Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte will start on second base and bat leadoff on Wednesday against left-hander Joey Lucchesi and the New York Mets.
Marte will move into the leadoff role against a lefty while Corbin Carroll takes a seat. He owns a .307/.376/.503 slash line against southpaws this season.
numberFire’s models project Marte ($3,500) for 11.5 FanDuel points on Wednesday. Per our MLB Heat Map, the Diamondbacks' implied total is 4.28 and the game total is 8.0. Lucchesi has been pretty awful across 28 innings this season, evidenced by a 5.99 xERA, 19.0% strikeout rate, and 10.7% barrel rate. Based on those numbers, the lefty's 3.54 ERA is quite misleading.
Source: MLB.com