Congratulations to World Cup champs Spain, who won one of the more exhausting-to-watch matches I can remember in any sport. Now back to baseball…BuyWilliam Contreras, C, MILI’ve been a big Contreras booster, and his brother’s not too shabby either. The Brewers’ backstop was a massive value two seasons ago but hasn’t been the same since. Last year, he played through a fractured finger, and this year he seems to have tinkered with his approach with uneven results. He has brought up his launch angle, which has led to fewer grounders and more flies, while also cutting his swinging-strike rate. So, why isn’t he having a monster season? He isn’t hitting the ball quite as hard, and his homer-per-fly-ball rate has dropped down to 7.8%, which is just over half his career rate. However, his bat speed is unchanged, and some of the power issues we see on the stat page would evaporate if a few of his doubles off the wall had cleared the fence. I’m optimistic that he can put the pieces together for a strong finish.Manny Machado, 3B, SDPMachado spent the first half of the year looking like he had gotten old fast, but for the past month, he has gotten back to his regular self. It’s not just that his slash line of .263/.394/.553 since June 22 looks much more Manny-like, his barrel rate of 13.6% in that stretch provides good backup for those numbers. He’s been vague about whether he was playing through injury, but that seems likely given the polarized nature of his season. He will presumably cool off a little, but the recent version of Machado is much closer to the real one.Nico Hoerner, 2B, CHCI was a little down on Hoerner relative to the market prior to the season, mostly because I have a hard time spending a high pick on a hitter with no power. He generally gives you enough batting average and steals to make up for it, but this season the batting average has plummeted to the .240s, and the steals are a little off his regular pace. The good news is that his .258 BABIP looks unlucky, and Statcast thinks his batting average should be a more Hoerner-like .289. So he’s a buy, but there are a couple of caveats. One is that he now hits sixth in the batting order on most days after spending the first part of the year leading off, which will cost him some plate appearances and runs. The other is that his bat has been all the more noodle-like this season, with both his average and max exit velocity down a bit. You’re not rostering him for power, but you do need to get the ball past the infielders to get a hit, most of the time, and I wonder about his long-term viability if he can’t make better contact. The batting average and overall production should be better rest of season, but I’d sell in dynasty if you can get decent value.