Twelve teams are on the main featured MLB slate this Saturday night on DraftKings, presenting a wide variety of ways to go about building your lineup. With some vulnerable starting pitchers taking the mound, it should be a good night for some offensive production for a few squads. As you build your roster for Saturday night’s contests, check out these great spots to build MLB stacks.
To set a clear target, let’s define what stacking is. Building the core of your roster around MLB Stacks is a strong fantasy baseball strategy that strives to create a positive correlation. It basically comes down to including multiple players from the same MLB team so that the teammates can boost each other to produce more points in high-scoring games. Usually, it’s best to focus on players from the same section of the lineup so that they can team up for run production. Finding a favorable matchup in a good game environment is key to deciding which team to include in your MLB stacks.
As we look at the dozen teams on the diamond this Saturday night, these three MLB stacks stand out.
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1. Detroit Tigers
Spencer Torkelson ($4,600)
Riley Greene ($4,100)
Zach McKinstry ($4,000)
Kerry Carpenter ($3,500)
Colt Keith ($2,600)
The Tigers are a pretty affordable stack with no members over $5,000 and multiple key contributors under $4,000. They have a good matchup against Kyle Hendricks ($5,100), who has a 6.65 ERA, 6.01 FIP and a 31.0% hard-hit rate against on the season. Hendricks has let lefties post a .360 wOBA against him, which sets up several key Tigers on the strong side of that split.
I highlighted Carpenter in my top targets for the day, and he’s an intense value if he stays in the leadoff spot. McKinstry is 16-for-42 over his last 10 games and averaging 10.3 fantasy points per game over that span. Lefty Riley Greene went yard twice on Friday and finished with 35 fantasy points. He has over 15 fantasy points in four of his last seven games and has led the Tigers to 19 runs in the first two games of this series.
2. Kansas City Royals
Bobby Witt Jr. ($5,800)
Maikel Garcia ($3,600)
Jonathan India ($3,100)
Vinnie Pasquantino ($3,000)
Drew Waters ($2,500)
The Royals were in a great spot for MLB stacks yesterday, but they fell flat against Baltimore starter Dean Kremer. This is still a good spot to go back to the well, though, since they should be able to bounce back against Tomoyuki Sugano ($7,100), who has given up lots of hard contact in his first year in the majors. Sugano is 3-1 with a 3.00 ERA, but his xERA is 5.66, and he has given up six home runs in six starts. Four of those homers have come to left-handed hitters, setting up Pasquantino and the switch-hitting Waters on the strong side of the splits.
Whenever the Royals are in a favorable matchup, Witt is the right place to start the stack since he is thriving out of the second spot in the batting order. India was acquired this past offseason to give the Royals a true leadoff option, and he had reached base safely in seven straight games before going 0-for-4 on Friday. Pasquantino brings some power but a low batting average, while Waters continues to find ways to chip in since joining the team in mid-April. Over his last 10 games, he is 12-for-36 (.333) with five extra-base hits, a stolen base and an average of 7.7 fantasy points per game.
3. Seattle Mariners
Julio Rodriguez ($5,000)
Cal Raleigh ($4,900)
Randy Arozarena ($4,800)
Mitch Garver ($3,000)
Donovan Solano ($2,300)
The Mariners have scored more runs than any other team in the majors over the last two weeks even though they have only played 11 games. They averaged an impressive 7.5 runs per game by hitting .293 as a team with 21 homers in 11 games with a .387 wOBA and a 161 wRC+. They’ll face lefty Patrick Corbin ($7,000) on Saturday night in Texas. Corbin has been less of a stacking target this season than he has been the last few years, but he has still allowed 24 hits and eight runs over 19 innings. His 4.63 xERA indicates regression could be coming, and it could be coming in the form of the Mariners’ red-hot lineup.
While I don’t love J.P. Crawford ($3,200) at the very top of the lineup, I am very high on using the No. 2 through No. 5 batters in the order as one of the best MLB stacks on the board. Rodriguez (who I also highlighted in targets) and Raleigh have both been scorching hot, and Raleigh hit two blasts on Saturday to get to the top of the leaderboard with 12 homers on the season. He had 13 fantasy points in four of his last five games and has hit safely in six straight. Arozarena has at least seven fantasy points in five of his last seven games, and Garver has at least that many in six straight as a good value play. Solano is a specialist against left-handed pitching who brings salary relief and has hit safely in three straight starts.
