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Daily Fantasy MLB Hitter Stacks FanDuel & DraftKings 6/26/16

Daily Fantasy MLB Hitter Stacks for FanDuel and DraftKings- 6/26/16

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 and our daily pitching breakdown, so here are some teams you can target that could put up big numbers today.

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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.

Team Stack Targets

A note on the Coors game
Normally we'd try to emphasize other stacks than the very most obvious one, but today is something of an exception. This game has a total of 12.5, which is a full 2.5 runs higher than the next two highest games. That's... ridiculous. Now, the Coors game is obviously not a favorite against the field to have the individually highest scoring game, so you may want to do a bit of bobbing and weaving in big tournaments. Still, this game is by far the most likely game to produce the highest scoring team if you pair it up against any other game individually. It's a clear target for cash games, and a reasonable target even as the chalk play in big tournaments. Still, there are some other teams that are on my radar today as well.

Cincinnati Reds against Luis Perdomo
Fantastic hitter's park and a lousy pitcher, need I say more? Oh man, I feel sick even having said "need I say more." I'll go ahead and say more.

If you're not familiar with the work of Luis Perdomo, consider yourself lucky. Perdomo was a rule 5 pick-up from the Cardinals' minor league system who had never pitched above A+ ball in the minors. They plied him to modest success as a reliever, and then pressed him into service as a starter. He has been predictably awful. The Reds have a handful of guys who strongly prefer right handed pitchers - Votto, Bruce, and Hamilton of course - but have enough firepower around the big guys to make a stack work even better. Adam Duvall has slugged over .600 against right handers this season, for instance. Throw in a great hitters' park, and this one could get out of hand.

Both sides of the Rangers/Red Sox game
The Red Sox are a chalk non_Coors stack with great regularity, so it possibly doesn't make sense to belabor the point there. Martin Perez's ERA doesn't tell nearly the tale of how horrible he's been this season - his 4.47:3.89 K:BB ratio this season is Mike Pelfrey-esque, and the Red Sox have more than enough right handed bats to do an incredible amount of damage here. They'll be a huge play without a doubt.

The Texas side is what interests me as a more off-beat play. First of all, Clay Buchholz is one of the most straightforwardly bad pitchers in the majors this season. His 5.37 xFIP would be the 2nd worst in the majors this season if not for the fact that he's been too bad to even pitch enough innings to qualify. The obvious targets here are the left handers - Choo, Mazara, Odor, and even Moreland. Beltre is no slouch against right handers either, and I'd be happy to include him in various stacks as well.

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