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3 Daily Fantasy Baseball Players to Avoid on 4/20/17

Kenyatta Storin  —  @KenyattaStorin Apr 20th, 2017
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Carlos Gomez, OF, Texas Rangers

FanDuel Price: $3,300

The Texas Rangers may have a 4.39 implied team total against Danny Duffy, but that might not be giving Duffy enough credit.

Last season, the southpaw had a 3.53 SIERA and excellent 25.7% strikeout rate. He hasn't quite reached that strikeout rate this year at 22.1%, but a 14.1% swinging-strike rate signals that more punchouts are probably on the way.

Carlos Gomez has a 35.9% hard-hit rate his season, but he's batting just .155. A low BABIP is largely to blame (.167), but he also has a high 27.9% strikeout rate, which isn't too far off from his abysmal 30.0% rate last year.

Duffy had a 38.6% hard-hit rate against righties last year, so Gomez could conceivably knock one out if he can get his bat on the ball. But it leaves Gomez as nothing more than a risky GPP dart throw.

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