 We did wind up having a postponement last night once again with the blue jays and red socks being pushed back as a resolved thunderstorms in Buffalo Which means that Garrett Richards now starts tonight as opposed to last night And that means that we're gonna be stacking the blue jays once again for today The problem is the picture I wanted yesterday was you know the pitching selections were a bit lower Sour and air and no letter scoobal two guys I was in on they were they made it decently easy to stack the blue jays Today I kind of want to spend up a picture and that's gonna make it tougher to stack the jays So our quest for today is finding a way to stack the Toronto blue jays while staying under the salary cap And I think we could do it, but it's gonna require some definite Flexibility in our end to try to make things work. Welcome on in to the solo shop That's right here on the fan dual podcast network in number fire comm. My name is Jim Sonnis I am a senior writer and analyst for a number fire here to get you said for today's eight game of main slate with locks ever 705 4 2 night and fortunately Unlike the past two nights doesn't seem to be a whole lot of bad weather in the forecast We should be good to go play these games pretty straight up and not to worry about games getting postponed So thankfully a bit of a preave from the refreshing the radar for today quick reminder Make sure you are tuning in for our daily Q&A sessions Those are at 4 p.m. Eastern on the Fando YouTube twitch Facebook and Twitter pages taking your questions live on air for half an hour And getting you said for that day slate of MLB DFS I believe Aaron Dolan is on for today talking probably baseball now that emma or NBA is over from last night So double dose of Q&A for today via myself and Aaron So tune in YouTube twitch Facebook and Twitter at 4 p.m And make sure you are subscribed there also you're playing PGA DFS for this week at the 3m open did a solo podcast Yesterday on bats with Brandon off a vacation for this week You can find that by searching for the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts And while you're there leave us a rating and review Hey soccer fans this season fangirl and captain Morgan are teaming up to give you a one-of-a-kind soccer contest Introducing captain Morgan soccer pick them a weekly fantasy contest that is entirely free to play the contest is simple All you have to do is make quick predictions for Saturday games the soccer season You will earn points for each correct pick a compete for a chance to win for $3,000 in prizes every single week head over to fangirl and enter the captain Morgan soccer pick them today Must be 21 plus to participate for more details as a fandal calm or download the fandal fantasy app Eligibility restrictions apply and don't forget to make your game day more delicious and sub in the captain pitching preview for this Wednesday forgot what day it was Wednesday main slate Robbie Ray is the highest salary picture on fandal for today He checks in at $10,600 Lance McCullers is 10 to Kyle Hendricks is $9,900 Julio Rias is $9,100 then we've Adam Wainwright Dylan Cease and Logan Webb coming off the IE I believe her to not fully stretched out yet as the other guys at $8,000 or higher So you see Ray and McCullers up there? Two really good pitchers both those guys above 10k and I like both for tonight and McCullers is going to be the top guy That is despite the fact He is still walking too many batters right now that drives the pitch count increases risk for this profile But I do think he is the top option for today at $10,200 McCullers is at home versus Cleveland and that specific team is a good one for him specifically to face specific specific specific The reason that I do think that McCullers should benefit basic Cleveland is that they do walk a lot or if they don't walk much a 6.9% walk rate versus right is here for Cleveland just a 92 W RC plus that low walk rate to me at least the most important factor for McCullers because He needs to find ways to not walk guys Which allows him to go further on his pitch counts get deeper in games and hopefully avoid some calamity as well Everything else from McCullers outside of the the walks has been solid McCullers really cut back and this change-up used to over his past five starts leading more on his slider instead The strikeout right in that time is 29% he has gotten seven plus strikeouts in four straight games He had ten his last time down that was against the White Sox much tougher team than Cleveland Cleveland is a team of the colors based on the road back on July 2nd And he did walk four guys, but he also had eight strikeouts He allowed just two word runs and that's I think interesting there despite the walks We do see the colors going pretty deep into games He has gone seven innings in two straight games So I like the colors in general like if you give me a neutral matchup. I do like him I like him more in this specific spot again specific against Cleveland for today And I'm going to be high on McCullers at 10 to if a multi-entering for tournaments My colors will be the