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Here are five things to watch and predictions as the Mets and Dodgers play a four-game series in Los Angeles starting on Monday at 10:10 p.m. on PIX11.
5 things to watch
The Mets' big bats are heating up
After a collective slump for the Mets offense that included Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, and Pete Alonsobeing in a rut at the same time, New York's three most important bats have woken up simultaneously.
Lindor has six hits in his last 11 at-bats, including three home runs.
Soto reached base seven times over the weekend, smacking homers on Saturday and Sunday.
Alonso's hot streak goes back a bit more, with the first baseman on an eight-game hitting streak -- bashing three homers during that span.
It was only a matter of time before the Mets' big three found their footing again, and their recent impact has helped offset the fact that New York still isn't getting much from Mark Vientos, Brandon Nimmo, or Francisco Alvarez.
After missing the end of last season and the first two months of this one due to injury, Blackburn will return on Monday when he gets the start against Los Angeles.
Blackburn's return is especially notable since it enables the Mets to start trotting out a six-man rotation.
Speaking late last week, president of baseball operations David Stearns suggested the six-man rotation wasn't something New York would roll with for the remainder of the season. Instead, they will deploy it when needed, including during stretches where they have lots of games in a row without a day off.
What will be interesting to see is how the Mets operate once Frankie Montas (in the middle of a rehab assignment) and Sean Manaea (close to a rehab assignment are back).
If every starting pitching option remains healthy, they will soon have eight options for six (or five) spots.
The Mets' bullpen has been terrific, including a current six-week run by Edwin Diaz where he has been at his absolute best.
And Garrett has been an enormous part of the success of the relief corps, serving as one of the main bridges to Diaz while allowing the opposition to do basically nothing against him.
New York Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez (4) celebrates with relief pitcher Reed Garrett (75) after defeating the Chicago White Sox at Citi Field / Vincent Carchietta - Imagn Images
In 25.2 innings over 26 appearances, Garrett has a 0.70 ERA and 1.13 WHIP.
His strikeout rate is an impressive 10.5 per nine, he is allowing a career-low 5.6 hits per nine, and has given up just one home run all year.
The Dodgers' pitching staff is badly shorthanded
The Mets will face Dustin May, Clayton Kershaw, Tony Gonsolin, and Landon Knack during this series -- and those are four pitchers with serious talent.
But what the Dodgers are currently missing from their pitching staff is eye-popping.
Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell,Roki Sasaki, and Emmet Sheehan are all on the IL, making the current starting rotation much less vaunted.
Los Angeles' bullpen is also severely depleted right now, without Michael Kopech, Brusdar Graterol, Blake Treinen, Kirby Yates, and Evan Phillips -- with Phillips set to undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery.
The Dodgers are still loaded with talent, including Yoshinobu Yamamoto (who started on Sunday night against the Yankees), but they are not anywhere close to their best right now.
Shohei Ohtani is on a torrid pace, but strikeout-prone
Ohtani, who is taking baby steps toward a return to game action on the mound, remains an offense-only weapon for now. And what a weapon he is.
Through 57 games, Ohtani is slashing .293/.390/.655. He is leading the National League in home runs (22), slugging percentage, and total bases (150), and leading the majors with 63 runs.
While Ohtani has been a menace in the box, he has been susceptible to strikeouts.
Ohtani has already fanned 66 times this season -- including 15 times in his last 10 games.
He is on pace to strike out 181 times, which would be his highest total since 2021 with the Angels.
Predictions
Who will the MVP of the series be?
Juan Soto
Soto looks locked in for the first time all year.
Which Mets pitcher will have the best start?
David Peterson
Peterson has been especially effective lately, allowing two runs or fewer in each of his last four starts.
Which Dodgers player will be a thorn in the Mets' side?
Could a Boston Red Sox team that entered the 2025 season with playoff aspirations become a seller ahead of the MLB trade deadline?
While it’s still too early to make that determination, at least one of Boston’s everyday starters is already drawing interest on the trade market: The San Diego Padres have Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran on their list of trade targets, The Athletic’s Dennis Lin reported Monday.
San Diego’s interest in Duran isn’t surprising; the Padres reportedly had the 28-year-old outfielder on their radar before the 2024 season, when he earned his first All-Star nod while leading Major League Baseball in doubles and triples. San Diego looks like a serious contender at 33-24 but has a weakness in left field, ranking 29th in the majors with a combined .530 OPS at the position.
The case for Boston trading Duran revolves around top prospect Roman Anthony, who has been tearing it up in Triple-A but remains in Worcester with Duran, Ceddanne Rafaela and Wilyer Abreu currently manning the Red Sox’ outfield.
If Boston feels it can sell high on Duran while freeing up an outfield spot for Anthony, that’s certainly a path worth considering.
What might work against a Duran-to-San Diego deal is the Padres’ lack of elite prospects. Outside 18-year-old shortstop Leo De Vries — the No. 3 overall prospect in MLB.com’s rankings — San Diego has just one other prospect in MLB.com’s top 50: catcher Ethan Salas (No. 29 overall). So, if the Padres are unwilling to move De Vries for Duran, it might be hard putting together a trade package that Boston would accept.
