 What's going on and welcome to the solo shot? My name is Tom Vecchio. We have an 11-game MLB slate lock is set for 705. As always, this is one of the many shows on the Feindle Podcast Network. You can find that anywhere, whether it's on Apple Podcasts, whether it's on Spotify. The video version can be found on the Feindle YouTube page. You can also be found on Feindle TV Plus and feindle.com slash watch. You can follow me on Twitter at Tom underscore Vecchio 1. Before we hop into things, get ready for the NFL season with incredible offers from Feindle, America's number one sportsbook. Right now, new customers can bet $5 and get $200 in bonus bets guaranteed. Plus, all customers who bet $5 will get $100 off NFL Sunday ticket from YouTube and YouTube TV. Now is the best time to join Feindle. The app is easy to use and you can bet on everything from spreads to player props and more. Feindle official partner of the NFL must be 21 plus and present in select states. 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Don't really like any pictures from those matchups. Boston is at home. Maybe some, you know, rain later in the game as those cities will see the rain earlier, but it is nice and warm there and we do have some wind blowing out to left. Fenway is already an awesome hitters' park, so a little bit of wind is always a boost for the hitters. Let's get to the pitching on tonight's slate, which is pretty interesting. Up at the top, I will say there are a number of pictures I think are a little bit too expensive for my liking, but let's hop in. We have Kota Senga at 10.8. Blake Snell at 10.6. Kyle Bradish at 10.5. Jordan Montgomery at 10,000. Mitch Keller at 9,700. Eru Perez at 94. Griffin Canning at 9,300. Brown at 9,100. And Yusuke Kukuche at 9,000. Dollars options that round out the players that are above 9K. I think it's easy to say that Blake Snell is absolutely the best pitcher who's on tonight's slate. I don't think there's really too much of a debate for that, but he's on the road going up against Houston who are signaling putting up four or five home runs every single game and it's really not my favorite spot to go and rostering a pitcher against Houston is never something I'm super comfortable with because of this. And because we have Senga here up against Minnesota, I'm going to touch on him in the second end Montgomery for Texas going over against Oakland. It's pretty clear those pitchers should be a bit more popular than Snell. So if you want to go to Snell as a pivot, go for that, you know, toward an angle with Blake Snell, I think that is very, very clear. But Senga is in an awesome spot for the Mets. Obviously his first year in the MLB, he has a 29.3% strikeout rate, which is awesome. He has an 11% walk rate, which isn't great. He's only allowing 0.82 home runs per 9, you know, which is obviously very solid. He's mostly a medium contact ground ball pitcher coming with a 46.4% ground ball rate and a 52.7% medium contact rate along with a 3.96 Sierra, his skill interactive ERA. And that's, you know, all of this is great to see considering he's going up against Minnesota who right now at their current active roster, they have a 27.3% strikeout rate versus right-handed pitching, which is the highest in the league. This is the worst strikeout team against righties currently and Senga has an almost 30% strikeout rate. So when we look at this, we have to be saying Senga is in a spot to put up 8, 9, 10 strikeouts potentially. And the safety and relative upside that he brings compared to Blake Snell is pretty clear to me given the fact that Snell is going up against Houston. So that's why I'm going to be siding with Senga as like a 1A kind of situation over Blake Snell, who's, I don't want to say he's 1B, he's just more of a tournament angle. I would love him in tournament because I don't think he's going to be popular and obviously he's a side young candidate. He has plenty of skill in his own right. Jordan Montgomery is interesting tonight because of the matchup, right? And that's what it really comes down to. He's probably one of the pitchers that falls under the categories I mentioned. He's like, he's a little bit too expensive for me tonight. He's 10,000. He's going up against Oakland. We know what we're going to be getting when it comes to Oakland. It's not an offense we're worried about in really any capacity. He has a 21.2% strikeout rate and that really just doesn't touch what Senga has up at 29%. Montgomery else comes in with a 6.5% walk rate, only 0.87 home runs per nine. And this is kind of in this thing. He's never been a dominant strikeout pitcher, but he generates a ton of ground balls. He generates a ton of medium contact. He does not allow home runs and it really allows, you know, him to kind of cruise to victories, cruise to easy victories and easy fantasy points because he could be racking up the QS, rack up the win points, whatever might be. And really, he shouldn't face too much resistance tonight, given the fact that he's going up against Oakland. Right now, Oakland comes in with a 22.9% strikeout rate with their current act of roster against lefties, which is 14th in the league. So it's about a league average matchup. But realistically, when it comes to Oakland's offense overall, it's not one that we're worried about. They have a 142 team Iso versus