It is time now to turn our attention to the sports phenomenon that brings together people from every continent, focusing our species on a single tournament in a way that perhaps nothing else can: your fantasy baseball league.BuyZack Gelof, 2B/3B/OF, ATHI’m picturing myself in a month saying something like, “Gelof? I guess I wrote him up at some point. I’m assuming I said ‘sell,’ based on that one hot streak he had.” The .276 average will come down — I think Gelof gets altitude sickness if he spends too much time up there — but I do see some combo of process changes and skill improvement that has me buying in for now. Gelof has power and speed, his problem has been getting the bat to touch the ball. Over the 2024 and 2025 seasons, he played 168 games and ran a 36.1% K rate, backed up by a 18.2% swinging-strike rate. He completely “earned” his .205 average during that stretch.This year, he’s swinging less and letting the ball travel a bit more, as evidenced by his Pull% dropping from 46.8 prior to this year down to a just-above-average 42.6. In fact, this year’s Gelof looks pretty average in his contact and swing stats, and with his tools, that will lead to good results. It’s unlikely he keeps all of these improvements — hitters rarely get this much better this quickly — but he’s still just 26 years old and has the equivalent of about two MLB seasons under his belt. I’m in at the price.Curtis Mead, 1B/3B, WASI debated which category to put Mead in for a while, because usually when a guy who started the year as a part-time player suddenly goes bananas, the smart money is on it just being a blip you won’t notice in the year-end stats. But I’m having a hard time poking a hole in what Mead is doing. He is being very selective, rarely missing, and hitting for real power. His 11% barrel rate looks sustainable, and Statcast says his average should actually be in the .260s. instead of his current .234 mark. He may have to negotiate some adjustments to how pitchers approach him, and one part of my brain is still skeptical here, but another part sees a once-touted prospect finally getting some runway.Bubba Chandler, SP, PITI’m going risky on the buys today, apparently. Chandler has excellent stuff and mediocre results. The strikeout rate sits at a disappointing 22.6% and the walk rate is too high at 13.6%. The high-4s ERA looks deserved. Over his past five starts, however, the upside has showed itself. In that stretch, his Stuff+ and Location+ have ticked up to 107 and 109, respectively, and he’s rocking a 28.6% K rate alongside an 8.9% walk rate. That’s a lot closer to the guy we were supposed to get, given the top-notch prospect pedigree. Get in now, because if he can sustain this, the price is going way up.