Zach Thompson gives his top teams to consider for MLB DFS stacks on Monday’s daily fantasy baseball slate on DraftKings.
On Monday, Major League Baseball starts the final series of April with seven games on the main MLB DFS slate, which gets underway at 6:40 p.m. ET. Several games have fun pitching matchups, while a few also have some weather concerns to monitor. While there are some matchups to avoid, some other spots stand out as strong places to go looking for offense. Let’s dive into the matchups and find some MLB DFS stacks to build your lineup around on Monday.
Before we get to the individual 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 look at Monday’s top spots to attack.
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The Dodgers have a great lineup, so they’re a regular option in our MLB DFS stacks, especially on smaller slates like this one. They get a great matchup Monday night as well, taking on Chris Paddack ($5,700) of the Marlins. Paddack is 0-4 with a 6.38 ERA and 4.63 FIP in his 24 innings this season, giving up a 48.1% hard-hit rate. He has a 1.54 WHIP and has allowed plenty of traffic and runs in his recent starts.
Max Muncy is 4-for-15 with two doubles and two homers against Paddack in the past and Shohei Ohtani has also homered against him while going 2-for-5. Ohtani snapped an 11-game homerless streak on Sunday and finished with 31 FPTS while going 3-for-3 with a stolen base as well. He had 16 FPTS on Saturday as well and is averaging 9.7 FPTS per game over his last 10 contests as a hitter. Muncy has been even hotter, averaging 13.3 FPTS per game in his last 10, but he did have to sit out Sunday with an illness.
Will Smith has also been banged up, missing the last two games with a back issue, but he could be back in the mix on Monday after missing two straight games. He will likely return to the heart of the order when he’s ready, right next to Kyle Tucker, who is only hitting .238 but has 7+ FPTS in three of his last four games and always brings a high ceiling.
The Dodgers are always a pricey stack to build around, but to help offset the spending, an option like Hyeseong Kim can be added into the mix as well.
The Pirates host the Cardinals in an NL Central matchup this week, and they’ll start the week by taking on Dustin May ($6,300), who has struggled so far this season in St. Louis. He has given up 17 runs in his 24 2/3 innings for a 5.84 ERA, 3.94 FIP and 1.54 WHIP. Even in his two more effective outings in his last two starts, he allowed six hits to both the Guardians and Marlins, but he was able to work around trouble. He is still getting hit hard, though, with a 46.8% hard-hit rate against him.
Lefties have hit May especially well this season, compiling a .391 batting average and .459 wOBA and hitting all three of the homers against him. The Pirates have several big lefty bats, starting with Oneil Cruz and Brandon Lowe at the top. Cruz is averaging 11.4 FPTS per game on the season, while Lowe is averaging 9.7 FPTS. Another lefty, Ryan O’Hearn is hitting .315 with four homers on the year, producing 8.4 FPTS per game.
While Ozuna isn’t a lefty, he does have a strong history against May, going 5-for-8 with a double and a home run in their past head-to-head matchups. Griffin is another righty you can mix into the stack since the top prospect is settling in at the majors and produced 14.7 FPTS per game over his three-game series against the Brew Crew over the weekend.
The weather doesn’t look great in Chicago this Monday, so there’s a chance this game gets postponed and played later in the series against the Angels. However, if it does get played, it will be a good spot for the White Sox against Jack Kochanowicz ($7,200), who continues to have struggles against lefties. If the rain washes this game out, the Pirates and Dodgers stacks are the options to pivot to, since the rest of the slate has pretty decent pitchers that are tough to stack against.
Kochanowicz is 2-0 in his five starts with a solid 3.10 ERA, but his 4.13 FIP and 5.23 xERA indicate he could be due for regression since he’s giving up hard contact. Last year, lefties hit .309 against him with 17 of the 21 homers he gave up, and this year they have also had significantly more success than righties, although not as much as they had last year.
Munetaka Murakami and Colson Montgomery are creating a power-packed middle of the order for the White Sox. Murakami has six homers in his last nine games, averaging 14.3 FPTS per contest over that stretch, while Montgomery has four homers in that span with an average of 12.8 FPTS.
The outfield is also full of lefty options with Andrew Benintendi, Sam Antonacci and Tristan Peters all swinging from that side as good value plays. Benintendi usually hits leadoff, while Antonacci and Peters offer some sleeper speed value from the bottom of the lineup.
If the rain holds off in Chicago, the White Sox will be a nice value stack to consider as a standalone or to mix in with the Dodgers or Pirates.
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