Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien went 1-for-5 with a solo home run and a strikeout in a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday. Semien opened up the scoring with a 372-foot home run to the left field off Johan Oviedo in the top of the first inning. It was his only hit of the ball game but it proved to be the difference maker in a one-run contest. For the season, the 32-year-old second baseman is slashing .299/.373/.498 with eight home runs, 40 RBI, and seven stolen bases ...

Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien went 2-for-5 with two RBI, blasting his sixth homer of the season in a 4-3 triumph over the Mariners on Wednesday. The 32-year-old holds something of a fantasy sell-high case after this performance, as he possesses a noticeable discrepancy between his actual and expected numbers in multiple hitting statistics, per Statcast. Before Wednesday's game, the infielder exhibited a near 100-point differential between his SLG (.457) and xSLG (.362) percentages,...

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard.May is here and so is the warmer weather, so let's prepare for some offense, yes? Stolen bases and line drives are in the air as we bite into the meat of the regular season. Add some spice to your dish with a hit of waiver-wire magic!We're starting to hit the point where early cold streaks might just be lost campaigns but Marcus Semien was dropped in mid-May last year, and look how that went! Just be careful and trust your process ...

The Oakland A's are what you would classify as moribund. We're 21 games into the season, and the A's have nothing to show other than a horrific 4-17 mark. At this rate, they have a fair shot at shattering the Cleveland Spiders' 20-134 season.Oakland has slowly rebranded their organization by cleaning house over the past few seasons, starting with the core of their roster. Most notably, Matt Olson, Matt Chapman, Marcus Semien, Chris Bassitt, and Cole Irvin to the addition of several other names, ...

Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien unloaded a grand slam in a 9-1 win over Houston on Sunday. Semian went 2-for-5 in the contest. The 32-year-old is batting lead-off, and he currently has a .250 batting average with two home runs, 2 RBI, and four doubles in the first month of the season. He's only swiped one base this year, but Semian will be a force on the base path, as he had 25 stolen bases just one year ago.

Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien is hitting .300/.344/.400 so far in spring training. Though the power hasn't shown up yet -- Semien has zero home runs -- it's nice to see him collecting base hits after a slow start to the season in 2022. Semien is currently 9-for-30 with seven runs scored, though he has no RBI or stolen bases. Those will come, however, after Semien drove in 83 runs and stole 25 bases last year. Though he won't be a boon to your average and he's not a great play in ...

In fantasy baseball, second base has been one of the least productive roster spots over these past few years. Outside of Marcus Semien, Jose Altuve, and Ozzie Albies, the position's production outlook is bleak.With such little depth at the position, fantasy baseball players have no choice but to either reach wildly for one of the few elite second basemen or take a shot in the dark in the late rounds. Neither situation is ideal.To avoid either situation, read through to see a couple of second ...

Second base. Some say it's the most unheralded position in baseball, the glue of the infield. There's been no shortage of legends who called the position home: from Roger Hornsby to Joe Morgan to Dustin Pedroia.In fantasy baseball, second base has been one of the least productive roster spots over these past few years. Outside of Marcus Semien, Jose Altuve, and Ozzie Albies, the position's production outlook is bleak.But maybe this is only a short-term lull. The current lack of offensive talent ...

Over the years, the second base position has usually been one of the more shallow positions for fantasy purposes. And low and behold, the 2023 season will be no different. But we'll get more into that in just a second. At the top, we have four players being taken inside the top 50 of most fantasy drafts: Jose Altuve, Marcus Semien, Jazz Chisholm Jr, and Ozzie Albies. This quartet represents tier one and then there's a noticeable dropoff to tier two.We pretty much know what we're getting out of ...

The Rangers' highly-paid shortstop was a disaster in the first two months of 2022, slashing .199/.266/.274 with just one home run. He patched all of that up after the calendar turned to June, slashing .268/.319/.490 and hitting 25 homers in the 517 PAs that followed. When all was said and done, Semien put up another top-30 fantasy season with 26 homers, 25 steals, 101 runs, and 83 RBI. He's been a counting stat monster for a while now, doing a little bit of everything. The batting average came ...