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BALLER MOVE: Target ~280
CURRENT ADP: 302
ANALYSIS: Stephen Piscotty had a .235/.342/.367 triple slash line with nine homers in 401 PA last season, which felt like a massive disappointment after the .273/.343/.457 with 22 long balls he compiled in 2016, but factors outside of anyone's control are likely responsible. Piscotty strained a hamstring in May and returned to strain his right groin in mid-July. Piscotty also found out that his mother had ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. With these factors in mind, it seems entirely appropriate to give Piscotty a second chance in fantasy now that he is presumably healthy and closer to his ailing mother in Oakland.
He is best utilized in leagues where batting average is not a category, as there is serious average downside in his profile. His LD% last season was low (17.6%) and hasn't been great throughout his career (19.7%). Furthermore, a 65.1% Pull% on ground balls makes him susceptible to the shift (.208 vs. shift, .294 without it last year). Piscotty has every chance to slip under the radar on draft day only to become one of April's most popular waiver wire adds. Why not skip a step and select him in the later stages of your draft?
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