 What's going on fan duel friends Ryan Williams here from fan duel You can find me on Twitter at Ryan Alexander underscore W And we are here with you to talk about the Monday night preview And I say we because I am joined by my friend mr. Jim Sonnis You can find him on Twitter at Jim Sonnis his name J-i-m-s-a-n-n-e-s for those of the people who aren't following you already Jim How you doing guys? I'm good man We had week one yesterday for the main slate and It was one of those weird ones because I feel like something that I I can usually like one of my strengths I would say for DFS is running back selection where I struggle is narrowing down my player pool a quarterback and it was the exact opposite this week my running backs were awful and the quarterback stuff went well, so I Don't know I'm like rattled because it was so like so bad With the way that that went like James Robinson was bad Obviously, I had a lot of Clyde Edwards e-lair, which I thought was like oh, okay cool We're gonna get tournament selection to turn a pivot stuff like that didn't go well, so I've been better. How are you? I? Can say that I've been better as well close to nearly a hundred percent exposure to Raheem Moster 6100 it just seemed like it just seemed like it would be a plus EV move to do that in that game script And then obviously tilting Elijah Mitchell getting a touchdowns or Michael hasty getting the touchdowns to start the game and the game script Just going in heavy San Francisco fashion for at least three quarters, right? So that that was tough But you know, that's that's why we play the game right to give ourselves a chance And so that was fun and we want to give you guys a chance here on the fan dual channel as we talk about the single game Monday night slate we can also talk some fun bets with you guys on the fan dual sports book as there's very intriguing things and I just kind of Want to start off Jim because this is kind of our first time talking about a single game slate as it relates to to Fandall and so how do you attack these slates when we're talking about on Fandall? You have the MVP position and then you only have four of their positions that you can plug and play and the pricing Which is nice does not change whether you have somebody at the MVP spot or you're just using them in the flex So how do you kind of attack single game slates as it relates in general? Yeah, I'm guessing this is probably similar to you But it all revolves around trying to identify the way the game will play out Like I think that the way that I like to say it is make an assumption And I want to make an assumption around how I think the game will play out. So like you look at the the Bookmaker info for tonight. It says okay Raven's probably gonna win by three to four points and like that if you Think that that the bookmakers are right you build a lineup around that assumption the problem is Everyone probably will build around that assumption. So I think that you know the way that you can Think about things is okay How would I fill out a lot of fire assume the Ravens just paste the Raiders? How would I fill out a lineup if I assume the Raiders win in a blowout? like I think that just finding different paths and Finding different ways this game can play out That's the key thing and that influences MVP obviously a lot But also like you're not putting a Raiders kicker in a lineup where you assume that the Ravens win by 30 points so I think that that's the first thing for me is identifying how I think the game will play out and Deciding who benefits from that scenario Absolutely, and I mean that's the huge thing about playing these single game slates is just you have to be able to predict game Flow you have to be able to talk yourself into a scenario To where you can see things playing out and that's kind of what makes things fall into place for your line-ups, right? Because you're not gonna be able to have oh, I think you know Baltimore is gonna Explode and just I'm gonna take all Baltimore guys and just one or two Raiders guys But what happens if the Raiders are in a situation like the Lions where we're saying friend as we were talking about that earlier And then Lions guys all the sudden starts matching back Truly flips the slate on its head when you're talking about single game slate So definitely want to talk about the situations and we can start at MVP I see the questions already rolling in shout out to everybody who's in the chat right now Savon asking about Mark Andrews at MVP. I'm sure we're gonna talk a lot about Mark Andrews And we could already start there shout out to everybody who's in the chat joining Jim and I So we got a situation here Jim with the Ravens where I'm just gonna say it. I think Lamar is a lock. I think Lamar on a single game slate is always a lock I don't think he's a lock at the MVP necessarily But just because of the dynamic of the backfield is obliterated I know that Tyson Williams is gonna be a guy that we'll talk about later And he's gonna get love and we don't know what's gonna happen with all these other running backs They brought in to kind of replace JK and Gus Edwards, but when you're talking about somebody like Mark Andrews I think that he's going to benefit with the running back situation being depleted because of just how Utilized he is in this offense. I mean the targets have been there a plethora from two, you know two years ago last year He kind of it wasn't really there for him But I think that the offense will kind of run through Mark Andrews and we know that the Raiders just looking at the stats Over the years have been obliterated by tight ends across the board So you love that for Mark Andrews who could really you know should get a lot of targets could see two touchdowns in this game And could be viable at the MVP spot. Yeah I think the other thing he benefits to from is the fact that he's been healthy Whereas like there's no we're shot Bateman, obviously He sent me walk-ins and banged up the entirety of like he's helped with the healthy and playing now Mark He's brown same thing But like brown this a lot of camp walking this a lot of camp and Mark Andrews as I baked in rapport With Lamar Jackson. So if we're talking about the way you're ranking out the past catchers on this team I think that it's Mark Andrews in a tier of his own and I'm not sure if there's a full tier like if there's a gap tier between him and Mark He's brown, but like it's pretty dang close I would say like, you know, you could say that brown isn't that second the tier beneath him But like I think it's like one and a half tiers between those two guys So I think that he benefits like you said from the running back situation But also does benefit from the fact that he's been healthy and the other guys really haven't so I think that if you're looking at Ways to stack up the Ravens. I do think that Mark Andrews is first place you go the question is How much will that be consensus like how much will people decide? Okay, I've got to go Mark Andrews because of the the fact we listed and does that get me You know make it a situation where you use Markie's brown or to try to be a little bit different or what? But like I'm not getting a