 Last night's daily fantasy baseball. So it was one or I had some issues trying to find stacks I actually wanted to use there was one sack I did want to use and that was the Phillies and they're in a rough spot right now So that was tough in terms of fine finding good stacks. We wanted to use today is not that slate They're actually like I could say four or five legitimate stacks I'd be okay including as a top three stack on most slates So it's actually gonna tough to whittle down the list Which means we got to prioritize try to identify which stacks we want to rank highest how we want to attack those stacks and Whether we can find some value there to allow us to get up to what I think is the clear number one picture on this slate So let's dive on in break all that down and get you set for Wednesday night Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the fan dual podcast network in number fire comm My name is Jim Sonos. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire comm Here to break down Wednesday's 10 a game main slate would lock set for 705 a four or two night There are a couple of weather notes here for today First one is in Philadelphia where the winds are out to center at 13 miles per hour That means we should bump up bats for the Phillies and the Orioles Phillies can use it based on the way things have been going recently good win last night But they could definitely use the help for sure So I will take that because we'll be talking about them again today What could go wrong in Chicago for the Cubs and the Twins wins are in once again at this time It's 24 miles per hour I know they did still hit some dingers last night like even Nick Gordon had a home run last night But it's still a big downgrade for hitters in this one. It's also 60 degrees. So It's a very much a bad slate for hitting in terms of Chicago So downgrade bats the Cubs and Twins upgrade bats for the Phillies and the Orioles quick reminder that MLB Q&A today starts at 4 instead of 4 30 That is the one day a week on Wednesdays where we'll go at 4 instead of 4 30 So swing by there check out check it out with your questions You've got a round tonight slate for MLB DFS We can talk pitchers stacks one-off process whatever it may be swing by a 4 p.m. Today then tomorrow We're back to 4 30 because Brandon Gadoula will have a Thursday night football preview for the Panthers and the Texans So that's at 4 we'll be on at 4 30 and then at 4 30 again on Friday So 4 o'clock today for the Q&A 4 30 Thursday 4 30 Friday all up on the fan duel YouTube Twitch Facebook and Twitter pages here on the number fire daily fantasy podcast He Brandon did break down the Ryder Cup may PGA DFS perspective. There is a unique format this week Over on Fandall for the Ryder Cup. He broke that down talked about that That's on the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed our week 1 DFS recap podcast week 2 DFS recap podcast is up there too Our week 3 preview coming up tomorrow So make sure you are subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast and while you're there Leave us a rating and review as well a soccer fans this season fan duel and captain Morgan are teaming up to give you a one-of-a-kind Soccer contest Introducing captain Morgan soccer pick up a weekly fantasy contest that is entirely free to play the contest is simple All you have to do is make quick predictions for Saturday games this soccer season Your learn points for each correct pick and compete for a chance to win to $3,000 in prizes every single week head over to Fandall and then to the captain Morgan soccer pick up today must be 21 plus to participate for more details as a fandall.com or download the fandall fantasy app Eligibility restrictions apply and don't forget to make your game day more delicious and sub in the captain pitching preview for this Wednesday main Slade Zach Wheeler is the highest salary pitcher on Fandall checking in at 10 7 Chris sales 10,000 flat we have Walker Bueller at 94 a Accords field basing her mom Marquez He is one of several pictures above 8,000 with Merrill Kelly Luis Garcia Cole Irvin Ian Anderson and Corey Kluber being the others $8,000 are higher Now it's mentioned that there isn't good pictures in this slate You know you got Walker Bueller Chris sale Zach Wheeler all those guys are pretty good But for me it's pretty easy to put Wheeler at the top of that list And there are lots of reasons for him to be there The primary thing is he is a good pitcher. I know that sounds very reductive, but it's true We talked about this last week but Wheeler's been throwing fewer sliders recently and he's been doing that for eight starts now and I get concerned in those situations because sliders are good pitches for DFS They get strikeouts But the lack of sliders has not hurt the upside for Zach Wheeler He still has a 28% strikeout rates in those starts He had 11 strikeouts in one game ten in another nine in another so the upside is still very good And the bad of all data has not changed for Wheeler So as you know the talent is there the situation for