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Normally it’s a bad move to fade Coors Field, so doing so when the Blue Jays are in town seems pretty silly. To be fair, that’s not exactly what I’m advocating. There are a few players I really like from that game. I just don’t think that Coors is the best place to stack on Monday. I’d rather use Yankee Stadium.

It starts with the pricing. Let’s use a lineup with Danny Duffy (the cheapest pitcher I’ll use) as an example. Here’s your amount left per player if you stack each lineup with Duffy on FanDuel:

Blue Jays – $2,350
Rockies – $2,700
Rangers – $3,325
Yankees – $3,400

This is always the case but it seems exaggerated because of the second problem with Coors. The pitchers there are actually pretty good. Jon Gray is actually very good in my opinion. Now, Coors has made good pitchers look bad many times before. Yankee Stadium doesn’t have to make anyone look bad, because it has two bad pitchers pitching in it.

One good way to look at it is you can stack Rangers or Yankees with Arrieta and have about the same amount left per player as you would stacking the Blue Jays with Duffy. I’ll take the Arrieta side of that equation every time.

Starting Pitchers

Jake Arrieta ($11,900, $13,700)

Arrieta hasn’t exactly been himself lately, but he’s still been pretty good. He’s far and away the biggest favorite of the night (-250), and no offense is projected to score fewer runs than the Reds (3.1). Maybe the best part about rostering him is that the game at Coors is going to limit his ownership. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 Fantasy points should be the expectation.

Trevor Bauer ($8,900, $12,800)

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Bauer is the highest owned pitcher on the slate. His price allows you to use a chunk of Coors, and his last start was phenomenal. The Braves’ reduced K rate (especially vs. RHP) is concerning, but Bauer has a very high win potential and should pitch deep into the game. Walks are the big concern, but he has walked just one in three of his past four starts. To be clear, there’s no way I’m playing Bauer at that price on DraftKings.

Danny Duffy ($7,400, $6,800)

I would normally expect Duffy to get overlooked on a robust slate like this against a team as highly regarded as the Cardinals. With Coors in the equation, he may not. The Cardinals’ .311 wOBA and 21 percent K rate vs. LHP ranks in the bottom third in baseball and their park provides a nice cushion for a fly ball pitcher like Duffy. I’ll have at least one Coors stack and one Yankees/Rangers stack with Duffy on the hill.

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