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This would seem to be a bit short-sighted since Ramírez has a quality bat and was one of the worst defensive catchers in baseball during his rookie season. He posted a -12 Fielding Runs Value on Statcast and was 63rd out of 63 catchers in Statcast’s Caught Stealing Above Average after throwing out only eight of 76 possible baserunners. De Nicola reports that the Marlins are now considering Eric Wagaman, Heriberto Hernandez, or Connor Norby as internal options at first base.

Elder struck out two against one walk while giving up six hits. It’s a solid outing despite the lack of swings and misses — Elder generated only six of them during Saturday’s outing — and it still sees his ERA rise from 1.50 to 1.95. He’s due for a clunker, but Elder has unquestionably done a nice job over the first month. He does have a potentially tricky one scheduled for Friday against the Rockies in Colorado.

Wheeler allowed just three hits in his first start of 2026, but he did walk three and appeared to be losing command as the start continued. Still, a solid outing that saw him generate 15 swings and misses while throwing 56-of-84 pitches for strikes. It is worth noting, however, that his velocity was down a good amount — 94.7 mph per four-seam fastball compared to 96.1 in 2025 — so that’s something to keep an eye on. Wheeler will be back on the mound Friday against the Marlins.

Amaya took Roki Sasaki deep in the fifth to make it an 8-4 deficit for the Cubs. The 27-year-old has done a decent job over the first month with the stick as seen in a .234/.345/.383 slash.

Quite the interesting night. Caballero’s homer was a 357-footer into the Crawford Boxes at Daikin Park. According to Statcast, it was the lone park in which it would been a homer. Before that, Caballero had a slow roller go for a single, stole his 10th base of the year and was then caught stealing third before Trent Grisham homered. He was caught stealing again in a tie game in the seventh, but it turned out fine for the Yankees since the next four batters went single, walk, walk, walk. Caballero has seven hits the last three games, pushing him up to .280/.316/.430 for the season. That’s not great news for those awaiting Anthony Volpe’s return, but Volpe still figures to be given the opportunity to claim the shortstop job.

The Yankees were up 2-1 going into the sixth, but Carlos Correa led off the inning with a homer to tie it. If Weathers could have finished the inning from there, he likely would have wound up the winner, as the Yankees scored three times in the top of the seventh. However, he was replaced by Fernando Cruz before that could happen. Weathers struck out four and walked none. He has a sterling 40/8 K/BB to go along with his 3.21 ERA in 33 2/3 innings.

This would have been a nice night for Burrows in another park, but he gave up homers of 363 and 357 feet. Statcast said the first would have left 12 ballparks and the second was only a homer in Daikin. Burrows still did bring his ERA down to 6.25. He’ll probably next face the Orioles on Thursday, unless the Astros want to push him back to Friday against the Red Sox.

Wells matched his previous season totals with one homer and two RBI tonight. The homer also gave him just his fifth run scored in 22 games. He’s batting .188/.338/.297 in 80 plate appearances.

Correa’s three balls in play tonight came in at 107, 102 and 104 mph, giving his 38 percent hard-hit rate a boost. The homer off Ryan Weathers was his second of the year. He’s back in a considerably better run and RBI situation in Houston than he was in Minnesota, but as only a modest source of homers and a zero in steals, his fantasy ceiling remains rather low.

Suzuki hit one of three homers the Cubs were able to procure over Roki Sasaki. That gives him four on the season — it’s worth noting that Sasaki didn’t make his debut until April 10 — and he’s slashing .327/.439/.564 over his 55 at-bats.