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Ober also walked two batters while striking out two on the night. The only blemish on his sparkling effort came on a solo blast off the bat of Daulton Varsho in the fourth inning. The 30-year-old right-hander generated nine whiffs on 88 pitches in the contest, posting a CSW of 27 percent. He now sits at 3-1 with a solid 3.55 ERA, 1.13 WHIP and a 29/13 K/BB ratio through 38 innings on the season. He’ll try to keep the good times rolling when he takes on the Nationals in Washington on Wednesday.

Ober worked three scoreless frames against the Rays before Jake Fraley took him deep in the fourth with a two-run blast. Bailey gave the Twins two more scoreless innings, ending his day after six with three strikeouts. Ober generated only three swinging strikes and continues to sit at 88 mph on the fastball. It makes him a risky option when he takes a 3.94 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, and a 27/11 K/BB ratio across 32 innings into a start against the Blue Jays in Minnesota on Thursday.

Pretty impressive for a guy who maxed out at 90.4 mph. Ober got 14 whiffs and had a 35 percent CSW in the 102-pitch outing. He walked four, but that didn’t hurt much since he gave up only three hits. We wouldn’t go anywhere near Ober in mixed leagues, given that his stuff is worse now than when he gave up 30 homers last season. Still, he’s made it work through five starts, going 2-0 with a 4.15 ERA and two homers allowed in 26 innings. He’ll face the Rays next weekend.

With 11 runs of support in two innings, Ober didn’t have much to worry about in this one. He gave up three runs in third, but it was a quiet outing otherwise. Ober averaged 89.4 mph with his fastball, which is an improvement. He was at 89.8 mph in his season opener, but he’d been down to 88.6 mph and 88.1 mph in his last two outings. He’s now 2-0 in spite of a 5.49 ERA in four starts. Last year, he went 6-9 with a 5.10 ERA in 27 starts. He’ll make his next start at home versus the Reds.

Ober got six runs of support in the first and didn’t face many threats afterwards. His velocity was particularly bad tonight, as he averaged 88.1 mph on his 35 fastballs on a chilly night in Minneapolis. The Tigers just didn’t capitalize, and when he did get into trouble in the sixth, Justin Topa came on and stranded two inherited runners. Ober has a two-start week next week at home against the Red Sox and Reds, but he still seems too risky in mixed leagues at this point.

Nothing good here. Ober’s velocity crept up some last week against the Orioles, with his 89.8-mph average on his fastball placing closer to his 90.2-mph average in 2025 than his 89.1-mph spring average. Today, though, he averaged just 88.6 mph. He just seems like a really weak bet at this point. He’s slated to face the Tigers next week.

Ober walked one batter and struck out one in the contest. He cruised through the first three innings virtually unscathed, but things fell apart in the fourth. There, he allowed a pair of singles before serving up a game-tying three-run blast to Tyler O’Neill. Ober got just two whiffs on 56 pitches on the day, posting a CSW of 21 percent. His average fastball in the game was just 89.8 mph (-0.5 mph), still slightly down from where he sat during the 2025 campaign. He’s a tough one for fantasy managers to trust for next weekend’s start against the Rays.

Ober sat 89.6 mph on his fastball, which is down from last season but up from the 88.8 mph mark he had in his last outing. Still, it didn’t much matter. He allowed ten hard-hit baseballs on the day while walking three and striking out three. It’s impossible to recommend him in fantasy leagues right now.

Ober’s fastball velocity continues to trend in the wrong direction, as he averaged just 88.2 mph today. He was 89.9 mph in his spring debut and 88.8 mph last time out. This is all way down from the 91.7 mph he averaged last time he was an effective starter in 2024. Expectations for Ober should be pretty low at this point.

Ober averaged 89.9 mph with his fastball in his first start this spring, but he was down to 88.8 mph today. That’s about 1.5 mph less than last year, when he posted a 5.10 ERA, and three mph south of where he was in 2024. Maybe he’ll figure something out to get that back, but unless it happens, he figures to be a well below average starter once again.