-save situation against the Athletics on Sunday.

    Fairbanks had an earned run taken away because the scorekeeper determined it was a passed ball from Joe Mack that allowed the run to score. It was still an awful effort from Fairbanks, and it didn’t even come in a save situation, so there’s no benefit for those who roster the 32-year-old. He’s now allowed runs in four straight appearances, and his ERA has blown up to an ugly 6.84. It still seems likely that Fairbanks will get the save chances for Miami, but this is a situation worth monitoring.
    - Christopher Crawford
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    Jonah Heim hit a grand slam and drove in six runs in a close loss to the Marlins on Sunday.

    A fascinating baseball game. The A’s trailed 8-0 at the end of seven with Eury Pérez throwing a perfect game, but after Pérez was pulled, the A’s got back in the game and then some; thanks in large part to Heim. His grand slam made it an 8-5 game in the eighth, and he hit a two-run single off a wholly ineffective Pete Fairbanks to draw the A’s to within a run. Heim has been a solid bench bat for the Athletics in 2026 with nine homers and a .241/.300/.490 slash.
    - Christopher Crawford
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    Heriberto Hernández homered twice to help the Marlins to a win over the Athletics.

    Hernández gave the Marlins an early 1-0 lead with his solo shot, and then hit another one in the sixth. He also single and drew a pair of walks, so a nifty overall day for the 26-year-old. He’s now homered 11 times in 2026, and he’s done so with a slash of .234/.314/.457. Those numbers show the flaws in Hernández’s game, but also why he has a chance to be a pretty good one over the coming campaigns.
    - Christopher Crawford
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    Otto Lopez went 3-for-4 with a homer, double and three RBI in a win over the Athletics on Sunday.

    It makes back-to-back games where Lopez has picked up three hits and a homer. The 27-year-old also doubled and drew a walk, and in the process saw his slash improve to a remarkable — and totally unexpected — .346/.376/.520 on the season. Even if there was to be some substantial regression after the break, what Lopez has done over these first 90 games cannot be ignored. He deserves more respect for his first three months.
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    Gage Jump surrendered six runs over three innings while picking up a loss to the Marlins on Sunday.

    Jump was bad from, well, the jump; allowing a homer in the first and two more runs in the second. He gave up three more in the third, and to say he didn’t match the effort of Eury Pérez — who threw seven perfect innings — is quite the understatement. Jump has struggled in his last two outings while allowing 11 runs, and will try and rebound from those disappointing efforts against the White Sox in Chicago this weekend.
    - Christopher Crawford