Joel Bartilotta 
Welcome to the Monday edition of the Stack City, where I’ll be going through the top MLB DFS Stacks on DraftKings and Fanduel.
It’s Monday and we have a nice-sized 9-game slate of MLB baseball. The only downfall of this slate is that we have a Coors game again and that always adds a wrench into the strategy of the slate.
Always make sure to read Adam’s Starting Rotation when setting your lineup. It’s hands down the best pitching article in the MLB DFS business.
Let’s dig in and see if we can find some stacks to use today!
MLB DFS Stacks – Main
Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chad Kuhl
While I normally tend to shy away from making a team playing in Coors a top stack for my MLB DFS stack article, it’s really tough tonight to ignore the spot that the Dodgers are in vs. Chad Kuhl. While Kuhl hasn’t been awful this season, he still has an xFIP for the year right at his career average in the mid-4 range. Over the past 30 days, that xFIP has actually climbed a bit to the upper 4’s.
The Rockies have also lost 7 of Kuhl’s last 8 starts and after today, it should be 8 of his last 9. With Kuhl, attacking him with lefties is normally a good strategy. He’s been giving up more power to them as lefties have a slugging % 50 points higher than righties and are also getting on base at a higher clip with an OBP about 30 points higher.
I’ll start this Dodgers stack with Freddie Freeman. Freeman has an extremely hot bat right now as he currently has a 10-game hitting streak. He’s coming off a solid Sunday night of baseball that saw him go 2 for 5 with a walk, double, and an RBI. Freeman also matches up extremely well with Kuhl. Kuhl is a sinker ball pitcher, throwing it around 40% of the time to hitters this season. On the year, Freeman has a .558 slugging % vs. sinkers and a .421 wOBA. He should absolutely smash tonight and increase his hitting streak to 11 games.
Next up will be Cody Bellinger. This is an extremely solid spot for Bellinger tonight and at just $4.4k on DK tonight, we’re getting a hitter at a reasonable price in Coors that could perform really well for us. Against sinkers this season, Bellinger has a .552 slugging % and a .439 wOBA. He’s also coming into this game with hits in 3 of his last 4 games, 2 of which were multi-hit games.
Other Dodgers I really like tonight will be Will Smith (.703 slugging % vs. Sinkers this season), Chris Taylor, Max Muncy, and Gavin Lux.
Los Angeles Angels vs. Lucas Giolito
Something is off with Lucas Giolito this season, and until he’s back to form he’s really someone that we want to attack. Over his last 5 outings, he’s been getting absolutely shelled. He’s allowed 13 barrels and 9 homers in those 5 starts. Hitters have a hard-hit rate pushing 40% against in those 5 and a 45% flyball rate. He’s just off and with the Angels playing somewhat better baseball of late, they can definitely get to him tonight.
This season, Giolito has been as reverse-splits as you can be. Righties have a massive .702 slugging % vs. him compared to just .278 for lefties. Their wOBA is the same story. Righties have a .465 vs. just .255 for lefties. Most importantly, righties also have an OBP of .409 vs. him this year. There are a couple of righties in this lineup that we’ll really want to focus on.
You thought I was going to say Mike Trout first didn’t you? Nope, my most important piece here will be Taylor Ward. Ward has had basically 3 chunks to this season. A solid chunk, an awful chunk, and he’s back to a new solid chunk of the season. With another 2 hits yesterday, he now has a 7-game hitting streak. Over those 7 games, he’s had 3 multi-hit games and very well could have another one tonight. He’s back to being the on-base machine he was early in the year and against a pitcher that has struggled against righties year, we’ll want to take advantage of that.
Next up will be Mike Trout. The DK price point of $6.3k tonight is a little prohibitive and high for my liking, but what a spot for him tonight. He’s coming off a solid series against Seattle that saw him get on base 8 times in 13 plate appearances. He’s historically done well against Gio as he has a .432 wOBA against him with a homer. We’ll need a lot from him to pay off his salary today, but knowing that Gio has given up a .702 slugging % vs. righties this season, I think there’s a solid chance for a Trout homer tonight!
Other guys I like here will be Shohei Ohtani, Lucas Rengifo, and Max Stassi.
Washington Nationals vs. Bryse Wilson
Over his last 4 appearances since May 10, Wilson has been nothing short of awful. In his 3 starts during that stretch, he’s allowed 20 ER in just 9 innings of work. Just not good! I will say though that the 3 starts were against really solid teams in the Cardinals and Dodgers. That said, Wilson just isn’t very good and he’s someone that we should feel comfortable attacking with hitters.
While he’s been pretty bad to both sides of the plate this year, he’s been especially bad against lefties. Lefties have a slugging % of .590 on the year and a wOBA of .446. Their OPS vs. him is over 1.000 and that indicates he’s letting a healthy amount of runners on to them and they are also hitting for power. Let’s attack!
I’m starting off my Nationals stack with Josh Bell. Bell is quietly having a really good year. His average is up to .310 and has 11 homers and 46 RBI. When you think of the Nationals’ offense, you typically think of Juan Soto. But it’s actually been Bell that has been carrying this offense in 2022 at a fraction of the cost in MLB DFS. Bell is coming into this game with 2 3-hit games in his last 3 games. Bell should see a healthy dose of changeups today as it’s one of Wilson’s favorite pitches to throw to lefties. On the year, Bell has a .541 slugging % and a .411 wOBA vs. changeups.
Next up will be Juan Soto. Soto had a pretty impressive feat on Sunday, walking 4 times. To me, that indicates that he’s seeing the ball extremely well right now. His series against text was decent, as he had a pair of doubles and scored 4 runs. While at his price point you want more, with this matchup tonight we’ll see the ‘more’. Soto has home run upside in every at-bat, and with this a matchup vs. a struggling pitcher, he should put one into the seats tonight.
Other Nationals I like tonight are Cesar and Yadiel Hernandez, and Nelson Cruz.
MLB DFS Summary
Other stacks that have my interest tonight will be Pittsburgh vs. Erick Fedde, Minnesota vs. Triston McKenzie, and the Yankees vs. Paul Blackburn. Kris Bubic has been a favorite of mine to stack against in his career. Since coming back up from the minors, he’s actually been pitching well. His K’s are up and the flyballs are down. I’m not saying to use him as a pitcher, I’m just going to be more cautious stacking against him right now.
Good luck and hope to see you in the green.
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