Chris Davis strikes out 38 percent of the time, but his .329 on-base percentage is ranked fourth among Orioles every day hitters.
After the Chicago rivals went eleven seasons without making a trade, the Cubs traded Eloy Jimenez, Dylan Cease and Matt Rose to the White Sox for Jose Quintana. Read all about that here
Carlos Gonzalez enters the second half with six home runs and 22 RBI and was moved down to seventh in the order last week
Teams
In honor of the Red Sox Yankees series that starts tonight at Fenway Park, it will be Drew Pomeranz up against, wait who is pitching for the Yankees? 
The Diamondbacks are hitting just .225 against lefties this season, second-worst in the league.
The Orioles starting rotation has a 5.75 ERA, second worst in the major leagues and highest in the American League
Nearly every player in the Indians’ lineup enjoyed a career year last season. Jose Ramirez and Lonnie Chisenhall are the only two Indians doing it this season
The Rockies batters have a hard hit percentage of 29.5.
The Cubs Can’t Get Away From .500
The Cubs have inquired about Daniel Norris and Michael Fulmer, as well as Justin Verlander.
Angels relievers rank seventh in baseball with a 3.79 ERA and they are the only team in the majors who has won each time they get the lead by three runs
Rays batters struck out 874 times, the most in baseball but as a team but they are hitting more home runs and scoring more runs than they have in years. Are the Rays proving that the strikeout isn’t so bad?
The Nationals head into the second half:
- leading the NL in OPS
- Lead the majors in Runs
They also enter the second half with a slew of holes:
- Jayson Werth has not played since June 3
- Trea Turner is two weeks into two-months injured, at least
- Adam Eaton is out for the season
- Michael Taylor is out with an oblique strain
- Sammy Solis has elbow problems, out
- Shawn Kelley has a hurt neck
- Koda Glover is dealing with both back and shoulder issues.
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