 We get to have some fun tonight in daily fantasy baseball because not only are there logical plays We can feel good about we have some safety here We've got some very logical plays, but also there are some risky ones some some things I like a lot of sacks we can go through some pitchers who are under salaried may have good ceilings But also some kind of risky floors It is a fun slate if you like tournaments for today So let's dive on in and get you set for the main slate welcome on in to the fan duo live Q And a that is right here on the fan dual YouTube twitch Facebook and Twitter pages. 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I don't agree I don't think that's accurate if I go over to the forecast via Kevin Roth this morning He also had the winds blowing in from left at 25 to 30 miles per hour My guess is that something got jacked up over on dark sky weather and the wind is not actually blowing out This still hasn't I think this is automated This has the wind blowing in at 23 miles per hour so I would ignore what this page says if Kevin comes on and says hey the wind flipped then we should react and being on the twins but With the Total in that game still at seven. I'm guessing we're getting the nasty nasty winds in Chicago for today And we just pull up the handle sportsbook here quick to make sure yeah, it's still seven So I'm pretty sure we're good to go. Yeah, I think the wind is still in so if we assume that Kevin was right this morning, which I think he was The wind is blowing in at 22 miles per hour That is a massive massive massive massive massive massive downgrade to hitters for the twins and the Cubs They did score some runs last night despite the fact the wind is blowing in Nick Gordon had a home run But this is different this is this is a different beast. So no twins for me. No Cubs for me. You could potentially Go, you know, maybe take a run at like how Hendricks But like just not a strikeouts for me has been pitching pretty rough recently So I would say it's a stay away situation on both sides disregard the twins disregard the Cubs I don't want to go to either pitcher either. So to me it is a full stay away. Let's talk to Brad Do you think pay up for pitch or hitters? I think do either Brad? I would say It's a really easy to justify Going all in on Zach Wheeler for tonight wheeler is facing the Orioles 3.21 skill interactive ERA over his past aid starts with fewer sliders 28% strikeout rates 26% our hit rates Zach Wheeler is a robot That's a good thing facing Orioles team that we are not super scared of versus righties I respect them a lot, but they're losing a DH facing a righty I think that for me Zach Wheeler is kind of the no-brainer on the slate. I will say though Brad We have flexibility to go with some lower salary pitchers Specifically, I think both Ian Anderson and Corey Kluber are guys you can turn to for today Anderson is I mean both these guys are coming off injuries They are four starts since they came back Anderson his past two has been able to throw his curve ball once again Should be no surprise that that has led to a resurgence for him that curve ball is his whiff pitch He's been leaning on it more the past two starts 35% strikeout right there his pitch count 99 in his most recent start so Anderson to be back on the menu Kluber I am willing to use and will use Not as sold on him as I am on Anderson because you know, he's facing the Rangers are good But a lot of walks a lot of hard contact so before between the two I prefer Anderson he's $8,000 you can definitely do that Brad So I would say either way I'll probably have more Wheeler than Anderson and Kluber tonight But I think that you can go either way with this one Brad for sure William Do you like stacking Philadelphia and San Francisco? Yes to both. I know the Phillies have been rough recently I follow a lot of Phillies fans on Twitter and they've they've been frustrated They've been pretty frustrated safe to say over the past couple of nights so I Think that it could be frustrating to go at them for sure But I still think that everything lines up. Well facing Keegan Aiken. He's a lefty I prefer the Phillies versus lefties because it increases Cutches ISO increases Segura helps out radio Muto So I think the Phillies definitely are in play for today Giants are facing Vince Alaska's speaking of Philly Velasquez still having the same issues he had towards the end of his time with Philadelphia a lot of fly balls Not enough strikeouts. So I would say the Giants and the Phillies are two of the top stacks for today William I like both a lot. Let's talk to Eric. Good question here from Eric I saw that the $25,000 winning in GPP last night used a 2 2 2 1 1 Is it unusual to use mini stacks similar to that not unusual and I think that if you look at Tournament winning lineups a lot of times you'll see stuff like that The reason I skew towards the four and three player stacks is because the data says long term that is better Again, I talked about this a lot But can you out of store another piece up on number fire before last year? I think it back in 2020 looking through average scores of teams based on what their stack combination was and You see the teams that have four player stacks just great out better. They have better ROI's. They have better average scores So you want to maximize your ROI long term? You should go with four player stacks Wherever you can try to be as concentrated as possible that can obviously pay off on Different slates, so we will see lineups that have you know non-stacky lineups pay off But long-term Eric I think that if you want to position yourself best for like Sustainable success I do still think that stacking is a way to go But good question and that's exactly you should be doing Eric check out Impressive lineups check out lineups that do well see what they do and See if they're interesting things that stand out NASA's questions I think that's the right way to approach things, but long term We do want to be as staki as possible. Let's talk to Kyle on YouTube Dan's be swanson