Betting

This is just about usage and the Braves needing a fresh bullpen arm. Fuentes threw four innings of relief yesterday so he won’t be available to pitch for a few days. He has minor league options remaining so he will continue to build his pitch count with Gwinnett and likely return to the Braves as a starter in the coming weeks.

It was actually kind of concerning to see Hancock’s velocity drop tonight. He averaged a much-improved 94.9 mph with his four-seamer last year and was up to 95.4 mph this spring, but he was down to 93.5 mph tonight. Nevertheless, the Guardians simply couldn’t touch him. Their one hard-hit ball turned into a double play. The remaining seven balls in play against him were five other groundouts and two popups. Between the velocity drop and the most 24% CSW, it’s hard to be too excited about the showing tonight. Still, he’ll always be a streaming option whenever he’s starting at home. Unfortunately, he’ll be on the road against the Angels next weekend, and he might be in line for only a couple of more starts before Bryce Miller returns.

Donovan’s career high for homers is 14, but he already has two this year. Even more fascinating is that he’s already tried two steals, converting one of them. While Donovan was a very good regular for St. Louis, the lack of homers and steals always left him with little fantasy value. Last year, he had 10 homers and three steals in 2025. In his best season in 2024, he had 14 homers and five steals. We wouldn’t necessarily expect him to best that homer total this year, but if he’s more aggressive on the basepaths, it’d be great for his fantasy value. It just might not be too good for the Mariners, since he’s been caught on 13 of his 29 career steal attempts.

Suárez’s homer off Greg Weissert in the sixth was projected at 431 feet. Two innings earlier, he had a 403-foot flyout that Statcast said would have been a homer in seven ballparks. Suárez is going to struggle to hit for average, and he’s already lost some fantasy value by getting dropped from fourth to fifth in the Reds lineup, but there still aren’t many better bets in terms of homers and RBI, especially if Matt McLain and Sal Stewart continue to hit like this.

The Brewers entered the home half of the eighth inning on Sunday trailing 7-3. They went to work though as they loaded the bases with one out and then Brice Turang delivered an RBI single to cut into that deficit. That’s when the White Sox called upon their closer, Seranthony Dominguez. He got William Contreras to pop out for the second out, but Luis Rengifo followed with a two-run single and then Yelich pinch-hit for Gary Sánchez and clobbered a 421-foot (111.1 mph EV) three-run shot that gave the Brewers their first lead of the day. He’s off to an outstanding start to the season, hitting .600 (6-for-10) with a homer, five RBI and a stolen base.

Joey Wiemer has played in two games in 2026, and he’s gone 3-for-3 with a homer in both of them. He added the three-bagger for good measure and also drew a walk. Obviously, Wiemer isn’t going to do this every night, but if he does, it’d be pretty cool. It’s a reminder that Wiemer was a legitimate top prospect not that long ago with the Brewers, and he’s certainly capable of bashing lefties.

Bregman took Jake Irvin deep twice for his first two homers as a member of the Cubs. The 31-year-old went just 1-for-9 in the previous two games, but as he’s done to many a lefty in his career, he was able to get things going. As long as Bregman stays healthy, he’s going to have enough moments like this to make him a strong fantasy option at the hot corner.

After Gore retired 15 of 17 batters to begin the game, the sixth opened single, walk, single to bring up Bryce Harper with the bases loaded and none out. Gore actually struck out Harper, but he then hit Alec Bohn was a pitch and was lifted. Cole Winn replaced him and allowed only one of the three runners to score on a sac fly before retiring Bryson Stott to end the threat. Gore wound up with the win in his Rangers debut. He got off to a very shaky start this spring, but he turned things around in the second half of March and he was obviously effective today in striking out seven. He’ll next pitch at home against the Reds.

Díaz led off the game with a single but never advanced past first base. He then delivered an RBI single in the second inning that increased the Rays’ lead to 3-0. He added an RBI double in the fourth inning and then scored on an RBI double by Jonathan Aranda. Díaz smacked another RBI single in the eighth inning and scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Cedric Mullins. He then capped off the five-hit day with an RBI knock in the ninth inning that made it 11-7. He has been absolutely sizzling at the plate to open the 2026 season, hitting .563 (9-for-16) with three runs scored and four RBI.

With the win, the Marlins swept the Rockies. Probably not the last time we type the last three words of that sentence. Caissie clobbered the walk-off bomb at 107.9 mph for his first first homer as a member of the Marlins, and it seems unlikely to be the last. Caissie’s swing-and-miss make hitting for average seem unlikely, but the power gives him a chance to be relevant in redraft leagues immediately.