On a day like today, you can basically throw traditional strategy out the window. There’s going to be plenty of offense in FanDuel and DraftKings contests, so you can’t miss on more than one of your picks. Fortunately, with so many mediocre-to-bad pitchers on the hill, you can find stacking opportunities all over the league. If you hit on the right stack, you could really be in the money.

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Baltimore and Detroit players are the most obvious stack of the night (non-Coors Field division), but the Nationals, Cubs, and Dodgers also have some stackable players when you look at the splits. Like we said, brace yourself for a lot of offense and just hope your players are a part of it.

Daily fantasy baseball picks

Look for Wilmer Flores if he’s in the Mets’ lineup today. Flores had a .955 OPS vs. LHPs last year and should be able to get some hacks in against Adam Conley. Travis d’Arnaud also crushed lefties in limited at-bats last year (1.112), and Lucas Duda had a surprisingly good reverse-platoon split against southpaws (.878).

It’s tough to hit one out of O.co Coliseum, but Matt Shoemaker gives up homers at a high rate. Oakland’s big boppers – mainly Khris Davis, Josh Reddick and Stephen Vogt – have a little more upside today.

Matt Wisler struggled mightily against lefties last year (.320/.416/.569), and his first start this year was no different (four hits, including a homer, allowed to lefties). Bryce Harper is worth his high price, and Daniel Murphy and Clint Robinson (if he plays) are nice values.

Freddie Freeman has had a decent amount of success against Stephen Strasburg, going 12-for-31 with two doubles and three HRs against him in his career.

Lefties destroyed Ryan Vogelsong last season, as he allowed a .553 SLG and 14 of his 17 homers to them. Unfortunately, Anthony Gose is about the only Tigers’ regular who can benefit from this, and he’s not a power hitter. Check to see if Tyler Collins is in the lineup and consider him a deep sleeper.

Shane Greene has really been knocked around by lefthanded hitters in his major league career (.321/.389/.506), which is good news for Gregory Polanco and John Jaso today.

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He’s only thrown 56 career innings, but Jerad Eickhoff has pretty extreme splits (.268/.336/.490 vs. lefties; .167/.208/.254 vs. righties). At this point, there’s really no reason to be concerned about starting a righthanded hitter against him, but lefthanded hitters should get a little more love. Jon Jay and Brett Wallace aren’t bad tournament plays with the game in hitter-friendly Philadelphia.

The Yankees generally struggle against lefties (especially Jacoby Ellsbury), but Alex Rodriguez (.926 OPS) and Aaron Hicks (.870) had great numbers against southpaws last year. Try to get one in your lineup against J.A. Happ in Toronto.

Joe Kelly’s poor reverse-platoon splits from last year (.296/.374/.463) continued into his first start this year when he allowed five hits, including a homer, and three walks to righthanded batters. Mark Trumbo, Manny Machado, and Jonathan Schoop look better than usual.

Another day, another lefty (Drew Smyly) for the Indians. It’s been a slow start for some of Cleveland’s more well-known lefty-killers (Juan Uribe, Marlon Byrd, Rajai Davis), but Mike Napoli just continues to rake against southpaws. Francisco Lindor has also had a hot start against LHPs and is well worth his high price.

Alfredo Simon had a lot of trouble with lefthanded batters last season (.282/.353/.509), so Jason Heyward, Anthony Rizzo, and Miguel Montero make for a good stack tonight.

Miguel Sano will look to shake his slow start against Carlos Rodon. Sano hit .284/.363/.519 against southpaws last year. Brian Dozier and Trevor Plouffe are also usually much better against lefties.

Phil Hughes is one of baseball’s biggest gopher-ballers, and he was actually worse against righties (.547 SLG) than lefties (.459) last year. Jose Abreu and Todd Frazier are great options.

Scott Feldman has been better against lefties throughout his career, and last year he had a pretty noticeable split (.253/.297/.367 vs. lefties;.292/.336/.487 vs. righties). Lorenzo Cain and Salvador Perez look a little better tonight.

Chase Anderson has a poor reverse-platoon split, allowing a .284/.330/.462 line to righthanded batters. The Cardinals are loaded with high-quality righty outfielders (Randal Grichuk, Stephen Piscotty, Matt Holliday), so try to grab at least one.

Mike Leake was downright nasty against righthanded batters last year (.215/.277/.358) and was pretty damn good the year before, too (.236/.292/.382). It seems silly to avoid guys like Ryan Braun and Chris Carter because they’re facing Leake, but the numbers back it up.

In Jordan Lyles’ last two full seasons, he’s had very different platoon splits. In 2013, he couldn’t get righties out (.302/.349/.509); in 2014, he struggled against lefties (.286/.381/.463). So, today, in Colorado, you can basically stack any and all Giants against him.

Paul Goldschmidt is one of the league’s best hitters against lefties, so he’s well worth his price today against Alex Wood. If you’re looking for a super-sleeper, consider Rickie Weeks, who has an .827 lifetime OPS vs. southpaws. He could start in place of David Peralta, who struggles against lefties.

Rubby De La Rosa had some of the most drastic lefty-righty splits last year, allowing a .312/.382/.567 line to lefties and a .209/.265/.346 line to righties. Fortunately, the Dodgers are loaded with lefthanded hitters, so take advantage.

  • Stats as of 4/12