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5 Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Plays for 8/20/18

Matt Kupferle  —  @MKupferle Aug 20th, 2018
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Jed Lowrie, 2B, Oakland Athletics

Price: $3,000

Bartolo Colon, the Texas Rangers starter tonight, is a mere 3 wins from 250 for his career. Facing Jed Lowrie and the red-hot Oakland Athletics, Colon may still be waiting a bit for that 248th win.

Colon has been pretty poor this season, posting a 4.78 skill-interactive ERA (SIERA), and that's largely due to a paltry 13.2% strikeout rate. He's also giving up a heaping pile of hard contact, and his current mark of 43.1% this year would be one of the worst of his 22 major league seasons.

With the switch-hitting Lowrie posting far better marks as a lefty, including a .366 wOBA and .228 ISO, this is a fantastic matchup for the A's middle infielder.

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