Fantasy baseball is a marathon, not a sprint. Unlike other fantasy sports, the season is long and drags as the weeks roll on. However, because it is such a grind, fantasy managers can lose focus on what’s important, allowing astute fantasy managers to take advantage.
We are very early in the season when people will make bad decisions in terms of trades because of the small samples. Hot streaks and cold streaks can scare your competition. Sometimes underlying numbers aren’t showing up in the surface numbers quite yet. If someone in your league is ready to overreact, take advantage of their impatience. Here are some players I would try and buy low and sell high on at this point in the season. Use our fantasy baseball trade analyzer to help with values.
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Buy Low
Willson Contreras (C, DH – STL)
Willson Contreras started the season 0-20, and his fantasy managers are going a bit crazy. This is an early-season slump no one would notice if it happened in the summer. Contreras is a catcher-eligible asset and is playing every day. He will be fine, but if someone in your league is freaking out, take any discount you can get in fantasy baseball trades.
Francisco Lindor has started the season slow, but he is another guy I am not concerned about at all. He just had a baby, and that can always throw you for a bit. He was one stolen base away last season from having a second straight 30/30 season and is now hitting in front of Juan Soto. If someone wants to sell him, you should buy.
Bailey Ober was terrible in his first start, but news came out the next day that he had been battling the flu for a few days and attempted to pitch through it. Ober also struggled in his first start of the year last season and was great after that. The buy-low point won’t last long.
Jackson Chourio has been dreadful to start the season, but so have a lot of the Brewers. He is young and will have ups and downs, but this is still a future first-round fantasy player. Don’t be afraid to check in with the manager rostering him in your league to see if there is any discount on the Opening Day price.
Sell High
Wilyer Abreu has started the season hitting .636/.750/1.364 with two home runs in 16 plate appearances. This is amazing after he missed a lot of spring training with an illness. However, he is still a platoon hitter and will sit against lefties.
Abreu is the most likely candidate to lose playing time when top prospect Roman Anthony is ready. If you can get something of value before Abreu cools down, do it in a heartbeat.
Tyler O’Neill has been absolutely on fire to start the season, hitting .571/.588/.857 with a home run in his first 17 plate appearances. O’Neill will play every day in Baltimore. The talent is there for him to have a massive season, but he almost always starts strong at the beginning of the season and then gets hurt or struggles.
O’Neill has a six-season streak of Opening Day home runs going, which is insane. As much as I love his talent, he always seems to disappoint in the long run.
Wilmer Flores has been on an amazing tear to start the season, hitting four home runs in his first 24 plate appearances. Flores is a good bench bat in real life, but he is a bad defender, which costs him playing time and plate appearances.
You love this early-season power output, but he was in good hitters’ parks for righties. Now he will go home and struggle. Sell for whatever you can get before he comes back down to Earth.
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