 It is a true delight to come back from vacation to a daily fantasy baseball slate that is loaded with a lot of high upside pitchers for time Just making slate on Fandall But still a lot of guys who can rack up strikeouts and I think a couple different ways you could play things despite the fact I do a Spencer strider available for time We're gonna break down what to do with strider other guys who could contend for that throne and much more to get you ready For tonight's slate in daily fantasy baseball. Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the Fandall podcast network I am Jim Saunas digital media managing editor for a Fandall research here to break down tonight's eight game main slate With lock set for 705 p.m. Eastern for today want to give a big thank you to Tom Evacchio for filling it for me this past week Well, I was in the Dominican Republic. Thank you Tom for filling in both in the solo shot and uncovering the spread as well Please follow Tom on Twitter at DFS underscore Tom if you have not already Thank you for filling in for me there There's a good chance of rain tonight in Pittsburgh for the Pirates and the Braves though looking like it may be drizzle right now Which is a good thing They may be able to play through that and I think as of right now They'll be able to get that game in Cleveland also looks a bit dicey, but again drizzle there, too So I check back for the blue jays and guardians, but I'd assume right now They're okay to play and finally the last trouble spot is in in New York for the Mets and the Cubs once again Rain seems pretty light, so I think they'll be able to play there So there are some weather spots or tonight spots you want to check back on later But if I had to guess right now, I would assume all those games do want to being played Whether it be with delays or not will break down what that means which guys we want to focus on for tonight Here in just one second a first a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast Wherever you get your podcast we are now a month away roughly from NFL being back for the heat check no preseason podcast But back with you for the regular season which is now just around the corner and those podcasts will be up both on the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed and the fandal YouTube page and Fandal TV plus along with the solo shot We are back on the fandal YouTube page and on fandal TV plus for this week with me being back in the saddle So make sure to check out the fandal YouTube page fandal TV plus and the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed To get all these shows as they are posted Have you ever started a player in your fantasy lineup who scored three points while someone in bench puts up 20? Well with fandals NFL best ball drafts you don't have to worry about that Draft your team and each week the highest scoring lineup from your roster will be used as you battle for first place all season long These can be free to play or for money and range from 3 to 12 players the NFL season will be here before you know it So head over to fandal today to get in on the action Pitching preview for this Monday main slate Spencer Strider checks in with the highest salary on fandalist salary is $11,500 115 well worth the Garakul is 11,000 flats freddy peralta checks in at 10 5 with logan web at 10,000 Cody Senga facing the cubs at 98 with Dylan sees in 9,000 We have brian bayo patrick sandoval dame dunning and drew smiley as the others at $8,000 or higher Now he's been through strider on the road tonight and he's facing the pirates and that's a pretty solid matchup So even with garakul freddy peralta logan web Cody Senga Dylan sees all these guys who can rack up strikeouts I'm gonna put strider one. I will say it's not as fervent I'm not as fervent in that as I typically am with strider, but I do think he is still number one Let's talk about why striders number one and then talk about why Potentially some other guys could at least give him a run for his money the pirates not a bad WRC plus against righties at 102 But they do strike out with a 24 strikeout rate against righties on the current active roster So that's a plus for him. They will strike out But strider doesn't really need that bump honestly He hasn't been as dominant recently As he was to open this year, but strider is still pitching really well We have a 14 start sample on striders and he started to mix in his change up more often in that time He has a 2.69 a skill interactive. Yeah ray with a 37 strikeout rate Those are very good numbers But I think that what's equally impressive to me Maybe not equally but like low key impressive under the radar impressive Is that striders allowing just a 34 percent hard hit rate That leads me to think that his 4.23 eray in this time is More so the product of bad luck than anything else like sure He makes some mistakes that get punished and that's why his ERA will likely always be higher than his skill interactive eray, but you know With him being in a parked night. That's not as penal to fly ball pitchers I think that he could be intriguing here 11-5 is definitely a large salary, but strider very worth it I've gotten projected for 9.4 strikeouts That is the highest number on the slate and