3 Daily Fantasy Baseball Stacks for Monday 4/10/23

Stacking is an integral part of daily fantasy baseball. Correlation drives upside, giving your lineups a slate-winning ceiling when your stacks explode.

This piece will do the digging and the dirty work each day to determine which stacks are worth rostering on FanDuel's main slate. While we want upside, we also need to factor in game theory, especially in a sport as random as baseball.

Our MLB DFS heat map is a quick way to get a feel for the overall slate and which offenses are in a good spot. You can also check out our daily fantasy baseball projections to identify the slate's best bats.

Let's look at the top stacks for this main slate. We won't touch on Coors. Two of the night's top implied totals reside in Denver as the Colorado Rockies host the St. Louis Cardinals, and you'll want pieces from that game. But you don't need me to tell you to stack Coors, so I'll dive into three other stacks.

Los Angeles Angels

Even with two gaudy implied totals at Coors, the Los Angeles Angels might be the night's best stack for their home clash with the Washington Nationals. Washington is sending out Patrick Corbin, and the Angels boast a 5.69 implied total, the slate's second-highest clip.

In 2022, Corbin posted an 18.0% strikeout rate and 4.33 SIERA. Righties hammered him for a .388 wOBA and 1.79 homer nine. That's where our focus needs to be -- with one obvious exception.

That exception is Shohei Ohtani ($3,900), who is more than capable of going off despite the lefty-lefty matchup. Our model actually ranks Ohtani as the Angels' top bat tonight, and Corbin recorded a meager 16.4% strikeout rate versus left-handed hitters in 2022.

Mike Trout ($4,600) is the Halos' other elite bat, and he fully deserves his lofty salary. Trout is raking early on this campaign, mashing his way to a .517 wOBA, and he'll have the platoon advantage.

Hunter Renfroe ($2,800), Taylor Ward ($3,700), Anthony Rendon ($2,800), Gio Urshela ($2,500) and Brandon Drury ($2,600) will all hit from the right side. Renfroe had a .361 wOBA against lefties last season while Drury put up a .403 wOBA in the split. They're my two favorite Angels bats outside of the big two.

Texas Rangers

The Angels and the two Coors offenses figure to be the chalk stacks of the night, but there are several other good hitting spots, with four other offenses showing an implied total of at least 4.4 runs. The Texas Rangers (4.94 implied total) are one of them as they take on Zack Greinke, and the Rangers' salaries are pretty easy to get to.

Across 137 innings last year, Greinke amassed a laughably low 12.5% strikeout rate. The wily vet generally does a nice job keeping the ball in the yard, but that low strikeout rate puts him on the stacking radar each time he takes the mound.

Lefties struck out only 8.7% of the time against Greinke last season, so Nathaniel Lowe ($3,200), Corey Seager ($3,000), Robbie Grossman ($2,800) and Brad Miller ($2,700) are in a great spot. I love the idea of pairing Seager and Lowe at their modest salaries. Both offer plenty of pop and are projected to hit back-to-back in the order.

Righties Adolis Garcia ($3,500) and Marcus Semien ($3,300) are superb options, as well. The same goes for rookie Josh Jung ($2,900), a fellow right-handed stick. Jung popped five taters in just 102 MLB plate appearances in 2022, and he's already got two jacks this season.

Seattle Mariners

The Seattle Mariners might slip through the cracks today, and they have slate-winning upside.

Seattle is at Wrigley to face Chicago Cubs southpaw Drew Smyly. The veteran lefty still gets a solid amount of swings and misses, but righties tagged Smyly for 1.56 homers per nine last season.

The Mariners have been handed a 4.46 implied total, and it should be pretty nice hitting weather at Wrigley because it's not super cold (61 degrees) and the wind is blowing out.

Julio Rodriguez ($4,000) is the clear-cut number-one bat for Seattle, but they have several other enticing righties -- all of whom are way lower in salary -- including Ty France ($3,300), Eugenio Suarez ($3,000), Cal Raleigh ($2,800), Teoscar Hernandez ($2,800) and A.J. Pollock ($2,800).

Pollock has long been a lefty killer, and he mauled them to the tune of a .394 wOBA last year. Hernandez had a juicy .413 wOBA with the platoon advantage in 2022, and Suarez checked in with a .390 wOBA in the split last season.