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The 30-year-old infielder is a career .263/.280/.331 hitter with no homers and no stolen bases in 166 plate appearances at the big league level. He can be completely ignored in all fantasy formats.

He was retired on the bases twice, but it didn’t make much of a difference today. Torkelson hit .289/.391/.658 over his first 21 games this season and then .187/.279/.360 over his second 21 games, but he seems to be bouncing back again now, having gone 7-for-22 with two homers, two doubles and a 4/6 K/BB ratio in his last seven contests. His 381-foot double today would have been a homer in 16 ballparks, according to Statcast.

It was Hurter’s first start of the year. He routinely went 4-5 innings as a bulk guy for the Tigers last season, but he’s yet to throw more than three innings in 14 appearances this season. The left-hander has a 2.08 ERA in 26 innings during 2025, and he’s come in at 2.40 in 71 1/3 innings since debuting last summer. He’d be just fine in an expanded role if the Tigers ever have the need.

Brieske would have come in with the score 3-1 if the Tigers hadn’t scored twice in the top of the eighth, though it’s hard to say whether he still would have been given a chance to complete the save in that event. He does have one save in eight appearances since coming off the IL earlier this month. He struck out two in finishing off the Cardinals today.

Pallante was lifted one out shy of his third straight quality start and fifth overall. He had really good velocity today, averaging 95.3 mph with his fastball and topping out at 97.4 mph, but four walks hurt him. Two of those came just before he was pulled in the sixth. Pallante will take a 4-3 record and a 4.18 ERA into his next start in Baltimore.

It’ll be made up as a split doubleheader on September 16. Wednesday’s original starting pitchers — AJ Smith-Shawver and Trevor Williams — will presumably be pushed back to take the ball during Thursday’s series finale.

Thomas is hitting .333 (8-for-24) with two homers and one steal in seven games on his rehab assignment. The 29-year-old center fielder has been out since mid-April recovering from a bone bruise in his right wrist. It’s possible he’s ready to return to Cleveland’s lineup by the end of the week.

Acuña figures to make it back to Atlanta’s lineup at some point before the end of May as he nears the conclusion of his rehab assignment. The 27-year-old superstar played the full game in right field for the first time on Wednesday afternoon and might only need a couple of additional tune-up contests before he’s ready to make his season debut.

Mauricio is sizzling-hot at the dish right now, going deep in back-to-back games, and reaching base safely in all four of his plate appearances during Wednesday’s contest. His latest round-tripper left that bat at 110.2 mph, per Statcast. The 24-year-old former top prospect, who wrapped up a rehab assignment last week, is hitting .636 with two homers and two steals in three games at the Triple-A level. He figures to be an option for New York in a multi-position utility role at some point in the second half. He’ll force their hand sooner than that if he keeps tearing the cover off the ball.

Tucker homered in the first and singled on the other run-scoring play in the eighth. However, the run then was a result of an error, as Matt Shaw, who might have scored regardless, stopped at third on the hit to left, which wound up getting by Kyle Stowers. Tucker has back-to-back three-hit days after going 23 games without one, and he’s back up to .278/.387/.552 for the season.

The run scored on three singles in the first. Third baseman Matt Shaw made a nice grab on the third one and could have ended the inning with a good throw to first, but he threw wide of the bag. Horton went on to exit with the score 1-1 in the sixth. He finished the day with three strikeouts, which was an oddly low total given that he had 16 whiffs on 46 swings. However, he picked up just eight called strikes. He’s 2-0 with a 4.40 ERA after three starts, and he rates as a fine play in mixed leagues next week with a home start against the Rockies.