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4 Daily Fantasy Baseball Players to Avoid on 8/4/17
Madison Bumgarner has a great matchup against the Arizona Diamondbacks, but hasn't looked the same since coming off the disabled list. Who else should you consider fading in tonight's FanDuel contests?

Marcus Semien, SS, Oakland Athletics

FanDuel Price: $3,400

The Oakland Athletics are often a nice source of low-priced punts, but Marcus Semien has crept out of that sweet sub-$3,000 range. Even in a nice matchup against rookie Troy Scribner, who has all of four innings of major league experience, Semien is too expensive to consider rostering.

Although he's turned it up a notch lately -- he has a 36.2% hard-hit rate over the last 14 days -- this is still a guy with a career .310 wOBA and 28.4% hard-hit rate. He hit 27 home runs last year, but it's fair to question whether that was simply the result of an uncharacteristic career-high 14.7% home run-to-fly-ball rate (HR/FB) than anything else.

Furthermore, Semien is playing in run-killing Angel Stadium, resulting in a ho-hum 4.31 implied team total for the A's.

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