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10 Fantasy Baseball Players to Buy and Sell for Week 9
With Gleyber Torres tearing up the league, it's time to buy him aggressively in season-long fantasy baseball. Which other players should we be looking to buy or sell?

Buy Trevor Bauer

Trevor Bauer has always had phenomenal stuff and now is putting it all together. The Cleveland Indians right hander gave up 4 earned runs in 7.1 innings Sunday against the Houston Astros pitching against his nemesis Gerrit Cole but struck out 13 batters and walked just 2, another outstanding performance in a season full of them.

In 11 starts, Bauer has a 2.61 ERA and a 2.65 FIP, a huge improvement from his career marks of a 4.20 ERA and 4.02 FIP. He's striking out a career-high 28.6% of batters this season with an 8.3% walk rate, right around the same numbers he's had the last few seasons, but has a lower home run-per-nine rate than ever before of 0.50. Over his career, he's allowed an 11.5% home run-per-fly-ball ratio, but this season, it's an all-time low 6.3%.

The peripherals show a pitcher who is finally coming into his own. No BABIP luck, no unsustainable side stats, just a good pitcher who is keeping the ball in the yard and striking a lot of guys out. He's a good off-the-radar purchase for a team in need of strikeouts and ERA.

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