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5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Studs to Target on 7/28/16

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Jose Fernandez, P, Miami Marlins

FanDuel Price: $11,800

Very few pitchers -- maybe just Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer and Noah Syndergaard -- boast the ceiling of Jose Fernandez. Even in a tough home matchup against a good St. Louis Cardinals offense, he’s still our top-ranked pitcher.

Fernandez’s through-the-roof upside comes from his mind-numbing strikeout rate. His 36.8% strikeout rate is not only tops in baseball, but it’s currently the third-best single-season mark in the history of the game. The dude is something else.

Miami’s ace is straight criminal at home this season, holding hitters to a .229 wOBA and posting an absurd 38.0% strikeout rate at Marlins Park.

The Cardinals -- whose .331 wOBA ranks fifth -- won’t be a pushover, but most of their big bats are right-handed hitters. That’s not good, because Fernandez eats right-handers for breakfast, punching out 46.0% of the righties he’s faced this year. St. Louis’ implied total of 3.03 runs is the lowest of the main slate.