firm read in that so I feel like I'm just playing things straight up It's hard not to go Mark Andrews the exact reasons you listed Yeah, and thank you for sharing your screen Jim and having it up there so that the people who are watching this live Can can see along with us, but as you're building the roster, you know Things will kind of fall into place with you and so again, we're talking about okay So you play Lamar Jackson at MVP, you know, what are you expecting from him? You're expecting a huge rushing game and you're expecting pretty much him to throw the touchdowns But maybe it's one touchdown to Mark Andrews one touchdown mark He's brown one touchdown to Sammy walk-ins or Taiwan Lawless or all these other guys who could Devon do Renee Who are in the potential pool of receiving a touchdown from Lamar Jackson as we know in the past? The Ravens have loved to spread the ball out and you can never know you can never dictate very frustrating to touchdown score Which is why I just say Lamar's a lock right because he's the catalyst of the offense in going to you know Push that bill forth But I do want to talk about some of these other pass catchers and what we can do from the other side On the Raiders side of things I know Nick and chat was asking about Darren Waller and Saban also was asking about Derek Carr for MVP So when we're talking about a situation where okay, the Ravens put up points in this game The over under in this game is over 50 So Vegas is expecting points to be scored in one way shape or form now Do we think that's gonna be 40 to 10? From the ball, you know Baltimore winning on the Raiders or can the Raiders make this respectable and also Not to bury the lead here, but Josh Jacobs has been ruled questionable yesterday on Sunday He's dealing with an illness now the Raiders are a hundred percent vaccinated at least That's what's been reported on so we don't think there's a COVID issue And I saw before we came on the show Jim that he's expected to play I don't like Josh Jacobs in this matchup and so for me it I am inclined to build teams that do have Derek Carr and one or two pass catchers just to be differentiating my lineups Because I do think that there's a scenario here where they're not going to be able to get Josh Jacobs or Kenyon Drake or Whoever else their third stream backup running back is who probably will see the field because John Gruden But I do think there's a scenario where I do want to get Carr and Waller exposure together Because I think that's the sure way to get the points there And so I I'm not gonna be inclined to not have a Ravens captain Because I think they heavily outscored the Raiders here But I am inclined to get Derek Carr into my lineups. So if you go like let's say you're building out a a Well, I'll call it a Raiders assumption lineup Are you assume that the Raiders like kind of roll and have a really impressive game here? Do you go to car trim EP? Do you skew towards Waller? How do you play that one? That's someone that I because like with the Ravens you just kind of go Lamar I think that for the Ravens I would consider Tyson Williams and like some if I assume that they just obliterate them Because maybe you know Tyson gets the the variance at the goal line stuff like that but with the with the Raiders I have a hard time deciding Do I like can I go anywhere other than Carr and Waller and it's tough for me to say? Yes, like I can't really find a concrete route elsewhere because Jacobs probably gonna live some high leverage targets to Kenyan Drake, which is a bummer that caps his upside limits his Viability is MVP. So I feel like the Raiders are kind of whittled down to just Carr and Waller Do you see anyone else you could consider potentially there and like a Raiders assumption lineup or? No, and it just is that's what fun thing about playing the single-game slates, right? And we'll talk about the line of sin You know, I wanted to at some point I do want to pick your brain Jim on how you feel about contest selection when it comes down to the single game Slates because it really just depends on the field, right? Like if you're playing in against 20,000 lineups, you know what I'm saying and you're building a team for single game then yeah, you need to have some exposure to Carr MVP lineups or Darren Waller MVP lineups in the case that you know the Ravens maybe get this game or can you know Put the heat on Lamar to force him to throw and that's maybe what might keep him out of the MVP spot But still viable in the lineup I just can't do it and I'm more of a single game or single entry player, especially on this game So I'm more it not necessarily cash game building so to speak because it's still tournaments and I can do that in my flex But as far as the MVP goes, it's like I need the surefire points there. I don't want to guess I don't have these outliers the other reason why you do that I think for this slate specifically Ryan the reason why that line of thinking is valid is because if you're looking at like the Distribution of scoring for this game Yes, like how often is Lamar Jackson the MVP like the highest player for this game I don't have that number like my my colleague Brandon can do it probably does have that number and he could tell you Hey, it's you know X for the time. I don't have that. He's smarter than I am But like it's a large chunk of the time Lamar Jackson is the highest scoring guy on the slate So right I feel like for me talking about single game. I skew your direction where I prefer a single entry I prefer a single entry and then Making a different assumption around the way the game will play out Like if everyone assumes that so like the perfect example was Thursday night for the Cowboys box You do single entry and then just you know assume the Cowboys win They didn't obviously it's like that didn't play out but Dax scored. Well the Mari scored. Well, etc, etc So, okay Brandon actually has Lamar Jackson 49.9% likely to be the highest scoring guy. I love it Thank you Brandon. Thanks. Thanks for joining in and enjoying the chat because that's actually actionable information there And that's actually pretty crazy because branded a piece last year for number fire that looked at Actual data showing how often a quarterback is MVP versus running back and running back I think was 37% quarterback around 33% and that kind of shows you that a Quarterback like Lamar is more viable MVP in this game where both teams have spread out market shares Like we're not gonna get a a true feature back in Tyson Williams He's not gonna be getting all the work for the Ravens. Josh Jacobs, obviously won't Derek Carr is not a big rushing guy So I think that in this game specifically that makes it hard to deviate So like if we're doing single entry Ryan, I feel like you do put Lamar at MVP You kind of suck it up and take that take that the roster right there and then just do what you can to deviate also I think that's kind of the way that I'd be looking to play things here. Yeah, no definitely I think that that's enough for me to go on and then you're looking at just the Raiders defensively and again This is 2001 week one We don't have a lot it's hard to take the 2020 data and use it