 We've got a seven game slate lined up for tonight in MLB DFS. Jacob DeGrom is on the bump We got to decide do we go with the grom or do we allocate salary elsewhere and pay up for the cardinals like whores Other stuff on this slate. Do we spend down potentially? I think there's a pretty good option from a value play perspective for tonight So let's get you said for Thursday night in MLB DFS This is the Fanduel live Q&A right here on the Fanduel YouTube Twitch Facebook and Twitter channels 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 half hour to get you said for today's slate of MLB DFS quick programming note for today Usually we've had Aaron Dolan at 430 to talk betting She's offered today. She's doing a stream tonight for I believe TNT So if you want to check out Aaron's thoughts on tonight's NBA game make sure you check her out there She will be back with us tomorrow at 430 to talk more betting. We can potentially talk about the finals at that point So we'll see how things break out. But either way, we'll talk to Aaron tomorrow here same place same time But as for right now, let's get said for tonight's slate of DFS Jacob DeGrom is the headliner for today at pitcher $11,500 on Fanduel and the reason that we're having a discussion about whether we want to use to grom or not is because as past two games have been a Little bit underwhelming we see here six and five strikeouts in those two games And that's a lot less than you expect out of Jacob DeGrom That could be a concern However, one of those starts was down because a pitch count 70 pitches in that first one after he left that Cubs game early Second game 88 so the pitch count was better there still did not get strikeouts But in that game is swinging striker. It was 18.2 percent tremendous number still So when I look at DeGrom, I see a situation where it's a tough matchup Atlanta is very good. The weather for today is Pretty hot It's actually the hottest game on the slate and they did just seem to start to go That means that DeGrom is not as much of a sure thing as he usually would be however He's still the top guy on the slate. So to me like if you're usually going like I don't know 60 percent to DeGrom I would say lower that to 40 ish percent But it is a noticeable downgrade because we do want to get to some bats a course field Indigrom does have some concerns specifically the matchup and the fact that it's a repeat matchup But he is still number one on this slate by a decent margin Let's start the questions off here over on YouTube by talking to Kyle Hello, Kyle. Do you like stacking both sides of the course game? Wayne Wright struggles on the road also thoughts on using Bader if he plays with the cards for tonight We'll start with Bader. Yes use him because there are like What I call red flag injuries where there injuries that make me concerned specifically It's like wrists and obliques Bader's coming off a rib injury and it's kind of close to like the midsection Which could be concerning but it's not what I would deem to be a red flag injury So if Harrison Bader plays for today, he's someone I'd want to go to doesn't the best numbers versus righties this year But 41% fly ball right. I believe a very low salary. Let's check here to be sure he is $2,500. So yeah, if Harrison Bader is in there to me Kyle He is a focal point for tonight as far as the Adam Wayne right discussion goes I'm not super into the Rockies mostly because the Rockies are pretty bad honestly But also because Wayne Wright does a really good job with contact suppression These are over his past seven starts and more curve balls He has allowed just a 22% fly ball rate with a 37% hard hit rate So I don't think use him as a pitcher because of the you know The home road split stuff you discussed and it's course But I do think that that is enough or I'm not gonna be super high on the Rockies for today So just Cardinals, but very high on Bader personally. Let's talk to Jackie over on Twitch random question How do I use the credits? I was gifted on fantasy Good question. I believe that you go to like there's like a voucher thing usually Let me pull up over here. And I think there's like a if you go to the top There are like four different buttons ones like your avatar one There's like not the question mark, but there's like a bullhorn thing usually if you click that there will be Credits there. Otherwise if you go down here, you can see Using Fandall points if you for a Fandall points that you were gifted you can you enter it down there? So scroll down see if it's via Fandall points is the credits otherwise check around over there And then Jackie says he wants to use him on DFS if possible Itonka man wants it wants us to become more famous. Hey, love the spam appreciate it, man I of course want to be more famous. Let's go Stock to Jerry over on Facebook going with Cincinnati Houston in Milwaukee stack with Anderson's my picture give me your take I love Anderson. I think that he's great. I alluded to earlier a potential value play You could use for today Anderson to me is that guy facing the Mets for the second time in three starts So that's annoying for sure. However, Anderson's pretty good This is over his past five starts with decreased movement a 3.49 skill interactive VRA 27% strikeout rate low walk rate You can see here that he is letting up some hard contact But Anderson is a