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5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 4/12/19
Boston's offense stands out even on Friday's loaded main slate. Are there any inexpensive ways to get exposure to the upside they offer against David Hess and the O's?

Jackie Bradley, OF, Boston Red Sox

Price: $2,200

it's tough to pass up a cheap bat in the Boston Red Sox lineup tonight -- especially one that bats lefty.

The Sox are taking on the Baltimore Orioles and right-hander David Hess, who has a career 5.04 skill-interactive ERA (SIERA) over 24 games in his first two major league seasons. This leaves Boston with a slate-high 6.18-run implied total

Jackie Bradley isn't going to win any hitting titles, but he's consistently proven himself to be at least competent against right-handed pitching, with a wOBA of at least .329 in three of his last four seasons, sporting a career-average .317 wOBA and .183 ISO on a 37.5% hard-hit rate in the split.

He's always going to offer a low floor, but getting some cheap power with the platoon advantage in a lineup implied for more than 6 runs is hard to pass up -- especially at only $200 above the minimum.

Even if you aren't stacking the Sox, loading up on a couple of the cheap options at the bottom of their order (pairing JBJ with either minimum-salary Dustin Pedroia or $2,100 Christian Vazquez) can give you some interesting correlated upside in tournaments. Pedroia and Vazquez don't offer nearly the stand-alone value that Bradley does, though, so that's a high-risk, high-reward move for tournaments only.

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