 When you look at tonight's slate for daily fantasy baseball, it's pretty obvious that Spencer Strider is going to be the top pitching option on Fandal and that's going to be the case most slates where Strider is available But the question for tonight is who's number two and honestly you've got half a dozen guys Who could legitimately be within that discussion? So our job for today's decide can any of them challenge Strider for that top slots? Where should we rank those other guys how much the salary influence what we do? Are there any value plays in that discussion? We're gonna break all that down and get you ready for a Tuesday night in MLB DFS Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the Fandal podcast network and number fire comm My name is Jim Sanna. So I am a senior writer and analyst for a number fire here to break down Tuesday nights 10 game main slate with locks up for 705 p.m. Eastern for today despite it being a 10 game main slate no big weather notes for tonight The one one the one I would point out is that Temperatures in Minneapolis are much warmer than usual than they've been so far this year Fort today 83 degrees at first pitch in Minneapolis. No other games higher than 80 only one of the game both 75 degrees So I would bump up bats for the Giants and Twins The problem is that the pitchers there are both pretty good in Alex Cobb and Sonny Gray both those guys do suppress fly balls So in theory you could bump things up, but I think overall pretty normal slate as far as weather goes for tonight We'll dive into the pitching options Let you know the strider versus the field discussion and much more in just one second But first a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast We'd wherever you get your podcast coming up later on today We got our PGA DFS preview of the Charles Schwab challenge DMS off and Brandon can do a Breaking down that field letting you know how we're seeing things for that event to get that and all these podcasts as they are posted Make sure you're subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast You can also check out the solo shot over on the fendal YouTube page If you like what you hear leave us a thumbs up on YouTube or leave us a five star rating over on Apple podcasts The NBA playoffs maybe one down But there is still time to get into the action with fendal sportsbook because right now all customers Get a no sweat same game parlay every weekend when you bet the NBA playoffs That's right Just place a three-plus leg same game parlay or same game parlay plus on any NBA playoff game You'll get bonus bets back if you don't win There's no better place to bet all the playoff action than America's number one sportsbook head to the fendal app And get a no sweat same game parlay every weekend of the NBA playoffs Fendal official sports betting partner of the NBA must be 21 plus and president select states Fendal is offering online sports wagering in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas star casino LLC Bonus issued is not on the trouble bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt Restrictions apply see terms at sportsbook dot fendal dot com gambling problem call 1 800 gambler or visit fendal dot com slash Rg massachusetts hope is here gambling helpline ma dot orc or call 800 3 2 7 50 50 for 24 7 support in new york 1 8 7 7 8 open wire techs open y In arizona 1 800 next step or techs next step to 5 3 3 4 2 in connecticut 1 8 8 8 7 8 9 7 7 7 7 or visit cc pg dot orc slash chat in indiana 1 809 with it in wyoming in kansas 1 805 222 4700 or in kansas ks gambling health dot com Louisiana is 1 877 770 stop in maryland md gambling health dot org and in west virginia Go to 1 800 gambler dot net pitching preview for this tuesday main slate spencer strider does come in Joker with the highest salary the night he comes in at 11 500 dollars on fendal gary cole follows him at 11 1 And warden rhodriguez facing the royals at 10 6 you darvish at 10 4 We got sunny gray at 10 2 in that potential game with the hot weather Coday singa is 96 with mackenzie gore facing darvish at 94 alex cob against gray at 9 000 With drew smiley brian bayo and aori pares as the others at 8 000 dollars are hired now strider will be Our number one guy for tonight not going to bury the lead there He is facing the dodgers and that's a tough matchup as we just go to trolly born yesterday I don't really want to go at this spot, but it's spencer strider I still love and I think he should still be Atop our list and that's because of the strikeouts We did see strider break his streak of consecutive starts with at least eight strikeouts last time out Which is a bummer but across the full season strider still has a 42 strikeout rate his expected the array is 2.70 So even with some batted ball issues He is a menace in that regard and it's because Sure, you can have issues with batted balls, but if they don't hit the ball a lot It's not going to matter as