Wheeler is good too because pitching at home That's pretty great for any non-Rocky's pitcher and Wheeler's no different His strikeout rate does go up about four percentage points at home versus on the road He gets a good matchup at home, too I think the Orioles offense is underrated is what I would say because the overall team is so bad I think that underrates our offense and but you know, they're not an elite team They do is a DH tonight. They have 92 WRC plus against righties. They do strike out a lot 25% clip there with an 8% walk rate So if you're checking boxes in terms of DFS and for what you want out of a high floor high ceiling pitcher Wheeler checks all of them. I would say emphatically. He is the prototypical cash game pitcher He is great for tournaments, too So I think that he is the number one pitcher for tonight. No questions asked very easily the top guy on the slate I do think there is a pretty big drop off after Wheeler Chris Sale Looked rough in his first run off the COVID aisle. We'll talk more about that and thanks to watch Walker Bueller and Armand Marquez are a Coors field So I'm fine jumping all the way down and taking some risks when I'm not going wheeler because we was a cash game guy I'm okay jumping down even further and Taking some risk on guys I think have upside one guy who fits that pretty well as Ian Anderson and Anderson is facing the diamond back So plus matchup He looked rough and I mean rough and when he first came off the aisle the past two starts have been good though And I think a key explainer here is his curve ball use he's been finally throwing his curve ball once again The first two starts for Anderson after he came back He threw that pitch 14% of the time that is down from 21% for the full season But in the past two starts he's thrown that curve ball 29% of the time that curve is his big with pitch So he needs that pitch to be successful And it seems like he's using it seems like it's working well And it does seem like it's translating into some good results in those two starts Anderson has a 16.5% swing and strike rate. He has 16 strikeouts in 10 and two-thirds innings Now one of those starts was against the Marlins But the other one was against the Giants got strikeouts there They do strike out, but they're a very good team. He was overall pretty solid in that game Now it faces the Diamondbacks in Arizona. The roof is open, which is always a bummer for pitching But they're not a good offense 79 WRC plus against righties 25 percent strikeout rates They don't generate a ton of hard contact and that's the one thing that Anderson has struggled with the past two games He generally is pretty good there So I'd expect those bad at ball numbers to improve as the sample expands So overall I'm feeling good with the ceiling the floor is not great for Anderson because he was really rough just like three starts ago But I will take the swipes at the upside here and rank him second behind Zach Wheeler So Wheeler won Anderson two after a big drop off from me Number three is Corey Kluber and he's similar to Anderson where he's had just four starts since he came out the IL but the pitch count is back up he went 95 his last time out and He hasn't been bad since he returned Kluber hasn't his strikeout right in the four starts is 27% That ranks fourth on this slate and the two guys or two of the guys ahead of him are Wheeler and Anderson The other one being Luis Garcia doesn't go super deep in games The swinging strike rate for Kluber is 12.4% and that to me says he has a good game for DFS in his range of outcomes There are still flaws here And I think that the floor for Kluber a bit worse than Anderson the big thing for Kluber is that he's still walking guys His walk rate is 11% and he's still letting up impactful contact, which is tough at Yankee Stadium The good thing is he's facing the right team if you're struggling with our contact because the Rangers have an 83 WRC plus against righties They have the second worst mark there on the slate their ISO also is second worst at 140 they don't draw many walks so If you're trying to find a soft landing spot for buying back into Kluber This is probably going to be that Kluber obviously had the no hitter against them earlier this year That's fine It doesn't factor into my analysis though because it was before his injury Rangers are a very different team now than they were then I think that even you disregard that He's shown me enough since he came back and the matchup is good enough where I can be okay Buying back in on Kluber for tonight. So for me it's gonna be Wheeler and tier one by himself And if I'm not going Wheeler, I am taking swipes at Anderson taking swipes at Kluber Favoring Anderson by a decent amount just feel better about the overall upside in Anderson and I do about Kluber So that's the way I break down the pitching for today. Wheeler the main guy there for stacks We got options. I think that's a fun thing. The problem is I kind of think the Phillies are the top stack again So brace yourselves. We're going back to an offense that