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  • COL Relief Pitcher #77
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    Rockies and LHP Lucas Gilbreath avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $785,000 contract.
    Gilbreath settled for $25,000 more than the minimum after making just one major league appearance last season. The reliever had Tommy John surgery in 2023, and he went down with shoulder inflammation right after returning in August. He’ll contend for a setup role in the Colorado bullpen if healthy.
  • TOR Starting Pitcher #6
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    Alek Manoah (elbow) threw a 45-pitch simulated game in the Blue Jays’ minor league complex in Florida over the weekend.
    The Blue Jays wanted to keep Manoah on a regular schedule, so they opted to use a simulated game for him instead of a rehab game at an affiliate. He will return to Low-A Dunedin for one more start before likely advancing his rehab to another level of the organization.
    Judge's return as DH will change Yankees' lineup
    Eric Samulski digs into the fantasy fallout from Aaron Judge's trip to the 10-day injured list, highlighting why Trent Grisham should see a boost and how Giancarlo Stanton could eventually be negatively impacted.
  • ATL 3rd Baseman #27
    Austin Riley had a solo homer and a three-run double as the Braves bested the Royals 10-7 on Monday.
    Riley went 0-for-11 in his first three games back from an abdominal strain, but he punished the ball tonight. His double was a 113.9 mph liner that went 395 feet and would have been a homer in 11 parks. It’s his third four-RBI game of the year, and he now has 15 homers in 97 games.
  • ATL Starting Pitcher #99
    Spencer Strider worked five innings and allowed two runs Monday in a win over the Royals.
    Strider wasn’t at his best while working on four days’ rest for a second straight start; his fastball velocity was down 0.7 mph, and he wound up with only three strikeouts and five whiffs in the 96-pitch outing. Still, it proved to be good enough against a Royals lineup with maybe four threatening batters. Strider is slated to start again Saturday against the Reds in the game at Bristol Motor Speedway, but while that might be ideal for MLB, the likely right call for the Braves would be to hold him back until Monday.
  • ATL Relief Pitcher #26
    Raisel Iglesias replaced an ineffective Rafael Montero in the ninth and got a save against the Royals with a scoreless inning Monday.
    Asked to finish off a 10-4 game, Montero failed to retire any of the four batters he faced tonight. Fortunately, Iglesias had no such issue, getting all three batters he faced to fly out. The first of those was a sac fly, but that was hardly Iglesias’s problem. He’s up to 12 saves ahead of a very likely deadline deal that could see him become a setup man for a contender.
  • KC Starting Pitcher #35
    Rich Hill lost to the Braves after allowing four runs and walking six in four innings Monday against the Braves.
    The four runs came on two-run homers than both followed walks. As much as we’d love to see Hill succeed at age 45, he’s just a placeholder for a Royals team that needs a rotation upgrade with Kris Bubic ruled out for the season. If he sticks around, he’ll face the Jays on Sunday.
  • ATL Right Fielder #13
    Ronald Acuña Jr. went 2-for-4 with a two-run homer and two walks against the Royals on Monday.
    Acuña was picked off for his first caught stealing of the year, but it was an awfully nice night otherwise. The big blow was a 468-foot blast off Rich Hill. It was his 14th homer in 54 games since coming off the IL, putting him at essentially his MVP pace (he had 41 homers in 159 games in 2023).
  • KC Left Fielder #1
    MJ Melendez finished 0-for-5 with two strikeouts and three easy flyouts Monday against the Braves.
    Ugly. Especially in a game in which the rest of the Royals combined for 12 hits and just three strikeouts. After a miserable first couple of months in Triple-A, Melendez finally got hot in July, and it seemed like the Royals might be right to give him another opportunity. Unfortunately, he’s responded by going 0-for-12 so far. What chance he had of being part of the Royals’ post-deadline plans should already be fading.
  • MIN Shortstop #2
    Brooks Lee delivered a two-run single in the bottom of the ninth to give the Twins a 5-4 win over the Red Sox on Monday.
    The Red Sox scored in the top of the ninth to take a 4-3 lead tonight, but a rain delay then shut things down for an hour and a half. When play resumed in a mostly empty stadium, the Twins got a single from DeShawn Keisey Jr., back-to-back hit by pitches and then Lee’s hit to left with one out. The two runs batted in were Lee’s first of the second half. He was out of the starting lineup tonight for the first time in five games, but he entered the game for Koby Clemens against a left-hander in the seventh.
  • MIN Relief Pitcher #59
    Jhoan Duran escaped with a win after giving up a run to the Red Sox in a tie game on Monday.
    Duran came into a 3-3 game to begin the ninth and gave up a run on a walk to Abraham Toro, two steals from pinch-runner David Hamilton and then an RBI single to Roman Anthony. There still weren’t any outs at that point, but after Alex Bregman flied out, Anthony was caught stealing. Jarren Duran then walked and stole second, but Trevor Story flew out to end the inning. The Twins went on to score twice in the bottom of the ninth, so their closer got the win rather than the loss.
  • BOS Starting Pitcher #46
    Jordan Hicks hit a pair of batters and gave up two runs in the ninth to take a blown save and a loss Monday against the Twins.
    The Red Sox had Hicks warming up for the ninth before a 90-minute rain delay and still brought him in afterwards, which obviously makes for an unusual sequence of events for a reliever. Hicks did end up throwing 15 of his 23 pitches for strikes, but he yanked two of the balls, resulting in the HBPs, and a pair of singles doomed him. He likely remains the No. 3 option in the pen, behind Aroldis Chapman, who is battling back spasms, and Garrett Whitlock, was was “under the weather” on Monday.