Week 6
Apr 27–May 3

Garth is coming off a sneaky 6-4 win over Ete Crow with Foster Griffin's waiver-add 7 IP shutout. The rotation depth (Skubal, Yamamoto, Sandy Alcantara, Eovaldi, Mize, Burns, Foster Griffin, Connelly Early) is still the deepest in the league with eight healthy SPs. Matt Olson and Riley Greene are the offensive engine. The sim sees the lineup as a notch below Busch's offensive ceiling, so OBT has to ride pitching ratios and bullpen here.

Rose has Spencer Strider, Hunter Brown, Bryce Miller, Tatsuya Imai, and Edwin Díaz all on the IL. Five rotation/bullpen pieces gone. The roster has filled in with Bubic, Misiorowski, Soriano, Ryan Weathers, and the Kyle Harrison waiver-add. Despite the IL, the sim has Busch at 67% on the strength of a top-3 offense in HR/R/SB and an OBP edge fueled by Seiya Suzuki, Jazz Chisholm, JJ Wetherholt, and Shohei Ohtani's bat side.

Ragans is the league's hottest team. Two straight 9-0 all-play weeks. The active rotation is six deep (Ragans, Ohtani, Schlittler, King, Keller, Castillo) with Roupp, McClanahan, and Woodruff on the bench as additional starting depth. Wyatt Langford on IL10 and Sonny Gray on IL15 are the only real injury hits. Cal Raleigh, Aaron Judge, Mike Trout, Nick Kurtz are putting up MVP-caliber lines together. There is no obvious weakness on this team right now.

Hey Holmes! just won 8-2 over Buckner but the all-play was 3-5-1, so the actual roster strength is still middle-tier. Mookie Betts (IL10), Eugenio Suárez (IL10), Ryan Pepiot (IL60) are all out. The active rotation has five healthy SPs (Vásquez, Cease, Warren, Gore, May) plus Garrett Crochet, Clay Holmes, Grant Holmes, and Kyle Bradish on the bench. SBs (Julio, Chandler Simpson) and the closer (Ryan Walker) are the cleanest edges Michael has against the Ragans juggernaut.

Mario won 6-3 last week off a 14 HR week (Caminero, Wood, Caglianone, Goodman). The rotation has zero active starters on Sunday but 8 healthy SPs on the bench (McGreevy, Detmers, Wrobleski, Robbie Ray, Bubba Chandler, Brady Singer, Bryan Woo, Davis Martin, Tyler Glasnow). Snell and Cole are IL15. The bullpen (Mason Miller, Ryan Helsley, Gus Varland) is elite. SB is the one category Mario projects to dominate, on the strength of Konnor Griffin, Acuña, and Luke Raley.

Buckner is coming off the worst week any team has had in 2026: 0-9 all-play, 15 cat wins. The roster is still loaded, though: Kyle Tucker, Corey Seager, Munetaka Murakami, Ketel Marte, Brandon Nimmo, Alex Bregman, plus Steven Kwan and the Jasson Domínguez add. The rotation has 8 healthy SPs available (Sale, Schultz, Cantillo, Bradley, Valdez, Webb, Trevor Rogers, plus active Hancock and Messick), with Devin Williams as the closer. The sim sees a heavy bounce-back and projects Buckner to win 9 of 10 categories.

Duke Joe just had his worst pitching week of the season (5.37 ERA, 1.39 WHIP). The rotation has six active SPs (Abbott, Williams, Rasmussen, Sánchez, Peralta, Fried), and Max Fried's 12 K, 0.00 ERA was the bright spot. The rest of the staff was a fire. The bullpen (Chapman, Fairbanks) is still league-best. Drake Baldwin's 2 HR, 8 R week was a return to form. Juan Soto on the bench with zero counting stats two weeks running is an obvious problem.

Jace lost 4-6 to OBT but his roster is genuinely strong now. Five active SPs (Ober, McLean, Luzardo, Boyd, Tolle) with Eury Pérez, Joe Ryan, Tyler Mahle, and Chase Dollander on the bench. Nine healthy SPs total. McLean's 17 K week was the league-best K total. Elly De La Cruz (3 HR, 8 RBI) and Vladimir Guerrero (1 HR, 4 RBI, 6 R) are putting up real lines. Pete Crow-Armstrong and Jakob Marsee give Ete the SB edge in this matchup.

Taylor finally got the offense to match the rotation last week (40 RBI, Michael Harris II 11 RBI) and won 7-3. The active rotation is four-deep (Skenes, deGrom, Lugo, Imanaga) with Zack Wheeler, Bryce Elder, and the Nick Martinez waiver-add on the bench. Lindor (IL10) and Yelich (IL10) are out. The rotation will lap most teams in K and QS. The sim has Rain City at 72% in K and 58% in QS. The lineup is still the soft spot and the closer situation is shaky against a Muñoz/Domínguez/Varland trio.

Allahu was 7-1-1 all-play last week despite a 2-7 H2H loss to Ragans. The lineup hits hard. Christian Walker (3 HR, .440 OBP), Max Muncy (3 HR, .583 OBP), Yordan Alvarez, Bobby Witt Jr., Ian Happ. Active rotation is just two SPs (Arrighetti, Ranger Suarez) with five healthy options on the bench (Gausman, Bibee, Soroka, Gilbert, plus Pivetta on IL15 and Steele on IL60). The bullpen is elite (Muñoz, Domínguez, Varland, Pagán). League-best save total last week.