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Mostly MLB Notes: Talking Encarnacion and a look around the league

Mostly MLB Notes: Talking Encarnacion and a look around the league

Edwin Encarnacion entered June with a .240/.313/.447 line, yet a major hot streak (he’s hitting .307 with nine homers, 23 runs, 26 RBI and 17 walks over 75 at bats this month) suddenly has him on pace to finish with 41 home runs and an MLB-high 141 RBI. His strikeout rate has been higher this year than usual (his has always been very low for a slugger), but EE currently owns a .267 BABIP and is obviously one of the hotter hitters in all of baseball right now. He should be treated as a top-12 asset moving forward.

Headlines of the Week: Match-Predicting Koala Sacked For Poor Results...‘Sea Monster’ Spotted On Google Earth...X-ray Machine Foils Attempt To Sneak Iguana Into Boulder Courthouse...Woman Woken Up By 16ft, 30kg Snake That’s Been Living In Her Roof...Mom Goes Into Freakout Mode, Thinks Daughter’s Head Turned Into A Square...Man Collapses, Dies Next To $12M Worth Of Pot.

Quick Hits: Over his last four starts, Trevor Bauer has a 1.42 ERA and a 0.85 WHIP with a 32:6 K:BB ratio over 31.2 innings. He hasn’t allowed multiple homers in any outing this season. The 25-year-old has improved his control, and there’s little reason the former No. 3 overall pick is owned in just 66 percent of Yahoo leagues...Here’s Kevin Pillar making yet another terrific catch...J.J. Hoover has surrendered eight homers over 17.2 innings this season...Melvin Upton Jr. is on pace to finish with 23 homers and 36 steals yet is barely owned in 50 percent of Yahoo leagues...Shin-Soo Choo has a .414 OBP and a .241 batting average... Here’s Eugenio Suarez faking himself out on a grounder...Entering May 13, Bryce Harper had a 1.095 OPS. Since then, he’s hit .230/.338/.357over 126 at bats...Pedro Alvarez has six homers (and a 1.032 OPS) over 51 at bats in June...Danny Duffy has a 23.1 K-BB%, and he’s now starting. That would rank No. 6 among all SPs if he qualified.

Police Blotter: Man Charged With Bank Robbery Tried Crowdfunding...Thirsty Thieves Steal 78K Bottles Of Beer.

Quick Hits Part Deux: Jonathan Villar leads MLB both in stolen bases (25) and in caught stealings (eight)...Michael Conforto had a 1.118 OPS at the end of April, so it’s pretty crazy he’s been sent to the minors. He’s hit .148/.217/.303 with 48 strikeouts over 142 at bats since then...Huston Street’s average fastball velocity (87.8 mph) and SwStr% (10.2) are both by far career worsts, and his 7:8 K:BB ratio is a disaster, so it’s actually kind of impressive he’s been able to record an ERA under 4.00 with a 1.61 WHIP. Fantasy owners who drafted Street and backed him up with the DL’d Joe Smith have to be furious right now...Here’s Yasiel Puig walking off the Dodgers while somehow scoring on his own single....And here’s a nifty Adrian Gonzalez catch aided by Chase Utley...Edinson Volquez gave up 12 runs (11 earned) in one inning during Friday’s start. His ERA has risen from 3.90 to 5.15 over his last two starts...The Diamondbacks won Friday despite being just the second team in history to use nine pitchers in a nine-inning game that took place before the September roster expansion (hat tip RotoWorld)...Michael Saunders is hitting .301 and is one pace to slug 32 homers in a strong lineup yet is available in more than a quarter of Yahoo leagues.

This Formula 1 Pit Stop Is Fairly Fast.

Here’s a “Dog-Bot” doing dishes. I would say we are all done for, but it later slips on a banana peel.

Song of the Week: CHVRCHES - "Bury It"

Longread of the Week: FIGHT

Quick Hits Part Tres: Go pick up A.J. Reed (who had a .340-113-34-127 line over 135 games in the minors last season) in any league in which you’re in and he’s available now that Houston has called him up...And for those in deeper formats, Alex Reyes is someone to stash right now...Jake Peavy had an 8.21 ERA and a 1.90 WHIP over his first nine starts this season. He owns a 1.91 ERA and a 0.90 WHIP over his last six starts with a 3.9:1 K:BB ratio...Here’s Javier Baez making a sensational leaping catch...Aroldis Chapman was throwing decently fast Friday night...Ryan Rua has hit .400/.477/.636 against left-handers this season and sure looks like a bargain in DFS (and he’s owned in fewer than 10 percent of Yahoo leagues as well for those in daily transaction formats)...Joe Panik is a middle infielder on pace to finish with 95 runs scored, 15 homers, 78 RBI and 11 steals. He’s owned in 46 percent of Yahoo leagues...Clayton Kershaw currently has a 32.4 K-BB%. Pedro Martinez beat that mark once in his career.

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