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3 Daily Fantasy Baseball Players to Avoid on 9/8/17

Kenyatta Storin  —  @KenyattaStorin Sep 8th, 2017
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Yu Darvish, SP, Los Angeles Dodgers

FanDuel Price: $9,100

Yu Darvish gets a nice matchup against the Colorado Rockies at home with one of the lowest implied team totals (3.18), so you can hardly be blamed if you want to take a shot in tournaments. For the season, Darvish has a 3.81 SIERA and 26.8% strikeout rate.

But Darvish has struggled through a back injury recently that required a stint on the disabled list, and the results since then haven't been very encouraging. In two starts since returning -- including one against the lowly San Diego Padres -- he's lasted just eight innings, while walking 6, and allowing 8 earned runs. The punchouts have still been there (12), so perhaps it's just a fluky poor stretch, but there's a good chance he's not completely past the back ailment.

With worthy alternatives in the same price range like Patrick Corbin and Luke Weaver, it may be a safer move to wait until Darvish proves his health before rostering him again.

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