 We may have just five games on tonight's late for daily fantasy baseball But they will be a five games fun five games automatically because you've got show hey Ohtani pitching for the angels for tonight, which always makes the slate more fun always makes not a baseball more fun I'm not gonna lie. It's kind of a no-thought spot here for Ohtani where you just put on top of your list and go from there I think things after that are a bit more unclear both for secondary options a pitcher and for stacking So we'll dive in on Ohtani let you know my thoughts on him But then we'll try to dig in and decide who sits second a pitcher which stacks we use and much more because that part of it tougher For tonight's late, so let's dive on in and break down Wednesday night's five game slate welcome on into the solo shot That's right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim sauna So I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm here to break down that five game slate What locks that for 705 p.m. Eastern for today out in st. Louis There is at least a chance of rain for tonight for the Cardinals in the Cubs the rainouts increase as the night goes along But I think they should be able to get that full game in check back on the timing of that weather later on But as of right now, I'm assuming that game will be good to go and could be Prominence for stacking later on as well break down that plus Ohtani and more in just one second First a reminder to check out the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts our breakdown of this week's Windham championship for PGA DFS is posted the final event before the FedEx Cup playoffs Brandon Gadoula and I broke down our favorite golfers and each salary tier and much more find that by searching for the number fire daily Fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast and if you like what you hear leave us a rating and review as well This baseball season turn K's into cash and big hits into big wins with Fandall Sportsbook Right now new customers can step up to the plate with a no sweat first bet up to $1,000 with great promotions every day a safe and secure app and the ability to get paid fast There is no better place to bet America's pastime than on America's number one sportsbook Download the Fandall Sportsbook app and sign up today to get started with your no sweat first bet up to $1,000 must be 21 plus in president select states first online a real money wager only refund issued is non with throwable free bets that expire 14 days after a seat restricts supply C terms at sportsbook.fandall.com gambling problem call 1-800 gambler or visit fandall.com slash RG and Arizona call 1-800 next step or Texnex F to 53342 in Connecticut 1-888-789-7777 or visit www.g.org slash chat in Louisiana 1-877-770 stop in New York 1-877-8 hope and wire text hope and why in Tennessee called the red line at 1-800-889-9789 in Wyoming 1-800-522-4700 or in West Virginia 1-800 gambler.net Pitching preview for this Wednesday Main Slay Shohei Ohtani checks in as the highest salary Pitcher on Fandall coming in at $11,300 not as bad as it could have been from a salary perspective Freddy Peralta is back off the IL he checks in at 10-5 miles Nicholas facing the Cubs is 95 Julio Arias is 93 with Blake Snow at 91 and Alex Cobb at $8,200 now we get Ohtani against the ace tonight. I Shouldn't need to say much more than that. It's a perfect spot You're gonna put Ohtani at the top the ace active roster has a 90 WRC plus versus righties Got about a league average strikeout rates their walk rate is below average And we love all that and Ohtani is just taking a blow torch to all the baseball right now We're up to 10 starts on Ohtani with fewer forcing fastballs His strikeout rate is 38% He has a 2.2 woes skill interactive era with a 6% walk rate We've seen Ohtani get double digit strikeouts in six straight games and it's not just double digits He's had more than 10 in all but one of those so 11 plus in five of those past six It is an unreal stretch of baseball Ohtani is on right now. So he's the top guy for cash games He's a top guy for tournaments. He's a top guy for single-entry tournaments. He's a top guy across the board You just use him. It's necessary do it show. Hey, Ohtani the no-thought-top spot for tonight The second spot behind Ohtani is more open to interpretation But for me, I'm gonna go with Julio Arias at number two It is a tougher matchup for him based in the Giants because they can't hit lefties. They have a 115 WRC plus against lefties this year and they put the ball in the air a lot But they will strike out and Arias has been getting more of those strikeouts recently He's been upping his forcing fastball usage across his past 10 starts and in that time Arias' strikeout rate is 28% which is much better than it was earlier on this year Now he's getting more strikeouts while also keeping his hard hit rate low It's at 32% which is the best mark on tonight's main slate. There are a couple balance sides here The Giants did just see Arias back on July 23rd. That was two starts ago So there was some familiarity within this matchup. Also Arias doesn't get the biggest leash from a pitch count perspective He's on the road. So that's why I prefer Ohtani regardless of game type But I think Arias is a pretty good leg up for second as well over the rest of the pack because He's pitching really well right now getting strikeouts high strikeout matchup. It's a pressing hard contact That's enough for me to put Arias number two and feel pretty good about it behind Ohtani for tonight I'm gonna stick in that same game for our value play here. That's with Alex Cobb at $800 Cobb might be third straight up for me regardless of salary and sale of him or Blake Snell But I will take this down here and it'll be okay with Cobb at $82 Obvious of the matchup is not ideal facing the Dodgers. They're pretty lethal against everyone including righties and Cobb can at least counteract part of that with his contact suppression over the past five starts Cobb has upped his splitter usage back up to where it was earlier on this year in that