Paul’s Fantasy Baseball FAAB Recommendations – Week 13

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  • By Paul Williamson

    Last Updated on June 21, 2026 1:51 pm by Paul Williamson | Published: June 21, 2026

    So many injuries. But, I have plenty of options for you.

    Let’s get into it.

    In order of roster% – 

    12-TEAM LEAGUES (FANTRAX ROSTER%)

    1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF – Willi Castro – COL – 70% – His roster% has skyrocketed this last and I will use this spot to point out what Larry Vannozi pointed out in his latest Working the Waiver Wire series, the Rockies are going to be in Coors for 12 of their next 15 games. So scoop up any of their moderately productive bats. (TJ Rumfield, Troy Johnston, Jake McCarthy). BID – 2-5% on all of them

    OF Dominic Canzone – SEA – 67% – I had him in this article a lot in the early going. He kind of struggled for a little bit but he is back now. The dude has been on fire lately as he has really turned in a great season so far. Over his last 79 plate appearances, he has seven homers 13 runs, 12 RBI, .375 ISO and a slash of .333/.392/.708. He is absolutely murdering the ball with a 16.9% barrel rate and 52.5% hard-hit rate. He solves his hit tool problem last year and has been a legit fantasy producer ever since. He lines up with five righties in six games next week.

    P Grant Holmes – ATL – 67% – He has a great two-start week lined up vs. the Padres who have been dreadful and then a trip to the pitcher-friendly park in San Francisco. The roster% is high on Fantrax but under 30% on Yahoo. Holmes has been good enough to trust in these matchups with a 4.28 ERA, 22.0% K%, 8.9% BB%. and 12.3% swinging strike rate in his last six outings.

    1B, 3B Curtis Mead – WSN – 64% – Still only 20% on Yahoo and Mead has seen his roster% drop lately. This is a classic case of managers seeing a waiver add cool off and they think now is the time to cut bati. This is a warning to no do that and take advantage if someone in your league did drop him. Despite the .171 average in his last  40 PA, he has hit two homers with a .200 ISO, the BABIP is an absurdly low .260 as he maintained a great barrel rate of 11.1% in this time. BID – 3-8%

    P Andre Pallante – STL – 62% – Well under rostered on Yahoo as he has been dealing lately. In his last six starts he has a 2.88 ERA supported by 2.79 xERA, 0.99 WHIP, a surprisingly decent 21.3% K% and 4.4% BB%. The contact has been two-ply against him with a 4.0% barrel rate and 30.3% hard-hit rate. He has two home starts vs. the D’Backs and Marlins next week. BID – 2-4%

    C Yainer Diaz – HOU – 60% – Even after coming off the IL his roster% is dropping and managers need to get in on this dip now. He is being slowly worked in with just three starts this week but he has a hit in all of them. Before he went down, he was starting to heat up as his exit velocities has started to go up after getting two days off in mid-April. I think he is a 12-team one-catcher option. BID – 2-5%, 5-10% in 2-catcher setups

    1B, 3B – Blaze Jordan – STL – 59% – I had him as a deep league option last week as he wasn’t a super highly touted prospect with modest AAA numbers but so far in the bigs I see what he can be. The hit tool has always been there for him with good K% in the minors and that has carried over. But we are seeing him make contact with authority in the start to his MLB career with a 50.0% hard-hit and good bat speed numbers with a 73.7 MPH bat speed and 41.7% fast swing rate. He has a .300 average and .533 SLG. BID – 3-6%

    3B, OF – Matt Shaw – CHC  – 55% – He has started to play everyday in right with Seiya Suzuki getting DH at bats after the demotion of Moises Ballesteros (DYNASTY BUY LOW!). Shaw has started to heat up in June with a slash of .292/.370/.583. This might be a stream while hot situation as the underlying metrics are not that good, but Shaw has prospect pedigree so maybe he can start to actually figure this thing out? BID – 2-4%

    P – J.R. Ritchie – ATL – 55% – he hasn’t been all that good since getting the call up but is getting to face the Padres followed by the Cards. He has performed well vs. poor offenses like the Mets, Tigers and early season Nationals. BID – 1-2%

    OF Lars Nootbar – STL – 53% – 5% on Yahoo. I have written about my love for Nootbar many times, so I won’t bore you with the details, again. (again, and again). Good quality contact. Has the launch angle issues fixed. Get him while he is cheap. BID – 3-6%

    OF Jesus Sanchez – TOR – 47% – He has been such a steady producer, even as a platoon bat that I had on my FAAB article a ton to open the year. Felt like I was beating a dead horse and now I just give y’all friendly reminders, especially on weeks like we have coming up where he is six righties in a seven-game week, per FanGraph’s probables grid. So far on the year he has a slash of .282/.318/.451 with seven homers and 29 RBI in 223 PA (around a 20 HR, 80 RBI pace for 600 PA). He has continued to improve his ground ball rate to 43.2% as he owns an 11.1% barrel rate an 46.9% hard-hit rate. BID – 2-5%

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    June 21, 2026, 1:51 pm