The Red Sox 3.5 games out of a wild card spot at 29-32 with Triston Casas out for the season and Alex Bregman on the injured list due to a strained quad. If they don’t show considerable improvement in June, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow should at least explore the possibility of selling ahead of the July 31 trade deadline, and Duran could be one of Boston’s most valuable assets.
From the Red Sox’ perspective, however, the Padres don’t seem like an ideal trade partner.
LOS ANGELES — Despite Max Fried’s loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers Friday night at Dodger Stadium, the left-hander has more than helped the Yankees overcome the absence of staff ace Gerrit Cole, who is sidelined for the season with an elbow injury.
Aaron Judge said he doesn’t know where the Yankees would be without Fried, like Cole a Los Angeles-area native.
“I knew Max was always this good from just watching him on TV with the Braves, watching them on their World Series run, what he was able to do,” Judge said before the Yanks salvaged the finale of the three-game series with Sunday’s 7-3 win. “But now watching him up close you see the total package.”
Fried was supposed to give the Yankees a potent starting one-two pitching punch when he signed as a free agent this past offseason for eight years and $218 million. Cole then blew out his right elbow during spring training and had to undergo Tommy John ligament replacement surgery. He had missed nearly the first three months of the 2024 season with soreness in the same elbow.
Cole’s in the midst of nine-year, $324 million contract, and for the Yankees this year, his $36 million is dead money—salary guaranteed to a player not on the active roster.
He’s gone for the season until sometime into 2026 as he rehabs from a surgery that left a scraggly scar on that elbow. He’s on the trip to California and said he’s still in the strength and conditioning phase of his recovery. Picking up a baseball and tossing it is still down the road. The typical rehab from his kind of surgery could take as long as 18 months.
“I’m a little bit of a pragmatic type of guy,” Cole said. “I want to just take it a day at time, but I feel like everything is going fine right now. Part of the challenge of these long processes is not to get ahead of yourself.”
Meanwhile Fried, with ample help in the starting rotation from Carlos Rodon, has more than filled the gap. He went into Friday’s game with a 7-0 record and a league-leading 1.28 ERA. After a pair of Shohei Ohtani homers and a blown 5-2 lead, he took the 8-5 loss. His record fell to 7-1 and his ERA increased to 1.92, now good for fifth in the Major Leagues.
Fried wasn’t around last fall when the Yankees met the Dodgers in the World Series. He was still a member of the Atlanta Braves. But the results Friday night were much the same as Game 5 at Yankee Stadium when Cole was on the mound and the Yankees blew a 5-0 lead on a shoddy display of fifth-inning defense. They lost the series that night.
Judge dropped a liner to center, Anthony Volpe made a bad throw to third base, and Cole failed to cover first base on a Mookie Betts’ grounder to Anthony Rizzo.
Cole said that night that he would take the responsibility for the loss, but not the blame.
“I took a bad angle to the ball,” he said. “By the time it got by me I was not in position to cover first.”
With seven months and 3,000 miles separating the situations, Fried didn’t feel any better Friday night and the Yankees’ pitching collapsed on Saturday in a crushing, 18-2 loss.
“I thought the guys did a great job getting me an early lead,” Fried, who had forearm problems of his own last season and missed a month, said Friday night. “I just didn’t do the job. I’m a competitor and I want to go out here and win. We had a lead, and I gave it up a couple of times. It just doesn’t sit well with me.”
Asked if he liked that kind of spirit from Fried, Yanks manager Aaron Boone said Saturday: “I like everything about him.”
Boone feels the same way about Judge, who continues to pound the ball in what has been an historic first two months of the season that ended on Saturday. He hit .398 with 21 homers, 50 RBIs, 86 hits, 54 runs scored, a .490 on-base percentage and a 1.268 OPS.
Judge hit three first-pitch solo homers in the first two games of the Dodgers series, the type of performance of which the Yanks have become accustomed, two of them behind Fried.
“He’s been doing that all season, so it’s not surprising,” Fried said.
Even with Fried’s first poor outing of the season, he’s still has an 0.97 WHIP, 70 strikeouts in 75 innings and has allowed just 16 earned runs, 57 hits and 16 walks in his first 12 starts. Opponents are hitting .205 against him.
Like Cole, Fried has World Series experience. Cole pitched for Houston twice in 2019 and split his two starts as the Astros lost in seven games to the Washington Nationals. Two years later, Fried was on the mound for the Braves against the Astros in a deciding Game 6. He pitched six innings of no-run, four hit ball in a 7-0 championship-winning effort. By that time, Cole had already signed with the Yankees.
The fact that Cole went down after the Yankees signed Fried is no small consolation.
“Max has been a huge contributor to where we are right now,” Cole said. “Aaron having the season he’s had for us is always a driving force. He’s really steady Eddie every day and we’re lucky to have him. It’s just tough for me to sit here watching it. But that’s the hand I was dealt, and I’m trying to play it the best I can.”
Its Monday, June 2 and the Mets (37-22) are in Los Angeles to open a series against the Dodgers (36-23).
