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Let's dive into everything baseball related from Sunday, April 13th.

We'll start things off as always with the transactions, injuries, news, and notes from around the league,

kicking things off with the bad news. As second baseman, Tyler Freeman, was placed on the 10-day

IL with a left oblique strain. That news isn't super consequential as he wasn't rostered in a lot of leagues,

but the corresponding move as second baseman Adiel Amador was recalled from the miners is

somewhat consequential. He's the number seven Colorado prospect, according to MLB pipeline. His

prospect stars fallen as his contact skills declined last year. Amador batted just 230 with 14

homers and 35 steals with a 111

WRC plus at AAA and his MLB debut was pretty underwhelming as well, though it was just a 10-game

sample. Amador, though at AAA this year has been unreal in the contact department. A 16% walk

rate to a 8% strikeout rate at AAA for Adela Amador is unreal.

And if he could carry over those contact skills to the majors, he's going to be a huge boon,

at least in the contact and speed department.

But playing in cores, Amador could display more power, could display higher average ceiling.

But the real question is, is he going to get the

playing time? Kyle Farmer looks to be blocking him at second base. Amador played at second in his

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