With 10 games on the MLB DFS main slate and a 1:10 ET start time on both DraftKings and FanDuel, and a Stokastic Strategy Show at High Noon, we are once again in high gear this morning in an effort to provide a quick look at each game with enough time to be useful before the slate locks.
Note: All analysis is written utilizing available projected lineups as of the early morning, pay close attention to confirmed lineups and adjust accordingly. This article is posted and updated as it is written, if a game has not been filled in simply check back in a few minutes. Update notes are provided as lineups are confirmed to the best of our ability, but lineup changes are not typically updated as lock approaches, so stay tuned to official news for any late changes.
MLB DFS: Game by Game Main Slate Summary Report – 4/16/23
San Francisco Giants (-145/4.41) @ Detroit Tigers (+134/3.68)
The slate’s opening game has a bit of rain in the forecast but looks like it will play relatively cleanly for the Giants and Tigers, with any delay impacting starting pitching primarily. There is also a strong wind blowing in toward the plate this afternoon in Detroit, which could impact power to a degree. The Giants’ free-swinging lineup has plenty of pop and they are in a strong matchup against Tigers starter Matthew Boyd. The left-handed human roller coaster has been more targetable than not in recent seasons when he is healthy enough to pitch. Boyd made 15 starts in 2021, posting a 4.79 xFIP and a 3.89 ERA with a 2.67% home run rate in 2021, a year that looks better on the surface than it was in reality. Boyd only threw 13.1 innings last season and he has made two starts with nine innings pitched this year. The lefty has a 17.1% strikeout rate and a matching walk rate to open the campaign while pitching to a 5.58 xFIP in the tiny sample. Boyd has a minor amount of strikeout acumen, it is not the wildest notion that he could find his way to a clean five innings and half a dozen strikeouts against this team, which would play at his $6,100/$6,800 pricing, but that is a risk-embracing large field tournament play that is very likely to go bust. The more likely scenario is the one in which San Francisco bats get to the vulnerable left-hander early and often. Thairo Estrada is leading off in the projected lineup, he is slashing .365/.411/.615 with a .250 ISO and three home runs to start his 2023. Estrada had a minor breakout in 2021, slashing .260/.322/.401 with a 107 WRC, 14 home runs, and 21 stolen bases in 541 opportunities, but $5,200 is the top-end of his price range; he is a $3,300 option on the FanDuel slate. Wilmer Flores has a long track record of being a play against left-handed pitching for MLB DFS gamers, nothing about that should change in this matchup. Flores has two home runs and a .216 ISO in his first 40 plate appearances of 2023 and he comes cheap with multi-position eligibility on the blue site. Lefty Michael Conforto should stick in the top of the lineup even in the same-handed matchup, Conforto may lose a touch of power but will not struggle for quality against a pitcher like Boyd. Another former met, J.D. Davis, has been shining in the heart of the San Francisco order since taking over a, mostly, full-time role late last week. Davis was featured in this space several times early this year for his phenomenal contact profile, everything about how he hits the ball says that Davis is a star-caliber power hitter. The slugger had a 16.2% barrel rate and a 55.6% hard-hit mark over 365 plate appearances in his part-time role last year, he is at a 12.5% and a 53.1% this season and he has hit four home runs in 46 plate appearances. Davis is striking out at just a 21.7% clip in the early going as well, way down from the 33.4% mark he posted last year, but the sample is still absurdly small. This is a hitter to roster now and watch long-term, there is major potential for a season-long breakout year. Darin Ruf and David Villar should both be in play against a weak lefty, Ruf is a platoon specialist and Villar is a right-handed bat who has three home runs this year and hit nine in 181 tries last year. Mike Yastrzemski drops in the lineup against same-handed pitching but he could be in play and should see several plate appearances against bullpen arms if he starts, with tempered expectations the outfielder is in play, while the bottom of the lineup includes Heliot Ramos and playable cheap catcher Joey Bart.
The Tigers look like a weak option for stacking purposes today, there does not seem to be a great path to a wealth of MLB DFS scoring. The team is carrying a 3.68-run implied total in their matchup against righty Logan Webb, who is very good at limiting power in the long term. Webb has a 5.71% home run rate this season that is small sample happenstance, over the past two years he has had 1.40% rate and a 1.51% mark in 32 and 26 starts respectively. Webb is very good at keeping the ball in the yard, a feat he accomplishes by inducing ground balls. The average launch angle hitters managed against the righty last season was just 3.1 degrees, the year before it was -0.5 degrees. Webb is also a capable strikeout pitcher, he had just a 20.7% mark in his 192.1 innings last year, but was at 26.5% over 148.1 innings in 2021 and he has a 31.4% mark over three starts and 17 innings so far this season. Webb is very cheap at $7,400 on DraftKings, his price is more appropriate at $9,600 on FanDuel. He should be explosively popular at his price on the DraftKings slate, that is a broken price for this pitcher in this matchup. The lousy Tigers lineup is similar to what was covered yesterday, the team simply lacks productive talent. Only three hitters in the projected lineup are above average for run creation this season, only two of them were above average over all of last year. Nick Maton and Riley Greene are playable lefties from atop the lineup, Maton has a 113 WRC+ and three home runs this year, Greene is a premium prospect slashing .232/.295/.357 with one home run, they are two of the best this team has to offer for MLB DFS. Javier Baez and Kerry Carpenter have power, but Webb is very likely to keep them in check. Spencer Torkelson has struggled to come anywhere near justifying his draft slot, while the bottom of the lineup includes spare parts like Akil Baddoo, who is a moderately productive power and speed play at a cheap price, Miguel Cabrera, who is amassing a nice collection of gifts on his farewell tour around the league, and the duo of Zach McKinstry and Jake Rogers. Rogers has hit two home runs and costs just $2,700 where catchers are needed, but there are better options.
