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 ...

Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien went 2-for-5 with two home runs, four RBI, two runs scored and two strikeouts in Thursday's 10-9 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Thursday's game featured an offensive explosion from both teams, and Semien was right in the thick of it. The 32-year-old power-hitting second baseman is now hitting .255/.311/.444 with 26 home runs, 82 RBI, 99 runs scored and 24 stolen bases in his 628 at-bats in his first year for the Rangers. It's a drop after he hit a ...

Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien doubled three times Tuesday, coming around to score on each occasion in an 8-7 victory over the Oakland Athletics. It's his second consecutive three-hit game, and Semien now has a .276/.321/.504 slash line with five homers and five steals over his last 30 games. With 22 homers and 24 steals on the season, he's been able to silence any early-season doubters. Semien remains one of the premiere power-speed options in the majors, and his middle-infield ...

Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien contributed across the board Sunday, going 2-for-4 with a solo home run, a walk, and a stolen base in a 6-2 loss to the red-hot Seattle Mariners. Semien now has 13 home runs and 17 stolen bases on the season, totals which affirm his place towards the top of many rankings despite an ice-cold start to the season. With a .264/.316/.496 slash line in his last 30 games, Semien is primed to greatly improve on his current .697 season OPS in the second half,...

Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien went 2-for-5 with a pair of singles, an RBI and a run scored in Tuesday's 10-9, 10-inning loss to the Baltimore Orioles. This was his second consecutive multi-hit game as he went 3-for-4 in the series opener on Monday. Semien has resurrected his season over the past month or so. He entered June slashing just .199/.266/.274 on the year, but he now owns a season-long slash line of .241/.296/.383 to go along with 10 home runs, 14 stolen bases, 35 RBI and ...

Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien continued his solid June in Tuesday's 8-3 win over the Royals. Semien went 3-for-4 with a single, a double, a three-run home run, four RBI, and a strikeout. The 31-year-old has not made the best first impression overall offensively with his new team but has managed a much-improved .288 batting average with seven HR, 15 RBI, and six stolen bases in June. This is more in line with the production fantasy managers were hoping for, so hopefully, he can ...

In any sport, projecting a player's future performance may be an impossible task, but it is one that front offices, fans, and analysts all spend a considerable amount of effort trying to do. On the positive side, baseball, a game with a 162-game season and less moving parts as a one-on-one action, tends to be one where more credence can be placed on a player's past performance to identify what they will do in the future.That being said, there are always outliers. While we have come to expect ...

Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien is batting .217 with a .278 on-base percentage, six home runs, and 10 stolen bases in 259 plate appearances this season, but he may be starting to turn things around based on his recent play. The veteran is hitting .304 with a .377 on-base percentage, and six home runs in his last 77 plate appearances dating back to May 27. He's continued to bat either first or second for the Rangers and should be one of fantasy baseball's best middle infielders for ...

Howdy RotoBallers, we are now a solid two months into the fantasy baseball season so it's time for another rankings check-in. Below in this article you will find Nick Mariano's updated 2022 fantasy baseball rankings and tiers for 5x5 mixed roto leagues. These rankings are being released in early June, and are looking at rest-of-season fantasy baseball rankings and player values for the rest of this MLB season from this point on.There have been a lot of fast starts and slow starts to the MLB ...

Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien had a rough game at the plate in Wednesday's loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. In a game that went 11 innings long, Semien went 0-for-6 with three strikeouts. The 31-year-old closed out the month of May on a positive note, recording at least one hit in each of his last five games of the month, racking up a home run, a double and seven RBI over that five-game stretch. He'll need several more streaks like that to help make up for his nightmarish start to the ...