 Definitely a bit of an odd night in MLB DFS where we have some really fun names on this slate guys who Have one side youngs could win side youngs in the very near future and stuff like that But for one reason or another a lot of them have Pretty major red flags which does force us to dig down a bit deeper and decide Can we still use these guys despite these red flags? And honestly, I think no for a couple of them We're gonna break down what those red flags are how should impact how we view those guys and more to get you ready for Monday night in MLB DFS. Welcome on into the solo shop. That's right here on the Fandall podcast network and Fandall research I am Jim Saunas. I am a digital media managing editor for Fandall research here to break down Monday's eight game main slate With lockstep for 7 10 p.m. Eastern for today couple weather notes on the slate both of which are minor First one is that there's a chance of rain in New York for the Mets and the Pirates I think they'll be good to go but check back on that one later on Similar forecast in Atlanta where we have some scattered showers potentially there for the brazen the Yankees But even lower rain odds than in New York, so I would say both those games should be good to go We're checking back on later, especially because both those games have the highest temperatures on the main slate so that is good for batting but Should be all systems go for tonight across the board we'll dig into what that means Why the pitching options are kind of weird for tonight and much more in just one second But first a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast We are not too far away from NFL season the heat check will be back for that twice weekly breaking down Recap show and a preview show as well to get you ready Probably need to know for NFL DFS each and every week along with USC for select events PGA for the final two events of the FedEx cup playoffs coming up as well all right here in the same feed So go search that wherever you get your podcast and don't forget you can find the solo shot as well on the Fandall YouTube page And on Fandall TV plus Baseball season is heating up so get in on the action with Fandall America's number one sports book because right now new customers Get one hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets guaranteed when you place your first five dollar bet Fandall is safe secure and super easy to use plus when you win You'll get paid instantly so don't miss your chance to swing big with one hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets win or lose When you make your first five dollar bet Fandall official partner of Major League Baseball Major League Baseball trademarks used with permission must be 21 plus and present in select states first online Real money wager only a penned dollar deposit required refund issued is non withdrawal bonus bets that expire in seven days Restricts and applies to full terms at fandall.com slash sports book Fandall is offering online sports waging in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas star casino LLC gambling problem call 1-800 gambler or visit fandall.com slash RG in Arizona 1-800 next step protects next step to 5334 2 in Connecticut 1-888-789-7777 Or visit ccpg.org such chat in indiana 1-809 with it in Wyoming in Kansas 1-805-2-2-4-0-7-0 in Kansas KS Gambling Health comm Louisiana's 1-877-770 stop in Massachusetts gambling helpline MA org or call 800-327-50 50 for 247 support in Maryland empty gambling health org in New York 1-877-880 open wire text open wide and in West Virginia go to 1-800 gambler net Pitching preview for this Monday's late Tyler Glass now checks in with the highest error at fandall. He's a ten thousand seven hundred dollars Followed by Max Fried here at ten thousand six hundred dollars Max Scherzer is ten five Logan Gilbert ten thousand you'd Darvish 97 Meryl Kelly comes in at ninety thirty dollars with Brady sinker at ninety one Patrick Sandoval and miles Nicholas are the others as miles Michael is I should say Are the others eight thousand dollars for hire now the big concerns tonight are gonna be freed and glass now I'll talk about them in things to watch because I think their pitch counts are gonna be kind of wonky and They're the top two guys in the safe messiah perspective, but I Think both of them have big enough red flags with regards to length where I kind of want to look elsewhere Scherzer is the one guy of that trio who doesn't have those big red flags now He does get the angels at home Which is not a good matchup for his floor because they've got good hitters on that roster But it's not a bad matchup for ceiling So I do like Scherzer for DFS as a result the angels having 113 at WRC plus against righties in the current active roster Hit for a lot of power, but they also have a 25 percent strikeout rate and Scherzer look pretty good recently He's made two starts with the Rangers He has 15 strikeouts and 13 innings really good bad at ball beta and the results been pretty good, too Across the full season Scherzer has a 27 percent strikeout rate with a 13 percent swinging strike rate I've got Scherzer projected for 7.4 strikeouts, which is the highest number on the slate once you account for the pitch Count for glass now specifically so I do feel good ranking Scherzer first as a result It's not like some slant dunk situation by any means, but It is a tough matchup as well I think once you consider the issues for free and glass now I do want to put Max Scherzer number one So we can't go to glass now can't go to free lease based on my thought process here So let's have a look at Gilbert as being the number two stud fourth night and he's inconsistent But he definitely has upside And I think that's enough where we can at least give him a swing here