5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 4/3/19

Tyler White, 1B, Houston Astros

Price: $2,400

With the high level of variance that baseball gives us on a night-by-night basis, it's often players going through a cold stretch that pop up as value plays the most often, and that's the case with Tyler White right now.

White has only three hits in 13 plate appearances this season, with none going for extra bases. Even his contact has been suspect -- he's yet to hit a fly-ball, while 85.7% of his batted-balls have been grounders, with only a 28.6% hard-hit rate.

13 plate appearances means basically nothing in the grand scheme of things, though. In 2018 he made 237 plate appearances, turning a 32.7% hard-hit rate and 42.6% fly-ball rate in to a .377 wOBA. Those contact numbers look a lot more like his career-averages (33.2% hard-hit, 41.4% fly-ball), and so we can expect him to start making contact like that again as we move forward.

He was especially good against lefties last year, with a huge .423 wOBA in an admittedly limited 72 plate appearances, and he's positioned well to bounce back against Mike Minor and the Texas Rangers tonight.

This isn't just any spot against a lefty either, as Minor posting a mediocre 4.27 SIERA last year and the Astros' five-run implied total is Wednesday's highest.