 What's going on and welcome to the solo shot? My name is Tom Vecchio. We have a 10-game MLB Slate tonight lock is set for 635. As always, this is one of the many shows on the Feindle podcast. Now, if you can find that anywhere, whether it's Apple Podcasts, whether it's Spotify, you name it, give it a like, follow or subscribe. Leave a review that is greatly appreciated. You can follow me on Twitter at Tom underscore Vecchio 1. The video version of this can be found on the Feindle YouTube page. It can be found on Feindle TV Plus and it can be found on feindle.com slash watch. Before we hop into things, get ready for the NFL season with incredible offers from Feindle, America's number one sports. But right now, new customers can bet $5 and get $200 in bonus bets guarantee. Plus, all customers who bet $5 will get $100 off NFL Sunday. Take it from YouTube and YouTube TV. Now is the best time to join Feindle. 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They'll end up playing because it'll lighten up as things go on. Just no kind of keep that in mind. There's no course field on tonight's slate. And the 10 p.m. Dodgers Padres game is not on this slate. So keep all that in mind. Again, lock is set for $6.35. Let's hop into pitching where we have some great options all the way up at the top. Starting off with Spencer Strider and $11,800. Zach Galin $10.6. Eduardo Rodriguez at $10.300. Brown at $9.9. Jordan Montgomery at $9.7. Yusei Kukuche at $9.3. Round out the options that are $9K. And above obviously, things are led by Spencer Strider and Zach Galin. I should say Zach Galin and Spencer Strider, the number one and number two favorites for the NSI Young right now. So we have legitimately great options to be looking at tonight. Again, there's no course field. There's no Dodgers on tonight's slate. We do obviously have the Braves. Strider is pitching. So there are some pretty clear offenses that we want to get to tonight. Let's start off with Spencer Strider, who we could say is the best pitcher on tonight's slate, whether he wins the Cy Young is a different story. But his fantasy upside is legitimately unmatched not only tonight, but realistically on most slates that he pitches. He comes in with a 37.8% strikeout rate this season. 7.9% walk rate along 1.11 home runs per 9. He has a 2.81 Sierra Skill interactive ERA is absolutely unbelievable. He has a 19.5% swing strike rate is absolutely nuts. And he comes in with a 50.4% medium contact rate and a 45.1% fly ball rate. We'd like to see that fly ball rate a little bit lower. But of course, it's still good to see that medium contact. The double digit strikeout potential for Spencer Strider is always there. And I know he's coming off of two rougher starts, you know, four in runs against the Dodgers. It is what it is. It's the Dodgers. He did have nine strikeouts in that outing. Six earned runs in only 2.2 innings pitch with five strikeouts against St. Louis is not what we want to be seeing. Tonight, he's going up against the Philadelphia Phillies who are certainly a tougher test when it comes to teams overall. But realistically, the fantasy upside that Strider brings is something that we want to be buying into. He's legitimately one of the best, if not the best fantasy pitcher we can get because of that high strikeout upside. Philly right now with their current active roster versus right-handed pitching coming with a 23.4% strikeout rate versus righties, which is the 12th worst in the league. There's still a solid offense overall that comes with a 105 WRC plus and a 174 Team ISO in this split versus righties with their current active roster. So, yeah, they have some power in their lineup. That's not really too much of a surprise. That's what they've been doing. The question becomes is how much do we value Strider at 11.8 in his strikeout upside ahead of Zach Gallin at 10.6? And like I said, Zach Gallin is currently the odds-on favorite to win the NL Cy Young. He comes with a 26% strikeout rate, 5.2% walk rate, only allowing 0.96 homeruns per nine. He has a 3.65 Sierra, a 50.5% medium contact rate and a 40.9% ground ball rate. We also look to Zach Gallin and he comes in with an 11.3% swing strike rate. There's no doubt that Strider is the better strikeout pitcher compared to Zach Gallin. That is very, very clear. And the double-digit strikeout upside that we see from Strider, like I said, really can't be matched on most slates and it's not matched on this split. There's no other pitcher that can touch his strikeout rate. Zach Gallin is an awesome pitcher. There's no doubt about it. And he's 10.6, which is, you know, considerably cheaper compared to Strider who's at 11.8, getting 1,200 of salary relief for, I guess you could say he's the best pitcher in the NL right now. As I said, he's the odds unfaithful to win the Cy Young. How much revaluing that salary relief, given the fact that he's going up against the Mets who, like I said, they're not the best team overall, but they're still putting up runs. And, you know, they're putting up runs last night, the night before, whatever it might be. And then how do we value Zach Gallin potentially head of Eduardo Rodriguez at 10.3 or Hunter Brown at 9.9? Because Hunter Brown has an awesome matchup