Jake Bauers (1B,TB)  - Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

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ANALYSIS: Tampa Bay Rays first baseman Jake Bauers is one of the Tampa Bsy youngsters that was recently brought up and is having success. Bauers has been performing quite well recently. After starting his career off 0-for-8, he has since figured things out and has gone 10-for-41. He has a .400 batting average, four home runs, six runs scored, and seven RBI over the last week, even stealing a base.

It is a terribly short amount of time to measure for reasonable expectations, but Bauers has a hard-hit rate of 52% and a line drive rate of 39%. He has a very good walk rate (12.2%), which is consistent with his minor league performance. Bauers will be able to take advantage of that by hitting second in the order. Like most rookies, he does have areas he needs improve in the near-term, particularly with a 13.3% swinging strike rate. Regardless of the league, keep in mind this is a very small sample size.