3 Daily Fantasy Baseball Stacks for Wednesday 6/2/21

Stacks are the backbone of cashing daily fantasy baseball lineups. Correlation drives upside, creating the potential to place high or even win GPPs when your selected stacks explode offensively.

This column will do the digging and the dirty work to determine which stacks are worth rostering each day. Scoring upside will fuel the stacks that get the nod. Sometimes that will lead to chalky selections, but contrarian stacks will get their fair share of love too.

In addition to utilizing the touted daily stacks in handbuilt lineups, numberFire premium members can throw these highlighted stacks into an optimized lineup using our DFS Sharpstack tool. Our hitting heat map tool is also available to premium members looking for more stacking options. It provides valuable info such as implied total, park factors, and stats for identifying the quality of the opposing pitcher.

Let's take a look at the top stacks on today's main slate.

Minnesota Twins

Baltimore Orioles beat reporter Roch Kubatko reports Matt Harvey's essentially opening on short rest for a bullpen game.

The Minnesota Twins should savor their cuts against Harvey tonight, as he's been a trainwreck of late. Harvey's lasted only 13 and 2/3 innings in his last four starts, recording a 15.15 ERA, 4.31 skill-interactive ERA (SIERA), and allowing 2.63 homers per nine innings, per FanGraphs. Harvey's been bad against lefties and righties alike, ceding a .353 weighted on-base average (wOBA) to left-handed batters and a .378 wOBA to righties this season, putting all of Minnesota's hitters in the stacking mix.

Don't expect Baltimore's bullpen to stop the bleeding after relieving Harvey, either. They have the 11th-highest bullpen ERA (4.49) this year, and they could be forced to call on their less-talented, bottom-of-the-bullpen pecking-order options to cobble together innings.

My favorite options include their table-setters from the top two spots in the order, Jorge Polanco ($2,800) and Josh Donaldson ($3,000). I'll round out my top Twins stack with the number-three and cleanup hitters, Nelson Cruz ($3,200) and Alex Kirilloff ($3,000). Cruz is apparently ageless, and he's still above-average in same-handed matchups, sporting a .239 isolated power (ISO) and 121 weighted runs created plus (wRC+) this year.

Colorado Rockies

Coors Field is still the cream of the crop for Major League Baseball hitting venues. According to FantasyPros, it has the second-highest park factor for homers (1.257) and doubles (1.345), and it sits atop the heap in runs (1.362), singles (1.230), and triples (2.177). When one of the worst pitchers in the league takes the hill, the potential for offensive fireworks is increased.

Enter Jordan Lyles. Among qualified pitchers this season, his 5.79 ERA is the third-highest mark. He's also surrendered 1.77 homers per nine innings, and he's been no match for lefties (.331 wOBA allowed) or righties (.382 wOBA allowed). The veteran righty is backed by a slightly below-average bullpen (13th-highest bullpen ERA at 4.14), too.

You can stack the Rockies from top to bottom. However, my two favorite options are nestled in the heart of the order, number-three hitter Ryan McMahon ($3,800) and cleanup slugger C.J. Cron ($3,400). The former has a .297 ISO, .385 wOBA, and 117 wRC+ at home this year. The latter has enjoyed home cooking in his first year with the Rockies as well, tallying a .395 on-base percentage, .262 ISO, .409 wOBA, and 133 wRC+ at Coors Field.

Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers are the other team playing at Coors Field tonight, and they have their own favorable matchup. Antonio Senzatela owns a 4.85 ERA and has allowed a .335 wOBA in 260 innings pitched at home in his career.

Further, sticking with the theme of bad bullpens, no team's bullpen has been worse than the Rockies. Their 5.44 ERA this year is the highest in the majors, and they've coughed up 1.44 homers per nine innings to boot.

There is no shortage of stacking options from the Rangers, starting at the top with Willie Calhoun ($3,700). He has a 115 wRC+ against righties this year. Further, his 42.4 percent hard-hit rate, 25 percent line-drive rate, and 43.5 percent fly-ball rate against righties this year should all play well at Coors Field.

Number-three hitter Nathaniel Lowe ($4,200) has been even better against righties this year, his first with the Rangers. He's recorded a .200 ISO, 126 wRC+, 22.2 percent line-drive rate, 34.6 percent fly-ball rate, and 43.2 percent hard-hit rate against them in 2021.

Cleanup hitter Adolis Garcia ($4,500) has stolen the show as a surprising breakout this year, though. He's smashed 16 homers, stolen six bases, and recorded a .303 ISO and 151 wRC+ this season. Nine of his homers have come against righties, and he's handled them with aplomb, torching them for a .311 ISO and 168 wRC+. While Calhoun, Lowe, and Garcia are my three favorite stacking options on the Rangers, the entire lineup is stackable.

Joshua Shepardson is not a FanDuel employee. In addition to providing DFS gameplay advice, Joshua Shepardson also participates in DFS contests on FanDuel using his personal account, username bchad50. While the strategies and player selections recommended in his articles are his/her personal views, he/she may deploy different strategies and player selections when entering contests with his/her personal account. The views expressed in his/her articles are the author’s alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of FanDuel.