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Edman added that he recently resumed baseball activities after undergoing surgery last November on his right ankle. The versatile 30-year-old is expected to focus primarily on second base this upcoming season after dealing with recurring ankle issues throughout last year. It would likely be Hyseong Kim taking over at the keystone in his absence. He’s more of a late-round draft and stash candidate in fantasy drafts this spring.

Lukes is raking after a frightening bout with vertigo. He missed practically the entire month of May and played sparingly in April, but is 13-for-30 since returning a week and a half ago and smashed his first home run of the season in this one. The Blue Jays pushed him right back to the top of their order as well with Lukes hitting either first or second in all seven starts since being activated. He could be a fun target in a deep league.

Corbin was done in by a three-run home run from Mauricio Dubón in the third inning. His outing was fairly clean otherwise, but he still isn’t missing enough bats and allowing too much hard contact to genuinely be trusted. He currently has a 3.98 ERA with 37 strikeouts and 16 walks across 54 1/3 innings on the season as a remarkably important plug-and-play starter in the Blue Jays’ rotation. Next up is a horrifying two-start week against the Phillies and Yankees with both starts coming at home.

Ohtani was a little wild early in this one, but he worked through it in turning in his fifth scoreless start of the year. He’s allowed a total of five earned runs in 61 innings, which amounts to a 0.74 ERA, and he’s now won four starts in a row. It’s shaping up to be a fascinating Cy Young race in the NL this year. MVP, on the other hand, probably won’t be interesting at all as long as Ohtani remains healthy. Ohtani will probably pitch again next Wednesday against the Pirates.

Gallen’s K rate, which already plummeted from 25 percent in 2024 to 21.5 percent in 2025, is down to 15 percent this year, and nothing here is going to get much better unless he figures out how to turn that around. He’s sitting at 3-5 with a 5.32 ERA through 13 starts. He’ll pitch on the road against the Marlins and Reds next week, but he seems like a poor bet in mixed leagues then.

Tucker’s homer off Zac Gallen left his bat at 107.8 mph, which is a new season high for him. He came into the night in a 3-for-29 slump after looking pretty good for most of May, he hit .283/.419/.517 in a three-week span from May 4-24.

The Pirates scored three runs in the top of the seven to go up 8-3, only to lose after the Astros rallied with two in bottom of the inning and six in the eighth. Smith’s triple on a grounder down the first base line gave the Astros the lead. It was his first of this season after he had three as a rookie last year. He’s currently hitting .221/.312/.358 in 235 plate appearances. It’s almost a perfect match for last year’s .236/.312/.358 line in 493 plate appearances.

Arrighetti got through 3 2/3 scoreless, but then with one more out to go in the fourth, he gave up a single, hit a batter, walked another and gave up a grand slam to Henry Davis. It proved to be a 33-pitch inning, so he didn’t come back out for the fifth afterwards. Arrighetti was named AL Pitcher of the Month for May earlier in the day, but there’s never been much in his underlying numbers to suggest he’s going to keep it up. The 1.94 ERA he’ll take into his next start against the Angels is two-to-three runs lower than his xERA, SIERA and FIP.

Hader walked one and struck out one. He averaged 95.8 mph with his sinker, which is very encouraging. That’s actually a little better than his 95.5-mph average from last season and it’s nearly two mph better than in his four Triple-A starts. Of course, there’s no guarantee that he’ll remain healthy from here, but based on the way he was throwing tonight, he could go right back to performing as a top-notch closer.

Skenes exited with a 4-3 lead after allowing two singles, striking out two and then giving up an RBI single in the fifth. Yohan Ramírez took over and retired Jake Meyers to end the inning. Of course, that left Skenes ineligible for the win in a game in which he averaged about eight pitches per out. Skenes struck out seven and wasn’t hit very hard; the two-run rally in the third started out with a bunt single and a walk before Yordan Alvarez and Isaac Paredes delivered RBI singles. This makes four straight mediocre starts for Skenes, but his strikeout rate is holding up fine and he’s allowed only two homers since the beginning of March. Things should turn around soon, though perhaps not against the Dodgers next time out.

Soto entered with the Pirates up 9-6, two on and two out in the eighth and never made it out of the inning. Yordan Alvarez singled to make it 9-7. Christian Walker then hit a slow roller to the right side with Brandon Lowe pulled toward second and Lowe failed to make the play for a cheap infield single. After that came a bases-loaded walk and a Cam Smith triple. Soto was having a fantastic season, but outings like this were always on the way. He’s still the clear favorite for saves in Pittsburgh right now, but that might change at some point. There’s the chance that Carmen Mlodzinski could enter the mix after getting sent to the pen.