 Today is our final podcast before the all-star break which does mean we get to watch the homerun derby We get to watch the all-star game which I've enjoyed the past couple of years Just like seeing all these great players all at the same time So it is fun in that regard, but it also means less DFS to play and the good thing is we get to go out on a high note because We get a picture at the top of my list attorneys for tonight who is not someone I always get to be on But who is ridiculously fun to root for and a guy I feel good about being high on so we're gonna break that down Let you know where I'm turning to for tonight other guys I'm considering and the top stacks and much more to hopefully send you into the all-star break on a high note Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim saw this I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm here to break down Friday It's 13 game main slate with lock set for 705 p.m Eastern for tonight the only weather note on this slate is that course field? That's not a bad one for the Rockies and Pirates winds are out to center at 11 miles per hour I bump up hitters a smidge as a result of that Also pretty warm 85 degrees so good hitting conditions the Rockies and Pirates obviously not the best offenses But we'll still be talking about one of them in the stacking section later on We'll talk about the pitching options and much more in just one second But first a quick reminder to check out the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed We already have podcasts for NASCAR and UFC posted a USC Long Island is this weekend Austin's Lane broke that down back on Wednesday I've got a NASCAR podcast for New Hampshire that is posted too So all that over on the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed go find that wherever you get your podcasts Hit subscribe, but if you like what you hear Leave us a rating and review as well This baseball season turn case into cash and big hits into big wins with Fandall sportsbook Right now new customers can step up to the plate with a no sweat first bet up to $1,000 great motions every day is safe and secure app and the ability to get paid fast There is no better place to bet America's pastime than on America's number one sportsbook Download the Fandall sportsbook app and sign it today to get started with your no sweat first bet up to $1,000 Must be 21 plus and presidents elect states first online a real money wager only refund issued is non withdrawal of free bets that expire 14 days after a seat restricts supply see terms at sportsbook.fandall.com gambling problem call 1800 gambler or visit fandall.com slash RG and Arizona one hundred next step protects next to five three three four two in Connecticut 1777 or visit ccpg.org slash chat in Louisiana 1877 770 stop in New York 1877 8 hopin wire text hopin Y in Tennessee called red line at 180 989 979 in Wyoming 180 522 4700 or in West Virginia 180 gambler net Pitching preview for this Friday main slate Robbie Ray is the highest salary picture on Fandall checking in at $10,700 you Darvish's 10 to Glenn Kershaw comes in at $10,100 Brandon Woodruff is 10,000 Alec Manoa 96 Patrick Sandoval 94 Nathan e of Aldi coming off the I L. He is 92 We as Zach Plisac Jordan Montgomery Hussier Keady Ian Anderson Devin Smeltzer Alex Wood Tyler Wells Michael Kopeck and Patrick Corbin as the others at $8,000 or higher Now my top picture for tonight is the guy was talking about before a guy who I love rooting for but don't often get to use in DFS for Extinuating circumstance and he's not a guy I want to use for cash games, but for tournaments my top option is Clinton Kershaw and The concern here kind of comes from the matchup he's facing the angels and I Would rather face him as a lefty than as a righty because that does knock down Otani a bit It does knock down Jared Walsh, but still not a perfect spot You got my trout there and kind of facing my trout not going to be ideal But it comes with a ton of upside this angels offense the act of roster is a 26% strikeout rate against lefties this year with a 31% fly ball right That means you can get upside against them and Kershaw has shown recently. He's got juice in the tank The primary thing with him in the past and the reason I have not been on him as much has been pitch count It's been a talking point with Kershaw ever since that almost perfect game We finally saw the Dodgers take the leash off him two starts ago. He went 98 pitches there He went 102 in his most recent start, which is his longest outing this year That's a huge boost to his appeal for DFS and Kershaw went out and said hey I'm gonna make you guys look smart letting me go longer because in those two starts you went 14 and 2 3rds innings He had 18 strikeouts and allowed just one or run really Sicko level stuff from Clayton Kershaw once again, and now you get him on a high pitch count in a good matchup I kind of think that makes Kershaw the top tournament armor the night So it is risky. It's the angels. It's Mike Trout stuff like that, but I'm fine with it. Mike Trout He's dinged up right now. I'm