STACKED Part 1

Written By Paul Dika

MLB best ball rewards high-end weekly performances, and stacking is a key strategy to help your teams unlock massive scores. If a team goes off in a week and scores a boatload of runs, having more players from that team gives you access to those points. This site wouldn’t be called Stacking Dingers if we didn’t try to get you to stack.

I’ve identified three teams that I want to prioritize for stacks this season - each of whom has options across both IF and OF throughout the draft. I’m targeting other stacks as well, but these teams currently offer value and upside that may be going unrealized based on ADP. Numbers in parentheses (XXX.X) indicate the player’s current ADP at the time of writing.

Baltimore Orioles

Few teams had worse injury luck than the Orioles last year. One of baseball’s youngest and most promising teams underperformed, in part because key pieces landed on the shelf for extended periods. Adley Rutschman (207.6), Jordan Westburg (153.5), and Colton Cowser (125.8) all played fewer than 100 games, and recent reports indicate Gunnar Henderson (19.0) dealt with a shoulder injury for most of the season.

Friend of the show, TJ Stats, recently shared the projected Team wRC+ leaderboard based on composite projections, and the Orioles slot in at 2nd behind the Dodgers. Because of their poor 2025, many Orioles hitters are available throughout the draft, and are discounted significantly. Even if they aren’t part of a main stack within your build, tacking on two to three Orioles gives you access to a lineup poised to bounce back and make some noise in the AL East.

Houston Astros

Here is another team projected to finish within the top 10 projected Team wRC+ with players available throughout the draft. While I have some aging concerns about Altuve (64.4), every piece of this offence is priced generously. After an injury-plagued season, drafters are letting Yordan Alvarez (16.3) fall to the middle of the 2nd round, despite every projection system confidently predicting a return to form for the 28-year-old slugger.

Later options like Christian Walker (155.5), Isaac Paredes (185.6), and Jesus Sanchez (239.3) all project to be better than league average and could provide around 20 homers. Paredes and Walker historically have 30-homer seasons on their ledger, and could see their numbers from last year improve with better health and luck throughout the lineup. In one of the more homer-friendly environments in the league, Astros stacks look very intriguing at their current price.

Toronto Blue Jays

Accessibility throughout the draft has become a theme here, but I love high-powered offences with pieces that don’t burn early draft capital. While they may be flawed and hard to project for 2026, Daulton Varsho (133.8) and Kazuma Okamoto (194.3) figure to play every day in a Blue Jays lineup that finished top 10 in xSLG and xwOBA in 2025.

Anthony Santander (78.4) is another great buy-low opportunity following a lost season. Less than a year ago, he was coming off a 44-homer campaign and was taken in the 3rd round of best ball drafts. He’s now 4 rounds cheaper and can be paired with other elite bats and arms as a third or fourth OF. Outside of a pricey George Springer (45.4), this is an offence you can invest in for a cheap cost that should score plenty of runs.