 It is a night of tough matchups galore for the higher salaried pitchers for today in MLB DFS A lot of times that can push us towards using a lower salary guy avoiding the tough matchups taking the savings and Going up to their hitters But I don't think that's really the way to play things for today because I look at the lower salary guys I'm not seeing a whole lot of upsides. So I think that our strategy for today is to Suck it up lock in the tough matchups and hope for the best Let's dive on in and let you know who fits that approach welcome on into the Fanduola live Q&A That's right here on the Fanduola YouTube Twitch Facebook and Twitter pages. My name is Jim Sonnis I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com here to take your questions live on air for the next 25 minutes to get you Said for Wednesday slate of MLB DFS before we dive in though Quick scheduling reminder for tomorrow will be live from 4 to 5 p.m We've got our NFL Thursday night preview for the Bucks and the Cowboys That is at 4 to 4 30 apt at 4 30 will have MLB So if you're here for MLB each and every day do not worry We'll still be here tomorrow so 4 30 as opposed to four will be talking single-game DFS betting props Etc. Etc for tomorrow. That's it for MLB at 4 30 same thing for Friday We have our snake traps with myself JG Zachary's and in branding a doula that will be at 4 p.m We'll also take some questions on the NFL main slate That'll be from 4 to 4 30 MLB will follow at 4 30 until 5 o'clock So just make sure you subscribe to the Fanduola YouTube Twitch Facebook and Twitter pages swing on by tomorrow 4 and 4 30 and on Friday at 4 and 4 30 as well to get all of your questions in let's start off the questions with John over on YouTube asking How would you stack the reds tonight the reds to me are a decent option because they're facing out mills mills is a picture who Has generally done a good job of keeping batters in the ground However recently that has been less true. He has been using fewer sinkers, and I know you know my feelings on sinkers I'm not a fan. They're generally bad pitches, but for mills I probably would have kept it in there is never gonna be a super high strikeout guy So you want to lean into your strength and keep balls in the ground? He has not done that over his past eight starts with your sinkers 14% strikeout rates 41% hard hit rates and a 33% fly ball rates That's a situation where we can use batters facing him however, I want to skew pretty heavily towards the lefties because Mills can still get a good number of ground balls versus righty So I look at this lineup here for the reds for today. I think that in the standouts are naked and vato I think those are the first two guys you lock in John Michael Stock is since he came back from the IL Hasn't looked great. I would say so let's go over here. Check out moose that checked a couple days ago Let's see if he's been hitting Hitting the ball around the yard the past couple of days No extra base hits there. Yeah, it's still been pretty pretty muted But I still think that given the salary savings at $2,300. I probably do want to get there So we'll go with moustakis. Let's put oopsies and let's put a vato in there and let's put nake when in there And let's go over here to the pitching tab and put Nathan the Evaldian We should have a lot of flexibility with this build so 33 20 left Then I'd probably just go cost a honest as I mean that he's in there I know he's a righty, but I still think that I would give him the edge over Barnhart over Schrock the Schrock star back in our Collective conscience Carson Sestilli over on fan guys Did you like this like fringe five with like these super under the radar prospects? I know Max Schrock was like one of them like 16 straight weeks. So he calls him the Schrock star I'm gonna keep that going because why not? It's a great nickname Schrock star probably not gonna be a super high priority TFS play But I think that we can get cost a honest in there for his salary pretty easily Let's do that here. And if we do cost a honest, we've got 33 30 $200 left sick So I think we're good to go outside stack the reds for you John Savon how would you stack Toronto for tonight? Okay, let's go over here blue jays facing Louise Gill Probably wouldn't I guess I'm the three starts a Gill made 28% strikeout rates did let up a lot of fly balls. So that could be potentially a good thing for the blue jays, but yeah, whoopsies. That's not Louise Gill Let's go back over here Garrett Cole injury last night was not fun Given that my better lineups the most part seemed to have Cole for whatever reasons because I had DJ steward and Austin Hayes And a lot of those and they went yard but Gill in the three starts performed pretty well He was also I mean from a peripheral perspective pretty