here in 2021 But I do think there are some things that we can pull from 2020 and you know, you're looking at the Raiders defense They gave up the fourth most fan dual points To the running back position and then if you kind of think about it right Jim So, okay, that's the running back position So people might be inclined to play Tyson Williams. They're talking about giving him a lot of run Well, we also know Lamar is a runner in his own right in it of itself So how much does that factor into being Lamar in that category of the running back position with being a Russian quarterback? I think that favorable to him. They also allowed 20 points to the To quarterbacks from on Fandall if you're looking at Fandall scoring So I just think that's why it just makes him a slam dunk play. Well, the crazy thing too is This is something I was looking at for the prop betting stuff But like I was thinking I wanted to go under Lamar's rushing yards, which is 72 Let's see here 72 and a half. But like so like I think the under is in play there But like how crazy is that number that hit his yardage prop that like that's what that's what it says as far as you know How viable this guy or how valuable this guy is for fantasy. I know it's not like breaking news But like it just boggles my mind how high his profits again I take the under on 72 and a half But like I think if we're talking about this may a single-game perspective There is a reason his prop is 72 and a half and it's because he's Lamar freaking Jackson and that that translates well for fantasy Yeah, actually I actually love getting the over on that line But I also like taste them that 60 and a half and I do like that to hedge it just to say that like somebody is going to be Explosive in this game on the running side and in taking a shot at either one of those two guys I think is is going to bring back dividends in your bankroll if you do that shout out to Devonte He's joining us in the chat. He's he's on Facebook and he's asking about Latavius Murray. Is he a good play now? Listen because I try not to buy in the coach speak too much But just because of the fact that they've gone out of their way to talk up about taste some Williams Even in the preseason and then leading into this game I understand, you know, they bringing these guys in off the street Latavius Murray and Levy on Bell And they just haven't had enough run in the offense I just don't think that if sure if you're playing again in the large field tournaments and you want to You see a route into some of these guys getting going or you know taste them isn't the guy and they need somebody else sure But in single entries, I just can't bring myself to play any other one of these guys at the running back position I think the interesting question for you Ryan would be like How do you rank out the non Lamar Ravens? Like how are you ranking them? Between Tyson Williams, Mark Andrews, Marquis Brown, I feel like for me and this might be stupid But I feel like I kind of want to put Tyson Williams number one on that list and I'm fine making stupid decisions I've done it plenty times in my life, but I kind of like I'm kind of okay buying into the hype because he's the one guy who has been here this entire summer He was getting talked up before justice Hill got hurt. He was getting talked up before Gus Edwards got hurt He was getting buzz and now you're bringing in Latavius Murray who couldn't be our Tony Jones You bring in Lady on Bell who was probably fishing or something like that like a couple weeks ago I think that to me And and they're gonna be efficient as a rushing team, too So like I kind of feel like I want to put Tyson Williams first of that trio Like where do you stand with those guys? Yeah, so I think that by far no way I will not be making a lineup without Mark Andrews. I just think that it's Mark Andrews Season. I love them was draft them everywhere in Vestball. I'm Lamar is actually my MVP pick So that's why this is even more fun to do this single-game slate here for the Ravens in Raiders game, but I yeah, I think Mark Andrews would be my one and then to be honest with you Jim because I'm talking about Lamar at captain and because I'm so high on him from the rushing standpoint I probably am looking to maybe avoid say some Williams. Okay, because in the single entry field I think that's what people are gonna say. I'm gonna take Lamar. I'm gonna take take some and I'm just gonna get all those points There right and then figure it out elsewhere and I'm saying, okay Who's another pass catcher that I might be able to lean on and this is gonna sound disgusting But I think we do have to think about Sammy Watkins in this case So rookie Richard Bateman's on the IR right and what do we say the past couple years about week one is that's that's Sammy Watkins bread and bread This dude's been ex-putting up explosive numbers when he was with KC He had the 9198 and 3 line in 2019 and then comes back in 2020 goes 7 for 82 and 1 again Now that's with Patrick Mahomes. That's with the explosive office of Kansas City But still you like the fact that he's gonna be in here I think they're gonna be utilizing him on the field and and you look at that from the Raider standpoint and last year Like I said, you can't always maybe pull from last year But last year they were giving up numbers in bunches to the slot and you're looking at a player in Sammy Watkins Who is running almost 40% of his snaps in the slot when he was with KC now if that translates here in the Baltimore game I think we can get Talk ourselves into a decent shot where Sammy Watkins can take one to the house I mean look at a guy like Van Jefferson last night in the single game with the Bears and the Rams Really opening up the slate there Jim, and that's what I want in single game Entries like this is to have a player that's explosive enough to really do some damage that might not Not too many people will be on well The other thing too is you're taking advantage of uncertainty and we talk about uncertainty as being a negative all the time like that That's something that like it's okay. This is risky. It's volatile But like in DFS, it's actually good You want volatile situations if those volatile situations have the possibility to have like a high-end like a ceiling and Sammy Watkins at $8,000 on a new team who is tied to a very good quarterback Should probably have better uses than he had he's not competing with Travis Kelsey and Tyree kill He's competing with you know, Marquis Brown and Mark Anders, which again, they're fine You know, but it's not Tyree kill Travis Kelsey so I think that that is that's what makes things interesting here is that it is an ambiguous situation We don't know how things will break. I feel like like you were living to a van Jefferson We should try to take advantage of those situations and use those guys because like sure it might bust but like Who cares like I know that sounds like flipping but like We have to be okay taking those chances if they come with a good ceiling And I think that with Watkins specifically there is a ceiling there right and Again, the receiving core has kind of I mean Sammy Watkins was missing time in the offseason with you know