Play: Logan Webb, some Giants stacks
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Minnesota Twins (+138/3.19) @ New York Yankees (-151/3.90)
The game in Yankee Stadium is flashing power upside once again, but today features a strong matchup between two talented pitchers, which means we are more likely to see contained individual scoring via the home run than we are to see a truly bent score resulting from sequencing and scoring beyond home runs. The visiting Twins will be facing Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, one of the top arms in the game, who has a habit of allowing the odd solo shot once per game, though that is yet to happen over his first three starts this year. Cole is sitting on a 0.00% home run rate for 2023 in his 19.1 innings. The righty has been on-form to start the year, pitching to a 3.18 xFIP and a 1.40 ERA with a 31% strikeout rate. He has generated swinging strikes at a 12.8% clip while allowing just a 2.4% barrel rate. In 2022, Cole had a 32.4% strikeout rate and a 2.78 xFIP over 33 starts and 200.2 innings, he is worth the $10,900/$11,300 against the free-swinging Twins. Minnesota’s bats looked overmatched for part of the game against Domingo German yesterday, Cole might have a major strikeout total when this one is in the books. Still, there is home run potential in the Twins’ projected lineup as well. Rookie Edouard Julien has had a good week in Yankee Stadium so far, he has a .214 ISO and a home run to his credit over 15 plate appearances since his debut. Carlos Correa has two home runs and a .205 ISO in 48 opportunities, he sits second in our home run model with a 9.47, and he comes very cheap at $4,700/$2,800. MLB DFS gamers do not need to worry about insurance risks like the Mets did with Correa, we only need to roster him day to day, and at these prices that is simple. Byron Buxton has a team-leading 13.73 in the home run model, if anyone is taking Cole into the stands today it seems like it will be the Twins’ superstar outfielder. Buxton is one of baseball’s best when he is in the lineup, he has two home runs and a 104 WRC+ to start this season. Lefty Trevor Larnach and right-handed Jose Miranda are capable hitters with a bit of power upside in the middle of the lineup. Larnach has struck out at a 34.4% rate so far this season and he was at a 31.7% mark last year, Cole could sit him down several times today. Miranda is more difficult to strike out but has less overall home run power, he is more of a line-drive hitter and a strong correlation play when this team is rolling. Donovan Solano is projected to hit sixth, he costs just $2,200 on both sites and should not be skipped if choosing to stack Twins. While Solano is not a major offensive piece, his pricing and generally OK abilities would have him well in play if he hits in that spot at that price. Max Kepler would be a late lineup play for power on the left side if he is in the starting lineup, Kepler is cheap at $3,900/$2,300. The balance of the lineup and other odd pieces who may start are mix-and-match plays, this is not a strong stack against Cole most times this slate is played.
The Yankees are showing strong power upside with their three-man power core of Aaron Judge, Anthony Rizzo, and Giancarlo Stanton all landing well above 10 in our home run model. With those three hitters in the middle of the lineup and a solid core of run creators who have individual power and upside of their own throughout the lineup, the Yankees are stacked coming into their matchup against Pablo Lopez. The righty is making his fourth start for the Twins after a long run of success in Miami. Lopez is a very good, perhaps under-appreciated, right-handed pitcher, and he is off to a great start to his 2023 campaign. Over three starts and 20 innings, the righty has a 2.80 xFIP and a 1.35 ERA with a sparkling 0.65 WHIP. Lopez has been outrageous with a 36.6% strikeout rate on the back of a 17% swinging-strike rate. While he has never been exactly that pitcher in terms of strikeouts, he did have a quality 23.6% mark in 180 innings last year and a strong 27.5% in 102.2 innings the season before. Lopez is also very good at limiting premium contact, he has held hitters to a 33.3% hard-hit rate, down from the still-good 35.1% he allowed last year and equalling the mark he posted in 2021. The Yankees lineup is loaded with power and quality, but they also swing and miss a great deal, Lopez is in play at $7,800/$9,800, and the DraftKings price is too cheap for a pitcher of this quality. Today’s slate is loaded with pitching, but uncovering two gems like Webb and Lopez for a combined $15,200 in the first two games is a potential value bonanza for the two-pitcher site. Stacking the Yankees against Lopez and playing for the team’s run-creation ability and power is, of course, a viable approach as well. DJ LeMahieu returned to the lineup yesterday and should lead off at a cheap price on both sites. LeMahieu provides individual potential and excellent correlation with the mentioned power core that follows him as a three-man unit. That group of players is a strong but expensive stack on its own, and the Yankees’ projected lineup offers Gleyber Torres as a good contender to join them in MLB DFS lineups. Torres is slashing .283/.431/.500 with a .217 ISO and a 163 WRC+ to start the season. In fact, the top six hitters in the projected lineup are all above average for run creation, the average WRC+ for that group is 48% above league average for run creation. The sixth man on that list is Franchy Cordero, who has hit four home runs and earned a longer look in New York after bouncing around but always finding jobs given his massive left-handed power potential. Cordero has a 7.45 in our home run model, he costs just $3,000/$3,100 with eligibility in the outfield on DraftKings, adding first base as an option on the blue site. The field may still be behind the curve on a streaky up-and-down player who has disappointed in years past, but there is reason to believe in the 16.7% barrel rate Cordero has put on display early this year. Oswaldo Cabrera, or whichever of the Yankees’ swappable parts is in the late lineup is a mix-and-match piece, as is Jose Trevino. As always, Kyle Higashioka is the more interesting Yankees catcher, but Trevino is more likely to play today. Rookie shortstop Anthony Volpe is a dynamic wraparound play. Volpe is finding his form at the plate but hit the first home run of his career on Friday night and he has stolen six bases on the season. The rookie is extremely aggressive on the basepaths, Volpe stole second and third on consecutive pitches while leading 6-1 in the bottom of the eighth inning last night, he can provide quick bursts of MLB DFS scoring in a variety of ways.
