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Alvarez is available off the bench for Tuesday’s game against the Twins, but remains out of the lineup for the second straight contest due to lingering left shoulder soreness. Fantasy managers should consider him day-to-day for now.

Devers has been limited by his right shoulder for weeks, and it looks like he’s finally calling it with the Red Sox essentially done. Boston could finish out the season with Nick Sogard and Romy Gonzalez at third and give Vaughn Grissom a brief look at second.

Witt Jr. accounted for 60 percent of the hits for the Royals on Friday in a game where the Giants pitching held Kansas City to five knocks and just one run. The three-hit game sees the 24-year-old star increase his average to .334, and he’s swinging the bat much better after a shaky beginning to the month of September.

Ramos finished a homer short of the cycle in this one. His RBI was an infield single to score Mike Yastrzemski in the first, and he’s now plated 70 batters in his first full year as a starter. Ramos is going to have some lulls as long as he continues to have contact issues — and there’s no reason to think he won’t going forward — but the strides he’s taken in 2024 shouldn’t be discredited.

Doval walked two in the outing and gave up a sac fly to Garrett Hampson, but because the Giants came into the ninth with a 2-0 lead, he was able to get the save; his 23rd of the season. It also saw his ERA raise to 5.24, so outside of those saves, there hasn’t been much to praise for the 27-year-old.

Wacha struck out five in the start while allowing six hits and one walk. The 33-year-old wasn’t nearly as good as he was Saturday against the Pirates, but he deserved better than a loss in this one. Unfortunately the Royals offense sans Bobby WItt Jr. is “going through it” right now, so he falls to 13-8 on the season. Wacha will look to lower his 3.28 ERA Thursday when he faces a very beatable Washington lineup.

Black surrendered just four hits in the contest, and he struck out four and walked one. He threw 54-of-84 pitches for strikes; not an elite number, but a nice number to see from a player that has dealt with command problems in his starts. His ERA is still 5.84 even with the scoreless outing, but there’s been just enough good from Black to suggest he can be a fantasy-relevant starter in the coming seasons.