Fantasy Baseball Waiver Thread: Shohei Ohtani is back (as a batter), while Avisail Garcia continues to rake

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This tingling that you felt on your back around 10 pm and Tuesday night, there was a reason for that.

Shohei Ohtani was back on a major league diamond, and everything was going back to the world.

OK, so maybe not all . It is just starting to hit again, and it may be all that it is doing in the foreseeable future. His damaged elbow ligament does not affect that side of things, and angels think that rehabilitation, not surgery, is the best way to put it back on the mound.

However, the rehabilitation could be long. An exam in a few weeks, in fact, should determine if he will be able to return to the mound all this year.

Frankly, I am not sure what we can expect to find. a two-way player is, pitching a presented some challenges in Fantasy. To do both, Ohtani had to do each one less, and since most Fantasy vendors forced the owners to choose between a contribution or the other, it made it less valuable than it seemed to be. be.

But the truth is that it was all that it was announced to be, a revelation in both roles. Yeah, he went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts on Tuesday after a month of rust collecting, but he came out of the DL .289 bat with six home runs and a .907 OPS in 114 at-bat while the speed of Elite exit flashes

The transition, albeit temporary, to full-time DH is particularly notable in Yahoo's leagues, where Ohtani is divided into two separate players, the pitcher version and the batter version. The batter version is only 41% owned, which obviously needs to change.

But even in CBS leagues, which offer a dual eligibility Ohtani that you have to designate either a pitcher or a batter at the beginning of each scoring period, there is reason to think that his value could be worth it. improve. The presumption was that you always pledge to use it as a pitcher since the sticks would never be regular enough for him to compete with full time hitters. But now, maybe they will be.

Of course, it's possible that everything he does with his elbow on the side will prevent him from hitting everyday. If the Angels have a program in mind, they did not share it. But the advantage is enough for me to think that you have to hold Ohtani and see where it goes.

The head of Waiver Wire's poster was back Tuesday night over. He also did his first walk of the season, which is the bugaboo for him, but he's really the top-Babip guy that he showed up last year, these last two weeks may be more of a bend than a hot run. 19659003] Andrew Heaney followed perhaps his worst start to the season (against the Red Sox, so …) with one of his best, withdrawing 10 of his 19 strikes. It was his fifth start of seven innings or more, which means that the Angels did not take him easy life in his first year of surgery Tommy John. The results could be more consistent, but the highs are high enough that it probably becomes a must.

Zack Wheeler has taken advantage of his side-tricks over the past six weeks, allowing his fast 90s ball to play, and the result is a 3.32, 1.14 WHIP and 8.4 strikeout by nine innings. during his last nine starts. He is once again a mixed league player, but only 62% of them are involved.

Do you think Hector Rondon, the Astros, are even closer? He has managed six of the team's last seven saves, converting one of four teams on Tuesday, and has numbers that will certainly suffice in the role. Not to mention a closing story of his time with the Cubs. The pace has been slow lately, but as good as the Astros, it could rack up stops in the coming weeks.

Home runs are not in the strongest demand these days, but Mark Trumbo is just a year-old hitting 47 of them. He was also a famous loafer in the time of the Angels, and he saw a big spike in flying bullets – the kind needed to bring him back to this level – in June. And you can see where it has taken him in his last 24 games.

Max Stbadi took a hand pitch on Tuesday and is day-to-day with a bruise – a start not conducive to his stint as primary catcher Astros. But with Brian McCann put out 4-6 weeks after a knee surgery, Stbadi still has plenty of time to challenge the top 12 at the weakest position in Fantasy, which seems plausible given his work part-time