Weather Impacts on Your Fantasy Players (Friday, August 22 to Thursday, August 28)

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  • By Larry Vannozzi

    Last Updated on August 22, 2025 1:04 pm by Paul Williamson | Published: August 22, 2025

    The calendar says it is the third week of August and, sure enough, peak summer heat is starting to fade. For the first time in several weeks, no MLB teams will be playing in 90+ degree heat in the next seven days. The downside to this “not as hot” weather is that almost all of this weekend’s games will be played between 75 and 85 degrees. This leaves very few teams at an advantage or disadvantage based on weather.

    Further cooling will happen early next week as fall-like air spreads across the Great Lakes and Northeast. Places like Chicago and Cleveland will have chilly games with temps in the 60s. Ironically, the place to find heat next week is in parts of the West. Sacramento and – get this – even Seattle will feature some of the warmest games early next week. We often try to avoid the West Coast’s chilly summer games but we’ll do the opposite next week. The one exception is San Francisco because they will remain chilly.

    Ok, let’s check out which games to target and which to avoid in the next seven days.

    TARGETS:

     

    This Weekend’s Best Hitting Environments

    As mentioned, there are few options this weekend due to similar temps at most stadiums. Here’s one target, though:

    • Chicago Cubs at LA Angels (Friday-Sunday; temperatures near 80 Friday and Saturday then 88 on Sunday with no rain in what will be the best hitting environment of the weekend)

     

    Targets for Early Next Week:

    • Detroit at A’s (Monday-Wednesday; next week’s hottest games with temps near 85 degrees each evening in Sacramento)
    • San Diego at Seattle (Monday-Wednesday; near 80 degrees in Seattle each game)

     

    Those are the best games to target. Now let’s see which ones to avoid during the next seven days:

     

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    August 22, 2025, 1:04 pm