good in triple A He's probably not gonna let up a lot of base runners a lot of balls and play I should say so I'm not super high on Toronto but It's that it's the usual guys you would turn to there if you do decide to stack Toronto Just keep mine. Gill's probably not gonna let let up a lot of balls and play John John who'd phone over on phone Over on twitch ticket bandit is here representing the land. So we got some Cleveland fans in the house I don't think Cleveland's on this main sleeve unfortunately, but I think they're playing the twins today. Is that an early game? Probably starting early due to school being back up if I had to guess 610 We got Byron bucks in there for McKenzie's pitched. Well, but you know, let's go Byron bucks and as always Salvatore Mitch white or nah, I would worry about pitch count for white White is probably gonna go about 70 or so pitches The numbers that he's had in his six longer outings have been pretty good Let's check out the game log here for white and see if that's 70 pitch pitch count pitch pitch is Realistic if it's 70 I'm very okay totally glossing over him and Pretending he is not available But maybe I'll be wrong He went 72 last time out. That was a start 91 time before that. Yeah I think we're probably can 75 pitches Salvatore not enough for me So I'll be passing over Mitch white for today Derek is asking. What's the highest implied game of the late slate? late slate, let's see here So I'm assuming that's like just that two game slate If we're talking the main slate, let's pull up the heat map here over at number fire And see what we're cooking with there. I could just check. Let's just do this here Let's let's answer Derek's question for real I'm late late late late late after hours. There we go So the after hours slate is just a two game slate and the highest implied total on that two game slate Along San Diego, I'd probably go Oakland over them personally if you're playing that late slate there Oakland or sorry Derek I probably like Oakland higher from a stacking perspective of above San Diego But San Diego definitely number two for the full slate the Atlanta Braves with the highest total no objections there I think that is fully correct Like the Royals for sure As far as other teams the raise total is really high I don't think it should be but that's okay We can always disagree totally fine And I think the A's as well here in the reds are teams I think that have lower implied tolls and they potentially should have Savon asking asking for if there are any under the radar stacks for today I would guess that the Oakland game probably goes a bit overlooked because it's not a good park It's a lower total etc etc. So I'd say Oakland pretty good under the radar stack that I like overall before even considering that Savon I'm going to the Yankees game tonight. I want to bet on the team tonight Most likely Yankees, but I can't avoid the Toronto hot streak thoughts. So you're looking to bet this game. Let's see here We've got Manoa Facing off with Gil give me under 10 runs for that game. So I think that's probably the way I'd want to play things For that one. I respect Manoa. I respect Gil good offenses But like the under 10 for that one. So you're running against runs. It seems not fun But you know, you get out of the get out of there quicker, which is better Jeremiah, where do you rank Darvish for tonight? Good question Jeremiah because I think he's a pretty tough one to rank I have him third personally because There aren't a lot of other guys I want to use I would love to not consider you Darvish tonight given How rough things have been for him recently? It's been bad But Like if you look at other relevant guys who get strikeouts in this life, Freddie Peralta is not fully stretched out Mitch whites probably not going to go deep in the game I like Montas a lot. He's number two. I like Ivaldi. He's number one McClanahan facing a low strikeout team that he's seen recently gives up a lot of hard contact I think that it really does have to be Darvish number three facing the angels and He would get boosted. I wouldn't put him above Montas But I feel like he'd be in the same tier as Montas if Shohei Otani can't or doesn't play again today. He might considering he sat out last night So I'm not expecting necessarily that Otani sits, but he might and if that does happen I would say Montas is still two but Darvish isn't that same tier with him right now I think it's Ivaldi one Montas two and then Darvish three, but I would dump or bump Darvish up a bit if Otani is not in the starting lineup Salvatore Meadows and Lau I'm assuming this is talking about Brandon Lau so I'll say Lau Or Zenino and Cruz or all So we're talking about the rays here. I like Neath and Ivaldi. So None Salvatore and the reason I like Ivaldi is he's a