much so that's definitely going to be a A factor for strider, especially in this matchup, but hasn't hurt him as of yet Looking at the matchups here for strider. I would not classify any of his recent matches as being Super super easy. He's faced some tough teams in there. So it's not, you know Like he's jumping all that far up in competition I would not classify any of his recent matches easy Yeah, since he faced some marlins five starts ago and in the past four starts since then against tougher teams He said eight strikeouts 10 12 and seven He did let up some runs in those games Which is very possible here, but it's also possibly gets you 12 strikeouts across seven shutout innings Six shutout innings for strider. I guess we'll say so it's kind of hard to turn that down I had strider projected for 9.42 strikeouts tonight That accounts for the matchup and accounts for the fact that he's inefficient of his pitches and accounts for everything So I'm going to put strider at the top of my list and kind of not look back. That's the way things work here When strider is on the slate As mentioned though, the the big discussion is who belongs number two for tonight And I think a bunch of guys are in that consideration. Those guys to me Are all within 0.6 projected strikeouts each other those guys being sunny gray codaysenka garret coal You darvish mackenzie gore and in water or regus all those guys are within 0.6 projected strikeouts for me The lowest salary in that group is is gore at $9400. He's at home against the potteries, which is a tough spot But it's also a mackenzie gore revenge game So I kind of wanted to give him a swing in tournaments and in part due to the salary I'll go here. He's a tournament play You darvish probably pretty good for cash games and I do like gray there as well But let's have some fun. Let's have a mackenzie gore as a tournament option for tonight I was skeptical of gore coming into this year He struggled quite a bit last year and then at the start of this year the walks were very very high It seems like he's starting to get at least that part ironed out because across nine starts His walk rate is down to 11.5 and that's still high It's still not where you want it to be waste a lot of pitches But it's much better than it was and the walk thing is kind of the one red flag and gore's profile Everything else for him is pretty solid He has a 29 strikeout rate with a 34 fly ball rate not letting up a ton of hard contact And that's allowed him to push the dra down to 3.69 Now we have seen gore do this in some good matchups So he is benefited from that for sure But he also had 10 strikeouts against the Mets who have a very low strikeout rate against lefties The pod race probably going to be that as well a good team against lefties not a super high strikeout team But again for tournaments. I think it's kind of fun. I'm when he is gore at 94 But really all the guys in this bucket are super super viable to me I would go for tournament strider one I'll go gore two due to the salary because why not I would probably go Darvish next followed by gray But if you wanted to flip Darvish and gray, I wouldn't push back against that. You give it gray as high as second I wouldn't push back on that. It's a fun slate a lot of good options So pick your favorites dig into those guys decide between you like most and go from there because all those guys very Defensible for that second slot As far as the value play I want to go back to a guy who was pretty good to us last week That's brian bao bao's salary is $8,500 and I think he has enough juice to be considered at that number and bao is a different picture than he was last year specifically, he's leaning more on his sinker than he was at the time and typically that's a bad thing for dfs sinkers don't get a lot of strikeouts and bao's sinker doesn't get a lot of whiffs either. It's about a 16% whiff rate this year according to baseball savant So it's possible the increased emphasis on that that sinker does come back to buy bao eventually But it hasn't yet his strikeout rate is 24 percent He has a 12.2 percent swing strike rate and that's on top of his really good grow ball rate So i'm not fully sold on the approach I think that if I were trying to optimize the pitch mix for bao that change it for his is pretty sick So I might lean more into that but it is working So who am I to nitpick here with what bao is doing? He's facing the angels tonight They have a 107 wrc plus against righties which is about an average strikeout rate. So I definitely think bao works Personally first night, I'd rather take advantage of that huge second tier. I think gore is Pretty close to being a value play at 94. I can get to all the stacks. I want to use for today if while using him so I like darvish and gray plenty too so Might not get here, but if you wanted it down you want a true value play I do think bao is your best option for tonight So to me the strength of this