BATTERS: Early buy low targets, 2018

Batters that have not produced a good batting average or much power in the early-going can be easy to view as guys to avoid or shop. After all, we want to accumulate as few bad or empty stats as possible while the season is still young.

That said, many of these slow-starters can be considered good buy-low targets if their underlying skills suggest reasons for improvement.

These bats have a BA that is much lower than their expected BA (xBA):

• BA vs. xBA, 2018 YTD*
  
  Name                League  Position     BPV  BA    xBA   Diff
  ==================  ======  ===========  ===  ====  ====  =====
  Reyes, Victor           AL           DH  -84  .097  .218  -.121
  Sogard, Eric            NL        2B/SS  -32  .100  .218  -.118
  Perez, Carlos       ...

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