Daily Fantasy MLB Hitter Stacks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 4/8/17

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Chicago Cubs

 
Tommy Milone will take the mound for the Milwaukee Brewers today with Junior Guerra out for at least six weeks. Milone had a rough go of it this spring in the Cactus League and has a 5.70 ERA in his last 71 1/3 major league innings. Milone came out of the Bullpen in Mondays opener against the Rockies, and gave up two earned runs on three hits in 2 innings, while picking up 2 K's. The highly potent Cubs offense should have a field day against him. Vegas is giving the Cubbies a run total of 5 which is the highest on the day outside of Coors. Kris Bryant, Addison Russell and Ben Zobrist match up nicely with Milone and should hit him around quite a bit. Kyle Schwarber helps to round out your stack as long as he continues to leadoff, while Jason Heyward can help provide some salary relief, if you wanted to do a heart of the order stack instead.

Texas Rangers

We're just about a full week in to the season now, which means, we've gotten a look at most teams full rotations at least once, and begin our second cycle through. Kendall Graveman opened the season for the Atheltics against Anaheim and actually looked pretty impressive. Through six innings, he allowed just 2 runs off 6 hits and 2 walks, while fanning 7, even walking away with a win. This may be more of a fluke than anything though, as he only had two games all of last season in which he was able to compile 7 strikeouts. Today he takes the mound in Globe Life Park, against a Rangers team that beat up on A.J. Griffin last night, knocking him out of the game after only 3.1 innings and 4 earned runs on 4 hits. Build against Graveman, with Shin-Soo Choo, Nomar Mazara, and Rougned Odorwith either Carlos Gomez or Mike Napoli to round out your stack.

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Los Angeles Dodgers

The "stack Coors field" philosophy of MLB DFS takes a small hit tonight with Clayton Kershaw taking the mound for the Dodgers. This makes stacking Rockies players a little tougher than it normally is during home games, and I for one certainly don't plan to tempt fate, though if you want to go contrarian you could possibly get lucky with that plan of attack. The more reasonable play is to stack the Dodgers going up against Jon Gray. Gray came out on opening day looking rather impressive, but quickly hit a wall. After accumulating 7 K's, while only allowing 4 base runners, he allowed 5 straight to get on, and 4 runs to score. There should be a strong wind blowing out to right in Coors tonight, which bodes well for Corey Seager, Adrian Gonzalez, and Joc Pederson. I also like adding Justin Turner in despite the negative split, since he should be placed in the top of the order in a game in which the Dodgers are looking at the highest implied total on the evening at 5.3

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