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3 MLB FanDuel Studs to Target on 7/2/18

Jason Schandl  —  @JasonSchandl Jul 2nd, 2018
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Nolan Arenado, 3B, Colorado Rockies

Price: $4,900

Today's Coors Field clash between the Colorado Rockies and San Francisco Giants has a slate-high 10.0-run over/under, leaving both teams ranking in the top-six in implied total for the day.

Giants lefty Madison Bumgarner had his season debut pushed back due to injury, and while he had a rocky opening, his last two outings have shown that he is back to the strong form he has shown us in past years. That is definitely a hit to the value of Colorado's bats, but when Nolan Arenado is against a southpaw at Coors, you can afford to look past a lot of negatives.

Over the last two seasons, Arenado has a 42.4% hard-hit rate and 43.8% fly-ball rate against left-handed pitching. At home against lefties, he has tallied an absurd .589 wOBA and .500 isolated slugging (ISO) in 132 plate appearances since the start of the 2017 season. That upside is hard to ignore, even against a pitcher of Bumgarner's quality.

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