Troy Tulowitzki has always either been highly productive or hurt, so naturally, he’s been healthy this season and not hitting (although he's been dealing with a yet another leg injury of late, to be fair). But Tulow owns a 29:2 K:BB ratio, which is terrible for any hitter and is downright reprehensible for someone who plays half his games in Coors Field. Among fantasy shortstops who've played at least 25 games this season, he ranks No. 26 on a per-game basis. There's no where for his value to go but up, but Tulowitzki has been a major disappointment so far for different reasons than usual. His current 1.7 BB% is a career low, while his 24.2 K% and 11.5 SwStr% marks are career highs (the latter by a wide margin, with his career mark being 6.7%), and his defense has also graded as worse than ever. Let's hope he's just dealing with an injury that he'll soon recover from, because these signs are pretty discouraging for the soon to be 31-year-old who may very well be traded away from Coors Field in the near future.

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The Dodgers have a team wRC+ of 127, which is historically good (and put into perspective here). They also massively upgraded their defense compared to last year’s team, which both scares me badly as a Giants fan and frustrates me as a Clayton Kershaw owner in multiple leagues considering he somehow has just two wins despite these facts (not to mention a bullpen that has a top-five ERA in MLB that’s just now getting back Kenley Jansen, and that offense is doing so well with Yasiel Puig missing 26 games already). Jimmy Rollins is hitting .200/.278./.356 while underperforming in a big way, and this team has the deepest bench in baseball. Moreover, Mike Bolsinger and Carlos Frias own a combined 2.00 ERA with a 30:10 K:BB ratio over 36.0 innings, and yet they are frequently priced among the bottom starting pitchers on FanDuel, if you’re into DFS. Anything can happen in baseball in the postseason, but the Dodgers sure look like the favorites to win it all, even with Hyun-Jin Ryu unlikely to contribute this year.

This final appearance by Norm Macdonald on “The Late Show” is a must watch.

This seems like as good a time as any to bring up Macdonald’s famous “moth joke.”

Joe Mauer sports a .344 OBP and has hit third in the lineup all year yet is on pace to score just 56 runs. It would help if he hit himself in every once in a while, as he has zero homers on the year. After smacking 28 home runs over 523 at-bats in 2009, Mauer has totaled 37 over 2,396 ABs since, and this was with him moving off the taxing catcher position the last couple of years. And while Target Field suppresses power for left-handed batters, it’s helped LHH batting average and has increased run scoring overall by six percent over the past three seasons, which ranks top-five in the American League, so it’s hard to come up with excuses for Mauer’s lack of production. His current BB% (8.9) is a career low while his K% (17.8) is his second worst mark ever, with last year’s the only higher. Mauer is barely approaching 50% ownership in Yahoo leagues, so I understand this isn’t especially revelatory, but it really is crazy just how irrelevant he’s become at age 32 for one of the best prospects of his generation, with injuries seemingly not to blame.

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Quick Hits: Miguel Cabrera has hit nine homers with 26 RBI and a 1.427 OPS during day games compared to one home run, three RBI and a .575 OPS at night. This of course means nothing moving forward, but it is rather crazy...It’s a good thing the Indians’ top-four starting pitchers have a collective 10.8 K/9 rate, since their defense is so bad, having allowed a .340 BABIP that’s 10 points higher than the next worst in baseball...I own Starling Marte in my home league, so I’m pulling for him, but he has eight homers over 135 ABs after setting a career high of 13 last year over 495 at-bats despite a 2.43 GB/FB ratio. In other words, he’s hitting more bombs than ever despite hitting as many groundballs versus fly balls as around 15 other hitters in baseball. Put differently, his .429/.455/1.048 line against southpaws is probably unsustainable...Here’s Giancarlo Stanton hitting a ball out of Dodgers Stadium...James Shields leads the NL with a 13.8 SwStr% yet has allowed five homers over 18.1 innings at PETCO Park.