Weather Impacts on Your Fantasy Players (Friday, June 20 to Thursday, June 26)

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  • By Larry Vannozzi

    Last Updated on June 20, 2025 12:06 pm by Paul Williamson | Published: June 20, 2025

    Right on time, a heat wave is developing in the Central and Eastern U.S. for the official start of summer. Fans may be sweating in their seats but many hitters will be gifted their best hitting environments so far this year. I am confident that we’ll see more runs scored and more homers in the next seven days than we have seen in any other seven-day period so far.

    It’s hard to imagine better hitting conditions than what we’ll have at Coors this weekend. Temperatures in the 90s with gusty winds blowing out – fantastic!  The heat wave won’t start at Wrigley until Saturday but that game as well as Sunday’s will be ideal with temps over 90 degrees plus gusty outbound winds.

    On the other extreme, West Coast games will be played in comparatively colder weather so it’s best to avoid as many of those fringe hitters as possible for the next seven days.

    Here are the best and worst hitting conditions based on weather forecasts for the next seven days:

     

    TARGETS:

    This Weekend’s Best Hitting Environments

    • Arizona at Colorado (Friday-Sunday; MLB’s best hitting conditions for the next 7 days with 92-96 degrees and outbound breezes for all three games at Coors!)
    • Cincinnati at St. Louis (Friday-Sunday; humid with temps near 91 each game)
    • Detroit at Tampa Bay (Friday-Sunday; a few storms possible but otherwise great with temps 86-90 degrees and plenty of Florida humidity)
    • Seattle at Chicago (Friday-Sunday; Friday is fine but you’re really here for Saturday and Sunday when Wrigley’s temps climb to 91-94 degrees with gusty outbound winds)
    • Milwaukee at Minnesota (Friday-Sunday; exact same weather as Wrigley above but without the helpful winds)

     

    Targets for Early Next Week:

    • NY Yankees at Cincinnati (Monday-Wednesday; hot and humid with 92-94 degrees each game)
    • Texas at Baltimore (Monday-Wednesday; hazy, hot and humid with temps 90-95 each game)
    • Atlanta at NY Mets (Monday and Tuesday; it’s a four-game series but only the first two have very favorable weather as temperatures will be near 92 for both of those games)
    • Chicago Cubs at St. Louis (Monday-Thursday; 90-92 degrees and humid for the whole series)

     

    When it’s hot in the east, you usually want to avoid the cool West Coast games, which brings us to:

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    Larry is a meteorologist who was fortunate to have a 36-year career “doing his hobby” with the National Weather Service. He’s a weather weenie who was fascinated by weather in elementary school and graduated with a degree in meteorology from Penn State. He obsesses about fantasy baseball, weather and the Phillies.

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    June 20, 2025, 12:06 pm