Play: Gerrit Cole, Pablo Lopez, Yankees stacks, maybe minor shares of Twins one-off power plays
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Los Angeles Angels (+101/4.74) @ Boston Red Sox (-109/4.86)
The powerful Angels lineup is in Fenway Park to face Garrett Whitlock, who has made one start this season, covering five innings with a 4.27 xFIP and a 9.00 ERA. Whitlock is something of an in-betweener, he has bounced between a high-leverage bullpen role and the rotation, but Boston plans for him to be a full-time starter this season. The righty had a 26.4% strikeout rate over 78.1 innings and nine starts last year, but that mark was 23.2% in starts and 29.9% in relief. The righty allowed a 3.22% home run rate last year, yielding an eight percent barrel mark and 39% hard hits, he gave up three home runs to the hard-hitting Rays in his first start and could be in trouble for power again today. Whitlock is not out of play at $6,200/$8,000, but he is a much better option as a lightly deployed SP2 on DraftKings than he is on the single-starter site. The Angels are flashing some power in our home run model, but it may not fully capture the quality of their opportunity, the team looks like a strong stack given their affordable pricing and MLB DFS point-scoring projections today. The lineup opens with Taylor Ward, who is a dynamite correlation piece who is regularly on base ahead of the team’s stars when he is not hitting for power of his own. Ward has two home runs and a 105 WRC+ over 66 plate appearances so far this year, he created runs 37% better than average last season. Mike Trout leads the team with a 10.34 in our home run model, slightly ahead of Shohei Ohtani who sits at a 9.15. The pair of stars are pricey, but somewhat affordable compared to where they probably should be as a unit. Trout costs $5,700/$4,300, while Ohtani checks in at $6,100/$3,800, the slight discount on either player from site to site helps get them both into lineups. Trout has created runs 88% better than average in 2023, Ohtani 59% better, and they each have three home runs this year. Anthony Rendon has not homered but he has created runs 13% better than average and costs just $4,100/$2,800, the third baseman is a good play who should not be skipped when stacking Angels bats. Right-handed outfielder Hunter Renfroe and lefty Jake Lamb bring power to the heart of the batting order. Renfroe has three home runs, a .245 ISO, and a 151 WRC+ to start the year, last year he hit 29 home runs and created runs 24% better than average with a .236 ISO for the season, he is too cheap at $4,900/$3,400. Lamb has been slow getting started over 32 plate appearances but he has respectable lefty pop that is demonstrated in his 47.8% hard hit rate and the 11.9% barrel rate he posted in a small sample. Brandon Drury brings power back over to the right side of the plate in the seventh spot in the lineup, he costs just $3,600 with eligibility at first and second base on DraftKings and he is a $2,600 second or third baseman on FanDuel. The Angels surprised the baseball world yesterday, calling up prized 2022 draft pick Zach Neto, who has raked since being selected in the first round last season. Neto is the first member of the 2022 draft class to earn a promotion to the Show and he is ready out of the box by all accounts. The shortstop went 0-4 in his debut last night, but the bat is highly regarded and he checks into this one for just $2,000/$2,100, do not skip Neto when building more than one Angels stack. Logan O’Hoppe is a playable catcher even hitting at the bottom of the lineup.
The hometown Red Sox will be facing lefty Reid Detmers who has made two shaky starts in 2023 so far. Detmers has a 26.7% strikeout rate but an 11.1% walk rate with a 4.58 xFIP and 5.59 ERA over his 9.2 innings this year, he posted a 4.20 xFIP and a 22.6% strikeout rate in his 129 innings in 2022. The lefty is a capable pitcher, but how far above league average he ultimately flies for his career remains to be seen, the Red Sox look somewhat playable against him. Boston’s confirmed lineup opens with lefty Alex Verdugo, who is slashing .305/.379/.424 with a 120 WRC+ and who makes a good correlation piece for just $4,600/$3,000. Justin Turner brings right-handed veteran quality to the upper part of the lineup, while Rob Refsnyder brings very little but is inexplicably hitting third again. Refsnyder is a career backup, he slashed .307/.384/.497 with a 146 WRC+ in 177 plate appearances last year, a nice season as a replacement part no doubt, but not one that earned him a full-time role. That was the best the player has ever been, he is typically more like the .245/.325/.339 hitter with an 86 WRC+ that we saw over 157 plate appearances in 2021. So far this year, the infielder is slashing .200/.351/.333 with a 94 WRC+ and one home run. He is cheap and connects with the best bats in the Red Sox lineup, those are Refsnyder’s primary attributes for MLB DFS purposes. Rafael Devers is the extreme opposite when it comes to hitting, the third baseman has one of the best bats in the game and he is leading the American League with seven home runs in the early part of 2023. Devers is creating runs 61% better than average over 62 plate appearances this year, he was at a 140 WRC+ with a .225 ISO last year and a 134 WRC+ with a .259 ISO the season before, all Devers does is drive the ball and create runs, he is always an option but he is quite costly around the industry. Enrique Hernandez, Masataka Yoshida, and Christian Arroyo are all playable parts in the middle of the lineup, Yoshida is potentially the most interesting name, but the bat that we saw in his NPB career might be stuck in Customs, as it has yet to arrive in Boston. Hernandez and Arroyo are capable veteran infielders with mid-range quality while Connor Wong and Yu Chang round things out. This is not the best version of the Red Sox lineup, the top-half is the focus but they are only a mid-range stacking option.
Play: Angels stacks, minor shares of Garret Whitlock, Reid Detmers, and Boston bats.
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Cleveland Guardians (-227/5.50) @ Washington Nationals (+207/3.61)
The Guardians were one of the featured teams in our Power Index today. They land fourth overall in the team power averages, but their opportunity to sequence and create runs against Patrick Corbin cannot be ignored, this is a top stack today. Facing a team like the Guardians, the amount of contact available in a Corbin start is simply too high. Even if they do not go deep, the Guardians should be on base, running, and creating runs all afternoon in this matchup, making them a strong candidate for MLB DFS stacking shares, much like the Braves. Cleveland’s projected starting lineup has not exactly been a launching pad in the early part of the season, there is no hitter with more than one home run to this point in the season who is projected to start today, and three of the Guardians are yet to hit one out. Still, this team packs a punch and is always interesting for MLB DFS point scoring. Corbin has been a target for stacking and for home run upside for several seasons now. The lefty has made three starts this season, pitching 14 innings with a 4.87 xFIP and a 7.71 ERA. Corbin has a hilarious 2.14 WHIP and a 4.23% home run rate in the small 14-inning sample. He has allowed a 10.7% barrel rate and a 53.6% hard-hit mark. The contact profile has been similar for the past few seasons, Corbin allowed a 44.6% hard-hit rate and a 3.79% home run mark last year and he was at 40.7% hard hit and a 4.93% home run rate in 2021. Both of the past two seasons were in full samples of 31 starts and over 150 innings each, Corbin is demonstrably bad. So far this season, his strikeout rate has also dipped from his already lousy 18-19% range over the past two seasons to an atrocious 12.7%. The veteran southpaw is in trouble against a team that does not strike out and constantly puts the ball in play, even if they do not hit a bushel of home runs. Steven Kwan is among the best leadoff hitters in baseball, which we have said three or four times across the site in recent