Fantasy Baseball: Week 4 waiver wire pickups by position

43% – Chris Carter – MIL

Sometimes, all it takes is a change of scenery for a player to get more comfortable with his surroundings and a consistent plate approach. Milwaukee’s hitting coach Darnell Coles seems to have connected with Chris Carter.

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Hitting .295/.361/.689 with five home runs and 15 RBI, fantasy owners can be optimistic about Carter putting his career .220 BA days behind him this year. The biggest telltale sign of this are his decreased strikeouts. His 27.8 percent mark is well down from his career average of 33.2. His BAbip of .333 is probably too good to last and he likely won’t be a .300 hitter come September, but few people remember this is the guy who finished second in home runs throughout all of MLB in 2014 with 37.

Miller Park favors hitters heavily and it feels like Carter is playing with less pressure on him since leaving Houston. His second half line from 2014 was .252-18-48. Expect something similar to that for the first and second halves of 2016 and for Carter to possibly surpass the 90 RBI mark for the first time in his career.

Other widely available first basemen worth taking a look at are Logan Forsythe (52% owned), Travis Shaw (48%) and Lucas Duda (70%).

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