 It is going to be a tight squeeze tonight in daily fantasy baseball We want to jam in all the really fun options that are disposal both my pitching perspective and a hitting perspective because There are a lot of good options, but a lot of them come with pretty lofty salaries So our job today is to identify which of those studs we should prioritize with our precious precious salary dollars And how we can try to jam in as much upside as much juice as much fun as Humanly possible, so let's dive on in and get you set for this Friday night's slate welcome on into the solo shot That's right here on the fan dual podcast network in number fire.com. My name is Jim Sonnis I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm here to break down Friday's 13 gain main slate What locks that for 705 p.m. Eastern for today. There is some rain out out east There's a good chance of rain specifically in Washington for the Nationals and the Cardinals They should be okay to play that game, but check back on that one later Pretty similar thing in Atlanta though the rain odds there are a bit lower So I bet they're good to go but check back on the braze and diamond backs for that one Rain is possible again at Coors Field for the Rockies and the Dodgers you off to check back on that one later as well I think all three games should be good to go But just check weather for Washington, Atlanta and Coors to make sure they are good to fly there We'll break down pitching preview stacks and so much more and outline Priorities to the slate in just one second at first big day today here on the number fire Daily fantasy podcast see because coming up later on you got a nascar DFS preview for this week's race in Indianapolis They have a road course there. So it's a tough Matchup or tough situation for sure. 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Good luck to you if you decide to enroll in those as well And hopefully we'll see you in Chicago in a couple of months Pitching preview for this Friday main slate Justin Verlander comes in with the highest salary on Fandals He checks in at eleven thousand one hundred dollars Garrett Cole's eleven thousand Shane Bieber facing the raises ten six Kyle Wright is ten thousand five hundred dollars Brandon Woodruff comes in at ten three Alec Manoa ten two Robbie Ray facing off of the Astros in ninety seven hundred dollars Martin Perez is ninety six of Miles Nicholas in ninety four and Patrick Sandoval Joe Ryan Julio Rios Blake Snell and Alex Cobb are the others at eight thousand dollars or higher now on this slate We have a lot of good options a lot of good pictures we discussed there But we have two studs in an elite matchups for tonight Those guys are Garrett Cole and Alec Manoa. I'll talk through Cole first because I prefer him and we'll talk about Manoa after that Cole's facing the Royals here It is a depleted lineup following all the moves they've made the active roster It's just a ninety two WRC plus against righties with a one third one thirty three ISO And that number is probably gonna trend down as a sample on the guys replacing Ben and Tendi, etc Gets larger. So it's a plus spot for Cole But he doesn't need that to beast out now Cole has had some blips recently had that's really rough for outing against the twins He wasn't super super spot-on against the Orioles last week and we also let up five runs the Red Sox So Cole has had ups and downs But all those rougher starts for him were on the road We do see Cole strike out right on the road decrease to twenty nine percent versus thirty six percent at home I'm not sure that the split will be that big over a large large sample because of this larger than the league average But he's probably just had some bad luck on the road But I think the biggest thing is that it doesn't hurt that he's been better at home when he's at home for tonight The biggest issue of being in Yankee Stadium is a short porches And that's not as big of a worry against the team like the Royals It doesn't have a ton of pop up from top to bottom. So I'm gonna put Cole first I just love the sick upside that he has his floor at home is amazing this matchup is great So Garrett Cole deserves to be at the top of our list first night Alec Minoa tonight is more interesting than usual and I will say that and I think that's from a DFS perspective because he's always interesting He's always a great pitcher But he's not as great for DFS due to the lack of strikeouts But he gets a boost there tonight which puts Minoa number two for me behind Garrett Cole Minoa is facing the Tigers. They're active roster is just a 65 WRC plus against righties 6-5 only two other offenses on this slate are lower than 90 in their WRC plus They got 24% strikeout rates with a 6% walk rate so when you get an opposing starter facing them it is a massive boost to that guy and The biggest boost comes in the form of upside and that's where Minoa needs to help because the floor for him It's always been rock solid. He's been using a slider more across his past 10 starts in that time He has a 28% hard hit rate. That is the best mark on the slate doesn't issue a lot of walks And that's why is he already is 2.64. He is a great real-world pitcher And now if you take that and put it in a great high strikeout matchup Suddenly becomes a great real-world pitcher and a great DFS pitcher as well It means I can finally be in on Minoa rather than Being lower on him and praying he doesn't finally go nuts I've got Minoa projected for 6.3 strikeouts tonight That is right in line with other guys behind Garrett Cole So if I take those that decent strikeout projection give it to a guy who is tremendous in every other arena and put in a plus Matchup that's going to put out Minoa number two for me at ten thousand two hundred dollars I think he very much deserves that Given the matchup and given how good he is from a true baseball's perspective I think we can also go to plus matchup for our value play here that's going to be Lance