Fantasy Baseball: 5 Names Still Flying Under Radars in July

As the season hits its midpoint, fantasy baseball owners still have plenty of options to improve their rosters. Here are 5 useful players who haven’t generated much fanfare.

You would be hard pressed to find a hotter hitter in fantasy baseball right now than Royals designated hitter Kendrys Morales. Since June 11, he’s hitting .444 with nine home runs and 24 RBI.

But can he really count as someone “flying under the radar”?

Morales was a staple last season in the World Series champion Kansas City Royals’ lineup. He placed sixth in the American League with 106 RBI while hitting a cool .290. He’s a 10-year veteran who first debuted in 2006 and has over 3,400 big league at-bats on his resume, having appeared on two MVP ballots before.

Sure, he’s only owned in 72 percent of Yahoo leagues right now, but he was drafted in 100 percent of those same leagues to begin the season and was given a similar auction value to superstars eligible at his 1B position like Hanley Ramirez and Albert Pujols.

This list digs a little deeper and looks at some forgotten about and lesser known players who have slipped through the cracks in 2016. If managers haven’t been paying attention thus far, now is the time to clue in.

The following rankings, ownership rates and draft percentages are derived from Yahoo fantasy sports platform.

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