10 Fantasy Baseball Players to Buy and Sell for Week 12
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.
Gary Sanchez's first HR in almost a month gives the Yankees a 4-0 lead. pic.twitter.com/bZpsp1LYfj
— Bronx Bomber Ball (@BronxBomberBall) June 16, 2018
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.
