Julio Rodriguez Fantasy Baseball: Buy-Low Opportunity in April

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00:00What are you possibly going to give me that's going to pry away Julio Rodriguez from my

00:07team when I know that he's a notoriously slow starter?

00:11So spend as much time as you like on Julio, and then if you want to get yourself to the

00:14next player, because this is a sell-high candidate, I think our conversation should be hot.

00:19Well, I mean, I think we know, but maybe not everybody knows, or maybe people new to fantasy.

00:24Here's his career numbers in April, folks, 216 batting average with a 612 OPS over 62

00:31games.

00:32April, just for some reason, not his bag.

00:35I don't know what it is about April he doesn't like.

00:37First half, too, for his career, 262 batting average with a 766 OPS.

00:43Second half of the year, a 306 batting average and a 939 OPS.

00:48Julio did this last year.

00:50He did it the year before.

00:52Julio and April don't go well together, but the one thing you can count on is the other

00:56five months of the season are going to be elite.

00:58So it's not that you can just easily get him, it's just this is the only window in which

01:04he's going to be available.

01:05So if you're going to make a trade offer for him, this is the time you have to do it.

01:11And you better make sure that it's a good offer, and it might be, you know, a Pete Alonso,

01:17someone like that, you know, that you could throw out there.

01:20I mean, that might get it done right now, straight up.

01:22Alonso's had a pretty good start to the year.

01:23He's got six homers, hitting for a decent average of 280.

01:27Maybe that's the guy that gets it done.

01:29Maybe a package of players if this team's had a lot of injuries.

01:31But Julio's window is April to buy him if you didn't get to draft him.

01:36And once we turn the page into May, that window's going to shut, and it's going to shut hard.