slate is in the mid tier the second tier at pitcher behind strider I think all those guys really fun options for tonight As mentioned, I think we can get there get to gore. We can get to strider for stacking tonight Via the stacks we have because they're not super super high salaries So that to me allows me to potentially ignore the value options that picture for tonight Stacking begins in the Mariners a team I was high on last night And I think we should be high on them once again for today. They're facing lewis madina here and Madina is doing some things. Well Getting a good number of ground balls, which means that his 6.88 eray that he has so far is pretty harsh I don't think that's very representative of what he's doing But madina was not lighting it up in triple a either His eray there was 7.43 in a small sample His x-fib was 6.78 largely due to issuing a lot of walks He has not had the walk issue in the majors But he has had hard contact issues with a 40 percent hard hit rate allowed And that leads to a 5.55 expected eray across three starts And as always as we discussed plenty of times we saw this again last night You're going to see the starter followed up by a poor bullpen for the a's So your stack is never truly dead until that game is over We've had success stacking against the a's this year and I think that we should keep on doing it even with a talented starter who does have some upside I think that that still makes a lot of sense to be high on the meritors for tonight Now I think which takes time to talk jared kelnic might not be as necessarily after he hit a home run last night off of a lefty Mind you, but he has cooled off a bit from where he was earlier on this year So I want to dig in and kind of see Should we be concerned about that at all and you know based on the home run last night? Probably not but also other stuff in his data Not overly concerning over the past two weeks his strike area 29 percent Which is actually a hair better than it was before this stretch his ice. So entering last night was 233 in that time Last night was his first barrel in that two week stretch, but you know, it was good 36 hard hit rates So it's not quite as good as it was to open this year for kelnic But there aren't any like blinking red lights saying we should pump the brakes on him and again He did just go deep last night. So kelnic to me salary 3200 dollars I think that makes a lot of sense and I want to be in on him for tonight. So As part of my mariner stacks jared kelnic definitely going to be a fixture there for sure now another stack we talked about yesterday was the marlins and They were in a stacking option largely out of obligation because it was a pretty bad site for stacking This site is a lot better as far as stacks go But I also like the marlins a lot more than I did. So I'm going to be higher on them here They're facing austin gombur who is letting up too many balls in play right now for a picture at coorsfield His strikeout rate is 15 percent with a 9 walk rates, which means he's letting up a ball and play 75 of the time that's not going to work at this park the hard hit rate is also 45 percent So just overall a lot of hard contact. It's led to a 6.9 in expected e-array for gore the marlins Much better team against lefties and righties. They're uh, they're iso in a small sample is 176 With a 39 flat ball right, which means when you put them at coorsfield, they are at least stackable So I am much higher today on the marlins than I was last night I think that it makes a lot of sense to go to them here and feel pretty good in doing so With the marlins facing lefty. They're probably going to put john birdie somewhere pretty high up in the order and He had lead off against a lefty on sunday and birdie speed. I think makes him a viable option for dfs He has eight solo bases against lefties since the start of last year So we'll see a lot of guys decrease the linus to run against the lefty birdie Not one of those guys his iso against lefties is fine at 145 If he were facing a righty, I would not go here, but He's facing a lefty at coorsfield letting up a lot of balls and play Which means the odds we get birdie on base are pretty high and he can do some damage once he is there So I think even though he's not like the archetype we typically tend to target I think that on this slate in this matchup he makes a lot of sense So john birdie probably going to be a guy I feel pretty good about for tonight Even though that's not typically the case with the marlins Finally for our third stack as we discussed I don't really want to stack the astros against the righty because they have just so little power right now They are facing collin ray tonight and I think that opens the door to make the astros viable The brewers had demoted ray to triple a but when wade miley got hurt they needed to fill a spot in rotation So ray comes back up. I think their actions Tell us we should want to stack against