There’s only two weeks left before the postseason. What a glorious time to be a baseball fan. Well, unless you’re a fan of the Mets. Hang in there, guys.
Let’s turn our attention to tonight’s seven-game featured MLB DFS slate on DraftKings. Here are some high-priced options to build your lineups around and a few values to balance the salaries out.
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Kai-Wei Teng, San Francisco Giants at Arizona Diamondbacks, $6,000 – Here’s the thing: Everyone and their mother is going to be excited to get Trey Yesavage ($7,500) into a lineup tonight, as MLB Pipeline’s No. 25 prospect makes his debut for the Blue Jays. So, that’s why I’m suggesting a pivot to Teng, who also happens to be the cheapest pitcher on this whole slate. Teng has a 7.54 ERA in his 22.2 innings of work at the big league level in 2025, but I’m asking you to look deeper. The 26-year-old rookie also has 28 strikeouts and is holding opponents to microscopic barrel (3.2%) and hard hit (28.6%) rates. Teng has simply been unlucky, as evidenced by a .403 opponent BABIP and a laughable 52.9% strand rate. It’s rare to find this much strikeout upside in a starter with this low a salary. If Teng benefits from even a little normalization on Monday, he should easily bring back value at low ownership in GPPs.
INFIELD
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Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Philadelphia Phillies, $5,000 – It’s been a weird season for Mookie. Fortunately, the future Hall of Fame player has turned things around the past six weeks, slashing .355/.418/.567 with a 175 wRC+ dating back to August 5. In layman’s terms, he simply looks like a former MVP again. Tonight, Betts will draw an opposite-hand matchup versus Ranger Suarez ($9,000). The southpaw has been awesome in 2025, yet he has had his issues with Betts throughout the pair’s careers. In nine regular season at-bats, Betts has two long balls off Suarez.
Value
Ivan Herrera, St. Louis Cardinals vs. Cincinnati Reds, $4,000 – Herrera is the perfect type of catcher for fantasy baseball, in that he doesn’t even really play catcher anymore. He’s purely a bat — and a good one at that. Injuries have limited Herrera to just 400 plate appearances in what should have been a breakout season, yet the 25-year-old is still ranking in the 90th percentile in both expected batting average (.286) and expected wOBA (.378). Meanwhile, Zack Littell ($7,000) has surrendered more opponent home runs than any other pitcher in 2025. Need I say more?
OUTFIELD
Stud
George Springer, Toronto Blue Jays at Tampa Bay Rays, $5,800 – George M. Steinbrenner Field has been a hitter’s park all season long and Springer will attempt to keep that trend going on Monday. Springer, who was left for dead by the fantasy baseball community in Spring Training, comes into this evening’s action sporting a 162 wRC+. That’s the third-highest qualified mark in MLB, only trailing Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani. It is truly wild what the veteran outfielder has been able to accomplish — especially considering he’ll be turning 36-years-old in four days. Springer and the Jays will face-off with Joe Boyle ($6,400). In six starts with the Rays, Boyle owns a a 7.54 ERA and he’s surrendered 1.99 opponent home runs per nine.
Value
Dylan Beavers, Baltimore Orioles at Chicago White Sox, $3,300 – After absolutely crushing Triple-A pitching all season long, Beavers hasn’t skipped a beat since being promoted to the MLB level. In 92 plate appearances, the rookie outfielder has managed an eye-popping .440 OBP and a 147 wRC+. That’s likely why the Orioles’ decided to move Beavers up into this two-spot in the lineup this past weekend. That lineup placement in combination with a price tag just above $3,000 makes Beavers very viable on Monday. Add in Sean Burke ($6,500) and things get even better. In Burke’s past four starts, the RHP has surrendered a .299/.390/.597 slash line to opposing hitters. Woof.
