 13 games on tonight's late for MLB DFS and unfortunately Not a lot of safety across those 26 starting pitchers I do think that we have some guys we can turn to for cash games But similar to last night a lot of risk and if you're not okay with risk might not be the best slave for you We're gonna break things down and get you said for tonight's late of MLB DFS And thankfully it can't go a whole lot worse a pitcher that it did last night This is the Fanduel live Q&A right here on the Fanduel YouTube twitch Facebook and Twitter channels My name is Jim Sonnis I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire comm here to break down tonight's slate and take your questions live on Air for the next 25 minutes no matter where you are watching you can get your questions in we'll take questions via the Facebook chat YouTube chat twitch Twitter no matter where you're watching get those questions in we'll take them live here on Air for today and as you can see they're also subscribe like and follow because we are live here every weekday at 4 p.m. Eastern taking your questions live on air first one not a question from k.a. Manny over on Facebook saying hi Hello, k.a. Welcome the Fanduel live Q&A. Let's take over with Facebook and talk to Shane Shane wants to know what is the best team to stack for tonight nice fish Shane and I think that for me Got a couple options I think the top two to me definitively in the top tier are the Blue Jays and the Rockies now The one complication with this is that the weather in Buffalo is not perfect I would say this is from the forecast this morning from Kevin Roth over a rotor grinder saying that there is some Concern about that game with what the timeline is for the rain in Buffalo So if you want to stack the Blue Jays, which I do Be wary of that and make sure you're checking with what Kevin says later on usually updates its forecast around 5 30 or so So check back later on for that checking out the most recent forecast via dark sky weather Still pretty similar not it's a little bit worse than look this morning. So that's concerning for sure But still hoping to stack the Jays for today Rockies no concern for them for weather Actually, the weather is tremendous mating perspective for Colorado for tonight 94 degrees winds blowing out at 10 miles per hour. That's amazing. That is ideal scenario For stacking an MLD DFS match not too bad against Marco Gonzalez. He is someone we can definitely feel okay using batters against He's a good pitcher. I just don't think he's like fully healthy right now. He's been in on the off the IL so not like the The true form of Marco Gonzalez that we've seen in the past And I think that that allows us to act against him Yeah, the Rockies much better versus lefties and righties you see here at 89 and WRC plus versus lefties here It's not great But if you look at Woba, which does not account for park they rank third and W or third in Woba versus lefties at home So I think the Rockies the one non weather concerning stack for today and hopefully the Blue Jays are good to go Where we can feel good about them for tonight AJ is asking which player to put in an MBA lineup. I don't know. I'm terrible at MBA Check out the number fire projections. They will help you far more than I can let's talk to Alvin over on YouTube We don't get the Blue Jays fingers crossed we do correct album manifesting good weather and Buffalo Who would replace them from a stacking perspective? So the issue is if we lose the Blue Jays We also lose the red socks not like the red socks from a stacking perspective tonight as well other options in terms of stacking who I do like I do like the Reds night against Robert stock stock in the past has been a guy who's gotten some ground balls and it's possible those continued to come here and So I'm keeping that in mind But still think the Reds with how good that offense has been 87 degrees for today in Cincinnati great park for hitting so the Reds for a second consecutive slate would definitely be in play If we cannot stack that game up in Buffalo other ones turned to would be the Cubs facing Johan Oviedo He was announced as the starter after we recorded the solo shot this morning deficit situation I'm okay going with the sample over either was over his past five stars with decreased velocity Very minimal strikeouts high walk rate. The bad at ball date has been better in this time But still if you look at the larger sample of the a though, it's not as good. So I would say It would be the I'd probably go with the Reds Second behind the Rockies and then the Cubs third But like Alvin said fingers crossed we get a good news in the Buffalo weather situation It can stack both the Red Sox and the Blue Jays tonight favoring the Blue Jays on my end Let's talk to Chris Fernando Tate's about to have himself a week at Atlanta and back at home in Washington I predict a three to six home run with the 350 batting average this week for the 20-year-old Okay, so Chris is big on Fernando Tate's that game is In doubt given the weather there they had that weird postponement last night And now with some more rain the forecast for today for Atlanta I would guess they're probably a bit more patient for today just because they have a doubleheader already scheduled for tomorrow So that should be okay to get them in there facing to key to sons It was originally Kyle Muller who's gonna start this game to sons these numbers are from last year I think there was a game where I might use to key to son was my picture last year and I'm pretty sure he gave up like Roughly nine earned runs. It wasn't good But did get some