With just 2 1/2 weeks remaining, we review some immediate playing time opportunities, some longer term outlooks and some immediate situations to avoid. The Astros pitching staff is one of the latter ...

Freed from the Padres bench, Ty France suddenly has regular AB and real opportunity, both in September and beyond. We look at a terrific A's bullpen that might get better from here, and more ...

Lance Lynn is a rare bright spot in a dismal Rangers season, making him both in demand and available to playoff wannabes willing to ante up. We look at this and other interesting pre-trade deadline ideas.

As the August 31 trade deadline approaches, we attempt to divine some AL West club intentions. Beginning with the Astros, who with Michael Brantley (pictured) and now Yordan Alvarez out, are now struggling offensively.

Jo Adell's early promotion creates some playing time competition that we attempt to unpack. A tale of two different AL West bullpens in HOU and OAK, the running Mariners, and more.

Few if any MLB clubs have a longer pitching injury list than the Astros, whose rotation gets a near-term revisit here. The awful LAA pen, SEA 1B and DH issues, and more ...

The OAK 2B job looks up for grabs, and now less than a week into the (very short) season, Franklin Barreto may soon be a roster casualty. We cover this and other Week 1 playing time ramifications ...

The A's rotation is beginning to show cracks, highlighting iron-man reliever Yusmeiro Petit as an intriguing option for fantasy owners in an abbreviated season. We check out a bunch of AL West pens as Opening Day arrives...

Mushrooming pitching uncertainty in HOU with Opening Day just a week away ensures that young, inexperienced arms like Cristian Javier will find opportunities. SEA's young OFs make noise, and more ...

Now back as a two-way force, Shohei Ohtani suddenly looks like LAA's best fantasy value play. We reset the LAA, HOU and OAK rotations after a long hiatus, and more.

We run down the PT% bumps, speculative ideas and sleepers in the early competition for DH AB. And on MLB's deepest squad, older vets like LA 3B Justin Turner have a new way to stay in the lineup.