4 Daily Fantasy Baseball Stacks for 9/26/18
Stacking can be a controversial topic in many daily fantasy sports, but you can count baseball as a glaring exception. Here, it's universal.
Using multiple players on the same team on a given day presents you with the opportunity to double dip. If one of your players hits an RBI double, there's a good chance he drove in another one of your guys. When you get the points for both the run and the RBI, you'll be climbing the leaderboards fast.
Each day here on numberFire, we'll go through four offenses ripe for the stacking. They could have a great matchup, be in a great park, or just have a lot of quality sticks in the lineup, but these are the offenses primed for big days that you may want a piece of.
Premium members can use our new stacking feature to customize their stacks within their optimal lineups for the day, choosing the team you want to stack and how many players you want to include. You can also check out our hitting heat map, which provides an illustration of which offenses have the best combination of matchup and potency.
Now, let's get to the stacks.
Milwaukee Brewers
John Gant has issued a free pass to 11.5% of the batters he has faced this year. He's also allowed a 44.5% hard-hit rate, which is why his SIERA is at 4.81.
The Milwaukee Brewers rank 10th in hard-hit rate against right-handed pitching, with a 37.8% mark.
Christian Yelich ($4,900) owns a 164 wRC+ against righties thanks to a 48.0% hard-hit rate, and he has become a serious contender for the National League MVP award. Mike Moustakas ($4,200) boasts a 17.2% strikeout rate, 50.0% fly-ball rate, and 43.4% hard-hit rate this season. Jesus Aguilar ($4,000) emerged as one of the surprise power threats this year, thanks to a 42.0% fly-ball rate and 43.7% hard-hit rate.
Travis Shaw ($4,000) has crushed right-handed pitching to the tune of a 136 wRC+, including a 48.5% fly-ball rate and 43.4% hard-hit rate. Lorenzo Cain ($3,700) enters play with a 11.7% walk rate, 14.9% strikeout rate, 38.9% hard-hit rate, and 29 steals. Curtis Granderson ($3,400) owns a 37.4% fly-ball rate and 36.8% hard-hit rate against right-handed pitching this season.
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