5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 4/16/18
Randal Grichuk, OF, Toronto Blue Jays
Price: $2,100
Randal Grichuk doesn't offer much of a floor, but his upside is pretty nice for a guy priced this low. The 26-year-old has tagged left-handed pitchers for a 37.9% hard-hit rate, 49.8% fly-ball rate and 14.1% soft-hit rate over his major league career, giving him plenty of power and home run upside tonight.
Eric Skoglund has been particularly bad against right-handed bats in his short time in the majors, allowing an absurd .459 wOBA on a 36.6% hard-hit rate and 43.7% fly-ball rate. That wOBA is not a sustainable mark and will almost surely come down over time, but giving up hard fly-balls to a guy with the kind of pop Grichuk has can easily spell trouble.
Our models are very high on Grichuk, projecting him as the second-best point-per-dollar value of the day.
Jason Schandl is not a FanDuel employee. In addition to providing DFS gameplay advice, Jason Schandl also participates in DFS contests on FanDuel using his personal account, username Jaymun. While the strategies and player selections recommended in his articles are his personal views, he may deploy different strategies and player selections when entering contests with his personal account. The views expressed in his articles are the author's alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of FanDuel.
