Early buy-low targets, 2026

Hitters that have hurt you with bad early stats can be easy to view as guys to avoid or good sell-low targets. After all, we want to accumulate as few bad or empty stats as possible while the season is still young. But doing so locks in those losses and prevents you from enjoying the ride back up.

This group of sub-.700 OPS bats are hitting the ball the hardest on average (min 30 PA):

Name	Lg	bb%	ct%	SwK%	OPS	EV	LA	Brl%	Chase %
Jarred Kelenic	AL	11%	69%	16.4%	.652	96.6	14.3	22.2%	23.8%
Gabriel Arias	AL	6%	60%	18.0%	.683	94.6	4.9	16.7%	29.4%
Jahmai Jones	AL	6%	63%	14.2%	.594	94.0	15.0	15.6%	32.0%
Adolis García	NL	8%	68%	12.4%	.627	92.9	13.7	7.9%	28.4%
Joc Pederson	AL	16%	70%	14.0%	.663	92.5	16.2	6.7%	25.8%
Roman Anthony	AL	16%	70%	9.5%	.675	92.3	8.3	9.2%	21.6%
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