 A full 13 game slate for tonight and daily fantasy baseball. And I think at least a decent number of ways you can play things both at pitcher and for stack. And we're going to break down the options for pitcher, the routes you can take, which guys I like most within those specific routes. And my top plays for tonight in MLB DFS. Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the Fandall Podcast Network and numberfire.com or Fandall Research. I guess I should say my name is Jim Sonnis. I am a digital media managing editor for Fandall Research here to break down Friday's 13 game main slate with locks up for 705 p.m. Eastern for two days. Speaking of Fandall Research and that the free role, the link for the free role is now available at Fandall.com slash research. 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There is a slight chance of rain in Chicago for the White Sox and the Brewers I wouldn't expect to impact play but they should be good to go there rain chances slightly higher in Kansas City for the Royals and the Cardinals also 92 degrees. So upgrade batters. They're assuming they're able to play that game for the Royals and the Cardinals will dig into what all this means and much more here in just one second. But first a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the numberfire daily fantasy podcast eat wherever you get your podcast we're getting close now to NFL season less than one month away from our first preview podcast of the year again twice weekly podcast the NFL side of things along with the solo shot and along with USC for select events via Austin Swain all right here in the numberfire daily fantasy podcast feed to get that search for the numberfire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast hit subscribe and if you like what you hear leave us a five start rating on Apple podcast or Spotify and don't forget the solo shot also goes up on faddle TV plus and the faddle YouTube page pitching preview for this Friday main slate Blake snow checks in with the highest salary on faddle his salary is $11,000 all of my Corbyn burns at ten eight we have Luis Castillo at $10,600 with Justin Verlander at ten five Andrew Abbott salary is $10,000 with Lanslin in 99 Kyle Gibson checks in in 96 with Jose Bereos in 95 Yohano Viejo is 93 with Chris Salem at 9000 Tarek Scoogle Christopher Sanchez Charlie Morton Paul Blackburn John Gray and Reed Depmers are the others at $8,000 or higher. I know by now you're probably sick of me telling you to use Lanslin because it is not gone well and I assure you I'm sick of telling you as well, but he is at home tonight and facing the Rockies and his salary is pretty reasonable and $9,900 so I feel like despite the fact he has burned us before we kind of got to do it once again. Lynn's first two starts with the Dodgers have been okay. Let us three home runs in the first start not ideal, but those are the lone three runs the night for him in the second game let up one or run across six innings. He had a strikeout totals a seven and six in those two starts and the reason I've been on Lynn for the time that I have been is the strikeouts he's been sprinkling his curveball back in across his past 10 starts and in those 10 starts he does have a 30% strikeout rates with a 3.53 skill interactive era so he does have issues but his 5.37 era feels a bit fluky for sure. Maybe Lynn just has issues when he doesn't get strikeouts but he does have upside he does get those strikeouts he had 11 strikeouts in one game 16 in another and that's really tough to turn down when it's offered to you to salary below $10,000 based on the Rockies here they are brutal with an 80 WRC plus against righties with a 26% strikeout rates poor power numbers they may not be able to punish Lynn as much as others have and that's why I want to go here. I think he's a really good play but I also understand if you don't want to deal with him once again it's hasn't worked out so I get it if you don't want to go there very fair I understand but for me personally he will be my top guy for tonight. Among the higher salary guys above Lynn. I think it's pretty tough to decide between Blake Snell and Corbin Burns. I like Snell more in general but he's also playing a low strikeout offense burns is not he's more of a neutral strikeout match up and he's also been pretty solid recently so I think the matchup will be the decider for me so I'm going to go burns number two behind Lynn. Burns now is also $200 lower than Snell and that does help never hurts to save $200 in salary over the past 13 starts burns to start to cut back on his side are a bit and throwing more cutters instead. In that time he has a 3.05 ERA his strikeout rate is 28% and he's allowing just a 28% hard hit rate. So that was excelling that area too so it's good to see both Snell and Burns checking the same box with the limited hard contact he's facing the White Sox tonight and the offense didn't get decimated as much as a pitching staff did the trade deadline but they still have 89 WRC plus against righties their places discipline numbers are pretty poor which means they have short plate appearances and that's one advantage that that Burns has over Snell Burns in his most relevant sample averages 3.90 pitches per plate appearance whereas Snell is at 4.34 and he's facing a team that has longer plate appearances despite striking out less. So I do have Snell on the higher strikeout projection for Burns or then for Burns but I see more paths to disappointing night for him than for Burns and both these guys are great upside. So when choosing between the two it's