4 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 9/14/18

Brett Gardner, OF, New York Yankees

Price: $3,000

The New York Yankees' 5.53 implied total is Friday's highest mark as they host right-hander Marco Estrada and the Toronto Blue Jays.

Estrada's fly-ball numbers have been concerning for years now, and that has really come to a head in 2018. His 56.5% fly-ball rate is his highest since 2010, and this is also the first time since 2010 that he has paired a fly-ball rate north of 50% with a hard-hit rate north of 30%. That has him sporting an awful 5.41 skill-interactive ERA (SIERA) -- by far a career-worst.

Brett Gardner is having a down year from the dish, but he's still sporting a competent .313 wOBA and .147 ISO against right-handed pitching, while playing in the Yanks' high-powered offense gives him plenty of scoring opportunities, with 86 runs and 41 RBI over 129 contests.

It would be nice to get a more efficient bat here, but his numbers are solid enough to make him well worth targeting as one of the few cheap ways to get exposure to the Yankees' lineup tonight.