 Wanda Franco had an awesome debut last night for the Tampa Bay Rays and today the Rays are in a pretty good slot So, you know Franco will be popular for today because he has a big time prospect He's twenty five hundred dollars had a big night last night got the curtain call and in a good spot for today So, you know, he's gonna be popular, but sometimes DFS is supposed to be fun. We can just have some fun sit back Enjoy ourselves use players who want to use and I think we can do that with Franco for today So it's a fun day to play some DFS. We'll talk more about that later on welcome on into the solo shot That's right here on the fan dual podcast network in number fire calm. My name is Jim Sonnis I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm here to break down Wednesday's seven game a main slate What locks that for 705 4 to night and not only is this slate fun because we have Wanda Franco and some high strikeout pictures But also there is no weather to worry about for today. There is not a lot of variance in the temperatures Not a lot of rain in the forecast. I think we're pretty good to go We could play things straight up and use the players who want to use which is not always the case So should be a fun night for DFS. We'll break it down here in just one second But also back once again later on today at 4 p.m. Eastern taking your questions live on air on the fan dual YouTube twitch Facebook and Twitter pages getting you said for tonight's slate of MLB DFS Do you have questions on Franco questions on pictures? I did not discuss some stacks looking for some one-offs or individual plays Feel free to bop in there on the fan dual YouTube twitch Facebook or Twitter page and get your question in No matter where you are watching and make sure you subscribe to your platform of choice there Also, make sure you check out the number fired daily fantasy podcast feed where we already have our PGA breakdown for the Travelers Championship Posted with myself and Brandon gandula breaking down our favorite DFS plays in each salary tier for this week at TPC River Highlands so find that by searching for the number fired daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast and if you like Would you here leave us a rating and review as well Soccer fans this season captain Morgan and Fandle are teaming up to give you a one-of-a-con soccer contest Introducing captain Morgan soccer pick them 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 You'll earn points for each correct pick and compete for a chance to win up to $3,000 in prizes every single week head over to Fandle and enter The captain Morgan soccer pick them today must be 21 plus to participate for more details as a Fandle comm or download the Fandle 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 slate Trevor Bauer and Robbie Ray the co-highest salary pitchers on today's slate They are both $1,000 on Fandle Danny Duffy coming off the Angelus probably going to be limited He is $9,500 Trevor Rogers facing Robbie Ray and the Blue Jays is $9,400 James Caprellian fresh off a nice out against his old team kind of in the Yankees He is $9,000 and Jose Urquiti is the only other guy at $8,000 or higher He is $8,500 to me when I look at this slate There are a lot of good high strikeout pitchers between Rogers Bauer Ray Caprellian even Urquiti recently. There are a lot of guys here who are good I think that Robbie Ray is the top guy on the slate by a wide margin Despite the fact we have good options elsewhere Ray is facing Miami for today and they are a plus matchup for a lefty right now They have an a7 WRC plus versus lefties with a 28% strikeout rate and an 8% walk rate So that's a good thing. They'd be a plus matchup for all lefties They're also a plus matchup specifically for Ray given the way his stats break down He is still letting up a 47% hard hit rate in his most relevant sample Which is higher than you like especially because he's not getting ground balls He's still letting up fly balls letting up hard contact and that can be kind of scary But the Marlins don't hit for power They have a 143 ISO versus lefties with a 33% fly ball rate So it's an ideal matchup for Ray You're putting him in a matchup against a low power offense and it's in a bad park for hitting And you're giving him a strikeout boost to boot That's not to say that he needs it because Ray has a 34 strikeout rate since his slider usage increased He has a 2.82 skill interactive VR Ray the walk rate still in check at 6% The strikeout rate for Ray at 34% is 4 percentage points higher than everybody else on the slate In their most relevant sample So I want to be aggressive with Robbie Ray And I think he is the top option here by a decent margin I think that for single entry you just take Robbie Ray You don't worry about popularity You just plug in Robbie Ray and go from there because he is that good for today And I think given the stacks we've got you should be able to afford him as well So Robbie Ray to me the number one option here by a pretty decent amount As far as number two goes It's going to be a guy I have not used very much this year that's Jose Orquiti and He just couldn't get enough