 Everywhere you look on Tuesday's Daily Fantasy Baseball Slate, you've got upside, both at pitchers and at stacks. And I feel like that's true, not just within those individual categories, but also within the salary tiers, within those categories. You got ways you can spend up a pitcher, you've got a couple mid slash lower salary guys with good upside, and the stacks are also the same where where you can find under salary banners or some studs to splurge on. So I think it's a pretty fun slate with kind of whatever you're looking for, where you should be able to find for tonight. And no matter where you wanna go, you should be able to find guys with a path to a big game. So let's dive on in and get you set for Tuesday night slate. Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network and NumberFire.com. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for NumberFire.com. Here to break down this 13 game main slate, the lock set for 7.05 p.m. Eastern for tonight. The one weather note for this slate is at Coors Field. There is a legitimate chance of rain at Coors for the Rockies and the White Sox. I'm not really sure my best read on this game right now. It looks like the rain odds are around 25%, but it does seem like it's, you know, more likely that it happens at some point. So not really sure what the read is there. I always listen to Kevin Roth, a rotor grinder to see what his read on weather is because he's an actual meteorologist and I'm not. But check back on the weather at Coors Field later on to make sure that game between the White Sox and the Rockies will play. We'll break down that plus the top pitchers for tonight in just one second. A first day reminder to make sure you are subscribed to the NumberFire Daily Fantasy Podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts. 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I think they're doing an event on Saturday too for sports betting and stuff like that. So Chicago in September, can't beat that. Always a good place to be for sure. Hopefully I will see all of you there. Let's dive into the pitching preview for this Tuesday main slate where we see Shane McClanahan deservedly at the top in salary checking in at $11,600. Carlos Rodan is 10-8. Aaron Nola checks in at $10,600. Frankie Montas is 98. Luis Garcia facing Frankie Montas is 95. Taiwan Walker stays in the Yankees at 94. We have Spencer Strider at 91 and Josiah Gray revenge game against the Dodgers at 90,000. Jose Barrios, Jordan Montgomery, George Kirby, Mike Clevenger and Joshua Kowsky are the others at $8,000 or higher. Now there are plenty of quality pitchers on this slate but all of a hard time putting any of those guys above Shane McClanahan, he's sick and I think he could go bananas tonight. McClanahan's facing the Orioles. It is a divisional game but he actually has not faced the Orioles since the start of the year. His first start this year was against them. He has not seen them since. So no familiarity issues here between McClanahan and the Orioles. McClanahan is obviously been good all year. He started the All-Star game like can't do that with some tremendous output but he's hit a new level recently and as past aid starts, he's throwing more change-ups and it's a pretty sick pitch for him because it combines a 46% whiff rate which is second for him behind his slider but the ex-wobba against it is 165 per baseball savant. That is the best pitch for him. So using it more is good and it's led to sick peripherals. The strikeouts for him are in line with where they were earlier. The strikeouts have been there all year. The key thing I think has been fun for McClanahan in this stretch is his 27% hard hit rate allowed. That is a tremendous number and when you add that to his strikeout marks, you get a superstar. McClanahan is exactly that. He has at least six strikeouts and all eight of those starts. He's hit double digits twice. He's had a quality start. You get the points for that on FanDuel as well in all eight starts. I think that's just a really good picture and we should probably just accept that. I think people have given the salary but he's worth it is what I'm trying to say. Orioles have a 24% strikeout rate against lefties and their current active roster. So I have McClanahan projected for 8.7 strikeouts for tonight. That is about 0.6 strikeouts above everybody else. Top mark on the slate by a wide margin. I will be aggressive in using McClanahan as my top guy for tonight. I mentioned last night I could use Aaron Ashby as like a single entry kind of guy willing to deviate there. For tonight, I say go with the stud. Go McClanahan as your top stud for a single entry lineup because he's worth that. He has difference making upside and hopefully some shinier names lower in salary may detract from McClanahan's roster rate. There are a lot of contenders for the second slots and I could have realistically put five separate guys. I