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5 Sell-High Options for Season-Long Fantasy Baseball Leagues
Aaron Judge has been fantasy's premier hitter in season-long leagues, destroying everything in his path, but he's had some good fortune in the batted-ball department. Does that make him a sell-high candidate?

Ervin Santana, SP, Minnesota Twins

Ervin Santana is allowing a BABIP of .217.

We could move on now, but I'll give you some more.

Not only is Santana's BABIP allowed the second-lowest among qualified starters, it would be the third-lowest clip since 2000.

Santana's good fortune has come despite the fact his hard-hit rate has climbed each month, and it's sitting at 32.6%, slightly above a league-average mark (32.1%), for July. His strikeout (18.4%) and walk (8.8%) rates are both worse than the league average, and his 4.86 SIERA -- the league-average SIERA for a starter is 4.46 -- doesn't line up with his 11-6 record or 2.99 ERA.

Santana has ridden his superb luck to a 12th-place fantasy ranking among pitchers, according to ESPN's Player Rater. Now is the time to see if you can swap him for someone who is, you know, a real fantasy ace.

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