 Even though there are 10 games tonight in daily fantasy baseball There are no surefire aces who we know can rack up 10 12 strikeouts on a given night on this slate The one guy who gets the most strikeouts and a pretty tough matchup So I would say it's a pretty wide open slate a pitcher and I do think there are guys I prefer but There's not anything where there is an obvious chuck player you need to avoid stuff like that Which I think is a pretty fun slate You can kind of follow your ins follow your instincts for me follow my projections and decide what I feel best Well, I'll break down where I'm leaning for tonight Which guys I like while there and also the top stacking options for today across Matrily baseball welcome on into the solo shop That's right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire dot com My name is jim sauna So I am a senior writer and analyst for a number fire here to break down monday's 10 game main slate With locksmith or 705 p.m. Eastern for today There are some weather notes on this slate first off There is a good chance of rain in pittsburgh for the guardians and the pirates they look scattered So they might be able to play through it But it's worth checking back on later because delays do seem likely there rain is also possible in Cincinnati for the reds and the giants might not arrive until later in the game so Should be good to go there but worth checking back on that later It is also very warm in both baltimore and kansas city temperatures 85 90 degrees somewhere in that range So i'd bump up batters in both those games which means bump up bats for the dodgers orials tigers and royals And i'll like one of those games quite a bit for stacking other one at least worth considering as well We'll dive into what all that means top pitching options and more in just one second A first day reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast If you like what you hear leave us a five star rating on up a podcast or spotify Back once again tomorrow with the open championship preview via myself and brandy and doula We're going to have that live on the fendle youtube page at noon eastern If you want to watch us live feel free to bop over there fendle youtube page noon eastern tuesday Breaking down the open championship Of course that podcast will be up here on the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed as well Of course the solo shot is available on fendle tv plus on apple tv amazon fire and rocu as well Take your first swing at betting mlb on fendle and get 10 times your first bed of mountain bonus bets up to $200 that's right. Just bet 20 bucks and you'll land $200 and bonus bets win or lose That's $200 you can spend betting everything from the money line To the over under to who you think is going to hit the first home run All in an app that is safe secure and super easy to use plus when you win you can get paid instantly There's no better place to bet on mlb than fendle america's number one sports book So sign up today and get a $200 and bonus bets fendle official partner of major league baseball Must be 21 plus and president select states first online real money wager only $10 first deposit required bonus issued is non withdrawal but bonus bets that expire 14 days after a seat Restrictions apply c terms at sportsbook dot fendle dot com Fendle is offering online sports wagering in kansas under agreement with kansas star casino llc gambling problem call 1 800 gambler or visit fendle dot com slash rg in colorado iowa michigan new jersey ohio pennsylvania illinois tennessee in virginia call 1 800 next step or tax next step to 5 3 3 4 2 in arizona 1 8 8 8 7 8 9 7 7 7 7 7 or visit ccpg dot or access chat in connecticut 1 800 9 with it in indiana 1 800 5 2 2 4 700 or visit ks gambling health dot com in kansas 1 8 7 7 7 7 7 0 stop in louisiana visit md gambling health dot org in maryland Visit 1 800 gambler died in west virginia or call 1 800 5 2 2 4 700 in wyoming hope is here visit gambling helpline m a dot org or call 800 3 2 7 50 50 for 24 7 support in massachusetts Or call 1 8 7 7 8 hope and wire text open y in new york Pitching preview for this monday mainslate logan web checks in with the highest salary on fendle's salaries 10 500 dollars followed by haste's lasardo a 10 3 shame mclanahan coming off the i l a 10 000 Dollars logan gilbert facing mclanahan is 99 Sonny gray actually not facing mclanahan i lied uh mclanahan based on the rangers gilbert faced in the twins He's 99 he is facing sonny gray got 9600 dollars mckenzie gore 92 griffin canning dane dunning matt manning Emma shean miles michaelus and drus smiley are the others at 8 000 dollars or higher Now with mclanahan being banged up and lasardo facing the cardinals There are no super super high strikeout guys on this slate That means to me we can feel better going at the best real world pitcher on this slate and to me the best real world pitcher right now Is logan web he's facing the reds and that's a team that can obviously do a lot of fun stuff But i still like web enough to go at him here webs having