Jacob

Stallings

Stallings declined his $1.5 million mutual option for 2025, but the 34-year-old will remain with Colorado. According to Mark Feinsand of MLB.com, e’ll instead get $2 million for the 2025 season while the mutual option for 2026 is also for $2 million with a $500,000 buyout. In 2024 he registered an .810 OPS with nine homers over 82 games, and he should see a similar amount of playing time with friendly home confines for 2025.

Stallings heads to free agency after just one season with the Rockies where he posted a strong .810 OPS with a career-high nine homers in 82 games. Obviously, a return to Colorado would be the optimal outcome here for fantasy purposes, but the 34-year-old backstop is unlikely to have much appeal, regardless of where he winds up.

Stallings’ go-ahead hit was a blooper into shallow right, but it had some incredible spin on it and wound up getting by Matt Vierling. If not for that, there would have been a play at the plate or perhaps Brendan Rodgers wouldn’t have even tried to score in the first place. As it, it turned into a big setback for the Tigers’ postseason hopes.

Díaz felt calf tightness in Monday’s game and didn’t play on Tuesday. As of now, there is no indication that the Rockies will put him on the IL, but Jacob Stallings will start again on Wednesday.

Díaz left Monday’s game with tightness in his left calf, and he’ll miss at least one more game while recovering. Jacob Stallings will be the starting backstop and hit fifth with Díaz on the bench.

Díaz is dealing with left-handed soreness, and the Rockies will give the 33-year-old at least one more day off. Jacob Stallings is back in the lineup and hitting ninth while handling the backstop duties.

Stallings smacked a two-run single off of Michael King in the third inning that extended the Rockies’ lead to 5-0. That would be more than enough run support for their pitching staff in this one. With his two-hit attack, Stallings is now hitting a healthy .320/.397/.480 with two homers and 11 RBI in 58 plate appearances on the season.

Stallings took Edward Cabrera deep in the second inning with a pair of runners on. The 34-year-old has his first homer as a member of the Rockies, and it comes against one of his former teams. Stallings hasn’t only received 29 at-bats, but he’s made the most of them with a .345/.429/.517 slash.

Bryant exited Saturday’s game against the Jays with tightness in his back after he crashed into the outfield wall. The 32-year-old will take a seat for the finale with Jacob Stallings handling catching duties, Elehuris Montero at first base and Elias Diaz lined up at DH. Bryant is considered day-to-day.

MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand adds that the deal includes a $500,000 buyout that can escalate to $1 million. It’s hard to envision a better landing spot for fantasy purposes, but Stallings hasn’t exactly been a relevant fantasy contributor outside of extremely deep two-catcher formats. The 34-year-old backstop posted an underwhelming .565 OPS with three homers and 20 RBI in 276 plate appearances this past season for the Marlins.