Fantasy Baseball Risers, Fallers: April 23, 2018

4/24/18

By Phil Backert, PressBox

I can debate all day how many leagues don't have enough disabled list spots, which forces fantasy owners to drop relevant players. However, even more frustrating is when a team labels a player day-to-day and then eventually places him on the disabled list.

That is exactly what happened with Washington Nationals third baseman Anthony Rendon. The infielder fouled a ball off his foot April 13 and has not been in the lineup since. The thought was Rendon was only going to miss a couple of games, but it was announced April 22 that he will indeed land on the disabled list. Rendon will miss at least another week, which means fantasy owners will not have the services of the 27-year-old for three weeks. If fantasy owners knew this sooner, they would have had time to replace Rendon's production, but they are now a week behind.

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