Fantasy baseball: Get rid of these imposters immediately

Not every hot start represents a breakthrough.Monday marked the 40th day of the 2024 season. Through an identical number of days last year, Matt Chapman, Bryce Elder, Sean Murphy and Eduardo Rodriguez had each scored at least 100 fantasy points to place among the top 40 in baseball.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedFor all four of that quartet, however, those numbers represented at least 35% of their entire seasonal fantasy production. Managers who traded away any of them at that time would have been far better off — and for each, there were indicators that such a deal would have made sense.After we…