NFBC Strategy: Hitter Streamers for Week 5

This is an extremely specific blog post as it’s geared towards NFBC players who want to stream hitters. A little background about how NFBC handles starting lineups. Basically, they allow each owner to set their hitting lineup twice a week: on Monday and Friday. So if you start a player on Monday you will receive his stats from Monday through Thursday.

Streaming hitters can be a very viable option in deep mixed leagues. NFBCs rules on starting lineups allow players a great opportunity to stream hitters with favorable matchups because an owner can start a hitter for three or four games and bench him for the other portion of the week. Below are hitters I recommend picking up.

First Half of the Week Starts

Alberto Callaspo: I’ve mentioned him the past two weeks so I’m not going to tout his abilities again against lefties.

Derek Norris: I don’t know why I omitted him the past two weeks, but for his career he has a .843 OPS and 11 home runs in only 255 at-bats against lefties.

Second Half of the Week Starts

Michael Choice: He made a terrible error in Friday’s game that heavily contributed to the Rangers losing. Specifically, what he did was he did not catch a fly ball in foul territory, which could cause him to lose playing time, but that’s highly unlikely.

Chris Young: Since 2008 he has a .843 OPS against lefties compared to a .700 OPS against righties. He batted cleanup the last time the Mets faced a lefty so he should have a great opportunity to drive in runs too.

Josh Satin: In 117 PAs against lefties he has a slash line of .304/.393/.461; Lucas Duda cannot hit lefties so Satin is going to play. Even though he only has one home run, he has 13 doubles, which is a lot considering he only has 31 career hits.

One Week Start

Ryan Raburn: since 2008 he has an .833 OPS against lefties (compared to .701 against righties) with 36 home runs in 711 at-bats. The Indians will face four lefties this week. He should be owned in all league formats for this week.

Mike Aviles: Similar to Raburn, I’ve mentioned him in the past. He’s going to play against lefties and has the ability to provide production in all five categories.

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