days. Kwan is slashing just .246/.351/.311 to start the season, but he was excellent with a .298/.373/.400 and a 124 WRC+ last season in 638 plate appearances, hitting six home runs and stealing 19 bases. Kwan is an on-base machine who is incredibly tough to strike out. So far this season he has just a 9.5% strikeout rate, he was at 9.4% for the full season last year. Kwan will be on base and is likely to help create runs in this contest, he is a correlation play. Amed Rosario has power and speed and he slots into the outfield on FanDuel in addition to the shortstop eligibility he has on both sites. Rosario has one home run and three stolen bases this year but is creating runs at a pace 35% worse than average for the young season. Rosario had a 103 WRC+ last season and he hit 11 home runs with 18 stolen bases, making him a strong MLB DFS contributor for just $4,500/$2,500. Jose Ramirez got on the board for long balls for 2023 last night, he has a team-leading 12.07 in our home run model today and looks like a good bet for another one this afternoon. Ramirez is slashing .310/.423/.500 with a 144 WRC+ so far this year, he hit 29 home runs last season and 36 the year before, he is always in play at the hot corner. Josh Bell hits from both sides of the plate and has power in his bat, which we know from the 27 home runs he blasted in 2021. Last season that total dropped to just 17 in nearly 100 more plate appearances, and so far Bell has just one home run and a .130 ISO in 65 plate appearances this season, but he is an effective hitter in general and he is cheap in the heart of the Guardians stack. Bell is a good play if he is in or near the cleanup spot for just $3,600/$2,300, his FanDuel price remains way too low. Outfielder Oscar Gonzalez is in the projected starting lineup. Gonzales has made 36 plate appearances this season with no home runs and a .059 ISO, but the young outfielder hit 11 long balls in 382 opportunities last year while slashing .296/.327/.461 with a 122 WRC+. Infielder Andres Gimenez is a $4,700 second baseman on DraftKings and slots into either middle infield spot for $3,500 on the FanDuel slate. Gimenez hit 17 home runs and stole 20 bases in 2021, he is an exemplification of the team’s approach to baseball with mid-range speed and power and a great nose for getting on base. Gimenez is slashing .305/.379/.441 with a 127 WRC+ and leading the Guardians with a whopping 17 runs scored already this season. Gabriel Arias is another infielder in the projected starting lineup, but the better option from the bottom of the batting order is masher of the first-degree, Mike Zunino. The catcher has one home run this season and struggled through a short season last year, but MLB DFS gamers should remember the massive power display from 2021 when rostering Zunino. Myles Straw is not a highly playable piece outside of seeking on-base and speed-based correlated scoring from the nine spot. If Josh Naylor plays he is another home run candidate in the middle of the lineup.
On the other side of the contest, all signs point to Guardians starter Shane Bieber. The Cleveland ace is facing one of baseball’s weakest lineups and he comes in at a fair price for the opportunity at $10,100/$10,700. Bieber has made three starts, covering 19 innings and pitching to a 4.05 xFIP with a 2.37 ERA and a 0.95 WHIP while not allowing a home run to this point. The righty has just a 19.2% strikeout rate, down from the 25% mark he posted last year and well lower than the 33.1% rate at which he was pitching prior to his 2021 injury, but this year’s number seems very likely to climb. Bieber has induced a healthy 12.4% swinging-strike rate and he could rack up a healthy total in this contest while reaching both a win and quality start bonus. The right-hander is a strong play on the mound on both sites in this matchup. The Nationals lineup is difficult to trust, anyone inclined to play them in a contrarian sense would do well to focus on the top of the batting order, with the possible addition of a wraparound play with Victor Robles, still, the lone player on this team who is not below average for run creation, though he has slipped to exactly the water line at a 100 WRC+. Other playable Nationals bats in that scenario would include Alex Call, Dominic Smith, Joey Meneses, Jeimer Candelario, and Lane Thomas, with Luis Garcia as an OK mix-and-match infielder. This is not a good team to stack in this matchup, the baseball gods may do their thing and the Nationals could string together a nice day against Bieber, but we are playing likely scenarios and looking for strong options, not wild speculation of the extreme low-end of probability.
Play: Guardians stacks and Shane Bieber both aggressively
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Tampa Bay Rays (-120/4.46) @ Toronto Blue Jays (+101 /4.24)
The Blue Jays have finally put the Tampa Bay Rays in their place over the last two days. The formerly surging Rays are now mired in a two-game losing streak but sit at 13-2 atop the AL East. Tampa Bay is an excellent baseball team, we have sung their praises in this space several times this season, but they could be in for another tough day with Blue Jays ace Alek Manoah on the mound. Manoah is a very capable right-handed starter who is excellent at keeping the ball in the yard… most of the time. The righty has made three starts so far this season and he has not been on-form. Manoah has a 6.63 xFIP and a 4.91 ERA over that stretch, and he has allowed an uncharacteristic amount of premium contact. Opposing hitters have blasted three home runs against him already, he allowed only 16 all of last year on the back of an excellent 31.5% hard-hit rate and 5.4% barrel rate allowed. This season those numbers have spiked to a 45.7% hard-hit mark with a 13% barrel rate. Manoah’s fastball velocity has been down very slightly to start the season, but otherwise not much seems to have changed, we could simply be dealing with an early season blip and the pitcher has established enough trust with his excellence over the last two seasons that he has some rope to run with in this space, which was not the case for DraftKings’ pricing algorithm. Manoah costs just $7,600 on the DraftKings slate, add him to the list with Webb and Lopez as potentially excellent cheap pitching options on the site. Of course, like Lopez, this is not a good matchup for the pitcher, the Rays have been baseball’s best offense early in the season. Still, Manoah is in play if the public leaves him on the table at that price, at $9,900 on the blue site we are paying up a bit to hopefully be contrarian on the mound. Manoah would be easily worth the salary were it not for the early season struggles, so ignoring them seems like the best approach. Stacking some Rays as a hedge is not a bad idea at the same time. The excellent lineup rolls from Yandy Diaz, Brandon Lowe, Randy Arozarena, and Wander Franco up top through the nine hitter, in basically any configuration. Tampa Bay’s lineup generates runs like few others, the top eight hitters in the projected lineup are all well above average by WRC+, with an average run creation mark that sits an absurd 68% better than the league average. Following the four-man core of star hitters who provide excellent power and speed potential – the group mentioned above has combined for 16 home runs and six stolen bases with an average 173 WRC+ so far this season, Lowe alone is at a 223 WRC+ and has hit five home runs with a .410 ISO – the Rays offer more sneaky quality in each spot in the lineup. Luke Raley has good power on the left side of the plate, Isaac Paredes is a run-creation machine who drives the ball with authority and has yet to start making his typically excellent contact, Josh Lowe is reminding everyone that there is more than one Lowe in this lineup with his 214 WRC+ over 37 plate appearances, and Christian Bethancourt is a capable bat behind the plate who has a .308 ISO and two home runs on his ledger this year. Vidal Brujan is the lone man with a below-average mark for run creation, but he has only made 10 plate appearances so we should give him some time to catch up.