ground ball pitcher ground ball right around like 50 ish percent or so and that has been true Even with the decreased movement the Mets not the most imposing offense So Jerry, I think that if you want to stack cores or stack Houston, which you're talking about I would say Anderson is the route for doing so. I like him a lot since Natty to me a very good stack for today Facing Ryan Weathers. They are my number two stack Weathers coming back up from AAA it's been a couple of starts down there didn't get a lot of strikeouts in AAA and I Think that we should expect similar to what he was doing before and this is over is Six starts before he got sent or six outings. I shouldn't say there was a couple of relief outings in there But six outings with more sliders 5.12 skill interactive VRA 14% strikeout rates a lot of impactful contact So very much on board at Cincinnati as a top stack for today Cincinnati Houston they're good against JC Mejia. They're kind of expensive So I do rank them a little bit lower and it's also the wind is blowing in for today But they're the Astros Mejia not a guy we need to avoid okay with that The Brewers are my number three stacks of Jerry you checked every box there. Well done I think the Brewers a good option against will crow rough results this year And I think we have reason to believe those results should continue So I am on board with all those Jerry. Good job. I think that's a great lineup for today Let's talk to DJ. How much of a concern are the Nationals and Colorado games based on the weather? Also is quite to a good look for the matchup. He has tonight Let's start things off with the weather side of things and pull up Kevin Ross forecast over on rotor grinders The Dodgers in Washington game is very very scary for me I You look at the numbers over on dark sky weather. It's what we have over a number fire You see a lot of rain throughout the night now This has gotten better from what it was earlier in the day You see the the rain odds here 50% as opposed to like 70% so it's getting better There is the potential for that to continue to get better But we'll see how that breaks I would be very wary of the Washington game the course game I'm a bit less wary of as we scroll down here. We will check out the rain odds those rain odds are consistently lower Kevin said that he'd they think he'll be wet at first pitch, but it he thinks that they'll play so I Feel okay about Coors Field right now I do want to check what his update is later on to see You know if things are still breaking that way that they are I'm good to go But at least check back on that weather later on so right now I am probably not going to be using Dodgers and Nationals unless things I mean I'm not super into that game to begin with but you know Kind of assuming it's not going to be good to go Rockies I am going to assume are good to go for right now Jackie says congrats anyone to used a trade turner yesterday a cycle always good I think it was his birthday or did I make that up? I know his Nelson Cruz's birthday today I got to keep track of all the birthday narratives. It might have been trade turner's birthday. Maybe I'm maybe I'm wrong Jerry says a modern role. Good job. Yeah, I agree Jerry Yeah, the Schwerber home run good stacks for today. Keep it up Jerry Hopefully that translates to some cash for tonight as well Let's talk to DJ on Facebook is from her Valdez back to a full pitch count. Let's put Valdez over here This is over his past six starts 102 96 97 108 86. Yes, very much so you actually came back at a full pitch count I think that was because he had been He did a couple of rehab starts in the minors. I like Valdez quite a bit for tonight You'll see here the strikeout right now very high. It's 23% across those six starts But I kind of don't care all that much because he's a really good real-world pitcher 16% fly ball right a lot across those six starts 3.00 skill interactive era and Valdez does have single game upside He had eight strikeouts and 10 strikeouts in a couple of games versus Boston Cleveland's been no hit by 75% of the lefties they face this year. I think that's the correct stat and Valdez is the lefty So to me Valdez built up fully good to go and in a good spots of Valdez Among the studs my number two pitcher. He's number three overall because it's it's to Grom one Anderson two after considering a salary Valdez three and then Corbin Burns is number four for tonight Both the fuse and Michael are asking about the Giants So the Giants the potential secondary stack for today. They're facing Merrill Kelly And I think that like I still them as a secondary stack. I tried to dig in more today. I was kind of like trying to Convince myself. They were better than the secondary stack couldn't quite get there because Kelly Weirdly has like decent numbers versus lefties although I will say the peripherals for Kelly are not as good as a result Let's actually look at the splits here and check out what we should be looking for in terms of splits from a pitcher to Kind of get an idea of what to expect going forward Kelly versus lefties You see here 292 Woba 345 Woba against but that's over 193 and 194 batters faced those numbers are Low and I don't want to base my thoughts on things over such a small sample I want to look at more advanced numbers in a sample that large you see here Kelly's strikeout rate 19% versus