With both the Blue Jays and Tigers facing lefties, you can pretty much just stack players from both teams to fill out your entire lineup. The D-backs, Marlins and Marlins also feature stacks that you can center your lineups around – and that’s before we get into some of the gas-can righthanders toward the bottom of our rankings. It should be another good day for offense.
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Daily fantasy baseball advice, August 9
Teams facing lefties and their players who currently or traditionally hit well vs. LHPs:
Blue Jays (vs. Drew Smyly): 3B Josh Donaldson, 1B Edwin Encarnacion, SS Troy Tulowitzki, C Russell Martin, OF Michael Saunders*
D-backs (vs. Steven Matz): 1B Paul Goldschmidt, C Welington Castillo, OF Rickie Weeks, OF Yasmany Tomas
Marlins (vs. Matt Moore): OF Marcell Ozuna, OF Giancarlo Stanton, 3B Martin Prado, OF Christian Yelich*
Astros (vs. Hector Santiago): 2B Jose Altuve, OF George Springer, C Evan Gattis
Royals (vs. Chris Sale): OF Lorenzo Cain, 1B Kendrys Morales
Cardinals (vs. Brandon Finnegan): OF Stephen Piscotty
A’s (vs. Wade Miley): 3B Danny Valencia, SS Marcus Semien, 1B Billy Butler, OF Jake Smolinski
Tigers (vs. Wade LeBlanc): C Victor Martinez, 2B Ian Kinsler, 1B Miguel Cabrera, 3B Nick Castellanos, C James McCann, SS Jose Iglesias
Mariners (vs. Daniel Norris): OF Nelson Cruz, OF Franklin Gutierrez, C Chris Iannetta, 1B Dae-Ho Lee
- Lefthanded batters
Righthanded pitchers (non-aces) with noticeably bad splits vs. lefthanded hitters (i.e. stack lefties):
Wily Peralta (vs. Braves)
Righthanded pitchers (non-aces) with noticeably bad splits vs. righthanded hitters (i.e. stack righties):
Luis Perdomo (vs. Pirates)
Righthanded pitchers (non-aces) with noticeably good splits vs. righthanded hitters (i.e. fade righties):
John Lackey (vs. Angels)
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