dealing with some injuries So was Marquis Brown it like we said Rochelle Bateman. He's on IR So the this receiving core has not really been intact through the offseason and so that's where it really becomes hard to Parts the names, but they are names, right? So I think you see Hollywood Brown for most people they're saying I have Lamar Jackson I'm gonna take a shot on Marquis Brown because he's the explosive wide receiver But they haven't had a guy like Sammy Watkins to pair up with him as well who's also explosive So that's what kind you know, we're not dealing with Miles Boykin and Willie Snead in this offense anymore So that's what makes it fun to take looking into the the chat here Jim I see Aaron who's talking about he wants help avoiding the bad the bad chalk He also was getting on me on YouTube but walk-ins is so dusty I get it and he is dusty But we only need him to not be dusty this one time and then we don't have to talk about him anymore Because they'll win us all the money, but let's go over you were talking about earlier in the show on the Raiders side of things. Yeah, and if we are playing Derek Carr We do need to talk about this wide receiver group here where we're looking at guys like Hunter Renfrow Brian Edwards Henry rugs, you know Hunter Renfrow was probably the most reliable season for a reliable Receiver last season for the Raiders But that's because Brian Edwards just wasn't himself and he wasn't always healthy and Henry rugs was dealing with his own You know health issues as well, too But when he was on the field towards the end We saw him being we saw that explosives come to light and when we're talking about a guy like Sammy Watkins on the other side I think that Henry rugs outside of Darren Waller is probably my favorite play I do have Brian Edwards going in fantasy, so I will have him on a team just for that's sake But from point standpoint and wanting to be able to attack the field There's no Marcus Peters in this game for Baltimore, which is going to affect the game in some way shape or form For this secondary that is stout on the other three pieces outside of him for the starters But how are you what's your lean on the Raiders situation and what they could possibly do to stay in this game? I'm pretty inclined to go what you said and go Henry rugs probably first over Brian Edwards and I think that part of that is because Edwards has gotten a lot of positive buzz from camp, which does I think I don't know This is anecdotal probably should check this but like it seems like a lot of times training camp buzz Does translate to the regular season you will see guys who get positive buzz. They will wind up Getting usage in the air because if you earn the coach's trust during preseason during training camp It's going to eventually translate into play on the field and like I think we've kind of seen that with the Raiders too With releasing John Brown So there are reasons to like Brian Edwards the problem is I think that other people will like Brian Edwards too It's a game where we need to find ways to stay salary because we want Lamar Derek Carr Darren Waller all those guys together eight thousand dollars left. You're probably not getting Henry rugs I mean you could but like I think people will see the salary savings on Brian Edwards down at 75 I think yet seven seven thousand dollars and be like, okay I will take the discount go with Edwards over rugs But like rugs is is fun and they've talked a lot about him to trying to generate less You know more High percentage touches for him this year. I feel like that is that's enticing to me So I think that I do want to get Henry rugs in there Just because I also you know looking at the the the remaining guys the Ravens like Marlon Humphrey like he's a big dude And I feel like that's something that could be He could you know, they stick on Brian Edwards and stuff like that So I think that that rugs to me Because he's higher salary specifically is more enticing. I don't that's like stupid logic or what but like I think I do think that that is that's what draws me towards rugs No fair enough and I just think that you know, we're gonna see The Raiders try and get these guys acclimated. I mean you were talking about high-round draft picks and rugs and Edwards in it of itself and then you know if the defense does commit to waller and trying to limit him because Jacobs is not a hundred percent. It's not a great matchup for him and they they're forced to throw We these guys are gonna have to step up in some way shape or form to get on the field Those are really I mean Hunter Renfrow I think maybe you could talk yourself into a way where he's just kind of that security blanket for Derek Carr veils him out of situations Flex spot only it'll it'll be tough for me to get there with these guys being healthy But again, you know anything can happen on a single game slate That's why we play it and Hunter Renfrow could definitely be that guy as I said He was the most consistent my receiver for Derek are in 2020. Yeah, I think that he's he's interesting here I was we got we got uh Renfrow Edwards Do overnight cannons probably going to be special teams only so like I wouldn't really Consider him being part of this down here We do have some other options Foster Monroe is like a touchdown dude Like he like that's all he does a score touchdowns like the Chris Carter of the Las Vegas Raiders basically Do you have any inclination towards any of these like Lower guys because I feel like I know I was talking about how I want to get to Rockins because of salary But like Brian Edwards seven thousand like if you're looking for a straight-up salary saver not accounting for how popular there be I feel like Edwards does stand out Anyone else any out to you down there? Yeah, no, I I mean sure if you want to take a what the heck shot on on some of these guys I know that Some people Shout out to my friend Ben Cummins on Twitter who is asking me about Josh Oliver Who's now with Baltimore? There's no nick Boyle and they have you know been inclined to get somebody else at red zone looks That's not a receiver right and when they get down there So Josh Oliver could maybe be a guy who could be in play if you need the salary relief But I think that you know the kind of way you're building your teams. I don't think you really I guess Yeah, if you're in that seven thousand dollar range you get these high studs out Um, you know, you're looking at guys like Brian Edwards Devon DuVernay Um Anything lower than that. I think is just Getting a little bit too cute on a slate like this where we can kind of project most of the production coming from the top players, but Yeah, I probably won't be inclined to go lower than Brian Edwards is seven K salary on a slate like this Yeah, DuVernay was with the full team with the team all last year And they still had the motivation to go out and get Sammy Walkins and all those guys And like I like DuVernay come out of college because he's like a fast dude had some decent production at times at Texas and stuff like that But um, I think that their actions saw season tell us that they're not super into Devon DuVernay as being like a Legit option there Moreau like you're