BATTERS: Early buy low targets, 2019

Hitters that have not posted a good batting average nor produced many home runs in the early-going can be easy to view as guys to avoid. After all, we want to accumulate as few bad or empty stats as possible while the season is still young.

Bats with optimistic indicators like expected batting average (xBA) and expected power (xPX) often can represent good buy low targets.

These bats have a BA that is much lower than their expected BA (xBA):

  • BA vs. xBA, 2019 YTD*
    
    Name                League  Position     BPV  BA    xBA   Diff
    ==================  ======  ===========  ===  ====  ====  =====
    Mullins II, Cedric      AL           CF  -10  .094  .188  -.094
    Solarte, Yangervis      NL        3B/2B    3  .205  .289  -.084
    D'Arnaud, Travis   ...

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