FREE MLB DFS Hitter Projections – DraftKings MLB & FanDuel MLB – Thursday Early & Main Slates – 5/9

MLB DFS Hitter Projections

The projections below are created from our custom MLB model for DraftKings and FanDuel. Projections will be updated for any injury/lineup change that breaks before lock as best as possible, lineups will be confirmed and updated as they are released.

Notes will be provided between updates as time allows. Bold text in the “Update Notes” line will be the most recent reporting, if the status line next to the time stamp is red and says “pending” the update to include the bold text news is in the works, while all of the non-bold news has been updated in the previous run; if it says “updated” in green, all of the news has been accounted for in the current projections. When in doubt or unavailable, we recommend @underdog_mlb for any breaking news.

Last updated: 9:33 pm ET – 5/9/24- updated

Update Notes: All lineups are now confirmed.

The projections table includes FanDuel and DraftKings hitter projections and a rating for each player in our custom HR model (Scale: 5-10 Average; 10-20 Good; 20-25 Very Good; 25+ Great). The “Status” column indicates whether a lineup is the projected (“P”) version or if it is the confirmed (“C”) game lineup for each team.

Early Slate

Player	Hand	Team	Game	FD POS	FD$	FDpts	DK POS	DK$	DKpts	HR	Order	Status
TJ Friedl	L	CIN	CIN@MIA	OF	2800	11.85	OF	4300	9.46	8.45	1	C
Matt McLain	R	CIN	CIN@MIA	SS/2B	3400	13.31	2B	5200	10.44	11.30	2	C
Elly De La Cruz	B	CIN	CIN@MIA	SS	4000	15.32	SS	5800	12.11	11.61	3	C
Austin Hays	R	CIN	CIN@MIA	OF	2700	10.05	OF	3900	8.04	8.30	4	C
Gavin Lux	L	CIN	CIN@MIA	2B/OF	2600	9.51	2B/OF	3400	7.63	5.96	5	C
Spencer Steer	R	CIN	CIN@MIA	OF/1B/2B	2500	10.36	1B/3B	3200	8.13	8.15	6	C
Jake Fraley	L	CIN	CIN@MIA	OF	2600	10.07	OF	3300	8.04	6.51	7	C
Noelvi Marte	R	CIN	CIN@MIA	3B	2200	8.30	3B	2900	6.69	5.58	8	C
Jose Trevino	R	CIN	CIN@MIA	C	2300	7.31	C	3700	5.91	5.42	9	C
Xavier Edwards	B	MIA	CIN@MIA	SS	3300	9.88	SS	4500	8.26	1.38	1	C
Eric Wagaman	R	MIA	CIN@MIA	3B/OF	2400	9.32	1B	3100	7.52	5.13	2	C
Connor Norby	R	MIA	CIN@MIA	2B/3B	3000	9.62	3B	3100	7.68	5.82	3	C
Otto Lopez	R	MIA	CIN@MIA	2B	3000	8.45	2B	4000	7.04	2.26	4	C
Dane Myers	R	MIA	CIN@MIA	OF	2400	8.29	OF	2700	6.71	4.39	5	C
Agustin Ramirez	R	MIA	CIN@MIA	C	2000	8.53	0	0	6.77	4.99	6	C
Jesus Sanchez	L	MIA	CIN@MIA	OF	2700	10.01	OF	2900	7.91	6.72	7	C
Javier Sanoja	R	MIA	CIN@MIA	SS/2B/OF	2100	6.24	2B/OF	2500	5.27	1.26	8	C
Ronny Simon	B	MIA	CIN@MIA	2B	2000	6.43	2B	2000	5.25	2.19	9	C
Fernando Tatis	R	SDP	SDP@DET	OF	4300	15.76	OF	6000	11.59	17.17	1	P
Manny Machado	R	SDP	SDP@DET	3B	3800	12.81	3B	5200	10.11	13.78	2	P
Gavin Sheets	L	SDP	SDP@DET	1B/OF	2700	9.38	OF	3400	7.47	7.73	3	P
Xander Bogaerts	R	SDP	SDP@DET	SS/2B	2800	9.88	SS	4000	7.98	7.15	4	P
