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5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 5/1/19

Jason Schandl  —  @JasonSchandl May 1st, 2019
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Travis Shaw, 3B, Milwaukee Brewers

Price: $2,500

The Milwaukee Brewers are one of the two teams with implied totals higher than the Astros' tonight as they host the Colorado Rockies and righty Antonio Senzatela.

Senzatela has only pitched three games in 2019, but his 4.45 SIERA is right in line with the 4.54 career average he has managed over 62 games, so there's no reason to be concerned about this matchup.

With a 40.0% hard-hit rate and 44.5% fly-ball rate but only a .268 BABIP, Travis Shaw is another player whose low wOBA (.270) doesn't concern me.

That's especially the case when he's up against a righty like he is tonight, as he tagged right-handed pitchers for a wOBA of at least .373 and ISO of at least .249 in each of his last two seasons, with hard-hit rates of 39.8% and 43.1%.

As long as he keeps making great contact, we can expect his production to bounce back, and that makes it easy to like his low salary in a plus matchup.

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