Baseball is a game of up and downs, but for these three guys, recent performances have made them hard to recognize. Leading to the question “Who are you and what have you done with …?” We have seen them play plenty, but nothing like this. They are all doing things very uncharacteristic from what we have seen from them in the past. But what should be made of their recent hot surges?

Mike Zunino is having the best stretch of his career. He has been mashing since a short trip to the AAA at the beginning of May. In his brief 12 game stint in the minors he found his stroke, hitting .293 with five home runs in just 41 AB's. Minor league success was nothing new to Zunino though, a career .288 hitter in the minors, so the success did not garner much excitement in the fantasy world when he got recalled back up with the big league club. However, since his recall, Zunino has been the best catcher in all of baseball. He has hit .338 with nine home runs and 28 RBI. His 26 June RBI are good for tops in all of baseball currently. He still strikes out far too much; making his recent BA spike unsustainable, but the power is real. He has always flashed the ability to hit the long ball; the biggest key for him is to take advantage of pitchers mistakes. Four of his nine home runs have come on hanging off-speed pitches with three of the remaining five coming on belt-high fastballs. Zunino was missing or watching these pitches go by him in the early parts of 2017, which led to his eventual demotion. Fantasy owners can ride the hot streak as long as it lasts and then continue to get power production from the weakest position in fantasy baseball.

Matt Adams the home run hitter? Adams’ career high for a single season home run total is just 17, which makes the 10 he has it in just 28 games for the Braves (since being traded) very impressive. In fact his AB/HR since joining the Braves (11.1) would be good for third best in all of baseball (amongst qualifying hitters). Those kind of power numbers are simply far from sustainable for Adams who has a career AB/HR of 23.6. A trade can often times light a spark into a player, and that appears to be the case for Adams. He should start to see more high pitches in the coming weeks, with just one of his hits and zero of his home runs this season coming on pitches in the upper-third of the strike zone. He is someone to sell-high on, with power production that will regress, and the eventual return of Freddie Freeman.

Lorenzo Cain, much like Adams, is also on a home run barrage.  Cain has never hit more than 16 home runs in a season, but already has 8 in the month of June. Prior to the start of June, Cain had just 2 home runs and a .257 BA across 187 AB's. Cain’s previous career high home run total for a calendar month was 6 (May, 2016). He followed that month with a whopping 0 home runs in the month of June, and hit just 1 home run the rest of the season over 204 AB's. Do not let one big month trick you into thinking that a guy is suddenly a power hitter. He will likely continue to hit for average (as he has the last three seasons) but the power will soon fade. Fantasy owners can hang tight here, as the recent power surge has gotten him back on track and near his original value after the slow start.

While streaks like the ones above can be nice; it is also important to take them for what they are, just hot streaks. A nice stretch of games doesn't make someone Mike Trout, but it can help someone turn their season around and/or largely inflate their value from a fantasy perspective. Some guys who might be starting their own “Who Are You?” streaks over the last eight days include Dexter Fowler (5 HRs and 14 RBI), Keon Broxton (5 HRs and 11 RBI), and Matt Davidson (5 HRs and 9 RBI).