Chris Towers

6 days ago | cbssports.com | Chris Towers

When it comes to drafting top prospects in the preseason, we tend to practice caution around these parts. That's because draft picks are your most valuable assets all season, and you need to be careful with them – passing on proven contributors for the potential of an unproven prospect is often a pretty bad bet to make with your most valuable resources. Once the season starts, it's a lot easier to buy into the prospect hype.

6 days ago | cbssports.com | Byron Buxton |Chris Towers

When is a hot start just a hot start? When is it something more? That's one of the toughest questions Fantasy Baseball players face at this point in the year because answering it correctly could make a huge difference in how the rest of your season goes. Let's take Tyler Soderstrom as an example.

1 week ago | cbssports.com | Chris Towers

Spencer Strider made his return to the mound for the Braves Wednesday, a little over a year after his 2024 season came to an end due to an elbow injury that required surgery. But did he look like Spencer Strider still? Yes and no. Especially early in the start, Strider absolutely looked like himself. He pumped his first pitch of the game right past Bo Bichette at 97 mph for a swinging strike, and he set him down with a wicked slider for a strikeout two pitches later.

1 week ago | cbssports.com | Chris Towers

Michael Toglia looks completely lost right now. He isn't doing anything well – his strikeout rate is a wholly untenable 46%, and when he does make contact, it has tended to be on the ground to the pull side, where there is little damage to be found. If you're looking for reasons to be optimistic about Toglia – if you're hoping for some silver lining or sign that he's just been unlucky so far – there's almost nothing to point to in his statistical profile. Now, that doesn't mean Toglia is hopeless.

1 week ago | thepress.net | Chris Towers

Wilson Contreras' chase rate is the highest of his career, but there's still reason for optimism