 Today is the perfect reason why we have these afternoon Q&A's because I record the civil shot in the morning and a Lot of times things can change by the time we get to lock at 7 p.m We had that happen for today because Sandy Alcantara this morning was not confirmed as a starter for Miami thought it might happen wasn't confirmed Then it is confirmed now and that does change some things for the slave for today It does alter the way we view, you know salaries and stuff like that So a good amount to discuss and also a pretty tough slate in general So let's dive on in and get you set for this five-game slate welcome on into the fan dual live Q&A The right that's right here on the fan dual YouTube twitch Facebook and Twitter channels My name is Jim Sannis I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm here to take your questions for the next half an hour No matter where you are watching you can get those questions in Facebook YouTube Twitter or Twitch get them in We'll answer them live here on air to get you set for tonight's late Let's start things off here with the with the big thing that did change this morning I'll start with savon John will get you in a second It's a bond asking can I use Sandy Alcantara as my pitcher for single entry? I think you can savon because Alcantara I would say like from a talent perspective is probably the most talented pitcher on the slate He's facing the Mets not a massive massive threat to a righty and ninety two WRC plus Alcantara has been using More fastballs and sliders and fewer sinkers over his past five starts and in that time He has a 28% strikeout rate 29% fly ball rate. We always love a guy. He's a fewer sinkers Mackenzie's been or sorry Alcantara's been doing that. So and he's been successful I think Alcantara is the most talented pitcher The reason I might not go him for single entry savon is because I do still want to stack course field The one downside of having Alcantara pick pitch over Zach Thompson is that I was okay stacking the Mets Mets did give us a lot of salary savings Now we don't really have that as much We can still get salary savings via the Pirates of the Cubs But the lower salary options are a bit thinner than they were this morning So that's the one pushback on Alcantara He is the highest salary pitcher on the slate at ten thousand five hundred dollars I still think he's a great term an option, but I think for single entry my favorite guy might still be Eduardo Rodriguez He is 80 200 dollars high strikeout matchup He has a good ceiling the floor is not good for Rodriguez because he's super inconsistent, but the ceiling is there So for me savon in single entry, I would go at Rodriguez, but I think you definitely can go Alcantara I think that's definitely okay. He's good enough to justify that for me personally I think I'll be going With Rodriguez and the reason I want to go Rodriguez relates to John's question How would you stack the Rockies for tonight and the reason that I want to get there is because I do think both sides of this Corseal game are pretty good the Rockies facing Tuki Tucson to the Braves facing Chichi Gonzalez and I like both sides of this match prefer the Braves over the Rockies But I do think that both sides do great out pretty well Let's refresh here and see if the Rockies Have their lineup in and I do want to see what this lineup looks like because we've not seen them I don't think with a DH or without a DH with Ryan about Tapia being back Yeah, because they were in Texas when Tapia came back and so they were able to keep Connor Joe in there I think Connor Joe has played well enough to stay in there despite Tapia being back If if Connor Joe is in there, I want to use him He's just not projected to be in there based on the projected starting orders that that Fandall has here I really hope he plays and I think that there's a good chance that he will because like I think he's earned that personally so Let's let's go over here and let's put in Rodriguez as actually still a contra to see how How much we can do even if we assume that we're putting him in there Trevor story is thirty six hundred dollars I want to get there. He's been a lot better recently a lot more hard contact this month So I'll put story in there Let's go over here and check out the Rockies numbers again I really hope Joe plays if he does I'm probably just gonna lock him in Alias Diaz could be a good option with Alcantara because he's twenty seven or dollars showed a lot of power recently Let's sort here by plate appearances okay, so Joe has a 168 ISO versus right ease send hundreds of 255, but a ton of strike ads in there So either Joe or Hilliard should play one of those guys will Topia would be the other option there. Topia is at 108 but 15 stolen bases There's still some upside there for sure as far as other guys here I still like Ryan McMahon a noise not been as much of a force as he was previously But still a pretty good hitter. At least Diaz is 221. Okay, so Scroll over here. I think given the salaries. I'm okay with going Diaz Overcrone for the catcher slash first base spot. I think Crohn's well worth $3900 but if I'm going With Alcantara, I think I do need to be a bit more salary conscious Which means that Diaz grades out pretty well, then we'll go with McMahon at second base I think that if we assume Joe plays and bats lead off This is a pretty good lineup good stack to have in there for the Rockies I do think you could make it work with Crohn and Alcantara It doesn't