Lynn against the A's he's just 7500 dollars and That allows you to do whatever you want it hitter, which I'd like to do for tonight at times honestly But I think Lynn has gotten unlucky so far because his ERA is 6.43 He has let up five plus runs in four of his eight starts, which is not ideal The peripherals for Lynn are more forgiving though He threw a lot of sinkers his first two starts and clearly did not like what that was going What that was doing because he cut back on the sinker using his third start and across his past six with fewer sinkers He has a 3.77 skill interactive ERA He has a 22 strikeout rate and the bad at ball numbers aren't bad either So the results are bad and that doesn't matter But I don't think he's as bad as the results say he has been I've got Lynn projected for 5.4 strikeouts tonight. That is not the most among the value players We'll talk about two guys who are above him in things to watch But you add in the plus matchup for the safety and I do like it and there is more upside in Lynn than that number would say too So I will likely be more building around the studs for tonight building around coal minoa, etc But I am fully receptive to Lynn at 7500 dollars in part because the stacks are very high salary and very good So with that said, let's dive into our stacks for tonight and outline Why maybe I'm okay considering Lynn's Lynn tonight. I do think Coors Field grades out well again here after it blew up last night Dodgers facing Chad cool this time and cool Kind of provides everything you want out of a pitcher at Coors Field He lets up a lot of balls and play does that about 75 percent of the time He has a 43 percent hard hit rate allowed with a 41 percent fly ball Really good combo across the board for hitting. It all leads to a 4.96 skill interactive ERA So you may look at that and wonder, huh? How did this Chad cool guy shut down this very same Dodger's offense the last time he faced them? That was also at home back on june 27th He went nine innings with no runs in just three hits. It was a disgusting game by Chad cool Full credit to him easily his best start this year The question is should that worry us here? I don't think so In four starts since then cool is let him three plus runs each time He let him five runs twice The Dodgers is not a mookie bets in that game and they do now They're active roster as a 124 WRC plus against righties with a 188 iso Really good numbers all around So unless you think that cool Has some sort of like magic Uh, and that allows him to shut down the Dodgers I'd recommend being in on them here. There's just one game They had a couple barrels in that game They just can get a lot of stuff to fall in so I think we should give the Dodgers another crank here In this rematch of Chad cool. See if we can get a little Dodgers revenge game after that one there When we're doing so we'll want to favor lefties against cool They have a 490 slugging percentage versus him this year versus righties at 376 He lets a more hard contact to lefties strikeouts are about even there so Bump up the lefties within your selections. I do think that makes freddy freeman The top priority among the studs and the good thing is like the value plays There are still some values here They bumped they rectified the error from last night and did bump up the salaries for the Dodgers guys But jake land still below 3000 max muncie's below 3000 cody belliger's right above it. So a lot of guys who Help us stack the Dodgers while using cullum and Noah are lefties and low salaried I like that quite a bit. So the Dodgers once again high in the menu for today Gavin lux also Going to check that box for us for tonight I think you could make a case for putting the Yankees in a similar tier to the Dodgers if not for coolers There are pretty good options too. So let's talk about the Yankees here. Their matchup is really good here Let's talk about them now. They're facing chris bubic bubic is Letting up a lot of hard contact right now and I say a lot that kind of undersells it because His heart rate rate is 48 and 10 starts since he came back to the rotation Not a ton of those are in the air. Uh, just 33 fly ball rate But that heart hit rate is the second highest mark on the slate The low fly ball rate may help explain why the results have been decent for bubic. His era is 3.76 But I think there's some flukiness in that. He's faced the tigers twice He had some other soft matchups too To bubic's credit. He did hold the blue jays in the astros and check That's really tough as it left to hold the blue jays and the astros From blowing things up The first time he faced the astros. He did do well the second time they had a couple of thinkers off him So, you know as the sample expanded they got a little better I'm just not sure if bubic can sustain the results. He's had so far in this sample The yankees current active roster he went out jung karla stanton has a 130 wrc plus against lefties and the riso is 222 That is just insane. How good their active roster is versus lefties So my hope is that bubic's era prevents people from realizing how good of a spot this is for the yankees Because I think they could be tremendous here. I'm not expecting them to be under roster But hey, you know, it's a 13 game slate got a lot of good options I think it does at least Maybe slightly capped their projected roster rate for tonight, but they're still gonna be popular. I don't care I'm still gonna stack them for sure. They're that good When I'm doing so labor torus is going to be the key building block for me here within these yankees stacks He has 97 played appearances against lefties this year and his iso is 367 That's actually higher than erin judge. It's a small sample. So I'm not saying, you know better, but It's a really good number 58 fly bar for torus versus lefties. So I gotta be high on him He's a building block on this late here for $3,200. He is a massive priority Whether I'm stacking the yankees or not I'm going to