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Fantasy Baseball Report - Buy Low

Found June 16, 2009 on Blue Workhorse:
PLAYERS: Jimmy Rollins
TEAMS: Philadelphia Phillies

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Most MLB teams have played roughly 38-40% of their season, and with the season being a little past one-third of the way over, we have enough at bats and innings to decide on which players you can target to help your team win a fantasy title, or which players you might need to sell high, based on a track record of potential second half flop. We will start the fantasy baseball reports with this installment noting some bigger names that you can possibly get at a discounted rate this summer: Buy Low Jimmy Rollins SS PHI The Philly shortstop and former NL MVP has been off to a terrible start. With a current line of .217 AVG / 5 HR / 25 RBI / 10 SB / .584 OPS, Rollins and his putrid OPS have given fantasy owners fits. However, J-Ro has had two solid second halves each of the past two seasons, and one would think Rollins will bounce back. Even though his overall numbers might be mediocre, an owner might get top 5 production the rest of the way from Rollins. ...more...
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