Paul Blackburn is slated to take the mound for New York against Dustin May for Los Angeles.
The weekend saw the Dodgers take two of three from the Yankees and the Mets sweep the Rockies in a three-game series. Highlights included three home runs from Max Muncy over the last two games for Los Angeles and Juan Soto getting his bat going with four hits in nine at bats including a pair of home runs.
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Game details & how to watch Mets at Dodgers
Date: Monday, June 2, 2025
Time: 10:10PM EST
Site: Dodger Stadium
City: Los Angeles, CA
Network/Streaming: SportsNet LA, WPIX, MLBN
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Odds for the Mets at the Dodgers
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Moneyline: Mets (+130), Dodgers (-156)
Spread: Dodgers -1.5
Total: 9.0 runs
Probable starting pitchers for Mets at Dodgers
Pitching matchup for June 2, 2025: Paul Blackburn vs. Dustin May
Mets: Paul Blackburn (0-0, 0.00 ERA) Last outing: 1st appearance since 8/23/24 at San Diego
Dodgers: Dustin May (3-4, 4.20 ERA) Last outing: 5/27 at Cleveland - 5IP, 3ER< 4H, 2BB, 9Ks
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The Mets' record in their last 10 games stands 8-2 as they have reclaimed first place in the NL East
In his last five home starts Dustin May has an ERA of 2.99
With Dustin May starting, the Dodgers are up 1.54 units on the Run Line at Dodger Stadium in 2025
Francisco Lindor went 6-11 with 3 HRs in the 3-game series at Colorado
Shohei Ohtani was 4-13 with 2 HRs against the Yankees this past weekend
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Dodgers left fielder Andy Pages bobbles a hit by New York's DJ LeMahieu during the Dodger's 7-3 loss to the Yankees on Sunday at Dodger Stadium. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
The desperation of a toasted Dodger Stadium made itself abundantly clear Sunday in the fourth inning of a sunburn against the New Yankees.
With mighty Yankee Aaron Judge huffing and puffing at the plate, a lone insistent chant emerged from a Dodger fan lurking in the shadows.
“Ko-be! Ko-be! Ko-be!”
Sorry. Nice try. But on this day, the Dodgers lacked all evidence of a Mamba Mentality.
Coming off two inspirational wins in this three-game weekend showdown against their American League twin, the Dodgers ate the broom.
A team that had finally seemed to figure out its pitching watched its ace fold.
A team whose offense had become balanced and deep could barely poke a soft-tossing journeyman utility starter who they once cut.
And, yeah, a team that does everything right did bits of everything wrong, a wild throw scoring a run, a wild pitch scoring another run, and a foolish stolen base attempt costing yet another run.
In all, it resulted in a 7-3 Yankees victory that left the Dodgers facing another stark set of numbers.
Baseball’s most talented team is 12-10 against legitimate championship contenders.
Baseball’s richest team is 28-23 since starting the season 8-0.
And now one of baseball’s most injury-plagued teams must strap back in for a four-game series against a first-place New York Mets team that has won seven of eight. Followed by three games in hot St. Louis. Followed by three games in angry San Diego. Followed by three games against the reborn San Francisco Giants. Followed by four more games against damn San Diego.
Whew. Gulp. A little Mamba would be nice.
That the Dodgers are facing this impossibly tough stretch would have made it extra sweet to sweep the Yankees, particularly coming 24 hours after beating them 18-2, and less than 48 hours after roaring back to beat them 8-5.
“When these guys came into town, I think we ramped up our focus, our approach, just the intensity,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts before Sunday’s game. “And it’s fortunately showed.”
And then it disappeared again, which has sort of been the Dodgers issue all season, right?
“We’ve got our guy going tonight,” Roberts also said, referring to Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a Cy Young candidate who had shut down the Yankees twice last season. “It’s going to be fun..”
And then it wasn't.
Roberts refused to change his positive tune afterward, maintaining, “For us, the takeaway is, we won a series, and that was the goal coming into this weekend.”
Yeah, but still...
Yamamoto had his second-worst stinker as a Dodger, surpassed by only his fumble of the division series opener last season against the Padres.
He gave up a career-high seven hits along with four runs in just 3 ⅔ innings, and didn’t have much help.
The Yankees quickly put the Dodgers on the ropes with a messy first inning, scoring one and loading the bases on, among other jabs, two walks and a wild throw home from left fielder Andy Pages.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulls starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto from the game in the fourth inning against the New York Yankees on Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
One inning later the Dodgers should have come back to take a 2-1 lead on Tommy Edman’s homer. But on the previous pitch, Pages, perhaps trying to make up for that lousy throw, was thrown out trying to steal third despite there being only one out.
One inning after that, Yamamoto went bust, walking Judge, giving up a two-run homer by Ben Rice, then yielding two singles to set up a run-scoring wild pitch.
It was all pretty scary stuff for a pitching staff working on such a precarious tightrope. There’s enough uncertainty in other places that the one arm they must be able to count on is the one attached to Yamamoto.
The four scheduled starters for the Mets series are Dustin May, Clayton Kershaw, Tony Gonsolin and Landon Knack. All have been both decent and struggling and the bottom line is, would you want to give the ball to any of them with your season on the line?
