 It is going to be a nerve wracking night tonight and I'll be DFS because my process almost always is to allocate as much salary as possible picture because generally the high salary guys are high salary for a reason you want to spend up to get that strike out upside get that juice up there and you want to build around those players today. I don't think I can do that because the stacks that I want to get to for today are all high salary which means we are going to be looking for value at picture which is always very scary We'll break things down. Let you know where I am turning for today in MLB DFS. This is a Fandall live Q&A right here on the Fandall YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com here to answer your questions for the next half hour here on the Fandall YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages. No matter where you are watching, you can get those questions and we'll take them via the YouTube chat section also via Twitch, Facebook and Twitter. So whatever is on your mind for today, put those questions in the chat and we will talk to them or answer them live here on air for today. As a reminder, Aaron Dolan is coming up. That is at 430 to break down game six between the Hawks and the Bucks. That is tomorrow. So break down that from a betting perspective and it should be a whole lot of fun. But let's start things off here by taking a question from Facebook with William. He is asking, can Lance McCullers get to six strikeouts for today? So Lance McCullers facing Cleveland on the road. McCullers in the start since he returned has gone 77, 94 and 89 pitches. 21% strikeout rate facing a low strikeout team. If you are looking to bet a prop, William, I'd probably say stay away from six. I might go. I don't know if I want to go under there, but I can't get to the over on that one. Just not enough confidence in him since he came back from that injury. Pete Leeson, what's up? He's over on Twitch, PandaP21 saying gumball. Hello, Pete. Welcome to the FanDuel Live Q&A. Hope you are doing well. Let's talk to Mike. My outfield is Harper, JD Martinez and Garcia from the Rangers, Winker and Hanniger. Who do I sit? If you're talking about just for today, I mean, this is mostly a DFS thing. So I would probably be trying to, it'd be tough for me to sit Bryce Harper or JD Martinez or Garcia, but Winker and Hanniger are pretty good too. Winker is facing Alec Mills. We have Hanniger, the Mariners facing off with, oh, Kyle Gibson. Okay. So I mean, I'd probably just stick with your studs there and feel pretty good with that one. Mike, William, how do you feel about the Astros stack for today? No lineup out yet for the Astros as of yet, but I think overall they will be, I think there's like a cluster of three stacks at the top. It is the Astros, the Rockies and the Cardinals. And that's the reason why I am so focused on trying to identify some lower salary pitchers for today because I do want to make sure I can allow myself to get to those really, really good stacks for today. So to me, Houston very much in that top tier. Alvin just mentioned that Jordan Alvarez is on paternity leave. So that may mean we get Chas McCormick in the lineup. Chas is tremendous. He is $2,400, a lot of power for a low salary guy. So I think that's great. I hope we get him in there. I'm okay using versus lefties too. So William very on board with the Astros for today, especially if we get Chas McCormick in there as well. Alvin Rockies bat rank, bat rankings. Okay. So let's see if the lineup is out here for the Rockies. They have kind of an early game for a core start for today. So maybe it is out. Maybe it's come out here in the past couple of minutes. And it's, I scroll past it, didn't I? Yeah, it's okay. So we got Tapio, Hampson, Story, Blackman, Rogers. What in the world is this lineup? Okay. So I am just thrown off by 90% of this. Okay. So McMahon's betting seventh again. I know he's in a slump, but he shouldn't be down that far. I'm very upset about this. Okay. So Tapio, Hampson, Story, Blackman, Rogers, Crone, McMahon. Okay. So let's go over here. Pull up the Rockies numbers versus righties and see what we are cooking with. It's worth noting that Yohan Obiedo does have pretty regular platoon splits where we do want to favor lefties versus him over righties. So that does bump up to Pia, does bump up McMahon and Blackman as well. I know McMahon's betting seventh. And I know he's high salary, but Alvin, I have a really hard time not putting him towards the top of this list just because he's really good. And I mean, he's had three hard hit balls each of the past two games, strikeouts have started to come back down for him. So I feel like I want to go McMahon first, even though he's batting low in the order once again. CJ Crone, I think batting fifth. Yeah, sixth today. Okay. So whatever. 184 ISO, low strikeout rates, plenty of fly balls. I know he's a righty, but I still feel pretty good about that. So let's put Logan Gilbert in as our pitcher because he's going to be my number one guy for today. Let's go to the Rockies and work through this stack here. Ah, there we go. Okay, Rockies. Let's go with McMahon, probably at second base, honestly, given the way things tend to work there. Let's go crone at first base. Okay, I would like to get Trevor's story. I'm not sure if I actually I probably can with Gilbert, honestly. Yeah, it's actually not too hard. So we'll go story there. And then we're decided between Tapia, Blackman, Rodgers, et cetera, et cetera. Tapia, Tapia, a 127 ISO, eight stolen bases. That's plenty of upside. He's definitely above Blackman for me. But is he above Hanson, 124 ISO, six stolen bases? Yeah, probably is, especially when we consider the fact that we do want to favor lefties versus Oviado. And the other one we're considering is Brendan Rodgers, 128 and no steals. So to me, it's probably going to be Tapia as being that top guy among those other options. So I think this is probably my favorite core stack. It does mean you are using guys batting lower in the order with pro and McMahon. But honestly, like, they've got upside, I think they're the best hitters in this team. So I'm going to go with this is the top four for the Rockies would probably go with Hanson over Blackman. I know Blackman is like the bigger name, but I just feel like Hanson is a better upside. Hanson is a good salary too. So that does help. Rodgers would be below Blackman for me, given the platoon splits against Oviado. So it's kind of a weird ranking based on the way their lineup shook out. But I still feel good about it for today. Just based on, I feel good about the upside and crone in McMahon. Let's talk to William. I play monkey knife fight as well. So that's why I asked if you would get five and a half or because strikeouts mean a lot. They mean a lot on fan duel too. So I think it's good to emphasize that regardless. And I just don't see enough juice in the colors to get to feel good about going over five and a half. Let's see here. Mike, do you like Arias for today? I like Ramon Arias. Does that count for the Orioles if he winds up being in there? Luis Arias kind of a tough spot facing the Nationals. He's a good pitcher. The problem is I like, I think the Nationals are a good team versus the lefties. 