Friday night’s fantasy baseball slate has a dozen games and gets underway at 7:05 p.m. ET. While there are a few aces on the mound, it looks like a good night to bring your hitting shoes! There are several great matchups to attack for your MLB stacks this Friday to stuff your roster with plenty of potential production.
In case you’re new to the idea, “stacking” is an MLB DFS strategy that relies on multiple players from the same team boosting each other’s production as they pile up runs in a good matchup. Since multiple players earn points in most situations when runs are scored, building around several options from the same lineup creates a positive correlation for your squad. If you can find the right matchup, stacking can be extremely effective because high-scoring teams usually have multiple players near the top of the overall leaderboard. Despite raising the risk of your lineup being shut down, the right target for MLB Stacks can carry you to the top of the leaderboard.
Here are my top three MLB DFS stacks for this Friday.
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1. New York Mets
Juan Soto ($6,000)
Pete Alonso ($5,800)
Brandon Nimmo ($4,700)
Brett Baty ($4,400)
Ronny Mauricio ($3,000)
The Mets have the highest implied run total on the board this Friday, which is no surprise since they’re playing at Coors Field and get a great matchup against Antonio Senzatela ($4,300). Over the last two weeks, no team in the MLB has more home runs than the Mets, who have a .329 wOBA over that span.
Senzatela has gone an ugly 1-10 in his 12 starts with a 7.14 ERA, 5.41 FIP and 1.98 WHIP. He has allowed 25 barrels in his 58 innings with a 47.4% hard-hit rate against. Lefties have a .409 batting average and .445 wOBA against him, so Soto and Nimmo are especially good plays.
I highlighted Nimmo in my top home run props for the night, and Soto has found a nice groove with double-digit fantasy points in five of his last seven games. Alonso is always a power threat and has six homers in his last 11 games while producing 13.5 fantasy points per game over that span. Baty and Mauricio are both lower-cost options but have good potential to produce to round out the stack.
There is some potential rain around Coors Field at the start of the game, but the Mets should still be a top option for MLB stacks since a postponement doesn’t seem likely to be necessary. I’d avoid pitchers in this game for other reasons, but bats should be just fine.
2. Milwaukee Brewers
Brice Turang ($4,900)
Jackson Chourio ($4,900)
Christian Yelich ($4,800)
Sal Frelick ($4,000)
Caleb Durbin ($3,000)
The Brewers have been heating up over the last week as well and are coming home from a 5-1 road trip in which they smashed 10 home runs and averaged 7.0 runs per game while hitting .299 as a team with a .366 wOBA.
They’re back at home as they take on Randy Vasquez ($5,800) and the Padres. Vasquez has been serviceable overall this year with a 3.99 ERA, but his 5.35 FIP and above-average strand rate indicate some regression could be coming for him. It’s already started in his last few starts, with a 5.21 ERA and 1.53 WHIP in his last eight outings. While he has held righties in check this year, lefties have hit .287 with a .393 wOBA against him this year.
Lefties like Turang, Yelich, and Frelick can be included in the stack as a result. Frelick is hitting .375 (15-for-40) in his last 10 games with an average of 8.4 fantasy points per game. Yelich has four homers in his last 10 games while averaging 13.5 fantasy points per contest over that span, and Turang has at least nine fantasy points in five of his last six games. You can round out the stack with Durbin as a cheap play that sets up a nice wraparound and Chourio, who always has a very high ceiling.
3. Cleveland Guardians
Jose Ramirez ($5,700)
Steven Kwan ($4,600)
Angel Martinez ($3,500)
David Fry ($3,000)
Jhonkensy Noel ($2,300)
The Guardians are one of my favorite contrarian and affordable options in MLB stacks this Friday. They’ll get a good matchup against rookie lefty Colton Gordon ($6,500). Gordon has long-term potential and hasn’t been awful in his four starts, but he has allowed multiple runs in each of his four outings with a total of 10 earned runs and four home runs allowed. The Rays got to him for four runs on five hits in five innings. Gordon has held lefties to a .231 average, but righties have hit .300 with all four of those home runs and a .383 wOBA.
The centerpiece of any Guardians stack is switch-hitting Jose Ramirez, who is hitting a blistering .426 this season against lefties with a .455 wOBA and 202 wRC+ in the split. Martinez is another switch-hitter who has been producing from the second spot in the order against lefties. Fry just returned from injury and is only 1-for-7 on the year but stole a base on Thursday and brings a very high ceiling at just $3,000 with some nice catcher eligibility. Noel is an even cheaper option who will likely start against the lefty, and Big Christmas always has plenty of power potential. He’s only 3-for-20 (.150) in his last 10 games and is only hitting .150 on the season as well. When he does make contact, though, the ball goes a long way.
The Guardians won’t be nearly as popular as the Mets or Brewers in MLB stacks, but they can blend in nicely with the high-priced Mets.