pitcher to whom I have the highest exposure Now because we have McCullers for cash games I can allow myself to shoot for upside and shoot for raw ceiling with the second pitcher And that allows me to go to Robbie Ray second against the Red Sox at $10,600 it is a tough matchup the Red Sox have a 105 WRC plus against lefties They hit for plenty of power and they have a lot of good individual power hitters specifically against lefties you know JD Martinez Hunter Renfrow etc etc and Ray is still letting up a lot of fly balls and a lot of hard contact This could go poorly and that's why McCullers is the number one from an exposure perspective But I still think it's worth it if we're shooting just for ceiling the big allure here is obviously the strikeouts Ray leads the slate and strikeout rate at 33% that is across his past five starts with more foreseen fastballs His skill interactive ER Ray is 3.01. He has a 6% walk rate So in the past Robbie Ray has been a guy who gave up walks and hard contact He has scrubbed out the walks so we'd still Robbie Ray in a sense But it's not the full Robbie Ray experience in the negative sense that we had back in the day It's all about the hard contact now It is a park in Buffalo that will let us some home runs which does add to the risk factor So for cash games go McCullers for tournaments Even like if we're talking single entry potentially even more so single entry I would be into Ray here because the Red Sox implied total is I think like four and a half That should put a lid on the popularity that Ray generates because people care more about implied totals and they should picture So they're gonna avoid Ray at least some people will as a result of that He has the best upside in the slate though. So I want more exposure to McCullers if I'm multi-entering for tournaments I think his like Probability of hitting is higher. However, if it's single entry I am fine risking it with Ray and hoping he keeps the ball in the yard for tonight So for single entry, I think my top guy is Ray if I'm multi-entering for tournaments I want to have most exposure to McCullers But I would like to be overweight on Ray and play things that way both guys are awesome both guys are pitchers I want to use but do you think with that? They thrive better in different formats based on the assumed popularity Specifically of Robbie Ray as for the value pitcher. I do like Dylan's cease and I like me quite a bit I like him enough where despite the fact that I like McCullers and Ray I still want exposure to Dylan's cease in tournaments for tonight He's facing the twins and they're not a bad offense. They're not want to actively target pitchers very often But they're also not one we need to avoid right now. And I think that cease does make sense here $8600 cease has this awesome curveball He has a 41% whiff rate on it according to baseball savant the X Woba against it is 182 you get some ground balls out of that pitch to and it seems like Dylan cease Understands this his usage on that curveball is that the 21% over his past eight starts and all those have been since He's sticky stuff discussion began The results in that time with the increased curveballs have been mixed because his era is 4.60 But the peripherals are awesome He has a 32% strikeout rate cease has a 3.28 skill interactive era That skill interactive era is the third best mark on the slate for each pitcher in their most relevant sample He does have two double-digit strikeout showings One of those was against the Astros last week a much tougher opponent and the twins now It's worth noting that he has faced the twins twice in the span He had 15 strikeouts across those two starts, but he let up six her and runs in one of them So mentioned before the bad results the twins are part of the reason the results have not been as good but like again, if we're using the colors for safety, we can focus on upside elsewhere and Cease has upside and I think that that makes him a viable option. So Dylan cease definitely someone I will turn to for today if you just want safety go the colors But if you're looking for upside both ray and cease make a ton of sense and they're both guys to whom I would like to be overweight for two nights, but to me, it's the colors for safety But then ray and cease for Volatility and upside and I would say that ceases a consideration for single entry tournaments as well So let's move now to stacks and go to the headliner for today Which is the blue jays because their game got rained out last night, which means that Garrett Richards will pitch tonight instead This is the only situation across this entire slate 16 total starters where there is a starter I want to stack against facing a good team a good offense that I would want to stack actively So I think Despite the popularity we should be all over the blue jays once again the logic from last night directly translates to tonight Richards has been struggling since the sticky stuff discussion began He has just an 11% strikeout rate across five starts with decreased movement on his forcing fastball He's led up a lot of hard contact in that time. So