FanDuel Best MLB DFS Picks: Cardinals vs. Orioles 5/26/25
St. Louis Cardinals vs. Baltimore Orioles
May 26, 2025 3:05 pm EDT
Major League Baseball presents FanDuel baseball fans with an interleague matchup featuring the Baltimore Orioles and the St. Louis Cardinals. Let’s take a look at this MLB game from a DFS perspective.
Before we dive into the Baltimore Orioles vs. St. Louis Cardinals 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 this afternoon’s Cardinals vs. Orioles matchup.
FanDuel MLB DFS Picks
MVP-Ivan Herrera, Catcher, Baltimore Orioles $7,800
On Monday afternoon, Major League Baseball presents the opening game of a three-game interleague series featuring the Baltimore Orioles and the St. Louis Cardinals.
How are these two teams playing entering today’s MLB game? The St. Louis Cardinals arrive at the first game of this three-game series with the Baltimore Orioles playing good baseball. The Cardinals have won three of the team’s last four games played in the 2025 MLB regular season, including a 4-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks three days ago.
In direct contrast to the St. Louis Cardinals, the Baltimore Orioles are not playing well entering today’s interleague contest. More specifically, the Orioles have lost ten of the team’s last 14 games played this season, including an embarrassing 19-4 loss to the Boston Red Sox last week.
Now that we have determined how both of these teams are currently playing let’s shift our focus to this MLB game. Catcher Ivan Herrera has been a solid performer for the Baltimore Orioles this season. With that said, how has the talented catcher performed from a statistical perspective? Let’s review Herrera’s relevant game data from the 2025 MLB regular season to answer that question.
In the 44 games that St. Louis Cardinals catcher Ivan Herrera has played in the 2025 MLB regular season, Herrera has compiled a rather impressive .390 batting average, 27 hits (five home runs), nine walks, 25 RBIs (runs batted in), a .463 OBS (On-Base Percentage) and a 1.341 OPS (On-base Plus Slugging).
Earlier this month, in the St. Louis Cardinals 11-4 win over the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis catcher Ivan Herrera played exceptionally well. In the Cardinals victory over the Tigers, Herrera tallied two hits, one RBI, one walk and two runs scored. It should also be noted that in the Cardinals defeat of the Tigers, Herrera amassed 19.4 FanDuel points.
In my view, Ivan Herrera’s reasonable FanDuel price of only $7,800 presents the best fantasy value on this MLB slate. For that specific reason, I am backing St. Louis Cardinals catcher Ivan Herrera at the MVP position for this one game FanDuel MLB contest.
Flex plays I like in this game (FanDuel price noted): Gunnar Henderson, Shortstop (Baltimore Orioles) $13,800: Ryan O’Hearn, First Baseman (Baltimore Orioles) $9,800: Brendan Donovan, Third Baseman (St. Louis Cardinals) $10,400.
