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The Yankees have a slate-best 5.44 implied total versus Bartolo Colon, putting Aaron Judge in a great spot. Which other high-priced players should be on your radar?

Aaron Judge, OF, New York Yankees

Price: $5,000

The Yankees' 5.44 implied total is over half a run better than any other team's on Monday.

Texas Rangers righty Bartolo Colon is coming off a masterful outing in his last start, but an impressive nine games from the 44-year-old aren't nearly enough to erase his struggles over the past few seasons. The 2017 campaign saw him notch a career-worst 5.08 SIERA over 28 games, and unless you're counting on him being the first player to resurrect his career at 44 years old, you can expect his numbers to fall sharply as we move forward.

He is allowing hitters to make better contact than he has ever allowed before, with a career-high 42.3% hard-hit rate and a 10.9% soft-hit rate that sits only 0.2% better than his previous career-worst mark.

Aaron Judge is no stranger to rocking righties, with a massive .439 wOBA and .346 isolated slugging (ISO) on a 45.2% hard-hit and 13.0% soft-hit rate in the split since the start of the 2017 season. Bringing those numbers into a plus-matchup with Colon makes it no surprise that our models project Judge for the day's top fantasy hitter.

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