FanDuel Best MLB DFS Picks: Twins vs. Red Sox 5/2/25

Major League Baseball presents FanDuel baseball fans with an American League matchup featuring the Boston Red Sox and the Minnesota Twins. Let’s take a look at this MLB game from a DFS perspective.

Before we dive into the Boston Red Sox vs. Minnesota Twins 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 Minnesota Twins vs. Boston Red Sox matchup.

FanDuel MLB Player Selections

MVP-Rafael Devers, Third Baseman, Boston Red Sox $9,800

On Friday night, Major League Baseball presents the opening game of a three-game American League series featuring the Minnesota Twins and the Boston Red Sox.

How are these two teams playing entering tonight’s American League contest? The Boston Red Sox arrive at the third game of this three-game series with the Minnesota Twins playing below average baseball. More specifically, the Red Sox have lost four of the team’s last seven games played in the 2025 MLB regular season, including an 8-5 loss to the Seattle Mariners last week.

In direct contrast to the Boston Red Sox, the Minnesota Twins are currently playing good baseball entering this evening’s game. The Twins have lost six of the team’s last nine games played in the 2025 MLB regular season, including an 11-1 victory over the Cleveland Guardians four days ago.

Now that we have ascertained how both of these teams are currently playing let’s turn our attention to tonight’s contest. Third baseman Rafael Devers has been a solid performer for the Boston Red Sox starting lineup this season. With that said, how has the talented third baseman performed from a statistical perspective? Let’s review Devers’s relevant game data from the 2025 MLB regular season to answer that question.

In the 31 games that Boston Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers has played in the 2025 MLB regular season, Devers has compiled a .220 batting average, 27 hits, five home runs, 25 walks, 19 RBIs (runs batted in), a .754 OPS (On-base Plus Slugging), a .354 OBP (On-Base Percentage) and 22 runs scored.

Last week, in the Boston Red Sox convincing 13-3 win over the Cleveland Guardians, Boston third baseman Rafael Devers played exceptionally well. In the Red Sox victory over the Guardians, Devers amassed two hits, one RBI, two runs scored and one home run. It should also be mentioned that in the Red Sox’s defeat of the Guardians, Devers compiled a massive 24.9 FanDuel points.

In my view, Rafael Devers is the most likely player to accumulate the most FanDuel points in this MLB game. With that said, I am rolling with Boston Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers at the MVP position for this one game MLB DFS slate.

Flex plays I like in this game (FanDuel price noted): Alex Bregman, Third Baseman (Boston Red Sox) $14,000: Jarren Duran, Outfielder (Boston Red Sox) $12,600: Byron Buxton, Outfielder (Minnesota Twins) $13,400.