A Misplaced Season for Casas, PCA Continues to Mash – Could 3, 2025
Triston Casas (1B-BOS) will almost certainly miss the remainder of the 2025 marketing campaign after being identified with a ruptured left patellar tendon. The damage brings a untimely finish to a disappointing season for the 25 year-old slugger, who finishes with a .182 common, 3 homers, 11 RBI, and 5 runs scored over 112 PA with a poor 59 wRC+. His strikeout fee wasn’t dangerous at 24% and Casas had registered a 71% contact fee (up from 69% final season) to go along with a 78% in-zone contact fee (up from 76.5% final season). His Statcast metrics have been a bit down throughout the board with a 44.5% hard-hit fee, 9.5% barrel fee, and a median exit velo of simply 87.5 mph. Casas’s BABIP was simply .217 (.292 profession), so some correction to the imply appeared to be coming since his batted ball profile wasn’t horrible. However fantasy house owners will now once more need to hope that subsequent yr is the yr for Triston Casas.
Hunter Brown (SP-HOU) defeated the White Sox on Saturday regardless of a rocky begin to the outing as he completed the sport permitting 3 runs on 4 hits and three walks whereas placing out 9 over 6 IP. The 26 year-old righty fired 60 of his 98 pitches for strikes whereas retaining the ball within the yard. Brown has been wonderful to this point in 2025 as he now owns a 1.67 ERA, 10.3 Okay/9, 2.1 BB/9, and a pair of.53 xFIP by way of 43 IP (7 begins). He is slashed the stroll fee considerably since final season (3.2 BB/9 in 2024) whereas lacking extra bats (12% swinging-strike fee in 2025, was 10.5% final season). The opposition is making much less contact (74.5% general and 78.5% in-zone in 2025, was 78% and 84.5%, respectively, in 2024) whereas Brown’s Statcast profile (315 hard-hit fee, 5.5% barrel fee, and common exit velo of 86 mph) is principally the identical because it was final season. His common fastball velocity is up a full tick to 97 mph to this point this season whereas he is throwing his 96.5-mph sinker (21.5%), 84-mph curve (15%), and 88.5-mph change (16%) extra often whereas his cutter fee is down (simply 6.5%). Up subsequent is a house begin towards the Reds on Friday.
Pete Crow-Armstrong (OF-CHC) continued his energy surge as he went 1-4 with a 3-run dinger towards the Brewers on Saturday. The 23 year-old is now batting .343 with 9 homers, 21 RBI, 15 runs scored, and 6 stolen bases in 70 PA since April 13. Total, PCA is hitting .271 with these 9 dingers, 26 RBI, 26 runs scored, and 12 steals over 143 PA on the yr, with a wRC+ of 141 testifying to his productiveness on the dish. He isn’t strolling typically (4%), however his strikeout fee is dow to twenty.5% whereas his swinging-strike fee is all the way down to 12.5% and his contact fee is as much as 79.5% and his in-zone fee is as much as 87%; these are all appreciable enhancements on his 2024 figures, which have been 16%, 73%, and 87%, respectively. In the meantime, his Statcast profile has additionally improved because it features a 40.5% hard-hit fee, 13.5% barrel fee, and common exit velo of 90 mph. He definitely will not maintain a tempo the place he hits a median of 1 homer each different recreation, however PCA’s underlying numbers are encouraging.
Bo Bichette (SS-TOR) lastly went yard this season as he went 1-3 with a solo shot and a stroll towards Cleveland on Saturday. The 27 year-old is now batting .284 with that lone homer, 14 RBI, 13 runs scored, and three steals (in 5 makes an attempt) throughout his first 150 PA of the marketing campaign. A 99 wRC+ attests to his underwhelming efficiency so far on the dish as Bichette has restricted the strikeouts (14.5% strikeout fee to this point this yr after it was 19% final season) whereas registering an an identical contact fee of 80.5% and a 91% in-zone contact fee. Bichette’s Statcast profile is encouraging, although, because it reveals a 46% hard-hit fee, 7.5% barrel fee, and common exit velocity of 90.5 mph, all of that are improved from a season in the past. The early returns when it comes to floor stats aren’t encouraging, however the Statcast profile – which features a career-high 10.4 launch angle – makes him an fascinating buy-low candidate.
Jordan Lawlar (SS-ARI) might get the decision to the majors earlier than too lengthy as he’s tearing the quilt off the ball in Triple-A. By means of 137 PA getting into Saturday’s motion, the 22 year-old was batting .385 with 6 homers, 30 RBI, 35 runs scored, and 12 stolen bases with a wRC+ of 185. He is stored the strikeout fee at an affordable 22% whereas drawing walks at a wholesome 12.5% clip. Lawlar’s contact fee is as much as 77.5%, his in-zone contact fee is as much as 88%, and his swinging-strike fee is all the way down to a shade below 10% whereas Statcast reveals a 41% hard-hit fee, common exit velo of 89 mph, and a launch angle of 15.1. A .481 BABIP is definitely unsustainable, however Lawlar is once more displaying promise. Fantasy house owners ought to stash him now or be prepared so as to add him when he will get the decision.
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