tough for sure because I do like both but I preferred Burns if choosing the strikeout projection differential is a half strikeout I think I Snell at 7.5 and Burns 7 flat so it's not a huge discrepancy but there is enough there where I can see why you'd want to go Snell but personally all things consider I'm going to go Burns to over Snell behind lit. If you're looking for a value play you have to take on some risks tonight for Tara Scoobal that risk is pitch counts he's coming off an injury he has not had 90 pitches yet and there's no real reason to push him either but they did throw 80 have him out there for 88 pitches last time out and even if I project Scoobal to go back down to 85 this time he's still at least interesting against the Red Sox that's all because Scoobal has looked really really good so far this year. He's made six starts he has a 12.7% swinging strike rate which is up from 11.7% in his breakout last year his strikeout rate is 31% with a 4% walk rate and those are all really great numbers and Scoobal is also getting more ground balls now I'm not sure if that part will stick but if you can add ground balls to his current profile he could be really really fun and the most recent outing for for Scoobal was against the Rays he held them to one earner and run across five and a third innings he had six strikeouts there he had nine strikeouts against the Giants 82 pitches earlier on so if the Tigers do let Scoobal get his pitch count in the low 90s I think we'll notice how well he's pitching right now now the Red Sox not an easy matchup they have a 115 at WRC plus against lefties they have a 22% strikeout rate which is low the walk rate is high this is really just a bet on Scoobal continuing to pitch well which he's done so far it is risky because there's not a lot of margin for error with a low pitch count guy but I don't think it's the worst idea in the world this hour 88 so I think that Scoobal is worth digging into force tonight so to me top fishing options Lynn one burns to Snell three and then Scoobal being the top value at $8800 there is some incentive to spend down a pitcher which might be why decided to go in over burns and snow and that incentive is that I do like some stacks of the Braves Padres and Dodgers and all those teams carry some decently high salaries so maybe we want to say some a bit and go Lance Lynn instead of splurging all the way up for burns and for Snell Braves lead things off here in the stacking section they're facing Tyler McGill McGill has made just one start to send me back up from the miners and it didn't seem like his biggest issues were fixed I think it means we should stack the Braves here when McGill got demoted he was letting up a lot of hard contact at the time his hard hit rate for the season is 42% which is above the league average and it had been trending pretty aggressively the wrong way in the final starts leading into his demotion in the first start back McGill let up 12 hard hit balls and three barrels on 20 balls in play that is a 60% hard hit rate with a 15% barrel rate the Orioles were the opponent that game hit a couple home runs that scored five runs on him and McGill's numbers and triple they were pretty rough to strikeouts were down there his results were not great so it's difficult to ask McGill to come back up and face a lineup like this and come out smelling pretty the Braves have a 121 WRC plus against right is the 222 ISO so I think we need to go in on them here and stack them against McGill tonight and when doing so we don't need to worry too much about platoon splits because McGill his numbers against righties and lefties largely even the one difference is he does generate more ground balls from righties and lefties so I wouldn't overweigh that personally but again tiebreaker if you're looking at Matt Olson Sean Murphy stuff like that always the constant dilemma for MLB DFS I think that usually bull you know why not but we can play things pretty straight up here and use our favorite bats against righties for tonight as for the second stack to be the Padres they're in Arizona where the roof will be closed for tonight which is a downgrade of batters but elevation there is still good that does still benefit batters and I want to be on the Padres here they're facing Ryan Nelson and we talked about Nelson a couple times in the stacking section and he is a times made me regret doing that but more recently his velocity has been down and it's led to a slight dip in his results this has been happening with the past nine starts for Nelson his ERA is a 4.97 and that number is high primarily due to two blow-up starts but he let him five runs in another he has let up 11 total home runs across nine games his hard hit rate is 41% with a 49 or a 40 49% fly ball rate he's letting up all that hard contact while getting a strike out just 16% of the time so that's not the worst profile you know you can get by on that but it's also definitely not great now as Padres offense is definitely sputtering right now they've had a really bad week their WRC plus against righties down to 103 with a 176 ISO they are not now what they once were but I'm still on them here and do still feel good about stacking the Padres in this matchup one thing I do love about the Padres we actually can get some value via G-mon Choi finally back in the lineup and kind of fun to see him playing pretty well I know the batting average is aggressively low but in 71 plate appearances against righties his ISO is 288 his barrel rate is I think 20% with a lot of hard contact now Choi does leave games early for pinch