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FanDuel Lineup and Picks for Saturday, April 28

By Adam Strangis

MILWAUKEE, WI - APRIL 03: Jack Flaherty
MILWAUKEE, WI - APRIL 03: Jack Flaherty /
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NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 29: Matt Carpenter #13 of the St. Louis Cardinals follows through on his hit in the New York Mets home opening day game of the 2018 MLB baseball season on March 29, 2018 at CitiField in the Queens borough of New York City. Mets won 9-4. (Photo by Paul Bereswill/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Matt Carpenter
NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 29: Matt Carpenter #13 of the St. Louis Cardinals follows through on his hit in the New York Mets home opening day game of the 2018 MLB baseball season on March 29, 2018 at CitiField in the Queens borough of New York City. Mets won 9-4. (Photo by Paul Bereswill/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Matt Carpenter /

Second Base, High End Spend

Asdrubal Cabrera, $3,700

N/A

The top-end options at second base just aren’t that great. You can always play Jose Altuve but past that, Yoan Moncada faces a lefty. He’s out at that price point. Jed Lowrie draws Lance McCullers and I’m not playing the Houston pitcher, but I don’t want bats against him either. If you want to pay up, Cabrera is your man. he hits lefties well and is coming off a home run last night. Padres starter Joey Lucchesi isn’t quite as good as he’s shown and there has to be regression somewhere along the way. It could be tonight against Cabrera.

Mid-Range

Matt Carpenter, $3,300

.500/.667/1.167 with 1 HR in 6 at-bats

Carpenter has really struggled to start the 2018 campaign and Trevor Williams is legitimately a good major league pitcher. However, lefties do hit him a little better and Carpenter is making hard contact a little over 40 percent of the time and hitting a fly ball or line drive just a hair under 70 percent. The batting average and every other stat is going to normalize for him sooner or later. As a bonus, Carpenter has been hitting leadoff a little more often. Something has to give for Carpenter and that could come as soon as today.

Value

Second base is just flat our gross on this slate. There’s not really anyone I want to play all that much and certainly not in the value range. About the only guy you could really make an argument for is maybe Kolten Wong at $2,400. I’m not really going crazy against Williams and I’m not sure I want to try and attack him with such a flawed player. Maybe someone pops with lineup cards, but I wouldn’t count on it. It’s grim in here tonight.