2025 Fantasy Baseball Week 7 Trade Values: It may be time to sell high on Nathan Eovaldi

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The term "sell-high candidate" implies something in a Fantasy Baseball context. People often read it to mean, "This player isn't good, trade him for anything while you can," but of course, that's an extremely un-nuanced reading. A player can be good and also be a sell-high candidate. It just means they probably aren't as good as they appear in the moment. 

Take Nathan Eovaldi, for example. Very little about his current production screams "sell-high." I mean, sure, his 2.03 ERA isn't backed up by his underlying skills, but his 3.50 xERA is hardly something you need to run from – it's the 25th-best mark among starting pitchers, and with names like Landen Roupp, Eduardo Rodriguez, Tyler Anderson, and JP Sears ahead of him who don't seem particularly likely to sustain that, I don't have much trouble saying that Eovaldi is probably a top-20 starting pitcher for Fantasy right now.

He's done it by reinventing himself as a pitcher, reacting to his lower fastball velocity by simply throwing that pitch less often than ever before – he's down to a 29.6% usage rate with his four-seamer, and with no sinker in his arsenal anymore, he's basically become 70% "secondaries" pitcher. And it's working, with his splitter and curveball both generating tons of whiffs and weak contact, and his cutter supplementing his fastball well enough. 

The other thing that makes it easier to buy into Eovaldi's early-season success than some others is that he almost always gets off to strong starts to the season:

Nathan Eovaldi's first-half ERA

• 2024: 2.97
• 2023: 2.83
• 2022: 3.34
• 2021: 3.66

Eovaldi's success so far is "real," in that the underlying skill set and track record back it up. This isn't a fluke, Eovaldi is actually this good. 

He's also a sell-high candidate. Because his history tells us that, eventually, he'll stop pitching this well.

The point of stats like xERA – or even the less sophisticated ERA estimators like FIP or xFIP that have been around even longer – is to try to cut through the inherent noise in pitching results and try to identify something approximating a pitcher's "true" talent level. That's the point of the entire advanced stats movement, from Bill James' groundbreaking work nearly 40 years ago right through to the latest research being done online these days. 

But there's something we have to keep in mind with all of these stats: Talent level isn't static. Players make tweaks to their arsenal in response to – or in anticipation of – changes in their underlying talent level, like we're seeing with Eovaldi, whose once-blazing fastball is now roughly average in velocity. Sometimes, guys are just locked in – like Ranger Suarez early last season, who didn't really change his pitch mix and wasn't throwing harder than usual, but was just executing at a high level for a few months. Sometimes, guys are just slumping. 

In Eovaldi's case, for as impressive as he has been in the first half of seasons lately, he has pretty consistently fallen apart in the end:

Nathan Eovaldi's second-half ERA

• 2024: 4.81
• 2023: 7.18
• 2022: 4.91
• 2021: 3.87

Sometimes, it's an injury that sends Eovaldi's season spiraling, but that wasn't the case last season. He just faded, losing a bit of velocity on his four-seamer and a lot of effectiveness on that and the cutter especially. 

The increased focus on the curveball and splitter in the early going could be designed to avoid that issue this season, and maybe it'll work. But one thing you often see with older pitchers is decreased focus on their fastball until they reach a point where they just can't realistically adjust anymore. I don't think Eovaldi necessarily has that problem right now, but I do wonder what the adjustment will be if and when things go sideways at some point in the future.

Which they almost certainly will. That's just been the way Eovaldi's seasons have gone for the past half-decade. Which creates a world in which, if we were ranking starting pitchers based on how confident I am in their next start, I would probably put Eovaldi in the top 20 right now; but if we're ranking for the rest of the season (as we are), you have to account for some degree of regression from this point.

The biggest question is, how long can he hold on? Can you count on two more excellent months from Eovaldi? Three? At some point, it makes sense to start looking to sell high on Eovaldi, but I'm not sure that point is right now. But if you wait too long and he starts to regress before you've moved him, you run the risk of missing the sell window.

