This Monday, Major League Baseball gets the work week off to a fast start with an eight-game slate under the lights, which gets underway a little early at 6:40 p.m. ET. Three of the eight games will be indoors, and all but one contest are the start of new series going into the new week. With 16 teams on the scoreboard, several lineups stand out as strong options for fantasy baseball lineups. Let’s dive into the matchups on the board and find some MLB DFS stacks to build your lineups around this Monday night.
Before we get to the individual selections for these contests, let’s define exactly what we’re searching for. An ideal target for MLB DFS stacks is a team well-positioned to score plenty of runs based on its matchup and ballpark. “Stacking” is the strategy of adding multiple players from the same MLB lineup to your roster to boost each other’s production.
Ideally, MLB DFS stacks focus on players who are either back-to-back or from the same part of the lineup to allow positive correlation. Since most run-scoring plays produce fantasy points for multiple players, stacking a high-scoring team can carry your entry to the top of the leaderboard. The key to MLB DFS stacks paying off is finding the perfect matchup to attack, so let’s take a look at Monday’s top spots to attack.
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1. Los Angeles Dodgers
Shohei Ohtani ($6,800)
Kyle Tucker ($6,500)
Andy Pages ($5,600)
Max Muncy ($5,200)
Will Smith ($4,900)
Alex Freeland ($3,700)
The Dodgers have not looked great in their series in Denver, dropping their last two games, but they’ll get one more chance to hit in the rarified air of Coors Field as they close out their four-game series at elevation with a favorable matchup against Jose Quintana ($5,700). Quintana had a nice bounce-back the last few seasons with the Mets and Brewers, but his two starts for the Rockies have not gone so well. The veteran lefty has allowed five runs on seven hits in eight innings for a 5.63 ERA and 7.00 FIP.
Several key Dodgers bats have good histories against Quintana. Shohei Ohtani is 3-for-7 with thee home runs against him, Andy Pages is 4-for-11 with two doubles, and Max Muncy is 2-for-10 with a homer and six walks in their past meetings.
Ohtani hasn’t gone yard yet in this series but did have a pair of doubles and 14 FPTS on Sunday. Muncy had a pair of homers and 35 FPTS on Friday, and then he had 9 FPTS on three hits on Sunday. Pages is still hitting a sizzling .382 with five homers, 21 RBI and an average of 10.7 FPTS per game, while Kyle Tucker comes in with a five-game hitting streak that includes two homers and a double for an average of 11 FPTS per game over that streak of success.
The Dodgers are a very pricey stack, but they have a very high ceiling at Coors Field, where the temperatures are expected to be in the 70s despite snow on the field at the start of the series last Friday.
2. Atlanta Braves
Ronald Acuna Jr. ($5,400)
Drake Baldwin ($4,800)
Matt Olson ($4,500)
Ozzie Albies ($3,900)
Michael Harris II ($3,000)
The Braves are on a roll as they head to Washington, D.C. Fresh off sweeping the Phillies to improve to 15-7 on the season, the Braves get a very favorable matchup against Jake Irvin ($6,100) and the Nationals. Irvin went 9-13 with a 5.70 ERA and 5.64 FIP in his 33 starts last season, allowing an MLB-high 38 home runs. In 2026, he hasn’t been much better, going 1-2 in his four starts with a 6.16 ERA and 4.87 FIP, allowing three homers in 19 innings.
Michael Harris II is 7-for-18 (.389) against Irvin in the past with a pair of doubles and a pair of walks. Harris had a huge night on Sunday, going 3-for-3 with a homer and 24 FPTS, and he also had over 20 FPTS on Friday in his previous start. Over his last eight starts, he’s averaging 10.9 FPTS per game, and even though he hits at the bottom of the order, he can be a great value with both power and speed potential.
Ronald Acuna Jr. has hit safely in 10 of his last 11 games, averaging 9.8 FPTS per contest over that stretch, while Drake Baldwin and Matt Olson are each averaging over 10 FPTS per game on the season from just behind him in the order. If Harris bats ninth, he is just in front of those three big bats and the wraparound stack could be very effective if the Braves keep mashing in this great spot. As a stron alternative option in MLB DFS Stacks, they’re much more affordable than the Dodgers.
3. St. Louis Cardinals
JJ Wetherholt ($4,800)
Alec Burleson ($4,700)
Jordan Walker ($4,600)
Ivan Herrera ($4,300)
Masyn Winn ($3,300)
The Cardinals are 13-8, and they’re just a half-game behind the Reds for the NL Central lead as they head to Miami this week, riding a five-game winning streak. On Monday, they’ll face young righty Max Meyer ($7,600), who has shown some promise, but he has also been unable to pitch deep into games. Meyer is 1-0 with a 4.12 ERA and 3.79 FIP in his four starts, but he hasn’t been able to pitch more than five innings in any outing. He has a 42.4% hard-hit rate and 5.25 xERA, which indicates he has been hit harder than his ERA and the results show at first glance.
After scoring 23 runs in a three-game sweep of the Astros, the Cards are a solid option for MLB DFS stacks this Monday, starting at the top of their order. Rookie J.J. Wetherholt is averaging 9.1 FPTS per game on the season and had at least 9 FPTS in each of his last five games, dating back to his big game with 30 FPTS and a pair of homers against the Guardians.
Behind him, Herrera has hit safely in five of his last seven games, including a pair of home runs during that stretch. Masyn Winn had 16 and 19 FPTS in his two games over the weekend and has multiple RBI in three straight games after totaling only one RBI through his first 14 games of the season.
Jordan Walker has been one of the top hitters in baseball this season by many metrics, and the 23-year-old is hitting .305 with eight homers, a .437 wOBA, a 58.2% hard-hit rate and a 21.8% barrel rate through his first 21 games this season. Walker has at least 7.0 FPTS in 11 of his last 12 games and is averaging a robust 12.3 FPTS over those dozen contests.
