Sunday Night Showdown: Yankees vs Red Sox – Draftkings & FanDuel MLB DFS – July 10, 2022 – FantasyCruncher.com DFS Articles & Insights – fantasycruncher.com

CPTN:

Xander Bogaerts (BOS) (DK- $12,300, FD- $6,000)

Xander has been gradually progressing back to his value and this may a good opportunity to buy in on him while he’s low in lineups (especially FanDuel where his price reduced) as he currently leads the BOS in hits (with Devers going down with injury). Also, the opposing pitcher in Jameson Taillon surrenders hits mostly to righties which bodes well for Bogaerts who happens to be right-handed. The biggest risk is that Xander is toward the lower end of the hitters in isolated hitting power, but still may be worth the risk with a lower projected ownership and getting hits off of Taillon in every previous matchup these teams had.

Anthony Rizzo (NYY) (DK- $14,400, FD- $9,500)

Second leader in home runs (22) for NYY, Rizzo is coming off a multi-hit game yesterday with a chance to perform well here once again. Despite having the less efficient handedness (left) against Pivetta, Rizzo may go overlooked (with projected ownership on the lower end of all hitters on the slate and has the second highest isolated hitting power on the slate. Also, Rizzo has had previous success against Pivetta which resulted in a homerun. Therefore, Rizzo should be a viable key to NYY lineups here regardless of his price increase and can set those that select him apart from the field if he performs well and based off his projected ownership.

UTIL/FLEX:

Trevor Story (BOS) (DK- $7,200, FD- $7,500)

Leading homerun hitter for BOS on the slate, Story is one of the more boom-bust options but has had a hit on Taillon each time he’s faced him previously. The problem is that those hits didn’t lead to high scoring fantasy wise so tread with caution and expect for him to have to hit a homerun and more to exceed his value. However, Story does have the isolated power differential edge against righties compared to his other teammates (8.5) which may bode well for his chances here.

J.D. Martinez (BOS) (DK- $9,400, FD- $7,000)

The most balanced isolated hitting power against both lefties and righties (8.4/8.1) should allow Martinez to at least reach his value especially with hits against Taillon in both previous matchups recently. However, he is the most expensive BOS hitter which may limit your lineup construction but would be one of the safer options. Having the second highest run value against the four-seamer fastball (which is Taillon’s most relied upon pitch type) should bode well for Martinez to make hitting contact consistently in this matchup.

Aaron Judge (NYY) (DK- $11,000, FD- $9,500)

Usually, Judge would be one of the safer options but he is risky due to his streakiness against Pivetta with one of the games of the last three matchups accruing double-digit fantasy points which is necessary for his price. The factor which is difficult to ignore is his 11-run value against the four-seamer fastball which is the highest of all batters on the slate and Pivetta’s most relied on pitch type more even more than Taillon (51.8% to 31.8%). Therefore, it may be beneficial to be under on Judge shares in this game despite his ownership projected to be in the middle of the pack, but he shouldn’t be completely ignored.