3 MLB FanDuel Value Plays for Tuesday 4/30/24

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Finding low-salary production is one way to get a leg up on the competition in MLB DFS.

Here are some value plays to target on FanDuel for today's main slate.

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MLB DFS Value Plays

Jon Gray, P, Rangers ($7,800)

Jon Gray is a nice value option at pitcher for tonight's main slate.

Gray has really good numbers so far in 2024, pitching to a 3.44 SIERA and 29.4% strikeout rate. He's also thrown at least 90 pitches in three of his last four starts, so the workload is good.

The matchup against the Washington Nationals is a pretty average one. The Nats' offense has been better than expected so far in 2024 and sits around the league average in both wOBA and K rate.

With that said, Washington's 3.88 implied total is a number we can feel good about, and on a slate where the high-salary bats of the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers are in a good spot, Gray's salary is really handy.

I also don't mind dipping even lower in salary and rolling the dice on Hunter Brown ($6,800) if you want to go nuts with your bats.

Alex Bregman, 3B, Astros ($2,700)

I mentioned the Astros above, and they're a great stack to load up on as they host Carlos Carrasco.

Carrasco is still surviving in the bigs in his age-37 season, but he doesn't have very good stuff these days. He's punching out just 18.9% of hitters while his walk rate is at a career-worst 12.3%. Across a larger sample of 90 frames a year ago, Carrasco permitted 1.80 dingers per nine and recorded a meager 15.8% K rate.

Houston (5.14) is the only offense with an implied total above 4.80, and Alex Bregman is an economical way to get a piece of the Astros.

While Bregman is off to a bad start this campaign (.257 wOBA) -- which is why his salary is $2,700 -- he's still got a 44.7% fly-ball rate and has been hitting second in the lineup.

If you're stacking Houston, Bregman's salary is tough to turn down.

Whit Merrifield, 2B/OF, Phillies ($2,300)

The Philadelphia Phillies are another quality stacking target in a date with Tyler Anderson.

Anderson's 12.6% swinging-strike rate is a good mark, but everything else in his profile is pretty terrible -- including a 5.07 SIERA and 47.1% fly-ball rate. In 2023, he surrendered a 50.9% fly-ball rate to right-handed bats, and Philly boasts a 4.73 implied total, the slate's third-best clip.

Whit Merrifield generates a lot of fly balls on his own, sporting a 52.5% fly-ball rate, and he's swinging it well right now with six hits over his last four appearances, including one tank and one double.

Merrifield is a low-salary way to get in on the Phillies, and the fact you can deploy him at either second base or outfield only adds to his appeal.

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