3 Under-the-Radar Daily Fantasy Baseball Plays for 8/7/17
Eduardo Escobar, SS, Minnesota Twins
FanDuel Price: $2,600
Why He Will Go Overlooked:
Nearly all of the shortstops on today's slate are mid-priced, and Paul DeJong is certainly worthy of a lot of buzz -- he's bopped 15 homers on the year to go with an impressive .266 ISO. He'll face Ian Kennedy, who's allowed 1.56 home runs per nine innings pitched.
Eduardo Escobar of the Minnesota Twins, who's racked up a mediocre .318 wOBA this season, should see far less ownership.
Why You Should Use Him:
Escobar may not have caught the attention of many, but dude is money in the bank against left-handed pitching.
The switch-hitter has posed an .844 OPS and .206 ISO as a right-handed hitter, and those numbers go way down to .673 and .123, respectively, as a lefty. Putting together a solid 32.1% hard-hit rate and 42.0% fly-ball rate as a right-hander doesn't hurt, either.
Rookie southpaw Brent Suter has been really strong for the Milwaukee Brewers, but righties have enjoyed far more success (.307 wOBA) than lefties have (.247 wOBA).