I'm very comfortable putting strider there myself as well So even with not ideal situations against a middling offense on the road I something since your strider is number one Among the non-strider options for tonight I wouldn't always rank freddy peralta above garret coal because coal is a very good matchup But peralta trending up right now and he's facing the Rockies in Milwaukee And I feel like that's enough to give peralta a slight edge over garret coal on this specific slate peralta's facing the Rockies and Things are pretty rough for them They have an 81 at wrc plus against righties in the current active roster with a 26 strikeout rate And their power numbers are not good even though those are not adjusted for the fact They play half their games at course field So when you get a pitcher facing the Rockies when they're on the road It's a really big boost for that pitcher and peralta has been pitching a lot better recently Over his past 10 starts peralta has been throwing fewer curve balls He has a 35 percent strikeout rate in that time with a 3.18 skill interactive era Now similar to strider His results have not always been great because peralta's era is 4.28 And I think it's actually more explainable for peralta because his batted ball numbers are actually rougher than striders So that's a concern But it's less of a concern when you're facing the Rockies on the opposing side The other downside for peralta relative to coal relative to striders that he doesn't go as deep in games Across this 10 start sample peralta has not gone longer than six innings And he's gotten just four starts with a quality start bonus on faddle So there are downsides and those are very important and that may be enough to rank peralta below garret coal tonight With this matchup I do like peralta quite a bit and I think that you can at least consider him Above garret coal and I think that like there is a There is a situation where peralta wants to be in the highest score tonight above even Spencer strider you need strider to slip a bit because strider and coal do go deeper in games, but peralta Can rack up points despite the fact he does not go deep So especially in this matchup. I think that freddy peralta at 10 5 Well worth considering even on a slate with a lot of really impressive pitchers across it I think you could defend either brian bayo or bill and cease as your top value play for tonight Bayo gets the royals at home cease gets the yankees also at home I don't have a shoe for the ceiling which leads me to cease But bayo if you're looking for the higher floor option is the better option between the two in that regard That's just not really the way I play things when it comes to dfs As mentioned cease is facing the yankees. They do have air in judgeback, but uh, it's a big boost to this offense But even with judgeback in the fold, this is still not among the league's best offenses With air and judge on the active roster the yankees have a 98 wrc plus against righties They have okay played discipline numbers So they're not a team we need to cross off opposing pitchers against just because air and judge is back It does hurt for sure, but uh, it's not a cross-off situation Cease is really inconsistent You can have great starts and you can have clunkers last time I was a clunker He let up seven earned runs didn't even finish two innings But two starts before that he had nine strikeouts and six innings with one earned run allowed We do have a couple of starts for cease since june where he had double digit strikeouts So again similar to parolta There is a world in which dylan cease winds up being the highest scoring guy in tonight's slate But he also could bomb I'm okay with that personally I'm okay with that range of outcomes because I want to focus in the ceiling and try to gun For first place in daily fantasy And I think that ceases the guy More capable of getting me that I see he's projected for 6.4 strikeouts bao was at 5.0. Uh, so a 1.4 strikeout difference bao does have the better matchup But I will take cease for the ceiling here just because that's the way I want to play things I want to shoot for first place I think that ceases more likely to get me there than bao So even though the downsides are higher with cease I still think he's a better play for daily fantasy if you are in fact gunning for first place in the leaderboard, which You probably should be so again top pitchers for today are going to be uh strider one Parolta two cold three will talk about hitting things to watch and then I'll go cease over bao by a hair Among the value plays at $9,000 or or lower. Let's talk now about some stacks and For tonight, I can wall the chuck starting for the a's tonight and They're in oakland. So the fact that it's a Non-elite matchup or you know a non-elite pitcher in oakland against a very bad bullpen Might not always matter because it's super cold in oakland and that hurts park factor hurts offense But on tonight's slate there aren't as many warm games as there have been throughout the entirety of july and Those games that are warm has some slight rain concern. So At least a little bit of risk there And I think that gives us more leeway to stack offense in oakland if we like them Well tonight we get a team in