If we're talking value in fantasy baseball, with the good inevitably must come the bad.
Last week, I shared my list of preferred picks in my own leagues, and today, it's time to shift the focus to those to avoid. After all, everyone has likes, and everyone has dislikes, no? Consider the player list below to be my fantasy baseball equivalent of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich -- a food I notoriously despise. Of course, just as with eating said food, I suppose I'd find some circumstance in which I'd find myself OK drafting these players.
After all, it's all about value, and these 10 players are the ones who I see as providing the least amount of that oh-so-coveted values, going by early 2022 draft indicators:
Randy Arozarena, OF, Tampa Bay Rays: As his Rays have established themselves one of baseball's best teams over the last two seasons, Arozarena has collected numerous accolades, including the 2020 ALCS MVP and Babe Ruth Awards (best postseason performer) as well as the 2021 AL Rookie of the Year Award, while posting only the 11th 20/20 season among rookies in history. That attention has pushed his price tag nearly into the rotisserie top-50 overall, and that lofty number seems to also be pulling up his points-based asking price as well, where his high strikeout rate and ground ball-oriented swing is less attractive. It's not that I think Arozarena can't either repeat his 2021 or maybe slightly improve, it's that I think "spins his wheels" is a likely outcome. Remember that, last year, he finished just 129th in fantasy points.