BATTERS: Early buy-low targets, May 2017

Hitters that have not posted a good batting average or 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.

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

• BA vs. xBA, 2017 YTD*
  
  Name                League  Position     BA    xBA   Diff
  ==================  ======  ===========  ====  ====  =====
  Martin, Leonys          AL           CF  .111  .195  -.084
  D'Arnaud, Travis        NL            C  .203  .284  -.081
  Hernandez, Enrique      NL     LF/SS/3B  .237  .317  -.080
  Iglesias, Jose          AL           SS  .207  .285  -.078
  McCann, James           AL            C  .196  .262  -.066
  Jaso,...

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