Honestly, the Dodgers need Yamamoto to be great, transforming a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon into a chilly missed opportunity.
His bad day was all the Yankees needed when the Dodgers’ vaunted four-man top of the lineup — minus an injured Mookie Betts — went hitless in 16 at-bats. A day after their offense banged out 21 hits, the stars can’t even raise a scratch on starter Ryan Yarbrough? How does that happen?
The Dodgers should have known all about Yarbrough. They had him for parts of the last two seasons, long enough for him to receive a World Series ring but not long enough to keep them from essentially releasing him before trading him.
The offensive struggles, which doomed late homers by Max Muncy and Pages, were epitomized by two middle-inning face plants.
Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas tags out New York Yankees catcher Austin Wells on a stolen-base attempt in the seventh inning Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
The Dodgers put two runners on in the fifth, but a Miguel Rojas line drive to center field was caught, only briefly summoning memories of when it wasn’t.
Then, the top of the order couldn’t get the ball out of the infield in the sixth inning, meekly disappearing on 13 pitches.
“It’s funky, it’s funky,” said Will Smith of his former teammate’s style, and he’s not talking about a cool funky.
There was some good news for the Dodgers on Sunday, Betts working out while wearing a shoe for the first time since fracturing his toe during a midnight bedroom stroll and, according to Roberts, handling the pain. This means he could be back soon and, even though he has lacked his usual offensive greatness this season, his return can’t come soon enough.
Betts met the media before the game to discuss it.
”Just going to the bathroom... whatever you picture, that’s exactly what happened,” he said. “I’m sure we all have fractured toes from stuff like this...Just clumsiness I guess.”
Its Monday, June 2 and the Tigers (39-21) are in Chicago to take on the White Sox (18-41). Jack Flaherty is slated to take the mound for Detroit against Jonathan Cannon for Chicago.
Detroit is 6-1 in the last seven games and have taken five of the last six series entering this matchup. Chicago has lost three straight and six of the past seven.
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Date: Monday, June 2, 2025
Time: 7:40PM EST
Site: Rate Field
City: Chicago, IL
Network/Streaming: FDSNDT, CHSN
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Odds for the Tigers at the White Sox
The latest odds as of Monday:
Moneyline: Tigers (-210), White Sox (+174)
Spread: Tigers -1.5
Total: 8.0 runs
Probable starting pitchers for Tigers at White Sox
Pitching matchup for June 2, 2025: Jack Flaherty vs. Jonathan Cannon
Tigers: Jack Flaherty, (3-6, 3.94 ERA) Last outing: 6.0 Innings Pitched, 0 Earned Runs Allowed, 2 Hits Allowed, 1 Walk, and 8 Strikeouts
White Sox: Jonathan Cannon, (2-6, 4.15 ERA) Last outing: 5.2 Innings Pitched, 5 Earned Runs Allowed, 9 Hits Allowed, 1 Walk, and 4 Strikeouts
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The Tigers are on a 10-game win streak at the White Sox
The Under is 4-1 in the White Sox's last 5 matchups against AL Central teams
The Tigers have covered the Run Line in 4 straight games at the White Sox
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It's Monday, June 2 and the Padres (33-24) are in San Francisco to take on the Giants (33-26). Stephen Kolek is slated to take the mound for San Diego against Logan Webb for San Francisco.
The Padres are 5-2 over the last seven games and coming off a 6-4 comeback win over the Pirates last night, while the Giants are 2-4 in the past six, but are off a 4-2 victory over the Marlins.
San Francisco is 3-2 at home with Webb on the mound, while San Diego is 3-2 in Kolek's five starts this season.
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Date: Monday, June 2, 2025
Time: 9:45PM EST
Site: Oracle Park
City: San Francisco, CA
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Odds for the Padres at the Giants
The latest odds as of Monday:
Moneyline: Padres (+146), Giants (-175)
Spread: Giants -1.5
Total: 7.0 runs
Probable starting pitchers for Padres at Giants
Pitching matchup for June 2, 2025: Stephen Kolek vs. Logan Webb
Padres: Stephen Kolek, (3-1, 4.11 ERA) Last outing: 5.1 Innings Pitched, 6 Earned Runs Allowed, 6 Hits Allowed, 2 Walks, and 3 Strikeouts
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The Padres have won 3 straight games at the Giants
This season the Giants pitcher Logan Webb has an ERA of 2.83 and a WHIP of 1.19 when opening
With Logan Webb opening the Giants are up 1.31 units on the Run Line at Oracle Park in 2025
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Its Monday, June 2 and the Twins (31-27) are in {game.venue.city} to take on the Athletics (23-37). Joe Ryan is slated to take the mound for Minnesota against Luis Severino for Oakland.
The Athletics enter this matchup with the Twins on a six-game losing streak and two straight series being swept. For Minnesota, the Twins have lost two consecutive games and three of the past four.
This is four-game series and the end of a 10-game road trip for Minnesota. The Twins are 2-4 on this cross country road trip against the Mariners and Rays so far. The Twins have won four straight with Ryan on the mound and the Athletics lost four consecutive with Severino pitching.