oakland that's facing lefty in the rangers And the rangers crush lefties and ken wall the chuck is a guy we can stack again So the rangers to me are going to be the top stack despite the fact they are in oakland for tonight The rangers have a 129 a wrc plus against lefties in the current active roster with a 39 fly ball rate in a 191 iso Those numbers I believe still have josh young on there and he will not play tonight obviously given his injury so Downgrade that a bit with young being taken off the active roster But there's still going to be a very good offense in their current state even without josh young Wall the chuck does get strikeouts which could be a concern for stacking because it's your balls and play Looking at wall the chuck the velocity on his slider increased across his past 13 starts That's up from where it was previously and then that 13 started sample He has a 24 strikeout which is pretty good But he also has a 13 walk rate his hard hit rate allowed is 45 percent and he lets up plenty of fly balls So when wall the chuck does not get a strikeout bad things are typically happening against him That's why z r a in this time is 5.26 So it's a great matchup for the rangers. It's a great offense The lone downside is weather and again It's not as big of a negative as it typically would be which puts me on the rangers here as a great stack for tonight Now with young being taken out of the lineup We'll see some of the value plays in this rangers team being shifted up in the order That means mitch garver moved up robby gross may be moved up and is equal diran may be moved up And we've talked a lot about diran this year. He's been a great value part of this offense It's been a guy of use for stacks even when he's been batting lower in the order But diran Has had his performance slip a bit recently and it's led to a decrease in his playing time at least against righties And the bat of ball data recently not as good for him either Striking out a bit more did it home run last night? So that's been good so i've been on diran all year long and I've been very okay with that. I've probably had him as my favorites among the value plays on this rangers team I think i'm okay kind of changing that stance now though given how long this Semi slump for diran has been so to me among the value plays. I know they'll all move up here I think i'm gonna go mitch garver one. I might actually go robby grossman two Above diran assuming they're both in the lineup And that's a very weird thing for me. I'm still a receptive to diran because again, he's $2,800 and a good offense. We want a stack He's shown at times this year. He can crush the ball and be a great dfs play But i'm just a bit lower on him now than it was before and i'm going to rank him third among the value plays Assuming both garver and grossman also do play for tonight for our number two stack Let's talk about the brewers facing peter lambert who's done some things pretty well transitioning to being a starter So I don't adore this stack by any means and you know I think there are some teams will talk about and things to watch you could put above them But with the way things look right now I do think the brewers are in play For tonight lambert has made for a start so far this year and the results in that time very good And they're good because he has done a great job of suppressing hard contact and that can be a skill But the problem is it's not a skill that lambert flash when he was in the bullpen because his hard hit rate for this year is 44 So if you told me that lambert would maintain What he has done early in the rotation? I would not stack here because his batted ball numbers are very good and that can be sustainable I just don't know if that would be the case based on what he did Prior to becoming a starter If you look at the larger sample on lambert, he is a low strikeout guy Let's have fly balls. Let's have hard contact and that's the recipe for stacking even outside of course field So the brewers not a great offense But I do think they're good enough to be viable if the weather You know Were to impact some of the other options on this slate and again There's some other options you could turn to but the brewers to me very much in play And the team I'm willing to stack South freelink has been the big talk here for the brewers for good reason But carlo santana has also Been a bit of a surprise at least to me Maybe I just hadn't been hip to how well he was playing this year But santana does have a 193 iso against righties for the season Which is a very good number and his batted ball data has improved since the all-star break And we also saw santana swipe in some bags earlier on this year, which is a fun site. So this offense Slowly becoming a bit more fun than it was earlier on this year adding freelink in there adding santana in there Adding christian yellows getting back to kind of what he was before I think that's all big positives So the brewers despite being not a world beater by any means Still a team I am okay stacking for tonight For the third stack, let's talk to you about the boston red sox facing col ragan's whose first two starts for the royals have been Awesome He's gone 11 total innings He has 11 strikeouts with only one earned run