108 WRC plus Arias. I think he's a good player. I just don't like the matchup that much. So to me, I'm probably not going to get there personally. I do like him, but I think he's a good pitcher. But I think the spot isn't quite good enough to get me up to his sour. I think he's $8,700 or somewhere in that range. He is 89. Okay. So yeah, I'd rather just spend down. He's not bad. Just a tough matchup on the road. Enough factors where I'm okay being lower on him. Jason, do you like the A's and the Reds? A's are facing Eduardo Rodriguez? No. I think Eduardo Rodriguez is really good. I know the ERA is 5.83, which is bad, but low temperatures for today. I think Rodriguez is actually in play as a pitcher. He's my number three pitcher considering salary for today. So no, no ways for me. It's risky to use him, but I think that's worth the risk for today. Reds facing Alec Mills. Mills does a really good job of keeping batters on the ground, allowed a 14% fly ball rate in his three starts and starting the rotation. So Reds and A's both lower on my list for today. Jared, how about Lopez from the Reds? Four for five in his first start. I'm assuming this is Alejo Lopez. I used him last night. The lineup came out right after we were done, got very lucky, felt pretty good about it. He's not like the highest upside guy, but hey, he was at a good spot in the order, so I felt really good about him there. Yeah, good showing for him. Wheeler, more than seven-and-a-half strikeouts today. They're not in the main slate, so I've not researched Wheeler, but in general, yes, he's very good. Chris Paddock, more than 17 putouts. Paddock is also not a main slate, so I've not researched him. He had a rough out a couple of days ago. So I've not researched those two guys in the interest of full transparency. Alvin, also does the lineup put Astros over Rockies for you in stack rankings. So it's a weird lineup for the Astros, but it's not like what I would call a bad lineup, so I would still go with the Astros over the Rockies. It's just like it's kind of a weird one to rank for DFS. So I'm not going to change too much based on that, but it's definitely an interesting one is the way that I would phrase that. Let's talk to Jonathan, is Paul Goldschmidt good against Rockies? So let's pull up the numbers here, check it out, and pull up the Cardinals numbers. The answer is yes, but we can go through the process of looking at it to see what numbers I'm emphasizing to come to that conclusion. To me, it's all about power, all about upside. And my dog is chewing on something. I'm not sure what it is, but I can hear it. She's chewing on something. I don't know what it is. It's very mischievous. Anyway, we'll worry about that later on. But Paul Goldschmidt, 201 ISO versus Rockies, good results. Middling striker rated 21%. The ISO there is high enough where I feel good about him. So I think that Paul Goldschmidt, definitely a guy you want to use for sure. Let's talk to Tim with the White Sox, Red Sox, Giants, and Montreal Canadiens. When? I don't know Hockey. Erin knows Hockey. She's coming up after this. So I would talk to her. I don't know Hockey. Red Sox are facing, let's see here. They've got Casey Mines. I like their spot there. The Red Sox are facing the A's. That's more of a toss-up. I like both pitches in that game. I think that Frankie Montos is really good. So going to hesitate on that one and the Giants are facing Zac Gallin. Gallin does struggle a bit with lefties, which is why I couldn't quite get to him for DFS for today. But he's still a decent pitcher. So I would be a bit wary of that one. Let's talk to William. Do you like the Padres or Phillies more today? Again, I don't know. It's not in the main slate, so I haven't researched it, but probably Phillies because Wheeler's pitching. Jerry, how would you rank the teams between Milwaukee, Toronto, and Cincinnati? OK, so the Brewers are facing JT Brew Baker. Does let up some fly balls, not a big strikeout guy, not a great park. Toronto, that game might not play. Jerry's to be wary of that. There is some rough weather in Buffalo for today. The Reds are facing Alak Mills. Among those, I'd probably be highest on the Brewers just because Brew Baker does let up a good number of fly balls, followed by, I would guess, the Blue Jays just because of the Blue Jays, and then the Reds after that. Jerry gave a call on DeGrom getting hit. Now I'm calling Scherzer, giving up a couple of runs tonight if the game plays well. He did give up the three on Digger, but then also had, like, 97 strikeouts because Jacob DeGrom is disgusting. OK, so Jerry's liking the Dodgers against Scherzer. Scherzer has had a spin rate decline recently with the sticky stuff discussion going on. He's still been very effective, so I'm not looking for bats against him. 32% strikeout right over his pass, four starts. It doesn't let up fly balls for sure. But overall, I still think that we should be very effective. I should say Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is the school. Pittsburgh is the city. OK, Pittsburgh, Baltimore for some cheap one-offs or mini-stacks. I do like Baltimore facing Griffin Canning. He lets up some impactful contact. It is risky because Canning gets a lot of play balls for sure. But overall, I still think that we should feel good about Max Scherzer. So I think he's more in play for DFS and stacking against him. Sock to Conrad over on YouTube, thoughts on the Pitt-Baltimore game as some cheap one-offs or mini-stacks. I should say Pittsburgh. Canning gets enough whiffs where you do worry that he could potentially shut them down. So I do want to note that it is risky to use Baltimore. But I think it's worth that risk because they do have some good guys who can generate upside-setting moans specifically way under salary to $3,100. So like them a lot, Anthony Santan dare as always. And I mentioned Ramona Rios kind of as a joke, but also kind of not. I think he's fun. So I'm on board of them. Pittsburgh is facing Adrian Hauser. Like I just can't use anybody there. 