Shane Greene, New York Yankees - Greene dominated the Tigers over eight shutout innings to notch his third win of the season. He struck out five batters but walked three which is a season high for any of his starts. Over 37 innings, his ERA now sits at 2.89 with an FIP of 3.83 so some regression could be in the mix shortly. His FIP- is at a 102, so he's really just a league average pitcher who had a great game. Coming into the contest, he had allowed 10 runs over his last 15.2 innings (last three starts) and had allowed 19 hits over that span. One positive Greene has going for him is he is getting batters to chase nearly a third of his pitches out of the zone, which would rank him in the top 30 if he had enough innings to qualify. His next start comes Tuesday against the Orioles who he struck out nine over 7.1 shutout innings earlier this year.
Chase Headley, New York Yankees - Headley received the start at first today, marking the third time in four games that he has seen action there. Headley has seen a nice boost in his production since going over to the Yankees posting a 106 wRC+ over 15 games. He has collected a hit in all but three games but he has only two multi-hit games in that span. He has seen his numbers climb across the board since the trade, posting a higher ISO, average, wRC+, SLG, and wOBA in pinstripes. The highest climb has been in wOBA going from a .293 with the Padres to a .330 with the Yankees, but he still is the third worst third baseman for the season topping only Xander Bogaerts and Matt Dominguez.
Stephen Vogt, Oakland A's - Vogt hit homerun number six Thursday and has been having an excellent season for the first place A's. He is triple slashing .318/.346/.494 this season and all of those are well above his career averages, which can be attributed to his BABIP which is in the .330's compared to his .265 career average. He is hitting a career high amount of groundballs, so that average will likely begin to dip as he accumulates plate appearances down the home stretch of the season, as he entered Thursday's game in the middle of a 0-for-23 skid. Vogt is worth taking a flyer on, especially with his catcher eligibility, but don't be surprised if he endures a few more rough stretches like the one he is currently in.
Brandon Workman, Boston Red Sox - Workman lasted just 5.1 innings before being pulled after giving up four runs and six hits. He did manage to strikeout six batters running his season total to 48. This was Workman's second start since Jon Lester was traded and he has now given up nine runs in 10.1 innings, although four of them are unearned. Workman hasn't been able to find the win column since June 10th, and his FIP now sits at a 4.51. He is pitching for his job in the rotation right now, because although there hasn't been anything official the Red Sox have to be thinking about Henry Owens' five no hit innings to start his AAA debut.
Marc Krauss, Houston Astros - Krauss hit homerun number six of the year in Houston's win, but he is still hitting just .192 in limited playing time for the Astros. Krauss has shown power at the major league level with 11 homers split over two seasons in just 270-ish at bats but his ability to hit for average that he had in the minors has yet to follow him to the big leagues. In 2013 in AAA Krauss hit 10 homers before being called up and carried a .281 average with him, good for a 131 wRC+. With George Springer suffering a possible set back on his rehab assignment, Krauss will continue to get extra at bats but once Springer returns expect those AB's to get pulled as he hasn't shown anything this year to warrant playing time over some of the Astros' other options.
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