Jose Iglesias	R	SDP	SDP@DET	SS/2B/3B/OF	2600	7.33	2B	2900	6.17	3.49	5	P
Tirso Ornelas	L	SDP	SDP@DET	OF	2000	7.77	OF	2000	6.27	5.48	6	P
Yuli Gurriel	R	SDP	SDP@DET	1B	2500	7.24	1B	2200	5.89	4.42	7	P
Tyler Wade	L	SDP	SDP@DET	2B/3B/SS	2300	6.68	2B/OF	2200	5.50	1.47	8	P
Elias Diaz	R	SDP	SDP@DET	C	2400	6.79	C	2400	5.47	5.29	9	P
Gleyber Torres	R	DET	SDP@DET	2B	3200	9.83	2B	4600	7.88	6.01	1	C
Zach McKinstry	L	DET	SDP@DET	SS/3B/2B	2800	8.91	3B/OF	3900	7.23	3.80	2	C
Riley Greene	L	DET	SDP@DET	OF	2900	10.94	OF	4300	8.67	7.87	3	C
Spencer Torkelson	R	DET	SDP@DET	1B	3500	9.30	1B	4500	7.22	7.18	4	C
Colt Keith	L	DET	SDP@DET	1B/2B	2400	8.70	2B	3100	7.02	5.69	5	C
Jace Jung	L	DET	SDP@DET	3B	2000	7.90	#N/A	#N/A	6.18	5.13	6	C
Javier Baez	R	DET	SDP@DET	2B/SS/3B	2400	7.68	3B/SS	3700	6.20	5.21	7	C
Trey Sweeney	L	DET	SDP@DET	SS	2500	7.26	SS	3400	5.80	4.21	8	C
Tomas Nido	R	DET	SDP@DET	C	2100	5.28	C	2300	4.39	2.23	9	C
Bryson Stott	L	PHI	PHI@NYM	2B/SS	2800	10.38	2B	4300	8.42	5.00	1	P
Trea Turner	R	PHI	PHI@NYM	SS	3100	11.29	SS	5300	9.14	7.74	2	P
Bryce Harper	L	PHI	PHI@NYM	1B	4000	12.80	1B	5400	9.93	10.59	3	P
Kyle Schwarber	L	PHI	PHI@NYM	OF	4300	11.48	OF	5900	9.19	13.71	4	P
Nick Castellanos	R	PHI	PHI@NYM	OF	3100	9.31	OF	4800	7.45	7.26	5	P
Max Kepler	L	PHI	PHI@NYM	OF	2700	8.51	OF	3600	6.74	6.70	6	P
J.T. Realmuto	R	PHI	PHI@NYM	C	2800	8.95	C	4000	7.11	6.50	7	P
Alec Bohm	R	PHI	PHI@NYM	3B/1B	2500	7.91	3B	3500	6.42	5.05	8	P
Johan Rojas	R	PHI	PHI@NYM	OF	2300	7.48	OF	2700	6.20	2.58	9	P
Francisco Lindor	B	NYM	PHI@NYM	SS	3200	12.52	SS	5200	9.86	9.00	1	P
Juan Soto	L	NYM	PHI@NYM	OF	3800	14.61	OF	5700	11.13	11.25	2	P
Pete Alonso	R	NYM	PHI@NYM	1B	4200	12.45	1B	5600	9.54	11.41	3	P
Brandon Nimmo	L	NYM	PHI@NYM	OF	2700	9.72	OF	4200	7.65	6.05	4	P
Jesse Winker	L	NYM	PHI@NYM	OF	2500	8.86	OF	3300	6.93	4.76	5	P
Luis Torrens	R	NYM	PHI@NYM	C	2500	7.73	C	3200	6.17	4.70	6	P
Brett Baty	L	NYM	PHI@NYM	3B/2B	2300	7.95	2B/3B	2500	6.27	5.55	7	P
Luisangel Acuna	R	NYM	PHI@NYM	SS/2B	2500	7.50	2B	3500	6.19	2.85	8	P
Tyrone Taylor	R	NYM	PHI@NYM	OF	2400	7.78	OF	2500	6.21	4.92	9	P
Lars Nootbaar	L	STL	STL@ATL	OF	3400	11.58	OF	4700	9.06	6.41	1	C
Willson Contreras	R	STL	STL@ATL	C/1B	2600	11.76	1B	3300	9.12	7.51	2	C
Brendan Donovan	L	STL	STL@ATL	3B/2B/OF	3000	9.10	2B/SS	4400	7.37	3.64	3	C
Nolan Arenado	R	STL	STL@ATL	3B	3200	9.05	3B	4300	7.26	5.43	4	C
Alec Burleson	L	STL	STL@ATL	OF/1B	2500	9.17	1B	3000	7.41	5.34	5	C
Jordan Walker	R	STL	STL@ATL	OF	2700	9.17	OF	3300	7.34	4.87	6	C
Nolan Gorman	L	STL	STL@ATL	2B	2700	9.62	2B	3600	7.46	7.14	7	C
Pedro Pages	R	STL	STL@ATL	C	2700	6.92	C	3600	5.54	3.32	8	C
Victor Scott	L	STL	STL@ATL	OF	2900	7.25	OF	3500	5.95	1.85	9	C
Alex Verdugo	L	ATL	STL@ATL	OF	2400	9.26	OF	3300	7.52	4.83	1	C
Austin Riley	R	ATL	STL@ATL	3B	3300	12.72	3B	5000	9.96	10.79	2	C