cannot score runs against the worst bullpen in baseball What could go wrong? Don't work it I'll give you alternatives if you don't want to torture yourself and go back to the Phillies today They're facing Keegan Aiken Aiken has been in and out of the rotation this year He's stuck around recently because you know, why not? He's a young guy. Let him stretch out see what happens And Aiken has been experimenting. He's been throwing more sliders over his past nine outings Hasn't helped yet his skill interactive era is five point five five He has a 17% strikeout rate within 11% walk rate Bad at ball data is not great either a lot of fly balls a lot of hard contacts the ERA at five point four nine Makes a lot of sense in Aiken's defense He has faced some really tough teams in this time his past four starts have been Against the Jays the Yankees the Jays again and the Red Sox He did okay in those games results perspective But the underlying numbers say we can stack against him given the low strikeout rates high-hard hit rate and stuff like that The Phillies aren't bad. I know that things have been pretty rough recently But against lefties their WRC plus is above average at 103 their ISO is 174 and it helps that we can feel We can feel good about some of their like non-harper hitters against lefties I know I talked about Miller Gregorius Odubel Herrera and stuff like that, but Ideally I think the Phillies best spot is against lefties because it helps the end of McCutcheon and Jean Segura a lot Cutches ISO against lefties is 336 Segura is at 201 so they get massive boosts versus lefties versus righties being on them for sure Harper obviously makes a lot of sense despite it being lefty. So I think that the Phillies I know it makes us pretty uncomfortable at least does me but I do think that Taking away what's been happening recently Straight up on paper. I think the Phillies are a good stack So might be rough Hopefully the the wind last night can give this momentum try to get things moving here But we'll see we'll see if you don't want these Phillies. I don't blame you So let's talk about the asterisk facing Jansen junk, which is a great name And I want junk to be good just because it'd be great if we get a guy junk as a being very pitcher Not there yet though doesn't appear to be the case so far because across two starts Junk has a 12% strikeout rates with a 3% walk rate. So letting up a ton of balls and play His hard hit rate is 38% with a 36% fly ball, right? The obvious counter here is it's a very small sample and it is I'm not sure it's a deviation though from what you would expect based on his numbers in the minors Junk spent the entire year before his call-up in triple a he had a 178 er at the Yankees far and sister Which is very good, but not as many whiffs as you'd hope and he's also not a big round ball guy So I think you could see this coming his er a is 2.25 in the majors But his expected er a at baseball savants is 7.48. So That's kind of tough. I also should mention I said triple a it's actually double a for junk where he was previously so the 1.78 er a there matters a bit less the lack of whist a bit more concerning but That's that's a situation where I think we should be buying in again The expected er a 7.48 and that came against the Rangers and the White Sox White Sox are very good against righties the Rangers are not and the White Sox also not as good against righties as the Astros are 118 WRC Plus that is the highest number on the slate So I think we should be high on the Astros here once again for tonight And I'm really hoping they put Jose Siri back in the lineup. He didn't play last night. I don't think he did can't recall I don't I don't think he did though But I hope he gets back in there because he's so freaking good. The salary is rising It's $2,700 today, but that's fine of me. I think he's a stud So I'm gonna keep on using Siri if they let me hopefully he's in there I really do want to use him once again So let's get Jose Siri in the lineup and let this let this bad boy fly because I do want to be there I'm okay certainly for Chas McCormick and for Jake Myers and stuff like that warming up to Marwan Gonzalez still not totally sold that the power is legit, but you know, hey, it's been he's Keeps hitting dingers. So what can I say? I guess I'll be in a Marwan eventually But I do think that the Jose series a guy I really want to be in this lineup for today The third stack of me the Giants and there are a lot of factors converging for them here I love the offense in general They get a park factor upgrade with the game being in San Diego and the matchup is top notch They're facing Vince Velasquez Velasquez made his Padres debut last week And it looked very similar to the end of his time in Philadelphia He let a couple home runs across four innings. He allowed for total earned runs Which means that we can treat him similarly to how we did toward the end of his run with the Phillies Velasquez's velocity was decent in that game, but it was still down from where it was at the beginning of the year 94 With