4 Daily Fantasy Baseball Players to Avoid on 7/17/17

Xander Bogaerts, SS, Boston Red Sox

FanDuel Price: $3,300

Xander Bogaerts is more reasonably priced these days, but he's still more name value than DFS value.

With just a 29.5% fly-ball rate and 31.3% hard-hit rate, Bogaerts has shown limited power upside, and has only six dingers on the year. Although there's evidence that faster players like Bogaerts can outperform their xwOBA, something he's done in the last two seasons, his paltry .269 mark sure doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence.

And even though the Boston Red Sox have a 4.75 implied team total, Marcus Stroman is a formidable opponent who can limit damage with his elite 60.9% ground-ball rate.

Rather than opting for Bogaerts, you can get someone like Francisco Lindor for slightly cheaper, or punt with Marcus Semien.