Waiver Watch: Sunday Edition

Here are three players to target on waivers in season-long fantasy leagues:

SP CC Sabathia, New York Yankees

Yankees SP Sabathia might be back. He is (very) quietly having his best season since 2012, when he spun 200 innings of 3.38 ERA ball, leading the AL in strikeout-to-walk ratio with 4.48. You'll excuse my tentativeness; if he holds his current pace, his 2.83 ERA would be the second-finest of his long and distinguished career.

Of course, critics will point to a small sample size (41 1/3 innings) and a home run per nine innings rate of 0.22 that is basically half of Clayton Kershaw's rate over his past five seasons. Sabathia is going to give up dingers eventually, but probably not as high as the 1.51 HR/9 he gave up in an injury and personal issue-troubled 2015 campagin.

Here's why I'm optimistic that Sabathia can at least maintain fantasy relevance in standard 10-team leagues: his strikeout rate (20.6 percent) is in-line with his career average (20.7), he has continued a four-year trend of giving up fewer line drives and he is inducing more soft contact (22.3 percent) than ever before.

Much has been made of his work in the past two offseasons -- his much-maligned weight-loss heading into 2014 and a 2015 rehab stint for alcohol addiction. Sabathia has been candid about his struggles but says that he is in a better place, mentally and physically.

A 2.99 FIP would seem to agree, and if he can maintain his composure in the dog days of summer, he could be a waiver-wire steal, bringing season boxscore approaching 175 innings, a mid-3.00 ERA and 150 strikeouts.

1B Justin Bour, Miami Marlins

First base has been a quagmire in fantasy this year, with many batters drafted as number one options -- including Edwin Encarnacion, Jose Abreu, Joey Votto and Prince Fielder -- off to slow starts. Their owners are scrambling to find cheap power on the waiver wire in the meantime until these former All-Stars heat up.

Miami Marlins 1B Bour doesn't get a lot of shine because he's not really a prototypical power bat himself (not to mention that he plays in the shadow of perhaps the definitive power bat in the majors). But with 23 HRs in his rookie season and nine at the quarter mark of his sophomore campaign, he is well on his way to eclipsing 30 long-balls this year.

Bour has really made an impression on new manager Don Mattingly, hitting either third or fourth in each of his last four starts. The increased role has been a result of a hot 30-day stretch in which he has slashed .263/.337/.605 with eight homers and 18 RBIs. With increased opportunity and natural maturation, Bour is in the midst of a breakout year.

2B Devon Travis, Toronto Blue Jays

In his first four games back from injury, Travis batted eighth three times and seventh once. Now, with SS Troy Tulowitzki hitting the 15-day disabled list, Travis will move up to the five-spot -- a premium opportunity to drive in runs for a dormant Blue Jays offense.

You can pretty much throw Travis' 2016 sample size (just 17 plate appearances) out the window. You can hardly draw conclusions his 255 plate appearances for his career; he's most likely not the power bat that hit eight homers in just 62 games in 2015.

But what becomes evident, even by looking back throw his minor league stats, is that Travis has hit for contact at every level. Hitting fifth, behind great on-base hitters in Jose Bautista, Josh Donaldson, Edwin Encarnacion and Justin Smoak, should help Travis remain competitive with other 2Bs in both average and RBIs; consistent power would be icing on the cake.