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He’s getting a three-year deal. The 41-year-old Stammen pitched for the Padres from 2017-22 before retiring, amassing a 3.36 ERA in 394 1/3 innings along the way. He rejoined the Padres prior to the 2024 season, and he was one of three people with the title of special assistant to the major league staff and baseball operations last season.

There should be a clearer picture regarding Garcia’s outlook once he undergoes further evaluation and testing to determine the severity of the issue. The 26-year-old third baseman made an early exit from the sixth inning of Wednesday’s contest after going 0-for-3 at the plate. He’s off to a bit of a slow start following last year’s 16-homer, 23-steal breakthrough campaign, hitting .265/.336/.388 with two homers, 10 RBI and two steals across 25 games this season.

Marsee brought in one run with a walk in the second inning and then drove in another with an RBI single in the fourth. He’s gotten off to a slow start this season, but he’s making an elite amount of contact and walking at a really high rate. He may be putting the ball in the air too much, but this is the profile of a hitter who should be producing at a higher level. We may be starting to see that since he’s 4-for-8 with three RBI and one home run over his last two games. He also has nine steals on the season and should be added if he was dropped in any formats.

Stubbs gets the call to join Philadelphia’s active roster with veteran backstop J.T. Realmuto hitting the shelf with back spasms. The 32-year-old will handle the backup catching duties in his absence.

Realmuto attempted to play through the lingering back issue earlier this week, but the Phillies decided to give him some extra time off to put the issue to bed. Rafael Marchán will handle the bulk of the catching duties in his absence with Garrett Stubbs up to take his roster spot.

It’s merely a paperwork move to get catcher Garrett Stubbs back on Philadelphia’s 40-man roster. The 26-year-old reliever has been on the shelf recovering from an oblique strain since the end of spring training.

It was Herrera’s third home run and 12th RBI of the season. The batting average hasn’t been there with a .230/.387/.379 slash line so far this season, but Herrera is hitting the ball as hard as he ever has and making more contact than ever with a nearly 95 percent zone contact rate. The production should come soon.

Leahy walked three, struck out two, and threw only 55 percent of his pitches for strikes while posting a nine percent swinging strike rate. The move to the rotation has not gone great for Leahy so far this season, but the Cardinals don’t have any starting pitching options knocking down the door in Triple-A. We would not recommend using Leahy in fantasy, even next week against the Pirates.

Junk was incredibly efficient, throwing 78 percent of his first pitches for strikes and piling up a 34 percent CSW. He leaned on his four-seamer more than usual in this one and got 17 percent whiffs on it despite it not having the usual vertical movement that we’ve seen this season. However, it was around the zone all day, and then he picked up whiffs with his changeup. This may have more to do with the offense he was facing than anything, but Junk has been solid this season and remains on the streamer radar. You just may want to avoid it next week against the Dodgers.

Williams played a starring role during New York’s 12th consecutive loss on Tuesday night when he failed to record an out during an ugly meltdown against the Twins where he walked three batters and was charged with a pair of runs. The 31-year-old has struggled mightily in his Mets debut, compiling a bloated 9.95 ERA and 11/6 K/BB ratio across 6 1/3 innings over eight appearances. The hedge here for fantasy managers is to pick up Luke Weaver, who has plenty of closing experience, on the chance that he gets a look in the next save chance for the Mets.

Alvarez homered after Carlos Correa doubled to start the top of the first. He continued to hit from there, but he was pretty much the only one, as his teammates only had two more hits and the Guardians finished with five over the course of the afternoon. Alvarez did have a curious final at-bat, never leaving the box on a groundout down the first base line that he wrongly assumed was going foul. It could have easily hit the bag and bounced away, but Alvarez surely would have been out regardless. It’ll be forgiven, what with his 1.245 OPS and all, but it wasn’t a good look.