17% fly ball right against Hauser over his past four starts. So no pirates, but I'm on board with the Orioles for today. Tim, minus Canadians since just baseball talk. Yeah. So I think the other ones, Red Sox, a diciest of those options followed by the Giants. But White Sox, I'd feel pretty good about. Let's see here. DJ JT Brubaker, I am really looking to use to go at against thoughts. Yeah. So again, it's mostly about the park and also the weather. It's 67 degrees in Pittsburgh for today. Not a great park for hitting to begin with. The Brewers still just okay versus righties. So I think that we have better options from a stacking perspective. But hey, the Brewers bring some salary relief. Let's check out their line up here and see if they have as many salary savers as they did last night. Because if they do, that could be kind of interesting. They've got Luisa Rios batting lead off. So we'll talk about all the Oriases for today. Adame's batting third, Omar Narváez batting fourth. It's a pretty good lineup, honestly. It's the same as last night effect. It might be the exact same. No, Rios wasn't in there last night. It was long. I don't think it's the worst idea, DJ, because they've got some value. They've got some guys of upside. But I do still think that it's more of like a middling option. Clint, thoughts on the Brew Crew? Okay. Really good question and really good timing. Clint just talked about that. So hopefully that answered your question, Clint, as we were talking about them there. I think that they're an option for today. Not super high on that list, but one I would be willing to consider. William, do you think the Kansas City and Twins game put up some more than 10 runs today together? So we've got Brady Singer versus Jay Hap. That game is in Kansas City. It's very warm. 84 degrees. 10 is a lot. So I don't think I'd look towards the over, but I'm not taking the under because Jay Hap lets up a lot of impactful contact. The Royals can... They have some guys who can punish you. And the line-up is out. Let's pull up the Royals line-up here for today. Jorge Soler, second. Salvador Perez batting fourth. Hunter Alberto batting fifth. I'm not super into him. That's high in the order. Hunter Dozier, sixth. Michael Taylor, seventh. And Edward Olivares, eighth. I was hoping Olivares would slide a little bit higher in the order. Didn't wind up happening. So it's a little bit disappointing, but let's pull up the Royals numbers here versus Royals. And check out Alberto, because I wasn't super into Hunter Alberto last time I checked into him, but that was a couple weeks ago, I think. So maybe things have gotten better there. Alberto, 066, ISO versus lefties. He doesn't strike out just good, but still have a hard time for me getting super jazzed about him. So not going to use Alberto despite the good spot in the batting order. That's a tougher sell for me. So I probably would not take the over on 10 for the Royals and the twins. Jason likes the Dodgers today too. Okay. So Jerry, you've got someone with you on the Dodgers for today. If this means stacking again, I'm not going to get there. I would caution against it personally because Scherzer doesn't let up enough balls and play for us to stack against him. I think that it's a 14 game. So you got ways to be different without, you know, stacking against Max Scherzer. But hey, Jerry, you've got a compatriot there in Jason. Let's talk to Michael Toronto. Angel stack with Arias sound good. So again, a little bit worried about Arias because the matchup is tough. The Nationals pretty good versus lefties. Not a super high strikeout team. He's on the road, et cetera, et cetera. So I'm not super into Arias for today from a pitching perspective. And I do want to spend a little bit less. Like, again, Logan Gilbert, pretty good option for me. Angel stack I am okay with for sure. Facing Keegan Akin, Akin is someone who can definitely let up some impactful contact. I didn't mention him in stacks this morning of the angels and stacks, but that's because they're probably like the fourth ranked high salary stack from ranking out high salary stacks versus low salary stacks. I would say Cardinals one asked or not, not Astros Rockies to Astros three angels four among the high salary stacks and then looking at the Orioles and the Royals among the lower salary stacks for today. So the angels number four for me from a stacking perspective among the higher ones for this one. Let's talk to you, Michael. Who do you like in a St. Louis stack? Let's see if the lineup is out. It might be because that is an 8 p.m. game and see if we can. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Cardinals perfect timing on that stack around that lineup release. Okay. So Tommy Edmond batten six, Yari Malina fifth, Tyler O'Neill. Okay. So we have a general idea of who is batting where for the Royals. I think Dylan Carlson is actually going to wind up being pretty high on my list just because he's 34 hundred dollars, which is very forgiving for some one who I think has solid upside at course yield for today batting lead off 34 hundred dollars. Let's sort here by plate appearances versus righties. Let's clear out the Rockies guys and keep Gilbert in there because I do think that he's going to be a focal point for today. Okay. Edmond is more of a high upside guy versus lefties from a hitting perspective. He does feel basis versus righties but from a like true power perspective he's not going to grade out as well. So I think Arunato revenge game Goldschmidt Carlson and O'Neill probably going to be the top options here. I think so the top four guys in the order actually might just be how we wind up ranking these guys. Tintin Tintin Cardinals there. So let's go with Goldie. Let's go with Arunato. Let's go with O'Neill and Carlson and after we do that we have 2975 left. So you do have to potentially pair them with a lower salaried stack if you want to do that. If you're trying to save a bit maybe you bump off of Arunato and go down to let's check out Molina's numbers versus righties 126 so that's actually not as high as I was hoping it might be. Edmond batting sixth I believe let's check out Paul de Jong's numbers since he came off the injured list because shortstop has been kind of tough to fill at times. Let's check out what he's been doing recently. Had a lot of injuries so far this year so I care a bit more about the current form with regards to de Jong just because I do want to see if he's been improving of late. So if we go overall since he came back strikeout rate 29% 155 ISO. That's not terrible. The stack cast numbers on him in that time since he came back. I have rejection velocity of 84.2, 7.7% barrel rates but he's been hitting the ball harder recently I guess. Too hard at balls last