mean you have to scramble elsewhere, but you can probably make that work So maybe you go Diaz over Joe to say $400 something like that But I think that these five guys Crohn McMahon story Joe and then Diaz all guys I would really like to use it today. So the Rockies to me John a really good option Savon is asking for the best value hitter the best lower salary guy I think that Diaz we just talked about him $2,700 good power at Coors Field Brendan Rodgers is for some reason $2,700 didn't see that before He has a 131 iso versus right. He's been playing really good baseball recently. So Rogers is up there Diaz is up there I'm guessing none of the main Braves are gonna check in his values, but they didn't get a bump For going to Coors, which they should have Jack Peterson's $2,900. So if there's no Ozzy Albies and Peterson bats lead off again for $2,900. That's an unreal type value play So Peterson Diaz Rogers all good value plays Joe not technically a value at $3,100 But I would say he's pretty under salaried the Other teams that we might be looking at for value today. Don't have a lineup out That's probably gonna be the cubs of the pirates Let's put the cubs line up here cuz I do think they're at least Kind of interesting specifically the top four guys here. Unfortunately, none of them, you know Our quote-unquote value plays but half is $3,000 still be okay with those guys And I'm sure the pirates might give some to but I think to me Savon I want to look at Diaz Rogers and Peterson as potentially being good options out at Coors Field Savon is asking if there are any under-the-radar stacks. I Don't know. I mentioned Mike Minor this morning is being like a an option for pitcher and like I don't think that's the worst idea in the World because like he can go deep but now that we have Alcantara I can easily toss him out of my player pool and maybe consider some Cleveland stacks So looking at guys like from meal rays a Harold or mirrors just came back yesterday. I'm at Rosario Jose Ramirez Maybe Cleveland great out decently as a stack against Mike Minor But it's hard to be under the radar here given how obvious it is a Coors Field is a top option for today Matthew on Facebook says who Arizona Fandall finally live welcome Matthew good to have you in the club excited to have you along for Congratulations, let's go win you some money to build that bankroll now that Fandall is in Arizona DJ Tristan McKenzie thoughts Think he's a very talented pitcher. I do like his match up as well. The concern that I had DJ is the pitch count because McKenzie is Coming off the aisle. He did miss effectively the minimum amount of time. It's possible. It could have been like a Hey, let's rest this dude were playoff contention. Let's kind of give him a rest But either way he was on the aisle for a shoulder injury, which is a concern for a pitcher So if you gave me McKenzie with no I L stints, I would say line him up I'm a bit worried though given that he was on the aisle. So I think that that is enough where I'm okay Probably missing out on him. I like Alcantara. I like Rodriguez. I like Carrasco McLanehan is very very very risky, but also still an option So I'm okay missing out on McKenzie tonight just because that pitch count does worry me. So Vaughn, how'd you rank the Mets? Or sorry, Miami. Well, how would you rank Miami? They're facing Carlos Carrasco. I Don't really want to stack against Carrasco with a team this bad I I still think that Carrasco is least an option for DFS despite the fact I could move him down comfortably with Alcantara being available He has decent peripherals He held the Giants in check last week and they are a much better offense in Miami Carrasco is at home. Miami is really bad So I would I know Carrasco is inconsistent and can get blown up, but Miami not a team I like very much for today. Let's talk to DJ Would you play Frank a schwindel for tonight? Yes, I am very okay with that because they're facing Mitch Keller Keller since he came back up has still been letting up a lot of hard contact as you can see here a 51% hard hit rate allowed for Keller in his five starts since he came back up for the Pirates That's a lot of hard contact. So the Cubs don't have a very deep lineup, but they've got dudes individual guys who can hit I think specifically it's the projected top four guys here wisdom or Tega Schwindel and Hap all four of those guys are viable as one-offs or you could stack those four guys specifically and hope the bottom of the order does Something if they can do something That'll allow or Tega schwindel Hap and wisdom to be okay plays So I would say the Cubs are in play for a stack DJ I think you're a Cubs fan if I recall correctly if you want to roll out those top four guys I'm not opposed. I think that they have enough juice small enough slate good enough matchup to justify going with them I think that's a fine option for day, but schwindel specifically. Yeah for sure as a one-off option there Jade who do you think will have the most strikeouts tonight? I like this one. Let's go over here and check out what the sheet says So if we want strikeouts, we want a high strikeout pitcher who goes deep in games and is facing a high strikeout team to me There are two primary guys who fit that mold those two guys are Eduardo Rodriguez and Sandi Alcantara. So that's why to me Jade I think that our focus at pitcher should be around those two guys Rodriguez was my number one option before we had Alcantara at our disposal I think