another phenomenal season He has a 3.14 e r a in the first half He combines great bad at ball data with enough strikeouts to be viable on certain slates for dfs 25 strike area for the full season now If there's a slate where there is an otani High strikeout guys spencer striders stuff like that We might not get to web but on this one the competition for strikeouts Not as tough and web actually ranks second in my strikeout projections on this slate And that's high enough especially Because of what he does in other categories. He has a 3.28 skill interactive e r a across 14 starts Since he started throwing more change ups with a 23 fly ball rate Now this reds offense is tricky. They're following up another top prospect today. So getting even trickier But 101 wrc plus means we probably don't need to avoid them just yet They do draw walks. They do cause havoc on the base pass But web doesn't issue a lot of walks. So I feel good about him here 10-5 is definitely not a low salary But I think we can live with that on this slate. So I like web quite a bit and we'll rank him number one for tonight in mlb dfs I mentioned in there that web is going to be number two of my strikeout projections The guy in first is hasus lazardo and his matchup Scares me a bit more which is why i'm not going to lazardo for cash games and not going to put him first for tournaments But I will put him number two because I do like his upside He's facing the cardinals. They have a lot of guys who can crush lefties their wrc plus against lefties this year is 106, which is Okay, uh, it's pretty good But I think it might go up and I would take the over on that number for the rest of this year But it's low enough where I think it does give us the green light to consider lazardo for tournaments and lazardo Is pitching very well across 19 starts He has a 29 strikeout rate of the 3.38 skill interactive uray Basically, he is replicating what he did last year during his big breakout I Similar to a lot of moron's pitchers Lazardo does have a tougher time on the road than at home and he is on the road here That's another reason to favor logan web over lazardo web also on the road But uh, lazardo splits a bit more concerning But the strike area for lazardo is still really good on the road Lazardo, I haven't projected for 6.6 strikeouts tonight, which is number one on the slate just to head to logan web His salary is 10 3 I am going to go web first because I like the Run prevention expectation more than I like lazardo's but I still think both these guys are going to be fun plays Lazardo tournaments only web and consideration for cash games, but uh both these guys to me really saw it options for tonight Looking at our value play for today We're going to go towards the guy who got blasted in his final start before the all-star break in griffin canning We'll ask just two and two-thirds innings and let a foreign runs but he's at home taken on the Yankees tonight and Assuming Aaron judge is not miraculously activated without a rehab stint I think canning is going to be the top value play onto night slate Now that one bad outing does matter But I also think it's kind of an outlier for the most part canning has been pitching pretty well before that time His villa has been stable now for his past 10 starts and his z array on the time is 4.36 Including that bad outing, which is not amazing, but it's also not terrible The peripherals for canning are a bit better. He has a 3.94 skill interactive. You're right with a 24 strike out rate He is letting up too much hard contact, but this Yankees active roster in its current state Just an 80 wrc plus against righties. They're not hitting for a ton of power You're taking them out of Yankee stadium for tonight as well Canning can have strikeout upside He had nine strikeouts twice in his past 10 starts again, including that clunker there with the villa stabilized He had seven and two others in this specific matchup I think canning has upside his salary here is $8,800. So I am very willing to put canning in my player pool. I think that the strikeout upside is there I think that the safety Good enough despite that one bad start where I feel okay about canning. So to me It's kind of canning in the same tier as web and lasardo because both those guys are on the road Both those guys have some sort of concern whether it be park factor Matchup, whatever it may be canning gets good stuff there. He's at home just in a you know Not quite as well rounded pitcher right now So I do like canning enough to use him I think he's in the same tier as lasardo and web and feel good enough about canning for tonight to be on him Over on fandom. So again top two pitchers are web and lasardo and the top value play will be griffon canning For tonight Let's do moving out of the stacks and actually sticking that exact same game and might be curious why we're stacking the angels given They're missing my trouts. No print. No brand and jewelry. No, Anthony Rendon They're pretty decimated right now But the guys who are there are still hitting the ball pretty