 A lot of good stacking options for tonight in daily fantasy baseball despite it being just a seven game slate there are probably six or so teams you could really justify stacking for tonight inherently if there are a lot of stacks in a seven game slate that probably means pitching is thin and that is very much the case or today in fact my third rate pitcher is not currently in the player pool so we're going to break down what that means who that is and how to play things for tonight in daily fantasy baseball by talking through those pitchers talking about stacks and getting you ready for Monday night welcome on into the solo shot that's right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire dot com my name is Jim Saunas I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire here to break down Monday's seven game main slate with lock set for 640 p.m. Eastern for today and on this slate no weather notes a couple of retractable roofs are going to save us in certain spots so no games to 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gambling health dot org in new york 1 8 7 7 8 open wire text open y and in west virginia go to 1 800 gambler dot net pitching preview for this monday main slate erinola checks in with the highest salary on fan dual his salary is 10 000 flat followed by blake's now at 95 we got braxton garrett at 9 000 with martin pares yohan oba though and branded belac as the others at eight thousand dollars were higher so as you can hear there it is definitely thin at the top for pitchers for today and i think the saving grace in this slate as an erinola has shown signs of life recently where his uh he was struggling to open this year i think it was potentially due to pitch clock stuff given how slow he pitched in the past and it would make sense that he would struggle but he's bounced back recently he's facing the tigers for tonight i think it's a good spot to feel good about him as our top ranked pitcher here it is a fantastic match up here to troy 74 w rc plus against righty's 103 iso both those are easily the worst on the main slate nola has made some tweaks to his repertoire since his slow start over his past seven starts he's using more sinkers and fewer forcing fastballs for a lot of pitchers that is not good for dfs because sinkers are low with pitches and that is also true for nola but for whatever reason it does work for him it's worked from in the past and it has helped him here as well because in that time with more sinkers he has a 3.88 skill interactive er a he has a 23 percent strikeout right which is not what he was last year but it is better than he was this first four so starts this year and specifically the past couple of events nola has been getting a lot more his strikeout totals the past three games have been 10 7 and 5 only two out of seven starts in the sample where the he's using more sinkers have come at home he's at home tonight he has had some fluky home road or some funky home road splits in the past that's a good thing i have nola projected for 6.2 strikeouts tonight which could be a bit light but i do feel good about it and that's the top mark on the slate as well so nola will be popular but i think he's worth it finally so i would say use nola deviate from there as far as your stacks go because he does make a lot of sense for tonight now typically i don't want to go to braxton garrett's because his pitch count is limited which does hurt his upside but there's aren't a lot of guys in the slates who have a true ceiling and i think that allows garrett to be in play for tonight pitch count definitely the biggest concern here for garrett because he has not gone longer than 88 pitches in a start yet this year which means he has gotten the quality start bonus on fan duel just once the entire year which absolutely hurts his appeal in a big way but despite that he's still getting strikeouts because he's been very efficient especially recently over the past six starts garrett has thrown more cutters instead of four seamers and the cutter has a 34 with rates according to baseball savants it's worked really well he has a 26 percent strikeout right in the six starts his skill interactive era is 3.66 which is the best number on the slate if we gave garrett more length he would be the top option above era nola for tonight but even with the low pitch count i still have garrett projected for 5.9 strikeouts that ranks third behind nola and blake snell but when you consider all the factors like you know opposing opposing matchup uh stuff like that i feel like it does point towards garrett being the better option garrett gets the royals you know not a fantastic match because they're pretty good against lefties and snell gets a high strikeout match with the cubs but they also have a lot of guys who can bang lefties in there so i prefer garrett personally if you want to go snell i get it but i think garrett is a solid play on this slate specifically for a salary of $9,000 now for that third slot i could talk snell because garrett technically is our value play for tonight but instead i kind of want to talk about a guy who's not currently in the player pool and i'm guessing he'll be added otherwise i wouldn't talk about him but that guy's andrew abbott he's making his debut against the brewers and assuming he is eventually added on fandall i think he's at least interesting for tonight abbott started this year back in double a he had a 64 percent strikeout right there so shockingly he got promoted went to triple a and across seven starts there his strike area was 35 percent with a 14.5 percent between strike rate that's awesome especially on this slate where