Welcome to June everyone!
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Now onto today’s slate where we have a premium pitchers’ matchup in Houston as Chris Sale and the Red Sox take on Gerrit Cole and the Astros. We have a rookie pitcher hurling in Coors as the Dodgers travel to Denver. The Yankees and Orioles should be making up a game that most certainly would’ve had tons of ownership on its players on Thursday, and then the Indians, who have been mega chalk for days.
So for the sake of ownership today, and because I don’t list Coors players on The Stack because Coors is a free square most nights, I have chosen stacks I like that I believe will go well under the radar compared to the aforementioned games/teams.
NEW YORK METS
1. Jay Bruce – $3,200
2. Michael Conforto – $3,800
3. Asdrubal Cabrera – $4,000
4. Brandon Nimmo – $4,000
Justification – You can easily stack the Mets, fit in a Coors bat or two, pick a stud SP1 and cheaper SP2. The Mets are taking on Tyler Chatwood and the Cubs at home. Chatwood has received overwhelming support as a DFS pitcher this year and it’s absolutely wrong to believe he is any good or worthy of some of his elevated price tags this season. The Mets aren’t a great team, but they have a ton of lefty power. Nimmo, Conforto and Cabrera all have wOBAs of .350 or higher, Cabrera and Nimmo both have hard contact rates of 40% or higher against RH pitching. Against lefties, Chatwood’s numbers have been awful this year with a .364 wOBA, a 35% hard contact rate and a 6.03 xFIP.
MILWAUKEE BREWERS
1. Lorenzo Cain – $4,400
2. Jesus Aguilar – $4,300
3. Ryan Braun – $4,000
Justification – I am still not convinced Ryan Braun is any good anymore, but his numbers still suggest he’s got some pop left against lefties. As for Jesus and Cain, their numbers are biblical against southpaws this season. Cain leads the team in batting average (.400) and wOBA (.481). His ISO is at .267 and hard contact rate is nearly 40%. As for Aguilar, he has a .427 wOBA with a .290 ISO and 40% hard contact rate against. The lefty we are targeting in this matchup is flyball goddess Hector Santiago, who has a .359 wOBA and 2.34 HR/9 this season.
