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MLB FanDuel Single Game Showdown Lineup: TEX @ BOS - 6/14/26

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Brett Nault

Brett Nault

Jun 14, 2026

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PositionPlayerSalary
MVPCeddanne Rafaela$12,600
UTILWilyer Abreu$11,400
UTILEzequiel Duran$9,800
UTILWyatt Langford$9,400
UTILMasataka Yoshida$4,800
UTILJosh Jung$12,000

We've got a Single Game Showdown tonight — TEX @ BOS at Fenway Park for Sunday Night Baseball, first pitch 7:20PM EDT. It's a 3-3 game stack in a park built for runs: Ceddanne Rafaela takes the 1.5x with two Red Sox bats behind him against Nathan Eovaldi, and three Rangers — Duran, Langford, Jung — take the right-handed edge on rookie lefty Connelly Early. The whole thing comes in right at cap.

Ceddanne Rafaela — MVP (1.5x), OF, $12,600

Rafaela is the captain, and the power-speed profile fits a launch-pad night. He's hitting .283 / .340 / .422 / .762 with 5 HR and 7 steals vs. RHP, and he draws Nathan Eovaldi, who has been homer-prone all year — a 4.26 ERA, 4.62 xERA, and a 1.68 HR/9 with a 9.83% Barrel% allowed. It's hot at Fenway with the wind blowing out around 14 MPH, one of the most hitter-friendly setups of the day, and every fly ball Rafaela puts in the air is a 1.5x threat to leave the yard.

Wilyer Abreu — UTIL, OF, $11,400

The history is the headline. Abreu has crushed Eovaldi: solid head-to-head vs. Eovaldi — .429 / .429 / 1.286 / 1.714 in 7 AB (3 H, 2 XBH, 2 HR, 2 RBI) — already a pair of homers off tonight's arm. The season profile backs it with 7 HR and an 11.5% Barrel% vs. RHP, left-handed pull power tailor-made for a wind-aided Fenway against the same 1.68 HR/9 line.

Ezequiel Duran — UTIL, OF, $9,800

The first of the Rangers bats and a strong matchup against the rookie. Duran is hitting .293 / .396 / .439 / .835 vs. LHP, and he draws Connelly Early, whose 3.30 ERA masks a 4.56 xERA, an 11.6% Barrel% and a 1.52 HR/9. Right-handed bats get the platoon edge against the young lefty, and Duran's on-base profile gives him a strong floor in the same hitter-friendly environment.

Wyatt Langford — UTIL, OF, $9,400

The power ceiling of the Rangers side. Langford brings real over-the-fence pop and takes the right-handed edge against the same Early profile bleeding a 1.52 HR/9 and an 11.6% Barrel%. In a wind-out Fenway with the ball carrying, his ceiling is as high as anyone's in this game.

Masataka Yoshida — UTIL, OF, $4,800

The punt that opens up the pay-ups. Yoshida is elite bat-to-ball with a .326 OBP and just a 10.9% K% vs. RHP, so he puts the ball in play against the same homer-prone Eovaldi in a park where contact gets rewarded. At $4,800, the on-base floor is exactly what makes the spend-ups above him fit.

Josh Jung — UTIL, 3B, $12,000

The Rangers spend-up and the cleanest bat-to-power matchup on their side. Jung is mashing left-handed pitching — .302 / .393 / .453 / .846 with a tiny 8% K% vs. LHP — and he takes the right-handed edge into Early's exposed 4.56 xERA. Disciplined contact plus power against a homer-prone rookie in a launch-pad Fenway is the high-floor, high-ceiling combination this card is built around.

The lineup at a glance — a 3-3 game stack in a hot, wind-aided Fenway built for runs; Ceddanne Rafaela takes the 1.5x with Wilyer Abreu and Masataka Yoshida attacking Nathan Eovaldi's 1.68 HR/9, while Ezequiel Duran, Wyatt Langford, and Josh Jung take the right-handed edge on rookie lefty Connelly Early's 4.56 xERA and 1.52 HR/9. One of the six bats — Abreu — lines up against the exact pitcher he's performed against historically, with two homers already off Eovaldi.

Let's have a big night! 💰🔥

Brett Nault

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