you go back and forth depending on what you want to do with your stacks for me I'm probably still going Rodriguez because I don't know. I've lost lost something plenty this year Why not dig the hole even deeper? But I think that it's a good matchup for him against a high strikeout team arrays They're a good offense, but they're not as good against lefties as against righties So I would still go Rodriguez overall contra personally So I think that to me It's it's Rodriguez one followed by Alcantara two and both those guys do go deep in games If you're trying to project out actual like strikeouts, they're gonna grade out pretty well. I would go I Probably get the slide at your Rodriguez there, but we'll see I think that they're both pretty good options and in terms of trying to see who are the most strikeouts of tonight DJ says yes, but I am a disgusted cubsan this year. I get it We were driving through Illinois a couple of weeks ago and like it was like oh There was a Chris Bryant billboard. Oh, hey, there's another Chris Bryant billboard kind of weird to see all that in I think it was on 294 potentially So the the ghosts of the old cubs still very much present at least on 294 in Illinois DJ says is to key risky. Yes Yes, yes. Yes. He's at Coors Field. He is pretty volatile. Anyway walks a lot of guys Let's have a lot of hard contact. So very risky. I Probably won't get there tonight from a pitching perspective I'd much more I'd much rather stack against him because as you can see here There aren't a lot of like warm weather games tonight Coors the second warmest game behind the Kansas City game Definitely the best park factor. So I would rather stack there That means I'll avoid Toussaint and I'll probably stack against him quite a bit The Prince on YouTube is asking did you make home run calls? I not made them today on this show, but I made them this morning and Both them were at Coors Field the two home run calls I went with for Freddie Freeman and Alias Diaz Alias Diaz being the fun one. Whereas Freeman was more the chalky one I'm good sticking with those for right now because I think that you know, both pitchers stayed the same. I Really like both those offense in terms of stacking. I think both matchups could be Ones that are quite Dinger friendly. So to me home run calls for today will be Freddie Freeman alias Diaz and if you want to get your home run calls into Prince would love to hear yours as well Savon, can you rate the following teams for stacks Boston Tampa Bay or Cleveland or Kansas City stack? Boston's pretty low against McClanahan. He does let up a lot of hard contact, but he's a good pitcher It's hard for me to use him as a pitcher tonight because like Boston's so good against lefty a super low strikeout team I will say though Given all the COVID guys they've got out with standard bow guards out and Kike Hernandez out That lineup is not as strong as it as it usually is So that could be an opening from McClanahan to be a pretty good pitcher. I Don't want to stack against him I would rather stack the Red Sox than the Rays though against Rodriguez Rodriguez does a really good job suppressing our contact Keeps the ball in the ground a pretty decent amount So if I'm choosing between those two teams that stack Boston over Tampa Bay due to the hard contact But really not super interested in stacking either as far as Cleveland or Kansas City I would rather stack Cleveland against Mike minor lower strikeout guy does let up a bit more hard contact So that's the the main reasoning there. I know again I mentioned him in the solo shop this morning is being a pitching option. That was before we had Alcantra So I'm pretty good shoving minor out of consideration and going just with Rodriguez Alcantra And maybe some Carrasco for tonight in terms of a pitcher So of those options have on I would say that Cleveland is number one I would say that Maybe the Royals too just under the the just because McKenzie may not be at full health something like that so Maybe you could justify going there that could be an option But then I go Boston and then Tampa Bay. So I'm just asking if we can get a Devers home run It is tough because McClanahan does have such a high strikeout rate He does keep the ball in the ground a decent amount, but he does let apart contact So I mean Devers is a tremendous hitter. I would not talk you out of it But those are the downsides high strike area from a clan of hand and a low-fly ball, right? DJ needs someone with minimum salary. Do you like Jonathan Arrao's on Boston? Let's go over here and see where he's batting. He's batting ninth minimum salary. That's pretty tough Let's see what Danny Santana's salary is for today Maybe we can talk ourselves into him instead And old Danny is minimum salary private for Santana over Arrao's just because Santana has Done something in the majors at some point in his career and batting a little bit higher in the order So if you're looking at the Red Sox lineup, I would say That's probably where I would wind up looking. Let's check out the Marlins line up here Because then Carrasco is like I think he's solid and I don't want to stack against him But we can't write off everybody here He's on Diaz is $2,200 so it doesn't quite fit there. Hey, this Sanchez is $2,400. So no min Min salary guys there Maybe we can get no, I guess the The Kansas City guys are facing Mackenzie and Mackenzie is pretty good Maybe we can get a Cleveland dude at a lower salary. See what you Chong's salary