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ATL • Outfielder • #23
5 days ago
Harris returns to Atlanta’s lineup after coming off the bench to deliver a go-ahead two-run double during Friday’s contest. The 25-year-old center fielder has been dealing with a lingering quad issue recently, but it doesn’t appear to be a serious concern.
Source: MLB.com
ATL • Outfielder • #23
5 days ago
Braves manager Walt Weiss summoned Harris, who was scratched from Friday’s lineup with left quad tightness, to face Phillies starter Andrew Painter in the sixth inning, and he delivered with a clutch extra-base hit off the base of the left-field wall. The 25-year-old center fielder should remain available off the bench this weekend, even if he’s held out of the starting lineup again.
Source: MLB.com
ATL • Outfielder • #23
6 days ago
The Braves had been hopeful that Harris could return on Friday after making an early exit on Thursday due to tightness in his left quad, but after testing it out pregame they opted to err on the side of caution. Braves’ manager Walt Weiss told reporters that it’s a day-to-day type of situation and they don’t anticipate the 25-year-old outfielder to require a stint on the injured list.
Source: Grant McAuley
ATL • Outfielder • #23
6 days ago
Harris left Thursday’s game with a quad injury, but it doesn’t appear like it’s a serious issue at the moment. He’s good to go in leagues with day-to-day transactions, and with how Harris has played this year, fantasy managers relying on him have to be breathing a sigh of relief that this wasn’t anything more serious.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
6 days ago
The 25-year-old outfielder was removed from Thursday’s game due to left quad tightness. It appears to be only a minor issue though. Fantasy managers should check back on Friday to make sure, but it sounds like Harris dodged a bullet here.
Source: Mark Bowman
ATL • Outfielder • #23
7 days ago
Not good. Harris was pulled in the top of the eighth after going 3-for-4 with two RBIs against the Nationals bullpen. We expect to hear more about this in the next 24 hours, but we wouldn’t be surprised if this led to a stint on the injured list. Harris was hitting .318/.356/.565 in what has been a major bounceback season for both him and the Braves, with six homers and two stolen bases in his first 24 games.
Source: Grant McAuley
ATL • Outfielder • #23
7 days ago
Harris didn’t have any luck while boasting strong exit velocity numbers the first couple of weeks, but he’s been on fire since returning from paternity leave, going 12-for-30 with four homers in nine games. That his approach still is far from great will likely cause him to remain streaky going forward, but he has a realistic chance of finishing as a top-10 fantasy outfielder this year.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
9 days ago
Harris hit fifth once previously, but all of his other starts were in the bottom three spots. It seems, however, that this move up the order might be full-time change against righties, as Mike Yastrzemski, who had been hitting sixth, was dropped to ninth today. Harris has definitely earned the bump, based on how he’s looked this season, and while he didn’t have a big game tonight, he did do something impressive; his 114.9-mph groundout in the first was the hardest-hit ball of his career. He previously peaked at 114.7 mph in 2024.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
10 days ago
Harris has been hitting the ball hard since day one this season, but he wasn’t getting results before his trip to the paternity list on Apr. 11. Since returning Monday, he’s 8-for-18 with two homers and three walks, pushing up to .290/.338/.478 for the season. Statcast thinks he should be slugging up over .600, given his career-best exit velocity numbers. His hard-hit rate is 54 percent.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
12 days ago
White, who has been battling plantar fasciitis recently, draws his first start since April 7 with Michael Harris II on the bench against Phillies ace Cristopher Sánchez.
Source: MLB.com
ATL • Outfielder • #23
16 days ago
Harris missed a pair of games over the weekend while away from the club on paternity leave. The 25-year-old is back in center field and hitting eighth on Monday night against the Marlins.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
19 days ago
Harris will be away from the club to be with his family on paternity leave for the next couple days. It’ll likely be Eli White and Mauricio Dubón handling center field in his absence.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
22 days ago
Harris takes a seat for the first time this season after hitting .209 (9-for-43) with one homer across 11 games to open the season. Eli White is patrolling center field and facing Angels lefty Yusei Kikuchi in this one.