night had a couple there as well. Let's just go past two weeks on tweaks ish because I don't actually know when two weeks ago was on de Jong that is still about the same. So I feel like I would try to do this and then use maybe the Royals as a second stack because their salaries are pretty low. So that's where I'd be looking for there. Okay. So I got a question from Matt. I'm actually going to jump ahead to that. Matt on Facebook, who is the best value pitcher for today? To me, that guy is Logan Gilbert. And the reason is that he's pretty good. He's got some strikeout upside 26% strikeout rate overall across his eight starts. He had a rough, rough, rough beginning to things here. A couple of tough outings. My goodness. Okay. A couple tough outings against Cleveland to then he's had a lot of tough teams since then. Top 10 teams versus righties and WRC plus. But he's been good. Specifically, the strikeouts have been there. If you look at the past four starts against the Angels, Cleveland, Tampa Bay, and Chicago, his strikeout rate is 30%. That is one of the better marks on this slate. 3.33 skill interactive era low walk rates, low hard hit rate against, good match versus Texas. It's a good park in general as well. So to me, the best value picture for today is Logan Gilbert. But he's also the best picture overall. So I do like Logan Gilbert a lot from a pitching perspective for today. And he will be my top guy for today. Let's go back to DJ on Facebook. Thoughts on singer versus Minnesota. Not enough strikeouts me to be super enthused about him, but he's been better recently because he's been leaning more on his slider. This is his past five start strike areas of 24% getting better. But still not quite enough for me. I rank him below Gilbert, below Montas and below Rodriguez for today from a pitching perspective. Let's talk to Conrad. Sunny Gray an option. Are you worried coming back from an injury? So he went 53 pitches in his rehab start last week, which means he'll probably be 70 to 75. That's not enough for me. So no Sunny Gray for me for today. DJ, Stax Seattle versus Texas. If so, who I would not? Gilbert is the guy, or sorry, Stax Seattle against Gibson. Now Gibson doesn't let up enough hard contact. So I'll avoid that one. Let's talk to Sterling on YouTube, Tati's Jr. Jose Altube, Otani and Vlad Jr. All to hit a home run. I love it, Sterling. If that's a parlay, I would be, I'd be very nervous. That's a lot of things that tie together. But good luck to you if that is the case there. DJ, let's see here, he's asking about, okay, so let's talk to Trappa. How do you feel about Baltimore in the Angels game going over a nine and a half? I don't mind that one actually. Of the totals we've been talking about so far today, I feel like that'd be my favorite one in part because I think both these offenses should be in a pretty good position. I mentioned the Angels before against Keegan Aiken, but also talked about the Oros against Griffin Canning. I think that that all sets up pretty well. I think that if I were looking at this game though, what I might be more inclined to look at is the Angels individual team total. Let's see what their implied total is 5.34. I feel like that the overall total for that game is probably the most attractive market. 76 degrees is not like the best temperature betting and over, but I do like both sides in that game. So Trappa, I'm okay with that one personally. Let's talk to Sterling. Angels game is going over nine out based off how they played since last Saturday. So there we go. Okay, so Sterling is on board with you, Trappa. Michael, who are you prioritizing in a Houston stack? So I'm assuming that Chasm of Cormac is in there. I've not seen their lineup as of yet. Let's refresh one more time and see if we can get it. No, not yet. Okay. So from a prioritization perspective, that to me says I am accounting for salary and that to me says I'm going to try to get Chasm of Cormac in there because he is $2,400 on a slate where I want to save salary. So we'll go with McCormac. Probably going to want Gouriel given the salary savings. We'll do that. And then most likely Altuve and Correa. Let's see if we can fit that in. I know Correa didn't play yesterday and should be good to go for today. 35, 75 left means you're not going to get like R or not a Goldschmidt, et cetera, et cetera. But that to me is going to be the optimal stack for the Astros. Again, we have to make sure that McCormac is in there. But based on Alvarez hitting the paternity list, I think we should be good to go. MMXI, Gallo is extremely hot. How is Gilbert the best overall pitcher? Joey Gallo is one player in a full lineup that has an 89 WRC plus versus righties. There's more than one guy in the lineup. Robert is great, indeed pitching . I haven't seen anything different. Let me scroll over here and check out. But I've also been talking to you guys for half an hour. So there's been an update. I have not seen it. Baltimore going to give a pitch. I agree. Let's see here. Let's talk to Jason. Who do you like in a White Sox stack? Not super eager to stack the White Sox. I think that I'm not using mine as a pitcher. He's definitely declined since the spin rate discussion popped up. 19% strikeout rate, 50% hard hit rate. So you could definitely justify stacking it lower on my list. But all those options, I know Sheets batting second is someone I'm open to using. Had pretty good numbers when I was looking before. Brian Goodwin also, I think is a bit underrated. So I would say probably focusing on these top six guys or top five guys, I should say, Jake Burgers, not in the Fandall player pool for today. I'm happy to see him in the big leagues because he had like, I think, two AC, or not two AC, I think Achilles Terras potentially. It was rough. I would be, I'm glad that he's here. He's just not in the Fandall player pool. So I would say the top five guys in the White Sox are the main ones to focus on there. Alvin for single entry, top three stacks. So let's check out the implied totals here to see who is projecting to be popular. So we can get a read on that. And then we can kind of decide, okay, how we need to pivot based on that. So the Rockies, Cardinals, so the Astros are a bit lower on this list. So Alvin, I would say, pick your favorite between the two Coors teams. I'd probably lean toward St. Louis. I think that there's enough there where we can feel good about them despite the fact that they are going to be popular. I would say Gilbert Pitcher, Cardinal Stack, Astro Stack. They'll be popular, but that's okay for me for today. DJ is Patino, a starter or opener for the Rays. He will probably be going as being like the the primary