I want to clarify something here after a weekend chock-full of noteworthy performances. The goal of this Stockwatch is to highlight the players who’ve actually raised or lowered their standing in my eyes. It’s not to react to every hot and cold streak.
It’s a subjective standard, no doubt, and one could argue that Alec Bohm (seven multi-hit games in his past eight for a .365 batting average), Ranger Suarez (one run in eight innings for a 1.32 ERA) and Chris Bassitt (seven earned runs in 2 2/3 innings for a 5.64 ERA) objectively raised or lowered their trade value with their performances this weekend. But you click for my point of view and not just a sterile rundown of events, I hope. By excluding those three from this exercise, I’m saying that my expectations for them haven’t actually changed.
Perhaps I’ll have more to say about them in some other space in the coming days, but for now …