use labor torus because he is phenomenal against lefties. The situation is great for him. So labor torus a standout for tonight I'll talk about some potential value plays and things to watch we could turn to there But I do think we have a really good third stack as well for tonight and I need to mention them here That's the blue jays. They're facing brian garcia who is making his third start or his first start this year we did see garcia in relief last year and Even in just one inning since he really struggled He had a 5.43 skill interactive eray is a reliever last year with a 17 strikeout rate and a 13 walk rate He also led up a lot of hard contact and We've seen garcia starting to get stretched out in the minors, but he never threw more than 54 pitches I'm guessing it likely means it'll be effectively like a bullpen game tonight with garcia being like the longest guy there But the tiger's bullpen Although they're not putrid that's also not wanting to fear necessarily So no matter the way it's it's divvied up between garcia and the rest of the bullpen I want to be high in the jays here. They are high salary Which means it might be tough to stack them with the dodgers or the yankees and have garret coal as your picture But you know, I think the dodgers again has some value plays. So we'll try to make it work and see Um, if it does work out, but the Yankees to me very much worth it for tonight One thing that would help here would be if we get a a value play to squeeze in there somewhere Uh, rebel toppy has been hitting the ball better recently And one guy keep an eye on I'm not sure if he'll play as Zach Collins He hasn't played him forever if he was in the minors for a bit, but then got called up over the weekend He might get sent back down with Alejandro Kirk seeming okay So by the time you listen to this it's possible Zach Collins is no longer on the roster But uh, 276 iso against righties. He strikes out a ton. Uh, that's very worth noting, but he can hit dingers So if Collins in there, even he's batting like ninth I could do it to get myself flexibility elsewhere Uh, but again, he could be in the minors by the time you hear this wouldn't be shocked by any means And we had who would not be the first time this happened So if Collins plays I'd use him if not Don't use him. That's my full advice for tonight. Thanks to watch. Let's go through some two Two lower salary guys with some strikeout juice for tonight Those guys are Blake Snell and Patrick Sandoval Snell space in the twins Sandoval's face in the Rangers and Snell walks a ton of guys Sandoval's matchup is a little bit tougher than it may seem But I've got both guys projected for 6.3 strikeouts The concerns are the reasons why I went in over them and plus his matchup, but You could definitely justify giving Sandoval and Snell a look because they both guys are very interesting for tonight I can see going at the white socks here The problem is they just were at Coors field and didn't really get bumped down as much as they potentially should have with their return to A non-core situation, but they're facing Janice Caprellian He is a guy we can use bats against low strikeout rate a lot of fly balls The white socks are not a great offense. So you want to be selective, but I think they can't work in the situation Five, I think the braids are interesting either as a full stack or for one off They're facing Madison Bumgarner who is better now than he was the beginning of the year But he's still letting up a ton of hard contact a lot of balls or a lot of fly balls So the mid-range here is pretty nice. You got William Contreras, Marcella Zuna, Travis Darno Orlando Arcia is a guy I've used at $2,500 So you might want to give the the braids a look as well so again tough slate in terms of jamming and everything that we want but Dodgers help quite a bit in terms of their value plays. Maybe we get some value from some random Yankee jumping it in there or a blue jay Maybe you can get something from the white socks and Gavin sheets, uh, but I do think overall It's going to be a slate where we have to pick and choose our spots for sure Speaking of Gavin sheets, let's go into our Dinger call support stash. I think Gavin sheets is a pretty fun one Gavin sheets was A guy who's kind of bounced up and down so far this year But puts the ball in the air a lot against righties We've seen Caprellian let up a lot of balls and play I think sheets is kind of fun. So Gavin sheets the fun home run call for the white socks for tonight facing James Caprellian The boring one will go freddy freeman. It's course. It's freddy. It's chat cool Probably don't need to say a ton more than that But honestly like all these lefties here are really fun So the more the home run calls for today freddy freeman and Gavin sheets That is all that we have here for today in the solo shot again I would go through names and decide, okay How do I want to rank out the priorities within the stack? How do I want to rank out these starting pitchers because let's be even selective with our salary first night given how tight things will be It's gonna be tough, but I think it will be fun and doable for sure regardless Do not forget to swing back here later on today on the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed for both USC at NASCAR getting you set what should be a fun weekend of dfs via myself and Austin Swain Find that by searching for the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed Wherever you hit your podcast while you're there make sure you hit the subscribe button To get all these podcasts right as they go a lot if you've got any questions for me I am on twitter at jim sonnis a j i m S a n n e s you can also follow the fan to a podcast network at fan to a podcast big Thank you to everyone for tuning in for today. Good luck to you with your mlb dfs lineups for tonight Have a fantastic weekend. We'll talk to you once again next week. 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