strikeouts earlier this year to be in play for DFS He was struggling and then Orquiti got hurt Which if you were looking for a reason to expect a turnaround that kind of put that optimism to bed But since coming back Orquiti's looked really good and I think he's worth a look here tonight The big issue for Orquiti previously Was his change up because that was a nasty pitch for him back in 2019 when he was good when Jose Orquiti first came up He was pitching really well this change up was nasty But this year that wasn't really the case. It didn't have a ton of movement on it So it wasn't as effective as it was previously But since coming back the movement has been up for Orquiti And so has a change up effectiveness in four starts Orquiti has a 3.18 skill interactive era His strikeout rate is 28 percent with a 3 walk rate. It's a four start sample So you do want to be cautious here, but he's done it against really good teams He has faced the red socks the blue jays the twins and the white socks All four of those teams have a wrc plus of at least 102 versus right-handed pitching Baltimore we face it tonight Is it 86? So it's the best matchup he's had so far The movement has been good. The effectiveness has been good He doesn't to go on the road But the starts against the twins and the blue jays in the sample were on the road too He had eight strikeouts against the twins So I think we might be seeing Orquiti perk back up here with this change up back on the move There aren't many better matchups to cement that here than this one with baltimore So I'm going to give Orquiti a run here and see if this spurt is legit because I have robby rave or cash games I can focus just on tournaments for these final two slots and Orquiti. I think for tournaments does make a lot of sense He can go deep in games He's had effectiveness in a good matchup best matchup He's had since coming back So I think that Orquiti is someone we should be willing to look at for tonight as our number two pitcher and the top value play for today at 8500 dollars For me, the third slot comes down to james capralian and joe muskrove muskrove Facing the Dodgers. I think we can use guys facing the Dodgers now given The number of injuries they have as long as the pitcher is good enough I think the muskrove is good enough But I actually prefer capralian by a smidge and I like muskrove in general So that means that I should like a preliant a pretty decent amount I'm going to rank capralian higher here at 9 000 dollars. He's facing the rangers. That's a high strikeout matchup That definitely helps the cause for capralian They have a 26 strikeout rate versus righties this year with a 90 wrc plus and a 147 iso I also would expect the roof to be shut once again tonight So it's a plus plus part for pitching not as good as oakland So capralian still getting a slight downgrade But overall it's not a bad part for pitching if we are correct in assuming the roof will be shut for tonight Capralian is pitching pretty well now as well He has had decreased fastball movement over his past three starts guessing it's probably going to be due to the sticky stuff discussion and he's still pitched fine in those three starts He has a 30 strikeout rate One of those starts was a course field another one was a yankee stadium again quasi revenge game there for capralian And he fared decently well in all three of those starts The one downside with capralian is that he hasn't had a big pitch count ceiling yet His max pitch count is 99 pitches, but he's gotten to 90 or higher in five out of seven starts So I don't deem it as a negative I just don't deem it as a positive for capralian in terms of pitch count Musgrove also has his own pitch count concerns. He could leave for a pinch hitter and stuff like that So I think that if we're picking between the two There are enough factors working capralian's favor for me to rank him third on this list So overall pitching for today I think ray is tops overall by a decent amount That is true for me for both cash games and for tournaments Rikkii is the top value on the slate and the second overall pitcher and the capralian ranks third for me Musgrove would be fourth trevor bower You know, uh, just not as into him. He does go super deep into games So that's still a plus but his strikeout right down to 27 percent Since the uh, the sticky stuff started happening. So the start of june 27 strikeout rates I'm going to take ray if I'm if I'm spending up there. So, uh, not super into bower for me for today With that in mind, let's move to our stacks and start off with a team we focused on last night who went bananas That is the oakland a's facing mic volt and nevage and the a's to me check every box for stacking Which we don't get all that often. So back on the a's once again for tonight Full the nevage has been in a funk recently He usually is a guy who will use his fastball because he throws heat But he's not throwing his fastball much right now He's been cutting back on that usage over his past five starts for whatever reason and in those five starts His strikeout rate is under 10 percent. It's 9.7 percent. His walk rate is five percent That means he is