Marcell Ozuna	R	ATL	STL@ATL	OF	3800	12.19	OF	4700	9.49	10.82	3	C
Matt Olson	L	ATL	STL@ATL	1B	2900	11.86	1B	4800	9.12	10.34	4	C
Ozzie Albies	B	ATL	STL@ATL	2B	3200	9.85	2B	4900	7.88	6.56	5	C
Michael Harris	L	ATL	STL@ATL	OF	2700	10.62	OF	4400	8.55	7.05	6	C
Sean Murphy	R	ATL	STL@ATL	C	3300	9.26	C	4600	7.17	6.69	7	C
Jarred Kelenic	L	ATL	STL@ATL	OF	2400	8.41	OF	2300	6.65	5.56	8	C
Nick Allen	R	ATL	STL@ATL	SS	2200	6.16	SS	2600	5.08	1.65	9	C
Bo Bichette	R	TOR	TOR@HOU	SS	2900	10.94	SS	4300	8.90	6.34	1	P
Vladimir Guerrero	R	TOR	TOR@HOU	1B	3000	13.54	1B	5000	10.62	9.89	2	P
Anthony Santander	B	TOR	TOR@HOU	OF	2800	11.65	OF	4200	9.03	9.38	3	P
Andres Gimenez	L	TOR	TOR@HOU	2B	3000	9.71	2B	4700	7.91	3.77	4	P
George Springer	R	TOR	TOR@HOU	OF	3100	9.64	OF	4600	7.62	5.94	5	P
Addison Barger	L	TOR	TOR@HOU	3B/OF	2000	8.94	3B/OF	2200	7.02	5.56	6	P
Alejandro Kirk	R	TOR	TOR@HOU	C	2500	7.94	C	3000	6.38	3.69	7	P
Will Wagner	L	TOR	TOR@HOU	1B/2B/3B	2200	6.94	1B/3B	2300	5.62	2.35	8	P
Alan Roden	L	TOR	TOR@HOU	OF	2100	7.11	OF	2400	5.72	2.54	9	P
Jose Altuve	R	HOU	TOR@HOU	2B/OF	3300	11.16	2B/OF	5000	8.95	5.08	1	P
Isaac Paredes	R	HOU	TOR@HOU	3B	3000	10.50	3B	4100	8.16	5.48	2	P
Yordan Alvarez	L	HOU	TOR@HOU	OF	3300	14.76	OF	5100	11.40	9.03	3	P
Jeremy Pena	R	HOU	TOR@HOU	SS	3000	9.31	SS	3900	7.58	3.77	4	P
Christian Walker	R	HOU	TOR@HOU	1B	2600	10.65	1B	4000	8.24	6.58	5	P
Yainer Diaz	R	HOU	TOR@HOU	C	2500	8.96	C	3300	7.27	4.69	6	P
Brendan Rodgers	R	HOU	TOR@HOU	2B	2500	7.21	2B	2700	5.83	3.14	7	P
Jake Meyers	R	HOU	TOR@HOU	OF	2700	7.57	OF	3000	6.07	3.07	8	P
Cam Smith	R	HOU	TOR@HOU	3B/OF	2600	7.09	OF	2700	5.63	3.69	9	P
Brice Turang	L	MIL	MIL@SFG	2B	3400	10.81	2B	5100	8.83	4.35	1	P
Jackson Chourio	R	MIL	MIL@SFG	OF	3800	12.96	OF	5500	10.36	11.18	2	P
Christian Yelich	L	MIL	MIL@SFG	OF	3500	11.79	OF	4900	9.33	8.34	3	P
William Contreras	R	MIL	MIL@SFG	C	3200	11.66	C	4500	9.19	9.80	4	P
Rhys Hoskins	R	MIL	MIL@SFG	1B	2600	10.76	1B	3900	8.28	11.27	5	P
Sal Frelick	L	MIL	MIL@SFG	OF	3100	7.66	OF	4000	6.34	2.30	6	P
Joey Ortiz	R	MIL	MIL@SFG	3B/2B/SS	2600	8.64	SS	2800	6.94	5.09	7	P
Isaac Collins	B	MIL	MIL@SFG	OF	2100	7.88	OF	2500	6.25	3.69	8	P
Caleb Durbin	R	MIL	MIL@SFG	2B	2000	7.91	2B/SS	2000	6.38	2.98	9	P
Mike Yastrzemski	L	SFG	MIL@SFG	OF	3200	10.42	OF	4200	8.17	8.51	1	P
Willy Adames	R	SFG	MIL@SFG	SS	2800	11.78	SS	4100	9.22	10.26	2	P
Jung Hoo Lee	L	SFG	MIL@SFG	OF	3700	9.36	OF	4800	7.67	5.39	3	P
Matt Chapman	R	SFG	MIL@SFG	3B	3100	11.06	3B	4500	8.60	9.68	4	P
Heliot Ramos	R	SFG	MIL@SFG	OF	3300	9.87	OF	3900	7.83	8.82	5	P
LaMonte Wade	L	SFG	MIL@SFG	1B/OF	2500	8.69	1B	2900	6.79	6.59	6	P
Wilmer Flores	R	SFG	MIL@SFG	1B/3B	3200	8.08	1B/3B	3800	6.40	6.64	7	P
Patrick Bailey	B	SFG	MIL@SFG	C	2600	6.81	C	3500	5.47	4.33	8	P
Tyler Fitzgerald	R	SFG	MIL@SFG	SS/2B/OF	2900	8.14	2B	3200	6.49	6.02	9	P

