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Things had been quiet on the injury front since the opening day reveal of Jackson Chourio’s<\/a> fractured hand.<\/p>\n A little too quiet.<\/p>\n Just when you thought you had your preferred IL stashes stowed away for the long haul, in came a deluge of new talent over the weekend. The biggest blows were to Juan Soto<\/a> (strained calf), Mookie Betts<\/a> (strained oblique), and Hunter Brown<\/a> (strained shoulder), who I’ve listed in reverse order of how much time they’re likely to miss. Other knocks included Cade Horton<\/a> (strained forearm), Matthew Boyd<\/a> (strained biceps), and Alejandro Kirk<\/a> (fractured thumb).<\/p>\n The former three are obviously must-stash, and the latter three come pretty close, at least in certain formats. But again, you’ve likely already devoted IL space to other players. How do you make room?<\/p>\n That’s why these rankings exist: to help you prioritize. They’re not one-size-fits-all, because no rank list can be, but they can at least serve as a check for your assumptions. To be transparent about my own biases, I tend to prioritize the better player over the shorter timeline, not wanting to devote valuable IL space to a player who I’m liable to cut as soon as he’s active.<\/p>\n Too valuable to drop, period<\/p>\n Also really difficult to drop<\/p>\n Still a priority on some level<\/p>\n Stashing is purely a luxury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things had been quiet on the injury front since the opening day reveal of Jackson Chourio’s fractured hand.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[3426,5,735,28,85032,1328,85033,3875,134,2000,85034,1526],"class_list":{"0":"post-668429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-alejandro-kirk","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cade-horton","11":"tag-fantasy-baseball","12":"tag-fantasy-baseball-injured-list-rankings-2026","13":"tag-hunter-brown","14":"tag-il-stash-rankings-fantasy-baseball","15":"tag-jackson-chourio","16":"tag-juan-soto","17":"tag-matthew-boyd","18":"tag-mlb-injury-updates-fantasy-baseball-week-2","19":"tag-mookie-betts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116363739799295061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668429","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=668429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}