TEX: 


With Kershaw being one of the most expensive priced players this year and Texas having an o/u of 10, you’re going to basically need this combo in a lot of formats. Just purely from an ownership perspective, you can get the top 4 hitters in the Texas lineup for less than 4k (Joey Gallo at 4.1k). Graveman is a pitcher you should target for homers, especially with the lefty bats. He allowed a .333 wOBA to left-handed hitting last year which is 5% worse than the league average among qualified starters.


OAK:


On the other side of that game Oakland looks like a great stack too. Doug Fister allowed a .389 wOBA to right handed hitters last year. Khris Davis has opposite splits and feeds off poor right handed pitching, so expect his ownership to be high and thus Oakland to be popular. Adding insult to Fister, there are also several hard hitting left handed bats in the Oakland lineup like Matt Joyce , Matt Olson , Jed Lowrie , etc. Oakland should be a great stack to build off of when venturing out and trying to get a second addition of low owned players to stack.


STL:


Steven Matz gets the Cardinals tonight which is bad news to Steven Matz . Jose Martinez ranks in between Nolan Arenado and Giancarlo Stanton against LHP, so take that for what it’s worth. Tommy Pham ranks in between Josh Donaldson and Rhys Hoskins . The Cardinals have a lot of right handed bats in the lineup and they should plunder Matz. Obviously I would recommend using an Oakland STL stack or an Oak Tex but I feel it would be prudent to write about …
 

Clayton Kershaw :


Kershaw deserves his own little segment here considering your stacks are going to have to include him on some level. If you are going to fade him, this won’t apply to you, but if you are using a cash game or a smaller GPP lineup, the people in contention for cashing might only be the people who rostered Kershaw. Obviously there are unorthodox combinations that will be able to compensate for the value of Kershaw on the slate, but without playing 150 lineups that can be dicey territory. I would recommend playing a few 8-9-1 combo’s in GPP. You will get the tail end of the order sliding right into the top of the order, and better yet you will get them lower owned. This might be a night where you are using Mark Canha , Jonathan Lucroy , and Marcus Semien .