pitcher. He would go decently deep earlier. He's probably going to be around 80 or so pitches. What I have here based on what he did in triple A leading into this. I think he went, I think he was like 75 or so in his final triple A start. So he should be the the primary pitcher for today. Tropic, do you like Seattle at home for tonight? If we're talking about this from a DFS perspective, I like Logan Gilbert a lot as a pitcher for today. So I think that, yeah, I'm on board with them. William, do you really think the Rockies and Cardinals both the 12 and a half runs? I mean, I don't know. I'm not talking about from a betting perspective. We're talking DFS here. So I, I like them a lot for stacking specifically. And then XI. Okay. The Rockies lineup is or the Astros lineup is in and there's no Gurriel. Oh my goodness. This is terrible. Well, it's not actually terrible. I don't love using him. I just like him more against lefties. Okay. So I'll Tube Correa McCormick batting fifth. Oh my goodness. This is great. Taylor Jones. All right. That's a loophole or a loop for us. So the Rock the Astros might actually be a value stack question mark. Let's pull up their numbers versus lefties here. I'm actually going to go back to the the Fanduil player pool and refresh this thing and see what we are working with here. While I'm refreshing this, I got a question from Clint. Do you see the Braves teeing off on Lopez? No. Lopez is very good. Do not see that happening personally. Okay. So I did not refresh the Rock or the Astros player pool here. Taylor Jones is in the Fanduil player pool. He is minimum salary. So let's pull up his numbers here and see if we can get excited about this guy versus a lefty. Okay. Taylor Jones in triple A this year to 24 ISO that works in triple A back in 2019. It was a 210 ISO with 22 dingers. That's not too bad. Honestly, I'm into it. Okay. The Astros a value stack question mark. I kind of think they are. Let's see what Abraham Toro has done versus lefty. This is a switch hitter. So just 15 plate appearances. Let's expand the sample and go back to last year as well. Let's just look at his overall splits versus lefties and see what he has done. Try to get a read on whether we should go at him for today. And let's go to versus lefties. 67 plate appearances. Oh, 67 ISO. That's not quite enough for me to be on Toro. So I would say in terms of stacking the Astros, Altube, Correa, McCormick, Taylor Jones. I think the Tucker is actually pretty good against lefties too if I recall. Correct. He's missed a lot of time this year. So I guess it is 170 plate appearances, but 179 ISO. That's enough. So I would say Tucker is up there. But if you're looking to save salary, both McCormick and Jones are guys I am fully comfortable using. So Astros weirdly kind of a value stack for today. That is all that we have from a DFS perspective for today. But we got to talk some more betting because tomorrow is game number six between the Hawks and the Bucks. And here to preview that is Erin Dolan. She's going to break down her thoughts on that game coming up tomorrow. Erin, welcome into the broadcast. Happy Friday. How are you doing today? Good. Almost to the holiday weekend bringing it home now. Yes, I've got my red shirt on as I guess I have blue shorts on too. I didn't even think. There we go. I have blue shorts on. So I think that we kind of got all the colors. I have blue shorts on as well. We're full out here. I actually have gray sweatpants. It was not intentional. I must say I realized that I had red and blue on later on. I was like, oh, I look like a dork. But no one can see me. So who cares? It doesn't really matter. Either way. What are your thoughts on game six tomorrow? So game six, I'm going with the Bucks to upset, surprise everybody. I think they can get it done. I'm not crazy confident in it, but I'm going to take them on the money line tomorrow. Okay. Perfect. Well, I'm going to let you break that down, Erin. Thank you. I will have a great weekend. Have a great weekend. Yeah, you too. Appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. All right, guys. Hello. How are we doing? I can't believe that it is July, July fourth weekend. Now I feel like this summer is starting to fly by because we can finally get out of our houses and everything. But as Jim said yesterday, of course, was game five. We have game six going on tomorrow in the eastern conference finals between the Hawks and the Bucks. Quickly just want to kind of go over what happened in yesterday's game. So as we know, the Bucks won 123 to 112. They did not have Yanis in this game. Treyoung was also out. So Treyoung was questionable like we talked about yesterday but ended up not playing. Kind of like I mentioned that it wasn't a do or die situation. I thought they were going to sit him. Now for the upcoming game, we're not sure of his status just yet. And we don't have markets available on the Fandals Sportsbook for Treyoung just yet. I was very honest. I'm assuming he's going to be out. But a lot of the players for the Bucks stepped up. Bobby Portage, 22 points. Brooke Lopez, 33. Chris Middleton, 26. Drew Holiday, 25. Obviously Brooke Lopez absolutely showing how dominant he was in the paint yesterday. There was just no defense for the Atlanta Hawks. Nate McMillan actually said that he doesn't know what their defense went in yesterday's game. But the Bucks jumped out to a good lead. And then as always, like I say, when the Bucks have a lead, we're not too confident that they're going to be able to maintain that. That's one thing that I've noticed when betting on the Bucks in general is just they'll go out to a lead and they're not able to sustain it. And this obviously we know they got the win 123-112, but there were moments when it was back down to single digits between these two teams. But let's get to some of the questions about the bat. William Andrew Meng, do you see Middleton getting 28 plus points in game six? So he should be able to do it. His points prop is at 27.5 right now on the Fandals Sports Book. But my one issue with Chris Middleton is I want to say take the over there, 27.5. But at the same time, and he did play well in Atlanta the last time, actually I should say in game three when he scored 38 points, led the team there. But then in game four, he followed up with 16 points. So for me, I feel like 27.5 is really high and I feel like his numbers in particular are inflated just given that Yanis is not going to be in this game. So yes, like I mentioned, 27.5 over minus 18 under minus 104. For some reason, I feel the under on this because some of the other players had to step up and kind of get those points in game five. And they're going to