Anthony Ranaudo Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections

Over the last two weeks, Anthony Ranaudo has given up hard contact (36% of the time), fly balls (42% of the time), and allowed production to both sides of the plate (6.64 xFIP to LHBs vs. 6.86 xFIP to RHBs). Ranaudo will not be striking his way out of any jams either since he whiffed less than 13% of batters faced over that same period. Over the last week, Byron Buxton and Brian Dozier stand out as Twins who are feeling good at the plate, both holding wRC+ totals over 200. Buxton, in particular, has a silly good 443 wRC+ and has not struck out in 10 plate appearances.

The Mariners look to be one of the top tournament stacks of the night, and they always tend to go under-owned despite ranking a very respectable 7th in wOBA and 9th in ISO against right-handed pitching this year. Additionally, Seattle gets to face a terrible right-handed pitcher in Anthony Ranaudo tonight. Ranaudo owns putrid numbers that include a 9.42 ERA, a 7.29 SIERA, a 19.1% walk rate, and a 10.3% strikeout rate this season. Obviously, we are dealing with a limited sample size, but Ranaudo has never carried any sort of prospect pedigree through the minors. He has exemplified some reverse splits thus far, but the sample size is too small to really put any weight into them. In fact. his career major league numbers are relatively splits-neutral. We can realistically target anyone in the top six of the Seattle. Seth Smith (117 wRC+, .340 wOBA, .153 ISO vs RHP) and Adam Lind (.209 ISO vs RHP) are cheap, while Robinson Cano (155 wRC+, .395 wOBA, .260 ISO vs RHP), Kyle Seager (159 wRC+, .401 wOBA, .244 ISO vs RHP), and Nelson Cruz (136 wRC+, .368 wOBA, .219 ISO vs RHP) are premier options in any format.

There is next to nothing good to say about White Sox starter Anthony Ranaudo. In his short MLB career he's managed to allow a wOBA of at least .359 to both sides of the plate in addition to allowing at least a 1.93 HR/9 rate to both right and left-handed hitters. Given the fact that he can't miss bats (5.64 K/9 vs. LHs, 2.89 K/9 vs. RHs) and allows a ton of hard contact (37.4 hard% vs. LHs, 33.7 hard% vs. RHs), he's going to have a very hard time having any success against a very stout Cubs lineup. Ranaudo has walked nearly twice as many RH bats as he's struck out over his MLB career and owns a 7.0 FIP against them despite a .235 BABIP, so there isn't a Cub in the lineup that we can rule out of DFS consideration. Kris Bryant (.372 wOBA, .233 ISO vs. RHs) should be in a great spot considering Ranaudo rarely throws changeups (Bryant is hitting .060 against change-ups this year, worst in all of baseball, while Ranaudo has thrown just six of them in 2016), and Bryant's power potential should shine through against a pitcher who struggles to generate ground balls. Anthony Rizzo is among the top overall targets of the day (.428 wOBA, .310 ISO) and is the clear cut top play at first base, so as long as you can shell out the cap space for him, do it with confidence. Dexter Fowler is still fairly priced on FanDuel at $3,400, while Miguel Montero should be a core play out of the fifth spot in the lineup. Again, all of the Cubs bats are in play here - don't be shy with your exposure.