strikeouts didn't let up a ton of balls in play And he's been getting strikeouts triple a so far this year, too So the Padres work from a stacking perspective We get the all clear on this game and I would never push back on Tate's But to son would prefer he let up a few more balls in play a sock to DJ I'm not sure if he is starting yet, but should I look at John Nagowski at At $2,000 for tonight. Let's see if he's in the lineup yet. Okay So no line of police yet for Pittsburgh $2,500 for Nagowski facing off against Arizona Arizona starting Taylor Widener wider so we can stack against 46% fly ball or hard hit rates 47% fly bar that's across all of his time in this year. So let's pull up Nagowski's numbers and see What we are working with here. The pirates actually haven't been as bad as I thought they would be Offensively so far this year. So kudos to them for to up front my expectations there Nagowski and triple a 102 ISO 063 ISO in the majors. No, that is not DFS relevant So I will hard pass on Nagowski for me for today Jackie was one David Fletcher hit away from $200 yesterday David Fletcher was one of the guys I discuss as being the least like that guy they don't run Jeff McNeil also on the list and shockingly hit a home run last night So kudos Jeff McNeil his second extra base hits is coming out the IL good for him It's been about a month. So number two a long-waited time there for Jeff McNeil, but he proved me wrong good for him Let's talk to Alvin the Reds lineup seems eh. How do you rank them? Okay? I've not checked out the Reds lineup yet because I was busy before so let's check this out here We got india winker. So no costa honest again, basically Our because costa honest is not starting I guess my assumption would be that he's Like you'll probably pinch it he pinched it last night He's probably gonna pinch hit but I would bet that our ACS Aquino is likely safer tonight than he usually is So let's check out what he's done versus righties this year See if we can be in to Aquino in the cleanup spot in the past I have been wary of Aquino because he would star versus lefties He'd leave the game early for a pinch hitter defensive placement I think the odds he leads for a pinch hitter are lower because he's starting versus a righty So that's a good thing So Aquino versus righties not a huge sample. Wow 25 plate appearances, but he's been good. So I do think that Aquino uh 40 strikeout rate is the Kavi out there Let's open up the sample here on Aquino and see what he's done versus righties beyond Just this year since it is such a small sample there And we'll go over here and check out the numbers Versus righties for his career. Okay. So last year 31 plate appearances. He had 171 back in 2019 321 iso against them then Um decent fly ball rate decent hard hit data not a terrible strikeout rate So I would say Aquino definitely works. Let's go over here and I'm gonna put Let's put um Aaron Nola in a picture just because I'm gonna go at this from a tournament perspective and I do like Nola for tonight Let's go to the reds and let's put winker in there first Definitely gonna rank him first. I'm gonna go Vato second And we're gonna go Aquino third And then it's between india and suarez as being that fourth ranked guy. So Yeah, I guess I'd probably put both above naikwin. I guess naikwin would probably work Still good numbers overall this year versus righties I was lower on him last night than I should have been I think I it was like a brain fart type of thing Whoa, okay. So he was awesome last night. Let's check out the bad at ball data from last night for naikwin and One hard hit ball. That's not bad. Um See if he was putting the ball in the air 50% ground ball rate. That's not great. So Honestly, that doesn't alleviate my concerns too much around What he was doing before so Still not fully back in on naikwin as of yet, but I think I would be okay with putting him above Both a ohenio suarez and jonathan india just because neither guy's like an elite elite option Maybe I should put suarez above Naikwin, but uh, it's pretty tight. I would say that those three those top three So akino winker and vato those three guys to me I feel pretty good in putting them as being the top options for today And then it's a do I go naikwin suarez or india as the number four guy. They're all the same tier to me So if I had to pick right now, I guess I'd probably go suarez because I have fewer concerns around him right now But naikwin would go next and followed by india. Let's talk to diffuse over on youtube break down on luis garcia And how you would rank these stacks. Let's start here with the luis garcia part of that He has seen a downtick recently. I've used garcia a decent amount this year But this over his past five starts with more curveballs. This is in the Post sticky stuff era and I will note that the answers of a team have not seen a massive decrease in their spin rates So that's worth noting for sure. They have as a team have not seen a massive decrease But garcia in this time 26 strikeout rates It's going with the pitching tab here actually Uh 4.11 skill interactive era walks a little high letting up some impactful contact I'm okay using pitchers against cleveland. So I would say on a slate. That's not like great at pitcher by any means garcia is fully Fully in consideration. I would say though that I would put him behind nola. I'd put him behind scuba and I'd put him behind Uh trevor rogers for today And then it's between darvish and garcia. I'd probably go garcia just because a match up to someone she's here He's also at home indoors. It's it's et cetera, et cetera