lefties versus 24% versus righties and the batted ball data 40% ground ball versus lefties compared to 49% versus righties It does allow some hard contact Kelly's been better recently the hard contact has been going down the Fly ball rate has been going down. So he's been improving. That's why the Giants are not like a an elite elite stack for today The reason I still think that they are a good secondary stack and I mean a good secondary stack not just an option DJ missed your question my bad. I'll get back to that. Um, I There I think that they're a good secondary stack, but Kelly's improvements Make it where I can't put them above a secondary stack because he has been pretty solid So I think the Giants probably ranked fourth or so for tonight. That's where I'd probably put them That's a solid ranking for sure But I've seen enough in Kelly where I don't want to go to outrageous them Also, the roof will be closed tonight at Chase field. So that does downgrade them a bit as well So solid secondary stack for sure. So DJ I missed your Kwayto question before my bad So Kwayto has a good matchup as you alluded to the problem is he's not a high strikeout guy This is over his five starts. He's actually got more movement Which is weird Johnny Kwayto when when everyone else goes right Johnny Kwayto goes left And he's actually gotten more movement, but it has not led to an increase in his strikeout rate That's a 17% over his past five starts worse batted ball beta worse You know just everywhere. So I Don't feel super inclined to use Johnny Kwayto the matchup is great That definitely does matter, but there's not enough elsewhere for me to feel really good about him So personally not going to Johnny Kwayto for today. I just don't think there was enough strikeout juice for me to get Super jazzed about him Jason The Astros killed yesterday. Yeah, Matt Matt Harvey just too good for us, obviously Matt Harvey an ace again No, okay, Jason also asked for the top three stacks for today So number one for me is the Cardinals facing Antonias and Zatela He's someone who has gotten better recently But still a picture we can stack against because of the little strikeout rate because the heartate rate is very high So the Cardinals to me are number one number two is the Reds facing Ryan Weathers mentioned that before where He was struggling before he got sent down to AAA went down there didn't get a ton of strikeouts I prefer the Reds versus righties, but against lefties. They do have some good hitters So I'm on board at the Reds as my number two stack for today Despite the fact that Weathers is a lefty and finally the Brewers are number three facing will crow crow will let up hard contact Doesn't get a lot of strikeouts. You see here the fly ball rate is not super high But doesn't bother me too much. So it is the Cardinals Reds Brewers I would say the Astros are probably four followed by the Giants at five and I think that's the way I would rank the stacks for today Don't see anything else super super enticing. So I think that's the way the stacks would go So that's the way I'm thinking for today Giants five Astros four after those top three stacks that you see there on the screen Let's pull up here see if the the Reds lineup is out yet because it was not the last time I checked Because I refresh over at baseball press Weird because the Reds lineup usually out like five o'clock in the morning their lineup is not out yet, which means they're Probably making some sort of roster move if I had to guess that's generally the case when things are super delayed So that would be my guess is that there's some sort of roster move there I'm not sure what that would be but that's in that's something to keep an eye on there No Cardinals lineup either, but I would assume that baiters in there probably batten somewhere in the bottom third of the order That's fine. I wouldn't worry too much about that one other lineups that are out none that we really care too much about Let's go back to the questions here and talk to Jerry Jerry the home run call for him is going vato and winker lefty on lefty Okay, so Jerry just going full in on lefty and lefty. I love it and You had Schwerber and Seager yesterday, so a couple lefties there as well So vato and winker two guys I probably won't be super high on because it isn't lefty But hey, you know Jerry you it's worked for you before I will not talk you out of it But it's definitely worked you for you before the guys I like in terms of the reds and actually my two home or call calls are actually both in the reds for today, too Those two guys are Tyler Stevenson and Nick Castellanos both those guys are righties Who can absolutely yoke against lefties Castellanos 250 isa versus lefties Stevenson 259 Both those guys really good power hitters I'd expect them to bat in the top four spots in the order So I guess we haven't seen the reds line up yet Stevenson might not play if he doesn't play Milana comes out. I can try to give you a different one But for right now Stevenson and Castellanos the two guys I am really turning to I would say a ohenio Suarez Despite the fact that his numbers versus lefties is here. Not that great. I'm still pretty high in him Jonathan India not the best numbers either but been playing better overall recently Maybe just hasn't seen a lot of lefties. So India Stevenson Suarez Castellanos all