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3 Daily Fantasy Baseball Players to Avoid on 7/5/17

Kenyatta Storin  —  @KenyattaStorin Jul 5th, 2017
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Albert Pujols, 1B, Los Angeles Angels

FanDuel Price: $2,700

Albert Pujols has been easy to ignore in DFS for most of 2017, but he hit one out of the park yesterday. His price has dipped low enough to make him potentially intriguing against Ervin Santana.

But as lucky as Santana has been with his .216 BABIP this season, he's held righties to just a 26.3% hard-hit rate and struck them out 22.6% of the time. Santana unraveled a bit in June with a 6.03 ERA, but the Los Angeles Angels still have a modest 4.39 implied team total.

Although he hit 31 bombs in 2016, Pujols hasn't shown the same power this season, with 12 long balls and a .143 isolated power (ISO). Despite the low cost, we don't like to skimp on power at first base, so it's probably best to find your value elsewhere.

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