going up against Oakland. And I know Oakland, you know, surprisingly, has won a few games against the Astros, that kind of, the Astros kind of let us down last night and so did Verlander, but it's still Oakland. And like I said, you know, baseball, it's a weird sport, weird stuff happens, but it's still an easy matchup for Hunter Brown. So ultimately, the question becomes, you know, how do we rank these pitchers? Just as we were last night, where there's some positives and negatives going for all of these pitchers. When we look to Hunter Brown, he's the least expensive among this bunch. And he comes with a 26.9% strikeout rate and an 8.1% walk rate. And of course, his sample size is a bit smaller, just given the fact that this is his, you know, first real full season in the majors. He did pitch last year with a 20.1 in sample size, but obviously, we can only take so much for that. He comes in with a 3.70 Sierra. Now, he's a very, very heavy ground ball pitcher, medium contact pitcher, which is great to see with a 52.5% ground ball rate. He knows how to limit the damage, you know, which is why he's only allowing 1.27 home runs per 9. And going up against Oakland is obviously a match of that we love to see. Oakland right now with their current active roster versus Wright, he's coming with a 24.5% strikeout rate, which is the sixth worst in the league. They also come with a 91 WRC plus and a 159 ASO. So there's no doubt that Oakland, of course, as you would expect, they're a weaker offense compared to the Mets and compared to Philly, but Hunter Brown just hasn't flashed that high fantasy upside that we've seen from Zach Gallin and seen from Spencer Strider, where Hunter Brown is a good pitcher and Zach Gallin is a great pitcher. And I think Spencer Strider is an elite pitcher. Now, we get value from them in different ways where Gallin can go to six or seven innings, have six, seven strikeouts, maybe eight, and he's going to really limit the damage in terms of earned runs. Strider, yeah, he's going to give up a home run here or there, but he's going to have 10 or 11 strikeouts to kind of compensate for those earned runs. So ultimately, I think Hunter Brown's a good option tonight. He's not a great option. I would certainly put him behind Strider and Gallin. So it'd be Strider, Gallin, Brown, and then Rodriguez for me in terms of ranking these top pitchers. And what Rodriguez has looked solid this year for the Tigers, but again, his strikeout upside doesn't touch what we get from the other pitchers. And Cincinnati, while they're a mediocre offense overall, and they do have some pop, they strike out a good amount at 22.8% with their current active roster versus lefties, which is 13th in the league. So they're right around the league average. So I might as well just take a little bit of sour relief on Hunter Brown, who's 9.9 granted. It's only $400 less expensive to get the Brown. He just has a higher strikeout matchup going up against Oakland. So as we were last night, you know, we're kind of splitting hairs between all of these pitchers. But ultimately, Strider, Gallin, Brown, Rodriguez is how I would rank this top tier of pitching. Now, again, we have no cores field on tonight's slate. Do you want to be going somewhere else for some of these less expensive options when it comes to, you know, in terms of the pitchers that are super, super cheap. So you just load up on any hitters that you want. There's really no one that jumps off the page. Connor Phillips at $6,500 for the Cincinnati Reds is expected to make the start for them today with the Reds giving Andrew Abbott an extra day off. Obviously, this matchup going up against the Tigers is something that we'd love to be going to. The Tigers coming with a 24.6% strikeout rate versus righties, which is the fifth worst in the league right now, and then 84 WRC Plus and a 141 Tmiso. So there's no doubt that this is absolutely a great offense to be targeting with the Tigers. I just don't know what we're going to be getting out of Connor Phillips, who, again, has an extremely small sample size for the Reds. If I go anywhere, it's probably going to be Connor Phillips for the Reds if I'm going outside of that top tier pitching. But again, that is truly the goal is to get up to one of those pitchers tonight. Let's move on to stacks. And again, we have some solid offenses on tonight's slate. Again, the 10 p.m. Dodgers Padres game is not on the slate. There's also no course field on tonight's slate. We do have the Braves and they're on the road going up against Philly, going up against Christopher Sanchez. The Braves as they showed last night, as they showed the other day in the double header, as they show in every single game, apparently, they're going to hit three or four home runs every single game. So yes, stack the Braves with their, what is it, 5.01 in implied run total today? I don't think that's too much of a surprise. But where else do we want to be going outside of the Braves? Let's start with the Baltimore Orioles. They are at home. They're going up against the Cardinals. The Cardinals will have Drew Rahm on the mound. This is a great matchup for the Orioles. And realistically, this is a matchup where we should see them put up 6-7 runs. That's