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The 26-year-old hurler injured his forearm while rehabbing from a left groin strain. He’ll now miss the entire 2024 season — and likely the start of the 2025 campaign as well — while recovering from the procedure. The loss of Gipson-Long hurts the overall depth that the Tigers were hoping to rely on in their starting rotation.

Tucker is already up to three homers, and this one came off Johnny Pereda in the ninth inning. Yes, that’s a position player, and yes it still counts. Tucker is off to a roaring start with the Cubs with a slash of .300/.423/.742 over Chicago’s first seven games. That’ll play.

Congrats to Wilson on his first MLB homer. The 23-year-old was clearly working on driving the baseball in Arizona, and while he’s never going to come close to being an elite power option, it’s nice to see some early results. Wilson is an underrated fantasy option in redraft leagues, and offers considerable — and also underrated — upside in keeper formats.

Busch hit one of four homers in the blowout win, and it was the first one of the 2025 campaign for the 27-year-old. The former first-round pick will need to rake to justify being on a fantasy roster in large part because he’s not going to see much time against southpaws, but he’s certainly talented enough to be an effective — if never dominant — option in most leagues.

Welcome to Sacramento. The Cubs were able to put together 21 hits, eight extra-base knocks and 18 runs in the first MLB game at the A’s new “home.” Kelly has been a non-factor at the bat for the last few years, but he took advantage of his surroundings — and poor pitching — for one of this best offensive games of his career. Good for him.

Because Rea worked the final three innings, he’s credited with a save. Just a perfect stat. No notes. Zero flaws to it whatsoever. Rea will continue to work as a multi-inning reliever and hope no one changes the rule if he gets to finish another game like this.

Brown was far from great in this one, but didn’t need to even resemble greatness with the Cubs putting up an 18-spot Monday. The right-hander was able to strike out five, but he also walked two while throwing 45-of-75 pitches for strikes. Good enough. Brown will need to pitch better than he did Monday against the Padres over the weekend.

Estes allowed nine hits, four walks and three homers. None of that is ideal. All of that, in fact, is bad. Estes struggled to end the 2024 season, and his extreme flyball rates aren’t likely to play well in a Triple-A park. His next outing is in Colorado on Sunday. Hard pass.

Smith has been an on-base machine in the early portion of the season, and the three-reach day now has his on-base percentage at .619 over six games. Obviously, that’s going to drop, but it’s great to see early success from smith after he wasn’t exactly at his best for most of the 2024 campaign.

Atlanta remains winless on the year, while the Dodgers remain undefeated. Harris II made sure that his team didn’t get shutout, and it’s worth noting his homer came off southpaw Tanner Scott. The outfielder also singled, and his two-hit night was nice to see after he scuffled considerably in the series against the Padres.

Hernández swatted a two-run homer off Grant Holmes in the first inning for his second roundtripper of the year. He also singled and walked, and scored three runs for a nice Monday evening for the 32-year-old outfielder. Hernández should again be a fantasy stalwart, even if his shaky approach can sometimes lead to lulls in production.