3 Under-the-Radar Daily Fantasy Baseball Plays for 8/31/17

Randal Grichuk, OF, St. Louis Cardinals

FanDuel Price: $2,700

Why He Will Go Overlooked:

Over a small sample size of 53 2/3 innings pitched, Ben Lively of the Philadelphia Phillies is giving up a lot of long balls this year (1.34 home runs per nine innings pitched), and pitching against the Miami Marlins today may not bode so well for those numbers. In case you haven't heard, Giancarlo Stanton is on absolute fire, blasting 18 homers this month thanks to a 46.1% hard-hit rate and 48.7% fly-ball rate in August.

Randal Grichuk, who's got a date out in the Bay Area with ace Madison Bumgarner, should fly under the radar tonight as the St. Louis Cardinals are unlikely to see much ownership, even on the small slate.

Why You Should Use Him:

The Giants home park ranks last in home run factor over the last three seasons, but in analyzing Mad Bum's return since his shoulder injury, he's been a bit prone to the long ball.

Over his last four starts, the southpaw has allowed five dingers, and right-handed bats have handled him pretty well. Over those four turns, a stretch of 83 total right-handed batters faced, opposite-handed hitters have logged a 46.6% hard-hit rate and 42.1% fly-ball rate.

In 2017, Grichuk has been up and down overall, but he has mashed against lefties, recording a 41.9% hard-hit rate and 51.6% fly-ball rate with the platoon advantage.

He'll certainly have his work cut out for him against one of the game's premier lefties, but Grichuk could make for a sneaky play.