So garcia is probably number four for me for tonight ranking the stacks astros fillies and white socks Okay, so astros are facing tristan mckenzie the white socks facing bailey ober and the fillies are facing domingo irman. I I would say if it's a tournament I wouldn't like we're trying to play this from a which team will go overlooked I actually think the fillies might be pretty interesting irman has not been On his game necessarily since the sticky stuff discussion began. He is moving back in the rotation now He's been leaning more in his curve ball letting up a lot of hard contact. I don't hate the idea of using the fillies here They do gain a dh for today as well So I actually kind of like the fillies from a tournament perspective straight up the astros are probably the better option facing mckenzie Let's have a lot of walks a lot of hard contact a lot of fly balls They make sense the reason i'm a bit lower is because I'd expect them to be pretty popular And mckenzie does not let up a lot of balls in play I want to maximize balls in play and give myself chances at those super high upside events I don't get those as much with the kenzie, but I still think the astros are an option I would just rank them behind The fillies may strictly from a tournament perspective. We're trying to be different in the field I think the fillies do great at well there white socks. I don't have a massive amount of interest in They've been hitting they've been hitting more power versus righties recently I think three home runs against jose burrios yesterday and had the gavin sheets walk off So i'm more interested in them against righties than they had been previously ober does let them impactful contact But a decent number of strikeouts for him So I'd rank them strictly for tournaments fillies astros white socks for cash games astros pretty easily number one on that list Jerry on facebook. Good day jim. Good day. Jerry. How do you feel about miami? boston cincinati and philadelphia You think animal marquez will be a gem tonight against seattle. So I considered marquez from a pitching perspective jerry I Had him like on my list of guys to potentially talk about before I saw salaries before I you know Saw the full list starters, etc. Etc I didn't want to go in there in part because of the weather really bad weather for pitching in colorado 94 degrees winds blowing out It's colorado. That's all tough I think marquez is a very good pitcher So I don't want to stack the the mariners against him despite the weather but i'm very wary just because the The context in which marquez is pitching Really does not set up super favorably for him as far as the stacking situations I would love boston if we can get the all clear on them from a weather perspective cincinati definitely up there too. I'd go uh cincinati one red socks two marlins are facing palo espino and They don't have a lot of like hitters. I really want to use right now So they're pretty low on my list and then uh philadelphia. So I'd rank them cincinati boston philadelphia and then miami For today chris over on facebook the braves had the ninth ranked pitching staff in the nl And the nationals have the 11th out of 15 teams according to era I would make sure you're checking the active roster stuff. Uh, you can check that on fangrass actually Let's just do this here If you were over on the team stuff you can click active roster just for funsies At this point in the year because we do have seen a lot of turnover in who is there Uh, that's probably the same numbers honestly for active roster, but yeah for season long numbers I would make sure you're checking that. Uh, jerry, uh Seemed to be on target for the calls uh for the home run calls. Yeah, you had um Who was last night? There was somebody hit on run. I was like, oh, that was oh soto You had soto last night. It went deep twice. So kudos to jerry on that one Uh, but the stacks seemed to uh stack wrong Give me your perspective on how to stack teams because I seem to be missing on the stacking So the big difference between stacking and home run calls And there's a lot of overlap because we want to target pitchers who will give up impactful contact the big difference is I want to go at Low strikeout pitchers from stacking whereas for for just strictly dinger calls. I'm more okay targeting high strikeout pitchers because I'm only relying on one guy to have a homer as opposed to one full team to do well I want to maximize balls and play I want to maximize base runners So if I were picking a a single home run type of guy I'm probably not going at the cubs because yohan oba though doesn't let up a lot of impactful contact At least not in this split, but if i'm looking for a stack I think they work really well because you'll have so many balls and play so many base runners So that's the kind of the key difference there I would say though jerry there will be a lot of overlap probably just had some bad luck with regards to stacking Uh, but I think that your process is probably right, but that's the one difference is I like to emphasize getting low strikeout pitchers In the opposing side here and then going from there from a stacking perspective Whereas with solo just like home run calls. I am Selling out effectively to get to impactful contact. Let's talk to salvator over on youtube favorite value pitcher on the slate to me, it's terrick scoogle Um, I do think that scoogle is a pretty good option. He's facing off with the rangers Hasn't had a lot of good matchups recently. He's faced the white socks I believe twice and the astros in this time also the twins ranked seventh in wrc