Intro to Trading in Fantasy Baseball: What to look for when making deals in April
"Trader Fred" Zinkie offers up some tips on what to look for when trying to make a fantasy baseball trade.
I present to you the curious case of Julio Rodríguez. By now, many of you are familiar with the outfielder’s reputation as a slow starter. Over the course of his five-year career, Rodríguez has hit .
220 with an 85 wRC+ in March/April. In every other month, he has a career average over . 250 and a wRC+ over 105.
He annually dominates the second half, where he is a lifetime . 297 hitter with a 154 wRC+. Despite the slow starts, Rodríguez has been a 30-30 player with over 100 runs scored in two of the past three seasons.
A deeper dive on Rodríguez’s early season struggles shows that he not only looks like a worse hitter at the outset of the year; he actually is a worse hitter. His career 29. 6% strikeout rate in March/April is far worse than that of any other month.
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