is under cement is nope Yeah, I think it's probably if you need someone who is at minimum salary exactly probably me Danny Santana is being your favorite option for today I just don't see a whole lot else right now. Let's pop him. Let's you know, let's just See yeah, cuz the main teams I want to stack are not out yet. So I Think that that's probably the the main options. Okay, so you did as well. Hi Jen Park So let's let's look at him Because I do think that that is actually an okay team to look at overall just because the matchup is pretty good for them So don't mind taking a look at them So let's take into the numbers here specifically I'll look at the minor league numbers because that's our our biggest sample on park so far 240 iso in AAA when he was at the Yankees With the pirates very small samples. So don't care too much about that In the majors 74 plate appearances 6.4 percent barrel rates Not a lot of hard contact. I would say let's see what Danny Santana has done so far this year I think he's had some time in AAA because he was Outrided off the 40 man roster. I believe at one point Let's just check out see what he has done overall. Maybe we can talk ourselves into feeling better about him. All right, let's click on minor leagues and Only 32 plate appearances there did it for some power at least so I would say if you want a low like a min salary option I would go with Santana over park for today. So Vaughn our thoughts on this lineup. So I wouldn't I Tried to shy away from giving like Full thoughts on full lineups because like I don't want to like give away line of stuff like that But I would say if we're gonna talk about McKenzie specifically I would be very worried about the pitch count there again I don't know how far he'll go into the game because he's coming off the IL it is a shoulder issue So Siobhan I would probably try to deviate elsewhere a pitcher and if you're looking for someone with a bit lower salary I would say the Rodriguez does great out better for me than McKenzie does he's $600 lower So if you want to spend that range, I'd probably get down to a Rodriguez Just because I'm really worried about pitch count for McKenzie as he comes off the IL Maybe again, it was just a rest thing and he can be fully good to go But Cleveland nothing to play for here They obviously have big aspirations for McKenzie in the future. So probably don't want to run him down too much. So I would say McKenzie makes me nervous again if he were full go like there were no health concerns McKenzie would definitely be a good option And it could look stupid, you know if he goes out there throws 80 pitches But has seven strikeouts or whatever But I just think that given the concerns around pitch gun I'm okay being a little bit lower on him for today One team we have not really discussed so far is the Atlanta Braves facing Chichi Gonzalez and That's gonna be a good stack for sure. Just depends on who wants a playing because again We don't really know the status of Ozzy Albie's which means That does dictate a lot of stuff because if he's not in there Jack Peterson is Probably gonna hit lead off because I think he was there yesterday. So we could get Jack Peterson $29 Let's pull up the Braves numbers versus righties See what they've done and see how we should rank them. Let's assume for right now That's all these dozen plagues. It didn't look good when he first got hurt Obviously, it's been a good prognosis so far, but let's just assume he does not play Freeman's gonna be number one. I would say if jock is lead off He would be number two. He might even be number one now. I'd be Freeman one jock number two Probably leaning towards Austin Riley three Adam Duvall. He plays would be up there Because the power is so good and then let's see what Duvall salary is and also that of Jorge Soler Duvall is probably gonna hit like seventh or eighth though. I guess when we actually put Soler above him It puts Swanson above him Let's go down here boop Yeah, Soler's 36 Duvall's 35 Dan's be 35 as well check out Travis Darno's numbers since he came back He is up to 104 plate appearances 133 ISO so okay being a bit lower on him So I would say Freeman one jock two if we assume he's lead off with no allbies for today I would go Riley three. I would go Dan's before Soler five Duvall six as the ranking of those guys if we assume that there is no allbies for today Savannah's asking should would it be smart to stack against Tristan McKenzie for today given the low pitch count coming back from the aisle. I Think on such a small slates of on you can justify it based on the exact line of thinking you laid out there where You know, it is a shoulder injury coming off the aisle I still think you'll probably go about 80 pitches because he didn't miss a lot of time But I think you can justify it It's not something that I'm actively trying to get to though I would say just because I respect McKenzie a lot as a pitcher and don't really want to stack against him in general So it's kind of I have to assume that he's not right and like I want to be okay Maybe this is the optimistic thinking but so I probably won't get there The line of thinking is okay at such a small slate a lot of things can happen So I think that it's it's not out of play like I'm not gonna say absolutely not Like I would say absolutely not for the Mets today against Alcantara. I would not say absolutely not to Stack in the Royals, but not something I'm probably gonna get to myself DJ. Okay, DJ has his