well and they're facing louis severino And severino is someone who can't turn it around at any moment because we have a good pitcher but he's not pitching well right now and that's always a recipe where He could click at any moment and suddenly turn things around He's facing the angels tonight And I think that we should be willing to stack them in this matchup severino has made nine starts since coming back His e-array is 7.38 his skill interactive e-array is 5.05 and his expected e-array is seven flats Severino is not getting many strikeouts and he's letting up a ton of hard contact. So that's one thing But I think it's his pitch mix that to me Is the biggest red flag over his past five starts severino has been throwing fewer sliders than he threw when he first came back off the i-l and Even that number was lower than where he was at last year and the reason that's concerning is that That was a really good pitch for him last year and that pitch is getting crushed right now So I get why he's scaling back on it but I'm not sure if it's he's afraid to use it because the the damage is done if he's not just feeling it right now Whatever it may be It does hurt my faith that severino can quickly turn things around Angels even without those guys are a pretty tough test. They still got shohei otani making moniacs playing really well Some of their fill-ins have played respectable enough So I think the angels are a good stack despite the fact they have lost so many key batters I do still feel good about them for today The angels to me a quality stack taking on severino until we get reason to think severino's turned things around So severino getting rocked by both righties and lefties So I don't care righty lefty feel like you just go at the best batters here and to me the best batters are shohei Otani obviously won and making moniac number two moniac Getting more playing time with mike trout out. He's playing really well to earn that playing time keep on getting it Some more than willing to buy in So I know it's weird to stack the angels with how many guys are missing But I do feel good about here and will feel okay Stacking games against severino for tonight For our number two and number three stacks, we're gonna go at the same game It's one of those games with the good hit and weather that one is in baltimore for the Dodgers and the Orioles both These teams facing young pretty fun pitchers and then machine and grace and rodriguez But neither guy in a great groove right now. So I think we should look to stack both sides of this game I prefer the Dodgers so we'll start with them. But we'll talk about the Orioles after that The Dodgers are facing grace and rodriguez who's coming back up from triple a for this game And he pitched really well down there across eight starts in triple a across the entire year rodriguez has a 1.96 era with a 33 strikeout rate That is really good stuff but rodriguez still walking a lot of guys and The strikeouts when he was in the majors were not the issue. He was getting strikeouts there It was the walks and it was the hard contact now Across 10 starts rodriguez led up a 52 hard hit rate in the majors in triple a that number is 32 percent So maybe he's fixed it. Maybe he had some bad luck in that 10 start sample Whatever it may be The Dodgers tonight will be a very good test of whether rodriguez has actually Turned things around in that regard. They have a 117 WRC plus against righties with a 206 iso And a 10 walk rate if it weren't for the weather I might not go here because the weather is Definitely a big factor of the being so warm good for hitting but I do think there is enough here rodriguez is talented the triple a numbers are very good I'm encouraged by those but with it being so hot and the Dodgers being so good I do think we can stack the Dodgers here The key question whenever stacking the Dodgers is whether you can trust the value in the lower part of the order Those guys are david peralta jason hayward and james outman all of lower salaries And it can make it easier to get to mookie bets if you use one or two of those guys Honestly, I'm on board of all them hayward may not play because it's a little bit banged up right now at a stinger Peralta hasn't it for a ton of power, but 155 iso against righties is fine I would say good enough to consider hayward is a 218 if he plays is iso against righties Outman I'd rank lowest of this group because he has not been able to regain his early season form But he can steal bases too. So he's not totally out of play I'd rank these guys if they all play hayward one peralta two outman three, but fine with any of them Again most skeptical of outman. Hopefully hayward plays But I think that we do have the green light in general to turn to those value plays if we want help Getting to the studs in this lineup Other side of this game is the Orioles. They're facing him at sheen who had a great debut for the Dodgers But has cooled off since then and I think that's probably more aligned with what we should expect going forward Roped to four starts on sheen. He