3 Daily Fantasy Baseball Players to Avoid on 7/27/18

Dee Gordon, 2B, Seattle Mariners

FanDuel Price: $3,100

Dee Gordon is a very good player in real life, but he doesn't have the power upside that you typically look for in DFS hitters. That means you need steals for him to carry upside. But for him to swipe a bag or two he needs to be on base, and that could be an issue against Andrew Heaney.

Heaney has been absolutely absurd against left-handed hitting this season. He has held left-handed batters to a .225 wOBA, including a 24.1% strikeout rate and 2.1% walk rate. The batted-ball data is where Heaney really crushes it against left-handed hitters, as he has held them to a 20.0% fly-ball rate and 20.6% hard-hit rate on the year.

Gordon's career wRC+ against southpaws is just 85, and his on-base percentage sits at .319. With just a career 17.5% fly-ball rate and 14.3% hard-hit rate against left-handed pitching, an extra-base hit is not something you can count on either. There just isn't much appeal to Gordon and his matchup tonight.