FanDuel Best MLB DFS Picks: Giants vs. Angels 4/19/25
San Francisco Giants vs. Los Angeles Angels
April 19, 2025 9:38 pm EDT
Major League Baseball presents FanDuel baseball fans with an interleague matchup featuring the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Angels. Let’s take a look at this MLB game from a DFS perspective.
Before we dive into the San Francisco Giants vs. Los Angeles Angels game let’s review the rules for the FanDuel single game showdown contest.
FanDuel Single Game Contest Rules
Here are the FanDuel single game contest rules. You have $60,000 to utilize on five players from either team. However, one of those players will be designated as your team MVP. The MVP accumulates 1.5x times the standard FanDuel fantasy points value. Additionally, the MVP is 1.5 times the standard cost of the flex position.
The remaining five players in your lineup will be flex plays. The five flex positions will receive the standard FanDuel points value. Having stated that, it is highly important for you to identify the correct player for your MVP position if you hope to win a large field GPP (guaranteed prize pool) FanDuel single game contest.
If you have additional questions regarding the rules for the single game contest, I highly recommend that you check out the FanDuel website for more details.
*It should be noted that FanDuel does not utilize the pitcher position in single game MLB contests. Having stated that, only batters are available for single game MLB lineups on the FanDuel platform.
Here are my FanDuel picks for tonight’s San Francisco Giants vs. Los Angeles Angels matchup.
FanDuel MLB Player Selections
MVP-Matt Chapman, Third Baseman, San Francisco Giants $8,600
On Saturday night, Major League Baseball presents the second game of a three-game interleague series featuring the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Angels.
How are these two teams playing entering tonight’s MLB game? The San Francisco Giants arrive at the second game of this three-game series with the Los Angeles Angels playing good baseball. More specifically, the San Francisco Giants have won six of the team’s last eight games played in the 2025 MLB regular season, including a dominant 11-4 win over the Philadelphia Phillies three days ago.
Conversely, the Los Angeles Angels are currently playing below average baseball entering this evening’s game. The Angeles have lost six of the team’s last seven games played in the 2025 MLB regular season, including an embarrassing 14-3 loss to the Houston Astros last week.
Now that we have ascertained how both of these teams are currently playing let’s shift our attention to this evening’s contest. Third baseman Matt Chapman has been an essential part of the San Francisco Giants starting lineup this season. With that said, how has the veteran third baseman performed from a statistical standpoint? Let’s examine Chapman’s relevant game data from the 2025 MLB regular season to answer that question.
In 18 games that San Francisco Giants third baseman Matt Chapman has played in the 2025 MLB regular season, Chapman has compiled a .230 batting average, 16 hits, three home runs, 12 RBIs (runs batted in) and 11 runs scored.
More recently, in the Philadelphia Phillies 6-4 win over the San Francisco Giants earlier this week, San Francisco third baseman Matt Chapman played exceptionally well. In the Phillies victory over the Giants, Chapman amassed two hits, three RBIs, one run scored, and one home run. It should also be mentioned that in the Phillies defeat of the Giants, Chapman compiled a robust 28.7 FanDuel points.
In my opinion, Matt Chapman presents the best fantasy value of any player on this DFS slate. With that said, I am rolling with San Francisco Giants third baseman Matt Chapman at the MVP position for this one game MLB DFS slate.
Flex plays I like in this game (FanDuel price noted): Mike Trout, Outfielder (Los Angeles Angels) $13,800: Jung Hoo Lee, Outfielder (San Francisco Giants) $13,000: Jorge Soler, Outfielder (Los Angels Angels) $8,200.