has a 20 strikeout rate with a 10 swing strike rate He did get more strikeouts in double a but that's double a batters instead of big leaguers and the sample in the big leagues is Big enough now to put stock in specifically with that swinging strike rates a bit low about 10% again, that's that's not Overwhelming is what I would say and also sheen is a huge fly ball guy Letting him by 55 fly ball rate in the majors It was 44 double a let up a couple home runs and one of the starts and That's with three of his four starts coming at home now. He didn't do well at course field so kudos to him there, but That's also a really bad offense in the Rockies The Orioles not a bad offense 110 WRC plus against righties 183 iso 41 fly ball rate I think people like sheen which may allow the Orioles to be not too popular. There is some interest in their money line It's been moving in their favor, which I agree with recently, but I do still think that Even if the Orioles don't want it being undervalued I still think that they are a team we can feel good about stacking for today and I will stack them in this spot One time on Gunnar Henderson his salary is back down to $3,000, which is delightful But he's still playing really well 272 iso against righties. He does strike out too much Which means he can have bad streaks like the one he had a couple weeks ago, but You know and he could struggle against a guy like sheen who can't get some strikeouts But he can also put up 50 fandal points, which is pretty tough to find So $3,000 to me is too low for Henderson. I feel very good about that and we'll be high on him here So Henderson to me with that salary coming back down Very much back on the menu for DFS whether it be as a one-off or as part of an Orioles stack within this this game here Let's go now to things to watch do you want to touch on Logan Gilbert briefly? He's at home in a high strikeout matchup with the twins And that's a good situation for him and he could put him in play but He's not getting a lot of strikeouts recently and the twins active roster has a 110 WRC plus against righties despite the number of strikeouts they get So I don't blame you if you want to go with Gilbert because he can rack up some strikeouts in this matchup, but I just prefer web and lasardo personally given I feel better about their form entering tonight I do think you could consider some royals batters on this slate They're facing matt manning who has really struggled with bat of balls, but hasn't heard him yet. ERA is under four The royals offense stinks, which is why they're not a higher, but it's a good matchup Good and my iron for batting tonight. So the royals at least worth putting on your radar as hitters I also don't need the giants actually like the giants more than the royals Not sure why I didn't put them above the royals in this order, but anyway regardless like the giants more They're facing brandon williamson who has made really good strides recently His velo is up across the past five starts and it's really helped his peripherals quite a bit But the giants pretty solid offense against lefties great park for hitting as well So definitely wanting to get them a look So the giants to me the top alternative To those other stacks if you're not as high on the Orioles or the Dodgers if you feel like you saw something instead of arena recently where you want to avoid the angels I would go giants as the next team on my list Let's finish up here with some digger calls for today. The boring one is shohio tani I get an excuse to talk about shohio tani on this show I'm gonna take it good match up here with seven. We know a lot of hard contact recently Enough fly balls as well. I did shohio tani. I could have gone moniac if I wanted to be less boring But I don't so we're gonna go shohio tani as the boring home run call for today For the fun one. Let's go ryan o'hearn. I know the the oras have called up a lot of fun young guys so it's weird to talk about ryan o'hearn but He's been pretty good hitting for a lot of power since he came up for the Orioles seven home runs Pretty good overall numbers. I've kept him in the order enough for me to expect him to play for tonight I know if you go to fan duel, he's not in the projectile starting lineup, but I think he will play and Good good situation for hitting a lot of fly balls allowed by shian So we'll go a shohio tani and ryan o'hearn as our two home run calls for today That's all we got for today on the solo shot But as mentioned, we are back once again tomorrow with not just the solo shot But also the heat check for the open championship Make sure you get both those by subscribing to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed or checking out the solo shot Over on the fendal youtube page or on fendal tv plus and again Open championship preview will be live on the fendal youtube page at newt easter 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 fendal podcast network at fendal podcasts Want to thank you all for tuning in for today. 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