righties who can take advantage of Weathers being a lefty for today Jason says his home run picks are belt for the Giants Okay, like that and ABCL Garcia for the Brewers, okay So let's dig into the Giants here and check out what we should expect from them versus Kelly Because I wouldn't be shocked if we do get some value out of them for today So both the numbers versus righties and then go over here and check out the projected lineup for the Giants for today Versus the righty in Merrill Kelly a brand about from the IEL. So that one won't work. But either way Alex Dickerson might bat seconds. Okay. Let's check out the numbers for Alex Dickerson I know he's been kind of in and out as well The one concern of Dickerson is he does occasionally leave games for a pinch hitter like if a lefty comes out there So be wary of that but a 173 ISO 39% fly ball rate. So that should be fine for short Dickerson $2,200 that should be pretty good. I think that's enticing as far as a value play for today Lamont Wade used to be a twins. Let's look at his numbers 274 ISO versus righties. My goodness, okay That's enticing depending on where he bats. So I would say check out that so Wade is a potential value Yes, Tremsky if he plays really good batter 306 ISO versus righties and then Dickerson Dickerson again some wonkiness with when he plays So be wary of that. But I do think that Dickerson is interesting. Yes, Tremsky and then also Wade all lefties who could be in a good spot versus Kelly and do give us a lot of salary savings for today Okay, Michael has the lineup here for the Brewers and as Jason mentioned later on no of ECO Garcia for today Will ya don a spatton second though Omar Narváez baton fourth love that Omar Narváez is The best player who has ever existed. Is that fair to say? I think so very good versus righties We'll put the numbers here in just a second Tyrone Taylor back up. Okay, Jayce Peterson batting six We actually might be able to get some value out of this Brewer's team Based on that line I will say that with Garcia not playing that does kind of downgrade them and also my boy Luis Arias not playing that downgrades them He's really good. I'm glad he's finally getting the results. He deserves because I love the we sir. Yes Let's check out stuff here Arias 183 ISO and Garcia 191 So two of the more powerful guys in their line-up sitting out for today But we do really a Domus in there Omar and our vias can hit some dingers So both those guys work Tyrone Taylor's a guy have traditionally used mostly versus lefties, but 39% fly ball, right? I believe he got sent down. Let's see what the numbers look like for Taylor when he was in the minors Likely working on some stuff Didn't play a lot down there, but who my goodness he hit for some power So I think that Taylor works just because we get an exposure to a good lineup Probably a very low salary Jace Peterson a 136 ISO versus ready to see your three stolen bases So the Brewers actually have a ton of value. Let's actually build this out just out of curiosity Let's go with the Grom here. We're going to go over to the Brewers I'm going to go with Narvae's first because he's a man And then I'm going to go with Taylor And then we're going to take Jace Peterson too if we do this and just totally go all in a value 32 60 left that might not be enough to stack the Cardinals, but if we get beta in there That's actually quite amount quite a bit to work with so The Brewers as a result of this lineup did get downgraded But also became the best value stack on the slate because there's a lot of value Kesson here I mentioned this morning good with him crow doesn't get a lot of strikeouts. So I think that works and I think that the Brewers good value stack for today DJ since Gavin sheets was a shocker last night and was a great home run call I'm going with Bobby Bradley The Cleveland lineup is out Bobby Bradley. I think went deep twice last night So DJ is going with the Jerry method of lefty on lefty here I'm pretty sure Bobby Bradley had a double dong last night because he's the best Diffuse asking are you still Valdez over burns? That's actually pertinent here. He's talking about Cleveland. Yes I am my level of confidence though diffuse if I were to like rank it is My level of confidence for going 0 to 10 in ranking Valdez above burns is like a three and a half like three and a half or so I could be overthinking this but burns in the three starts a decreased movement One of which was against the Padres the other two against the Rockies. So three bad teams Strike out right down to 29 percent still doing a good job with this hard contact But now facing the Pirates for a second start in the past couple weeks On the road It's enough where I'm okay going Valdez over Valdez a very good pitcher Cleveland has not seen him so far yet this year So it's Valdez or burns, but level of confidence three and a half for me for right now over on twitch And 1 2 0 9 9 1. What's up, Jim? What's up and 1 2 0 9 9 1 If you got any questions send them in happy to have you on the stream for today watching over on twitch Joining Jackie over there always appreciate some new viewers. Let's talk to jerry at lanta has a good matchup with the grom Are you are you hiring them to grom those does get the long ball at times? So akunya swanson are my top guys to hit him deep just to got feeling no I'm not there to grom is