Eric Surkamp Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections

Eric Surkamp is bad (5.95 SIERA, 0.6% K-BB%). Like so bad, the Angels offense needs to be on our radar tonight as a low cost stack in tournaments. Even though the Angels (100 wRC+, .314 wOBA, .144 ISO) are a merely average offense against LHP, we can realistically consider any Angels hitter for our tournament lineups tonight. As always, the primary Angels bat to target is Mike Trout (163 wRC+, .402 wOBA, .239 ISO vs LHP since 2015). Kole Calhoun (136 wRC+, .366 wOBA, .162 ISO vs LHP) and Albert Pujols (118 wRC+, .340 wOBA, .231 ISO vs LHP) are also elite batters to target in this matchup. Johnny Giavotella getting the lineup bump up to the leadoff spot can also be considered in a stack against Surkamp.

Eric Surkamp has an ERA above six over 83.2 career innings with estimators just below. Both lefties and righties have hit him for a wOBA better than .380 for his career, due more to a 1.2 K-BB% than hard contact (2.0 Hard-Soft%). Two RH bats in the top half of the order for the Rangers have been pounding LHP. Ian Desmond (158 wRC+, .208 ISO since last season) is an expensive bat, but Ryan Rua (183 wRC+, .196 ISO this season) moves up to cleanup for just $3.5K here.

The Red Sox went on a rampage against a top prospect lefty last night and now they face a much lesser on in Eric Surkamp (9.2 K%, 5.59 ERA, 6.39 SIERA), who has a 13.6 HR/FB over the last two calendar years. Stack up your costly Red Sox. All are in play here, even Ortiz against a lefty (90 wRC+, .198 wRC+ vs LHP since last season, 264 wRC+, 58.3 Hard% over the last week). Your salary relief and must have bat tonight will be Chris Young (163 wRC+, .244 ISO vs LHP since 2015), who has become the moderately priced lefty masher in the middle of the lineup. He is tonight's top value play for the top projected lineup (5.23 runs).

In just 66 career innings, Eric Surkamp has a 6.14 ERA that doesn't really lie considering a K% (12.8) that nearly matches his BB% (11.5). What he has been able to do is generate slightly more weak contact than hard (-2.2 Hard-Soft%), but the fact that he has a 0.86 GB/FB much better suits Oakland than Yankee Stadium. He could be in trouble tonight against a revamped Yankees lineup that puts Jacoby Ellsbury on the bench and has Starlin Castro batting 2nd, though he has just an 82 wRC+ vs LHP since last year and has cooled down since his hot start. At the top of the lineup, Brett Gardner hits lefties well (114 wRC+ since last seaon), while Carlos Beltran has been hot and moves into the 3rd spot, increasing his value on a .200 ISO batting RH since last season. Alex Rodriguez (.259 ISO vs LHP since 2015) is the only other bat to supply legit power vs southpaws, but has struggled greatly (-28 wRC+ last seven days). A 94.47 average exit velocity provides some optimism that he's not that far away though. This is a spot that Yankees should be able to take advantage of and score some runs, but few of their better performing bats against LHP come in the lower price ranges. If you are looking for hidden value however, Aaron Hicks at $2.4K on FanDuel bats 7th, but has a 123 wRC+ vs LHP since last season and a 96.08 average exit velocity on his 10 batted balls this season.