time he has led up just a 19% fly ball rate the very good number and That's a big aid when you're facing a team as powerful as the Dodgers are That's all you can feel okay with Cobb in this matchup. Well, it's just a 35% hard hit rate allowed So we can feel better about him in tougher spots because of the contact suppression The upside has come more recently Cobb had 11 strikeouts in his most recent game Which is also at home. He had six against the Dodgers back on July 24th. So that does mean they saw him recently We don't like that and they did score four runs against him there But Cobb is back at home in this one. He has a path to double-digit strikeouts He shouldn't suppress hard contact to he's in a pitcher friendly park at home his salaries 82 I think there are enough upsides to Cobb to allow me to use him despite this not being a perfect spot I don't think anybody outside of Otani isn't a perfect situation for tonight. So to me. I'm gonna go Otani one By a wide margin if you decided to use only Otani no pushback I might do the same a Rios number two Cobb number three then Blake's now will be number four Fort now we'll talk about Freddie Peralta in his situation in things to watch later on first though Let's talk about the new look Padres. We transition to the stacking section facing Chad cool tonight and I Gotta be honest I have no idea who will be on this Padres roster in time to play because a lot of guys traveling from the east coast to get here I don't know what the timing of that will be it does help that those trades were mostly finalized earlier in the morning So whoever is there tonight for the Padres? I think they're in play for stacking Cools peripherals are ones we can stack against both at Coors field and elsewhere. In fact Cools ERA on the road this year is 5.03 and It makes a lot of sense when you dig into the peripherals He's got across 19 starts cool has a 5.02 skill interactive ERA with a 17 percent strikeout rate His hard hit rate and fly ball rate are both higher than the league average as well So what you get is a guy who lets up a lot of balls and play those balls and play are hard hit So I don't care if you're in Denver, San Diego Tampa, Boston, it doesn't really matter That's something we can stack against We get a chance to do that here with a crazy fun team. So it's kind of a You know treat yourself kind of slate use Ohtani. That's fun. Use a new look Padres. That's kind of fun, too I don't know who will be able to play here, but we should know before lock I just knew that one should be up before then The good thing is it's a very staggered starts night to first game in 705 And then there's no second game until 745. So even if we don't get the lineup right away we should know before that second game and I think that'll help things out quite a bit So we'll know in time who will be starting for today and should be able to fill out good lineups based on that But the Padres overall a fun team for tonight I'm curious where jerks and pro far shakes out in this new look lineup because he's been super fun this year He's got a 199 iso against righties. He has the second best WRC plus on the original team behind just Manny Machado so excluding Soto Bell, etc, etc and Pro far can steal some bases. I want to keep using him I assume he'll be somewhere at a decent spot in the order So I think he's been hitting well enough where you don't drop him out of the top, you know, third The top half of the lineup. So I'm more than okay keeping pro far on my lineups I still am very on board with him. We'll see where he settles in but Everyone here benefits from having good batters being out of this lineup. Hopefully they're there for tonight I would love to use guys like Soto and Bell But we'll see what the lineup looks like either way the Padres are a fun team for stacking today The Brewers are facing Tyler Beattie tonight. Beattie has been really good as a reliever often in longer stints You know, he's been going 30 to 40 pitches pretty often for the Pirates I'm not looking to stack against him specifically But Beattie is not stretched out yet Which means we're gonna see a good number of middle relievers in play here And if you can if you can increase exposure to middle relievers in DFS in general, that's gonna be a good thing I think that does bode well for the Brewers in terms of stacking for tonight Beattie's likely getting stretched out here to replace Jose Quintana I've got Beattie projected for 50 pitches tonight and he's pretty solid He has a 3.71 skill interactive ERA since he started working in a sinker more often But not a ton of strikeouts doesn't really suppress hard contact He does get ground balls, which is annoying But that could slip backwards a bit as he Get stretched out further and can't keep that same Velo for the entire time After that things will go over to the bullpen here. Once again, they're fine They're okay, but they're not a bullpen we need to fear if we're getting Middle relievers all potentially stretched longer than usual. We can stack against that. So this is not about Beatty I think Beatty's gonna be fine as a Reliever or as a starter probably somewhere in the 4.3 skill interactive ERA range of via if I had to guess That's not bad It's more about the situation overall and it makes me want to stack the Brewers here for tonight One thing we want to be cautious with is that two of the middle relievers the Pirates have are lefties Neither of those guys worked either Monday or Tuesday. So we'll probably see a lefty in there at some point tonight Which is gonna make me higher on guys like Willie Adamus and Hunter Renfrow Who could hit both righties and lefties in order to safeguard themselves for when the lefties do come out of the bullpen? I'm still okay with the lefties. They'll get at least a couple of acts against Beatty But I at least want to keep in mind that we should bump up guys who are good against both righties and lefties to safeguard ourselves For when the inevitable lefty comes out of the pen for the Pirates here. So keep that in mind for sure Okay with the lefties, but I would prefer