Troy Melton, SP, DET If you followed my work at all last year, you know I absolutely adore Troy Melton. I often compare him to guys like Eury Perez and Jacob Misiorowski, in that he's a tall and lanky guy with fantastic extension and velocity out of a 3/4 slot - in this case, a slightly higher 3/4. And although his 100 mph perceived velocity 4-seam doesn't have the kind of tremendous ride that you see with those aforementioned names, it's still an impressive enough offering w

It's getting to be a bit much having to include the same guys every week, while trying to find new and interesting ways to express my enthusiasm and excitement for said players. I've genuinely put my all into recommending Sam Antonacci about 10 times going back to Fall of 2025, and at this point, managers either want him or they don't. These players have graduated: Sam Antonacci Connor Prielipp Peter Lambert Casey Schmitt Carson Benge TJ Rumfield JJ Bleday Moises is no lon

Sam Antonacci, 2B/OF, CWS I don't have much to add to the Antonacci discourse, other than to mention he now has two swiped bags after having zero before this week. The steals have arrived, and with that, he's officially an easy add. You just don't see many rookies have such an instinctual knack for creating good outcomes. Antonacci doesn't chase, doesn't whiff, boasts elite launch angles, takes pitches to the body at a Rizzo-esque rate, and recognizes pitches as if he were a

Seeing Rice doing what he's doing has me nostalgic for the early days of 2025, when I was fully ready to go all in on a guy that had hit .171 with a .613 OPS the year before. And yet, most tragically, I could not manage to snag rice in the only redraft league I participate in this year - a league in which I'm really struggling, no less. Hats off to the guys who reached for both Rice and Sal more than I had anticipated, perhaps you read my blog. Fortunately enough, though, the