Eury Perez, other Marlins starters could be waiver-wire steals in fantasy baseball
Back when Best Buy sold DVDs, they had bins loaded with DVDs for discount prices.
Not all of the titles available were winners, but if you dug through the copies of 'Howard the Duck,' 'Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch,' or Carrot Top's 'Chairman of the Board,' you could find films like, 'No Country for Old Men' or 'The Shawshank Redemption.'
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Digging through discount bins is similar to scouring the waiver wires — sometimes, when you dig deep enough, you find something of value.
Though the Marlins' pitching staff owned a 5.29 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, .262 opponents' average and had the sixth-fewest strikeouts in the majors, Roto Rage recommends doing a bargain-bin hunt in Miami.
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