Main Slate

Player	Hand	Team	Game	FD POS	FD$	FDpts	DK POS	DK$	DKpts	HR	Order	Status
Paul Goldschmidt	R	NYY	NYY@ATH	1B	3100	8.38	1B	4300	7.68	8.19	1	C
Ben Rice	L	NYY	NYY@ATH	C/1B	4200	10.54	C/1B	6100	9.46	12.64	2	C
Aaron Judge	R	NYY	NYY@ATH	OF	4300	17.36	OF	6500	15.16	22.07	3	C
Cody Bellinger	L	NYY	NYY@ATH	OF/1B	3600	9.95	OF	5100	9.17	10.72	4	C
Jose Caballero	R	NYY	NYY@ATH	SS/2B/3B/OF	2900	9.58	SS	3200	8.91	3.85	5	C
Trent Grisham	L	NYY	NYY@ATH	OF	3300	8.97	OF	3700	8.02	9.90	6	C
Anthony Volpe	R	NYY	NYY@ATH	SS	3100	7.53	SS	3600	7.04	5.74	7	C
Max Schuemann	R	NYY	NYY@ATH	SS/3B/2B/OF	2500	6.50	SS/OF	2900	6.09	2.64	8	C
Austin Wells	L	NYY	NYY@ATH	C	2500	7.50	C	2800	6.82	7.67	9	C
Carlos Cortes	L	ATH	NYY@ATH	OF	2900	8.57	OF	4300	7.91	6.80	1	C
Brent Rooker	R	ATH	NYY@ATH	OF	3200	11.77	OF	4700	10.64	12.83	2	C
Nick Kurtz	L	ATH	NYY@ATH	1B	3900	11.77	1B	5400	10.47	13.15	3	C
Tyler Soderstrom	L	ATH	NYY@ATH	1B/OF	2800	10.10	OF	4400	9.19	10.01	4	C
Jonah Heim	B	ATH	NYY@ATH	C	2500	6.29	C	2500	5.91	4.38	5	C
Lawrence Butler	L	ATH	NYY@ATH	OF	2500	8.91	OF	3100	8.19	7.69	6	C
Zack Gelof	R	ATH	NYY@ATH	2B/3B	3000	8.07	3B	3900	7.40	6.79	7	C
Jeff McNeil	L	ATH	NYY@ATH	2B/OF	2600	6.40	2B	3500	6.04	3.69	8	C
Darell Hernaiz	R	ATH	NYY@ATH	SS/3B/2B	2500	5.48	SS	3000	5.29	2.17	9	C
Ketel Marte	B	ARI	ARI@SEA	2B	3500	10.35	2B	5200	9.45	9.72	1	P
Corbin Carroll	L	ARI	ARI@SEA	OF	4000	11.64	OF	5500	10.71	8.62	2	P
Geraldo Perdomo	R	ARI	ARI@SEA	SS	3000	8.61	SS	3900	8.03	4.62	3	P
Nolan Arenado	R	ARI	ARI@SEA	3B	3000	6.79	3B	3700	6.44	4.98	4	P
Ryan Waldschmidt	R	ARI	ARI@SEA	OF	3100	7.24	OF	3200	6.73	3.84	5	P
Ildemaro Vargas	B	ARI	ARI@SEA	2B/SS/3B/OF	3200	5.53	1B	4100	5.39	2.19	6	P
Gabriel Moreno	R	ARI	ARI@SEA	C	2700	7.07	C	3400	6.65	4.43	7	P
Adrian Del Castillo	L	ARI	ARI@SEA	C	2600	6.43	C	3000	5.94	5.19	8	P
Tommy Troy	R	ARI	ARI@SEA	SS	2500	5.67	OF	2000	5.37	3.00	9	P
J.P. Crawford	L	SEA	ARI@SEA	SS	3000	7.94	SS	3800	7.38	3.86	1	C
Julio Rodriguez	R	SEA	ARI@SEA	OF	3400	11.94	OF	4900	11.01	10.05	2	C
Josh Naylor	L	SEA	ARI@SEA	1B	3000	9.77	1B	4400	9.06	6.84	3	C
