MLB World Series DFS Picks: Best Value Plays for Monday, October 26th

The 2026 MLB Playoffs continue with World Series action, giving us another game to target for daily fantasy contests. We’re going to be using DraftKings pricing to build the best lineups to try to cash in on a large-field tournament.

On the Monday slate, we’ve got Game 3 of the World Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers. Don’t forget to check out our MLB daily trends page for game odds, data, and insights.

MLB World Series DFS Picks

Pos	Player	Matchup	FPPG	Salary
MVP	👑 Freddy Peralta	MIL @ TB	13.5	$17,100
UTIL	Junior Caminero	MIL @ TB	8.8	$9,800
UTIL	Victor Mesa Jr.	MIL @ TB	6.6	$6,400
UTIL	Taylor Walls	MIL @ TB	5.5	$4,000
UTIL	Sal Frelick	MIL @ TB	5.2	$4,600
UTIL	Jake Bauers	MIL @ TB	8.4	$8,000

👑 Freddy Peralta – TB/SP/MVP ($17,100)

Peralta’s path to this start is the whole story of the series. Milwaukee dealt him to the Mets back on January 21, where he scuffled to a 5-9 record and a 4.99 ERA over 22 starts, before Tampa Bay flipped for him at the August 2 deadline. Since then he’s been a completely different pitcher: a 1.08 ERA across four postseason outings, including just one run allowed in 12 innings during the ALCS, a run that earned him series MVP honors. Now he gets to face the only organization he’s ever known as a big leaguer, in a must-win Game 3 for a Rays club that can’t afford to go down 0-3. The $17,100 price tag reflects both his workload (he’s shown he can go deep into games) and the correlation play — if he slows Milwaukee’s bats the way he did Cleveland’s, the Rays’ own lineup is live to cash in behind him.

Junior Caminero – TB/UTIL ($9,800)

Caminero’s 42-homer regular season finally showed up on the biggest stage in ALCS Game 6, when his two-run blast off Cade Smith in the seventh inning sealed Tampa Bay’s pennant-clinching win — his first career postseason homer after an 0-for-36 start to October. He’s being pitched extremely carefully by opposing staffs at this point, but tonight’s Brewers starter, Robert Gasser, is working on a short leash after turning in five shutout innings against the Dodgers in the NLCS; Milwaukee wants four or five innings out of him before leaning on its bullpen. That’s exactly the kind of outing where a middle-of-the-order bat like Caminero gets a second or third look at a starter who’s already shown his best stuff.

Victor Mesa, Jr. – TB/UTIL ($6,400)

Mesa brings a different kind of upside: a .260/.327/.498 line with 14 homers and a 42.2% hard-hit rate in just 79 games, plus 9 steals before an August hamstring strain briefly shelved him. He’s one of five Rays regulars who reached double-digit steals and part of a Tampa Bay group that’s swiped 11 bags without getting caught once across nine playoff games. The catch for tonight is that Milwaukee’s pitching staff has been the better running-game deterrent of the two clubs all October, so while Mesa’s legs are a real weapon, the Brewers’ battery is the toughest test that speed has faced this postseason.

Taylor Walls – TB/UTIL ($4,000)

Walls is the lineup’s switch-hitting igniter, and his game is built on exactly the two things this Rays roster leans on against Milwaukee: controlling the strike zone from both sides of the plate and forcing the issue once he’s on. He matched his career-high steal total from 2023 (22) again in 2026 to clear the 20-steal plateau, and he’s one of the names fueling a combined Rays-Brewers stolen-base pace in this World Series that’s threatening the modern-era record of 14, set back in 2008. With Gasser limited in length and Milwaukee’s bullpen having to cover extra innings, Walls’ ability to pressure a defense on the bases — load up tag plays, extend at-bats as a switch-hitter against matchup relievers — makes him one of the stealthier value plays in this pool at his salary.

Sal Frelick- MIL/UTIL ($4,600)

Frelick is the one Brewer getting full buy-in here, because he’s the one swinging a hot bat right now. His 408-foot, game-tying homer off Ian Seymour in the sixth inning of Game 2 — his first long ball against a lefty all year outside of one other — flipped the game Milwaukee’s way and set up the late rally that put the Brewers up 2-0 in the series. He’s hitting .273 with a .370 OBP this October, well above his modest four-homer regular season, which is the profile DFS rosters chase: a table-setter getting hot at the right time, with the speed to pair stolen-base upside with his newfound pop against a Rays staff that has to navigate through him.

Jake Bauers – MIL/UTIL ($8,000)

Bauers enters this slate as the reigning NLCS MVP after a career year (26 HR, 86 RBI, a career-high .266 average) culminated in a sweep of the Dodgers — a two-run homer in Game 3 and a 1-for-3, three-RBI Game 4 that included the go-ahead sequence. It’s a well-earned role after a career that nearly ended in 2023. The tougher reality tonight is the matchup: he’s staring down the pitcher with the best postseason ERA remaining in October in Peralta, who just no-doubted his way to ALCS MVP. That’s the reason he’s rostered as a lower-owned complement rather than a core piece of the build — the ceiling is real given his recent form, but the floor is capped by who’s on the mound.

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