hoping for a touchdown. That's it. Uh, so I agree like if you are trying to you know Get projectable volume in there Edwards is kind of the floor the one way you can like Look at this because we do want to leave some sour in the table here because we're trying not to have duplicated lineups and stuff like that Maybe you just get a couple of guys down here and leave some on the table that way So you get Edwards in there. Maybe you check out uh Walkins who you talked about And then so we're on 14 000 left Maybe you go with a marquise brown and leave 4 000 something like that and just go, you know Something of that nature so you can just still have that floor of brian edwards and still keep sour in the table in that way So I feel like that's the way to go here I know erin and that's about uh backing up tyson williams I think it'll be latavius just because You know, he's fresh. He's been in camp lady on hasnt and again trendon cannon historically has been Just a special teams guy outside of like madden 15 when he was in the jets and he was fast So I'd make him first in the depth chart. Uh, so trendon cannon outside of that Probably not doing a whole lot as an actual running back But I feel like I'm probably not going to be super inclined to take shots latavius I think it's kind of just take uh tyson williams there, but I don't know. Are you differing there at all? Are you want it latavius at all? No, I mean, yeah, maybe when they get down into the red zone, we could be frustrated and see him You know get get some work there I do think that it is interesting when you're talking about what the scenario would have been right jim with Dovens and edwards if both of those guys are healthy those guys are in some type of timeshare Like they have like to rotate backs out in the past and when mark inkrum was there now He's gone and they've just always kind of rotated guys in now these guys again are coming off the street So i'm not willing to put my heart on money necessarily on somebody else But if I was going to I would say latavius murray and just hope on like a red zone A couple touches in the red zone where he can convert that Into money I see that man. Well also in the in the chat from facebook on us talking about hunter info place for the red Yes, if you're talking about with an e he does but with the w we're looking at The guy doesn't play for the red socks. He hits dingers. That's not playing. He's hits dingers He has dingers and speaking of dingers. I know that we're gonna let you go Do the mlb show so everybody who's here if you guys are playing mlb dfs You got to stay with the goat jim sonnis and he could do your q&a for mlb dfs But just before we leave jim. I just wanted to talk about so sammy wadkins first touchdown score on the fan dual sports book That's plus 1200. I do like getting some action on that that would be interesting and then mark andrews I believe is plus 850 to score two touchdowns. So I put some action on that as well Okay, I like these this is fun if anyone on the raven's gonna do it I feel like mark andrews is your right bet They have lemar plus 500 which means he is five to one to score two rushing touchdowns Which again, I'm not betting that but that shows you how freaking crazy this guy is Then you said the other one scored What was the first touchdown score? First touchdown Oh sammy you said okay. Yeah, okay sammy. Yeah. Yeah sammy plus 1200 I was just gonna say I love take I love looking at that type of stuff to jim because five to one like that's very They're saying that there's a high frequency of that actually happening Even though it's five to one and so that just makes me more inclined to have lemar at mvp and just figure out the flex spots Yeah, exactly But uh, I appreciate the sammy walkins 12 to 1 ryan. Good luck with that I hope that the uh mark andrews two tutties comes through for you as well And I am looking forward to talking with you again in the very near future on the show. Good luck tonight Sounds good. My friend. Good luck with mlb. I'll be listening. Thank you. I appreciate it Follow ryan on twitter at ryan alexander underscore w check him out. He'll be here every monday He's gonna be hosting this this monday football preview every monday. You're on the fan dual live q&a with a rotating host With him as well. So again, follow ryan on twitter get those bets in the sammy walkins first touchdown scorer as well Let's talk now some mlb for today. I see dj is already in the chat looking at uh, some Uh, some baseball stuff dj. I know you're asking about defensive players. I don't know them Um, you were asking about players who use defensive players. I Steadfastly avoid idp leagues. I'm terrible at them. So there are a lot of cool people on twitter who do idp I I don't know it very well. So i'm sorry dj. I have let you down my bad Uh dj is asking would you go a four five six met stack with boston's rodriguez as your picture? I do like edward rodriguez also Welcome to the fan dual live q&a get your questions in a matter where you're watching I do like edward rodriguez's picture. So To me, I think he's number two behind a sandy alcantra for tonight So I do like rodriguez as far as the mets They are facing adam wainwright and adam wainwright is a very very good picture He doesn't get a lot of strikeouts, but suppresses hard contact. He's the ball on the ground That's often it's not that great. So dj. I'd probably look be looking elsewhere for stacks now I will say stacking is pretty difficult for tonight because There aren't a lot of great ones we want to turn towards if we look at the hitting tab over here You're gonna see that like There's not a great not a lot of Stuff that's popping over here, especially for like good offenses. So we are Stacking some teams and kind of risky spots stuff like that But I feel like for me if I'm gonna stack a team in a risky spot I'd rather have them facing a pitcher who lets up a lot of hard contact versus a pitcher who Gets a lot of ground balls, but doesn't get a lot of strikeouts So to me not going at wainwright, but I do think that It doesn't say we're to get a little bit uncomfortable with our stacks as far as which stacks I am good with for today I do think the cardinals facing rich hill are You know a team that I'm willing to go towards hill low strikeout guy Let's have fly balls. He also like wainwright does suppress our contact But because he's letting him fly balls as opposed to ground balls. I do think that that is that is um A situation where we can go there. So I like the cardinals a pretty decent amount I like the red socks and I do like the astro. I saw diffuse over on youtube was talking about that rangers astros game He likes or they like that game if the roof stays open I would not assume that it will I see that I put down here and the temperature is 84 It's probably going to be 70. I should have put 70 they tend to they tend to skew towards keeping the roof shut So I I kind of am assuming that it is shut for tonight, but that's an assumption Maybe that's different they tend to announce that they're like president of baseball operations I think Tweets out when the roof is open slash closed. So find him on twitter I don't recall