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Fantasy baseball News & Notes: Is Pedroia still an elite fantasy 2B?

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Dustin Pedroia has yet to his a home run this year, which has his fantasy owners slightly worried.

Dustin Pedroia has yet to his a home run this year, which has his fantasy owners slightly worried.

Between the two categories, it's pretty clear that Pedroia fits into the latter at this point in his career. He's still a great player, but he's not so great that he completely distances himself from the average second baseman in the way Cano and Kipnis do. And for this reason, I think he's an optimal sell-high target. As the high-profile starter on a team like the Red Sox, he can feasibly be swapped for any number of players without necessarily creating a protest from the other people in the league. If you can somehow acquire one of the aforementioned second baseman I just listed, I say trade Pedroia, live with a player who's 70 or 80 percent as good as him, and use his clout to acquire someone of greater impact to your fantasy team. (Example: a Yasiel Puig or a Jose Abreu.)

The Braves' Aaron Harang has a 0.96 ERA and 17 strikeouts through three games. Can he keep this up?

The Braves' Aaron Harang has a 0.96 ERA and 17 strikeouts through three games. Can he keep this up?

• Casey McGehee appears to have careened off the tracks. He went 2-4 with an RBI yesterday, but in his last eight games, he has no runs, no homers and just that one RBI. I'll admit that I really want McGehee to succeed this year, but all good things must come to an end, and McGehee simply isn't worth owning in standard leagues at this point.