not totally sure I'll be in the lineup I'll be high on Kershaw in tournaments here because the upside that he brings is Increasing due to pitch count and stuff like that. So whether Trout plays or not I think Clayton Kershaw the top turning armor the night and a person I'm ecstatic I get to roof for for this slate number two. I'm gonna go Brandon Woodruff It's kind of a lot of guys in contention for number two I think Woodruff is there you could go with Alec Minoa. We'll talk about him in things to watch Robbie Ray's in a pretty good spot facing off with the Rangers for tonight Ray 7.3 strikeouts for me, which is very much in part with Woodruff I just feel a bit better about Woodruff. So let's talk about him here a lot of this is the park It's a great park for pitching the matchup is fine against the Giants And I think it's enough where we can't feel good about Woodruff here the Giants against right. He's a 112 WRC plus with a 22% strikeout rate You can generate upside against that, you know, not the highest upside team, but not the worst And Woodruff has been really good recently He's made three starts since they came back from the IL and he's had eight plus strikeouts and all three of those starts he gets a he's had some good high strikeout matchups in there, but Converting on good matchups matters as well for the full season Woodruff has a 2.85 skill interactive ERA, which is the best mark on the slate his strikeout rate is 32% It's also the best I have been projected for 7.3 strikeouts, which is not the top number Kershaw actually has the top number for tonight, but It's pretty close. So I believe in Woodruff. I love what he has done so far I will be on him against the Giants for tonight So not a not a perfect spot for Woodruff, but I will put a number two Slightly above Ray if you wanted to fight me and put Ray higher, you know, that's fine I can I can definitely with that. I think that there is a lot to like about him and again We'll talk about Alec Minoa when we get to things to watch later on As far as the value play, I don't think there's really any ideal one in here personally You could go hunter green. He's got upside. He's getting better I think that we've seen legitimate improvements. The problem is he's on the road facing a low strikeout team in Very warm weather. It's good for hitting. So it's a rough spot for him. I might use him in the second half of the year I don't think this specific matchup is the right spot to do so So I think what I'll do is just try to take advantage of a good weather game And that leads me to the other side of that Woodruff game, which is alex wood at $8,300 The reason I don't love wood. I'm not ecstatic about him as a value is pitch count He is all over the place in that regard He did go a hundred and one of his june starts, but he's been under 90 and four of six starts since then Which is why I have wood projected for 85 pitches for tonight It's hard to love a guy for dfs at 85 pitches He can go higher than that he threw 95 against the pirates 93 against the tigers So they will at times give him more leash The strikeouts have occasionally been there yet eight last time out against the Padres he's been throwing fewer sinkers across his past 10 starts and peripherals in there pretty decent 3.46 skill interactive eray 23 strikeout rates and a 31 fly ball rate So what is fine? I haven't projected for 4.9 strikeouts tonight with the upside for more that pitch count goes higher but Even with that, I think I'd rather go to guys like Robbie Ray or Minoa after I get my cursor on my woodruff So I'm not going to have wooden my player pool personally I think that it's a night to spend up and just load up on those Higher end guys try to bask in their upside. I think there's enough there where I'd rather stay there If you want a value, I'd go wood but to me. It's a good night to spend up for your pitching options Let's dive now into the stacks for this Friday So we do have a coarse field slate as mentioned wind is out whether it's hot. That's a good situation for stacking So let's talk here about the Rockies Rockies facing Jose Quintana and Quintana is doing some pretty good things But he's letting up a few too many balls in play and the Rockies are not bad against lefties So I think we can stack them here Quintana has been cutting back on his sinker across his past seven starts and it's a good move for him It's helped this peripherals quite a bit but his bad at ball betas about average and Doesn't have a massive massive strikeout rate That's led to some issues here He let up four runs against the Tigers the Braves and the Brewers in this time Also led up a couple homers to the Giants in San Francisco and now he goes to coarse field I don't think it's a slam dunk to stack the Rockies here It's not one of the most obvious stacking spots in the history of coarse field But it's a decent one and I want to be on them as a result So the Rockies Imperfect for sure because Quintana is not awful, but I do think they belong on our list at least for tonight We talked about rando gritchick earlier on the week and how