his name up top of my head, but pretty good twitter file if you swear if you search Uh globe life field roof that will probably pop up on twitter But just follow that guy because he tweets it out. I do think that the astros are fine overall though because they're facing What will effectively be a bullpen game for the rangers because spencer howard Doesn't go super deep into games howard When 23 pitches last time out and his four appearances with the rangers, I think it's four It's gone 44 or 45 44 52 and 23 pitches Then they go to the bullpen rangers bullpen is not terrible like they're not the worst bullpen on the planet But they're also not like a shutdown team either so I think that we can feel pretty good about Going at the astros here Against what is effectively a bullpen game so diffuse. I agree with you on the astros side on the rangers side I think that like I think the individual batters are okay I just have a really tough time stacking the rangers because they don't have a lot of guys who actually hit for power That's the trouble I get to is trying to identify four players on that rangers team Who I can reasonably project hit for power so Garcia Low peters all those guys are fine full stamp of approval for me. I think that is totally okay Good to go with them It's just hard for me to get to a fourth person who I think will hit for power On that team broadly. I am okay Tardy and jaco d'arisi with stacks and opposing batters. So it's oopsies. Oh, no, did I click it? Boo Jim, let's come back over here and go down to texas And sort by plate appearances. These are versus righties Okay, uh, Tavares does get some stolen bases Can't hit for some power hasn't been very good versus righties overall. So so I'm not super jazzed about going there we've got kind of fluffa steals a lot of bags, but No power for the most part nick solak Back 141 iso six stolen bases. That's not terrible. So potentially you could build out like a Four player stack here. Let's put alcantra in there. Let's get Peters. Peters. I think is the biggest lock in terms of the uh The rangers for tonight. Let's put low in there and Uh, who was the other guy I was talking about here? Garcia. Oopsies I'll at least Garcia. Let's do that And we're at 30 80 left. That's not too bad Maybe you go at solak And hope that you know the stolen base stuff plays out put him at second base You know, that's not bad 31 25 left that could work. So I think that that that's okay The rangers are a team. I'm willing to stack. I would not stack them on a fuller slate, but this is not a full slate It's pretty rough stacking slate. So I do think that it's fine. I just I can't get super jazz, but a team that bad Uh, that low power I should say in terms of stacking them DJ is asking do I like the red hot lane thomas for tonight? um Let's see here see in lineup He is batting leadoff against alcantra. No alcantra tremendous very good pitcher uses a pitcher. No, don't want to use him Kyle do you like gavin or do you think gavin luxe plays tonight? He needed a low salary guy, but I hate using the value plays with the late night games The dodgers are the worst in that sense. It seems like their lineups are constantly out late Uh, I would probably bet not let's pull up the recent lineups here for the Dodgers Try to make some assumptions based on that actually looks like luxe has been playing Um, okay, so he's been in there past three days. So probably we'll be in there and he played against lefty lefty as well He's facing zack gallin though. I know I got a question from houston For sorry from erin asking about a houston or a dodger stack I'm not personally as inclined towards the Dodgers because I respect zack gallin a lot Gallin silver's past nine starts with more fastballs 26 strikeout rates That's about the same as logan gilbert, but gilbert has worse batted ball data than gallin does So personally i'm not looking towards the Dodgers, which means that we lower on luxe as well I don't mind a one-off from the Dodgers on this slate where We don't have like a lot of good stacks. So maybe luxe could be that guy as a salary saver for you But I just I don't really want to be Super high on them because I do respect gallin Quite a bit Aaron gallin has managed the Dodgers, but how well will he be at los angeles? Good question Because like, you know, there are some pitchers who have fairly extreme home roads Let's let's dig in here to gallin a bit more And check out What he's been doing recently when he's been on the road Because the dynamics is a team struggle a little bit when they're not in arizona. So Okay, we do have a couple recent starts here for gallin One of those is in cores and pretty sure he beasted out in that game And the cores game nine strikeouts across seven innings. That's pretty sick At the fillies two earned runs across five innings with six strikeouts at the giants five earned runs So there's some light there and at the cubs that was before the trade deadlines. That makes sense but When he was facing the Dodgers in the road or at home, I should say eight strikeouts there So as road starts haven't been terrible, especially recently that cores game very good Obviously the Dodgers a different beast I would say facing the Dodgers in LA is tougher than facing the Rockies of cores I'm not sure if that's like a hot take But I still think that gallin has shown me enough where I have I have decently high expectations for him for tonight I'm not saying don't stack the Dodgers because as you can see here Gallin can't trip up. He led up seven runs to the cubs five to the giants both those were on the road So trip ups can't happen But I don't know if they're necessarily like the highest probability thing So i'm okay being low on the Dodgers I'm not going to write them off though. So if your process led you towards them sweet sweet go for it They're not a cross-off very few teams are cross-offs on the slate, but they're not one that stand out for me Diffuse says I feel like the rangers never keep the roof open. They don't it's annoying. I hate it It's why their park is bad. I wish they would keep things open. Houston does the same thing so I wish more teams would keep the roof open. I get it you know, but Why do you have a roof you're not keep it open or a retractable if I should say if you're not going to keep it open Diffuses asking for priorities within the astro stacks. So I think that we want guys Who can be good against both righties and lefties because I do expect this game To be one where we do see lefties out of the pen pretty early For the rangers kyle tuckers batting fifth I think he is a priority because he's very good and he can hit both righties and lefties I know he's a lefty, but he hits lefties well, too And I think he can steal against lefties as well. So let's pull up the salaries here for the astros I've refreshed this in a while. So let's refresh this to see if we can get some uh, some new stuff loaded in And get the batting orders loaded in here for these teams I see that mires is batting seventh He's a guy who can't hit both the righties and lefties for to an extent at least, you know, he's not Not the a world beater by any means Alex bregman hitting the ball better recently has not translated into results as of yet, but he's been hitting the ball Well, I think eventually it's gonna the that's gonna play out here No, michael branley check out gastro's numbers here Wasn't gonna use branley anyway, but you know I'll take it moves other guys up in the order. So it's least impactful either way Um, I know kyle asked about macormick too or asked about mires. So let's pull up the numbers here for the Astros versus righties Siri just got called up. So let's Pull open this here. I'll get back to mires in a second for you Kyle, but I do want to check out siri here just for a second See if he's actually in the fangirl player pool first. He is sweet. Okay, minimum salary for hostay siri Let's see what we got here for him Once it loads man, and it's a little slow except we're on this computer for Six and a half days now feels like two thirty five iso and triple a He had 24 stolen bases. That's awesome. I love it. Let's go hostay siri over jake mires Let's check out jake mires numbers versus righties first though. 