5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 5/8/18

Kole Calhoun, OF, Los Angeles Angels

Price: $3,000

Even with a tough matchup against Colorado Rockies righty Jon Gray, traveling to Coors Field leaves the Angels boasting a solid 5.09 implied total.

Gray has also been allowing some strong contact to left-handed bats this year, with a 39.1% hard-hit and 33.3% fly-ball rate, opening the door for Kole Calhoun.

Calhoun is off to a terrible start to 2018, but he's still making some great contact, sitting on pace for career-bests in both hard-hit rate (39.5%) and soft-hit rate (12.3%). He's not a safe value play tonight, as he carries a very low floor, but making contact like that (combined with Gray allowing a lot of hard contact) makes for a ton of upside when he's hitting those balls into the thin air at Coors.