He's facing the Royals, which is a big part of why I am into Uh Gilbert first night. They have a 92 w RC plus against righties. They've got rough plate discipline numbers Even if they don't strike out now as much as they used to and Gilbert's had a weird year where Earlier on this year his peripherals were really good, but his results were rough Now the results are getting better, but the peripherals aren't as good My most relevant sample on Gilbert is 14 starts where he's had more splitters and fewer sliders And the first 13 starts here. He never had more than seven strikeouts Which isn't a ton for dfs even when you you know look at glass now and freed if it weren't if or just that I'd probably look at them potentially here over over Gilbert for the second stud spot but then last time out Gilbert had 12 strikeouts against the Padres and it did co inside with a spike in his velocity So if Gilbert figured something out Maybe you can carry that over into tonight's matchup Which would be a good thing for him from a dfs perspective That game was at home This one is on the road and Gilbert's strikeout rate is two percentage points higher at home than it is on the road So a bit of a dip there, but not a huge gap in that regard So I don't know which Gilbert will see tonight. Maybe we'll see the highest strikeout one from last week Maybe we'll see kind of the boring but effective one that we saw before that But I think he's worth the swipe regardless because he canna spike games Whereas I don't think a ton of guys on the slate really can you darvish maybe could but he's in a tough matchup too At home with the Orioles, so we'll go Gilbert because his matchup is a lot easier with the Royals Among the value plays I'm super intrigued by Grayson Rodriguez at $7,500 His matchup is not fun because he's facing the Padres and they draw a lot of walks But Rodriguez is pitching really well right now Before he got demoted to AAA Rodriguez started to lean on his four seam fastball or off Obviously, that didn't fix everything because he had a really bad start and his second started there And still got demoted But we've seen that approach come with Rodriguez back in his second stint He's looking much better in this five start sample. Has he got raised 3.45? He has kind of ton of strikeouts, but He's faced the Dodgers raise Yankees blue jays and astros That is an absolutely like brutal schedule for Rodriguez to face me even while facing those teams He had a 13.4 percent swing and strike rate So Rodriguez is getting whiffs even against stiff competition And he's getting a good number of ground balls too When you combine that together Rodriguez has a 4.20 skill interactive era Even when you include those two games before his demotion And these are also super important games to the Orioles, you know, they matter for them They're letting go super deep in games. He's gone 97 96 and 93 pitches path three starts and I think they need him I think that Rodriguez will have a big game here pretty soon And it might not be tonight because it's a very tough matchup But to have a guy with that a big game in his range of outcomes for $7,500 is really fun So I'm gonna be on Rodriguez tonight as a value play I think it's a weirdness slate where that's justifiable given that there are some red flags around a lot of big studs So I think that Rodriguez is very much in play and a guy I'm willing to have in my player pool for tonight Let's move now to the stacks and talk about arizona. They're on course field tonight taking on chris flexon I think they're the most obvious stack in the slate and they're gonna be our top stack as well flexon Has made three starts for the Rockies It hasn't looked great He has a 6.02 skill interactive era with a 14% strikeout rate and an 11% walk rate obviously that is a small sample, but It's a continuation of what's happening earlier on this year flexon There is a reason he was designated for assignment by the Mariners And arizona's offense is still absolutely fine They have a 109 a wrc plus against righties with a 184 iso and now you put that in a great park So I think we have no choice but to be high on arizona here and feel pretty good in doing so We've seen jace peterson batting pretty high for this team roughly sixth Because they're facing a righty for tonight and he is playing entire games He's not hitting for any power, but he will run so i'm not super super in love with it because The Rockies tend to be pretty good at suppressing opposing running, but You know for 2,900 hours in this park batting sixth I think that's enough for peterson to be in our player pool. Even though i'm not in love with it I think there's still enough there to feel good about it Especially if it allows us to get to corbin carroll within the stack, which I really want to do so peterson Fine enough option all things considered for tonight for our second stack it's kind of an easy one because it's uh stacking against the pitcher he's been pretty good this year and clark schmidt. He's facing the braids tonight and That's the one reason i'm here. It is nothing to do with schmidt. Honestly. It's really just about how good atlanta's offense is Among all the parks on tonight's slate the one with the highest temperature by a pretty wide margin is atlanta 94 degrees No other park on the slate is above 83 degrees and only one other one is above 76 So if you want good hitting weather atlanta is the place to go for it and schmidt just happens to be The guy he's pitching there Over his past eight smarts starts. I actually think that schmidt's been getting better He's throwing more forcing fastballs and fewer sinkers and in that time He has a 4.14 skill interactive era. His era is 4.03. So He's pitching well But this is a big step up in competition. He faced a lot of