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

Kenyatta Storin  —  @KenyattaStorin May 8th, 2017
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Jose Bautista, OF, Toronto Blue Jays

FanDuel Price: $3,600

It's been a while since I checked in on Jose Bautista in this space. Unfortunately, things haven't exactly improved.

We're over a month into the season, and Bautista is still striking out 30.4% of the time, and has just two home runs with a .087 isolated power (ISO).

Trevor Bauer and his 7.67 ERA might appear like a nice elixir for what ails him, but Bauer's SIERA is 3.86 and he has a 25.6% strikeout rate. A scary 41.0% hard-hit rate is still appealing, but Bautista hasn't exactly shown he's crushing mistakes with his poor power output, and his own 28.0% hard-hit rate.

Still, he does have a 5.3% home-run-to-fly-ball rate (HR/FB), well below his 16.4% career rate, so there's some hope for positive regression.

But even if this is just some prolonged slump, there's no buy-low value at his price point. He remains a guy to avoid, at least until his price drops.

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