For this week's Statcast Hitter Analysis, we're going back to where it all started and revisiting exit velocity. So far, we've also looked at barrels, sweet spot rate, xwOBA, and xBA.[...]

The 2019 season is now one-fifth over for every team in MLB, and one-quarter over for some. By the end of the month in just under three weeks time, it'll be one-third finished. If you've hung on to a certain player in a certain roto league, depending on how often you played or benched them, they could have cost you quite a bit in the standings, even by season's end.Stats are through Friday, May 10. As we say every week: Remember that these recommendations are for standard leagues up to 12 teams,[...]

The next stop in our Rest-of-Season rankings update is first base. Recently, RotoBaller writers and rankersNick Mariano, Pierre Camus, Bill Dubiel and Scott Engel updated their 2019 fantasy baseball rankings, available on our dashboard. [...]

Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Travis Shaw has been informed that he will be out of the lineup all three days this weekend with the Cubs throwing three left-handed starters. It'll give Shaw a chance to clear his head amidst his slump and watch video. Shaw's average has fallen to .172 (22-for-128), and he's gone 4-for-39 (.103) with 12 strikeouts and five walks since April 27. Shaw shouldn't be outright dropped in fantasy leagues, but he obviously needs to ride the virtual pine until he fixes h[...]

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Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Travis Shaw went 0-for-4 with a walk and two strikeouts in Wednesday's loss to the Nationals. The further we get into the season, the more things seem to be seriously concerning with Shaw. His average now sits at .172 and Shaw has 45 strikeouts in 128 at-bats. At this point, if you haven't already, it's time to keep Shaw on your bench indefinitely, and though he costed some decent draft capital, we wouldn't judge if you dropped him.

Another week, another rash of promotions for the top MLB-ready prospects around baseball.Three of the most recent top-five prospects received the call, including infielder-outfielder Nick Senzel who needed just eight minor league games to prove to the Reds that he was good to go. Yankees pitcher Jonathan Loaisiga may finally get an extended look in New York after veteran James Paxtons knee injury. Other pitchers recently recalled include the Padres Cal Quantrill, and the Braves Touki Toussaint ([...]

Welcome to this week's Power Hitting Risers & Fallers. All stats are full season through Monday, April 29th (unless otherwise noted). Several "on pace" numbers just use 6x as a shortcut (one month done, five to go).Your weekly reminders: [...]

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Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Travis Shaw went 0-for-4 again on Saturday with a walk and two strikeouts. Shaw is now batting .194 and has 10 walks to 35 strikeouts. The strikeouts were a big problem in spring training and seemed to have followed him into the 2019 season. Shaw also doesn't have very good counting stats to go along with his bad ratios. At this point, it's still early in the season and you probably spent too much draft capital in Shaw to drop him now, but he is certainly worth b[...]