Fantasy Baseball Bests, Busts and Waiver Wire: Sept. 3

Athlon Sports takes a look at what took place this past weekend on the fantasy baseball diamond.

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Top 25 fantasy baseball hitters of last week (8/27-9/3):

	Name	Team	Pos.	R	HR	RBI	SB	BA	OPS
1.	Pedro Alvarez*	PIT	3B	7	4	8	0	.417	1.545
2.	Rickie Weeks*	MIL	2B	9	1	2	4	.423	1.146
3.	Torri Hunter*	LAA	OF	8	1	6	1	.536	1.281
4.	Chase Headley	SD	3B	3	2	12	1	.407	1.096
5.	Josh Donaldson*	OAK	C/3B	5	4	8	1	.304	1.277
6.	Delmon Young*	DET	OF	5	3	10	0	.385	1.314
7.	Bryce Harper	WAS	OF	7	3	8	0	.333	1.042
8.	Chris Heisey*	CIN	OF	6	2	6	1	.500	1.500
9.	Ryan Braun	MIL	OF	5	2	6	2	.379	1.128
10.	Carlos Gomez*	MIL	OF	6	2	6	3	.261	.901
11.	Chris Carter*	OAK	1B	6	3	6	0	.421	1.429
12.	David Murphy*	TEX	OF	6	2	5	0	.524	1.535
13.	Mark Reynolds*	BAL	1B/3B	6	4	7	0	.280	1.200
14.	Martin Prado	ATL	2/3/OF	4	2	6	2	.375	1.093
15.	Josh Reddick	OAK	OF	5	2	10	0	.355	.977
16.	B.J. Upton	TB	OF	5	2	4	3	.308	.910
17.	Coco Crisp*	OAK	OF	7	2	2	3	.280	1.078
18.	Brandon Moss*	OAK	1B/OF	6	2	7	0	.412	1.326
19.	Jimmy Rollins	PHI	SS	5	2	5	2	.310	.996
20.	Garrett Jones	PIT	1B/OF	6	2	4	0	.455	1.318
21.	Cliff Pennington*	OAK	2B/SS	5	1	3	2	.444	1.111
22.	George Kottaras*	OAK	C	4	2	8	0	.444	1.722
23.	Adrian Beltre	TEX	3B	5	3	4	0	.375	1.275
24.	John Mayberry*	PHI	1B/OF	5	2	5	0	.393	1.148
25.	Angel Pagan*	SF	OF	8	1	4	2	.258	.859

* - less than 70% owned in Yahoo! leagues

Oakland A's

Of the top 25 hitters of last week, seven of them were Oakland Athletics. This means that seven of the nine hitters in the batting order landed on this Top 25 list and Josh Reddick is the only one owned by more than 70 percent of leagues. So which ones should you add? Chris Carter at first is a must-add for anyone who needs some pop in their line-up. He has 14 homers in 166 at-bats this season. Coco Crisp is No. 2 on the must-add list with his roto friendly stat line (55 R, 10 HR, 39 RBI, 31 SB in 383 at-bats). The sneaky add would be "C-1B" Josh Donaldson. He has been on a major kick of late and as a catcher, brings major value to most line-ups. He might also be the one most likely to cool off. Proceed with caution.

Top 20 fantasy Starting Pitchers of last two weeks:

	Name	Team	IP	W	K	ERA	WHIP
1.	Kris Medlen	ATL	24.0	3	28	0.00	0.75
2.	Max Scherzer	DET	22.0	3	26	0.82	0.82
3.	Brett Anderson*	OAK	20.0	3	15	0.90	0.70
4.	Marco Estrada*	MIL	18.0	2	27	0.50	0.94
5.	Hisashi Iwakuma*	SEA	19.0	2	16	0.47	1.00
6.	James Shields	TB	22.0	2	20	2.78	0.84
7.	Bronson Arroyo*	CIN	20.0	2	9	2.25	0.65
8.	Eric Stults*	SD	13.0	2	9	0.00	0.85
9.	R.A. Dickey	NYM	16.0	2	9	0.56	0.88
10.	Cliff Lee	PHI	20.2	2	19	1.31	1.11
11.	Yu Darvish	TEX	14.0	2	16	1.96	0.86
12.	Zach Britton*	BAL	14.2	2	16	1.84	0.89
13.	Felix Hernandez	SEA	24.0	2	17	1.88	1.04
14.	Zack Greinke	LAA	14.2	2	12	1.84	0.95
15.	Jhoulys Chasin*	COL	18.0	2	9	1.50	1.00
16.	Chris Tillman*	BAL	16.2	2	14	2.70	0.96
17.	Ryan Dempster	TEX	12.0	2	14	1.50	1.25
18.	Miguel Gonzalez*	BAL	7.0	1	9	0.00	0.71
19.	Edwin Jackson*	WAS	14.0	1	18	1.93	1.07
20.	Gio Gonzalez	WAS	15.0	1	15	1.80	1.00

* - less than 70% owned in Yahoo! leagues

Top 5 Spot Starts for the Week (Mon. - Sun.):

1. Brett Anderson, OAK: at Sea (Sat.) 54% owned
The former ace of the staff is finally back on the mound after two years of injuries and he has been effective. He has allowed two earnies in 20.0 innings with 15 strikeouts and only three walks.

2. Jeff Samardzjia, CHC: at Pit (Sat.) 52% owned
The Shark has been downright nasty of late. He has 41 strikeouts in his last five starts (33.0 IP) and has allowed two or fewer earned runs in four of those five starts.

3. Ross Detwiler, WAS: Mia (Sat.) 36% owned
Since returning to the rotation at the end of June, Detwiler has been strong by not allowed more than four runs in any start since. He tossed seven scoreless innings for his third win in four starts on Monday.

4. Tommy Milone, OAK: at Sea (Sun.) 44% owned
The soft tosser got hit around a bit by the Angels on Labor Day but he should bounce back against the Mariners this weekend. He had two awesome starts before Monday and has been lights out against Seattle.

5. Patrick Corbin, ARI: at SD (Sun.) 10% owned
This one is a bit of a flier but the match-up feels right and Corbin has provided big strikeout numbers all year long. Take the risk against the Padres this weekend.

Top 20 fantasy Relief Pitchers of last month:

	Name	Team	IP	W	SV	K	HLD	ERA	WHIP
1.	Greg Holland*	KC	13.1	2	9	15	0	0.68	1.05
2.	Jim Johnson	BAL	10.2	0	10	9	0	0.00	0.38
3.	Aroldis Chapman	CIN	11.1	1	9	15	0	0.79	0.71
4.	Jason Motte	STL	13.0	0	10	18	0	2.77	0.85
5.	Joe Nathan	TEX	9.0	0	7	14	0	0.00	0.56
6.	Fernando Rodney	TB	12.2	0	9	12	0	0.71	0.95
7.	Rafael Soriano	NYY	12.2	0	9	14	0	2.13	0.79
8.	Sergio Romo	SF	10.0	1	4	11	6	0.90	0.50
9.	Jonathan Papelbon	PHI	12.2	1	7	14	0	2.84	0.87
10.	Ernesto Frieri	LAA	9.1	2	4	14	0	2.89	0.64
11.	Grant Balfour	OAK	9.1	0	8	11	0	2.89	0.54
12.	Tyler Clippard	WAS	11.0	0	8	11	0	1.64	0.91
13.	Jake McGee*	TB	8.2	2	0	9	2	0.00	0.35
14.	Glen Perkins*	MIN	10.0	0	4	8	0	0.00	0.50
15.	Rafael Betancourt	COL	11.0	0	10	5	0	1.64	1.18
16.	Casey Janssen*	TOR	11.0	0	6	12	0	2.45	0.73
17.	Wilton Lopez*	HOU	13.2	3	1	14	0	2.63	1.02
18.	J.J. Putz	ARI	12.0	0	8	16	0	2.25	1.25
19.	Ryan Cook*	OAK	10.0	2	2	15	2	1.80	1.00
20.	Luke Gregerson*	SD	13.0	0	3	12	8	1.38	0.69