What It Means:

Merrifield will start in left field and hit fifth after he was held out of the last two lineups with a groin issue. Daulton Varsho will move to center field in place of Kevin Kiermaier.

numberFire’s models project Merrifield ($2,900) for 8.4 and Varsho ($2,700) for 7.9 FanDuel points on Wednesday. Per our MLB Heat Map, the Blue Jays' implied total is 4.17 and the game total is 8.0. Montgomery has a 3.62 ERA and middling 4.20 xERA this season, with a mediocre 38.8% hard-hit rate, a weak 21.3% strikeout rate, and a strong 6.4% walk rate.