he's been coming on One guy we have not discussed is Jose Iglesias Who's weirdly not a bad option against lefties as ISO is 161 Obviously that number is aided by playing his home games at coarse field, but it's not bad It means he has a path to upside which I like He hits sometimes at a decent spot in the order. He kind of bounces up and down But like he's $2,900 if they were too bad. I'm at a good spot I'd have a hard time nitpicking him. I never thought I'd be on board with Jose Iglesias But hey, he's taken advantage of course. That's kind of all you can ask for low salary Honestly where I want to spend up a pitcher. I think that's enough to at least Make us okay with him. So again, Iglesias similar to the Rockies not a slam dunk not perfect But there's enough there where he can give it a shot for sure Cleveland's facing true Hutchinson tonight And he's a guy letting up a ton of balls and play right now So I think it's wise to stack Cleveland here as a result Hutchinson has made four starts so far this year His skill interactive era is 5.55. He has a 9% strikeout rate and a 4% walk which means he's letting up ball and play About 85% of the time 41% of those balls in play have been hard hit So on average despite not being fully stretched out Hutchinson has led up about 7.3 hard hit balls per game across 18 batted ball events That's a good number of swipes at upside And one of those starts was against Cleveland and they didn't do a whole lot in that game. They He led up just one or run in five innings And the results overall for Hutchinson have been fine in this time But i'm skeptical he can maintain that as the sample gets larger as teams are seeing the second time and stuff like that Kind of just living dangerously by letting up that many balls and play so Cleveland's not the most punishing team by any means. I'm not super Enthusiast act them ever but did stack them last night back again today I think that there is enough here to give them a shot against Hutchinson I want to talk briefly about fromio race We know he has tons of power, but He seems pretty uncomfortable at the plate right now. I think that in general play discipline stats. It can be a gauge of um the command of batter has the plate and He doesn't have it right now in the month of july rays has a 36 strike area the 2 walk rates But his iso is 168 hitting a lot of hard contact at 22 percent barrel rates He's facing a low strikeout pitcher and I think that's the key thing for me from the race against a Medium strikeout pitcher like a meryl kelly probably not going there because you know he gets enough strikeouts where you can strikeout Hutchinson, I'm not sure so I think in this situation I'll be higher in race and I usually am typically I'm lower in him than consensus but I think for tonight I'll probably be in line with him uh because The plate discipline issues matter a bit less and I can lean more on the power and the power is very good. So Ray is to me gets a bump up as a result of the low strikeout pitcher more so than most guys in that lineup would If you want more of a turny centric stack for tonight, I would check out the twins They're facing michael kopeck and the twins saw kopeck two weeks ago and they got to him. They're now facing him again and I still wouldn't expect them to be too popular because kopeck does carry some name value but he's not Pitching really well right now The philosopher kopeck has been down across his past six starts and it was especially bad last time out we didn't see the impact of that because he was facing detroit, but You know, they didn't do much to punish him But if we look at those six starts as a whole Kopeck has a 5.29 skill interactive era with a 51 fly ball rate and a 40 hard hit rate The results have followed too. It's not just peripherals his era in those six starts is 6.00 And the worst adding in that stretch was against this very same minnesota team in chicago He lit up six runs with four dingers in four and two-thirds innings now He has to see them again this time on the road That's a pretty rough setup for kopeck and it's a pretty good one for the twins I love the power the twins have been showing right now I think we can be very high in them as a result and make them a tournament stack I don't think they're like an outlandish tournament stack. Uh, so it's not like uh, oh turnies only you can't you can't look their way In other formats, but I'm guessing the twins won't be super super popular for today Looking at implied team totals are behind the rockies braves jays Pirates guardians and then the twins after that so might keep them in check So the twins I think a good turnie stack for today In doing so, I would bump up the lefties outside of buxton and korea. Obviously, they're fine But the biggest benefactors here are or hey, polanco max kepler and alex kirilov at least our eyes is fine, but Not a big power guy. Uh, whereas polanco is kind of uh, he has a 239 iso against rights this year arises at 115 which is Better than he's been previously. So that's that's encouraging. Uh kepler 173 iso kirilov 165 and he's been much