For now, I'm looking to hold Eovaldi but will be looking into some sell-high moves in the next month or so. But it also depends on what the rest of your staff looks like. Eovaldi went late enough in drafts that he might be relatively superfluous to your specific team, to the point where it might make a lot of sense to look at moving him right now for someone like Spencer Strider, who should be more valuable from June through September. 

But attrition hits hard at the starting pitcher position, and moving a healthy, effective starting pitcher is always a risk. Eovaldi seems likely to fall apart at some point, but that's true of most pitchers. If you can't move him for someone you are sure is a difference-maker in the long run, hanging on to Eovaldi makes plenty of sense. You'll have other chances to sell high. Until those opportunities run out. 

H2H Trade Values Chart

Ranking	Player	Value	Eligible
1	Aaron Judge	48	DH-OF
2	Shohei Ohtani	46	DH-SP
3	Bobby Witt	45	SS
4	Jose Ramirez	41	3B-DH
5	Juan Soto	41	OF
6	Kyle Tucker	40	OF
7	Corbin Carroll	37	OF
8	Francisco Lindor	37	SS
9	Elly De La Cruz	37	SS
10	Fernando Tatis	35	OF
11	Vladimir Guerrero	32	1B-DH
12	Bryce Harper	30	1B
13	Gunnar Henderson	30	SS
14	Yordan Alvarez	28	DH-OF
15	Julio Rodriguez	26	OF
16	Mookie Betts	26	OF-SS
17	Jarren Duran	25	OF
18	Tarik Skubal	25	SP
19	Zack Wheeler	25	SP
20	Ketel Marte	25	2B-DH
21	Paul Skenes	25	SP
22	Austin Riley	25	3B
23	Freddie Freeman	24	1B
24	Jackson Chourio	24	OF
25	Manny Machado	24	3B-DH
26	Matt Olson	23	1B
27	Trea Turner	23	SS
28	Jackson Merrill	23	OF
29	Ronald Acuna	22	OF
30	Wyatt Langford	21	DH-OF
31	Rafael Devers	21	3B-DH
32	Jose Altuve	21	2B-DH-OF
33	Cole Ragans	21	SP
34	Garrett Crochet	21	SP
35	Pete Alonso	21	1B
36	Chris Sale	21	SP
37	Marcell Ozuna	20	DH
38	James Wood	20	DH-OF
39	Kyle Schwarber	20	DH
40	Brent Rooker	20	DH
41	Hunter Greene	20	SP
42	Michael King	20	SP
43	Ozzie Albies	20	2B
44	Dylan Cease	19	SP
45	Corey Seager	19	SS
46	Framber Valdez	19	SP
47	Max Fried	18	SP
48	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	18	SP
49	Spencer Schwellenbach	17	SP
50	Logan Webb	17	SP
51	Jacob deGrom	17	SP
52	Corbin Burnes	17	SP
53	Teoscar Hernandez	17	OF
54	Seiya Suzuki	17	DH-OF
55	Alex Bregman	16	3B
56	Freddy Peralta	16	SP
57	Hunter Brown	16	SP
58	Aaron Nola	16	SP
59	Joe Ryan	16	SP
60	Edwin Diaz	16	RP
61	Spencer Strider	16	SP
62	Pablo Lopez	16	SP
63	Lawrence Butler	16	OF
64	Josh Hader	16	RP
65	Shota Imanaga	16	SP
66	Zac Gallen	16	SP
67	Jesus Luzardo	16	SP
68	Michael Harris	16	OF
69	Mason Miller	16	RP
70	Emmanuel Clase	15	RP
71	William Contreras	15	C-DH
72	Riley Greene	15	DH-OF
73	Anthony Santander	15	DH-OF
74	Kris Bubic	15	RP-SP
75	George Kirby	15	SP
76	Logan Gilbert	15	SP
77	Adley Rutschman	15	C-DH
78	Luis Castillo	15	SP
79	Bryan Woo	15	SP
80	Oneil Cruz	15	OF-SS
81	Willy Adames	15	SS
82	Josh Naylor	15	1B-DH
83	Cristopher Sanchez	15	SP
84	Bailey Ober	15	SP
85	Blake Snell	15	SP
86	Andres Munoz	15	RP
87	Christian Yelich	15	DH-OF
88	Junior Caminero	15	3B
89	Raisel Iglesias	15	RP
90	Carlos Rodon	15	SP
91	Jack Flaherty	15	SP
92	Cal Raleigh	15	C-DH
93	Ian Happ	15	OF
