MLB DFS: Top DraftKings, FanDuel daily Fantasy baseball picks include Luis Arraez on Tuesday, July 21
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- Nationals vs. Rockies at 8:40 p.m. ET owns the slate's only double-digit over/under at 13 — no other game exceeds 9.5 — making James Wood, CJ Abrams, Hunter Goodman, and Mickey Moniak prime DFS stack targets.
- Luis Arraez (Giants 2B, $4,500 DraftKings / $2,900 FanDuel) is batting .323 with a career-high 130 OPS+ and is a perfect 8-for-8 in stolen base attempts as he chases a fourth batting title.
- Arraez shows a pronounced night/day split, posting an .837 OPS in night games this season — 68 points higher than his day-game mark — and the Giants visit Kansas City for a 7:40 p.m. ET first pitch.
- Bryce Eldridge (Giants 1B, $3,500 DK / $3,100 FD) has homered in two of four games since the All-Star break and reached base seven times over that stretch, with McClure recommending he be stacked with Arraez.
- Royals starter Luinder Avila presents an extreme home/road split: his 5.08 overall ERA balloons to 9.68 at Kauffman Stadium, while Eldridge hits .286 on the road versus .253 at home.
- Mike McClure is a DFS professional with over $2 million in career winnings whose prediction model simulates every minute of every game 10,000 times to surface optimal lineups.
Why it matters: On a 30-team slate where one game (Nationals-Rockies, 13 over/under) towers over everything else, DFS players face a sharp choice: load up on that high-scoring matchup or hunt value elsewhere. The Avila home/road ERA gap (9.68 vs. 5.08) gives anyone stacking Arraez and Eldridge an unusually lopsided pitcher profile to exploit — if the split holds.
