MLB DFS: Spotlight Hitters and Stacks for DraftKings, FanDuel and Yahoo!: June 15 (FREE)

Fantasy MLB DFS: Saturday, June 15 gives us wall-to-wall MLB action on DraftKings, FanDuel, and Yahoo! There are several pitchers to target against and some excellent hitting environments, but before you lock in your baseball lineups, make sure to check out Awesemo’s MLB rankings and projections. Not a member? Sign up HERE and use Promo Code: MLBSTACKS for 50% off any one month subscription.


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We have an interesting four, six or all-day slate depending on your site of choice for the early action and of course a healthy “main” last with a game in Coors Field.

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Afternoon Slate

Washington Nationals vs RHP Taylor Clarke – 5.7 implied runs

This is a nice spot to employ the Nationals as the mercury will be in the upper-80s for the 4:05pm ET first pitch with a nice 8-12mph breeze out to center field and a very mediocre pitcher in youngster RHP Taylor Clarke on the mound for the Diamondbacks.  Clarke had a couple seasons as a starter for the College of Charleston before being drafted by Arizona in the third round of the 2015 MLB Draft and on a fun note, he grew up about 35 miles from Nationals Park in Ashburn, VA before heading to Towson University in Maryland where he suffered an elbow injury and after recovering from Tommy John surgery, he went to Charleston as previously mentioned.

He mucked around at all levels of the minors with two full seasons at AAA and he tallied 501.0 innings with a 3.66 ERA, 1.214 WHIP and 7.8 K/9 while in the farm system.  He has not had much luck in The Show so far with six appearances, five of them being starts compiling 25.2 innings with a 5.26 ERA, 1.40 WHIP and just a 6.67 K/9 thus far.

While the key Washington batsmen are not going to be cheap, we can in turn know that will keep their popularity in check.  Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto of course are the key plays along with Trea Turner who has solid pop in righty/righty matchups and he is a threat on the base paths – even when being careful of his early season hand injury… speaking of dinged up players, Matt Adams is a magnificent option if he is in the lineup… just know that he is dealing with a strained left oblique, though the teams says he should be close to a return and likely will not need to spend time on the IL.  Yan Gomes is discounted on most sites the require us to roster a catcher and we can round things out with Victor Robles, Adam Eaton and Howie Kendrick as our differentiation plays.

Main Slate

Minnesota Twins vs RHP Glenn Sparkman – 5.8 implied runs

While RHP Brad Keller is a solid pitcher, fellow righty Glenn Sparkman has a long way to go as he allows significantly more power and that is not a good thing against the Twins.  There could be some precipitation impacting this game, which could easily turn Minnesota from a popular stacking option into a differentiation play depending on our level of risk tolerance, particularly with their price tags rivaling those of the batters in the Coors Field Extravaganza.

It truly is hard to find many weak links in this iteration of the Twinkies on offense, which has been a very pleasant surprise, both for their fans and for those willing to pony up with the salary cap allocations.  Nelson Cruz got the night off on Friday so he should be good to go on Saturday night and of course there is no shortage of power from either side of the plate with C.J. Cron, Max Kepler, Eddie Rosario, Jonhathan Schoop and Jorge Polanco.  Schoop along with catcher Jason Castro and bottom of the order sweeper Byron Buxton provide some differentiation options should there be solid weather and less risk for The Masses to consider.

Late Slate

Oakland Athletics vs LHP Wade LeBlanc – 4.9 implied runs

While we may see an “opener” in front of LHP Wade LeBlanc the veteran southpaw is living on borrowed time and is bound to have a self-inflicted turnbuckle smash on the mound at some point, so why not against the righty-power heavy Athletics.

LeBlanc has allowed twin .184 ISO ratings to both lefties and righties since the beginning of last year (215 LHB / 634 RHB) with a combined 42.3 FB%, 32.9 HH% with a lot of balls in play with his 19.2 K% and 5.9 BB% over the same timeframe.

Mark Canha, Matt Chapman, Jurickson Profar and of course Khris Davis is our core four along with Josh Phegley if he is behind the dish and Chad Pinder who is nails against southpaws.

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Eric "EMac" MacPherson won the 2007 Fantasy Baseball grand prize (trip for two to the MLB All-Star game) in the Roto format on ESPN. He won again in 2008, this time in the H2H format. As one of the early adopters of daily fantasy sports, EMac has been providing content for baseball and basketball as well as both professional and college football since 2012 for a variety of websites including DraftKings Playbook, FanVice, RotoWorld, Daily Fantasy Bootcamp, and RotoGrinders. He is well into his third decade of fantasy sports and has a wealth of knowledge and experience. Follow him on Twitter @EMacDFS or contact EMac by emailing [email protected].

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