the type of performance we should be seeing. Drew Rahm for the Cardinals, he only has 17.1 innings pitched at the Major League level. This is his first year in the majors. He was previously with Baltimore earlier this season in the minors. He did not pitch in the majors. So only 17.1 innings pitched out of Drew Rahm at the MLB level this season. He's allowing 2.08 home runs per night, a 12.8% strikeout rate, which is extremely low. And 11.6% walk rate is obviously very, very high. 3.44. He comes in with a 6.00 Sierra, a 40% fly ball rate and a 36.9% hard contact rate. Again, this is an extremely small sample size from Drew Rahm. However, there's really nothing that indicates that this is going to be changing too dramatically. When we look to some of his numbers from AAA over the past few seasons, he was at a 9.8, 11.5, and 10.9% walk rate. So he does not appear to be a pitcher that has a ton of command on the mound. And he's going to be letting runners on base for free. And that should only benefit the Orioles, a team that has immense power up and down their lineup. We also look to the Orioles in terms of stacking overall. They're not super, super expensive. Anthony Santander at 3,800 is their most expensive hitter. Gunnar Henderson is 35. Adley Rochman is 33. Cedric Mullins, if he plays, is 3,200. And then we look to a bit of value starting after Ryan Moundcast, I guess, at 3,100. The rest of the players are going to be 3K and below. So this is where we really can be going now. Drew Rahm is a lefty. So what we get out of the lineup for the Orioles is going to be largely right-handed. But I still have interest in a player like Gunnar Henderson, who is a lefty. He has immense power versus righties. It's obviously very mediocre versus lefties. But once this gets to the Cardinals bullpen, I expect them to bring in some righties. Thus, I still want some exposure to Henderson. So right off the jump, it doesn't appear to be a great matchup for Henderson within lefty-lefty, but I'll still be looking to get him into lineups. Of course, we're going to be going to Ryan Moundcast with a 319 ISO versus lefties this season. Absolutely awesome. Austin Hayes with a 206 ISO is something that we also want Anthony Santander with a 178 ISO. And of course, you know, filter in players like Jordan Westberg, Adley Rochman. They don't have as much power, but something like Rochman, as I've said, is not striking out a whole lot this season. He puts the ball in play. He has a 11.2% striker rate versus lefties, which is so low and a 16.8% walk rate. He's very, very disciplined at the plate. Yes, he doesn't have an immense power upside, but he gets on base, he doesn't waste chances, and he's going to be a good part of that stack. So we're talking about one, two, three, four, five, like six, six legitimately great options from the Orioles when it comes to stacking tonight. I don't want to drop down and take Aaron Hicks, James McCam, you know, players at this tier. These are not players I'm targeting in my line-ups if I don't have to. It's really about sticking at this top tier with Santander, Rochman, Henderson, Hayes, Mount Castle. That's really where we want to be going for a good combination of power and salary from the Orioles. So with a, what is it a Slay High 5.80 implied run total for the Orioles tonight, we should be looking to get some exposure to them. Next up, let's take a look at the Boston Red Sox. They're at home going up against Clark Schmidt. The Red Sox have a 5.19 implied team total. Clark Schmidt for the Yankees. He's a good pitcher. He's an okay pitcher, whatever you want to call it. He's just like the middle of the road, kind of, you know, SP3 type of pitcher where he's not overly dominant. He allows 1.28 homeruns per nine, a 22.8% strike array. Like none of that is worrisome. He has a 6.2% walk rate, a 4.11 skill interactive ERA. He allows a 38.1% fly ball rate. He's just very middle of the road and there's nothing that we should be too worried about when we see this type of pitcher on the mound. He's not overly dominant in strikeouts. He allows a few homeruns here or there. The fly ball is going to be an issue for him and obviously that should just benefit a team like the Red Sox at home in a great hitters' park. So when we look to the Red Sox, where do we want to be going? I have a ton of interest in Tristan Casas tonight at 3200. He's one of my favorite options on tonight's late. He's having a great year in. You know, Gunnar Henderson is probably going to win rookie of the year in AL, but man, Tristan Casas is having an awesome year and he comes in with a 226 ISO versus Reides, which is something that we absolutely want in our lineups, especially at a pretty modest salary at 3200. Adam Duvall has a 304 ISO versus Reides and I know he's been struggling a bit as of late. He's been in that lineup for the Red Sox, but Duvall has a ton of power and whether or not he makes the lineups yet to be seen, but he's still the type of player I like to get into my lines because that home run upside is always going to be there. Then it really comes down to who you can afford from the Red Sox depending on what you're doing with pitching. Of course, getting Devers into your lineup is the ideal, you