plus versus lefties Still a 25 strikeout rate 3.99 skill interactive eray now facing the rangers not a good team versus lefty So scoogle to me $8200 a top value pitcher for today michael on youtube least likely to hit a home run tonight I'll pick them for a dinger tuesday miss you cal cal's here. He's hanging out We have cal and joy extra special broadcast for today. We get cal and joy So double the excitement for us here on the video side of things, uh least likely to home run So I brought jeff mcneill back from the grave So Who am I going to bring back from the grave by saying least likely to hit home run for tonight? Okay, i'm going to go with a team that I actually want to stack and go from there and if we're looking at teams that I actually want to stack and batterers who are not super likely to hit a home run I guess like alex bowm Is he I don't even remember it like uh, the I guess he was on the covet situation I can't remember if he's one of the ones who'll be able to come back For the fillies here. No not back yet. Okay, so no bowm Let's see I'll get back to you michael i'll think about this least likely to home run I'll get back to you as far as uh, who we want to go with that for tonight Aaron on fan duel milie marquez or garcia is your favorite top ceiling So looking strictly at ceiling it will not be weighed milie just not enough strikeouts there can't go there I would probably go with garcia just because I feel better about the situation than with marquez. It's a pretty drastic deviation I would say the gap between marquez and garcia is not super big But garcia to me would get the edge there I I think both are at least interesting though, but no weighed milie for me jackie. It's digger tuesday Uh, go throw a bet down after you set your lineups. Is jackie paid by fandal either way jackie. We appreciate you. You're awesome Best man. I appreciate it. Uh jackie also asks where can I see if the wind is blowing out in places? You can go to rhoda grinders So that's the one that I pull up here But as the uh the company boy that I try to be uh, you can also go to the number fire games and liners pay School over mlb go down here to daily fantasy and check out the starting lineups and game info This is where I start my research in the morning I go to kevin to find out if it's going to rain stuff like that But if you just want strictly wind it is all right here Friendly little diagram to see it's blowing out to left at course field So uh number fire mlb daily fantasy starting lineups and game info Talk to dj av marquez starting against seattle tonight in my fan dual head to head Should I leave it or tinker my line to get to someone better? He's got some good hitters in there So I would say I would probably go down to scuba if I'm looking at this from a head to head perspective We want to maximize the like median and 75th percentile outcomes for our pitchers I think that scubles median and 75th percentile outcomes are better than those of marquez given How bad the pitching conditions are a cooler field for tonight. So to me in a cash game I will go with tariff scuba for tonight Let's go over here to ralph on facebook Gotta lock in nely cruise against dallas kykel for tonight. So kykel is lefty cruise a very very good righty I'm guessing that there's probably some batter versus pitcher stuff going on here given the enthusiasm the ralph has here The reason i'm not super high in the twins is that kykel Does a good job of keeping batters on the ground. This is over his past Yeah, I've been outings that you're going back to his cutter 26% fly ball rate allowed. I want a higher number than that. So Twin's not super high on my list, but mitch garver is back I guess I didn't see he's in lineup, but uh a double dong last night from mitch garver. Good to see given the Nature of his injury. He's sitting second. He wants against tonight So i'm not super into the twins, but having garver back does boost them versus lefties Let's talk to chris. How do you like milwaukee and seattle starting stats this week? I have brandon woodruff corbin burns chris flex and use a kukuchi My opponent will win most hitting categories after knocking six home runs last night to my two So I don't actually I don't look ahead very much because i'm not a super Season long player. Um, so my focus is always on this day and the next day If you want to look at the next day, here you go Little screenshot for you if you want to check out the cheat sheet for tomorrow a couple assumptions in there But I don't look too far beyond because I got to focus so much on dfs Let's talk to michael. Who would you prioritize in a cubs stack? Okay, let's see if the cubs lineup is out for today against johan obie though And it is not but I'd assume it'll be pretty similar To what we were working with for last night and probably a similar set of players. We want to target. How have your bias? uh Having some struggles defensively which is kind of weird, uh, but still do want to get there So to me it'd be chris by one How have your bias to kind of I'm kind of selling myself and patrick wisdom. So I might bump them above Uh rizzo and contraris. So let's go wisdom three rizzo for contraris five That's the ranking of the cubs for me for tonight as cal mentioned. He isn't here as is joy They're both hanging out We got to get a joy a youtube account producer joy because uh, we'll need her in the chat as well Just for funsies people get to know joy as well diffuse what blue jays make up your preferred blue jays stack Okay, let's see if the lineup is out here for the blue jays yet, and it is hallelujah, okay, so They