the Jays absolutely stand out from a stack perspective the problem is We have to figure out how to afford their salaries because McCullers is 10-2 ray is 10-6 With with ceases not as big of an issue. So that one's fine But and it's not like the salaries on the colors and ray are terrible. They're very palatable. They're not but they're also not values So we had to decide how do we stack the Jays while still using those two pitchers for tonight? We could turn to Kevin Visio at twenty five hundred dollars But he's not hitting the ball well right now. They bumped it down to eighth in the lineup. So I think instead I Want to pepper the mid-range here, which means George Springer Boba Schett tailscar Hernandez rental gritchick lourdes Corrielle Live with those guys live in that mid-range the guys between thirty three hundred dollars and thirty eight hundred dollars And then find a lower-sourced second team to stack Luckily that will work for today There are two lower-sourced stacks that we can't like so it might not be easy to stack the Jays While using ray or McCullers, but I think we can make it work and I'm going to try to for today So the blue Jays are the priority from a pitcher a stacking perspective for today and I will Bend over backwards to make sure I can stack So the question is if we're stacking the Jays and trying to live in the mid-range Who are the value stacks we want to turn to and I think it's actually two teams in the same game Those are the Rangers and the Tigers and the Rangers are a team that might get stripped down once the trade deadline is here I would expect Joey Gallo probably to get shipped in addition to others But for now we can still stack them and I would like to hear They do help us a lot from a salary perspective outside of Gallo They're facing Matt Manning Manning is up to five starts in the majors Which is not a small sample and the strikeout rate in that time is still under 10 percent. His hard hit rate is 41 percent So if you're going to have a strikeout rate that low You've got to be an outlier in the bad at ball department and Manning is not We've seen that bite him at least once before he let up nine earned runs against Cleveland back on June 28th He hasn't let up more than two earned runs in any of the other starts But his expected ERA at 6.08 is very high I'm not sure if those Quality outings or those non bad outings should scare us off because this is all in line With what happened to him in the minors as well bad results down there rough results in the majors so far So yeah, the Rangers are not a great team. They're wrc plus versus right. He's 87 But they've got individual batters I like and they give us a lot of value here Joey Gallo and Adelesa Garcia are the only guys on this team with salaries above $2,500 So I want those two for sure, but Nate Lowe Hasn't been hitting for much power recently, but the hard contact is still there and that to me says, okay Lowe deserves to be in a rotation at $2,500 It will depend on what the lineup looks like as far as who else I want to turn to here but we can talk more about that in the Q&A show later on for today But for right now, I think that you can count on Nate Lowe as being a value play Adelesa Garcia is $3,100 Gallo 37 might be tough to get to with the jays, but I think we can make it work So we'll see how things pan out here But for right now the rangers a team I want to turn to to see what value crops up once the lineup is out I do think as mentioned that the other side of the game is pretty attractive too The tigers are facing Jordan Lyles and the tiger's offense hasn't been too shabby recently They bit me when I used Kyle Gibson against them last night and they've been good before that too It's not just that one game where they were good. This has been happening for Almost two months now or the tiger's offense has been pretty solid. So I want to stack them here Lyles has had a lot of You know changes throughout the year changing his pitch mix, etc Etc, but it seems like things tick down for him with the sticky stuff discussion beginning And Lyles has reacted trying to compensate for the new state we're living in He added a sinker to his arsenal The usage on that pitch has been increasing over the past month And if we look at the past four starts the usage on that sinker is 17 percent You would think that adding in a sinker would help the bad at ball data It hasn't done that yet for Lyles though. His hard hit rate is 44 percent. The fly ball rate is 42 percent He did have three good starts in this time out of four and they came against teams with similarities to the tigers They were not elite offenses But for each of those his peripherals still were not that good and it hinted that some runs would eventually come That's exactly what happened the last time out where he led up four home runs And I believe six total earned runs in that game That was against the blue jays the blue jays Shockingly a better offense than the tigers. So uh, don't necessarily take that to mean We should expect the tigers to duplicate that here But I do still think the tigers should grade out