I re-ran the ol' MLB annual leaderboards now that August is in the books. Congrats to Justin Turner for putting up the best ages by a hitter, but for POTM purposes, I'm calling for him to get anesthetized up. Actuality is the abounding final annual that

I'll advanced on to Ramone to acquire them alpha developing the cards:

Gold: Jose Leclerc, CP RMaddens. Did not accord up an becoming run in August while converting all 7 saves, affronted for 3rd in MLB, and had a 16.20 K/9.

Gold: Tyler White, 1B/3B, Astros. Led MLB in ISO at .386. Hit 8 bombs in abandoned 91 PA (Yelich had 11 in 131 PAs). .325/.385/.711 all-embracing line.

Gold: Jack Flaherty, SP, Cardinals. Affronted for 3rd in August ERA at 1.13 and it was accepted accustomed his 2.53/2.85 FIP/xFIP. Of the top 10 ERA leaders for August, is one of abandoned three with a K/9 in bifold digits at 10.7 (Degrom and Buehler were the others)

Gold: Kendry Morales, 1B, Blue Jays. Homered in 7 afterwards amateur in August. Ended up with 9 HR's. Aught added abject hits aloft that admitting so this one is a bit precarious.

Diamond: Zach Wheeler, SP, Mets. 3rd in MLB in ERA at 1.13, 2.08 FIP, miniscule airing bulk of 1.8, admirable K-rate of 9.68.

Diamond: German Marquez, SP, Rockies. 2nd abandoned to Jacob Degrom in bullpen fWAR, 4th a allotment of MLB starters in FIP, K-rate of 11.36 was 7th in MLB.

Diamond: Matt Chapman, 3B, A's. Led MLB in August with 22 added abject hits, 9 HR's were affronted for 6th a lot of in MLB, 2 off the leader. 4th in MLB in August in fangraphs' ‘Def' metric at 3.4, which is Fielding Runs Aloft Boilerplate with a positional adjustment.

Lightning Diamond: David Peralta, OF, Diamondbacks. 2nd in MLB to Justin Turner in wRC+ at 203, 1st in SLG at .732, 3rd in MLB in ISO at .371, one off annual HR advance with 10 (Acuna and Yelich had 11).

Apologies to:

Justin Turner. He led MLB in wrC+ with 228, with the next abutting David Peralta at 203. Endure month's baton in this carbon was Matt Carpenter and afore that the top two were Grandal and Goldy, so that's a appealing big deal of cheap MLB 19 Stubs. This makes Turner the de facto lightning architecture favorite, but I anticipate they just advancement his LS aback to architecture and alarm it good.

Christian Yelich. His 11 homers were affronted with Acuna for acme in MLB but he was abandoned 18th in wrc+, and his .307 batting boilerplate was far beneath what added top sluggers put up. They've anesthetized him over on big months before. I'm calling for his LS to go architecture anon and for him to get larboard out of POTM.

Ronald Acuna. A anniversary ago, his numbers were aloft abundant to anybody abroad that I anticipation they couldn't abjure him a POTM diamond. But abundant players acquire bent up to him now.

Jacob Degrom. He had the best ages for a SP, but he's already an 88.

Khris Davis. He had 10 bombs on the ages but little abroad – too abounding bigger candidates.

Miguel Andujar. Huge ages but already you put a architecture on Matt Chapman, it's harder to acme up a additional 3B. He does acquire 1B accommodation on his LS agenda admitting so they could achieve it happen. 10 bombs and 17 complete XBH but Chapman had 9 bombs and 22 complete XBH and exceptional defense.

Cole Hamels. Had the best ERA in baseball at 0.69 but didn't arbor up abounding bang outs - K/9 of 8.77 and his FIP/xFIP were 2.28/3.04. 5 pitchers put up college fWAR, including Wheeler and Marquez.