Source: MLB.com
ATL • Outfielder • #23
about 1 month ago
Harris had a 111-mph leadoff single with the Braves down 2-0 in the eighth, only to let the team down by getting picked off afterwards. Fortunately, he made up for it an inning later, though his rocket groundball up the middle might well have been a game-ending double play if it hadn’t caught Carlos Estévez in the leg and bounced high in the air for a single. Harris, who hit seventh versus Michael Wacha tonight after batting ninth against a lefty in the opener, is 4-for-8 with a homer and three RBI through two games.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
about 1 month ago
Harris did strike out once, but he has five strikeouts and four walks in 35 plate appearances this spring, which is fine. The 25-year-old has also swung outside of the zone only 27 percent of the time this spring. It’s a tremendously small sample size, but his career rate is 40 percent, so it’s a pretty stark contrast. If he is even able to carry over half of those gains, we may finally see the production he displayed in 2022 carried out over a complete season.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
about 2 months ago
Today’s doubles won’t count in the statistics, but Harris has now put nine balls into play this spring at an average of 99 mph. He’s also struck out just once and walked three times, and even if the quality of pitching he’s faced isn’t great, that’s still nice to see from a guy who had a 128/16 K/BB last season.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
7 months ago
It’s Harris’s first 20/20 season, as he stole four bases the previous three games to reach the 20 mark there. Harris previously came very close as a rookie (19 HR, 20 SB in 114 games) in 2022 and as a sophomore (18 HR, 20 SB in 138 games) the following year. That he got there this season was largely a function of him being able to play in 158 games. He’s 29th in the NL with 635 plate appearances, even though he’s mostly hit in the bottom half of the Braves order.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
7 months ago
The dynamic 24-year-old outfielder clobbered a 444-foot (107.8 mph EV) solo shot off of Brad Lord in the fifth inning, evening the score at 1-1. He then socked a 416-foot (108.8 mph EV) dinger off of Konnor Pilkington in the seventh inning that made it a 3-1 ballgame. While he has finished the season strong, he’s still slashing an underwhelming .246/.266/.404 on the season to go with 19 homers, 85 RBI and 19 stolen bases.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
7 months ago
Harris kicked off an impressive three-hit performance with a 109-mph line-drive to right field that brought home Ha-Seong Kim from second base in the second inning. He scorched a run-scoring single as part of Atlanta’s five-run outburst in the ensuing frame. He wasn’t done yet as he drove in another run on a fielder’s choice in the fourth before adding a sixth-inning single. The three steals matched his previous career-high mark set back on July 16, 2022 during his stellar rookie campaign. It also puts him one theft shy of reaching the 20-steal threshold for the third time in the last four seasons.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
8 months ago
Harris changed his batting stance right before the All-Star break, raising his hands so that he could fix his bat path to the ball. The results were immediate as Harris led baseball in batting average (.426), OPS (1.214), and hits (46), among other categories, from July 22nd through August 18th. However, Harris is now 11-for-86 in his last 23 games and is back among the bottom five MLB-qualified hitters in OPS. Batting stance adjustments usually take time to fully click in, so this should have been our expectation. He’s too talented to fully give up on in fantasy leagues for 2026.
Source: The Athletic
ATL • Outfielder • #23
8 months ago
Harris had a pair of hits that scored multiple runs; a two-run single in the third and a two-run double in the fifth. The 24-year-old outfielder has looked the part after a borderline disastrous start to the season, and he’s now slashing .252/.273/.415. That’s more impressive when you consider he was hitting .213/.239/.326 at the start of July.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
8 months ago
Harris lost his streak of multihit games at eight when he went 1-for-5 on Sunday, but this makes him 22-for-43 with five homers in his last 10 games. His OPS stood at ,550 on this day one month ago, and the Braves would have been totally justified in sending him to Triple-A. Now, he’s all of the way up to .706.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
9 months ago
His other hit was a double. The homer was projected at 452 feet, one foot shy of his career-long blast from 2023. It’s Harris’s eight straight multihit game. He’s 17-for-34 with four homers and 13 RBI during the streak, which has raised his OPS from .630 to .690. Harris is the first player this year to have eight straight multihit games. Luis Arraez and Jonathan India did last year. Xander Bogaerts, in 2022, was the last player to make it to nine games.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
9 months ago
It’s impossible to get Harris out at the moment. This was his seventh straight multi-hit game and he’s raised his batting average by nearly 20 points over that span, which is borderline impossible this late in the season. He needs to be rostered in every league while he’s this red-hot.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
9 months ago
After falling behind six runs through the first two innings, Harris’ grand slam capped off a nine-run fourth inning and unlikely comeback by the Braves. His fourth homer in a week, Harris is white-hot at the moment with a .991 OPS over his last 30 games. Congratulations to everyone who held through a disastrous first three months of the season. An even bigger congratulations to anyone who scooped him off their waiver wire recently after a frustrated manager had lost confidence.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
9 months ago
Harris extended Atlanta’s lead to a commanding six-run margin with a seventh-inning blast to right-center field that traveled 409 feet. The 24-year-old outfielder recorded a pair of extra-base hits with exit velocities over 104 mph in this one as his sizzling-hot second half continues. He’s batting a sublime .377 (23-for-61) with four big flies and eight RBI over his last 15 games.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
9 months ago
As the walls cave in around this Braves team, Harris has finally caught fire. This home run gave him four over his last 30 games with an .842 OPS over the same span. He was always due for a hot streak despite his disastrous first few months of the season and it’s happening right now.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
9 months ago
The reigning National League Player of the Week has started to heat up at the dish recently, hitting .462 (12-for-26) with two homers over his last seven games. The 24-year-old will get a chance to face ageless southpaw Rich Hill on Monday night at Kauffman Stadium as it appears Atlanta is done platooning him against left-handed starters.
Source: MLB.com
ATL • Outfielder • #23
9 months ago
Harris had his best offensive day at the plate on Saturday, going a perfect 4-for-4 while falling a single short of the cycle. Instead, he slugged a solo homer off Jon Gray in the sixth inning and tripled twice in the game, scoring three times and driving in two runs. The 24-year-old outfielder is hitting .225/.250/.361 with nine homers, 28 runs scored, 49 RBI, and 12 steals across 400 plate appearances.
ATL • Outfielder • #23
9 months ago
Harris’ home run was his eighth of the year. He hit a solo shot off Jacob Latz in the seventh inning. While Harris received enough preseason hype to move him into the third round of drafts, he’s hit just .217 with a .574 OPS this year, making him one of the biggest busts in all of fantasy.