well here as a result the peripherals Lyles has had and just in general He was stackable against earlier on this year too So I do think that the tigers are a pretty solid option and there are enough guys here I think we can feel good about obviously jonathan scope has been tremendous recently Akiobadu is a two sources of upside kind of guy with a ton of steals recently Robbie Grossman same thing can steal bases can get home runs So those guys definitely work. Eric Haas is the value option here likely at six he has a 171 iso versus righties A lot of strikeouts, but you know, we can hit some home runs Lyles not getting a lot of strikeouts right now So for $2,800 Haas definitely works But if you're looking for a priority on this team that guy would be Akiobadu and I think that He's a really quality option despite the fact He's not a value play on this team for today. So that's the stacks We got the blue jays with the rangers and the tigers for some value Let's move to things to watch and try to hunt for some more value the Yankees likely starting ashore wojahowski for today I think that means we can stack the fillies They are another spot where we could get some value here specifically with one offs more so than the full team wojahowski is Getting some strikeouts done in triple a decent strikeout right there around 31 But it also looks like he's letting a part of contact We don't have you know strict stack cast data from triple a at least not as of yet But it does seem like he's letting a part contact a lot a lot of drives So it means we can stack against him with the fillies having a dh. I'm guessing brad miller. We'll start once again He's $2,400 obviously has a lot of power Lefty in the Yankee stadium. We like that did you Gregorius? $2,700 revenge game for him So there is more value here. I think that what might work is Doing a four two two situation where you have four blue jays Maybe two rangers or two tigers and then two fillies going with Gregorius and miller to get the value there That could be a way to jam in the blue jays without being too Off kilter in our process. I'm not opposed to stacking the Yankees on the other side of that game as well There's just not a ton of dudes left on the roster that we really want to use The fillies are going to the bullpen game their bullpen is not great So I think that this is a good spot for the Yankees and I would stack them if they're at full Hell, they'd be in the stacking section as opposed to things to watch as is I think that young carlo stanton is a tremendous one off Same thing for gary sanchez Not opposed ace above floriel or chris gittens if they wind up in the lineup floriel had enough power in triple a Gittens had a lot of power in triple a so if one of those guys does play gittens didn't play last night due to an Achilles injury, but If one of those guys gets in there, I am okay going to them again to save some salary Finally the marlins are another spot to be okay with some one offs. They're facing eric fetty He's a low strikeout guy letting him a lot of hard contact He's not letting a percent of fly balls and the marlins are pretty beat up And that's why I don't want to go beyond one offs with them But I do think that's sprinkles of their upside guys duval Aguilar or tay those guys could work here So the marlins yankies for one offs and then the fillies in addition to the other options for stacking for today Let's wrap things up here with some dinger calls for tonight Did not get to utilize either guy last night because it's lad's game got rained out And then we had uh brennan rogers not in the lineup for the rockies So the homerun calls who will hopefully play for today. The boring one joey gallo. I know uh pretty boring But hey, you know whatever, uh, I think he should go deep against matt manning So joey gallo the boring call the fun one Maybe it's not super fun given that he has played pretty well this year But uh, I think that akil badu is a really fun one and if he doesn't go deep a price wipe a bag anyway, so Really high upside play the kind of guy you want to use in dfs So homerun calls for this wednesday joey gallo and akil badu That is all the time that we have here for today on the mlb dfs podcast But as mentioned back once again later on today with the 4 p.m. Stream we'll get the other look at lineups try to see who is hitting where see if we can scrounge out some more value To make the jays plus ray or maculars a bit more obtainable earlier on I think we can make it work We'll see who actually fits the strategy later on when lineups are announced That's again on youtube twitch facebook and twitter also make sure to subscribe To the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast from apple podcast spotify stitcher Radio.com google podcasts if you name it we're there leave a rating and review as well If you have questions for me before 4 p.m. I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a m n e s You can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan dual podcast big Thank you to everyone for tuning in for today. 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