better so he came back up from AAA so Prioritized the lefties still use korea and buxton for sure but give the lefties a lot of love because of the numbers copac has had against lefties and I think thinking back to that game I'm pretty sure that was a game where kirilov had two home runs I'm not totally sure but overall lefties get a bump up against copac for today Things to watch do want to talk briefly on alex minowa. Uh, he's facing the royals here who have a depleted roster They did win last night. So kudos to them for that But it should still be a good spot for minowa and I wouldn't be shocked if like I think there's a non-zero chance. He doesn't know hitter like that's that's the kind of situation That's kind of picture. He is But he's not a huge strikeout guy and that matters a lot for tfs Minowa has not had 50 fan dual points since april So we talked about kershaw and woodruff before kershaw had 60 points his last time out He had 49 the time before that that is more than minowa has scored in any game since april woodruff has gone 48 52 and 40 since he returned So while I love minowa He's not as good for tfs as he is for real life He's still good for dfs and I think he'll pitch really well and that doesn't matter but I want to shoot for a guy who has a chance to give me seven. Do you think that kershaw can do that? I think that woodruff can do that So minowa really good real life pitcher is bad at ball beta is absurd and he's really fun to watch But not as good for dfs. So I want to shoot for the moon If you want to do minowa and cash, I think that's okay personally, I might still go like kershaw or something like that there, but For for tournaments for me, I'd rather turn to the higher upside guys like robbie ray woodruff and kershaw The pirates are of course field tonight. I think they're better for one offs and stacking They're facing irma marquez who's taken some steps forward recently getting more ground balls again So individuals here like dan vogobock, oniel cruz, even jack swinsky. I like They're totally fine by me. Just not sure I can do a full stack of the pirates given some of the issues they've had so to me it is a A one-off on the pirates and a full stack on the opposing side here With the rockies for today. So win ski is $2,600 to so like from a one-off perspective Numbers aren't great, but he can hit dinger. So I'm okay with him too The braids are facing patrick corbin tonight I think they're great for one-offs and I'm okay stacking them too Corbin did it that one throwback game against the pirates with a lot of strikeouts But he's still letting up a good amount of hard contact He faced the braids last week, which means they're familiar with him They scored four runs in that game and they easily could have been the top three for stacks here. So You could even persuade me to put the the braids as high as second Like if you put them above the guardians, that's fine about the twins. That's fine, too Um, I would not push back on that. I think that I I mean honestly, they could be first so I think the top four of the Rockies guardians twins braids you can put any of those first I wouldn't push back on it, but I think that the braids another one to mention for sure in terms of stacking for today Let's finish up here with some dinger calls for today for the boring one We'll go to Coorsfield talk about cj crone facing off against the lefty again. Gintana has Average batted ball numbers, but I've kind of made better than average if you're going to face cj crona Coorsfield So we'll go cj crone as the boring one for today. The fun one. I mentioned Alex Kiriloff I'm pretty sure he had a two-homer game in that game against Kopeck a couple of weeks ago I don't honestly know I should probably know that because I'm talking about Kiriloff here in the fun section Did not look at this prior to see if it actually was him But Kiriloff ever since he came back up from triple a hitting the ball really hard when he was at triple a There was a lot of hard contact down there as well So I feel like he's a guy who has that kind of upset It actually was that game where Kiriloff had the the multi-homer game So not a bvp kind of thing just a I think this guy's fun Facing off of the guy's letting up a lot of hard contact and fly balls right now So the homerun calls for today will be cj crone and alex kiriloff That's all we have here for the first half of the season back here after the all star break on friday for our first podcast Unless there's a two game slate thursday, honestly do not know what the schedule is I should probably check but Got other things cooking for the all star break to to figure out there So we'll be back after the all star break with the solo shot every week day Of course, we'll pga dfs next week as well NASCAR and ufc continuing to so lots of good incentive to make sure you are subscribed To the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast hit subscribe Swing on back after the all star break and we'll talk more mlb dfs then If you've got any questions for me. 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