Daily Fantasy Baseball Stacks for 09/17/2017

*Mike Barner*

Daily Fantasy Baseball Stacks – Sunday, September 17

Finish off your weekend on a high note by cashing in playing baseball DFS. Put your favorite daily fantasy baseball stacks from the article below in our lineup optimizer and hit calculate. You can let it fill in the rest of the spots for you or choose your personal favorites from the MLB Player Lab.

**STARTING PITCHERS**

Corey Kluber vs. Kansas City Royals
Stadium – Progressive Field

Get ready for some crazy stats. Kluber enters Sunday 16-4 with a 2.44 ERA, 0.87 WHIP and 243 strikeouts in 184.2 innings.  He has thrown five complete games this season, three of which were shutouts. His control is impeccable as he has 47 strikeouts while issuing only three walks over his last five starts. While it’s hard to imagine, he’s been even better at home this season as he has a 1.93 ERA and 0.82 WHIP at Progressive Field. It doesn’t matter how expensive he is, Kluber will be worth it Sunday.

Sonny Gray vs. Baltimore Orioles
Stadium – Yankee Stadium

Gray has been excellent since being traded as he has a 2.66 ERA, 1.11 WHIP and 49 strikeouts over 50.2 innings with the Yankees.  He only has a 3-5 record to show for it, but that’s largely because of his defense and offense letting him down. Gray has really picked it up in the strikeout department of late as he has recorded at least nine strikeouts in three of his last four starts. Ironically, that stretch began after he failed to record even one strikeout in a start against the Boston Red Sox. The Yankees are steamrolling the Orioles of late and I expect much of the same with Gray taking the mound in this contest.

**OFFENSIVE STACKS**

New York Yankees vs. Ubaldo Jimenez (Baltimore Orioles)
Stadium – Yankee Stadium

Jimenez is in the midst of the worst season of his career. He enters Sunday 5-10 with a 6.75 ERA, 1.60 WHIP and 126 strikeouts in 134.2 innings. A major area of concern is the long ball as he has already allowed a career-high 30 home runs this season. That’s not a good sign for Sunday’s contest against a Yankees team that entered Saturday third in all of baseball in home runs at home. The Yankees scored 30 runs in the first three games of this series and I’m expecting much of the same from them against Jimenez.

Players to consider stacking: Gary Sanchez, Didi Gregorius and Starlin Castro

Chicago White Sox vs. Matthew Boyd (Detroit Tigers)
Stadium – Comerica Park

Speaking of bad seasons, Boyd hasn’t pitched well either for the Tigers. He enters Sunday 5-10 with a 5.75 ERA, 1.68 WHIP and 94 strikeouts in 114.1 innings this year. Walks have been a problem for the young lefty as he has a 3.7 BB/9 this season. This is a bad match up for Boyd in the White Sox as they entered Saturday hitting .285 against lefties this season, best in all of baseball. They beat up Boyd in their last meeting August 27 as Boyd gave up five runs over six innings. While this may be just another game of two teams playing out the season, you can still cash in with the White Sox offense Sunday.

Players to consider stacking: Jose Abreu, Avisail Garcia and Yoan Moncada