He\u2019s expected to miss at least two weeks<\/a>, but there\u2019s also a chance he won\u2019t be ready to join the Astros\u2019 starting lineup on Opening Day.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
Pe\u00f1a is coming off a career year, and before the injury was our consensus 67th-ranked player. He\u2019s currently coming off the board at pick 84, according to Yahoo ADP. It remains to be seen if the injury pushes him down further, making him a potential bargain in the later rounds.<\/p>\n
Reds\u2019 young starter dealing with elbow stiffness<\/p>\n
We\u2019re holding our collective breaths over Hunter Greene, who will be held out of throwing until March 10 after reporting elbow stiffness in his throwing arm. He was set to receive an MRI on Friday, March 6.<\/p>\n
Most of us recall that Greene had Tommy John surgery in 2019, and he\u2019s dealt with injuries in his young MLB career. That said, Greene has all the stuff to be an elite starter in MLB as one of the hardest throwers in baseball. He only pitched 107 and 2\/3 innings in 2025, but when he was out there, he was GOOD.<\/p>\n
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Green is currently being drafted as the 10th starter in Yahoo leagues, so we\u2019ll have to monitor his MRI results and subsequent treatment closely. For what it\u2019s worth, Andrew Abbott (180 ADP) has been named the Reds\u2019 Opening Day starter.<\/p>\n
Jac Caglianone flexes muscle in spring<\/p>\n
Jac Caglianone has been making waves during spring training thus far, as he hit a double against the D-backs that was a whopping 120.2 mph off the bat.<\/p>\n
Read that again \u2014 that\u2019s ONE-HUNDRED-AND-TWENTY MILES PER HOUR. That\u2019s the kind of feat that opens your eyes, especially when it\u2019s a 23-year-old rookie doing it. In fact, only seven hitters in the Statcast era have hit a ball that hard: Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr., Giancarlo Stanton, Oneil Cruz and Gary S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s some powerful company. In fact, Caglianone is off to a raucous start to the spring, slashing .400\/.550\/.733 with a 1.283 OPS and a home run in 15 at-bats.<\/p>\n
Caglianone was overmatched in his first taste of MLB action in 2025, but there wasn\u2019t enough of a sample size to truly make a verdict. There\u2019s also no guarantee he makes the Royals\u2019 Opening Day roster, much less their starting lineup. But Caglianone comes with pedigree, having once been a part of the Royals\u2019 impressive set of hitting prospects who have debuted in the past few seasons. He also had a pair of 30-homer seasons in college, back in 2023 and 2024. If he keeps smoking the ball as he has thus far in exhibition action, he just might be a shrewd stash in the final round of fantasy drafts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every week, we will update fantasy baseball managers with all the MLB news they may have missed as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[106,2001,5,42502,11579,53,517,1127,310,2102,231,2372,5828,4682,4,1330,297,921,468,7965,93,4820,3716],"class_list":{"0":"post-615181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-andrew-abbott","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-chinese-taipei","12":"tag-d-backs","13":"tag-detroit-tigers","14":"tag-fantasy","15":"tag-gary-sanchez","16":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","17":"tag-hunter-greene","18":"tag-jac-caglianone","19":"tag-japan","20":"tag-jeremy-pena","21":"tag-junior-caminero","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-oneil-cruz","24":"tag-rays","25":"tag-ronald-acuna-jr","26":"tag-shohei-ohtani","27":"tag-the-astros","28":"tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","29":"tag-world-baseball-classic","30":"tag-yahoo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116200133353267137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}