Arizona Diamondbacks right-hander Mike Leake earned a win on Tuesday over the San Francisco Giants. Leake went 7 1/3 innings, allowing just two runs on four hits to go along with two strikeouts. He succeeded with 11 ground ball outs despite the low strikeout total. At this point of the season, Leake isn't someone to turn to except for extremely favorable matchups. He will take the bump again on Monday against the San Diego Padres.

Arizona Diamondbacks right-hander Mike Leake will look to string together a quality start on Tuesday on the road against the San Francisco Giants. Leake has been a disaster with the D-backs thus far, going 0-2 with an 8.02 ERA in four starts. However, things could not be more favorable for the righty on Tuesday, as he will be facing a light-hitting offense in one of the most pitcher-friendly parks in all of baseball. As long as Leake can keep the ball on the ground, he should be a viable ...

Arizona Diamondbacks starter Mike Leake struggled in his third outing since being traded to the desert, allowing four runs over six innings with three strikeouts on Friday night. Leake had been fairly effective in his last 10 starts with Seattle, posting a 3.78 ERA with 49 strikeouts in that span. Since joining Arizona though, Leake has a 7.71 ERA with eight strikeouts in three starts. Until he shows signs of improvement, owners shouldn't look to Leake for any value unless he has a very ...

The trade deadline has come and gone, and while there weren't as many big name starting pitchers on the move this year outside of Zack Greinke, not one but two of the pitchers from last week's column found new homes. So apologies to those of you who grabbed Tanner Roark and Mike Leake for Week 17.Speaking of [...]

The Arizona Diamondbacks acquired starting pitcher Mike Leake from the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday in exchange for 22-year-old infielder Jose Caballero, according to a source. Arizona will pick up only $6 million of the remaining money owed to Leake. The 31-year-old nearly had a perfect game several weeks ago, but he's also 9-8 with a 4.40 ERA and 1.26 [...]

The Seattle Mariners are telling interested teams that they will eat a large portion of starting pitcher Mike Leake's remaining salary to facilitate a trade. Leake is earning $16 million this year and is scheduled to make $15 million in 2020. He has an $18 million option ($5 million buyout) in 2021. The 31-year-old right-hander was just three outs from a perfect game against the Angels two weeks ago, but he's been largely mediocre in 2019 with the M's. He's 9-8 with a 4.40 ERA, 1.26 [...]

Seattle Mariners starter Mike Leake was three outs away from making history against the Los Angeles Angels Friday evening. Carrying a perfect game into the ninth inning, he gave up a leadoff single to Luis Rengifo, shattering the dreams of a perfecto. Leake walked the next batter, but managed to finish off the complete-game shutout by striking out Mike Trout to end the game capping a 98-pitch effort. The veteran struck out six on the night and lowered his ERA from 4.60 to 4.27 while equalizin[...]

We're halfway there in the baseball season, but hopefully your fantasy team is living on more than a prayer. (By Jove, that's terrible. Apologies.)Unless it's a points league, categories are starting to take more precedence at this point. Every hitter on this week's Cut List comes with a list of categories in which a need indicates greater or lesser use for the player to be on your team.Stats are through Friday, June 28. [...]

At this point in the season, nearly half over, you should pretty much know what you have on your fantasy team. (Unless you have Jose Ramirez.) Chances are, if you still have a certain frustrating player on your roster -- especially one you drafted -- you've had plenty of chances to remove them but have decided to stay the course each time. (For instance, Jose Ramirez.) A lot of cuts should be just the usual roster churn at this point, for example moving from one streamer SP to the next. (For ins[...]

This is an interesting week for two-start streamers. In previous weeks there have tended to be a bunch of serviceable to decent options somewhere in the five to 10 percent ownership range, but this week that's really not the case. But never fear, we've still got five streamers to take a look at for Week 13.Looking back at [...]