It's very likely that there’s a player with a .359 career on-base percentage and .457 slugging percentage readily available on your fantasy league’s waiver wire. This player has logged 1,713 plate appearances, with 67 home runs (25.4 homers per 650 plate appearances) and 231 RBI (87.7 RBI/650 PA).
This year, he is slashing .333/.333/.667 (177 wRC+), yet is still available in 95% of all Yahoo leagues.
This player is Since Lind entered the league in 2006, no one in baseball has a bigger difference between his batting average against righties and overall batting average than Lind’s 0.19 (among players with at least 2,000 PAs). Lind is also tied for the fifth-largest gap in both overall OBP and OBP vs. righties and has the fifth largest gap between overall slugging and slugging against righties during this time.
In 2015, Lind has actually posted a reverse platoon split (139 wRC+ against lefties and 116 WRC+ vs. righties), but has just 10 plate appearances against same-sided pitching, and a .375 BABIP against lefties despite just a 12.5% line drive rate.
And even if there wasn’t BABIP luck involved, it’s probably not a good idea to trust a 10 plate appearance sample when there are almost 900 plate appearances saying the opposite thing.
Rajai Davis
Available in 59% of Yahoo league
Career 120 wRC+ against lefties
Like Ike Davis and Lind, as I’ve written before.
Davis has a lifetime slash line of .304/.359/.448 in 1,057 plate appearances against lefties, while he has hit just .254/.297/.348 against righties.
Unlike Ike, Rajai’s walk rate does not rise to a particularly special level with the platoon advantage (jumping from 4.7% against righties to 7.5% against lefties), but he does hit the ball harder.
His line drive rate against lefties is 22.6% (a 5.0% increase from his percentage against righties), while his ISO jumps from .094 to .144, according to FanGraphs.
As an added bonus, the .062 increase in OBP means Davis will be on base more (duh!), and will have more opportunities to steal bases.
This is especially big for a player with a 79.3% stolen base success rate (307 steals on 387 attempts), which is the 23rd-best rate among players with at least 300 steals (since at least 1951, the earliest year Baseball-Reference has complete caught stealing totals).
We have Davis, who is in a real-world platoon with Anthony Gose, projected to steal 27 bases for the rest of this season, which is tied for ninth-most in the Majors.