pretty good all-around pitcher This is over his past 12th threat of the more curveballs. He has a 3.24 skill interactive. Yeah, Ray 28 strikeout rate 3 walk rates Decent, I would say bad at ball data and the results for Ivaldi been pretty good in that time too I think is the array is 3.88. So personally, I'm not going to be stacking the rays Uh, you can if you want, I will never say no to a play if your process led you there I always trust your process over trusting me. I'm not going to be using the rays today I think he involved is awesome And I really do want to get there from a pitching perspective for today Yeah, 3.54 ERA for Ivaldi in this time Let's talk to savon best starting pitcher and stacker single entry. I love the Ivaldi for single entry I think that implied total for the rays going to keep people off of him. So I'll take it for sure. Uh, as far as stacking goes I just think because I'm going to Ivaldi I can allow myself to go at the best stacks And to me those are the braves and the eights Jerry says good day, Jim. Good day, Jerry. Glad I took the rays yesterday did very well. How did uh, How'd you find out about these? Atlanta, Kansas City and Toronto kind of like Kirk for a one-off for Toronto Again, not as high on Toronto for today Because I respect gill You know, so I think that I'll personally be a bit lower on them as far as the other ones I am very high in Atlanta very high in Kansas City I am very definitely on board with those for today I would rank Atlanta Above Kansas City because I like their match bit bit more with Sean With Sean Nolan and they're a better offense. So give me Atlanta one I would go Oakland to Kansas City number three. So Jerry both those first two stacks are in my top three for today Savon, who's your favorite value play as a batter with home run upside? I like this I like this question from you Savon thinking about dingers dingers are always always good If you're looking for like a super low salary, dude, ryan o' herron I think is batting sixth for the order for the Royals He is seventh. That's fine. I'll take that ryan o' herron He can get some dingers $2,100. I think that's awesome. So Very in on o' herron for today. I think that if you're looking for like a Lower salary guy, he grades up pretty well there other low salary dinger guys tyler naikwin facing mills mills Generally does keep the ball on the ground. But again, that has not been as true recently So I like o' herron for like a super low salary guy. Carlos Santana isn't the same discussion, too And then tyler naikwin up there for me Maybe mike listakis, but not as high on him due to the rough form since his injury But as a sudden offense like the Tampa left-handed bats and a three-man padre stack by their monthos or you Uh, what do you think? I think monthos is great. I like you as well So I think I'm on board with the pitching options talked about Tampa before as far as san diego goes They're facing a bullpen game for the angels honey barrio probably be in there at a certain point The angel's bullpen not a shutdown team. So yeah, I think the padre's work I am not opposed to them and I could approve that one Jerry says I like darvish tonight's talked about him a bit before but yeah, I think that he's number three for me DJ, how would you stack oakland and san diego while using gibson as your pitcher? I would not use gibson very low strikeout guy 15% strikeout rate since he moved to the fillies when he's been throwing more cutters I would avoid gibson at all costs As far as oakland goes I want matt chapman matt chapman got off to a really slow start this year But he has been hitting tanks recently a lot of A lot of barrels for matt chapman strongly marté doesn't he pretty good against lefty. So let's get him in there Let's put chapman in there. I don't think he'll bat seventh. I'm pretty sure that is old They're batting order projection for him. So I'll take the under on seven for the batting order spot from matt chapman Let's pull up the other Stuff here for oakland versus lefties yon gomes is at least in consideration When they're facing lefties Whereas he is not for me against righties 257 iso for yon gomes versus lefties So if we assume that he catches for today, I can get there matt olson He can hit a bomb off anybody So it's a little bit of high salary, but that's okay. Let's go with these two olson and gomes I think that works So I think maybe I should probably get canna in there a little bit lower salary But I'd rather have chapman than canna. I'd rather have marté than canna. I think check out marté 138 canna at 182 It's probably pretty even I guess between marté and canna. I'd probably still go marté Um and olson just good against everyone So I think this is probably the four player stack I'd roll with if there's no gomes. I think the