The big heat wave of the past two weeks has slightly weakened, so those ideal hitting conditions won’t be quite as good this week. However, even just average summer weather (ie, warm and humid in many areas) should produce good hitting environments for most MLB games this week.

Rain hasn’t interfered with too many games during the past two weeks but that trend will end. Many cities will see scattered afternoon and evening “pop up” summertime thunderstorms this week. While no game stands out as having a particularly great chance of being rained out, rain is certain to cause a few delays and maybe some postponements this week. Fantasy managers in daily change leagues should keep an eye on radar as the week progresses.

Here are two schedule oddities before we tackle the weather. First, about the only slate lighter than Monday’s is the All-Star break. There are just three games on Monday. Those six teams are the only ones with a full seven-game week (fortunately, one of them is Colorado’s week-long home series at Coors!). Second, we have a rare “full schedule Thursday,” a day that is often a travel day but this time features all 30 teams in action.

If you want to know which teams are my Weather Winners or Weather Losers of the week, skip to the bottom of this article. You’ll find notes on individual hitters there, too. Otherwise, here are the series or individual games to target/avoid based on this week’s weather.

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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.