too good. I don't want to sack against dudes who just uh Who get too many strikeouts to grom very much that guy DJ I hope you guys played a lot of red socks this afternoon 15 to 1 final over Kansas City today I think those chris boogage starting for them So hopefully yeah, the process would have been good there to stack the uh red socks for today Michael has the houston lineup for us. Okay, toro's batting second. I believe he's $2,700. Let's go over here to the brewers Check out that one. Also, Michael. Thank you for posting the lineup. I appreciate that does make job my job a lot easier Let's go to toro here and he is $2,200 in second. That's not too bad brantley gurriel alvarez tucker straw castro and Garcia so straw batting seven is interesting because he's probably Oh, he's three thousand dollars. That's higher. Yeah, it's kind of gross So astros still very high salary despite toro batting up there I ranked the cardinals above them in terms of like True true non-value stacks. Uh, so I would say it's still cardinals one astros two among the Strictly high salary stacks for today. Uh jackie says the home runs for today. Okay, you're in the free home run challenge That is over on fan duel.com. Nice plug jackie. Once again, you're you're good with the home run stuff I appreciate the free plugs over here. He's got a lot of tautis and winker for the home run challenge for today The Padres facing castillo does a good job of keeping opposing batters in the ground I would I would mention that castillo has been pitching better recently So good park for sure that the note that I would have though is that uh, tautis Not gonna be it as good of a spot as he usually is result that anderson's also a ground ball pitcher So, uh, if i'm doing the home run challenge is picking, you know, it's not like relative to odds Not looking for sour just picking three guys will hit home runs for today. Let's do this Uh, i'm not gonna go out the wall. I think the castellanos actually is a good one for that T. So let's go castellanos Let's go. It's a no one are not a revenge game I feel like we are obligated to mention that like the revengeiest revenge games for no one are not a versus the rockies So like no one are not you get a bonus if you get three home runs and a bonus if you get six in the home run challenge No one are not oh might get six by tonight by himself. So Uh, where is the home run challenge? I think it's somewhere in the lobby. I don't know. I can't pull up the lobby here, but um I think it's somewhere in the lobby like you look at the top banners. It should be up there dj. Hopefully it is otherwise Maybe google it. I'm not sure but it should be in the the the top banner up there But i'm gonna go castellanos. I'm gonna go with our inato And then probably tyler o'neill honestly, let's check out uh, o'neill's numbers Versus righties Pretty sure he's someone I would want to focus on here O'neill 295 iso 43 fly ball right sweet. So our inato o'neill and Castellanos my like strict top three guys for today Jerry says don't laugh at me. It's like the way atlanta was playing. I would never laugh you jerry I just died, you know, you've got good good takes for sure Uh, put up 20 in them the ground's probably kind of ticked off. Yeah, okay. So jerry, I will say you do that You'll be very different from the crowd. There's always value in that for dfs. I will not be doing that But jerry you're on a heater Go for it man. You're on a heater. I will never doubt you dj. Uh, we already asked about that so Looking for the homerun challenge again. Check out the lobby that should be there Let's refresh here one more time to see if there are any more lineups we can go through before We close up for today. Uh, no cardinals yet. So we can't go through that one, but um Kind of annoying. I guess other stacks we have not gone through yet. Mainly the reds again. I'm guessing that there is Probably some sort of roster move that's occurring there just given how Prompt they usually are With regards to their lineup, nothing really sticking out with the the rockies. McMahon getting bumped down to 7th is stupid He's like the one good hitter they have they're bumping him down. How dare they Be very mad if he had that's there again tomorrow because tomorrow they got a good matchup versus a righty Uh, let's pull up the here's the heat map for tomorrow in case you want it I'll fill it out in case it just things might move tomorrow cause we're very good once again So, uh, hopefully McMahon moves up in the order. I know he hasn't been as hot recently, but he's still ryan freaking McMahon Uh, so check in or keep an eye out for the giants lineup once it comes out keeping out for the cardinals and the reds unfortunately just bad timing with most of The Linus for today. Okay, jackie. Uh, dj says oh dj found it. Okay, so dj found the home run challenge I've been guessing it's so jackie says it's called the 2k Thursday mlb home run challenge. So find that in the lobby. It's free Always like just in general in life that people are offering you free money. Go take it and it could be free money So again, my calls castellanos I forgot uh castellanos aronato and o'neill are the uh the home run challenge ones from going like boring and fun It's castellanos and stevensson for today That is all that we have here for today. 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