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10 Fantasy Baseball Players to Buy and Sell for Week 12

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Buy Gary Sanchez

This advice is going to sound a lot like the advice just given about Bryce Harper.

Some of Gary Sanchez' numbers aren't good. He's hitting .192/.293/.435 this season. He has 13 dingers, 39 RBI and 35 runs scored, decent for a catcher, but not the superstar-type numbers one was expecting when they took Sanchez early in the draft.

But perhaps he's heating up.

And even if he doesn't get hot right away, the catcher position is such a wasteland that if someone is dissatisfied with Sanchez' early performance, now's the time to strike. After all, Sanchez is working more walks this year -- his12.2% walk rate is above last year's 7.6% -- and he's not striking out all that much more often, up to 24.8% from 22.9%. A year after posting a .304 BABIP, Sanchez' BABIP in 2018 is an unsustainably low .199.

The big problem is Sanchez has been sacrificing line drives (13.6% line-drive percentage) for fly balls (44.2%, up from 36.6% last year) and isn't converting enough of those fly balls into homers (19.1% HR/FB rate, down from 25.4% last year). That will likely change.