4 Daily Fantasy Baseball Players to Avoid on 5/8/17

Billy Hamilton, OF, Cincinnati Reds

FanDuel Price: $4,000

It's a lot of fun when Billy Hamilton gets on a roll like this, and you quickly forget all his flaws as a baseball player. Over the past seven days, Hamilton has swiped nine bags and has scored double-digit FanDuel points in every game, including a 52.8-point doozy.

He only hit one home run during that span, and it's a reminder that speed can still provide the same upside as home runs, especially when you're the hands-down fastest player in the league.

But his price has absolutely skyrocketed during this hot stretch. His salary was as low as $3,100 last week, and now it's the same as Trea Turner and Manny Machado.

He also benefited from matchups against pitchers who struggle to hold runners, like Gerrit Cole, Tyler Glasnow and Matt Cain, which were all games where he stolen multiple bags. On the other hand, tonight's opponent, Masahiro Tanaka, has only given up 15 stolen bases across his career. The Reds' implied team total is a modest 3.94.

This might be as good a time as any to jump off the Hamilton train until he gets another juicy matchup, and the salary drops to a more reasonable level.