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  "description": "David Gofman navigates the Major Leagues and highlights changes in playing time and pitching roles offering suggestions for your dynasty teams.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-29T11:47:58.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "The Lineup Card Week 8David Gofman navigates the Major Leagues and highlights changes in playing time and pitching roles offering suggestions for your dynasty teams.Prospects LiveDavid Gofman",
    "Hogan Harris",
    "Joel Kuhne",
    "Mark Leiter",
    "Jack Perkins",
    "Scott Barlow",
    "Blaze Alexander",
    "Coby Mayo",
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  "textContent": "Welcome back to The Lineup Card, a weekly article here at Prospects Live this season that covers developments and changes related to playing time, lineup position, bullpen usage, and more. Time and again, it has been shown that the most successful fantasy teams are the ones that accumulate the most playing time, and this article is here to help you clue in to playing time and usage trends that will allow you to make the smart pickups before your league mates see them coming.\n\nThe Lineup Card Week 8David Gofman navigates the Major Leagues and highlights changes in playing time and pitching roles offering suggestions for your dynasty teams.Prospects LiveDavid Gofman\n\nAs a refresher, each week I analyze some of the trends and changes happening throughout the league, and label them as “Signal”, meaning they are something worth listening to, or “Noise”, meaning they are not pieces of intel that I recommend acting on. After a few quiet weeks, the closer carousel may be kicking back into gear, as a new reliever picked up a save for the A's, and Detroit suddenly has a closer vacancy to fill. The Yankees may be giving the reigns back to a familiar face at shortstop, and do the Dodgers have a new #2 hitter? It is all here, and more, in this week’s edition of The Lineup Card.\n\n## A new closer in Sacramento? - NOISE\n\nPhoto Credit: MLB.com\n\nThe closer situation in Sacramento has been fluid this season to say the least. Hogan Harris, Joel Kuhnel, and Mark Leiter all share the team lead in saves with four, while Jack Perkins has yet to pick up a save in the month of May after securing three between April 21 and April 30. It now appears it may be Scott Barlow’s turn to audition for the role as he secured his first save of the year on Sunday. Barlow’s stats hardly scream “closer”, as he has just an 11.9% K-BB rate this year, his fastball is down nearly three miles per hour this season to an average velocity of just 89.5 MPH, and his 2.88 ERA is largely suppressed by a HR/FB rate of just 6.9%, well below his career rate of 10.2% despite calling Sacramento’s extremely hitter-friendly environment home. Even if Barlow does get the next save chance for the A’s, their 'pen felt unreliable coming into the season, and has remained that way. Let someone else spend their FAAB dollars on Barlow wherever he is available.\n\n## Blaze Alexander’s playing time trending upward - SIGNAL\n\nPhoto Credit: MLB.com\n\nBlaze Alexander’s tenure in Baltimore got off to a tough start, as he failed to capitalize on several Orioles injuries to begin the season to force himself into the lineup more often. But one of the reasons why Baltimore brought in the 26 year old this offseason was because of his defensive versatility, and he has started at six different positions already this season, excluding first base, catcher, and pitcher. Through it all, Alexander’s bat has warmed up, and he followed up an ice cold March/April by hitting for a .339 average and a 139 wRC+ while starting each of the last six games, including two against right-handed pitching. Additionally, Alexander’s primary competition for every day playing time, Coby Mayo, has hit for just a .154 average with a 32.4% K rate against righties, while Alexander has shown much more neutral platoon splits, hitting .260. While Alexander’s start earlier this week against a right-hander in place of Mayo can be attributed to Mayo missing four games with an injury, it is possible that Alexander can continue to carve out additional at-bats for himself against same-handed pitching if he continues to produce.\n\n## Sign up for Prospects Live\n\nYour one stop shop for Dynasty Fantasy Baseball, MLB Draft, Baseball Card & MiLB Baseball content. Blending Data & Scouting into our Player Evaluation\n\nSubscribe\n\nEmail sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.\n\nNo spam. Unsubscribe anytime.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "The Lineup Card Week 9",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-29T11:47:59.278Z"
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