BATTERS: Early buy low targets, 2019
May 20 2019
Hitters that have not posted a good batting average nor produced many home runs in the early-going can be easy to view as guys to avoid. After all, we want to accumulate as few bad or empty stats as possible while the season is still young.
Bats with optimistic indicators like expected batting average (xBA) and expected power (xPX) often can represent good buy low targets.
These bats have a BA that is much lower than their expected BA (xBA):
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BA vs. xBA, 2019 YTD* Name League Position BPV BA xBA Diff ================== ====== =========== === ==== ==== ===== Mullins II, Cedric AL CF -10 .094 .188 -.094 Solarte, Yangervis NL 3B/2B 3 .205 .289 -.084 D'Arnaud, Travis ...
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