He enjoyed a career season as a reserve in 2022, but last year struggled with injuries and ineffectiveness. Now, Guillorme has another chance to offer some value thanks to Albies' toe woe, and so far, he's delivering. Guillorme played the hero on Tuesday, spanking a two-run double to give the Braves the cushion they would need to close out the Astros. Before taking an 0-fer on Wednesday, he had hits in back to back games and if he can reverse a three-year trend of a declining walk rate, he could prove to be a useful short-term NL-only option but is unlikely to offer much in the way of power or speed.
The post The Wire Troll: Ryan Yarbrough Providing Depth for Dodgers first appeared on RotoRob.Welcome back to another week of Fantasy baseball. We’re nearly done April now, with tons of the season still to come. Avail of that waiver wire, peeps!
This week, Ozzie Albies suffered a broken toe (see below for the Fantasy opportunity this presents); Christian Yelich‘s hot start has been put on hold as his back is acting up again; and Ryan Pepiot proved to be a very astute DFS play on Thursday thanks to delivering a strong start despite an upset tummy.
And now, let’s get to this week’s…
Ryan Yarbrough, SP/RP, Los Angeles Dodgers (ESPN: 4.1 per cent; CBS: 7 per cent): Yarbrough recovered from a scary injury last season to post superb numbers in July and August before getting hit hard down the stretch. Overall, he was enjoying a better season but wasn’t as sharp after a trade to the Dodgers. However, so far this season Yarbrough has never looked better in a long reliever role and he’s suddenly become a pretty important arm for L.A. given that Walker Buehler won’t be back until next week and now Bobby Miller is out. Yarbrough has been used exclusively as a reliever so far, but he’s been very effective with a 3.20 ERA (2.76 xERA), looking particularly sharp on Tuesday (retiring the final 14 batters he faced after a shaky first frame). Since a rough outing over two weeks ago, he’s only allowed three earned runs over 10 2/3 IP while fanning six against just a single free pass. Yarbrough could bag some wins in this type of role and he’s undefeated so far while earning one save. He’s a reliever with plenty of size to his frame (6’5″, 215) yet is a soft tosser. Still, Yarbrough is starting to gain some traction on the wire, so pay attention if you need pitching help. It doesn’t hurt that he has good taste in music…
Luis Guillorme, 2B/3B, Atlanta Braves (ESPN: 0.1 per cent; CBS: unowned): It’s been close to three years since we last pimped Guillorme as an injury replacement, and it paid off as he hit extremely well in July 2021 before hurting his hammy the following month. He enjoyed a career season as a reserve in 2022, but last year struggled with injuries and ineffectiveness. Now, Guillorme has another chance to offer some value thanks to Albies’ toe woe, and so far, he’s delivering. Guillorme played the hero on Tuesday, spanking a two-run double to give the Braves the cushion they would need to close out the Astros. Before taking an 0-fer on Wednesday, he had hits in back to back games and if he can reverse a three-year trend of a declining walk rate, he could prove to be a useful short-term NL-only option but is unlikely to offer much in the way of power or speed.
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