should have listed them all out myself and tried to rank them but my favorite of those options is Spencer Strider who is just $9,100. A bit surprising to me how low he was. I just love his upside here. He's facing the Phillies and that's still not a great offense without Bryce Harper. Their active roster has a 93 WRC plus against righties. They can still hit for some power but their plate discipline numbers are pretty rough. They have a 23% strikeout rate with an 8% walk rate which means we can use pitchers who are facing them. That's especially true when it's a pitcher as good as Spencer Strider. He's up to 10 starts now and in those 10 starts Strider has a 2.64 skill interactive ERA with a 37% strikeout rates. He's had good, bad, and ball data as well. So yes, there have been some rough starts in there. He has let up five plus runs in three of those 10 starts. So that's not a great rate but he has huge upside. He has hit double digit strikeouts and 30% of his starts this year, which is absurd. So from a skills perspective and other stuff he's not similar to like old school Robbie Ray but from a distribution of outcomes perspective I think he kind of is where he could get you 10 strikeouts but he could also let up 10 runs or maybe he'll do both at the same time. I'm fine with that because it means he has really good upside. And I've got options I can go to for cash gains for tonight. I just wanna go with the tournament based approach and Strider grades out well there. He is projected for 8.1 strikeouts that is second behind McClanahan. So I will be there myself and put Strider number two, take that discount to 91 and put a number two behind just McClanahan for tonight. Among the value plays, Jose Barrios is the best for me and I think this should be pretty obvious if you kind of know what's going on here for today. Part of it is Barrios, the improvements he has shown recently but a big part of it is how depleted this Cardinals lineup is. They won't have Paul Goldschmidt or Nolan Aronato for today. And when you take those two guys out of the equation, this Cardinals offense becomes radically different. Their active roster WRC plus against Reidy's dips down to 90. I believe it's 115 if you put those two guys on it. So a massive deviation. Their ISO falls down to 123. They have a 22% strikeout rate. So they go from being a very respectable offense to an outright bad one when you take those two guys out. That's what Barrios will get for today is that offense, that shell of an offense for the Cardinals. But like I said, he's been making his own improvements too. It's not just the matchup. He's been throwing more changeups across his past six darts and that pitch can get some whiffs. His aggregate numbers in that time were not great because he had two bad starts at the beginning but some upside there for sure. 13 strikeouts in one game, seven in another, six in one. It means he has single game upside. And the floor should be good given how depleted this Cardinals roster is. Barrios does still have blow ups. He can be kind of funky in that way. Even in this span with the higher changeup usage, he got rocked by the Brewers and the White Sox. So it's not perfect by any means and I'm fine pivoting to Strider McLeanahan if you think Barrios gets too much steam due to the matchup, due to the attention we'll get here at the Cardinals with the Goldschmidt or Arnato but straight up the best value plays for Barrios. I would assume that Barrios will probably get a lot of attention for today. Whereas where Strider might not on the road, I don't think we're gonna see as much attention there. The Braves are slight favorites but not big favorites, whereas Barrios is. So from a tournament perspective, give me Strider over Barrios, but just straight up. You want a good value play. Barrios is that guy. I just will prefer Strider due to his easier path upside and likely the lower roster rate. So McLeanahan won Strider two, Barrios three for today. We'll talk about Aeronola in Things to Watch. First though, let's go to stacks and talk about yesterday where I talked about the Giants being a great stack against Tyler Gilbert and then the lineups come out in Arizona is like, hey, we flipped our starters. So they had Meryl Kelly start last night and now are throwing Gilbert for today. I still love them as a stack against Gilbert and I'd rank them second on today's slate. But in case you listened yesterday, which I don't wanna assume you did, I don't wanna spend a full stack on them and just talk about the exact same things. So for new listeners, the Giants were ranked second for me today, but be careful with the righties in the lineup who may leave early for a pinch hitter, Austin Slater, the primary one there, sometimes Darren Ruff, just keep in mind that when you're stacking this Giants scene, they are my number two stack. The number one stack is the Giants or sorry, will be the Rockies at