129 iso sick. Let's do it. So let's go siri Luckily, I don't even I don't have a an iphone. So when I say siri nothing's popping up because I have uh Google pixel. So this one's not going to bother me at all. But if I keep saying siri siri siri, maybe you're like your Apple stuff will get mad at me. So we'll just keep doing it siri siri siri Let's go siri in there thirty two hundred dollars siri siri siri. Let's get tucker in there Again as a semi priority. Ah, let's say full priority For tonight, you're done. I'll be rescuing both righties and lefties probably gonna be pretty high sour Let's check out the sour us here on the astros To be Oh alvarez is way too low salary. Let's take that Bregman 42 pretty high Maybe you go mires and siri to say some salary. I think you can get to korea. Let's put korea in there I feel like this is a pretty good stack on the astros. It does mean using guys lower in the order, but They're all pretty good So I think this is a good stack on the astros personally and i'm down to use it Let's go with this for the priorities for the stacks if use I think siri is a good value play siri siri siri siri siri siri Jerry good day jim. I uh, so I like houston or st. Louis. Oh houston st. Louis. I thought I was hallucinating houston st Louis and the mets. How would you rate them and stack them? I love the cardinals. I like the astros Not as into the mets because adam wainwright is hashtag good at baseball So I would say st. Louis won houston two among those jerry check out the Cardinals line up because I've not seen that one yet molina is in there sick edmunds in there sick oniel awesome This is a this is a great lineup. Okay. We're in good spirits here with the cardinals. I'm gonna put molina in there first I'm gonna put edmund in there after that because I want to save some salary wrong team. Tell me there we go And let's put edmund at second base preferably to get that in there Okay, then the question is do we go with any of these like other dudes? Do we go with like the actual good players? I'm probably gonna go oniel because I think that his upside is sick Let's do that 3200 dollars. No objections from me And then can we justify going like sosa or do we go with aronado gold schmitz one of those guys instead? I think it depends on your second stack like if you're going astros for your second stack you probably want to go for One of the lower salary guys Okay, let's check out sosa carlsson Bader and see if we can justify any of them. I'm pretty sure sosa actually has decent numbers against lefties in terms of power Which is weird. She doesn't really have that versus varieties. So across 69 plate appearances. Nice 183 iso for sosa betas at 185 Could be worse Carlson's at 145 not as powerful So so let's actually just dig in here on sosa really quick See if we can justify him as an option okay So they're all right across this full year is four percent for sosa In triple a back in 2019. So a couple years ago 174 iso It's not the worst profile. I'll say that It doesn't put the ball in the air a ton So I think that if you're looking to like really save salary and you want to Kind of go a bit more aggressive with your second stack. I am okay With using sosa. Let's check out. Bader's salary first $2,500 actually surprised to go Bader. I think both Bader and sosa are in play when stacking st. Louis. So Like if you want to go with Tucker And get to bregman, etc. Etc. I'm okay going with sosa in there to make that easier to get to So sosa bader both. Okay You can get to aranado or gold should I like to but I would say the first two guys to turn to for me with st Louis because I'm using alcantra at pitcher probably going to go to molina first followed by Edmund after that Uh erin is Howard worse versus right handed batters So again, I think he's going to be in there that long Because he goes probably 20 to 50 pitches tonight. So I'm not sure it matters too much That's why I want guys who are good against both righties and lefties in terms of the astro stack for today DJ can you show me a Padres blue jay stack that you would recommend while using rodriguez's pitcher if possible? Let's go over here and check out. I do think that the blue jays are fine. They're facing it'll likely be Uh whoopsies I forgot to replace rasmussen in there. Let's go over here. I knew it didn't yarbara over here Let's copy this And let's go over here And let's do this Okay, there we go. Now we get our yarbara in there I think the blue jays work because yarbara low strikeout guy. Let's have fly balls The reason I'm not like rushing to stack them is because yarbara does such a good job of suppressing our contact So the blue jays work very okay with that Padres is using a bullpen game for the giants their bullpens pretty good And they've been pretty good in those bullpen games. So I would say Lower on the Padres. Let's check out the blue jays here just for funsies to see We can do with them because I do think that they're in play Springer's playing again. Kirk is batting sixth gritchick batting eighth so let's keep all contra in there and Check out the blue jay stack probably putting kirk in there Been doing it plenty recently. So why not keep the Keep the band together gritchick at $2,600. Okay, that's not too bad. We can work with this Teoscar is $4,200 Let's do it We're getting pretty tight after that. So it means I'm probably going to settle for someone else for the other option Problems are all around 4,000. I like gouriel. I think he's been really good recently Just hard for me to go to gouriel when I could go up a hundred dollars more for springer So he's done since he came back from that knee injury Most recent knee injury I should say Oh, yeah, you had a dinger. So we're good. Let's put springer in there 2750 left is tough. We could put ebb and a second base molina at a catcher slash utility You can make that work. So I would say this is probably where I'd want to go If you can get to Vlad like if you're going with Let's put Rodriguez in there at pitcher And you've got the ability to go nuts go nuts. Let's put Rodriguez there Let's put Vlad at third base You can do that sick do it you