canna works Um, let's see here Josh harrison injured $2,200 if he plays. Okay. So jet 105 iso Harrison 136 probably would try to avoid it if I can but I think that's me pretty good oakland stack there julius top two pitchers for tonight again I'm going with uh, nathan yavaldi one and I will go with frankie monthos number two Just love monthos from a skills perspective Tough matchup for him tough matchup for yavaldi, but I like them both from a talent perspective So I like those two the most Kyle any value pitchers who are usable tonight Uh, depends on your definition of value. Kyle if you say 9,000 and lower I would say that both monthos and darvish are if you say below 9,000 it gets really rough really fast If you were to force me to use someone below 9,000 dollars Which you shouldn't do because that seems rude very rude to force me to do so But if you were to force me to do so as one, vladimir gutierrez has had some good games recently Facing a really weak cubs lineup. I would go there, but he will not be my player pool for tonight I'm sticking with just those top three of yavaldi Darvish and monthos But if you were to force me again very rude to force me big of value play again joking I would go with vladimir gutierrez Nick thoughts on luke weaver for arizona Uh, not on the main slate, so I didn't research him So I got no idea um Facing the rangers I would worry about pitch count for weaver given that they have nothing to play for and he's had a lot of injuries So worry about that. Um, but I didn't research that game because I haven't had time So sorry about that nick dj use monthos tonight. Yes. I think that he is very okay to use very on board Number two pitcher for me tonight behind Nathan yavaldi savon is it smart to stack against darvish and use secondary stack oakland? I wouldn't stack against darvish. I know again the results have been really bad recently because Whatever reason I don't know if it's bad luck. I'm not sure if he's hurt He's been using a slider a bit less So it is possible that darvish is not fully healthy just because the slot usage is down But i'm not totally sure about that. So Uh, personally i'm i'm not going to stack against him. I would advise advice against that Let's talk to william. What do you think about the blue jays pitcher today? That is alex minoa I think he's good I don't want to use him because the matchup is really tough facing the yankees In the eighth starts the more sinkers minoa has allowed just a 29 hard hit rates 35 fly ball rate. He's pitching pretty well and he's a good pitcher. So I don't want to stack against him Don't want to use him as a pitcher tonight either because the match is tough Not the biggest strikeout rate in that time either, but I think it's uh, he's good enough where I will be avoiding the yankees as well Uh, dj says skip the yankees oils and braves games due to rain Let's check out what kevin roth says over here on roto grinders He says we should be wary of the royals baltimore game and the nationals and braves game I think that He says to check out the radar before lock kevin usually doesn't update around 5 30 So make sure you check back Just this page on roto grinders roto grinders.com slash weather slash mlb Check out what he says at 5 30 because I really have a lot of interest in the royals and the braves and would be upset If that those were taken out of our uh, our ability for tonight and jerry also I think that atlanta is going to get rained for tonight really hope that doesn't happen jerry Fingers crossed a little rain dance to keep the rain out of atlanta for today dj is asking tussant or nolyn preferably neither I mean like nolyn just not a guy. I want to stack against nolyn pretty actively So don't want to use him uh tussant He can get strikeouts but lots of a lot of hard contact good match up and he's at home So if you force me I'd go to saunt, but I'm not going to be using either personally for tonight william is asking kentucky tussant get to five strikeouts versus the gnats tonight If it's five and a half I'm staying away if it's four and a half. I would be okay going with tussant there Pitch count hasn't been super good recently. Yeah 46 pitches last time out. So maybe actually Maybe I shouldn't take I think it's a stay away If it's you know, if you're looking for an over here and if it's like five and a half I might consider an under on tussant. So if it's five even I think it's just a stay away Salvatore do you have a staffer players whose best isos two left field? So looking for some teams That may be playing in parks that are more advantageous for For left hand or right handed batters. I don't have those stats personally. You can look at how often guys pull the ball You can look at how often They make hard contact. You can look at isa versus hand this I don't