For owners who may have despondent when Astros SS Carlos Correa sustained his torn thumb ligament and had to somehow slog through six weeks of fantasy play without him: holy moly, is he coming up big now that it's crunch time in the playoffs. After a scintillating 4-4, 3 R, HR, 3 RBI, BB line Thursday, this is now back-to-back games with a quartet of hits, preceded by three on Tuesday. He's scoring runs like a madman (17 total in September, including eight in the last five contests) and is now up to 24 homers. Stealing bases is essentially the only thing he hasn't really done for you this year, but everything else is so exceptional that may not even matter. He's going to be in the conversation for future AL MVP awards in years where he stays healthy the whole time. That's another way of saying he should be an obvious tab as a keeper.
Now, let's take a gander at some other hitting happenings around the league:
