According to the Detroit Tigers, they have acquired INF/OF Jamie Westbrook from the Milwaukee Brewers.
In exchange for Westbrook, the Tigers are giving cash considerations.
Westbrook, who is 26, was originally selected out of high school by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 5th round of the 2013 MLB Draft.
So far this season at AAA Nashville (3 games), he is batting .500 with a double.
During the 2021 season (AA and AAA), Westbrook batted .281 with 12 home runs and 54 RBIs in 89 games.
The Tigers have acquired INF/OF Jamie Westbrook from Milwaukee in exchange for cash considerations.
— Tigers PR (@DetroitTigersPR) April 13, 2022
Fantasy Baseball: 3 Things We Learned in Week 1
Welcome back to the 3 Things We Learned Series for the 2022 MLB season!
This weekly piece will look at the trends, patterns, and interesting statistical touchpoints of the MLB season in order to help you make actionable fantasy decisions.
Baseball fans love their stats. We devour them, dissect them, and build our fantasy rosters around them. Each week of the 2022 baseball season, we will be gifted with another statistical sample size of pitches, plate appearances, and playing time. Knowing it often takes hundreds or even thousands of pitches or batted-ball events for trends to normalize, how should fantasy managers adjust to the ebbs and flows of weekly player performance?
Each week during this season, this piece will look at trends that have emerged over the past week and determine if it is signal or noise moving forward. What is prescriptive in helping build winning fantasy teams and what can be ignored as small sample size noise? Hopefully, we can make sense of what has just happened to help us make smarter roster and free agent budget decisions.
Let’s take a look at some of the data from the first scoring period of the 2022 MLB fantasy baseball season.
The Bullpens, They Are a Committee
In the early days of this 2022 MLB season, there have been 26 saves in the first four days. That in and of itself is not newsworthy, but what does cause fantasy managers’ ears to perk up is just how those saves have been distributed in the early going.