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Date: Monday, June 2, 2025
Time: 10:05PM EST
Site: Sutter Health Park
City: Sacramento, CA
Network/Streaming: MNNT, NBCSCA
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Odds for the Twins at the Athletics
The latest odds as of Monday:
Moneyline: Twins (-161), Athletics (+135)
Spread: Twins -1.5
Total: 9.0 runs
Probable starting pitchers for Twins at Athletics
Pitching matchup for June 2, 2025: Joe Ryan vs. Luis Severino
Twins: Joe Ryan, (5-2, 2.57 ERA) Last outing: 6.0 Innings Pitched, 1 Earned Run Allowed, 5 Hits Allowed, 1 Walk, and 5 Strikeouts
Athletics: Luis Severino, (1-4, 3.89 ERA) Last outing: 6.0 Innings Pitched, 2 Earned Runs Allowed, 3 Hits Allowed, 2 Walks, and 4 Strikeouts
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A reminder: This is ONLY players who have Rookie of the Year MLB eligibility, and ONLY a look at potential help for 2025.
That out of the way, here’s a look at the top prospects who can help your fantasy roster this season.
1. Jac Caglianone, 1B/OF, Kansas City Royals
2025 stats: 50 G, 322/.389/.593, 9 HR, 2 SB, 24 BB, 46SO at Double-A Northwest Arkansas and Triple-A Omaha.
Last week, I talked about how I wouldn’t be surprised if Caglianone was off this list because of promotion. Well, he made it to the list, but he won’t be here next week. Multiple outlets report that the 2024 first-round pick will have his contract selected before Tuesday’s game against the Cardinals. The left-handed hitter has massive power in his left-handed stroke, and while he is prone to strikeouts, the ball jumps off his bat; giving him a chance to be a contributor in the average category as well. There’s some obvious risk with using a rookie in your lineup and particularly one who will swing and miss, but there’s an enormous amount of upside in hie left-handed bat as well.
2. Roman Anthony, OF, Boston Red Sox
2025 stats: 53 G, .303/.430/.492, 8 HR, 3 SB, 45 BB, 4349 SO at Triple-A Worcester.
Anthony’s dealing with his first struggles of 2025 over the last week, and one could easily wonder if perhaps he’s getting a bit bored at the Triple-A level. Even his struggles haven’t really been too dire, there’s just a lot of one-hit efforts lately. It’s very hard to panic based on a week of so-so handful of games, and you can see from the numbers above that he’s been excellent for the overwhelming majority of 2025. Anthony deserves to be with the Red Sox, and he deserves a roster spot when that takes place, if not sooner.
3. Jordan Lawlar, 2B, Arizona Diamondbacks
2025 stats: 39 G, .338/.414/.569, 6 HR, 13 SB, 19 BB, 43 SO at Triple-A Reno; 8 G .000/.175/.000, 0 SB, 3 BB, 9 SO at Arizona.
Well, that didn’t go great. Lawlar is back in the minors after essentially serving in a utility role with Arizona, and he wasn’t able to pick up a hit in his week-plus with the club. These things happen. The top prospect went hitless in his first game back with Reno, but then went 3-for-4 with a run scored Sunday while drawing a walk and also driving in a pair. Even with how disappointing his run with Arizona was, there’s doubt in my mind that he belongs on this list. There’s five tools at his disposal, and he offers as much upside as any prospect in the minors -- at least at the higher levels. When the Diamondbacks give him another chance this summer, I’d still be willing to make the roster move.
4. Jacob Misiorowski, RHP, Milwaukee Brewers
2025 stats: 12 G, 58.1 IP, 2.31 ERA, .177 BAA, 28 BB, 73 SO at Triple-A Nashville.
Speaking of bad weeks. Misiorowski made two appearances since our last update, and one outing was shaky, the other ugly. The better was four innings of two-run baseball -- one of those runs earned -- with eight strikeouts. The ugly was two innings where he allowed five runs and he issued six walks; an unfriendly reminder of Misiorowski’s command issues that have caused concern over the last two seasons. The 23-year-old has been excellent for the overwhelming majority of 2025, and still offers significant fantasy upside in his right arm. He’s just going to have to get back on track before he’s going to join the Brew Crew’s rotation.
5. Christian Moore, 2B, Los Angeles Angels
2025 stats: 46 G, .269/.374/.363, 2 HR, 8 SB, 29 BB, 56 SO at Double-A Rocket City and Triple-A Salt Lake.
It’s a little surprising that a first-round pick from the previous year hasn’t gotten called up yet based on their recent history, but Moore did receive a promotion to Triple-A, and it has gone well so far, albeit in a small sample. The eighth-overall pick has hit .362/.456/.468 since joining the Bees over a dozen games, and he’s stolen three bases with three extra-base hits. Moore has plus power and speed in his bat, and while he will strike out, he’s also a patient hitter who can draw free passes and put those wheels to work. The Angels have been playing well, but their middle infield still leaves a lot to be desired. I like his chance for fantasy success whenever he does get the call.
