Fantasy Baseball: Andrew Painter has victorious debut, Shohei Ohtani returns to the mound and more
Fantasy baseball analyst Scott Pianowski shares some thoughts and roster advice from Tuesday's MLB action.
We’re just a week into the fresh 2026 baseball season and so many rookies are making their mark. And it’s time to add Andrew Painter to the list. Painter is another post-hype kid to talk about.
He was a top 10 prospect on most boards entering 2023, but elbow problems and eventual Tommy John surgery knocked him out for a couple of years. He was healthy enough to return to a full season last year, but the results were mediocre — 5. 26 ERA, 1.
49 WHIP over 26 starts. We understand if you ignored Painter during draft season. Painter made the Philadelphia rotation off a solid spring, for whatever 11.
2 innings might mean to you (7 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 8 K). The more emphatic statement came Tuesday in his major-league debut, where he stopped the Nationals over 5. 1 innings (4 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 8 K).