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The 33-year-old southpaw has finished up his rehab from offseason elbow surgery and is ready to make his highly anticipated season debut on Sunday against the Brewers. Rodón did surrender six runs in his final minor league rehab start, so fantasy managers may want to see him shake off the rust first before throwing him right back into lineups. He should wind up being a nice impact addition for those that were patient and held him since the start of the season.

Everyone unable to activate Snell for his first start back caught a break tonight. This was actually a pretty promising outing; his velocity was up a tad from last year and he gave up two just hard-hit balls, though the 11 balls in play against him turned into six hits anyway. He’ll probably be much better against the Angels next week.

Even though the Yankees used just one reliever last night, they tried to get through the seventh and eighth with Brent Headrick and Camilo Doval tonight and gave up a two-run lead. Schlittler was terrific despite taking a 108-mph comebacker off his leg in the first. It looked like he might not be able to continue both at the time and again at the start of the second, but things went well from there. His ERA stands at 1.35 with the Mets next on the schedule.

Vargas launched a 410-foot home run in the third inning that left the bat at 106.5 mph, and then hit another one 404 feet at 112.9 mph later in the fifth inning. The 26-year-old now has nine home runs and 21 RBI on the season to go along with a .228/.369/.471 slash line. He’s adjusted his launch angle to not be as dramatic, so he’s hitting fewer fly balls, but he’s making much harder contact with a 13 percent barrel rate and a career high 44 percent hard-hit rate. The batting average should rise closer to .240, and he’s going to be a valuable fantasy asset in many leagues this season.

Entering in the eighth for the second time this season, Miller got a Jordan Walker groundout with two on to end a threat. In the ninth, he walked two and struck out four, with the third of those reaching on a wild pitch. JJ Weatherholt was caught looking to end the game with the bases loaded. Miller threw 29 pitches, so he might take a seat on Sunday. If so, Jason Adam could be the choice to close.

The veteran struck out six and walked nobody, while also throwing nearly 70 percent of his pitches for strikes and posting a 20 percent swinging strike rate. All of that is tremendous, and he got to two-strike counts on 78 percent of the hitters he saw. The issue is that he also gave up a home run and an average exit velocity of 96.7 mph on the contact he allowed. The Mariners have said they want Castillo to piggyback with Bryce Miller (oblique) when he comes off the IL, but Castillo also has a 6.57 ERA on the season, so there’s a chance that Miller could simply take the rotation spot if he pitches well. Castillo no longer needs to be held in 12-team redraft leagues.

Jung is now up to five home runs and 20 RBI with a .319/.372/.519 slash line. He’s finally healthy after nagging injuries over the last few years, and he has been the most consistent bat in the Rangers’ lineup this season. There may not be a true breakout here, but Jung is at least emerging as the hitter we expected him to be before the injuries kicked in.

As you can imagine, Leiter’s command was not the best in this one, throwing just 55 percent of his pitches for strikes. However, he also induced 12 whiffs with a 12 percent swinging strike rate and was efficient in two-strike counts with a 57 percent PutAway Rate. It wasn’t a crisp outing, but Leiter made the pitches that he needed to in order to get out of trouble and showcased the ability of a strong fantasy starter. The command just really needs to be cleaned up. He’s a risky option next week against the Astros.

This line is a weird one. Cabrera allowed five runs on seven hits, two of which were home runs. That’s all very much earned. However, he also struck out six and walked just one. He also had 13 whiffs, a 15 percent swinging strike rate, a 30 percent CSW, and threw 66 percent of his pitches for strikes. So, Cabrera threw tons of strikes, missed plenty of bats, put away hitters when he got into two-strike counts, but also seemed to give up hard contact whenever he did give up contact. One other thing to note here is that Cabrera’s sinker was 97 mph in the first inning and then down to 94.3 mph by the fifth inning. That’s a bit of a larger drop-off than we’re used to seeing. We’d still start him next week against the White Sox.

Witt got the game started with a liner down to the right field line in the first that was misplayed off the side wall by Kerry Carpenter, who wound up getting hurt on the play. It was his fifth home run of the season and 19th RBI. It continues a strong May for Witt, who is 12-for-37 (.324) since May 1st with three home runs, four RBI, and two steals.