Around the minors:
Mariners catching prospect Harry Ford struggled to begin the 2025 season, and he hit just .200 with a .662 OPS in the month of April. To say things went better for Ford in the month of May is the understatement of understatements. He finished that month with an OPS of 1.120 with a slash of .411/.475/.644 buoyed by three homers and nine extra-base hits. A 2021 first-round pick, Ford has an outstanding approach at the plate and tremendous athleticism for a player who mostly plays behind the plate, and he’s starting to tap into his above-average power in his right-handed bat. He’s definitely not going to usurp Cal Raleigh as the starter, but it’s possible the Mariners find a way to get Ford’s bat in the lineup after recently calling up Cole Young from Tacoma, and he’d be worthy of fantasy consideration whenever that takes place.
It’s been an impressive first professional season for Chase Burns, and he continued his strong run with a couple of quality outings last week. The second pick of last year’s draft struck out 10 Sunday for Double-A Chattanooga, and he followed it up with six scoreless frames for the Lookouts on Saturday. His ERA on the season is now 1.93 over 46 2/3 innings, and that number dips to 1.54 when you look just as his numbers since being promoted from High-A. At this point, I would be more surprised if Burns didn’t pitch for the Reds in 2025 than if he did. Even in the Reds' less-than-ideal park for pitchers, he'd obviously be worthy of roster consideration should that take place.
Caglianone has been one of the best hitters in the minors, but the hottest hitter at the Triple-A level as of late is Rockies infield prospect Ryan Ritter. Ritter has homered eight times over the last week, and three of those occurred in one game against Reno. The shortstop is now up to 16 homers on the season, and he’s also forged an impressive .307 average and 1.059 OPS over 199 at-bats. Ritter was better known for his defense than his offense coming into the year, but clearly he’s taken a step forward with the bat in 2025. At the very least, he’s now a name to monitor; especially since he’s on track to play his home games in Colorado.
The Yankees avoided a sweep by salvaging the finale of their three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, 7-3, on Sunday Night Baseball.
Here are the takeaways...
-New York's offense made Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto work in what ended up being the right-hander's shortest start of the season. In the first inning, Yamamoto needed 28 pitches to get out of the frame while the Yanks managed to score just one run. They left the bases loaded on Austin Wells' groundout.
After another laborious inning in the second that didn't yield any runs, Yamamoto unraveled in the third. Aaron Judge started the inning with a walk which brought Ben Rice up to the plate. On an 0-2 pitch, Rice clobbered his 12th home run of the season to straightaway center that traveled 425 feet and gave New York a 3-1 lead.
Back-to-back one-out singles by Anthony Volpe and Wells put runners at the corners and a wild pitch by Yamamoto allowed Volpe to dash home for the third run of the inning.
-Yamamoto's night was done after 3.2 innings and 96 pitches. He allowed four earned runs on seven hits and three walks and only struck out two, a season-low. His ERA went from 1.97 to 2.39.
-Opposite Yamamoto was Ryan Yarbrough who, unlike his counterpart, pitched great. Yarbrough carved up Los Angeles' lineup over six innings, only allowing a run on four hits. He also struck out five.
The run Yarbrough gave up came in the second inning and tied the game. Tommy Edman took the lefty deep on a 2-1 changeup that would've given the Dodgers the lead had Andy Pages not been caught trying to steal third base following a double. After the home run, Yarbrough set down nine in a row before Max Muncy's single in the fifth.
Yarbrough ended his night by striking out Teoscar Hernandez and Freddie Freeman as part of a 1-2-3 inning. The outing was Yarbrough's fifth straight start of allowing two earned runs or fewer in what has been a great move by the Yanks putting the 33-year-old in the starting rotation. He now has a 2.83 ERA to go along with a 0.99 WHIP.
-With Yamamoto out of the game, New York's offense didn't stop and went to work against the Dodgers' bullpen, particularly Anthony Banda and Lou Trivino in the fifth. After Banda walked two in the inning, Trivino entered and gave up a run-scoring single to DJ LeMahieu which made it 5-1. Oswald Peraza followed with an RBI single of his own.
LeMahieu added an RBI double in the ninth, his first double of the season, and finished 4-for-5. He was the only Yankee to have multiple hits.
-The Yankees had traffic on the bases all night after producing 11 hits and seven walks while getting plunked twice. They also stole three bases and finished 4-for-16 with runners in scoring position.
-Jonathan Loáisiga was the first man on in relief and allowed Los Angeles to inch closer after home runs by Muncy and Pages in the seventh made it 6-3. But other than the Dodgers' three solo homers, their offense was held in check as their top four hitters went 0-for-16 with five strikeouts.
-New York pitchers struck out 10 and walked none in what was a relatively clean game. Devin Williams and Tim Hill each pitched a scoreless inning to end the game.
-After going 1-for-2 at the dish with a walk, RBI, run scored and stolen base, Jasson Dominguez was pinch-hit for in the sixth inning. It was announced he left the game with a left thumb contusion.
Game MVP: Ryan Yarbrough
In need of a win to salvage the series finale and avoid being swept, Yarbrough delivered like he has since making the transition to starter this season.