I didn't even lop off Gritchick or Kirk in that situation. Let's do that and go with semian At second base you can do that and 2675 is probably tough, but like I think you can do it. So get some Rodriguez lineups in there with like the The situation where you just go nuts in terms of like the Blue jays batters in your stack, but I do think you can stack them with alcantra as well DJ is asking about Valera for some salary savings. He is I think minimum salary for the blue jays for today Probably not going to do it. I don't mind Kevin Smith because I've seen some good numbers out of him in the minors But he's not in there for today. Uh, so if we're talking about like just the punty tight option or type options for the jays Let's pull up the larger sample here for Valera And see if we can talk ourselves into them because it'd be a lot easier if we could Nope, not enough power for me. Um, so I would say no to Valera But I do think Kirk and Gritchick work in terms of salary savings Aaron says you're saying I should bet that st. Louis over then. Thanks. Let me know the number Aaron Very curious about it. I would bet that in general the answer is probably yes, but I do want to hear it first because sportsbooks ain't run by dummies And they might be on to the same thinking here where I think that rich hills results are better than his peripherals And as a result of that I want to stack against him But sportsbooks no data So Aaron plot that implied total number the team total number with the juice in the chat if you get a second I'll check take a look at that one But just want to be checking to make sure I'm not giving out bad info based on not knowing the number Never make it bad without knowing the number just a really bad, you know Thing in general. So I'm trying to avoid that. So Aaron once you get the chance Let me know the number and the juice on the over and the under uh for the cardinals there I'm a bot. Are you a bot? You sound like not a bot. Would you trade a b for Najee Harris? Yes I know we're doing we're in the middle of the Um fantasy baseball chat, but yes, give me Najee Harris no matter what I'm a bot go get him Um DJ the great baseball name of yo hel pozo. Let's see Where he's at here Okay, I'm gonna admit don't know a whole lot about mr. Pozo. So let's dig in here See what we got on him $2,300. Okay For the rangers basically what are easy? Oh, okay. So Aaron's looking at the the total for that game at eight I would be uh D or Aaron pull up the team total for the cardinals if you can Because I don't want the over on that full game because I think that the Mets could struggle against wainwrights I want the total on just the the cardinals by themselves Uh pozo. Okay 24 years old got some youth 19 dingers in AAA That's not bad DJ. That's not bad 271 iso. Okay Maybe maybe I was too dismissive of this ranger stack. Maybe it's not the worst idea On earth low strike out raid It's not bad. It's not bad. I'll say that it's not bad Although 69 played appears in the majors 38 hard hit rate 38 flat ball rate hasn't shown a ton of power in the majors yet So Maybe we don't want to go there, but hey, you know, it's a good match up with otter easy It's a small slate DJ. I don't think it's bad DJ for you specifically if you're stacking the rangers get DJ Peters in there first just for the name correlation. I feel like If there's a person named Jim, I am like 16 times more likely to use them so get the DJ Peters in there first and then check out pozo. I think that'll work um Aaron says 3.75. So that's their implied total Based on the bookmaker info if you go to um, whatever your sportsbook is Usually if you click check out like the more markets There'll be a market in there for like the team total and it'll be like four and a half or something like that I would guess for the cardinals for today It's probably the total is probably four and a half with the overjuiced at like plus money to a certain extent if it's over four and a half like decently plus money I'd be inclined to take that against rich hill the cardinals better versus lefties 111 WRC plus 200 ice over them versus lefties and a 39 fly ball rate I think they can do pretty well here. So I do like the the cardinals for tonight. Maybe four and a half is two I I don't know. Maybe it'll be maybe four or even not only be three and a half. I think that's probably too low, but I do think the the cardinals in general pretty enticing as far as a Uh and over there okay DJ says anyone named stubs a bust. Do you agree aka Garrett stubs? No Uh, I can't write someone off based on their name. I can only write them up based on their name So like we're only bumping dudes up based on name And that's like there are some that are kind of like concerning for names, but I think stubs are okay stubs are fine Um, anything else in the slate? Uh, okay, so you darvish. We've not talked about yet I do think that he is in play as a pitcher don't really want to get there Because like he's kind of struggled the giants are very good But I do think in terms of trying to find some guys who have a path to being the highest scoring guy in the slate Darvish is one of those pitchers So to me the pitching landscape for tonight is a contra number one rodriguez number two Darvish number three And I think that it's kind of just those three guys I mentioned paulo a spinos being a guy like you could talk yourself into i'm not going to get there Uh, I think that we could check out some marlins dudes. Let's check out the marlins line up here real quick while we're here just for funsies Okay, so we got jazz in there. That's good Sanchez and we have diaz. I would say that's a pretty good one to go with so I'm on board with a two four six stack on the marlins if you want like a fourth guy brinston and probably my preferred choice out of those guys But I think a three player stack of chism sanchez and diaz That can be pretty fun for tonight as well That is all that we've got here for today on the fan dual live q and a but we are back once again tomorrow With the same schedule nfl for the mlb q and a 4 30 tomorrow our waiver wire q and a myself and jj zack recent is back did that last year uh the past two years actually Talk taking your questions live on air and answering them asking, you know Answering your questions about elijah mitchell pickups week number two That is at 4 p.m. On the fandal youtube twitch facebook and twitter pages So make sure you are subscribed there hit that follow button swing back tomorrow for that 4 30 for the mlb q and a Big thank you to ryan williams for joining me earlier on you can find him on twitter at ryan alexander underscore w We are cheering for sammy walkins for the first touchdown for tonight for ryan and also mark andrews two touchdowns If I had a pick I feel like i'd be more inclined toward the the mark andrews two touchdowns as being the one that i think is more likely andrews It's a beast as we talked about so we're rooting for for sammy rooting for mark andrews Maybe we get sammy first and then get mark the next two maybe we can do that one figure that out But again follow ryan on twitter at ryan alexander underscore w. 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