MLB Player News
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Corey Seager SS | TEX
Dodgers' Corey Seager: Scores twice, drives in run
Seager went 1-for-3 with a single, a walk, an RBI and two runs scored in a victory over the Braves on Monday.
Seager got the Dodgers on the board with a run-scoring groundout in the first and crossed the plate for the team's final run in the fifth. He has shown signs of emerging from a prolonged slump by going 4-for-12 in his last three games. This follows a seven-game stretch in which he managed only one hit in 26 at-bats.
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Jorge Mateo SS | ATL
Athletics' Jorge Mateo: Still running hot in desert
Mateo, who's slashing .333/.374/.551 with eight doubles, eight triples, two home runs, 24 RBI and eight stolen bases across 29 games with Triple-A Las Vegas, could be the next callup for the Athletics, Martin Gallegos of MLB.com reports.
As those numbers imply, the 23-year-old has been tormenting Triple-A arms throughout the season while putting in time at both second base and shortstop. While there have been knocks on Mateo's maturity and focus in the past, the difference between his body of work at the Triple-A level in 2019 compared to last year is stark. Mateo slashed a middling .230/.280/.353 across 510 plate appearances at Nashville last season, and he's already amassed half of the 36 extra-base hits he posted during that tenure in 363 fewer opportunities.
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J.P. Crawford SS | SEA
Mariners' J.P. Crawford: Drives in six at Triple-A
Crawford went 4-for-5 with a home run and six RBI on Monday in Triple-A Tacoma's 12-8 win over Albuquerque.
The four-hit performance lifted Crawford's season average to .321 across 112 at-bats this season. With home-run production in the Pacific Coast League on the rise this season, the 24-year-old's .143 ISO doesn't stand out, but his improved batting eye and contact skills should be enough to earn him another look in the big leagues at some point in 2019. Any potential move into a full-time role with the Mariners would likely be contingent on one of the team's middle-infield starters (Tim Beckham or Dee Gordon) succumbing to an injury, getting traded, or seeing their performance take a dramatic dip.
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Dee Strange-Gordon SS | WAS
Mariners' Dee Gordon: Smacks rare homer in loss
Gordon went 3-for-4 with a solo home run in a loss to the Yankees on Monday.
The infielder continued his career-long success against CC Sabathia with a fifth-inning solo blast, his third of the season overall. That amounts to a veritable power surge for Gordon, who's never totaled more than four round trippers in any campaign, and who's needed 653 and 588 plate appearances to reach that number on the two prior occasions he's hit that mark.
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Carlos Correa SS | HOU
Astros' Carlos Correa: Hitting streak reaches 16 games
Correa went 3-for-4 with a solo home run Monday in the Astros' 6-4 win over the Royals.
Correa didn't need long to extend his hitting streak to 16 games, as he took Jakob Junis deep to center field in his first at-bat of the evening. It was the eighth home run of the season and second in as many days for Correa, who has bounced back nicely from an injury-riddled 2018 campaign. Something that may bear watching, however, is the decline in plate discipline he's displayed early on. His 8.2 percent walk rate is the lowest mark of his career, while his 26.1 percent strikeout rate is his highest.
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Orlando Arcia SS | MIN
Brewers' Orlando Arcia: Tallies three more hits
Arcia went 3-for-4 with two doubles and a run in Monday's victory over the Nationals.
Arcia has not done much in the power department over the last couple weeks, but he is now hitting .280 (28-for-100) with a .767 OPS over his last 30 games, which has been more than enough to keep him and his stellar defense in the lineup on an everyday basis.
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Adalberto Mondesi SS | BOS
Royals' Adalberto Mondesi: Launches fifth homer
Mondesi went 1-for-4 with a two-run home run in Monday's 6-4 loss to the Astros.
His fifth-inning blast off Gerrit Cole briefly gave the Royals their only lead of the game at 4-3. Mondesi has been displaying plenty of power lately -- seven of his nine hits (three doubles, two triples, two homers) over the last eight games have gone for extra bases -- and he now boasts a .280/.314/.531 slash line on the year with five home runs, 10 steals, 22 runs and 32 RBI through 35 games, justifying the early investment many fantasy GMs made in him at the draft table.
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Jon Berti 3B | CHC
Marlins' Jon Berti: Knocks first MLB homer
Berti went 1-for-2 with a solo homer, two runs scored and two walks in Monday's 6-5 win over the Cubs.
Berti's sixth-inning homer was the first of his short MLB career and knotted the game up at 3-3. On the year, he's 8-for-33 but has scored eight runs and driven in three.
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Rosell Herrera SS | KC
Marlins' Rosell Herrera: Remains on bench
Herrera sits for the second straight contest Monday against the Cubs, Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald reports.
Herrera seemed to be claiming the starting center field role after starting three straight games from Wednesday to Saturday, but he's now been on the bench for two straight. Isaac Galloway starts again Monday.
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Willy Adames SS | SF
Rays' Willy Adames: On bench Monday
Adames is not starting Monday against the Diamondbacks, Steve Carney of Sports Radio 620 WDAE reports.
Adames started the season 1-for-27 with 14 strikeouts in his first 17 games, but he's hit .286/.360/.416 since that point. Daniel Robertson gets the start in his place.