94	Brandon Nimmo	15	OF
95	Kristian Campbell	15	2B-OF
96	Bryce Miller	15	SP
97	Bryan Reynolds	15	DH-OF
98	Steven Kwan	15	OF
99	Sonny Gray	15	SP
100	Tyler Glasnow	15	SP
101	Randy Arozarena	15	OF
102	Christian Walker	15	1B
103	Will Smith	15	C
104	Tanner Bibee	15	SP
105	Vinnie Pasquantino	15	1B-DH
106	Salvador Perez	15	1B-C-DH
107	Cody Bellinger	15	1B-DH-OF
108	Nick Pivetta	15	SP
109	Max Meyer	15	SP
110	Seth Lugo	15	SP
111	Robbie Ray	15	SP
112	Matt McLain	15	2B-SS
113	Jazz Chisholm	15	2B-3B-OF
114	Bo Bichette	15	SS
115	C.J. Abrams	15	SS
116	Shane Baz	15	SP
117	Willson Contreras	15	1B-C-DH
118	J.T. Realmuto	15	C
119	MacKenzie Gore	15	SP
120	Adolis Garcia	15	DH-OF
121	Yainer Diaz	15	C-DH
122	Jung Hoo Lee	14	OF
123	Pete Crow-Armstrong	14	OF
124	Royce Lewis	14	3B-DH
125	Mike Trout	14	DH-OF
126	Mark Vientos	14	3B
127	Eugenio Suarez	14	3B
128	Isaac Paredes	14	3B
129	Matt Chapman	14	3B
130	Dylan Crews	14	OF
131	Tommy Edman	14	2B-OF
132	Marcus Semien	14	2B
133	Zach Eflin	14	SP
134	Tyler O'Neill	14	OF
135	Nathan Eovaldi	13	SP
136	Jeff Hoffman	13	RP
137	Ryan Helsley	12	RP
138	Robert Suarez	12	RP
139	Tyler Soderstrom	11	1B-OF
140	Paul Goldschmidt	11	1B
141	Jack Leiter	10	SP
142	Nick Castellanos	9	OF
143	Brenton Doyle	9	OF
144	Dansby Swanson	8	SS
145	Devin Williams	8	RP
146	Jordan Westburg	8	2B-3B-DH
147	Nick Lodolo	8	SP
148	Ryan Pepiot	8	SP
149	Grant Holmes	8	RP-SP
150	Jhoan Duran	8	RP
151	Nico Hoerner	8	2B
152	Xander Bogaerts	8	2B-SS
153	Xavier Edwards	8	SS
154	Zachary Neto	8	SS
155	Kevin Gausman	8	SP
156	Gavin Williams	8	SP
157	Spencer Torkelson	8	1B
158	Ben Rice	7	1B-DH
159	Luis Arraez	7	1B-2B-DH
160	Felix Bautista	7	RP
161	Kodai Senga	7	SP
162	Clay Holmes	7	RP-SP
163	Shea Langeliers	6	C
164	Bryson Stott	6	2B
165	Taylor Ward	6	OF
166	Brice Turang	6	2B
167	George Springer	5	DH-OF
168	Jorge Polanco	5	2B-3B-DH
169	Alec Bohm	5	3B
170	Brandon Lowe	5	2B-DH
171	Jose Alvarado	5	RP
172	Anthony Volpe	5	SS
173	Trevor Megill	5	RP
174	Luis Robert	5	OF
175	Jackson Holliday	5	2B-SS
176	Tanner Houck	5	SP
177	Carlos Correa	5	SS
178	Nolan Arenado	5	3B
179	Tanner Scott	5	RP
180	Grayson Rodriguez	5	SP
181	Nick Kurtz	5	1B
182	Andres Gimenez	5	2B
183	Kyle Manzardo	5	1B-DH
184	Sandy Alcantara	5	SP
185	Cedric Mullins	5	OF
186	Jasson Dominguez	4	OF
187	Maikel Garcia	4	2B-3B-OF
188	Ezequiel Tovar	4	SS
189	Luis Rengifo	4	2B-3B
190	Taj Bradley	4	SP
191	Tyler Stephenson	4	C
192	Logan O'Hoppe	4	C
193	Trevor Story	3	SS
194	Masyn Winn	3	SS
195	Roki Sasaki	3	SP
196	Justin Verlander	3	SP
197	Jacob Wilson	3	SS
198	Ryan Walker	3	RP
199	Jeremy Pena	3	SS
200	Chris Bassitt	3	SP
201	Jose Berrios	3	SP
202	Brandon Pfaadt	3	SP
203	Yusei Kikuchi	3	SP
204	Gleyber Torres	3	2B
205	Luis Garcia	3	2B
206	Yandy Diaz	3	1B-DH
207	Josh Jung	3	3B
208	Max Muncy	3	3B
209	Mitch Keller	3	SP
210	J.J. Bleday	3	OF
211	Michael Wacha	3	SP
212	Ronel Blanco	3	SP
213	Michael Busch	3	1B
214	Austin Hays	3	DH-OF
215	Byron Buxton	3	OF
216	Clarke Schmidt	3	SP
217	Pete Fairbanks	3	RP
218	Nate Lowe	3	1B
219	Jeffrey Springs	3	SP
220	Reese Olson	3	SP
221	Bubba Chandler	3	SP
222	Kerry Carpenter	3	DH-OF
223	Spencer Steer	3	1B-DH-OF
224	Kenley Jansen	3	RP