bad teams during that stretch and the braves are nuts They have a 122 wrc plus against righties with a 222 i so as a team mind you So if they're a better fight slate for stacking I would not go with them here because I respect schmidt a lot, but it's not a good slate for stacking So I do think the braves make a lot of sense here and If they were to start tracking the poppies they could because their implied total is pretty high Maybe then you want to look elsewhere, but even then I do still feel like they're a good step Part of the reason why I feel good about that is that schmidt has struggled more with lefties and righties this year He has an 18 strikeout right against lefties compared to 26 against righties. So The stack becomes A bit less uneasy when you focus in the lefties Hopefully as the albies can play because he left last night's game early And he'd be a big loss for the left-handed side of things, but I'd still be here on the braves even if albies cannot go Finally, it seems like the pirates are going to start quinn preester tonight Um, I actually don't mind stacking either side of this game We'll talk about the meds here against preester and then we'll talk about the pirates in things to watch We're going to assume here that preester is a starter for the pirates did not officially Announce that as a case as of yet preester up to five starts in the majors. His era is 8.75 his skill interactive era is 5.40 and Honestly, that's not super unexpected because he was getting grown balls in AAA But the plate discipline numbers were not pristine yet and it led to a five 4.31 era there The ground balls are there in the majors too So I think that he's been a bit unlucky to let up five home runs across those first five starts But it's worth noting two of those home runs came against the guardians and that's not a high power team So that's kind of rough and the meds Despite their massive issues as a team Still have a good offense. They have a 111 WRC plus against righties Where they 43 hard hit rate and a low strike out rate. So they're a super tough opponent So I do like preester long term. I think that the ground balls are super enticing I just think that we can stack against him for the time being Now he talked a lot about Brandon Nemo on the show Uh, recently the home run binge has stopped for him He has not had once in July 21st and he's playing through a quad injury right now But even just in the month of august when he's played through that injury He is still often the ball more than he was before He's probably not going to run. So I'm not as into him as I was but With the salary back to the 3000 I'm okay going here even after the low expectations for him a little bit Let's go now two things to watch as mentioned I'm worried of a pitch count for max reading Tyler glass now glass now has not pitched yet in august They said he's a full go, but I don't think full go means full pitch allotment right now I have glass now projected for 80 pitches and honestly that might be a bit ambitious That's still a good number of strikeouts for him 80 pitches is but it's pretty tough As for freed he's gone 72 and 79 pitches and his first two starts back I haven't for 85 tonight. I think they're kind of being a little bit conservative with him So he's also not the highest strikeout got to begin with the Yankees better against lefties and righties So I don't mind if you want to take a swing at those two guys So they do still great out decently well my strikeout projections even with low pitch count projections, but Um I think you want to keep in mind that they do have some pretty serious red flags I mentioned before like the pirates offense. They're facing Carlos Carrasco Who is still really struggling? He's let up a 51 hard hit rate across his past 12 stars since his velo stabilized Pirates offense one of three wrc plus against righties. I think they could be An offense because a bit overlooked because they're not how high profile offense Probably won't have super high implied totals. So If you want to even get a bit different Uh, you know, if you're going arizona with the chalky route there Maybe use the pirates on the opposing side as being the differentiator stack Finally, it's okay to check out the Rockies tonight. It's just diesel and moderation They're facing maryl kelly who has made four starts since coming off the il and he's looked like his typical impressive self So not inclined to go there from that perspective, but it's just coarse field. They're well below Arizona for me Well, believe in the pirates, but it's still something to check out the Rockies Finally, let's do some dinger calls for tonight the boarding one Corbin carol at coarse field taking on a guy who's really struggling right now I adore Corbin carol. So let's go with him Corbin carol the boring homerun call for tonight the fun one is kind of a Similar guy to carol where he's got some speed got some power But it's michael harris and harris I think getting a bit better recently hitting them all pretty hard of late So he may move up in the order of all bees can't play which is not a bad thing I would prefer to have always in there, but hey, you know, it if harris is batting ninth I'm still okay with him. So michael harris will be the fun homerun call joining Corbin carol for today That's all we got for today here on the solo shop back with you once again tomorrow talking about a bolt mlb dfs and pga dfs Later on as well get both those by subscribing to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts If you've got any questions for me, I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s You can also follow fandal research at fandal research want to thank you all for tuning in for today This has been the solo shot right here on the fan dual podcast network