The Blue Jays are facing Shane McClanahan, Tampa Bay’s left-handed ace, making this a true Four Corners game, both the pitcher and Toronto’s excellent bats are in play. McClanahan had a 30.3% strikeout rate over 166.1 innings in 28 starts last year, he is at a 30.9% mark in 17 innings over three starts so far this season. The southpaw has pitched to a 1.59 ERA but a 3.53 xFIP to start the year and he is yet to allow a home run while inducing a 34.2% hard-hit rate so far. McClanahan is very good, but he is pricey at $9,900/$10,400 given the matchup. While this is not taking him off the board in any way, it does serve to potentially knock him back a peg when compared to similarly talented ace-caliber starters in better matchups. However, McClanahan is also likely to be low-owned around the industry for those exact reasons, so finding a spot between owning him too much and being above the field seems like a good place to settle on the lefty. The Blue Jays lineup is basically always in play, they are simply too good overall and they are flashing some power against McClanahan in this spot. Toronto will roll out a highly right-handed lineup that opens with George Springer, who has three home runs and three stolen bases this year and was a 25/14 man last year. Springer is a fair $5,300/$3,700 investment, he hits in front of Bo Bichette, who is creating runs 76% better than average with four home runs, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who has a 179 WRC+ and two home runs, they are both excellent obvious names to play atop this lineup. Matt Chapman is projected in the cleanup role, he costs $4,900 on DraftKings and $4,500 on FanDuel and has cooled just slightly from his white-hot start to the season. Chapman may not have the weight of popularity on his back in this matchup, making him an ideal MLB DFS tournament play in stacks and as a one-off, the 28.6% barrel rate and 69% hard-hit mark will come down somewhat, but they are representative of how well Chapman hits the ball when he makes contact. Daulton Varsho is the lone lefty in the projected lineup, he hits in front of catcher Alejandro Kirk, and both players could provide sneaky power or correlated scoring. Whit Merrifield and Santiago Espinal offer on-base and speed potential from late in the lineup, while Danny Jansen would be a quality secondary catcher option if both he and Kirk are in the lineup. The Toronto stack is likely somewhat contrarian in this matchup, playing shares of the bats and shares of a hopefully also unpopular McClanahan is an angle into the slate that could pay off well.
Play: Four Corners Game – Rays bats, Blue Jays bats, Alek Manoah, Shane McClanahan in that order of preference (on DraftKings Manoah is probably a higher priority given the extreme salary discount)
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Philadelphia Phillies (-177/5.49) @ Cincinnati Reds (+162/4.12)
The Phillies and Reds are doing battle in Cincinnati’s band-box once again and the Phillies have one of the highest implied team totals of the day in their matchup against Luis Cessa, who looks unplayable in this spot. Cessa is a limited righty who has a seven percent strikeout rate in his two starts and nine innings this season. He has allowed a 4.65% home run rate and has a 6.16 xFIP with a 7.00 ERA, he has been as bad as it seems. Cessa is giving up a 14.3% barrel rate and a 60% hard-hit mark to start the season, he was bad but not to that degree over a fairer 80.2-inning sample in 2022, but his 4.17% home run rate was still highly targetable and he only struck out 17.6% of hitters, Philadelphia bats could be in for a huge day in this contest. The confirmed Phillies lineup opens with Bryson Stott, who is slashing .375/.385/.469 with a 129 WRC+ and three stolen bases on the young season. Stott is a cheap leadoff man who is a great correlation play with the Philadelphia stars and power core that begins with their second hitter, Trea Turner. The shortstop has yet to hit a home run this season, but he is slashing .308/.340/.400 and he hit 21 home runs last year and 28 the year before, adding 27 and 32 stolen bases respectively. Turner is a multi-category contributor who is somehow far too cheap at $3,500 on FanDuel, he should be extremely popular and is well worth the spend and ownership. At $6,000 on DraftKings he remains very much in play, as does the $5,800/$3,100 Kyle Schwarber, who has a team-leading 11.75 in the home run model and seems like a strong candidate for a long ball against this pitcher. Nick Castellanos has been back in business this year, he has no home runs but more doubles than anyone so far on the young season and he has created runs 21% better than average. The field is not fully up to speed, he remains somewhat inexpensive at $5,000/$3,200. Brandon Marsh and JT Realmuto should not be skipped to frequently in Phillies stacks, Marsh has a 194 WRC+ to lead the team over his 44 plate appearances. He has hit two home runs and stolen a base and has been getting on at a .409 clip so far this year. Realmuto is an excellent catcher option who can be played on both sites. Alec Bohm is paying off his draft slot from several seasons ago, he is off to a great start with thre home runs and a 157 WRC+ over 62 plate appearances this year. Bohm slashed .280/.315/.398 with 13 home runs in 631 plate appearances last year and there seems to be more power on the way for the young corner infielder. Jake Cave and Josh Harrison are movable pieces.
The Reds, meanwhile, might be a bit overmatched against Phillies ace Aaron Nola, though the righty has had a bumpy start to his 2023 as well. Nola has made three starts, pitching 15.1 innings and striking out just 22.4%, well down from his stellar 29.1% mark last year and 29.8% the season before. The righty is typically the model of consistency, so this is very likely to be just a blip, Nola has still allowed just a 32.7% hard-hit rate and his 3.89 xFIP looks a lot better than his 7.04 ERA so far this year. Assuming he is able to find his swinging strikes against the Reds, this looks like a good spot for Nola to find his form, he is extraordinarily inexpensive at $8,400 on the DraftKings slate, MLB DFS gamers should take advantage of that price while it lasts. At $9,700 he is carrying a discount on the blue site as well, but it is not nearly as extreme. The Reds are playable in this ballpark, Wil Myers finally paid off our faith with two home runs yesterday, and the team has playable parts like Jonathan India, T.J. Friedl, and Jake Fraley, the latter two of whom are capable left-handed bats with a touch of power, not that Nola is overly targetable for power. Jason Vosler continues the run of lefties before the lineup reaches right-handed Myers, Spencer Steer, Nick Senzel, Kevin Newman, and Luke Maile, the stretch of righties could be a boon for Nola who may power through the bottom of the lineup several times for strikeouts.
