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5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 4/19/18

Jason Schandl  —  @JasonSchandl Apr 19th, 2018
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Nick Ahmed, SS, Arizona Diamondbacks

Price: $2,700

Another juicy fantasy matchup tonight is against San Francisco Giants lefty Ty Blach. We have over 200 innings of major league work since 2016 to draw on for Blach's numbers, and in that time, he has managed an ugly 5.25 SIERA. He's not showing any real signs of improvement in 2018, either, with identical 10.1% clips in his strikeout rate and walk rate to go with a 4.94 SIERA.

With this strong matchup, the Arizona Diamondbacks' 4.75 implied total is the second-highest on the main slate.

Nick Ahmed isn't anything special, but in 162 plate appearances against southpaws since the start of the 2016 season, he has turned in a reasonable .330 wOBA and .168 ISO on a 32.3% hard-hit rate. Not staggering numbers by any stretch, but it's enough to offer some solid value, and he's one of the only appealing ways to get inexpensive exposure to the D-Backs' offense.

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