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3 MLB FanDuel Studs to Target on 5/2/19

Jason Schandl  —  @JasonSchandl May 2nd, 2019
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Mookie Betts, OF, Boston Red Sox

Price: $4,700

In lieu of paying up for Mike Trout at $5,000 in a slightly worse matchup, I'm sticking with the Red Sox here and playing Mookie Betts. A two-game slate emphasizes upside, and the correlation you get with Martinez and Betts is a definitely plus.

Of course, Betts doesn't need Martinez to be a top fantasy play.

After a slow start to the year, Betts is up to a .380 wOBA and .228 ISO over 137 plate appearances this season, despite his batting average on balls in play (BABIP) sitting 17 percentage points below his career-average of .314.

He's not quite making the contact he did last year, but a 39.2% hard-hit and 43.3% fly-ball rate is still a terrific combination, and that's both the second-highest hard-hit rate and second-highest fly-ball rate of his career.

We don't need to worry about the same-sided matchup for Betts, either. He's actually clobbered righties for a .446 wOBA and .310 ISO over 103 plate appearances this campaign -- surprisingly showing improvements over the .436 wOBA and .271 ISO from last season.


Jason Schandl is not a FanDuel employee. In addition to providing DFS gameplay advice, Jason Schandl also participates in DFS contests on FanDuel using his personal account, username Jaymun. While the strategies and player selections recommended in his articles are his personal views, he may deploy different strategies and player selections when entering contests with his personal account. The views expressed in his articles are the author's alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of FanDuel.

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