lefties, which is 24th in the league. They also come in with a 91 WRC plus in this same split, which is 26th in the league. So it's absolutely an easy matchup for Montgomery, who again, I would love to see five, six strikeouts out of him, six innings, you know, one or two run runs. And he just kind of cruises to an easy victory. But the reality is, is that his fantasy upside, I'm going to say, is not as high as Sangat and it's not as high as Blake Snow, who's just the best pitcher on tonight's slate and happens to be in the worst matchup. So up the top, I think it's pretty clear. You want the safety, you just roll with Sangat. You want to be a little bit different, I guess, is where you would go to Montgomery, but in all reality, the fantasy points in the upside probably lie with Sangat. And again, I really do like Blake Snow tonight, but it's strictly from a tournament angle. The question becomes, is where else do we go on tonight's slate? We don't, of course, field on tonight's slate. So there's no, like, must have stacked tonight. We do have the Braves, we do have the Dodgers who were in those kind of get-rate spots as I mentioned yesterday. Their offenses came through as we like to see. I think there are two pitchers that, you know, people will be looking at tonight and it's partially due to their salary and partially due to the matchup. One could be Yusei Kukuchi and 9000, obviously bringing a nice bit of salary relief, which is always good to see for the Blue Jays. He's at home, 25.2% strike away from him. He has a 7% walk rate this year, which is good to see it's really considerably lower than what he's posted over the past three years. He's up at 12.8%, 9.3%, and 10.3% walk rate over the past three years, and it's now down at 7%, which is obviously always good when we're looking to roster someone like Kukuchi. So the matchup versus the Royals, again not one that I'm too worried about. Yeah, they have some pop in their lineup and they're putting up runs here and there, but overall they're still coming with a 95 WRC plus with their current active roster versus lefties, which is 24th in the league. So given what Kukuchi is doing with some of his strikeouts, he's keeping the walk slower, this is a matchup where we could see some strikeouts from him because Kansas City come in with a 23.6% strike rate versus lefties with their current active roster. That's the ninth worst in the league. So given the salary at 9000 and the matchup, he makes an interesting case tonight because it's quite a bit less expensive compared to Snell or Senga up at the top. Now the real answer for a lot of people tonight, if we're looking to save salary, I think it's going to be Kyle Harrison of the San Francisco Giants, a player that was recently called up. He is 8600. He's at home tonight in San Francisco, which is a fantastic pitcherspark and he's going up against Colorado. Now Kyle Harrison has been called up for just three starts. He has 15.1 innings pitched under his belt at the Major League level. It's an extremely small sample size, but man, he is racking up the strikeouts with a 32.8% strikeout rate this season. I say this season relative in his 15.1 innings over the past, you know, two or three weeks, wherever it is, 7.8% walk rate. He is allowing 2.93 homeruns per nine, but again, it's a 15.1 innings sample size. So we have to take that with a bit of a great assault. He also has a 13.18% swinging strike rate, which is absolutely unbelievable. He has a 3.51 Sierra. He has a 54.1% fly ball rate, which is really, really high and it's only an 18.9% ground ball rate. That's just due to the sample size being only 15 innings. These numbers will stabilize. His medium contact rate is at 45.9%. That could certainly stay that way, but the 54% fly ball rate, that is going to stabilize and drop. Thus, the homeruns up at 2.93, that will also drop. Now, his salary at 8,600 is very, very enticing tonight, given the fact that he's going up against Colorado, who right now with their current act of roster, versus left-handed pitching, coming with a 30% strikeout rate, which is dead last in the league. So Senga, for the Mets, versus Colorado, he's a righty. Minnesota strikes out at the highest rate versus righties and Colorado strikes out at the highest rate versus lefties. So we have two pitchers that are really, really good with strikeouts, Senga and Harrison, obviously, small sample size for Harrison. But these are great matchups for both of them. And Senga is up at 10.8, but Kyle Harrison at 8.6, this is some really nice salary relief for a pitcher that has looked pretty good in his first three starts. I don't want to get too ahead of myself, but he's a player that we could be using in DFS slimes for many years to come, especially if he has this type of strikeout ability, not to mention the fact that this is an awesome pitchers park. So at 8,600, I think this is what opens up a lot of salary relief and allows us to stack teams like the Dodgers and the Braves, who happen to both be in awesome spots tonight. So pitching tonight is interesting where there's kind of options at, I would say, different tiers, where we have Senga and Snell over the top, you want to be a little bit different, you could go to Montgomery, you can go into the summer in the mid-tier at Kokuchi, and you want to drop below 9,000, there's Harrison