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5 MLB FanDuel Value Plays for 4/9/18

Jason Schandl  —  @JasonSchandl Apr 9th, 2018
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Ryan Zimmerman, 1B, Washington Nationals

Price: $2,800

Ryan Zimmerman has not had a good start to 2018, slashing only .111/.200/.222 through nine games. That's a tiny sample-size, though, and it's far too early to panic about production. He's coming off an excellent 2017 season in which he posted a .387 wOBA and .269 isolated slugging (ISO) over 144 games, racking up a career-best 40.4% hard-hit rate.

He's in a solid spot to bounce-back tonight as the Washington Nationals have the day's fourth-highest implied total in a matchup with Atlanta Braves righty Julio Teheran.

Teheran had his worst major league season in 2017, finishing with a 4.89 SIERA, 18.6% strikeout rate and 8.9% walk rate. All of those were his worst marks since 2011, when he pitched only five games. Zimmerman's slow start has him nice and cheap, leaving him priced way below his ceiling.

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