Fantasy Baseball Fallers: Blake Perkins, Brett Baty, Mike Yastrzemski

We have made it to the eighth week of the fantasy baseball season. There were some awe-inspiring performances causing values to rise. As usual, there were some great and rough performances to dig into. This weekly column will help highlight hot and cold players/risers and fallers for fantasy baseball purposes.

Some players are already rostered in many places so trades may be in order. Other players may be widely available, making a potential waiver wire claim in the cards. I will highlight some known and lesser-known players this week. So let’s see some of the fantasy baseball risers and fallers of Week 8.

Fantasy Baseball Fallers

Blake Perkins (OF – MIL)

Blake Perkins had a week to forget as he went hitless over six games. Perkins walked 8.7% of the time but struck out nearly 35%. When Perkins put the ball in play, he had a 38.5% hard-hit rate to go with a 54% ground ball rate. With Christian Yelich back, Perkins must turn things around quickly, or he’ll see himself on the bench or in Triple-A.

Brett Baty (3B – NYM)

Brett Baty started to swing the bat well heading into last week but that stopped. Baty collected one hit over five games for a .059 average. Baty had a 22.2% hard-hit rate while striking out 47% of the time. Baty is getting plenty of chances to succeed with the Mets, but he needs to start producing, as Mark Vientos is waiting in the wings for a chance at regular playing time.

Mike Yastrzemski (OF – SF)

Mike Yastrzemski collected three hits over seven games last week for a .143 batting average. He scored two runs without driving one in and struck out 40.9% of the time. Yastrzemski had one barrel last week with a 50% hard-hit rate, but a 41.7% ground ball rate slowed down any production. Yastrzemski is only hitting .209 on the season. With all the injuries to the Giants’ outfield, he’ll keep playing. That does not mean you should roster him in most formats.