Is Leody Taveras a buy or sell for fantasy baseball?

Sell — metrics are consistently below average with signal behind the decline.

What is Leody Taveras's rest-of-season outlook?

4.1% barrels and 33% hard-hit — no power base.

448 PA · week 25

this weekSELL

last weekHOLD

Leody Taveras

BAL·CF

data as of September 10, 2026·week 25

flipped from HOLD on September 10, 2026

Sell stable xwOBA 0.271 below league with no luck excuse; move on.med 0.64

ROSAVG .206HR 0R 5RBI 5SB 1

Taveras is a sell — the bat is below league and sliding.

His expected wOBA is .271 — 44 points under the league average of .315 — and at 448 plate appearances that number is past the point where it becomes reliable. His actual wOBA sits at .284, close enough that there is no bad-luck case hiding a better hitter underneath. The contact is the problem: a 33.3% hard-hit rate against a 40% league mark and a 4.1% barrel rate, less than half the league average, across 291 batted balls. His expected wOBA has been stepping down across the sample, so the trend points the same direction as the level. He strikes out 25.9% of the time, above league, with nothing in the walk or chase numbers to offset it. There is no luck story here. Sell. 0 HR / 5 R / 5 RBI / 1 SB / .206 AVG is a drop-tier drag — fade the skill, cut him to streaming-only.

VS His Norm

Barrel %4.1%—−2.4% ▼vs his ~6.5% career norm

Drivers

xwobaSIGNALstable xwOBA 0.271 below league with no luck excuse

metric · nowrolling trajectoryvs. leaguestabilized?

Avg Exit Velo88.3 mph

lg avg 89.0 mph ▼−0.7 mphvs his norm —

291 / 50 BBE

Hard-Hit %33.3%

lg avg 40.0% ▼−6.7%vs his norm —

291 / 50 BBE

Barrel %4.1%

lg avg 8.0% ▼−3.9%vs his norm −2.4% ▼

291 / 60 BBE

xwOBA.271

lg avg .315 ▼−.044vs his norm —

448 / 160 PA

wOBA.284

lg avg .315 ▼−.031vs his norm —

448 / 200 PA

Strikeout %25.9%

lg avg 22.0% ▲+3.9%vs his norm —

448 / 60 PA

Walk %8.9%

lg avg 8.5% ▲+0.4%vs his norm —

448 / 120 PA

BABIP.285

lg avg .295 ▼−.010vs his norm −.004 ▼BABIP is below his ~.289 norm — expect it to rise.

291 / 800 BIP

Swinging-Strike %12.0%

lg avg 11.0% ▲+1.0%vs his norm —

448 / 50 PA

Chase %31.9%

lg avg 28.5% ▲+3.4%vs his norm —

448 / 50 PA

5×5 ROS Outlook

rest of season

Where each category goes the rest of the way, and the skill that drives it. Tap a row to expand the full derivation.

statytdrosdriverconf

Barrel% 4.1%→5.1%signal0 HR — Barrel% 4.1% (signal) lifted to career ~6.5% → projected 5.1%.

BABIP 0.285→0.265 regressednoise.206 AVG — BABIP 0.285 is noise, regressed toward xBA-implied 0.254 (xBA 0.210) → 0.265.

on-base + lineup5 R — his run rate over ~39 projected PA.

slugging + lineup5 RBI — his RBI rate over ~39 projected PA.

run rate / role1 SB — his steal rate (6 in 50 G) over ~39 projected PA.

rosterdroprotational counting only

Every projection traces to a sabermetric input. The driver and confidence shown per row are always visible; tap any row to expand the full derivation.

VS His Norm

Drivers

5×5 ROS Outlook

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