3 MLB FanDuel Studs to Target on 4/9/19

Khris Davis, OF, Oakland Athletics

Price: $4,000

The other big-name hitters in Coors (especially Trevor Story and Freddie Freeman) are also firmly in play, but to give you an option that's a bit easier to fit in a deGrom lineup, Khris Davis is another guy with a ton of upside.

Davis' power is right up there among the MLB's elite, and he's finished the last two seasons with hard-hit and fly-ball rates above 40.0%. With a 41.0% hard-hit and 46.2% fly-ball rate to open 2019, that doesn't look like it's going to change.

406 batters have at least 200 batted-ball events since the start of the 2017 season, and Davis' 92.2 mile-per-hour average exit velocity ranks eighth in that group.

The Oakland Athletics' 4.96-run implied total is a lot closer to the Coors teams than to anyone else (the next-best is 4.51), and Davis gets a terrific matchup tonight against Baltimore Orioles southpaw John Means.

Means has only pitched nine major league innings in his life, but he played 20 Triple-A games last year, posting a pretty middling 3.89 xFIP. He allowed a 43.3% fly-ball rate (in line with his 39.7% from 26 Double-A games in 2017), giving a ton of home run potential to a powerful opponent like Davis.

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