Why We Cut Yordan Alvarez

In league 13, the FanGraphs Staff Ottoneu Head-to-Head league, I co-manage a team with Niv Shah. We just won a few auctions and among the cuts we made to get legal were an underperforming reliever (Joel Payamps), a low-value OF (Andrew Benintendi), a roller coaster of a starting pitcher (Yusei Kikuchi), and one big-time star: Yordan Alvarez.
The first three all look like pretty typical cuts, but that last one stands out and clearly caught some leaguemates by surprise. But there were good reasons for the decision to drop Alvarez.