Statistics always have a way of evening out; that is why they are called averages. Sometimes players do have bad years, but more commonly they just have bad months. The key is to grab these players in their bad months, because when talent snaps out of a slump in baseball, it’s a game-changer.

For example, Giancarlo Stanton has been terrible. The 23-year-old slugger came into this season with sky-high expectations, after he mashed 37 home runs and 86 RBIs last season in only 123 games. Throughout the first 13 games of this season, Stanton has zero home runs, zero RBIs, and he is hitting an abysmal .163. Now a shoulder injury has Stanton listed as a day-to-day player, with his return expected to be at the end of this month.

I think this injury may be for Stanton to get his mechanics right. I would buy low on this guy. There is too much talent to pass up. This is just an ugly slump for a hitter unhappy with his situation in Florida. Someone will tell him the best way to get a plane ticket out of Miami is to start doing what he does best, and that is mash the baseball. Remember, the 6-foot-5-inch, 248-pound Stanton only hit one home run last April, missed a month due to injury and still finished with 37 home runs for the year.

If you have Mets starting pitcher Matt Harvey, count your blessings. This guy is the future. Harvey is the No. 1 rated player on Yahoo! sports and proved he was the real deal, after out dueling Nationals pitching star Stephen Strasburg this past week. Harvey allowed one run in that contest, which raised his ERA to .93 on the season. Harvey is 4-0 on the season with 32 strikeouts in 29 innings. He may be a better pitcher than Strasburg already. Hold on to this man as if he were your firstborn child.

This week feel good about rolling out any of the red-hot Red Sox pitchers you may have on your roster. All seven games this week are at the friendly confines of Fenway, four of which will be against the lowly Houston Astros. So far, the Red Sox staff possess the best strikeout percentage in the majors, sending 27.5 percent of hitters back to the dugout disappointed. The Astros are the most strikeout prone team in the majors at 26.4 percent, so it seems like the Red Sox’s hot play will continue.