have that specific number salvatore, but check out fan graphs. They've got pretty much everything else You can find at least who will pull the ball as a righty if you're looking for stuff like that Josh says no mancini for tonight. Okay, so The orials facing mic minor. I know mancini's had some Some soreness recently. Hopefully that clears up soon because he's a really fun player And I enjoy watching him and having him in dfs lineups But obviously, you know got to rest up especially in the year where orals aren't playing for a lot of things Line up here for the orials again. I'm not as high on them because minor is okay He's not someone need to avoid steadfastly. So I think an oral stack is at least Worth discussing here. So let's check it out. Uh, ryan mackenna I know he's not done a lot in the majors, but his his triple a numbers are pretty fun So, uh, maybe you check out him as like a low side player like Austin Hayes against lefties I know Cedric Mullins is a lefty, but he's good against lefties, too I think those top three are pretty live. Anthony santan dare. I tend to use more against righties than lefties But hey, he's fun. So I think it's still a good lineup Josh despite there being no mancini And I think you can you can talk yourself into a couple guys there Probably more so for one offs than for stacks Jerry has a feeling that boston wakes up tonight. Okay, boston is facing mackenna hand And again, I think that a concern here if you are rooting for mackenna hand trying to You know justify using mackenna hand for tonight is that boston has seen him recently and That could be a concern especially because mackenna hand Does tend to struggle with hard contact There we go. I don't know what I'm doing here There we go. Now. I got mackenna hand Uh mackenna hand lets up like a 50 hard hit rate is most relevant sample. This is overheats eight starts with more curve balls and fewer sliders Let's look at 50 hard hit rates Just saw boston last week He saw them again at the beginning of august ERA is very good. The results have been very good. But last week against boston did let up four runs He got eight strikeouts. It wasn't all bad. Oh a lot of whiffs from mackenna hand there, but They've hit a lot of line drives It's uh 50 or 43 hard hit right there and a 53 hard hit rating the other one. I would also note that that first boston game I'm pretty sure was when all the guys were on the covet i l like I think Xander was out and I'm pretty sure that uh kike was out as well or uh Still no xander, but kike hernandez is back Let's see in that game um Yeah, there was no kike hernandez So maybe a boost up. I don't think that like a Boston stack is totally out of play for tonight jerry. So if you got a feeling that they Um, they wake up. I know savannah. So boston stacks too. I think that that's okay I I can see that being live, especially if we lose some games due to rain No, no no complaints from me here Jerry dinger call. Okay, uh jerry's got some got a dinger call here Kirk if that game plays for the yankees and the blue jays and I think that one's actually okay Let me double check back over here. Yeah, that one should be okay So yankees good to go um, and then freddy freeman oblo bertha mon to see freeman is facing a lefty But as we've seen like we I think the last time we talked in depth that freeman versus the lefty hit for the cycle So freddy freeman's still good. I love mon to see he's been awesome since he came back even in his rehab stand He was amazing. So thumbs up for me jerry. I'm on board julius is good calling dj steward yesterday. Uh, yeah So we have just dongs davis jd davis stands for just dongs Which I think means that we need to find nickname for dj steward The one that I came across or came up. I think dong jockey like maybe that's the one we go with for dj I'm not sure though julius. If you have better options for dj steward, put them in the comments I would love to see uh better ones there dj thoughts on vladimir gutierrez again If you forced me to use someone below nine thousand dollars, I would say yes to gutierrez, but I'm not going to personally so my Thought process for tonight is I'm going to go with just the three guys Go uh with monpas go with darvish and go with the evaldi But if you were to force me to use someone lower Gutierrez would be that guy. I just don't want to do it personally You know savannah's asking if we can do a dodger stack facing adam wainwright Doesn't let a part contact doesn't let it fly balls. I will pass on that one dj's got a whole host of home run calls here. We got brian goodwin kevin pluecky omore nervias david bodey and edmundo sosa Okay, there's there's dj's home run calls dj very catcher heavy If I were to go with a catcher to hit home run We had a misunderstanding yesterday where dj thought I