Play: Phillies bats aggressively, Aaron Nola, minor shares of Reds bats if unpopular
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Arizona Diamondbacks (+111/3.40) @ Miami Marlins (-120/3.68)
Another game, another premium pitching matchup. The Diamondbacks are facing last year’s National League Cy Young Award winner, Sandy Alcantara, who checks in for $10,300 on both sites. Alcantara has made three starts this season, covering 18.2 innings and pitching to a questionable 4.71 xFIP with just a 14.5% strikeout rate. The concerns for Alcantara pop up very quickly when it comes to fantasy quality, the pitcher has been excellent in recent seasons but a lot of what he does is on the back of extended innings and an ability to limit baserunners and threats. Overall, Alcantara was just a 23.4% strikeout rate pitcher last season, a good but not nearly great mark that is only a little above average. He got by on the fact that he reliably pitches deep into ballgames, a 23.4% rate goes a long way for a starter who throws 228.2 innings in his 32 starts. Alcantara had a 24% rate over 205.2 innings the year before, he was very good in that season with a 3.45 xFIP and a 3.19 ERA, but he was not considered the apex ace that he was last season, there are reasons for concern about a return to Earth, even as the numbers round into form. Alcantara will be challenged by a better-than-advertised Diamondbacks lineup, the pitcher is in play and may be lower owned, he could easily post the day’s best fantasy score, but there are questions at his salary. Arizona’s confirmed lineup has a number of quality hitters who are above average for run creation in the small sample this season. Josh Rojas is in the leadoff role, he has a 153 WRC+ over his first 47 opportunities this year and was at a 108 over a full season in 2022. Rojas is not a threatening hitter but he is a strong correlation play in Arizona stacks. Geraldo Perdomo and Pavin Smith are hitting second and third, they have both been productive in their limited samples to start the year, but both players were below average last year. Smith has power on the left side of the plate, while Perdomo is more of a correlated scoring play. Christian Walker and Corbin Caroll are the two best hitters in the lineup, Walker has massive power and Carroll is a good power and speed play who costs $3,500/$3,000 in this matchup. Carroll has three home runs and six stolen bases in his 56 plate appearances to start the season. Lefty Jake McCarthy is another speedy outfielder in the Diamondbacks lineup, though he is slashing just .186/.286/.256 with a 51 WRC+ so far this year. Nick Ahmed and Jose Herrera are mix-and-match pieces, and lefty Alek Thomas could add interesting pop late in the batting order. The Diamondbacks are not a great play against Alcantara, but a few contrarian lineups are not out fo the question.
Miami will be facing Zac Gallen, a quality pitcher who is underrated and unfairly cheap. Gallen costs just $8,000/$8,900, which puts him on the board as a very good option on a very deep pitching slate. The righty has been good to start the season, Gallen has a 29.2% strikeout rate over 17.2 innings in three starts. He has posted a 3.57 xFIP and a 4.58 ERA with a 2.78% home run rate and just a 4.3% barrel rate allowed to this point, following up a season that saw him post a 26.9% strikeout rate over 184 innings. Gallen is a very good starter facing a lineup that is at best middling. The Marlins projected batting order includes star Jazz Chisholm and power hitter Jorge Soler, as well as the excellent hit tool of Luis Arraez, who has also driven the ball well this year, but not all that much else. The team has veteran quality, they feature Garrett Cooper, Avisail Garcia, and Jean Segura in prominent roles most days, but the group of veterans are on the Marlins for a reason at this point, they are of at best average quality in this matchup. Playing Marlins bats could play, the team is capable of stringing together runs and a hitter like Soler could just hit two out of the park on his own and ruin everyone’s afternoon, but this looks like one of the lower-end spots on the board, lending upside to the Gallen play on the mound at the cheap prices. The Marlins lineup also includes playable Bryan De La Cruz, speed burner Jon Berti, and Jacob Stallings. This is not a great baseball team, the top of the order is the focus when going to Marlins bats.
Play: Sandy Alcantara (with fingers crossed for the return to form), Zac Gallen enthusiastically, minor shares of hedge stacks if desired.
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Atlanta Braves (-155/5.04) @ Kansas City Royals (+142/4.07)
The Braves are an excellent but likely popular play in this matchup against pushover veteran starter Zack Greinke, this was a featured offense in the Power Index today. Greinke, if nothing else, has done well for himself in pitching five years beyond his career expiration date. The righty simply has not been the same pitcher for several seasons now. Last year he made 26 starts and pitched to a clunky 4.54 xFIP with a 3.68 covering it up. He had an anemic 12.5% strikeout rate over 137 innings over which he posted a 1.34 WHIP despite a very good 4.6% walk rate. Greinke allowed a 39.6% hard-hit rate and a 2.39% home run rate last season, the year before he gave up just a 35.4% hard-hit mark but allowed a 4.30% home run rate, with average launch angles allowed in the low teens, Greinke lets far too many well-struck balls take flight on home run trajectories to expect him to pitch cleanly through a lineup like Atlanta’s. The team should also be able to sequence and use their hit tools and speed against this pitcher, Atlanta hitters should circle the bases all day. At .365/.452/.556 with a .190 ISO, three home runs, and six stolen bases over his 73 plate appearances, it seems safe to assume that superstar Ronald Acuna Jr. is feeling good to start the season. Acuna is a monster power hitter, in addition to his other four tools, he is an excellent option on any slate but he is, naturally, very expensive for his talent. It is easy to build quality stacks of Braves hitters without Acuna, but that should never be the goal. Matt Olson has already hit five home runs this season and he is tracking as the team-leading option with an 11.27 in our home run model. Olson hit 34 long balls last year and 39 the season before, he is a top-notch option at first base on any slate. In his 71 plate appearances this season, Olson has a ridiculous 25.7% barrel rate and a 54.3% hard-hit rate, he has a very strong chance of driving one today. Austin Riley has not had a good contact profile over his first 68 plate appearances of 2023, he has just a five percent barrel rate and a 35% hard-hit rate, yet he is slashing .316/.412/.509 with three home runs and a .193 ISO to this point. The Atlanta third baseman is one of the game’s best at his position, Riley hit 38 home runs last season and 33 the year before while posting a very healthy triple slash, he should be a fixture in Braves stacks. If catcher Sean Murphy is in the lineup he should be a candidate for a significant number of shares as well, both where his position