MLB
5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 8/20/18
Jed Lowrie, 2B, Oakland Athletics
Price: $3,000
Bartolo Colon, the Texas Rangers starter tonight, is a mere 3 wins from 250 for his career. Facing Jed Lowrie and the red-hot Oakland Athletics, Colon may still be waiting a bit for that 248th win.
Colon has been pretty poor this season, posting a 4.78 skill-interactive ERA (SIERA), and that's largely due to a paltry 13.2% strikeout rate. He's also giving up a heaping pile of hard contact, and his current mark of 43.1% this year would be one of the worst of his 22 major league seasons.
With the switch-hitting Lowrie posting far better marks as a lefty, including a .366 wOBA and .228 ISO, this is a fantastic matchup for the A's middle infielder.