letting up a ton of balls in play basically a ball in play 85 percent of the plate appearance is against him 40 percent of those balls in play have been hard hits 40 percent have been in the air So from a stacking perspective, there are no concerns in terms of the match up here for the a's It's also a really good team too. They have a 106 w RC plus against righties with a 177 iso they hit a lot of fly balls and The park although not being great if we assume that the roof is closed It is better than what they have in oakland. So a slight park factor upgrade for oakland for today I'm having a hard time finding negatives with this spot So I think that the a's are an elite option here for tonight and my number one stack on this slate Against full to nevage. We do want to bump up the lefties obviously the a's have a lot of righties so Maybe you deem that as being a negative, but it's obviously good for matt olson I would also mention tony camp and seth brown brown Definitely not a lock to play with ramon laureano being back But just in case seth brown does play kind of similar to the patrick wisdom discussion last night Where like, okay, if he does play put him in there for seth brown It's a 220 iso versus righties and a 44 fly ball rate So I hope he gets in there tony camp has shown enough power for me to be in on him for tonight as well So again neither guys are locked to play But if either tony kemp or seth brown get in there I would bump them up here against holton evich for today Also would not be shocked if they do get in there a's seem to be generally aware of platoon splits So would not be shocked if they do get those two lefties in there But either way just worth mentioning that if brown or kemp play Getting on them metals and among the top studs overall onto night's slate As far as our second stack, you're probably getting sick of hearing about the astros We talked about them the past couple of days. They were among the top stacks two nights ago I wasn't as high in them last night, but still thought they were viable But we're not going to stop talking about them here. They are a top stacking option Once again, they're facing thomas echelman echelman is making his second start in the big leagues this year And his first one he got some good results He allowed just one earned run over four and two thirds innings So that's good Eshelman struggled in triple a though He had just an 11 strikeout rate across 19 and two thirds innings Which is similar to what happened to him last year in the majors where his strikeout rates was 11 So I think if we're trying to profile echelman in terms of expectations Definitely don't account for any strikeouts, especially against a low strikeout team like houston echelman is getting ground balls this year more ground balls than previously, which is a positive And I would expect that to continue because he's leaning hard on his secret at least he didn't that first start and You know you expect more ground balls than that happens So I would expect that ground ball rate increased to stick with echelman But that didn't stop him from having pretty rough results in triple a And I think that when you put everything together It shouldn't be enough to stop to keep us from stacking against him here So once again the astros will be high on our list for stacking I do want to mention here quickly that I'm becoming more receptive receptive to michael brantley I have not been on brantley Pretty much at all this year despite stacking the astros plenty just there wasn't enough power not enough upside in his back But it seems to be better since he came back from the injured list He's just lofty the ball more if we look at his splits Since coming back from the injury. He has a 35 fly ball rate since then it is 27 for the full season His iso is 255 and this time overall including righties and lefties. So I think it is a good time to buy into brantley now Given the importance of injuries I wouldn't be shocked if this uptick does hold. So I think that I'm Generally willing to buy into small sample data if a guy's coming off an injury if it's you know the the numbers I believe in I believe in looking at ground ball rate and fly ball rate fast I believe in looking to iso fast brantley is grading out better there now than he was previous It's michael brantley a guy I am far more receptive to now than I had been earlier on this year So the astros the number two stack for me for tonight Number three is franco time again really fun hit a dinger last night. Uh, I know people are gonna use him I know I know I know But I want an excuse to use him and I think we get Not an excuse to use him for today, but rather like an actual justifiable reason And I think that the rays are a good stack for tonight including wander franco They're facing Garrett richards richards does one thing really well. He does get ground balls His fly ball rate is just 27 percent over his past six starts with more forcing fastballs. So that's good Everything else on my sheet is very very red. He has a 5.16 skill interactive e r.a With a 17 strikeout rate and an 11 walk rate Richards is allowing hard contact 59 percent of the time That hasn't