On Monday, Major League Baseball starts off the month of June with seven games on the main slate of DFS fantasy baseball on DraftKings. With 14 teams in the player pool, several lineups stand out as excellent places to target when searching for offensive production, making them my top plays in Monday night’s MLB DFS Stacks.

• Cincinnati Reds: vs. Luinder Avila. Avila is just transitioning to starting and has had mixed results. The weather at Great American Ball Park should set up well for them.
• Los Angeles Angels: vs. Kyle Freeland. Freeland (8.08 ERA) has been crushed all season, especially by right-handed hitters.
• Arizona Diamondbacks: vs. Emmet Sheehan. Sheehan has a 6.52 ERA and 5.71 FIP with a 1.55 WHIP on the road, and Arizona brings hot bats back to the desert.

Before we break down all the selections for these contests, let’s define exactly what we’re searching for. An ideal target for MLB DFS stacks is a team well-positioned to score plenty of runs based on its matchup and ballpark. “Stacking” is the strategy of adding multiple players from the same MLB lineup to your roster to boost each other’s production.

Ideally, MLB DFS stacks focus on players who are either back-to-back or from the same part of the lineup to allow positive correlation. Since most run-scoring plays produce fantasy points for multiple players, stacking a high-scoring team can carry your entry to the top of the leaderboard. The key to MLB DFS stacks paying off is finding the perfect matchup to attack, so let’s take a deeper look at the top spots.

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1. Cincinnati Reds

JJ Bleday ($5,200)
Sal Stewart ($4,700)
Eugenio Suarez ($4,100)
Nathaniel Lowe ($3,300)
Matt McLain ($3,300)
Tyler Stephenson ($3,000)

The Reds host the Royals at Great American Ball Park, where the temps are forecast to be in the 70s, which should set up for plenty of offense. They’ll take on Royals’ starter Luinder Avila ($5,000), who is transitioning to the rotation from the bullpen. Avila is 0-2 in his 10 games this season with an elevated 5.06 ERA and 1.83 WHIP. He had been better lately, but the Yankees roughed him up for three runs on seven hits in three innings in his most recent game. He isn’t fully stretched out yet, so this could be a patchwork bullpen game for the Royals, allowing the Reds to pile up some runs.

The Reds avoided a sweep at home by beating the Braves on Sunday, 6-4. The team’s offense has been inconsistent this season, but it does have the third-highest home ISO in the majors and has smashed a total of 43 homers in 29 home games. Elly De La Cruz (hamstring) isn’t in this stack since he left Sunday’s game and is day-to-day, although there is optimism that he won’t miss much time.

Bleday has double-digit FPTS in five of his last six games with multiple hits and at least four total bases in each of his last three games. The lefty has impressed since joining the lineup and is averaging over 10 FPTS per game on the season. Stewart and Suarez bring good pop from the right side, and Suarez hit his fourth homer of the season on Sunday. All four of his long balls have come at home.

Lowe, McLain and Stephenson are great value options to include in the stack since they’ve been productive as well. Lowe had at least 9 FPTS in six straight games before going 0-for-4 on Sunday. He is averaging 10 FPTS per game in his last 10 games with three homers in that span. McLain replaced De La Cruz on Sunday and should get more playing time if Elly is out. He brings boom-or-bust upside with power and speed potential. Stephenson can be valuable behind the plate since he has at least 9 FPTS in four of his last seven games and can fill the shallow position with solid potential in this matchup.

2. Los Angeles Angels

Mike Trout ($5,900)
Zach Neto ($5,000)
Jo Adell ($3,500)
Vaughn Grissom ($3,100)
Jose Siri ($2,400)

The Angels aren’t normally a team worth stacking since their offense is thin, but on Monday, they have an outstanding matchup against Kyle Freeland ($5,300) and the Rockies. The veteran lefty has made nine starts this season and gone 1-6 with an 8.08 ERA, a 6.26 FIP, and a 1.75 WHIP. Some of his struggles have been due to bad luck on batted balls in play, but he continues to give up plenty of loud contact both at Coors Field and on the road. Righties have hit .331 against him with a .436 wOBA and 11 of the 12 homers he has served up in 42 1/3 innings.

While they went 3-3 on their road trip, the Angels did sweep the Rangers in their last home series, and they posted 14 runs on Saturday in their win in Tampa. Trout and Neto lead the way at the top of the lineup, forming a solid 1-2 combo, both from the right side. Neto has 9+ FPTS in four of his last six games and averaged 10.2 FPTS over his last 10 contests. Trout hasn’t been quite as consistent but has a very high ceiling, including two games of 20+ FPTS in his last four contests.

I highlighted Grissom in my top value plays of the day, and he’s a great option at either corner spot, while Adell and Siri bring value upside as well. Siri homered on Tuesday and had 10 FPTS on Thursday as well. He brings power and speed potential and will likely get the start against the lefty Freeland.

3. Arizona Diamondbacks

Corbin Carroll ($5,600)
Ketel Marte ($5,300)
Nolan Arenado ($3,900)
Ryan Waldschmidt ($3,300)
Tommy Troy ($2,000)

This is a bit of a controversial stack, since my colleague Stan Son is on Emmet Sheehan ($7,800) as a value play in his Monday night targets. Sheehan has been very boom-or-bust, though, and I actually think he’s a great spot to attack on Monday night. Sheehan is 3-1 in 10 starts with a 4.70 ERA and 4.04 FIP this season, but in his 19 1/3 road innings, he has a 6.52 ERA and 5.71 FIP with a 1.55 WHIP. This gives the Diamondbacks a high ceiling against him on Monday.

The D-Backs scored four runs off Sheehan in 3 1/3 innings earlier this season at Dodger Stadium, and they’ll look to continue his road woes on Monday. Both Corbin Carroll and Ketel Marte have homered off Sheehan in their four previous at-bats against him. The offense was rolling and helped the team win six of seven games on their last home stand and sweep the Giants in San Francisco to start last week. However, the bats were quieter as they went winless in Seattle over the weekend.

Even after a quieter weekend, Marte is averaging 11.6 FPTS per game over his last 10 contests, while Carroll has produced 10.5 FPTS per game in his 27 games at Chase Field. That duo is a solid core to build around on Monday, while Waldschmidt and Arenado are solid mid-range plays from opposite ends of their careers.

Tommy Troy is worth taking a look at as a punt play as well. He’s at the minimum salary but went 5-for-19 (.263) in his first seven MLB games this season. He had three walks, two doubles and five runs scored in those seven contests. Before his promotion, Troy was hitting .307 in Triple-A with three home runs, a .389 wOBA and six stolen bases. He won’t have to do much to be a great bargain and has both power and speed potential.