5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 4/12/19

Jackie Bradley, OF, Boston Red Sox

Price: $2,200

it's tough to pass up a cheap bat in the Boston Red Sox lineup tonight -- especially one that bats lefty.

The Sox are taking on the Baltimore Orioles and right-hander David Hess, who has a career 5.04 skill-interactive ERA (SIERA) over 24 games in his first two major league seasons. This leaves Boston with a slate-high 6.18-run implied total

Jackie Bradley isn't going to win any hitting titles, but he's consistently proven himself to be at least competent against right-handed pitching, with a wOBA of at least .329 in three of his last four seasons, sporting a career-average .317 wOBA and .183 ISO on a 37.5% hard-hit rate in the split.

He's always going to offer a low floor, but getting some cheap power with the platoon advantage in a lineup implied for more than 6 runs is hard to pass up -- especially at only $200 above the minimum.

Even if you aren't stacking the Sox, loading up on a couple of the cheap options at the bottom of their order (pairing JBJ with either minimum-salary Dustin Pedroia or $2,100 Christian Vazquez) can give you some interesting correlated upside in tournaments. Pedroia and Vazquez don't offer nearly the stand-alone value that Bradley does, though, so that's a high-risk, high-reward move for tournaments only.