The 26 year old's constant health issues have kept the long-awaited breakout at bay, but the things we've been looking for from Hayes are happening despite the fact that we're still waiting on the stardom to occur. Ke'Bryan Hayes (3B - PIT) - Hayes tripled and homered in the 4-2 win over Milwaukee on Monday, continuing a hot streak that saw him put up a 320/368/588 line in August. He may not be healthy very often, but when he's healthy he almost always produces, and at a relatively weak position to boot. Garver is playing every day, even with Heim back, and absolutely should be owned and started in all formats right now. He's hit 11 HRs in just 100 ABs since August 1, and with his swinging strike rate returning to its early-career excellence, the AVG has come back up as well. Mitch Garver (C - TEX) - The oft-injured Garver has been fantastic in the second half, banging a couple of homers on Sunday and adding another one on Monday to reach 16 on the year. The only downside here is that the closing schedule for him is fairly difficult: HOU, I'm not afraid though.I'm running him out there in all formats with SP2 expectations. The control improvement is right there with the massive velo bump in terms of shocking developments here, and he's showing 4 pitches that he can get whiffs with pretty consistently. He navigated the tougher part of the schedule decently, and since things have gotten easier he's merely put together a 21 inning scoreless streak, putting up 27 K's against 1 walk in the last 19 of those innings. He will absolutely be a target of mine in redraft leagues next season.Ĭole Ragans (SP - KC) - Seriously, isn't Ragans currently a top-20 SP? I can't think of 20 guys that I would trust more right now, especially with the velocity continuing to explode (he averaged 97 with the fastball on Monday, and actually dropped a bit on the changeup to give him an 11 mph delta between the two). He's a well-rounded player that seems to be continuing to get better, and he doesn't turn 25 until June of next season. The frequent knee injuries have sapped a bit of the speed (or at least a bit of the desire to steal bases), but he'll contribute a bit there too. The contact ability has shown to be much better than what was on the scouting reports, and while the average exit velocity is only showing average to average-plus power, the max exit velocity is well above average. 300 at any level (including two MLB stints now), and he's hit 24 homers and stolen 21 bases in just 104 games. Since missing all of 20, Lewis hasn't hit under. We talk a lot about trying to find the next "stars" before they're valued as such, and there are certainly some reasons to think that Lewis might be a player like that. Lewis has 7 homers in his last 12 games now, bringing his season slash line up to 317/363/545 through 179 PAs. Royce Lewis (3B - MIN) - Lewis singled twice and homered again on Monday, knocking in 6 runs in the Twins' 20-6 shellacking of the Guardians.
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