is required and where it is not. Murphy has three home runs and a massive .410 ISO in his 52 plate appearances this year, he hit 18 home runs and had a 122 WRC+ last season and is off to a good start chasing the monster year everyone expected from him on arrival in Atlanta. If Murphy sits for a rest day, he will be spelled by Chadwick Tromp, who is notably not Travis d’Arnaud, who is dealing with an injury. Tromp would be a significant downgrade in a way that d’Arnaud is not. Eddie Rosario has one home run and a .150 ISO to go with his 65 WRC+. Rosario had a down year in 2022 and was only OK in 2021, he is still a capable hitter and he is cheap on both sites, which is the primary attribute keeping him in play for MLB DFS. Hitting in the middle of this lineup at $2,700/$2,200 makes anyone at least semi-relevant on a slate-to-slate basis. Ozzie Albies has scuffled to a .246/.266/.344 triple-slash with a .098 ISO and two home runs this year. Albies missed a portion of last year, he made just 269 plate appearances and hit eight home runs with three steals, but he was his typically excellent self in 2021 in 686 plate appearances. That season, Albies hit 30 home runs and stole 20 bases, that version of the player still exists and will show up this season, getting in when he is priced at $4,300/$2,800 is a good idea. Vaughn Grissom is a prized rookie and he is finally available on FanDuel, he is cheap across the industry at $3,200/$2,800 and he offers eligibility at both middle infield spots on the blue site. Marcell Ozuna has two home runs this year and that’s about it. Ozuna is slashing .075/.196/.225 with a 14 WRC+, but his $2,900/$2,500 would be a good price for a player with a 14.8% barrel rate and a 48.1% hard-hit rate, if those numbers came in more batted ball events. Ozuna was OK last year, hitting 23 home runs but creating runs 12% worse than average, he is playable but not great. Sam Hilliard is a lefty at the bottom of the lineup at a very low price. Hilliard has gotten off to a good start filling in for Atlanta, he has been mentioned as a sneaky play a few times in recent games and he has delivered a .348/.464/.609 with a home run, a .261 ISO, and a 184 WRC+ over a meaningless 28 plate appearance sample. The Braves are in a strong spot for home run upside in this one, but they also make for a sharp stack on run creation and available contact, Atlanta should be a big part of MLB DFS plans yet again.
The Royals will be facing right-handed Kyle Wright, who had a very good 2022. Wright pitched to a 3.30 xFIP with a 3.19 ERA and a 23.6% strikeout rate over his 180.1 innings in 30 starts last year, but he has made just one three-inning start in 2023 after suffering a Spring injury. Wright is still getting fully stretched out and may not be worth trusting at his $8,600 salary on the FanDuel slate. There are a number of options similar to his $7,200 DraftKings price, but a few SP2 darts at that price are not a terrible idea on the site. Wright is a very good pitcher, he just may not go as deep into this outing as he normally would, and the Kansas City lineup has a few capable bats that could give him issues if he is not fully on form. The Royals confirmed lineup opens with Bobby Witt Jr. who has a 121 WRC+ with two home runs and five stolen bases already this season. Witt is a star at $5,100/$2,900, the FanDuel price is far too low, as are the salaries for every bat in the Royals lineup on the blue site once again. MJ Melendez, Vinnie Pasquantino, and Sal Perez cost $4,500, $3,500, and $4,700 on DraftKings and just $2,700 each on the FanDuel slate. As value stacks go, it is difficult to beat the quality-for-price offered by the top of the Royals lineup, all of those bats are capable power hitters with good run-creation qualities. Outfielder Edward Olivares is cheap at $3,000/$2,300, he has a home run and a .171 ISO to his credit in 38 plate appearances this season but comes in below average for run creation so far. The bottom of the batting order includes Kyle Isbel, Matt Duffy, and Nicky Lopez, but Franmil Reyes is always the most interesting late-lineup name given his titanic power upside. Reyes has two home runs in his 35 plate appearances, he is not otherwise reliable but he is a cheap option for a long ball on this slate.
Play: Atlanta stacks very aggressively, some contrarian Royals, Kyle Wright as an SP2 with a question about his depth
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Baltimore Orioles (+128/3.73) @ Chicago White Sox (-138/4.35)
The young talented Orioles are facing Dylan Cease, a premium strikeout artist who is sitting at an excellent 34.8% strikeout rate for the young season. Cease had a 30.4% mark in 2022 and a 31.9% rate the season before, he is one of the top strikeout arms in baseball. The righty has pitched to a 3.15 xFIP with a 1.65 ERA this season, covering 16.1 innings in three starts. He has an impressive 0.80 WHIP and a 13.8% swinging-strike rate, but has allowed a 51.4% hard-hit mark and 90.6 mph average exit velocity. The premium contact is a blip for Cease, he is typically better at inducing soft and medium contact when hitters connect at all, last season he allowed just a 31.2% hard-hit mark in his 184 innings over 32 starts. The pitcher is excellent and he costs just $9,200 on DraftKings, but $11,100 on FanDuel. The blue site price will likely render him somewhat unpopular on such a deep pitching slate, which is a good thing for rostering the premium option in tournaments. He will be popular but very much in play at the DraftKings salary. Orioles bats can be played against Cease, they are a very good young team and one that is capable of getting to the pitcher, but they are not looking as stout as in recent days. Baltimore hitters to target include the top six in the lineup, with Cedric Mullins II, Adley Rutschman, Ryan Mountcastle, and Anthony Santander making up the team’s primary power core. Mullins is a great power and speed man in the top role, while Rutschman is possibly baseball’s best-hitting catcher already in his young career. Mountcastle is fully emerging as an elite power bat this season, he has six home runs and a 117 WRC+ to start 2023, and Santander is a proven switch-hitting power bat who has been slow to wake up this season. That group is followed by struggling rookie Gunnar Henderson, one of baseball’s apex prospects who will come around without a doubt, and Austin Hays, a post-hype prospect who has had several good seasons already, and is off to a great start. Hays has three home runs and a .309 ISO with a 184 WRC+ so far. Adam Frazier and Ryan O’Hearn are minimally playable parts, while wraparound man extraordinaire Jorge Mateo is one of this space’s very favorite plays in MLB DFS. Mateo has surprised with some power this season, he hit 13 home runs over 533 plate appearances last year but had just a .158 ISO, so far Mateo has three home runs and a .275 ISO to go with his seven stolen bases, but the most exciting stat is probably his .413 on-base percentage over his first 48 plate appearances, if he can approach even a .350 on-base clip Mateo would be an amazing asset, he stole 35 bases with a .267 on-base percentage in 2022.