Roto Trade Values Chart

Ranking	Player	Value	Eligible
1	Aaron Judge	49	DH-OF
2	Shohei Ohtani	48	DH-SP
3	Bobby Witt	47	SS
4	Kyle Tucker	40	OF
5	Jose Ramirez	38	3B-DH
6	Corbin Carroll	37	OF
7	Fernando Tatis	34	OF
8	Elly De La Cruz	34	SS
9	Juan Soto	33	OF
10	Julio Rodriguez	33	OF
11	Francisco Lindor	33	SS
12	Vladimir Guerrero	33	1B-DH
13	Jarren Duran	33	OF
14	Yordan Alvarez	30	DH-OF
15	Jackson Chourio	30	OF
16	Bryce Harper	29	1B
17	Gunnar Henderson	29	SS
18	Mookie Betts	27	OF-SS
19	Trea Turner	26	SS
20	Tarik Skubal	26	SP
21	Zack Wheeler	26	SP
22	Paul Skenes	26	SP
23	Freddie Freeman	26	1B
24	Jackson Merrill	25	OF
25	Austin Riley	25	3B
26	Ronald Acuna	24	OF
27	Manny Machado	23	3B-DH
28	Rafael Devers	23	3B-DH
29	Wyatt Langford	23	DH-OF
30	Matt Olson	23	1B
31	Ozzie Albies	23	2B
32	Ketel Marte	23	2B-DH
33	Cole Ragans	23	SP
34	Marcell Ozuna	21	DH
35	Pete Alonso	21	1B
36	Jose Altuve	21	2B-DH-OF
37	James Wood	21	DH-OF
38	Oneil Cruz	19	OF-SS
39	Michael Harris	19	OF
40	C.J. Abrams	18	SS
41	Corey Seager	18	SS
42	Brent Rooker	18	DH
43	Kyle Schwarber	18	DH
44	Chris Sale	18	SP
45	Garrett Crochet	17	SP
46	Framber Valdez	15	SP
47	Michael King	15	SP
48	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	15	SP
49	Josh Hader	15	RP
50	Edwin Diaz	15	RP
51	Mason Miller	15	RP
52	Alex Bregman	15	3B
53	Emmanuel Clase	15	RP
54	Andres Munoz	15	RP
55	Raisel Iglesias	15	RP
56	Lawrence Butler	15	OF
57	Jacob deGrom	15	SP
58	Max Fried	15	SP
59	Anthony Santander	15	DH-OF
60	Hunter Greene	15	SP
61	Spencer Schwellenbach	15	SP
62	Dylan Cease	15	SP
63	Logan Webb	15	SP
64	Seiya Suzuki	15	DH-OF
65	Brenton Doyle	15	OF
66	Freddy Peralta	15	SP
67	Corbin Burnes	15	SP
68	Ryan Helsley	15	RP
69	Hunter Brown	15	SP
70	Joe Ryan	15	SP
71	Pablo Lopez	15	SP
72	Jhoan Duran	15	RP
73	Jeff Hoffman	15	RP
74	Robert Suarez	15	RP
75	Riley Greene	15	DH-OF
76	Teoscar Hernandez	15	OF
77	Josh Naylor	15	1B-DH
78	Junior Caminero	15	3B
79	Cristopher Sanchez	15	SP
80	Bryan Woo	15	SP
81	Shota Imanaga	15	SP
82	Jesus Luzardo	15	SP
