If you’re going to pay up for pitching early, you should plan on loading your lineup with Twins, Indians, Rays and Tigers – the latter of which features a variety of stackable players you can build your team around. For the late games, the Rangers, Red Sox, and Mariners present some good stacking opportunities according to the splits, and the Dodgers, Braves, and Pirates will also feature several players who should be highly owned tonight.
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Daily fantasy baseball advice, August 4
Teams facing lefties and their players who currently or traditionally hit well vs. LHPs:
Royals (vs. Drew Smyly): OF Lorenzo Cain, 1B Kendrys Morales
Indians (vs. Hector Santiago): SS Francisco Lindor, 1B Mike Napoli, OF Brandon Guyer, OF Rajai Davis
Cardinals (vs. Brandon Finnegan): OF Stephen Piscotty
Phillies (vs. Matt Moore): 1B Tommy Joseph, C Cameron Rupp
Tigers (vs. Jose Quintana): C Victor Martinez, 2B Ian Kinsler, 1B Miguel Cabrera, 3B Nick Castellanos, C James McCann, OF Cameron Maybin, SS Jose Iglesias, OF J.D. Martinez
Rangers (vs. Wade Miley): OF Ian Desmond, SS Elvis Andrus, 3B Adrian Beltre, OF Ryan Rua, OF Carlos Beltran, C Robinson Chirinos
Astros (vs. J.A. Happ): 2B Jose Altuve, OF George Springer, C Evan Gattis
Mariners (vs. Drew Pomeranz): OF Nelson Cruz, OF Franklin Gutierrez, C Chris Iannetta, 1B Dae-Ho Lee
Red Sox (vs. Ariel Miranda): 1B Hanley Ramirez, SS Xander Bogaerts, 2B Dustin Pedroia
- Lefthanded batters
Righthanded pitchers (non-aces) with noticeably bad splits vs. lefthanded hitters (i.e. stack lefties):
Nathan Eovaldi (vs. Mets)
Ryan Vogelsong (vs. Braves)
Righthanded pitchers (non-aces) with noticeably good splits vs. righthanded hitters (i.e. fade righties):
Jesse Hahn (vs. Angels)
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