ROTISSERIE: The night is still young

One of the hardest things for a GM to do in fantasy baseball is to stick with a struggling player. But the BaseballHQ axiom warns us to “exercise excruciating patience.” Rougned Odor (2B, TEX), 2018, provides an excellent illustration of this point:

2018   AB   AVG  HR  RBI  SB  ct%   PX  xPX  Spd  LD%
====  ===  ====  ==  ===  ==  ===  ===  ===  ===  ===
1H    188  .229   4   19   3  71%   83  113  117  15%
2H    286  .269  14   44   9  74%  122  125   91  22%

Had you given up on Odor in July, you would have missed a pretty good second half. Now, you could hardly be blamed for cutting bait on him after his awful first half, even though there were signs he might turn things around. For example, while his power (83 PX) didn’t look good,...

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