83	Willy Adames	15	SS
84	Bo Bichette	15	SS
85	George Kirby	15	SP
86	Logan Gilbert	15	SP
87	Zac Gallen	15	SP
88	Spencer Strider	15	SP
89	William Contreras	15	C-DH
90	Adley Rutschman	15	C-DH
91	Jack Flaherty	15	SP
92	Bryce Miller	15	SP
93	Cal Raleigh	15	C-DH
94	Salvador Perez	15	1B-C-DH
95	Tanner Bibee	15	SP
96	Aaron Nola	15	SP
97	Yainer Diaz	15	C-DH
98	Bailey Ober	15	SP
99	Kristian Campbell	15	2B-OF
100	Bryan Reynolds	15	DH-OF
101	Jordan Westburg	15	2B-3B-DH
102	Will Smith	15	C
103	Mike Trout	15	DH-OF
104	Christian Yelich	15	DH-OF
105	Randy Arozarena	15	OF
106	Sonny Gray	15	SP
107	Pete Crow-Armstrong	15	OF
108	Ian Happ	15	OF
109	Blake Snell	15	SP
110	Tyler Glasnow	15	SP
111	Luis Castillo	15	SP
112	Robbie Ray	15	SP
113	MacKenzie Gore	15	SP
114	Max Meyer	15	SP
115	Carlos Rodon	15	SP
116	Nick Pivetta	15	SP
117	Shane Baz	15	SP
118	Christian Walker	15	1B
119	Vinnie Pasquantino	14	1B-DH
120	Willson Contreras	14	1B-C-DH
121	J.T. Realmuto	14	C
122	Matt McLain	14	2B-SS
123	Tommy Edman	14	2B-OF
124	Brice Turang	14	2B
125	Tanner Scott	14	RP
126	Felix Bautista	14	RP
127	Tyler Soderstrom	14	1B-OF
128	Cody Bellinger	14	1B-DH-OF
129	Steven Kwan	14	OF
130	Mark Vientos	13	3B
131	Eugenio Suarez	13	3B
132	Royce Lewis	13	3B-DH
133	Jazz Chisholm	12	2B-3B-OF
134	Luis Robert	11	OF
135	Shea Langeliers	11	C
136	Dylan Crews	10	OF
137	Nathan Eovaldi	10	SP
138	Kris Bubic	9	RP-SP
139	Seth Lugo	9	SP
140	Jasson Dominguez	9	OF
141	Nick Castellanos	8	OF
142	Adolis Garcia	8	DH-OF
143	Dansby Swanson	7	SS
144	Nico Hoerner	7	2B
145	Marcus Semien	7	2B
146	Matt Chapman	7	3B
147	Isaac Paredes	7	3B
148	Alec Bohm	7	3B
149	Logan O'Hoppe	7	C
150	Kenley Jansen	7	RP
151	Trevor Megill	7	RP
152	Kevin Gausman	7	SP
153	Jose Alvarado	7	RP
154	Pete Fairbanks	7	RP
155	Devin Williams	7	RP
156	Jung Hoo Lee	7	OF
157	Brandon Nimmo	7	OF
158	Zachary Neto	7	SS
159	Xavier Edwards	7	SS
160	Xander Bogaerts	7	2B-SS
161	Anthony Volpe	7	SS
162	Bryson Stott	7	2B
163	Jorge Polanco	7	2B-3B-DH
164	Jackson Holliday	7	2B-SS