there aren't a lot of strikeouts to be had abbott was not flawless he walked too many guys he led up a bit of hard contact and that means he could struggle at great american ballpark because he's also kind of a fly ball pitcher but the strikeouts are alluring on a slate where few guys can rack them up he's facing the brewers tonight they just got louisa reiss back it will be a domus homeward and a rehab game as well so he may be back here so when you look at the brewers numbers against lefties this year those are i would say misleading based on the actual righties they will have available to them in the very near future they're not going to be that bad but they should still strike out a lot which is kind of the appeal here and abbott has gone longer than 95 pitches in the minor so he actually has more length and more projected pitches in my numbers than braxton garret does so i like abbot enough to go there again assuming he's eventually added if not snell would be third for me but i really like to go abbot if i get the chance to do so so to me pitching ranks for tonight are going to be erinola one braxton garret two andrew avid three and then if i must i will go blake snell uh in the third slot if there is no avid added stacks as mentioned are pretty loaded and that begins the fillies and the fillies have not hit lefties so far this year at all and they're facing lefty and joey wence for tonight their wrc plus is 83 i think they might get a little kickstart here in a plus match but i do like the fillies for stacking in the situation wence has struggled quite a bit this year his eray is 7.28 across 11 starts he has a 5.62 expected eray in large part because he's just letting up way too much hard contact he's let up a 45 hard hit rate with a 40 fly ball rate he's let up just nine home runs uh which is lower a lower number than you think but he did have three home runs in one game so big games are very possible here in this matchup wence has let up five plus earned runs and five out of 11 starts and the hard contact issues may be getting worse because his hard hit rate allowed is 57 percent across his past four starts so the fillies haven't hit lefties well so far this year they did lose a key badnail bone who had denset lefties pretty well also so it's tough but i do think it's a great matchup so i'm gonna give the fillies the spin here rank them number one and be high on them for tonight now the boom thing is a bummer because i don't use boom ever against righties but i will definitely go there against lefties so not having him out there is a bummer but to account for boom going down they promoted drew ellis and ellis i think is either a double dong or at least at least one home run uh last night he had uh two run so yeah double dong for for drew ellis last night and if you remember ellis from college i think he went to louisville um pretty good hitter there so not a huge surprise has not done it in the in the majors yet but hit for power in triple a last year good power numbers in the minors this year i would guess it's probably going to bat eighth or so despite the double dong last night but i think if you need salary to get to the key filly bats uh and to get to aeronola i would say that ellis is a mighty fine play it's not just point chasing basically the two homer game last night but i think he's pretty solid across the board so drew ellis it's not point chasing i don't think to go there tonight semi he's batting probably eighth or so um if he bats higher than sick go all in but um eighth is still okay by me so far stacking against helio teyron has not gone well he's uh gone 11 innings across the two starts and has let up just one earned run so maybe dumb for me to keep on going here but i'm going to for today never been accused of not being dumb so we'll try one more time and stack the reds against teyron here teyron has faced the giants in the blue jays two pretty good teams against righties and he completely fooled both of them but it does seem a bit fluky because he's led up a 39 heart rate which is not super super low it's about average he has a 12 strikeout rate with a 5.6 swing and strike rate and a 53 five ball rate so it's expected the array is good at 3.41 but his skill interactive era is 5.51 i tend to believe skill interactive era more in such a small sample and this one says we can stack against him just based on what he's done in those two starts where he's had the great results so the reds are not great by any means they have an 89 wrc plus against righties with a 128 iso but the park very very nice and it is also the warmest park on the slate with the temperature 81 degrees so even though it hasn't worked out yet i'm going to give it one more try stack against teyron here and if it goes if it goes poorly again we can re-evaluate later on and decide if we want to keep on going down this road now we talked about madman claim when he first got called up and if you're looking at the results he's been good the power numbers have not been there he has a 135 iso against righties and just one steal so far but the results have been good and i don't think that's entirely something we should write off and i think there's room for the power to grow especially when he's playing at home mclean is starting to strike out a little bit less so i'm going to keep the faith in what he did in the lower levels you could see that iso see the lack of steals in the majors and not want to pay 34 to dollars for this guy but personally i'm pretty okay with it so mclean hasn't fully clicked yet but i still think is a guy we should feel okay using for tonight in dfs and i think keeping faith in what he