Daily Fantasy MLB Hitter Stacks for FanDuel and DraftKings- 6/12/16

Welcome to our new daily article breaking down some of the other stacking targets on this slate. We covered our system's top value plays in our daily picks article.

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Stacking in DFS MLB is such an important concept if you’re looking to take down a big tournament on FanDuel or DraftKings. It’s also a good way to diversify cash games because the variance in baseball can mean wild swings (ahem) in the scoring on a particular slate. The concept is easy. You want to pile players from one or two teams into your lineups because those guys compound scores by helping each other score runs when the going is good.

Stack Targets

Note: Both sides of the Coors game are obviously in play, but we'll give you a few other options to pick over as well. This article is about finding good stacks to get separation in big tournaments, and that can't usually be done in Coors Field.

Washington Nationals vs. Adam Morgan

The Nats are normally a stack when they are against right handed pitchers thanks to the thumping bats of Bryce Harper and Daniel Murphy, and the reverse platoon action you can get from Anthony Rendon. When they're facing a pitcher as bad as Adam Morgan, though, you don't totally need the platoon advantage.

While this game has just an 8.5 over/under, the -250 money line Washington's way suggests Vegas thinks the Nats' bats are going to feast here. The usual suspects (Harper and Murphy) are in play even in a reverse platoon spot, and we can also get some excess value by targeting Michael Taylor (.090 OPS points better against LHP for his career, getting some looks at the top of the lineup), Wilson Ramos (.054 OPS points better vs. LHP for his career), Anthony Rendon and Ben Revere (a reverse platoon split guy for his career).

Morgan, in case you're unfamiliar, is just a batting practice guy who leaves WAY too many balls up in the zone - his 32.3 career GB% would be the 3rd worst figure in the league this season.

The Chicago Cubs against "John Gant"

Okay, the air quotes treatment on John Gant might be a little unfair. He's flashed strikeout stuff in the minors, and seems polished enough that he might be ready for the big leagues. Like Morgan, though, he leaves balls up in the zone, and unlike Morgan, he's facing an historically great team.

This is truly one of those "any Cubs will do" games - but if you're feeling picky, Rizzo and Bryant are coming out with a particularly high points per dollar multiplier in our lineup optimizer because of their tendency to crush long balls against right handed pitchers.

The Red Sox against "Pat Dean"

Okay, this time the air quotes are deserved. I had at least heard of Gant going into this article, and I'm going to come clean here and say I thought Pat Dean was a generic name you'd find in an old Nintendo baseball game from the 90s. Upon researching Mr. Dean, I discovered a man who only topped 5 K/9 at one stop in the minors over the course of the last 5 years. He throws strikes, but unlike some other prospects pitching today (Urias, Gant), Dean has no ceiling and frankly no floor.

Oh, and he's facing a team with the league's highest wOBA against left handed pitching.

This one could get... awkward. You're looking at the highest non-Coors moneyline of the day (really though, Coors?), and with good reason.

The Red Sox will almost certainly trot out three righties at the top of the order (Bogaerts, Pedroia, Betts). All three of these guys have .800+ OPS's versus left handed pitching for their career. Then you'll get Papi in the clean-up spot. And while hitting lefties isn't really his thing, do you think he can't make contact against a guy who has struck out fewer than 5 guys per 9 innings in the minors? Then you get to Hanley Ramirez, whose .897 career OPS against lefties doesn't exactly present a break. And the bottom of the order isn't too shabby either!

So many stack options today - I can't even name them all. This is the perfect day to run wild with the double stack feature inside our lineup optimizer. Hope you have a good one!

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