MLB
5 MLB FanDuel Value Plays for 4/6/18
Brett Gardner, OF, New York Yankees
Price: $2,800
Brett Gardner is off to a slow start to the season, but 33 plate appearances is a tiny sample size, and there's no need to be concerned. Especially when his batting average on balls in play (BABIP) sits at only .200, while his BABIP has been north of .300 in each of his last nine major league seasons.
He's coming off a 2017 season in which he posted a solid .336 wOBA, with a particularly good .359 wOBA and a .191 isolated slugging (ISO) against right-handed pitching.
He'll likely be hitting leadoff tonight against Baltimore Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman. Gausman allowed left-handed hitters a .350 wOBA and 4.92 xFIP in 2017, and this is a good spot for Gardner to bounce back from his slow start.