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  • BOS Center Fielder #48
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    Red Sox OF prospect Roman Anthony went 2-for-4 with a pair of walks and also stole a base on Thursday for Triple-A Worcester.
    At this point, the Red Sox might have to consider bringing up Anthony for a late-season cameo as he’s aced his first test at Triple-A Worcester, posting a surreal .971 OPS with three homers and two steals in less than 25 games since getting the call to the precipice of the big leagues. He’s one of the top prospects in the entire fantasy landscape heading into 2025.
  • CLE Center Fielder #38
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    Steven Kwan went 2-for-3 with a solo homer and a pair of runs scored as the Guardians routed the Angels 14-2 in Cactus League play on Sunday afternoon.
    It seems like all Kwan does is hit, and that was certainly the case in his Cactus League debut on Saturday. Kwan led off the game with a single off of Reid Detmers and scored the Guardians’ first run on an RBI double off the bat of Tyler Freeman. Kwan then clobbered a first-pitch fastball from Chase Silseth for a 399-foot (100.2 mph EV) solo shot in the third inning that extended the Guardians’ lead to 3-1. With his increased power output in 2024, the 27-year-old has developed into a strong four-category contributor for fantasy purposes, with his only major deficiency coming in RBI.
  • CLE Relief Pitcher #39
    Ben Lively showed a bit of rust during his first Cactus League outing on Sunday, giving up one run on five hits over his two frames against the Angels.
    Lively started the game by allowing a leadoff double to Scott Kingery and a one-out RBI single to Mickey Moniak to give the Angels an early lead. He then allowed a two-out single to Matthew Lugo and walked Ryan Noda to load the bases before retiring Chuckie Robinson on a pop out to first to end the threat. He allowed a pair of singles to start the second inning as well before evading further damage. He’s got a spot in the Guardians’ Opening Day rotation after a strong 2024 campaign, but his lack of strikeouts make him an underwhelming option from a fantasy perspective.
  • SF Starting Pitcher #62
    Logan Webb opened his spring by going six up, six down in the Giants’ 5-2 defeat of the Reds on Sunday.
    Webb, who has already been named the Giants’ Opening Day starter, had a disastrous spring last year, going 0-3 with a 10.97 ERA in six starts. Of course, it didn’t matter; he opened the regular season 3-1 with a 2.33 ERA in his first six starts and kept sailing from there.
  • SF Starting Pitcher #60
    Hayden Birdsong allowed one run over two innings Sunday in relief versus the Reds.
    Birdsong struck out three, but he gave up a double and a triple in his two innings. The 23-year-old is going to have a shot of overtaking Kyle Harrison for the fifth spot in the Giants rotation, but he’s probably at Harrison’s mercy there, even if he does seem to us to be the more interesting option.
  • CIN Relief Pitcher #28
    Nick Martinez pitched two scoreless innings with three strikeouts against the Giants on Sunday.
    Both hits he allowed were singles. Martinez accepted the Reds’ $21.05 million qualifying offer in November, and he’s in line for the permanent rotation spot he’s craved since returning from Japan. He’s in a tough situation for fantasy purposes, but his ability to produce soft contact should allow him to keep helping the Reds.
  • LAA Center Fielder #8
    Mickey Moniak went 1-for-3 and drove in a run on Sunday as the Angels were walloped by the Guardians in Cactus League action.
    The former top prospect got the Angels on the board first in this one, delivering an RBI single off of Ben Lively in the opening inning. That lead would vanish quickly. Moniak was struck out by Kolby Allard in the third inning and bounced out to shortstop in the sixth, finishing the day 1-for-3. He should begin the season in the strong side of a platoon in center field for the Halos, but he’ll need to produce better than the .219/.266/.380 slash line that he did in 2024 to keep that job and find any sort of relevancy for fantasy purposes.
  • LAA Starting Pitcher #48
    Reid Detmers struggled in his Cactus League debut against the Guardians on Sunday, giving up a pair of runs on three hits in his two innings of work.
    The 25-year-old hurler struck out one batter on the day and didn’t issue a free pass. The damage done against him came in the opening inning as Tyler Freeman smacked a run-scoring double and then scored on an RBI single by Bo Naylor. Detmers generated just one swing and miss on 37 pitches in the contest, posting a cringe-inducing CSW of only 16 percent. The encouraging news, is that his velocity was up 0.4 mph from his average from the 2024 season, so perhaps there’s still a glimmer of hope here.
  • ATH First Baseman #15
    Seth Brown had a three-run double to account for most of the scoring in the Athletics’ 4-0 shutout of the Rockies on Sunday.
    Given that they were opening their wallets anyway, we’d argue that the A’s should have tried to upgrade from Brown in the outfield over the winter. He was quite good after returning from a stint in the minors last summer, hitting .271/.312/.448 in his final 61 games, but that still leaves him with a 92 OPS+ the last two years and he just doesn’t have a very high ceiling at age 32.
  • ATH Relief Pitcher #59
    Jeffrey Springs pitched two scoreless frames against the Rockies in his A’s debut Sunday.
    Jacob Lopez, acquired from the Rays in the same trade as Springs, followed with two scoreless innings of his own. Springs returned from Tommy John last summer, only to go back down in early September with elbow fatigue. He’s supposed to be 100 percent this spring, and we’ll be curious to see his velocity if he gets into Statcast games. MLB.com’s Martín Gallegos said he was at 91-92 mph today, which is where he was during his breakthrough 2022. Upon returning last season, he averaged 89.9 mph with his fastball.
  • COL Left Fielder #16
    Sam Hilliard struck out all three times up Sunday against the Athletics.
    Apart from NRI Nick Martini, the Rockies declined to add any outfield help over the winter, which suggests that Hilliard is guaranteed a spot and could well wind up getting most of the starts in right field if Jordan Beck disappoints this spring. That doesn’t seem ideal, given Hilliard’s history, but he was fairly effective in hitting .239/.305/.507 with 10 homers in 158 plate appearances for the Rockies last season.