have to do that same thing in game six. So for me, I kind of like the under on the Chris Middleton prop for me in this game. Sorry, I'm trying to see that comment came in twice. Okay, so let's kind of just keep going with some of the recap that I just wanted to do. Just wanted to answer something quickly. And again, you guys can comment on whatever platform you're watching this on and I will try to answer all of your questions. Let's go through some of the stats. So the box again, not shooting great from beyond the arc, 31 percent there, but the three by two did cash. If you took that on the Fandals Sports Book, that's two, three pointers made in the first three minutes. That was plus 150 for yesterday's game. So if you got that great promotion, great thing to cash yesterday, both teams doing well with the good gold percentage and free throws kind of the same there as for turnovers, 14 for the Hawks, bucks, eight. So as we know, the box lead the series three, two. Which as I said during yesterday's show when we were talking about the series prices that if you wanted to take the box to win it, win the series, you wanted to take the yesterday was minus 132 I believe before the game moved up from minus 116 when I was talking about it on the show. It's now bucks minus 360 Hawks plus 290. Now if you think they're going to win the next game and force the game seven, you're going to want to take the Hawks now. Do not take the bucks minus 360. There's no value there but if you do believe in the Hawks, this is where you want to take them now. Also in terms of team futures, if you do like the Hawks 12 to 1, better take that now because if they do win game six, that's going to come down. And then if you think this is going to go to a game seven, just wait till after this game tomorrow night in terms of the NBA championship. We have the Suns minus 190. That's moved down from minus 200. Again, the Suns will play either the bucks, the Hawks, Suns back in it for the first time since 1993. So a lot going on in terms of these markets and there's always the one thing with bedding is a perfect time to try to bed into it. Like I mentioned right now, Hawks if you think they're going to win it all or excuse me. Yeah, if you think they're going to win it all, you can take them 12 to 1 right now. You should also take them on the money line because this will change. Like I just mentioned after game six, if they win, I'm going with the bucks in this game, take them on the money line plus 120 right now. I think that the bucks figure out a way to have some magic and get this done, especially after last game. A lot of the conversation actually is around do the bucks play better without Yanis which is an absolute ridiculous theory in my eyes because Trey Young wasn't in this game and I think he probably would have lit it up if he was in this game. As for the spread though, the Hawks open a lot of people, I know I tweeted that out. We're figuring that Trey Young could potentially play in this game which is definitely factoring to the line and then as you can see the line has moved out over the last 24 hours to Hawks minus two and a half and then we'll take a look at the total in just a little bit. William Andrew also asking how do you feel about, I'm assuming you mean Bogdan, Bogdanovich 18 plus points. Let's get to his points prop. So I'm assuming you're talking about this player, Bogdan, right? Yeah, it has to be that. All right, 17 and a half for him. He could potentially hit over that. Let me find what he's averaging right now. He lit the team 28 points. He's averaging 14 points. So I like the under on this one to be honest. I know it's minus 116 but a lot of these numbers again are inflated and you can see that there's not every single solitary Atlanta Hawks player available right now on the Fando sports book and that is because we're still waiting to see the status of Trey young and then when Trey young if he is factored in the points prop markets can change as well because obviously you're going to expect some of these players to have higher points instead of those lines higher if Trey young is not going to be in while we're here at the points props we might as well go through some other notes that I have for John Collins. He's averaging 14 points is that 15 and a half. As I mentioned with Bogdanovich he is at 17 and a half averaging 14 points. Kevin Herter he is averaging 11 points his is at 12 and a half so as you can see all three of these player props are inflated right now because we don't know the status of Trey young while we're looking at these Chris Middleton Drew Holiday Brook Lopez so Chris Middleton 27 and a half already kind of covered that for some reason I do like the under on that for Drew Holiday his is set at 23 and a half he's averaging 22 points or excuse me 21 points and then Brook Lopez is averaging at 15 points. So if you think Brook Lopez is going to have another great game I would definitely take the over on this player prop but the one concern for me is that if you land Hawks try to figure out how to shut him down in this game knowing how many points he did put up in the paint I'm assuming that their strategy is going to shift to that which might leave Drew Holiday Chris Middleton available around the perimeter and kind of hitting some of those three so maybe you want to look at where we go I think this Clint Capello literally just popped up as we're talking here I don't know if someone just caught that but I think that's just popped up we're all some seeing things click on Pella over 10 and a half that's what they're putting that up PJ Tucker 5 and a half all right all right guys well let's get into some of the sorry Will I'm coming back to you how do you feel about Brook Lopez getting 16 plus points he scares me a lot again 15 and a half right here I think it's possible that he's going to be that but of course that number inflated before any other games people were before last game in particular in the series a lot of people saying that he was washed up wasn't doing much for the team but obviously it seems that everything was probably centered around Giannis as it should be he's a two-time MVP obviously the Greek freak and the majority of the points are going to come from him on the floor so I think that without Giannis it makes a lot of sense to take him over his points props I think even if they do are excuse me down he should still be able to get up over that amount of points so hope that answers your question let's go through where we're seeing the money so far for this game so if you go to numberfire.com look at the odds you'll see here so as for the spread we'll get a little split there 53% of the money is on