moved bijio down to eighth lured a scurry out to seventh, but I think The value you get on bashet springer tail scar and gritchy because all really enticing So let's keep nola in here just because I I do want to see What the salaries look like for these guys if we keep them in there I'm pretty sure I just want to pull up george springer's numbers here to make sure he's still been uh spanking it out there And make sure we can still feel good about him as the salary Gets up there. Yeah 309 iso versus righties 46 fly ball rate. That is awesome and disgusting all at the same time Obviously vlad is one if you can get to vlad you use vlad. That's like the rule So we'll try actually let's just try it uh 32 38. I think there's some value else. There's a little bit vlad in there Okay, so we're gonna be a little little hairy, but let's try it I want tail scar in there, and then I want bachette to see where we're at if I do this we are at 2675 If we get guys like a honey of suarez jonathan india, we get our retina zucchini in there I think we can make that work So to me, I think this is the preferred stack the two through five batters in the blue jays I would say though if you can't get to vlad I would probably go Semi in next and then I would go with gritchick and then I would go with lureday scorial after that Let's talk to jerry He's got his home run calls tonight again jerry had the one soto double dong last night He has jonathan scope and kique hernandez. So jonathan scope. I'm on the wrong tab There we go jonathan scope facing dane dunning dunning does live some hard contact So that that's good for scope scope has been tremendous We're not stacking against uh dunning for today's that he's overall pretty good pitcher So from a stacking perspective not in the tigers, but for home run calls that could work And then jerry has kique hernandez The red socks facing thomas hatch See the red socks line if it's out for today kique batting leadoff jerry duran batting second That's kind of fun. What's duran's salary? She's had a curiosity here Uh I have no idea where this game is sequentially. Okay, there we go And duran 2200 my goodness That's Unreal. I love it. So let's put duran in the outfield. Let's put uh, it was martinez in the lineup Uh, he's batting fifth. Okay, and then devours We're gonna go a bit down to sixth Kike leadoff interesting lineup. Okay, so Let's go with jd there Guessing he's like in some sort of slump if he's batting fifth or something. That's not that bad That's kind of weird. Anyway, um, where's renfor is renfor on the lineup for today batting seven That's kind of annoying. Uh, this is really annoying lineup. Anyway, let's go to the uh, the red socks numbers versus righties this year and Let's see what we got here All right devours 361 iso sick Love it. Let's put him in there And 3200 left. That's not too bad. So we can kind of get whoever we want. So if I were to go next after martinez and devours and duran I think we'd probably be wise to go bow guards next But honestly renfro if you need to say some salary to work to renfro's salary is 20 or 33 hundred dollars So a little bit up there kike 3000 dollars versus righties. We've got a kike at a 184 I so that's not too bad either. So I think that jerry's home run call is pretty good and then bow guards comes in at 4100 dollars. Okay, so that's actually just let's just roll with jerry. Let's trust jerry Hashtag and jerry we trust 32 50 left. I think this is a good stack for the red socks for today Michael is asking joy. Uh, do you have any dinger picks? Uh, j o i e I will note the spelling for joy, but joy if you have any dinger picks, let me know and I'll relay those over here To let the people know joy says no We'll work on it But she says that I can pick one for so if I my dinger calls for today I think we're vlad because i'm boring uh and brendan rogers if i'm gonna embody joy And get her dinger pick. It's not yannis and teta cumpo chris. That's that's not the dinger pick for today unless I skip somewhere around Um, I would say joy's a dinger pick for today Let's go to jaren duran joy is a fresh face here at the company So we're going to go with the fresh face of the red socks and go jaren duran two homers tonight in honor of joy for tonight Uh and cow also notes that michael did miss brandon for today Brandon was not on because uh brandon's on vacation this week. We'll have brandon back next week We'll have joy on the sticks as well. It's going to be a fun time and michael's hopefully brandon is having extremely mediocre vacation I hope he's having a great vacation, but that did make me laugh laugh michael that was pretty good Anywho that is all the time that we have here for today on the fan dual live q and a big thank you Thank you everyone for all the awesome questions For the uh throughout the day today chris has answered someone else's question about yannis I think yannis is a good home run call for tonight though. So let's go with that anyway Yannis on teta cumpo Two home runs tonight for the milwaukee bucks bucks in six. We'll see how that goes Thank you everyone for tuning in for today Make sure you are subscribed on the fangirl youtube twitch facebook or twitter pages We are back once again tomorrow at 4 p.m Eastern take your questions live on air which should be a pretty solid little slate Big thank you as mentioned to calvin theobald and joy aflech running the video side of things here today Thank you to cow and joy as always and thank you everyone for tuning in Good luck to you tonight. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow. This has been the fan dual live q and a