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5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 5/14/18

Jason Schandl  —  @JasonSchandl May 14th, 2018
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Alex Avila, C, Arizona Diamondbacks

Price: $2,000

Unlike Peralta, Alex Avila has not been producing well at all in 2018. His .218 wOBA is egregious, and his .087 ISO shows an absolute lack of power.

That's over only an 80-plate-appearance sample, though -- with an even smaller 65 of those coming against righties, a split in which he does his best work.

If we expand our view back to 2017, increasing the sample to 397 plate appearances, Avila has made some silly-good contact against righties. He has a 53.1% hard-hit rate and 35.9% fly-ball rate with only a 6.3% soft-hit rate in that span. This still hasn't translated to monstrous production, but his .352 wOBA and .190 ISO in that stretch are both strong marks for a guy priced all the way down at the minimum.

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