The Yankees have an off day on Monday to return home before starting back up on Tuesday night against the Cleveland Guardians for a three-game series. First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m.
LHP Carlos Rodón (7-3, 2.60 ERA) faces off against RHP Tanner Bibee (4-5, 3.86 ERA).
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto walks back to the mound after giving up a two-run home run to the New York Yankees' Ben Rice in the third inning of the Dodgers' 7-3 loss Sunday at Dodger Stadium. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Dave Roberts downplayed the easy narrative on Sunday afternoon.
“No,” he said when asked if his Dodgers had the New York Yankees’ proverbial number, having followed up their defeat of the Bronx Bombers in last year’s World Series with two impressive wins to start this weekend’s rematch at Dodger Stadium.
“I think we’ve had their number the last two nights,” Roberts said, “but today’s a different day.”
Was it ever.
Twenty-four hours after a total annihilation of the Yankees in a 16-run rout on Saturday, the Dodgers suffered the kind of setback that has so often plagued them this season, squandering the chance to build further momentum in a 7-3 loss that prevented a series sweep.
For as complete a performance as the Dodgers (36-23) put together Saturday, they looked equally out of sorts in a "Sunday Night Baseball" finale, getting a rare bad start from Yoshinobu Yamamoto, mistakes on defense and basepaths that cost them early runs, and virtually nothing from a lineup that looked largely discombobulated against funky left-hander (and former Dodgers swingman) Ryan Yarbrough.
They might have come out of the weekend with a marquee series win, continuing to nurse a narrow lead in the National League West standings.
But, they invited more scrutiny over their inconsistent start to the season with a finale flop, dropping to 13-13 over their last 26 games.
“You got to focus on the positives,” third baseman Max Muncy said. “We just took two of three from a really, really good team. We're obviously upset that we didn't get this one. But we played two really good games. … Just [today] the result wasn't there."
Yamamoto had been the one constant in the Dodgers’ injury-plagued rotation. His 1.97 earned-run average was second in the NL. His 64 innings not only led the team, but were almost twice as many as anyone else besides Dustin May.
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto shouts in frustration after giving up a home run to New York's Ben Rice in the third inning. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Yamamoto also had an impressive personal track record against the Yankees (36-22), shutting them out over seven innings in New York last June before delivering 6 ⅓ innings of one-run ball in Game 2 of the World Series.
On Sunday, however, he couldn’t consistently find the strike zone or execute his trademark splitter. And after scoring just two runs in their previous 15 innings in this series, the Yankees finally came to life at the plate.
“I was not being able to control my pitches,” Yamamoto said through interpreter Yoshihiro Sonoda. “During the game, I was trying to make an adjustment, but … I could not get it back, my stuff.”
In the first, Trent Grisham singled and Ben Rice walked before Jasson Domínguez dumped a line drive into left, driving in a run when Andy Pages airmailed his throw to home plate.
In the third, a leadoff walk to Judge was followed by a two-run homer to Rice — Yamamoto missing badly with two splitters in the first at-bat before leaving one hanging in the next.
Later in the inning, the Yankees scored again after Yamamoto gave up two singles and spiked a splitter for a run-scoring wild pitch.
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani strikes out against the Yankees in the first inning Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
And with two outs in the fourth, Roberts pulled Yamamoto, his pitch count having ballooned to 96 on a day he gave up a season-high in hits (seven) and walked three others. It was the first time this year that Yamamoto, whose ERA rose to 2.39, had failed to complete the fifth.
“He wasn’t great today, wasn’t sharp with any of his pitches,” Roberts said. “Really uncharacteristic.”
The Dodgers faltered in other ways, as well.
After his first-inning throwing error, Pages made a mistake on the bases in the second. Following a one-out double, he was thrown out on an over-aggressive steal of third. That meant that when Tommy Edman homered moments later — his first long ball in 17 games, breaking him out of a recent funk at the plate — it was only a solo blast, temporarily tying the score before the Yankees answered in the next half-inning.
There would be no counterpunch from Dodgers’ offense, which was missing Mookie Betts for a third-straight game because of a toe fracture (Betts said before the game his toe was starting to feel better, and went through pregame activities in hopes of avoiding a stint on the injured list).
Instead, Yarbrough cruised against the team that dealt him away at last year’s trade deadline.
Even though he never hit 90 mph with his fastball, he induced a string of soft contact while striking out five in a six-inning start. Yarbrough was especially effective against the top of the Dodgers' order, which went a combined 0 for 16.
“It’s funky,” catcher Will Smith, who was batting cleanup, said of Yarbrough’s unorthodox delivery. “We gave them a little momentum. They jumped on us early [with] some long innings. So he did a good job attacking us and keeping us off balance.”
The Dodgers did show some life after Yarbrough’s exit, with Pages and Muncy each taking reliever Jonathan Loáisiga deep within the space of three at-bats.
But by then, it was much too little, much too late — resulting in the Dodgers’ second straight series in which they failed to complete a sweep, and yet another momentum-halting loss in a season plagued by a few too many of them.
“I think for us, the takeaway is we won a series and that was the goal coming in,” Roberts said. “I think at the end of the day, you keep winning series and things will take care of themselves.”