Randy Arozarena	R	SEA	ARI@SEA	OF	3700	9.76	OF	4800	8.87	7.14	4	C
Luke Raley	L	SEA	ARI@SEA	OF/1B	3100	8.32	OF	4100	7.58	5.68	5	C
Cole Young	L	SEA	ARI@SEA	SS/2B	2800	6.70	2B	2900	6.26	3.05	6	C
Dominic Canzone	L	SEA	ARI@SEA	OF	2600	7.72	OF	2800	7.13	6.18	7	C
Jhonny Pereda	R	SEA	ARI@SEA	C	2100	5.06	C	2300	4.79	1.52	8	C
Colt Emerson	L	SEA	ARI@SEA	SS/3B	2900	5.75	3B/SS	3500	5.38	2.85	9	C
Kyle Schwarber	L	PHI	PHI@LAD	OF	4200	12.23	OF	5900	10.71	11.36	1	C
Trea Turner	R	PHI	PHI@LAD	SS	3100	9.31	SS	4300	8.82	4.83	2	C
Bryce Harper	L	PHI	PHI@LAD	1B	3700	10.47	1B	5000	9.44	7.62	3	C
Brandon Marsh	L	PHI	PHI@LAD	OF	3000	7.94	OF	3800	7.38	4.04	4	C
Alec Bohm	R	PHI	PHI@LAD	3B	2700	7.36	1B/3B	2800	6.93	4.10	5	C
Bryson Stott	L	PHI	PHI@LAD	2B/SS	2900	7.09	2B	3100	6.69	2.96	6	C
J.T. Realmuto	R	PHI	PHI@LAD	C	2500	6.78	C	2900	6.33	3.82	7	C
Adolis Garcia	R	PHI	PHI@LAD	OF	2600	7.85	OF	2600	7.16	5.63	8	C
Justin Crawford	L	PHI	PHI@LAD	OF	2700	6.09	OF	2700	5.90	1.78	9	C
Shohei Ohtani	L	LAD	PHI@LAD	OF	4000	17.03	1B/OF	6400	15.11	18.07	1	C
Andy Pages	R	LAD	PHI@LAD	OF	3600	10.41	OF	5300	9.57	8.94	2	C
Freddie Freeman	L	LAD	PHI@LAD	1B	3300	10.09	1B	4700	9.27	7.88	3	C
Mookie Betts	R	LAD	PHI@LAD	SS	3100	10.08	SS	4200	9.23	8.32	4	C
Kyle Tucker	L	LAD	PHI@LAD	OF	3400	11.56	OF	4500	10.40	10.40	5	C
Max Muncy	L	LAD	PHI@LAD	3B	3400	8.65	3B	4600	7.60	8.09	6	C
Ryan Ward	L	LAD	PHI@LAD	OF	2000	8.10	OF	2000	7.39	8.60	7	C
Dalton Rushing	L	LAD	PHI@LAD	C	3000	7.34	C	3800	6.62	6.13	8	C
Alex Freeland	B	LAD	PHI@LAD	2B/3B	2200	7.00	2B	2600	6.38	5.29	9	C

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MLB DFS: Home Run Picks – DraftKings & FanDuel Main Slates – Friday – 6/5

MLB DFS: Game by Game Snapshots – DraftKings & FanDuel – Friday – 6/5

MLB DFS: Power Index – DraftKings & FanDuel Main Slates – Friday – 6/5

MLB DFS: Stack Rankings – DraftKings & FanDuel Main Slates – Friday – 6/5

MLB DFS Pitcher Projections – DraftKings & FanDuel Main Slates – Friday – 6/5

MLB DFS Hitter Projections – DraftKings & FanDuel Main Slates – Friday – 6/5