didn't like catchers I just don't like sites that make you use catchers because on certain sites You don't tease catchers. So that's why I don't talk about catches that much But Salvador pares is he in the lineup? Let's hope. Yes. He is he never sits So I don't know why I question that pager severino can kind of hit lefty sometimes So maybe we get some severino. We already got a home run call at a le hondro kirk Travis darno dj. That's a catcher who'd go deep for today. I like that one Stephen or a tuck or barnhart. Yeah, not really going there, but I would say Travis darno Salvador pares my catcher specific home run calls for today just for you dj Sivan adam wainwright is a pitcher None of the strikeouts for me really tough matchup. I'll be avoiding there Jerry says nickname for dj stewart could he be stew. I like it. Um I I don't like that movie. I'm not gonna lie. Um, I know that's like a really bad take Especially for someone who works in baseball. Um, I don't like that movie it It came out when I was like too young I think and I didn't get a lot of the humor the first couple times I watched it so That's why Maybe I should rewatch it as like an adult a legend adult But I think that these two is a good nickname for dj stewart. I'm on board of that jerry. I think uh, Stay up for the approval there dj is looking at the rotor grinder's line of page where it also shows the weather looks pretty bad. Yeah, again It doesn't look great. Um This is what kevin had this morning again Always trust kevin over me because kevin is a natural meteorologist. I'm an idiot who looks at that radars trust him over me always as far as the Games here. It looks like baltimore. Hopefully Rolling in later on that might help. Uh, Atlanta. It looks like it's a lot of like scatter grains So hopefully we're okay there. I do want to see what he says at 5 30 to make sure we got the all clear But at least there's some signs some hope there is some hope we'll see Uh, savon, how would he stack baltimore and savon also said he helped me out yesterday with that format baltimore stack Y'all they're perfect for me. I like the baltimore over likes baltimore of kansas city I kind of like the royals for today savon I know that's like that's treason given that austin haze dj steward Um, a lot of dudes went deep for the orials last night So it's treasonous savon given they were very profitable for us last night but I like the royals if you want me to stack out the the orials though, I would say I want to get mount castle in there lot of power haze has good power versus lefties Mullins and santan dare. I think all the the salary flexibility to get to all four of those guys so to me Give me mount castle haze mullins santan dare as the orials stack as far as the royals for today Look checking out this lineup We got bond to see we got pares. I would say those are the first two guys you lock in Oh herne batting seventh I will put him number three in terms of ranking this team hard hit whip merafield is number four Whit can get some stolen bases. I know that the hard hit whit thing is like It's a very old nickname like I think from the first year of the solo shot I started calling him that it was like when he first like broke on the scene He no longer has a very high hard hit rate So it's an old nickname doesn't really apply anymore, but I like the way it sounds So he's still a hard hit whit me And I think that I will rank in number four terms of stacking the royals for today That is all that we have here for today on this fan duo live q&a once again tomorrow We have a full hour long show We have the bucks versus cowboys preview for betting and dfs starting up at 4 p.m mlbfb at 4 30 same schedule for friday with the snake draft at 4 mlb at 4 30 Make sure you are subscribed to the fandal youtube twitch facebook and twitter pages also tomorrow We have our our first heat check fantasy podcast myself brandy kadula We're going to break down week one from a dfs perspective That is tomorrow 10 a.m on this fandal youtube page Also up on the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed after that So make sure you hit up the youtube page hit up the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed The first episode of girls who bet is tonight with erin k dolin and live moods make sure you check that out as well I'm excited for that should be a fun time over here on the fandal youtube page A lot of good stuff to make sure you are swinging by each and every day If you've got more questions for me i am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s big Thank you to calvin thea bald our video producer for running the video side of things here today Thank you cal as always and thank you to everyone for tuning in Good luck to you tonight. 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