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4 Daily Fantasy Baseball Players to Avoid on 5/11/17
Pitching is wide open on tonight's FanDuel main slate, but it's still better to pass on Dallas Keuchel. Who else should you avoid in Thursday's MLB DFS contests?

Dallas Keuchel, SP, Houston Astros

FanDuel Price: $10,500

This isn't Dallas Keuchel's first inclusion on this list, and it may not be his last. He's typically a better real-life pitcher than DFS pitcher, but you may be wondering why he still doesn't deserve consideration with pitching so wide open on this slate.

Keuchel certainly has the batted-ball numbers to stifle the New York Yankees, with a 63.0% ground-ball rate and 20.9% hard-hit rate. However, the Yankees are no walk in the park, with a 119 wRC+ against southpaws.

Keuchel isn't the only good pitcher in a tough spot, but his middle-of-the-road 21.1% strikeout rate simply doesn't match up with the other options. For instance, Michael Pineda isn't in a cupcake matchup against Keuchel's Houston Astros either, but he has far more upside with a 31.2% strikeout rate and is $1,900 cheaper.

Without a plus matchup or elite strikeout rate, it's hard to rationalize paying for Keuchel as the most expensive pitcher on the slate.

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