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4 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 7/25/16

Jason Schandl  —  @JasonSchandl Jul 25th, 2016
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Billy Butler, 1B, Oakland Athletics

FanDuel Price: $2,500

Billy Butler hasn't had a great season from the plate, but it has also been a strange year, with lots of room for optimism.

He has always hit left-handed pitching well over his career, with a .376 wOBA and .194 isolated slugging, and while he's hitting for a .304 average against lefties this year, he only has a .127 isolated slugging with an incredibly low 3.7 percent home run-to-fly ball rate, 10 percent lower than his career average. Even accompanied by a fallen hard-hit rate, that number is unsustainably low, and Butler should be able to bounce back from it.

His matchup tonight is an excellent one, against the left-handed Martin Perez, who owns a career 4.56 SIERA and sporting a career-worst 5.42 on the season.

Right-handed hitters have crushed Perez to the tune of a .349 wOBA and 5.12 xFIP this season, and this is a great spot for Butler.

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