Milwaukee to cover of course they are an underdog in this spot right now for Milwaukee money line also plus money 57% of the money 62% of the bets as for the over 74% of the money and the bets are on that now I'm doing my research there's a few things you're welcome will that you can look at if you go to covers this is something that I really enjoy doing if you go to a matchup for example for the NBA you can go here and we can look at their trends now the cool thing they have is hot trends are 80% or higher cold trends 20% or lower so the bucks are five and one against to spread I'm not sure if that trend something I would necessarily be thrilled about and be like oh my gosh I need to take the bucks because of this against to spread but as for the Hawks 4-0 against to spread last four games is a favorite but remember in majority of the games they were not favored in this series or the previous series against Philadelphia Hawks are 6-1 against to spread their last seven playoff games as a favorite 18-3 against to spread in their last 21 games as a home favorite that screams a lot like Aaron you definitely should be taking the Hawks but again I'm riding with the bucks I already said it standing by my words as I always do as for the total trends under a lot of these flames under under under under under I'm not going to go through every single one of these but if you go to covers you can read through some of them yourself head to head the under is 5-0 in the last five meetings in Atlanta something to keep in mind as well it does seem like it under would be the way to go but again this is a game six so it might be high scoring but yeah the covers is a great place to go to look at some of the trends and then obviously odds fire like I mentioned a great place you can go look at money you can do that for basically anything if you want to look at the MLB games that are on the slate for today you can go and look down the money for there same thing with the NHL 11 rebounds in game six let me quickly just look at one thing average rebounds I go to stat news and I put in average rebounds for he's had 11 average per game so let's just quickly go say rebounds over 10 and a half that seems pretty feasible there plus as you know he's going to be down there down low makes a lot of sense there to take 11 if you want to get a little risky and think he's going to have 12 you could take him plus 114 to have 12 at 10 plus rebounds he's minus 220 so to me that screams minus 220 in this market that he's most likely going to get over 10 plus rebounds odds makers think that so for them to set the line over 10 and a half because obviously you'd have to hit 11 for that market to hit anyways at minus 122 better value there because obviously you're going to have to hit 11 but if you want to get a little risky I would take him plus 12 rebounds plus 114 I try to get any of the player props I possibly can at plus money I know it's hard because I don't even like laying minus 120 as you guys know I always do my dogs the day because I like plus money because why not I know you're saying last question can holiday get double digit 10 plus assist again let's see if they have them up yet wait can holiday get double digit 10 plus assist again sorry I thought you were saying the points plus assist that's a 34 and a half as for just double digit 10 plus assist minus 180 I would never lay that I would never take that minus 180 for me I don't know if I would take that I would probably not I feel like sometimes when you have like a Christmas holiday they're most likely shooting the ball would be I would take probably 12 assist plus 162 if you do think that's going to get over 10 plus assist anyways I definitely would not take it minus 180 by any means let me just quickly see what it's a 10 I would take over actually 10 and a half right here plus 108 you're still getting a plus money there if you don't feel comfortable taking 12 plus well you should betting I would definitely be betting on I would switch it over to well before we do that I also wanted to mention that this was a great same game parlay that hit last night Brooke Lopez scored 25 plus points Chris Middleton to record 12 plus rebounds drew holiday 12 plus assist we just talked about the assist he seemed to have hit that last night so maybe he will again again great value there these odds were great $100 $1 21,124 and a penny if that penny matter to you this is a great same game parlay and as you know same game parlay are unique to Fandle and you can find them when you click into a game same game parlay go through some of these anything that have the SGP next to it you can add into it and it's just very unique thing that Fandle has super cool and people love and love to bet the same game parlay is now I'm not a huge let me take that back I am a huge hockey fan but if my team the flyers are not in it I'm not going to be sitting and watching every game 100% of the time obviously I know we have game three Tampa Bay Lightning are up two games in a series the Canadians are going home I love the Canadians tonight on the money line plus 114 to me I know it's not technically do or die but it is you can't have the Tampa Bay Lightning taking multiple times as the dog of the day especially when they're playing at home so I think this is that's kind of my pick for today a lot of the trends as well towards the under why don't we go to covers look at some of the trends Lightning are six and one in the last seven Stanley Cup finals games obviously since if they win this they're going to be the repeat champs for the Canadians 10 and 2 in their last 12 games playing on one day's rest five and one in their last six home games like I mentioned they are great at home which is why dog of the day on the money line as for the trends for the total as I mentioned under under under trends same thing for the Canadians under under the total right now on the Fandalsports book five and a half for this game head to head trends Lightning are 14 and three in the last 17 meetings under as for now in the last four meetings in Montreal so things to take into account but again this is the playoff so a lot of trends do indeed go out the window there are some fun props period props game props one in particular let me go through some of these first goal scores this is something I wanted to bring up Nikita Kutcher off I think I'm saying that correctly 11 to one he had two goals in game one and just to mention the Canadians only have two goals this entire series they got blown out in that first game but he did have two goals so I kind of liked that value there again I'm not the biggest hockey fan something that I love to do I'm obviously going to