165	Chris Bassitt	7	SP
166	Kodai Senga	6	SP
167	Luis Garcia	6	2B
168	Ben Rice	6	1B-DH
169	Spencer Torkelson	6	1B
170	Paul Goldschmidt	6	1B
171	Nick Kurtz	6	1B
172	Luis Arraez	6	1B-2B-DH
173	Maikel Garcia	6	2B-3B-OF
174	Tyler O'Neill	6	OF
175	Andres Gimenez	5	2B
176	Brandon Lowe	5	2B-DH
177	Luis Rengifo	5	2B-3B
178	Nick Lodolo	5	SP
179	Sandy Alcantara	5	SP
180	Ryan Pepiot	5	SP
181	Cedric Mullins	5	OF
182	Taj Bradley	5	SP
183	Agustin Ramirez	5	C-DH
184	Ivan Herrera	5	C
185	Sean Murphy	5	C
186	Yandy Diaz	5	1B-DH
187	Austin Wells	5	C
188	David Bednar	5	RP
189	Kyle Finnegan	5	RP
190	Ryan Walker	5	RP
191	Jeremy Pena	5	SS
192	Carlos Correa	4	SS
193	Byron Buxton	4	OF
194	Wilyer Abreu	4	OF
195	Spencer Steer	4	1B-DH-OF
196	George Springer	4	DH-OF
197	Jorge Soler	4	DH-OF
198	Taylor Ward	4	OF
199	Victor Scott II	4	OF
200	Kerry Carpenter	4	DH-OF
201	Heliot Ramos	4	OF
202	Austin Hays	4	DH-OF
203	Jacob Wilson	4	SS
204	Masyn Winn	4	SS
205	Trevor Story	4	SS
206	Geraldo Perdomo	4	SS
207	Ezequiel Tovar	3	SS
208	Lars Nootbaar	3	OF
209	Clay Holmes	3	RP-SP
210	Grant Holmes	3	RP-SP
211	Aroldis Chapman	3	RP
212	Shane McClanahan	3	SP
213	Roki Sasaki	3	SP
214	Gavin Williams	3	SP
215	Spencer Arrighetti	3	SP
216	Yusei Kikuchi	3	SP
217	Zach Eflin	3	SP
218	Dustin May	3	SP
219	Carlos Estevez	3	RP
220	Chris Martin	3	RP
221	Noelvi Marte	3	3B
222	Nolan Arenado	3	3B
223	Jordan Walker	3	OF
224	Joshua Lowe	3	OF
225	Max Kepler	3	OF
226	Colton Cowser	3	OF
227	Josh Jung	3	3B
228	Matthew Liberatore	3	RP-SP
229	Jeffrey Springs	3	SP
230	Ryan Weathers	2	SP
231	Casey Mize	2	SP
232	Brandon Pfaadt	2	SP
233	Jackson Jobe	2	RP-SP
234	Kyle Manzardo	2	1B-DH
235	Michael Busch	2	1B
236	Jack Leiter	2	SP
237	Tyler Mahle	2	SP
238	Reese Olson	2	SP
239	Mitch Keller	2	SP
240	Grayson Rodriguez	2	SP
241	Tanner Houck	2	SP
242	J.J. Bleday	2	OF
243	Trent Grisham	2	OF
244	Cam Smith	2	3B-OF
245	Tyler Stephenson	2	C
246	TJ Friedl	2	OF
247	Bubba Chandler	2	SP
248	Jameson Taillon	2	SP
249	Camilo Doval	2	RP