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Daily Fantasy Baseball: Positive Batted-Ball Regression Candidates for Week 26
Cody Bellinger has been left out of the Dodgers' recent hot streak, but his advanced statistics indicate he should join the party in Week 26.

​Jake Bauers, 1B, Tampa Bay Rays

It looks like Jake Bauers cleared the rookie wall in September, with the first-year Tampa Bay Rays slugger punching a .204 ISO in 68 plate appearances while whittling down his strikeout rate to 23.5% after the hair-raising 33.7% showing in August.

Though a 13.5% swinging strike rate this month has Bauers still looking a bit over-eager, the 22-year-old has managed an impressive 16.2% walks, 39% hard contact, and just 7.3% hard contact. There could be some runway here to a strong final act for a promising rookie season.

Bauers carries .205 season-long ISO against righties into plus matchups with Lance Lynn and Sean Reid-Foley. With a modest FanDuel salary around $3,000, he might even make for a decent contrarian play against blowup-prone Yankees starters Masahiro Tanaka and Luis Severino. After all, Tampa Bay has quietly been MLB's third most productive lineup against right handers in the second half (115 wRC+).

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