watch an NBA game over an NHL game but just in general a lot of great markets if you want to bet into this let me see if they have a series price as well yeah the Tampa Bay Lightning minus 1250 Canadians plus 850 a lot of things just screaming Tampa Bay Lightning you can still bet on the series handicap if you think the Lightning are going to win that has great value because the Canadians it looks like to me this is going to be kind of a four one type of series Tampa Bay Lightning get it done but this is really cool you can bet on the series total game so if you do think for example the Canadians are going to win this game and then Tampa Bay Lightning are going to be able to close it out on their home ice for some reason you could do four games plus 185 five games plus 200 six games seven games and so on I'm getting four one in my eyes you can do plus 200 that's still great value but sometimes I know that we're used to betting into the traditional markets in terms of just the spread the total the money lines of the player props that we like but you can also find a lot of really cool markets if you start digging I know that takes some effort here but there is great value in some other markets as well such as like I just mentioned the series total games and series finals going back to Montreal Tampa Bay up to games as we know they won last year they could repeat this year pretty exciting stuff you could also bet on player futures as well but I'm not going to get into all of these because most likely and to be quite frank I can't pronounce all these names hockey names are pretty pretty pretty tough alright let's get back to some of the NBA and if there's any other questions Ben owned me hopefully I'm saying that I think Hawks I think Hawks can win tomorrow I do but I'm taking the Bucks because I think the Bucks have some type of magic to pull it off I just keep going back to that game 7 in the Barclays center when I completely doubted them and they actually had the chance to close it out another reason why I do believe this is because if you go to Team Futures you see the Bucks plus 200 and in the series minus 360 so this is kind of the same format and position that the Suns were in they were able to pull off the Clippers could force a game 7 I think the Bucks will be able to do it and then we'll be having a totally different conversation should the Bucks have to play the Suns sorry I'm kind of bouncing around all here should the Hawks should the Bucks sorry have to play the Suns we'll be talking about how that series would go because again we really need to know how long Yanis is going to be out and unavailable for and as for the Hawks obviously always a potential to force a game 7 to figure it out you guys should comment below too if you have any takes of what you think is going to happen who you think is going to win and any picks that you guys like for that game lots of player props available tomorrow there'll be more odds boost available I'm sure for this game 6 as well normal promotions also going on per usual oh look at this the fourth MLB risk free same game part lay love to see it NBA playoff enhanced odds and on some other things NHL correct score bonus heroes parlay insurance there's a ton of promotions going on in that and you should take advantage of all that while you can but again tomorrow I'm sure there's going to be some boost going up but waiting for tomorrow tell me this is not going to I'm losing connection here all right any other questions that you guys spend only I know you're saying only hopefully I'm saying that right Trey could come back though yes he absolutely could I know what you guys said yesterday about a bone bruise and how long it takes it says it takes one to two months to heal when it's that bad of a bone bruise I don't know how bad it truly is because I'm not Trey young and I think they would have played them played him last game had it actually not been bothering him even for let's say half the game it would have been a great advantage to have him just in for at least two quarters Trey can come back and we know Trey can put up points he's averaging 33 in the series I'm sure his player prop will still be high I just don't know how injured he is Trey young is a player if he if rolled in you should probably live bet this game to be honest because we don't know how he's going to look the bucks would come out hot again they could go out to a 20 point lead and I'd still not feel confident that they'd be able to sustain that but I just think with Trey I truly don't know how he is looking right now and from a bone bruise I didn't take it that seriously and I thought he would have played yesterday's game or maybe since it's not a do or die like I said on the show they would just sit him for one game but after reading about a bone bruise and seeing one to two months to heal that I was a tad concerned which is why yesterday I was on the bucks any other questions guys we have two more minutes please drop any other questions I'm excited game six tomorrow we have the NHL tonight we have a full slate of MLB going on MLB is not my favorite there are so many games today we have fourth of July weekend which is super exciting you'd be able to spend some time with the family play some bets soccer is going on right now we have some golf going on as well if you want to do the rocket mortgage mortgage classic I know a lot of the talk right now is on Bryce and Dishambo he might be missing the cut so a lot of things we're kind of breaking today I thought it would be a really slow Friday but a lot of things going on especially in the sports world so I'm excited for the weekend I hope you guys are excited for it as well again any last questions please comment them below we'll be doing these live streams starting next Tuesday we're all not going to be doing it for Monday the fourth is Monday the fourth Monday I think that's the fifth actually maybe we're taking off yes okay we're celebrating it on Monday even though it is on a Sunday all right guys well have a great holiday weekend hopefully this helps we'll be back Tuesday Jim Sannas will do the whole MLB DFS I will come back on and we'll probably at that point be talking about all things NBA finals excited for that casual world I'm sorry I know you're just popping on I joined late did you talk about today's MLB games I did not but Jim Sannas who's on before does come on and talk all things MLB if there's a specific question I can always look it up for you but again my favorite favorite sport to be betting on so I'd rather help you out with some NBA and some hockey before I help you out with that but anyways guys have a great weekend and yeah see you next Tuesday