5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 5/22/18

Robbie Grossman, OF, Minnesota Twins

Price: $2,000

Robbie Grossman is another guy who has struggled to produce this year, but he still has some promising numbers. His 35.5% hard-hit rate is on pace to be a career-high clip, his 15.8% soft-hit rate is on pace to be the second-lowest mark of his career, and his 46.1% hard-hit rate is the best he's ever posted.

Grossman is sporting only a 2.9% home-run-per-fly-ball ratio, and when you compare that to his career average of 8.4% (despite the inferior contact numbers), we can expect simple variance to give his ceiling a boost moving forward.

A switch-hitter, Grossman has done his best work against lefties over his career, which makes tonight's spot against Matt Boyd and the Detroit Tigers especially appealing.

The left-handed Boyd has shown some improvements in 2018, but he is still sporting a middling 4.26 SIERA, bringing his career average SIERA to 4.65. His 4.69 xFIP against right-handed hitters this year isn't inspiring, either, and Grossman is a steal at minimum-salary in this spot.