Coors Field. There isn't thread of reins, keep that in mind, but because we're talking effectively forced action today, I feel more okay putting them in here even with the risk of rain being there. Let's talk about the Rockies, facing Michael Kopeck and I like that matchup for them quite a bit. I've been talking about Michael Kopeck's velocity quite a bit recently where it had been down, but that bounced back his last time out. So that aspect is no longer a concern, but the issues for Kopeck go beyond that. He's been using more sliders across his past 12 starts and the velocity was fine for a lot of those, but he still has a 5.08 skill interactive ERA in those starts. He's walking a lot of guys and the walks do limit balls and play, which is a bummer, especially at Coors Field, but he's letting up a 39% hard hit rate with a 53% fly ball rate. So the contact he does let up is loud and that's good for us at Coors Field. We saw Kopeck let up four home runs in one of those games. He let up two in another. His ERA in this 12th stretch is 4.20, which is not bad, given the competition that he faced, which was pretty stiff at times, but I don't think it's good enough for us to avoid stacking against him at Coors Field. I think the Rockies do enough to grade out well here, assuming that the rain allows them to play. So I will be high on the Rockies for tonight, specifically bumping up Charlie Blackman and Ryan McMahon because lefties, they do strike out more against Kopeck, but they get a ton of fly balls. They get more hard contact. So Blackman and McMahon get bumped up. I think that maybe Sam Hillary gets in there. You could use him. He's not as enticing for me, but Blackman, bump up McMahon, then get to the right after that just to react to the way that Kopeck's platoon splits do break down. Next, I'm gonna go back to the Padres for tonight, even though didn't really work last night. And again, this would be the third stack behind the Giants who are second, behind the Rockies who are first. Padres are facing Garrett Hill, who is interesting at least. He started this year down in double A and he had a 41% strikeout right there. Pretty dang good. Got himself a promotion to triple A. His strikeout right there is 29%, but it comes with a 12.6% swing in strike rate. That lets you start to question if the Wyss will follow Hill to the majors. And that's especially true because it's his age 26 season, so he was much older than the guys he was facing down in double A. The first three starts for Hill and the majors have legitimized those concerns. He has a 12% strikeout rate with a 5% swing strike rate. So that part of his game did not transfer, but that was the biggest thing that he brought to the table. In triple A, the fly ball rate for Hill was 46%. And that's fine if you get a lot of strikeouts, but it's a lot tougher when you're facing big leaders and letting up a lot of balls and play. That's why the expected DRA for Hill meaning it's three starts in the majors is 5.30. And he hasn't faced the stiffest competition yet. The potteries are not that either for sure, but just broadly, I think we've seen we can stack against Hill and I've seen enough from the potteries to be okay with doing that here. So the potteries would be number three tonight behind the Rockies and the Giants and I will go back to them for tonight. I know Luke Void, if you look at the overall numbers, not having the best year, he has a 410 slugging percentage, which is not ideal. He's striking out too much, but he's hitting the heck out of the ball right now. He had a ball go like 415 feet last night. That was not a home run. He has five barrels across his past six games. His barrel rates this year is up to 16.9%. He has double dong upside and he's $3,100. So Void will be a focus for me on this slate. I think that he deserves to be that based on the way he's hitting the ball right now based on the matchup, stuff like that. So Luke Void's low salaried big upside within this Padre stack for tonight. The Guardians plans for tonight are pretty murky. It sounds like Brian Shaw will probably be an opener for a bullpen game with Kirk McCarty to be the bulk reliever. In that scenario, I would like the Red Sox with a caveat coming in a bit. Shaw is a boost to his opposing hitters. McCarty would be that too. The Guardians actually put McCarty on waivers earlier on this month and he was claimed by the Orioles. Then the Orioles put him on waivers and the Guardians brought him right back. That typically doesn't happen with someone we need to avoid from a stacking perspective. McCarty in triple A with the Guardians has an 18% strikeout rate with an 8% walk rate. Lot of balls in play with a 42% fly ball rate. He did struggle as well in his one triple A start with the Orioles. So I don't know if it'll definitively be McCarty. I couldn't find confirmation of that on Twitter this morning, but seems like it should be. So I'll