The White Sox are looking frisky in our power index with several players flashing good home run upside in a matchup against rookie starter Grayson Rodriguez. Baseball’s best pitching prospect has made two starts and thrown 9.1 innings so far in his career, pitching to a 25.6% strikeout rate and a 3.48 ERA that reveals the quality under his 6.75 ERA. The righty is an excellent young pitcher who is fully developed and ready, he just needs to find his footing in the Show. He struck out five Rangers hitters in five innings in his debut, allowing two runs on four hits, then had a lower-end outing against the far worse Athletics, in which he struck out six but walked four and allowed five runs on six hits. Rodriguez has major talent and is in play for a good day, he is playable at $8,300 on FanDuel, the discount helps reach hitting combinations that would be otherwise unavailable, and he is a discount dandy at $6,700 on the DraftKings slate. That price should make Rodriguez one of the most popular SP2 plays on this slate, regardless of his opponent. The White Sox can be rostered against that popularity, or just as a good play in general. Chicago’s confirmed lineup has today’s home run pick Luis Robert Jr. in the leadoff role. Robert has five home runs and a 137 WRC+ to start 2023, he hit 12 long balls and stole 11 bases in 401 plate appearances last year, a major breakout season could be underway for the young star outfielder. First baseman Andrew Vaughn hit 17 home runs and had a 113 WRC+ last season and is the reason that Jose Abreu is on the Astros now, Vaughn has yet to hit a home run this year but he has an excellent 134 WRC+ over his 62 plate appearances. Hitting in front of left-handed power bat Gavin Sheets who comes in cheap at $2,400/$2,300 averages down the already low $3,600/$3,000 salary carried by Vaughn when playing them as a tandem, which helps afford cleanup hitter Eloy Jimenez at an also inexpensive $4,400/$3,300. Jimenez missed a few games on the IL, he has a .185/.290/.259 triple-slash and a 57 WRC+ over 31 plate appearances but this is a star-caliber bat when healthy and rolling, Jimenez is likely to be too unpopular for his low price, he should be rostered and he leads the team with a 13.95 in our home run model. The top four hitters in the Chicago lineup are all over a 10 in the home run ratings today. Jake Burger land in the fifth position in the lineup and has a 9.55 in our home run model. Burger has three home runs and is slashing .353/.368/1.000 over his first 19 plate appearances this year, which will not continue for long. Burger is a replacement-level player with good power upside overall. Oscar Colas has a home run and two stolen bases but just a 79 WRC+ to start his career, and the bottom of the lineup trails off, the focus with White Sox is the top six hitters. This is your Elvis Andrus is not good mention of the day.
Play: Dylan Cease, White Sox bats, Grayson Rodriguez, some Orioles bats
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Pittsburgh Pirates (+152/3.76) @ St. Louis Cardinals (-166/4.84)
The lousy Pirates are a good opponent for starter Miles Mikolas who comes in cheap at $6,300/$8,100. Mikolas is a low-end contact based pitcher who strikes out around 19% of hitters but eats innings and has the ability to pitch cleanly. He had a 3.80 xFIP and just a 4.8% walk rate over 202.1 innings last season and, in this matchup and at these prices, he could deliver strong value against a fairly weak lineup. Of course, contact-oriented pitchers are always vulnerable and Mikolas has a 10.05 ERA with a 5.26% home run rate and 43.9% hard-hit rate allowed this year, but that is somewhat uncharacteristic for power and premium contact. The righty is unlikely to break such a deep slate, but he is in play, particularly as a $6,300 SP2 on DraftKings. The Pirates lineup includes Ji-Hwan Bae, who is slashing .217/.280/.391 with a 78 WRC+ ahead of star outfielder Bryan Reynolds, who cannot get out of Pittsburgh fast enough. Reynolds started the season hot, he has five home runs already and looks like the best option in this lineup. Reynolds can be combined with Andrew McCutchen and Carlos Santana in mini three-man stacks that could be effective for power and run creation upside against this starter. McCutchen has a 159 WRC+ and Santana is at 104 for the year with each hitting two home runs so far. The Pirates veteran core is at least inexpensive overall, keeping them in play. Ke’Bryan Hayes and Jack Suwinski are limited options who each have a home run this year, while Rodolfo Castro and Canaan Smith-Njigba are probably better hitters at this point. Austin Hedges is not an overly playable catcher but he has gone deep from time to time. The Pirates are not a great play, but the contact available in this game could thrust them to moderate relevance.
Against Mitch Keller, truly anything can happen. Keller has long frustrated with an inability to consistently put things together despite a dynamite array of pitches. He has a 29.3% strikeout rate to start the season, notably up from his 20.1% mark last year, a season that saw him arrive from Spring Training with significant expectations on the back of all sorts of rumors of improvement and special offseason training regimens, maybe that is finally arriving this season, but the jury is definitely still not returned on that count. Keller has a 10.7% walk rate and a 3.61 xFIP but a 1.36 WHIP and a 4.0% home run rate, the odds are probably on the Cardinals side in this one, the talented lineup will wait out Keller and create runs against him before getting to the Pirates bullpen. Focusing on a hopefully lower-owned Cardinals stack seems like the approach to this game, with Brendan Donovan leading the way ahead of Alec Burleson and stars Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado. The four-man group up top is playable on its own, but adding options like Willson Contreras, Nolan Gorman, Lars Nootbaar, Jordan Walker, and Tommy Edman is unfair. This could be a long day for Keller and anyone who rosters him for MLB DFS purposes. Outside of Contreras, who is scuffling with just a 31 WRC+ and the last two hitters in the lineup who are slightly below average, all of the Cardinals’ bats are well above average for run creation, and they are too cheap. Only Goldschmidt and Arenado crack the $5,000 salary mark on DraftKings; they are at $3,800 and $3,700 on FanDuel with the rest of the team at $3,400 or below. This is a very playable spot for St. Louis.
Play: Cardinals stacks, some Miles Mikolas, some Mitch Keller for the daredevils
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