hitters 17 times and Arizona's bullpen does have two lefties in it so don't go bananas with Choi but I think he's very much a viable value play for $2,500 if we're trying to get access to this this Padres lineup which does have lower sour than they used to have but it's still not like it's easy to fully stack this team without spending down a pitcher so G-mon Choi a fun value for tonight our final stack is mentioned as the Dodgers they're facing Austin Gomber who has started to look a lot better recently which makes me very happy because I want to do well I used as a pitcher a couple years ago when he had that hot streak so I wanted to get back to being that version of Austin Gomber I just think some of the underlying numbers are still a bit concerning which allows me to still cautiously stack against him Gomber as a streak now of going at least six innings in seven consecutive starts he's allowed more than three earned runs just once and never more than four and he's facing pretty stiff competition in that time so I wanted to dig into those seven starts specifically to see what the underlying numbers say typically I wouldn't do this with cherry picking but like we're cherry picking the opposite direction where I'm trying to find like his best sample and justify stacking against him I think his most relevant samples actually a bit larger than that across is the most relevant sample for Gomber I have is 12 starts with more sliders and fewer changeups so a bit larger than the seven starts sample but if we want to look at those seven starts we've done really well let's see if we can still justify stacking against him in those seven starts his skill interactive era is 4.73 with a 40% hard hit rate and a 39% fly ball rate his striking rate is 15% so enough hard contact still a lot of strikeout still a pretty high skill interactive era it could be he has turned a corner he's not letting up barrels his fit is really good but he also could still regress and the Dodgers are the kind of team that can bring regression in a hurry so I hope that Gomber is fixed because again I'm rooting for him I wanted to do well once again but I'm good with stacking the Dodgers against him just in case he is not and we talked about Kiki Hernandez in yesterday's show let's talk about Ahmed Rosario today he's batting higher in the order than Hernandez is and his results have trended up recently but unlike what we discussed with Hernandez Rosario is not backing up the search with improved batted ball data he's also not stealing a ton right now so I'm still going to use Rosario because he's a value play on a slate where I need it batting at a good part in the order for a great team but I think if I'm stacking up this the value plays on this team I'm probably going to Chris Taylor above him I think I go Chris Taylor one Ahmed Rosario two and then I would go I would Kiki Hernandez number three among just the value plays in this Dodgers lineup Hernandez is always a lot lower at 24 which does help but Taylor's a 26 so I feel pretty firm putting in there so still been skeptical of Rosario despite the fact I'm still willing to use them given where he's batting in the order things to watch for tonight other than scuba the other value plan to at least consider is Paul Blackburn his salary is $8400 he's based in the National so there are low strikeout matchup but a good matchup overall Blackburn does not let apart contacts so honestly his profiles kind of similar to Michael Lorenzo now obviously I'm not making a call there by any means but he does go deep in games Blackburn does I prefer scuba over him for a reason but I do think that Blackburn is at least worth considering for tonight the Brewers aren't interesting potential stacked tonight they're facing Michael Copac who is still struggling really badly with walks and letting up a ton of fly balls those issues can compound in a hurry because it can lead to like a three run Dinger the walks mean fewer balls in play which is annoying for stacking but I want to at least look into Copac because look into the Brewers because Copac's issues are pretty pronounced and over a pretty large sample right now the Royals are kind of similar just for different reasons facing Adam Wainwright who is a matchup we can definitely target but it's not the best offense obviously so either more so like one-off and the M. J. Melendez seems like he's finding starting to turn things on so the Royals the Brewers alternatives for stacks beyond the top three we discussed Dinger calls for this Friday's lands trying to head into the weekend on a high note here the boring one Matt Olson mentioned before that McGill let's have more fly balls to lefties and righties it's Matt Olson what else do you say Matt Olson the boring home run call for today the fun one I'm gonna ride the G Mon Choi again the batting average is low but he's hitting Dingers making barrels in a good spot tonight so I think the G Mon Choi power resurgence continues and we'll go with Matt Olson and G Mon Choi as the home run calls for tonight that is all that we have here for today on the solo shot if you want some thoughts on pitching strikeout props for tonight we're gonna pitching Ninja Rob Friedman on covering the spread later on today find that on the covering the spread podcast feed along with Fandall TV plus and the Fandall YouTube page as well check out this podcast on the number fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed and on those feeds as well if you got any questions for me I'm on Twitter at Jim Sonnis J. 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