rate the Red Sox here. Just be sure to circle back once Cleveland makes their plans more obvious. The one thing that could change this is the status of JD Martinez. Because if he can't play the Red Sox without him, Rafael Devers and Trevor Story, that's pretty tough to overcome is probably the top three guys for stacking within this team. I do still like some of the other guys like Jerry Durant is fun. Ranchie Cordero can go deep. Robbref Snyder has actually been hitting for some power this year, both against righties and lefties. So they might work for one-off if Martinez sits, but I'd be much less inclined to stack them then. So if JD Martinez does not play, bump down the Red Sox, they'd be outside my top four. I put the White Sox at cores above them, potentially the raise too, we'll talk about in a second, but if Martinez does go, then a Martinez, Durant, Bogarts, whatever you want to do is stack would work for sure. So just keep an eye on Martinez and react depending on his availability. Things to watch forward tonight. Let's talk about Aaron Nola of the top guys. I did not discuss. I could see Nola being a good tourney play, really tough matchup with the Braves and that'll help keep his popularity in check. He's also an underdog for tonight, but a lot of upside, the Braves are a high strikeout offense. I've got Nola projected for 7.7 strikeouts tonight, which ranks third behind McClanahan and Strider. So I'll give him a shot if I think he's gonna go overlooked, especially if Berea is probably catching a lot of steam for tonight. I think the both Strider and Nola great out well as tournament pivots in addition to McClanahan being a tremendous play for tonight. I am unsure what to do with the Rays because they're facing Spencer Watkins. And since he came back from the majors or back to the majors, he's been doing a really good job of keeping hard contact in check. He's led up just a 33% hard hit rate across four starts with no homers allowed. He's still letting up a lot of fly balls, not getting a ton of strikeouts. So I think we can stack this Rays offense tonight, but the hard contact numbers have allowed some doubt to creep in to the point where I kept them outside my top four. If I had to push a team up above the Red Sox, should Martinez sit, it'd probably be the White Sox at Coorsfield facing Armand Marquez there. And he's getting better, which is why I'm not as high on them as the Rockies or the Giants. And plus, offenses do tend to struggle. They're first game in series at Coorsfield adjusting to altitude and stuff like that. But Marquez is not perfect. They've got some fun guys in this team. So I'll be here. I just won't be as high on them as Rockies or Giants. They're kind of in the same tier as the Padres and Red Sox. So even if Martinez does play, I can see putting them above them. But the improvements that Marquez has shown are the reason why I was a little bit lower on the White Sox for today. Let's finish up here with some Dinger calls for tonight. Pierre, shout out to him on Twitter last night. He asked me for updated home run calls with the Giants with the Diamondback starter changing. And I said, Chas McCormick, McCormick went deep. So thank you, Pierre. I appreciate that keeping me or letting me do the redo there with Wilmer Flores. But Wilmer Flores facing Tyler Gilbert for today. So we'll just translate that one over to here and hopefully the McCormick gajuju flies over into today as well. So Wilmer Flores back in the slot once again today as our fun home run call. For the boring one, I'll go Charlie Blackman. 15 home runs so far this year. Facing guy who lets up a lot of fly balls to lefties. At Coorsfield, I think that stacks up pretty well. So the home run calls for today, Charlie Blackman and Wilmer Flores. That is all that we have here for today on the solo shot. Again, it's a high upside slate. A lot of guys in each department you can turn to. I think some fun place or tournaments where you could pivot from what will likely be the chalk. I like it. It's a fun kind of slate, good slate for some single entry lineups and multi-entry as well. If you have not, make sure you are subscribed to the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast wherever you get your podcasts. We have Coorser on all of your major podcast providers, PGA coming up later on today, USC, NASCAR, and then eventually NFL all in the same place too. Once you get subscribed, if you like what you hear, leave us a rating and review as well. If you have any questions for me, I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis, J-I-M-S-A-N-N-E-S. You can also follow the FanDual Podcast Network at FanDual Podcast. Big thank you to everyone for tuning in for today. Good luck to you with your MLB DFS lineups. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow to break down Wednesday's slate. This has been the solo shot right here on the FanDual Podcast Network.