Fantasy Baseball Do Not Drop List: Holding Ceddanne Rafaela, Jack Leiter, more

We're a month into the baseball season, and fantasy managers are starting to lose patience with their slow starters. We need results, and we need them now. But hold your horses, some slow starters don't deserve to be dropped.

As a general rule, I still think it's too early to drop players you drafted in the first 10-12 rounds. Yes, that includes Jeff Hoffman and Devin Williams. If you want to shift guys to the bench to "teach them a lesson" or save your ratios, that's fine.

However, I would still hold onto those early-round players unless there was an injury. When it comes to the players you drafted later, that's another story, and now is the time of the season when you can think about moving on if there are attractive waiver wire options in your league. Before you do that, though, make sure to read this article, where I'll highlight a few hitters and pitchers who are off to slow starts and are being dropped in a lot of formats, but are players I'd hold.

I created leaderboards to highlight solid underlying metrics that make me believe these players can still turn it around. Let's dig in to find out who we're talking about and why. Fantasy Baseball Hitters to Hold For hitters, I used my standard pre-season and mid-season leaderboard that helps me identify hitter targets.