allowed and One of those darts came against a tampa bay raise. So that's all awesome But i'm not quite sure if it'll stick yet, which is why i'm looking to stack the red sox against him Reagan's is with a new team, which could mean that you know new new pitching staff new set of eyes Could have unlocked something with him here But the numbers for ragan's as they were leave with texas were just fine He has a 4.33 eray this year. He's walking a lot of guys not getting enough ground balls Since joining the royals, he has made six darts with two in the majors and four in triple a If you look at the four in triple a his eray is 4.82 if those games had come in the majors I don't think we'd be avoiding stacking against him for days Have it as really good starts in the majors Which we should put more weight on because it's a better competition better gauge, but I'm not sure it's sustainable just yet ragan's walks a lot of guys even with the strikeouts I think we should get base runners in this game the red sox active roster has a 117 and wrc plus against lefties So i'm down to get in on them here. I think that they do make a lot of sense and I think the red sox are a viable third stacking option behind the brewers and The rangers for tonight the red sox added luisa rios near the deadline and Arias had a really rough year But his bad at ball beta honestly is not that much worse than what it was last year of the year before He did it for power against lefties back in 2021 He puts the ball in the air and I still believe in the talent that luisa rios has Despite the fact we haven't seen it so far this year I think he can be vile from dfs when they're facing lefties, which they are for tonight so I'm willing to turn to a rios at a $2,300 if I need some wiggle room to get to Spencer strider freddy peralta guys like that and I will need that option Even though the rangers has the value plays. I think that a guy like a rios can really make that a lot easier so luisa rios A value play I believe in tonight at $2,300 Let's go ahead of things to watch where I did want to touch briefly on garret coal Obviously his matchup is nearly as good as peralta's the white sox wrc plus against righty's down to 87 now And they don't draw walks. So I have coal projected for 7.0 strikeouts tonight, which is Lower than peralta, but not super far off. So I don't blame you if you want to go coal I think that that is very defensible given the state of the white sox roster But I'd say that's slightly lean toward peralta personally for tonight I think the braids offense is also pretty interesting They're basically those vol dobedo who has done a good job of keeping hard contact and check so far Still is not of the best results despite that though It's expected the rios 4.66 the braids have a 121 w rc plus against righty's with a 225 iso so Maybe they should be higher on this list. I think you could definitely put the braids as high as second on this list but I can't put them any lower. I know that for sure. So the braids somewhere between second and fourth for stacking I'd probably put them Fourth, I guess for now, but you know, if you want to put them second no push back for me They're all in the same tier Mets are facing drew smiley the offense has been bad against lefty's with an 87 w rc plus but smiley scuffling right now trying to cling to that spot the rotation I think that the mets are in play despite their poor results against lefty's but I want to write them below the braids to me The braves the brewers and the red socks are all in one tier and then the mets are a tier below that as far as stacking For tonight with the rangers above all of them As being my favorite option Let's finish up here as in dinger calls for today the boring one. It's actually on the mets You know, I don't want to stack them because their overall team is not great against lefty's, but Peter Lonzo is and Peter Lonzo seems to be getting back to what he was doing before So we'll make Peter Lonzo the boring hormone call for today facing drew smiley with all the fly balls and hard contact He allows the fun one. I want mitch garver garver should be in there despite being catcher because it's a lefty They'll DH met times, especially the young being out. I think that you know, they're gonna want garver's big bad in the lineup I think that it makes a lot of sense. I did consider Robbie Grossman briefly here Couldn't quite talk myself into it But if you want like a super exotic home run call Robbie Grossman would probably be that guy But I'm not quite that outrageous We'll go with mitch garver as a fun one with Peter Lonzo as a boring one for tonight That is all that we have here for today On the solo shot as a reminder once again, make sure you're subscribed here to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed for nlb usc for selective ends pga for the rest of the fedex cup playoffs and also We'll have nfl just around the corner all right here in the same feed solo shot and heat check For nfl also going up on the fandal youtube page and on fandal tv plus If you've got any questions for me, I am on twitter at jim saunas j i m s a n n e s you can also follow Uh fandal research at fandal research one. 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