gotten him in like massive massive trouble despite facing a lot of good teams this time, but The recipe the ingredients for a really rough night are all there And the rays are a team that could produce that because they are very good They have a 110 w rc plus against righties with a 183 iso That's even before you add in franco's expected numbers to the mix like that is just if we assume that they had kept their previous team of franco I think it's safe to say Pretty decent upgrade for this offense So we should be super into them as our third ranked stack for tonight Which means we can be super into franco and a franco again just $2,500 that is far too low for someone As talented as he has proven himself to be both in triple a this year and last night in the majors So franco great for one-off and for stacks And that should allow us to use the rays even when using ray robbie ray as our pitcher Brandon lau $3,100 joey wendall's somehow keeping that iso up. It's uh You know, it's still there he's $3,000. I've been skeptical of it all year But the sample is expanding joy wendall's still hitting for power. So I guess let's buy in Austin meadows is in a bit of a slump But to me when I look at the advanced numbers, it doesn't look too concerning So I'll still be on a meadows tonight at $3,700. So franco lau Wendall meadows gmon. Choi all these guys could work for tonight I think that Choi works as a value play if you need help getting up to ray But franco obviously the key focal point here. It's okay to indulge It's okay to have some fun with dfs and using wander franco tonight is a fun way to play dfs Let's finish up here with things to watch for the wednesday main slate I did not talk about the royals and stacks, but I think they're at least worth a sniff for tonight They're facing michael king. He has had a low strikeout rate since joining the rotation with a 42 hard hit rate allowed The big positive for king has been a Lack of fly balls against him that part likely will stick But I do think that his fly ball rate will rise a bit So the royals not a great team, but they have some individual hitters who can hit pretty well park factor upgrade for today too So The royals are a team I would consider stacking as my number four stack I am not sure what to think about the other side of that game with the yankees They're facing dany duffy duffy was pitching really well before his injury this year But he's also rejoining the rotation with no rehab start, which means he could be rusty for tonight That also means he will not make a full start will probably be 40 to 50 pitches or somewhere in there So kansas city's bullpen is not terrible, but they're also not like a great one that we need to avoid So if I had a guess based on looking at the implied total for the yankees for today My guess is that I'll probably wind up being underweight on them relative to the field Just because I think dandy duffy is pretty good and the bullpen is not terrible So I wouldn't be shocked if i'm underweight on the yankees Just because I have a lot of respect for duffy despite the fact that uh, he's coming off an injury But I will say the injury angle is why you can justify stacking the yankees I'm just saying I would not be shocked if i'm underweight on them compared to everyone else Finally, I am interested in seeing what tylor migill does tonight for the mets he's making his debut against the braze which is a very tough assignment, but He was pitching well in the minors before his call-up Miguel had a 40 strikeout rated double a got promoted to triple a It was 28 there across three starts with a lot of swings and misses Now we talked plenty this year about how strikeout rates are bonkers across the minors which could mean that the numbers from migill are overinflated We could expect him to still struggle in the majors But I think it's enough or i'm not super eager to stack against him Seems like he will get some ground balls too So I don't think it's a terrible idea to stack the braze because they're a very good offense migill could struggle but migill kind of interesting and the fact they don't have tape on him in the majors yet that could hurt things too so Okay being lower on the braze. Okay being lower on the yankees for today too. Just because I think that the opposing pitchers are our guys I respect and and willing to Take more of a wait-and-see approach as a result of that That is all the time that we have here for today on the solo shop But once again back with you later on 4 p.m Eastern on the fandal youtube twitch facebook and twitter pages if you're watching youtube right now Make sure you hit that like button and hit the subscribe button to get notifications as we go live each and every day Both of the solo shot and the q and a also check out the pga dfs podcast via myself brandy cadulla Up on the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed if you have questions for me before 4 p.m I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a nnes 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 with your mlb dfs lounge for today We'll talk to you once again tomorrow. 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