guys who can hit well Against guys of both handednesses. Is that plural handed and I handednesses whatever I don't have the plural word of handednesses either way guys who can hit both righties and lefties Probably the easy way to say that there Now for our third stack we're going to stack against a guy I don't typically stack against That's Justin Steele because Steele does a really nice job with contact suppression Which is a pretty big buzzkill for stacking But the Cardinals Obliterate lefties and I think that matchup is tough enough to let us stack against him on just a five gain slate I thought my spreadsheet was bugging out when I was looking at this matchup yesterday because you know I will it'll pull in data versus righties and lefties and automatically populate once I tell the spreadsheet which handedness the guy has and It pulled up the Cardinals numbers against lefties. It is just 600 plate appearances So there is some small sample missing there But they have a 150 WRC plus against lefties on the current active roster to give you some context on that if the Cardinals against lefties were a single batter across the full major league baseball season They ranked 12th among all qualified batters this year in WRC plus They're insane And that means you need to be an extra level of good to shut them down I like Steele I'm just not sure he's there right now. His skill interactive era is 4.18 He's lit up a 33 hard hit rate. He does get ground balls 52 percent of the time, which is pretty annoying I'm just not sure if it's enough to hold this specific team in check I do feel uncomfortable stacking against him I just think we need to with this team on a small slate So I will put the Cardinals third on my list for stacking in large part due to the fact that Steele is a lefty And they send them to the move one of my focal points in uh stacking There'll be a focal point of the trade discussions a focal point of some vitriol yesterday That's still in Carlson. Uh Carlson was you know, uh catching some heat on twitter as he seemed like they were reluctant to move him But hey, I mean this against lefties. I kind of get it a 219 iso against lefties this year for Carlson He was 187 last year Hasn't had the best results so far this month But Carlson does get bumped up against lefties likely I would bet to bat second or so for $2,700 I like that quite a bit. So Dillon Carlson. What yard last night seems like the uh, I don't know if this is a revenge narrative against twitter Or whatever it may be, but hey, uh, yeah, he had a homerun last night So revenge narrative in play for Dillon Carlson. I do like him here at $2,700 Let's go now to things to watch in it's uh, freddy peralta time. He's back. I love freddy peralta in general But not expecting a full pitch count for tonight. I haven't projected for 70 pitches He went 33 and 52 in his two rehab starts So I will happily watch him kind of like to grom where I just like watching freddy peralta But not enough leash for dfs right now until that pitch count gets lengthened that a bit more I don't mind using one offs on the angels Just kind of hard to get a full stack here with a tani pitching and mic trout being out They're facing jeans caprellian who lets up a lot of fly balls Doesn't get many strikeouts and that's kind of the key weakness for the angels lineup So I think we can look at guys if there's anyone you want to use here I'm not sure if there is honestly like I looked into taylor ward His numbers recently are really brutal the peripherals are bad jared walsh is okay. Uh, but like You know if you find someone you like on the angels if you like their talent Like what they're doing right now cool lock them in because the match is pretty good But I can't do much more than that because this lineup is real bad right now Let's finish up here with some dinger calls and it's a treat yourself kind of slate. It's a have some fun kind of slate so I'm just gonna assume one soda is gonna be in san diego tonight Let's just make one soto the home run call for today. I feel like uh, he's shown at times when he's motivated to hit dingers. He definitely can So let's just do it. Let's go one soto as the home run pick for tonight if he doesn't play He's not there in time. I don't know. Well, I guess we'll probably just go like Machado or something. I don't know it'll be a pod right, but we'll go soto I think he'll be out there first night if he is let's go one soto in his Padres debut to be the home run call for the first uh for the boring one The fun one will be more fun. Uh, but let's pull the young he was Tearing it up at triple a comes back up to the majors hits home runs in his first two games back Didn't go yard last night. So the streak is dead, but facing a lefty We know deong has power. He had the I don't know if this is a real nickname, but the didong profile the nickname previously. So I don't know he's fun He's a Non prominent member of the cardinals in terms of which guys we typically turn to so home run calls for today One soto for the funsies and paul de yang for the fun one for today That's all we got here on the solo shot once again. Gonna be a fun slate. I think you just kind of go tani Lock him in go from there if you don't want to go there rios cobs now all in play Hold off him parolta to the pitch count gets back up And then the uh, the best staff for tonight the Padres depending on who gets there, but it's a fun slate I'm excited to see how things play out for tonight Do not forget to check out our pga dfs podcast right here in the same feed the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed to get Stephanie windham championship which tees off tomorrow Check that out wherever you get your podcasts also ufc at nascar each week nfl About a month away two twice per weekly uh twice weekly dfs podcast here on this feed recap podcasts and preview podcasts If you have not hit subscribe yet Go do so get yourself subscribed and while you're there if you like what you hear Leave us a rating and review as well If you've got any questions for me. 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