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Daily Fantasy Baseball: Positive Batted-Ball Regression Candidates for Week 2

Tom Whalen  —  @tomcwhalen Apr 8th, 2019
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​Tommy Pham, OF, Tampa Bay Rays

Tommy Pham entered this year as a breakout candidate after a stellar second half of 2018 that saw him pop a .331 batting average after being traded to the Tampa Bay Rays.

Pham has obliged in the average department thus far in 2019, stroking a .270 mark across 45 plate appearances, but his power production has been literally nil. The toolsy outfielder carries a flat .000 isolated slugging (ISO) and a meager .648 on base plus slugging (OPS) on the young season, despite an AL-best 62.1% hard-contact mark. Other peripheral stats indicate that Pham is locked in at the plate: he's stinging 31.0% liners and working a 13.3% walk rate.

Daily players can turn to Pham as a relatively cheap stud as the Rays look to tee off against soft Chicago White Sox and Toronto Blue Jays rotations in the coming week.

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