ray in this spot. It can be a signal to us I understand why the brewers want to do that because ray has a 5.52 eray He's expected eray is 5 or 4.52. He's letting up a 42 hard hit rate and it was getting him in trouble The astros as mentioned still pretty tough against righties. You know tough and not the good sense pretty rough 95 wrc plus minimal power So it's not great But it is at least better with hosdale 3v back It's one less, you know dud in the lineup. I guess so We might not really want to do it The I still I'm not actually seeking out the astros, but I think we should do it for tonight specifically The astros from here at the top three for stacking if you want to bump them out I have three more teams will talk about in things to watch you could potentially put in here over them As for l2b, I don't think we need to be too low on him for right now because he hasn't run yet since coming back But the injury is to his thumb. So I'd expect the base dealing to be there at some point He's walking a bunch, which means he's seen the ball pretty well So the major red flags we could see for a guy coming off an injury are not there for l2b right now His salary is pretty low for tonight as well So you get l2b for 30 200 dollars in this situation a spot that I want to stack I think it makes a lot of sense So I think that I'm very okay going there when I am stacking the astros which I will be doing for tonight As mentioned that there are some other stacks we could consider for that third slot So let's run through some of those now One of them is the ace if you're not willing to stack the astros Maybe you shouldn't want to stack the ace, but they're facing marco glanzales And I actually kind of like them either for stacks or one off tonight Gonzalez really struggling right now. He has a 4.91 skill interactive eras and see trim back The usage on his cutter the a's are better against lefties and they are against righties with a 111 w rc plus So if you need some salary savers, I think the a's should be on your list But also like non salary savers to bret rooker s the or your wies with all his stolen bases I think you know their act their studs are actually kind of okay, too So the a's in general just kind of fine and the team i'm okay with for tonight out in seattle Bobby Miller is making his debut for the Dodgers He made four starts in triple a before coming up here and in those four starts didn't did let up a lot of hard contact Didn't get a ton of whiffs the braves doing a tape on miller, which is why I'm okay Keeping him a bit or keeping them a bit lower on this list, but I think from a skill perspective This is a team that could get to him. So I'm definitely on board to stack in the braves once again in this spot against miller I do think they make a lot of sense Finally, I'd get some thought to stacking the red sox in scruff and canning We're up to six starts on canning this year and I think I'm a lot of hard contact. It's led to a 6.14 era I Think you know canning is fun and eventually he might get back there to get back to his pre injury form But we're not there yet. So the red sox at least worth considering here a team I am okay stacking so beyond the top three beyond the mariners marlins and astros I would say the a's worth considering the braves and the red sox Let's finish up here with some dinger calls for today the boring one We get your don alvarez in a situation where he is facing a guy Struggling with hard contact in a better park for home runs and what he typically plays in he is coming off a double dong last night We're gonna do it. It's it's as boring as boring can be your don alvarez The boring home run call for this digger tuesday got about that a digger tuesday You're done alvarez the boring home run call the fun one. I want to go ramon loriano He hasn't looked great since he came off the il at the end of april, but you know, it's been fine He was on the bench last night. He's in a pretty big rut right now But before that rut began a couple dingers for him up to five this year It's not a huge number of facing a lefty here. So I think there's enough to be at least enticed there So the dinger calls for today your don alvarez and ramon loriano for your dinger tuesday That is all that we have here on the solo shot for this tuesday back with you once again tomorrow talk about Wednesday sleep, but also back with you later on today to break down the charles schwaab challenge from a pga dfs Perspective get that by subscribing to the number fire daily fantasy podcasting wherever you get your podcasts If you've got any questions for me. I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s You can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan dual podcast want to thank you all for tuning in for today Good luck to you with your mlb dfs lineups We'll talk to you once again tomorrow to break down wednesday sleep This is another solo shot right here on the fan dual podcast network