at 8,600. So all of that is good when it comes to pitching. Let's move on to stacks for tonight. Again, we have the Dodgers, we have the Braves on tonight's slate, I don't want to specifically touch on them, the Dodgers, they're going up against Mackenzie Gore, I think that's a fine matchup to attack. They had their get-right spot last night, the Braves, they're at home, they're going up against Mitch Keller. Mitch Keller obviously got off to a super hot start this season, he's kind of evened out and things have stabilized since then. Another great spot for the Braves, they're putting up home runs as usual. But there are three teams outside of those two that I particularly like tonight. One would be the Toronto Blue Jays there at home, they're going up against Kansas City Royals, I spoke about Kokuchi. Now for the Royals, they are expected to have an opener start this game. That would be Kyle Snyder, he's only going to pitch 1, 1.2, maybe 2 innings, not really going to be too much of that, but Alec Marsh should be following behind him. Marsh has 52 innings pitched at the Major League level, and this is his rookie year. He has a 24.6% strikeout rate, which isn't too bad, but he has an 11.9% walk rate, he's allowing 2.60 home runs per 9 with a 4.62 Sierra, mostly a fly ball pitcher at 46.6%. So when it comes to the Blue Jays, this is the lineup that I'm going to be really interested in tonight. They have some good power, they're relatively affordable. I'm not going to say that they're super expensive. Getting up to Davis Snyder, who's now the most expensive hitter on the Blue Jays, which is a surprise to I think a lot of people, at 3900, Vladdy is 3500. George Springer is 3400. After that, it drops below 3K with Maryfield and Varshow. Brandon Belt, whether he plays or not, he's at 2900. He's listed as day-to-day. But the power from some of these players is pretty clear, especially when we're looking at something like Davis Snyder comes in with a 371 ISO versus Wright. Now, granted, he only has 44 plate appearances recently called up, so we do have to take that with great assault. If Brandon Belt is good to go, he's certainly a player. I'll have interesting getting into my lineup is not only because of a salary, but a 241 ISO in this split is something that we are excited to have in our lineups for that power upside. Vladdy, of course, is super solid. You can look to George Springer, Matt Chapman is still on the IL, so they're going to be, you know, continuing to mix and match their lineup. If you want to throw in Alejandro Kirk, that is certainly a viable option as well. Dark Dalton Varshow, all of these players are going to be in the mix tonight. Depending on what kind of salary you have, available largely due to what salary picture you go to, whether you're getting up to Senya or whether you're trying to find a little bit of sigh relief with Kyle Harrison. So the homerun upside going up against Alec Marsh, I think he's pretty clear with that fly ball rate. Not to mention, he also allows hitters on for free with an 11.9% walk rate, so it's kind of the mix that we love to see. He's not striking out hitters at a too high rate. He lets them on for free and he allows a ton of fly balls, which do present a ton of fantasy upside for the opposing teams. Next, let's take a look at the Baltimore Orioles. As I mentioned for Fenway Park tonight, it's warm. There are a little bit of wind blowing out to left, which is obviously good. That's a, it's already a good hitters park. And we have those fantastic hitting conditions or weather conditions on top of it being a great park. Tanner Hauke is going to be on the mound for the Boston Red Sox. A picture that's kind of really just in the middle in a lot of things. He doesn't strike out hitters at a high rate at all. It's at 21.3%. He has 1.21 homeruns per 9, 8.2% walk rate. He has a 4.28 Sierra. He's not really a fly ball pitcher. His fly ball rate is actually 27.4%. It's actually pretty low. But he's a pitcher that just kind of gets hit around in terms of single double walk, single double walk, whatever it might be. And all of a sudden there's three runs on the board before you know it. There may not be that massive, massive homerun upside because that's just not his pitching profile. But again, there's a little bit of wind blowing outside, which is always good to see. So he's a pitcher that is again going to get hit around. And the Orioles lineup is just kind of built for that, where they don't strike out a whole lot and they legitimately have six hitters right from the jump that I'm going to be willing to have in any lineup, really throughout the majority of the season when we go into Baltimore. Anthony Santander, Gunnar Henderson, Cedric Mullins, Ryan Mountcastle, Adley Rochman, and Austin Hayes, ranging from 3,700 up at Santander down to 2,900 at Austin Hayes. All of these players are putting up numbers left and right this season. And when we look to this lineup, Henderson, Santander, and Mullins all have ISOs over 200. Austin Hayes isn't that far behind. He's at 165. Adley Rochman is at 142. Although that's a lower ISO for Rochman, he has a super low 16% strikeout rate and he has 11.7% walk rate. So he is not wasting chances at the plate. He's putting the ball in play. He has a 324 Woba. And if he's not putting the ball in play, he's probably