Phillies who's 93.4 with the Padres in his first start if we look at the 10 starts for Velasquez since that Velocity started to dip down. He's a 5.2 to skill interactive ER a with a 20% strikeout right in a 10% walk rate His a fly ball rate is 49% That's those are numbers that are very likely to get you in trouble against an offense this good so the Giants mirror a clear standout stack and In most situations on most slates, I'd rank them higher. It's just a good day for stacking I could say to that like if you talk to me again at 430 or for today, there's a good chance I'd move the Giants up my stacking list. I think that they they have much better odds of going up than going down So maybe some refuffling, but I do think the Giants at least a third in terms of stacking for today Two guys in this lineup who are super under salaried or Mikey Stremsky and Lamont Wade, Jr. Yaz is $3,100 Wade is $2,900 both those guys advice us above 275 against righties Neither of them strike out too much. They put the ball in the air a ton So when I'm stacking the Giants under the assumption. I'm using Zach Wheeler I'm gonna be building around yes, Stremsky building around Wade and taking advantage of the mid-range salaries that they carry I'm also gonna Tonya Lestella at $2,700. He's hitting some dingers recently So I would say that was Stella's upsides better than perception. So I don't mind him Start off with Wade you Stremsky and Lestella You got a lot of salary get to belt get to Bryant whoever you Crawford whoever you want for the rest of that stacks I think that's a good thing with regards to the Giants for today So top three stacks the Phillies the Astros and the Giants moving out of things to watch did want to touch quickly on Chris Ale Talking about that first start for him off the COVID IL he let up just one run on two hits But the velocity was bad his fastball velocity was down 1.2 miles per hour from where it was before hit He tested positive for COVID his slider was down 1.7 miles per hour His swing and strike rate was 5.1% Those are really rough numbers. I do like the matchup more today against the Mets So he could hurt me but given the way he looked given the continued low-pitch counts I am okay missing out on Chris Dale for tonight if he if he burns me burns me But I think the odds that are are lower. So I'm okay missing out on Chris sale for tonight As far as some other stacks, I really love the Yankees. It was tough to keep them out of the top three But didn't have room so I like him a lot. Just not quite in the top three They're facing Taylor Hearn. He's not a big strikeout guy Batta ball suppression is okay, but not elite. So I am down for the Yankees here I think that we can definitely get behind all their righties couple the lefties to I am finally willing to use G or shella at twenty six hundred dollars I've not been in since he came off the aisle talk myself into a yesterday to be in on him for tonight So or shella twenty six hundred dollars is a guy I'll use both the catchers are solid. So The Yankees in play once again for stacking finally if you want some value, I'm okay checking out the Mariners righties Preferably more so for one Austin stacking. They're facing Cole Irvin Irvin hasn't had the worst results recently But the peripherals are down quite a bit He's a lefty so Mitch Hannigar tie France Louise Torrens top Murphy Dale and more could all be options More and Murphy will probably bat at the bottom of the order, but they're at least worth checking out If you need just like a one-off dude who can get you a ding or I do think that Torrens at $2,300 is someone I'd be willing to check out for today Let's finish up with some Dinger calls for tonight I talked about the Giants against Alaska as good situation to attack for power given the fly balls My top home run call is brain to belt just disgusting power numbers against righties this year Should bat in the middle part of that order again a park factor upgrade Especially for lefties getting away from the Cove in San Francisco. So I think the belt really good home run pick for today the fun one is kind of cheating it's like I try to go for like a value play here He's not really a value play, but like he is $3,200 so Anna McCutcheon again great numbers against lefties in terms of power much better than righties So I'll go with McCutcheon there versus Keegan-Agan the two home run calls for today Brandon belt and Andrew McCutcheon That is all that we have here for today on the solo shot again back for the Q&A at 4 p.m. Today YouTube, Twitch Facebook and Twitter check us out there and also make sure you are subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast Feed if you've got questions for me before 4 p.m. I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis J. I am s a NN ES You can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan dual podcast big Thank you to everyone for tuning in for today. Good luck to you tonight. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow This has been the solo shot right here on the fan dual podcast network