BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team LeaguesROSTERED IN: 37% of LeaguesANALYSIS: Pittsburgh Pirates left-hander Aroldis Chapman collected his first save of the season in Monday's win over the Washington Nationals. The 36-year-old has yet to allow a run with a 3:0 K: BB ratio across 2 1/3 innings in 2024. Chapman is the fourth different reliever for the Pirates to convert a save this season.Aroldis Chapman, 101mph and K Stare. pic.twitter.com/mM7lR3d7GW Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) March 31, 2024The ...

There has been a host of significant free-agent signings over the last few days with the MLB offseason nearing its end before pitchers and catchers report to spring training.Rhys Hoskins, Robert Stephenson, Aroldis Chapman, and James Paxton all found new homes for the 2024 season of late. Each club certainly improves with their respective additions but what do these moves mean for current or prospective fantasy managers?Let's dive in and analyze just what, if any, fantasy baseball impact these ...

The Pittsburgh Pirates have added a high-octane arm to their relief corps as they have signed veteran big leaguer Aroldis Chapman to a one-year, $10.5 million pact for the 2024 campaign. This marks the southpaw's sixth different organization in the big leagues as he has spent time with the Reds, Yankees (twice), Cubs, Royals, and Rangers before joining the Bucs.https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1749588076064649311Chapman secured a solid one-year pact thanks to a bounce-back campaign split between ...

The trade deadline is just a couple of days away and with a lot of teams in the race (or at least a lot of teams who think they're in the race) we could be looking at one of the more active deadlines in a while. It already got started with some bullpen moves, like the Aroldis Chapman trade a couple of weeks ago and a few more this week.While bullpens around the league will certainly look different by this time next week, we still had the current bullpens work their way into saves, holds, blown ...

Welcome back RotoBallers, to another edition of the fantasy baseball waiver wire rankings for Week 15 -- July 3 through July 9. We have one more week until the All-Star break and are about halfway through the regular season. More top prospects are being called up to the big leagues, and some are producing for fantasy managers immediately. Jordan Westburg and Dominic Fletcher were recently promoted. Top prospects such as Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Colton Cowser, James Wood, Dominic Canzone, ...

BALLER MOVE: Add in All LeaguesROSTERED IN: 29% of LeaguesANALYSIS: The first domino has toppled over in the 2023 MLB trade season as the Texas Rangers acquired reliever Aroldis Chapman from the Kansas City Royals, per Jeff Passan.Chapman has returned to his elite self as Kansas City's set-up man this season. In 29-and-one-thirds innings, Chapman sports a 2.45 ERA, 1.71 FIP, and an eye-popping 43.4% strikeout rate. Chapman's sinker has ticked up a whole mile-per-hour from 100.2 in 2022 to 101.3 ...

Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman (knee) was not available on Friday versus the Colorado Rockies while he deals with a "barking knee", per manager Matt Quatraro. It sounds like a minor setback for the 35-year-old, but it remains to be seen if he could be summoned for Saturday's contest. Besides a typically wild 15.9% walk rate, Chapman's Statcast rankings are a sight to behold. The seven-time All-Star looks revived, attaining a fiery 37.5% strikeout rate and a .235 xSLG against ...

Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman notched his first save of the season against the San Francisco Giants on Saturday. Scott Barlow was unavailable for the Royals, hence why Chapman got the opportunity. Chapman struck out two while throwing eight of his 14 pitches for strikes. He now has eight strikeouts in four innings pitched, all without giving up a run.

Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman (lip, tooth) fell at his house on Saturday night and cracked a tooth and split his lip open, which required stitches. He is still pretty swollen, but he'll attempt to play catch on Monday while throwing a bullpen session on Tuesday. Chapman said he's feeling OK and hopes to get into a Cactus League game soon. The 35-year-old southpaw reliever shouldn't miss much time and isn't in danger of missing Opening Day. However, it's just another setback ...

Free-agent left-handed reliever Aroldis Chapman signed a one-year, $3.75 million deal with the Kansas City Royals on Thursday, according to a source. The hard-throwing 34-year-old veteran reliever had one of his worst seasons in the big leagues in 2022 with the New York Yankees with a career-worst 4.46 ERA (4.57 FIP), 1.43 WHIP, nine saves and career-low 26.9 percent strikeout rate in 36 1/3 relief innings. Chapman was on the injured list late in the season due to an infected tattoo on his leg ...