drawing a walk, which is only good for the stack when there's some of these power hitters around him. So, yes, Henderson, Santander, and Mullins are absolutely the top three when I'm getting with their ISOs that high, but I'm going to be totally fine taking two of them and going to Hayes and going to Rochman. Maybe taking some solid relief and going to Jordan Westberg, whatever might be just to get these hitters in my lineup. So Tanner Hauke is not a pitcher that I'm particularly worried about. Yes, I would love to see him have a 45% fly ball rate, but that's not the pitcher that he is. And we just got to take it for what it is, but he's a pitcher that I'm not worried about because he's going to be letting runners on base for free with a walk rate and then getting hit around, I should say, for some singles and doubles, which will present a lot of scoring changes for the Orioles. So that's the route I want to be going. It's already a great hitting park. There's a little bit of extra weather in our favor and we have six different options from the Orioles that we can be going to tonight. Finally, I want to take a look at the Milwaukee Rourers. They are on the road there visiting the New York Yankees. Luis Severino is on the mound for the Yankees, a pitcher that just simply does not have it this season. I know a few of his recent starts have been good, but they've been good relative to the lack of production that he's put up to this point in the season. He obviously started the year late, but man, he has an 18.5% strike rate this season. 8.3% walk rate and he's allowing 2.32 home runs per night. And this is from an 85.1 ending sample size. So it's pretty decent at this point where he just does not have it on the mound in terms of making hitters with. He's allowing way too many home runs. His a 37.8% fly ball rate. And what I like mostly about Milwaukee tonight are their salaries where they are very, very affordable. Christian Yelich is their most expensive hitter at $3,400, which really isn't that bad. Contreras is $32, Adonis is $31, and Santana is $3,000. So realistically, they're not a super, super expensive team to be stacky. You know, you want to go, you know, Mark Hanna is $2,700. He's been looking good since he's with the Brewers since the trade, since the trade specifically for Mark Hanna. I think between his salary and his spot in the lineup is what I'm going to be most interested in. Obviously, I want to be getting up to Adonis, Yelich, and Santana for their higher ISOs that are all sitting at $176 or above. But Mark Hanna is not someone you should be sleeping on tonight in terms of his salary. He doesn't strike out. He puts the ball in play, et cetera, et cetera. Same thing with like Adley Rochman. Like, yeah, Hanna can go for some home runs here or there, but it's really just the power of the stack around him that makes him an interesting option. So when we're looking to stack the Brewers or the Dodgers or whatever team it might be, we want to pay it for pitching for players that are above $10,000. We need the salary relief. And when we have a team like the Brewers that are in a plus match against Severino that have a great hitting environment in front of them with Yankee Stadium, I want to be taking three of these options that are $3,100 and below. Adonis, Carlos Santana, and Mark Hanna at $31,000, $3,700. I think we'd make a great three-man stack to pair with the Braves, to pair with the Orioles, and still try and pay up for one of those top pitchers. So that's the route I'm looking tonight. We got some good power out of a value stack last night with the Tigers. Hopefully, we run it back tonight with the Milwaukee Brewers. So that's really where I want to be going. Let's kind of close things out. There's plenty of good teams on tonight's slate. If you want to be going to Texas, going up against Oakland, I fully understand that. If you want to be going to the Angels, going up against for Cleveland, Cleveland has, what is it, Logan Allen on the mound? A picture I'm not particularly worried about. If Otani's in the lineup, maybe I'll have interest in him getting to Gritchick. Maybe some one-offs for some power, but really not much outside of that. When it comes to Dinger calls on tonight's slate, you know, we're looking at some pretty easy matchups for a lot of teams. I guess I could go with Carlos Santana as one of them, just his power as a lefty swinger at Yankee Stadium, going up against Severino. It's something I'm going to be particularly interested in tonight. I don't think that's too much of a surprise. And then the team I didn't touch on specifically would be the Texas Rangers and Corey Seager going up against Paul Blackburn. I like Texas tonight. Adoles Garcia is on the IL now, so it certainly makes their lineup a little bit weaker, and they've kind of been struggling overall. But Corey Seager is still putting up numbers left and right. So I'm not thrilled to be going to a Texas stack just because, again, their inconsistency is there, but Corey Seager is still mashed in the ball. And I will take Seager and Santana as homerun options tonight. All right, so that does it for today's podcast. I will be back next week. I will be back to close out the season for the MLB while Jim is handling a ton when it comes to NFL. 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