know, starting of a stack for Boston, getting Devers 3800. But if you're paying up for Strider or you're paying up for Zach Gallin, that may not be possible depending on what you're doing with the other stack. So this is where I want to kind of start things with Tristan Costas at 3200, obviously still a great spot to go. If I could get Devers, Costas, Turner, Yoshida, that would be a great stack from the Red Sox. But again, it comes down to what you have available. So Costas, Yoshida, Verdugo, I think is a pretty solid start for at least a three-man stack when it comes to Boston. And it's at 32, 3100 and 3K for those three players. So really not that expensive for three solid hitters from Boston. Again, if you drop down and take a less expensive pitcher, of course, look to get Devers in your lineup each and every time you can afford him. So the Red Sox is a great spot. We have the Orioles, I think, are an awesome spot tonight. We have the Braves on tonight's slate. You can always be looking to them. Houston's on tonight's slate. Again, I know they let us down over the past few days. I'm still going to be willing to go back to Houston, just giving their offense. And I'm not worried about a matchup going up against Paul Blackburn. Where else are we going to be looking though? I think I want to look at the White Sox tonight. And they're on the road going up against the, or excuse me, they're at home taking on the Kansas City Royals. The Road Royals should have Stephen Cruz expected to quote-unquote start the game, but he's just going to be an opener for the Royals. It should be Alec Marsh taking the bulk pitching after that. Alec Marsh this season comes in with a 25.3% strikeout rate, which is certainly pretty solid. 11.9% walk rate and 2.41 homeruns per 9 allowed. This does come from a 56-inning sample size, which is somewhat decent, coming in with a 4.50 Sierra and a 45.8% fly ball rate. So this is not a picture we need to be worried about. Now, when it comes to the White Sox, they're not a good team. I know they put up some runs last night. I know the Royals put up some runs last night. You know, it is what it is. I have interest in some of the White Sox hitters, and I'm not running to get them into my line-ups, because ultimately, they're not a good team. Do I think there are some players that are viable for fantasy? Of course. And it's largely due to their salaries. Luis Robert at 3500 is clearly the best player on the White Sox by, I would say, a large margin. A 277 ISO and a 351 Woba in this split is absolutely awesome. And that's ultimately what we want in our lines. But when we're looking to pay up for pitching, you know, and we're trying to get some of the players from the Orioles or getting some Braves or getting Devers and a Red Sox stack, whatever it might be, we may not have the salary for the White Sox. So I like them because after Luis Robert at 3500, every other hitter on the White Sox is 2900 and below. Moncada, Vaughn, Benentendi, Jimenez, Tim Anderson, whoever it might be that makes their line-up, they're all 2900 and below. So they're at least somewhat enticing based on their salaries and their match-up going up against Alec Marsh. That's what this really comes down to. I'm interested in what they bring and what they allow the rest of the lineup to do. Right? It's not like I'm starting my line-ups with the White Sox. I'm starting the line-ups with the Braves. I'm starting the line-ups with the Orioles. And then I need the salary relief. Thus, we go to the White Sox. So Andrew Vaughn with a 184 ISO is someone that I want in my line-ups. Again, very modest salary coming in at 2900. Benentendi doesn't have a lot of power. But if you're taking like a small three-man stack from the White Sox, he's a player that we know doesn't strike out a whole lot and can certainly get on base. So I'm interested in what the White Sox allow the rest of the lineup to do. Again, I don't want to be starting off too many line-ups with a full White Sox stack just because their offense isn't going to be putting up a massive amount of runs on a nightly basis. It's starting with the Braves. It's starting with the Orioles. And then filtering in some less expensive hitters from a team like the White Sox, thus allowing us to pay up for Gallon or Strider. All right, let's get to the homerun calls to kind of close things out. It's going to be starting off with Tristan Kossis for the Red Sox. As I said, really, really good power numbers versus righties this year. And again, $3,200 for Kossis is an awesome salary tonight. Absolutely loving that. And then I'm going to go to Austin Hayes for the Baltimore Orioles. He's looking hot at the plate right now. He has an ISO over 200 versus lefties this year. We absolutely love to see that. So Tristan Kossis for the Red Sox and Austin Hayes for the Orioles will be my two-dinger calls to close things out. All right, so that does it for today's podcast. As always, you can find on Apple Podcasts, it can be found on Spotify. The video version can be found on Fandall, the Fandall YouTube page can be found on Fandall TV plus can be found on Fandall.com slash watch. You can follow me on Twitter at Tom underscore Vecchio1. And until next time, good luck in your contests.