did in the miners and buying into that is the right way to go for tonight for the third stack we're going to stack a week against adam wainwright which feels weird but he hasn't looked great since coming back he's up to five starts in his era is 6.15 and he faces a really tough rangers team for tonight so the rangers to me gonna be the third stack behind the fillies and the reds velocity has been an issue for wainwright his cutter is down 1.1 miles per hour from last year his curve balls down 0.8 miles per hour now last time out it was better and it led to more strikeouts for wainwright so that could be a sign that he's figured things out getting healthier and getting better but in that game with the increased velo he let up three barrels the barrel rate against him is currently 13 percent with a 37 heart rate so he's making mistakes and teams are connecting and taking advantage of those mistakes wainwright is a very smart pitcher he may figure that part out and the velo may rise as he gets further removed from the il as we saw in that last start but we haven't seen that lead to great contact suppression as of yet and the rangers are a very good team 118 wrc plus against righties 186 iso both those ranks second on the slate we could get burned if wainwright does turn things around but i think it's worth the gamble here given the rangers quality given the hard contact wainwright is let up given the barrels in that last start i think there is enough here to still feel high about the rangers from his stacking perspective for tonight and does help they just got mitch garver back as well from the il he was absolutely shredding last year before his injury and then came back look great homeward in his first game back with good last night too he's still probably gonna bat lower in the order probably seventh or so but similar to drew ellis i think that's okay without a plus spot in the order because we can feel good about him in terms of what he can do individually i think the offense overall should produce a lot of play and appearances so i still like mitch garver despite the fact he's batting lower in the order very okay with him at $2,800 within rangers stacks for tonight things to watch sticking inside that same game i think the other side there and the cardinals is pretty interesting for stacks too they're facing martin pares who hasn't been as great as he was last year letting up a lot more hard contact this year the cardinals have a 128 w rc plus against lefties living up to expectations in that regard so even with the roof likely closed gnarlington which does downgrade the park factor because it was it's warmer but should be closed that game in general is fun for hitting so full sides of cardinals and rangers pretty fun for tonight the pirates are facing jp sears and as mentioned i don't mind him it's you know more about the a's a's bullpen and it's not like sears is lights out either so you combine sears being an okay picture with a really bad bullpen behind him i think that does make the pirates pretty interesting for stacking very willing to give them a look and would put them behind the cardinals but still on board with him in general for tonight finally the asterisks are facing alex manoa who has had a really rough year so far he has had some more strikeouts recently but still not overwhelming and i think that i'm still skeptical that he's fully turned things around now he's facing the astros and the astros are improving as they get healthier but they've also got a lot of guys who steal and the jays have had a lot of trouble with limiting base runners so far this year so guys who run jeremy pania kyle tucker guys like that they might have more interest uh more appeal for tonight because they're facing the jays so i would say the astros are behind the pirates and the cardinals in terms of the secondary stacks but still a very good stack and one i'd be willing to go to despite hoping alex manoa does turn things around eventually let's finish it things up here with the dingard calls for today the boring one gotta go against wainwright given all the barrels he's allowed and go to at least garcia garcia has crushed righty so far this year just a phenomenal player and again from a dfs perspective if the home runs don't want to be in there you can pay out and get good bang for your buck out of garcia even without a home run so at least garcia has been in a Homer drought recently i think he snaps it for tonight gets back in that column so garcia is the boring home run call for today the fun one let's go spencer steer facing off against teyron teyron you do kind of want to skew towards the lefties and steer is not that but decent power playing great american ballpark puts the ball in the air so his salary is not low you're not like getting a fun home run call from a salary perspective if we're going for that i probably go garver or elis but i do like steer quite a bit so let's go with at least garcia and spencer steer as a home run calls but again garver and elis two fun value plays uh who i would be checking out for tonight if you want to save some salary that's all we got here for today on these solo shot again i think it's a fun slate given all the fun stacking options hopefully andrew abbott is added to the player pool eventually over on fandals we can have one more pitching option at our disposal we'll see how things play out there do not forget to subscribe to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed to get these podcasts as they go live also check out the solo shot over on the fandal youtube page just subscribe to the fandal 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