home run calls in He likes CJ Crone at Coorsfield. He likes Brandon Nemo Against Alcantara. He likes Peterson at Coorsfield Michael Taylor facing McKenzie and Edward Olivares I don't think he's in the lineup. Oh, he is he's been seventh Okay So Edward Olivares bad incentive olivares is someone who I like from a talent perspective has a lot of power He showed in triple a now a manual Rivera kind of the same thing So I think if you either get if you made me do a one-off on Kansas City It might be olivares just because he is a lower salary. It means I'm not like Using a lot of cap to use a guy facing McKenzie. So maybe olivares might create out well there So I like the olivares call could be kind of fun with that one not in on Nemo Just because Alcantara is so good at suppressing fly balls. DJ is asking thoughts on minor I was in on him this morning when we didn't have Alcantara as a pitcher or didn't know we had Alcantara as a pitcher So I had him number three I'm moving down to four and that's probably low enough where I'm just not gonna use him I think to me the the pitching rankings today are Rodriguez Alcantara Carrasco, I probably should have McLean a hand higher just because like he's he's good enough where like he could Great out really well, and he could be the highest point guy the slay just such a tough matchup. Let's have a lot of hard contact That's that's scaring me off there for the most part. So Mike Minor I think right now based on the way the slate looks I'd rather stack against him Than use him as a pitcher Kenneth. Do you believe in the theory that away teams don't play? Well the first game at Coors field I think that there's some science behind that Kenneth I thought I may have read something in that before but I could be totally off base So if someone out there has like a link handy to something like that feel free to put it in the chat or just like say Hey, Google this but I thought I Could be I could be wrong Kenneth, but I think that there is actually some science behind that so I Wouldn't be shocked. I personally still stack it because it's still Coors field So and like it's a great matchup against Chichi Gonzalez and the Braes are very good offense very deep offense. So Personally despite that being like potentially true. I do still stack there, but it's a good thing to consider Can it's just because they're they're gonna be very popular tonight. So it's something to keep in mind for sure I'm glad you brought that up. Okay. So both Michael and Craig have said that the Colorado lineup is out Let's see if our boy Connor Joe is batting lead off. Let's cross our fingers And he is let's party in the USA everybody Connor Joe lead off. Oh, buddy Let's ride. Let's go over here and let's build up this Coors stack with Connor Joe our wonderful friend Staying in the lead-off spot. This is a victory for people who like good baseball. Let's go with Connor Joe here Let's put Brenda Rogers at second base boom Let's put Trevor story at shortstop and then we're deciding Do we want to go With Crone McMahon or Diaz the answer is yes I want to go with all three if I'm picking one in this Alcantara lineup Maybe I just go with Diaz save that salary get myself flexibility with my bravestack Kind of don't mind that so I think that like again the guys batting one through seven in this lineup are all Super in play for tonight. I love Rogers the value play. I love Diaz the value play Joe is under sourd. So Kind of dig it. I like that Rockies lineup a lot Let's party and we are good to go with that Rocky stack for today So Vance is I wonder something like stacking Kansas City with Chicago to be different or should I just stick with the Coors filled games? I would say Because everyone will be at Coors fields of on the idea of going elsewhere is good I would say the Cubs would probably be your best option there in terms of Deviating elsewhere and DJ says the Cubs lineup is out So let's refresh one more time and see what that Cubs lineup looks like Or take a Schwindel half wisdom sick to stack one three four on the Cubs good to go there I definitely that's okay Fine with all of them Jackie. What's up Jackie? Welcome back. I need some luck sent my way, please We're sending good vibes manifesting a good day for Jackie for today. Let's get Jackie on the board Let's see here DJ says who is leading off of the rays with the Rosarita scratched, okay? Rosarita has not been scratched here yet. So I don't know yet. I Guess we'll see but that would be a boost to Rodriguez with a Rosarita being scratched Kind of regardless food is because it's one less good right-handed bat in that lineup So either way the takeaway there DJ is arrows up on Rodriguez with a Rosarita being scratched That is all that we have here for today on this fan duel live Q&A But do not forget we are back here once again tomorrow at 4 p.m. Eastern on the fan Duel YouTube Twitch Facebook and Twitter pages taking your questions and any you said for a jam-packed Friday night slate Let's pull up the Pictures for tomorrow case you want to head start any research. There you go starting pictures tomorrow should be a pretty fun Slate we will see how things break Big thank you everyone for tuning in for today. If you have additional questions check me out on Twitter at Jim Sonnis J-i-m-s-a-n-n-e-s Jackie was asking shout out joy. Yes indeed shout out joy Affleck our video producer for running the video side of Things here today. 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