First baseman Dom Smith is now a free agent after exercising his out clause with the Yankees after spending two months playing for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, per ESPN's Jeff Passan.
Smith spent spring training with New York after the team signed him to a minor-league deal with an invite to major league camp.
With Giancarlo Stanton out to begin the season, Smith was hoping to make the roster as possibly a DH in Stanton's absence or a backup first baseman. The 29-year-old had a strong spring, too, hitting .297 with three home runs and 12 RBI in 37 at-bats, but he was ultimately released.
A week later, he signed with the Yanks once again and was assigned to Triple-A.
After a rough April, Smith turned it on in May and slashed .317/.389/.622 with seven home runs and 22 RBI. He's now hoping to turn that hot month into a major league contract somewhere else.
A former Met for six seasons, Smith last played in the majors in 2024, splitting time between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds.
The lefty-swinging first baseman is a career .246 hitter and has 64 home runs across 693 games.
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Diamondbacks ace Corbin Burnes was lifted after just 70 pitches Sunday against the Washington Nationals with right elbow discomfort.
Manager Torey Lovullo told reporters after Arizona’s 3-1 win that Burnes will have an MRI on Monday.
Arizona led 3-0 in the top of the fifth inning when Burnes allowed a single by CJ Abrams with two outs. The right-hander then gestured toward the dugout with his glove and yelled in frustration.
Jalen Beeks replaced Burnes and gave up an RBI single before getting the third out.
Burnes allowed a run and four hits in 4 2/3 innings, with a walk and six strikeouts. He is 3-2 with a 2.66 ERA in 11 starts this season.
Arizona signed Burnes to a $210 million, six-year contract before the season. He’s been effective, but the Diamondbacks have dealt with a slew of pitching injuries. Jordan Montgomery (Tommy John surgery) is out for the season, Eduardo Rodríguez (shoulder) is on the injured list and reliever A.J. Puk (elbow) is on the IL as well.
Durability hasn’t been much of a concern for the 30-year-old Burnes, who has made at least 28 starts in every season since he won the 2021 National League Cy Young Award for Milwaukee. He spent his first six years with the Brewers before being traded to Baltimore before the 2024 season. After one year with the Orioles, he signed with the Diamondbacks as a free agent.
When the Mets signed Clay Holmes to a three-year, $38 million deal in the offseason, it wasn't a foregone conclusion that the right-hander would be a part of New York's starting rotation.
Sure, that was president of baseball operations David Stearns' plan, but the tall task was a daunting one as the 32-year-old had spent the majority of his seven-year career as a relief pitcher, save for four starts he made his rookie year with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2018.
Now, it's hard to imagine Holmes not in the Mets' rotation as he owns a 3.07 ERA (1.16 WHIP) through 12 starts and 67.1 innings so far this season -- a testament to New York's coaching staff and organization as a whole.
Holmes' latest start on Sunday against the Colorado Rockies was a milestone for the right-hander as he went seven innings for the first time in his career. He allowed three earned runs after giving up two home runs aided by the wind, but the offense, led by the Mets' big three, did just enough to give him his sixth win of the season.
"I thought he was really, really good," manager Carlos Mendoza said after the game. "I thought the life on all of his pitches, especially the four-seam, the two-seam -- other than the two pitches that they hit for homers -- the slider, the changeup. And I thought he elevated the four-seam effectively. The whole time I'm watching him and just with the way the ball was coming out, it had life and he was really good."
After just 85 pitches thrown over those seven innings, Holmes probably had enough left in the tank to go even deeper, but the Mets weren't about to push their starter even more than they already had and have this season.
Nevertheless, the outing was another great one for Holmes who has allowed three earned runs or fewer in 10 of 12 starts this season.
"I feel like I'm in a good rhythm right now, in a good routine, recovering well," Holmes said. "... For me to go out there and give some length, it feels good."
Before Sunday's start, four out of his last five starts Holmes had gone six innings. Compare that to pitching 5.1 innings or less in five of his first six starts and the writing was on the wall for a game like this out of the former reliever.
And despite only recording three strikeouts on the day, Holmes, known more as a ground ball specialist, was a groundout machine against Colorado, totaling 10 outs on the ground.
Weak contact on the ground early in counts and letting the defense behind him make plays was part of the reason he was able to go deeper than he has all season.
"It was really good to see that and I felt like in that seventh inning he was still touching 94 (mph), kept getting ground balls and that’s his calling card," Mendoza said. "... I thought he was in pretty good shape throughout the outing, those middle innings, I thought overall he was in complete control."
Fully entrenched as a starter now, what will be interesting for Holmes is how the Mets deploy him for the rest of the season as he's just 2.2 innings away from matching his career-high in innings pitched (70 innings in 2021).
What will help is the calvary that is on its way, starting with Paul Blackburn on Monday night against the Los Angeles Dodgers and Frankie Montas and Sean Manaea not far behind.
Regardless, Holmes deserves a lot of credit for even putting New York in this position, stepping up in a big way for a team that had a lot of question marks on the pitching side entering the season.