geo or shella or Luis or Rios as a one-off for today So we have Swanson facing Meryl Kelly don't mind that Kelly low strikeout guy now the best bat of ball data You can definitely feel good about Atlanta there Or shella is facing off with Taylor Herne gets a lefty or shella's been hit the ball a lot better recently So that's good for him Luisa Rios is facing miles Nicholas Nicholas has been getting better with the Bad at ball numbers since he's been able to use his slaughter more recently as past four starts So I love a Rios in general not going to be there for today So it's me it's between or shella and Swanson I would say Kyle if you have like a Yankee stack in there or a Bray stack skew that direction But if I'm just picking straight up I feel better about the power numbers from Swanson than I do for or shella the roof is open to chase field for tonight They announced that again on a website It's closed tomorrow, but they announced some website ahead of time if the roof will be open or closed You can find that by searching for chase field roof information open for today 98 degrees in Phoenix That's a good thing for Stacks there, so I would say Swanson over or shella if it's a one-off But skew towards the stack if it is not a one-off or shella's in play But if I'm just picking a one-off here, I think that I would go with Swanson Let's talk to Renee over on YouTube thoughts on Joe Ryan projected for 36 points If that's a number fire projection, I should hit them up because that's his pitch counts probably too high Joe Ryan And the three starts he has made eighty nine eighty five and sixty seven sixty sevens because he got hit in the pitch Or hit on the wrist with a pitch or like a line drive I thought he broke it so it's good that he's starting But I would say for me Ryan's pitch counts probably not gonna be that high the matchup is great obviously the weather is great, so I think that There are good things in favor of Joe Ryan. I just worry about the length for him And yeah, so it's not via a number fire at least they have Ryan at twenty one point eight, so I'm guessing that somewhere else I would check that if they have the projected pitch count listed for Joe Ryan I would check that because he's probably for me somewhere eighty five to ninety pitches for tonight for the twins Let's talk to DJ Cole Irvin thoughts. No not in the strikeouts really really low strikeout rates The Silver's past eight starts with using more sinkers 12% strikeout rates the lowest on the slate I think the DJ the one thing I would say about Irvin is we can use batters against him super low strikeout rates Does let up our contact so I would say looking at the Mariners guys You've got Luis Torrens there. You've got Mitch Hannigar tie France can work some of the other guys batting lower in the order So I would say some one-offs or potentially a full stack of the Mariners against Irvin More in play for me than using Cole Irvin as a pitcher for tonight. Let's talk to William Could you build a Philadelphia San Francisco stack to see if it's similar to mine? Well build not separately because I don't want to give out like full line That's the stuff like that that gets into like I just feel I feel weird ethically about that So let's just go through a Philly stack first and a giant stack after that Let's see if the Phillies lineup is in. Okay. It is in got say Gura Harper. We have me tell McCutcheon Freddie Galveston that in sixth. Okay. I'll take that no objections for me there Pretty sure he's been good against both righties and lefties this year Let's just check that out first before we get too excited about all all Freddie Against lefties 216 iso sick. Sign me up. Let's put them in first one on Freddie Galveston. Let's put him at second base for twenty four hundred dollars, let's get cutch in there and I know it's a laughter. Let's put Harper in there, too. And we want say Gura. Do we want real Muto? Real Muto 167 iso say Gura is a 201. I feel better a real Muto's overall power, but Probably just want to go with Sigura. So let's do that Okay, we'll put him at third base. I tend to feel pretty good about short stops Let's do this here. Let's put Wheeler in there as a pitcher. If we do that. We are at 2725 that might be kind of tough. I think I can make that work still But maybe you go down a hundred dollars to get to a real Muto there but I think that if you're doing Phillies with Wheeler Galveston is borderline must at that salary definitely a guy who Think he's good for one offs. I think he's good for stacks I want to get there that beer link batting eighth in front of a pitcher National League Park Doesn't have the best in minor league power numbers. So I'd be okay Staying away from that one. So I think that for me. It's say Gura Harper real Muto McCutcheon Galvis. Let's see if we can anything for out of Odubel or yeah, or Didi Odubel versus lefties 128 iso meh Didi 117 meh. So yeah, I would say These five guys the guys batting second through sixth of the guys you want to focus on for a Philly stack Let's build out a giant stack here now with keeping Wheeler in a pittricks. I know that we had a Question from William. Could you build out a error from Brad? Building a lineup with Wheeler. So we have that for the Phillies. Let's check out what the Giants have I know I'm gonna want Lamont Wade in there Because pretty low sourd. I'm gonna want you strength ski in there. Sorry pretty good to him as well Okay, I'm assuming the line is not in yet because it's West Coast game. It's just refresh here to double-check that and Nothing yet. Okay. Good. Let's put a Stella in there too because I want to say some salary Because we have Wheeler. Let's put a Stella at Second base then you've got some flexibility. I'm probably gonna try to get to check out some salaries here on belt specifically okay belt is 39 That might be tough Crawford 34 So let's go back over here. Check out how much we should be desiring belt that that he's amazing So I want to get there But I also know I got to be salary conscious with trying to jam in Harper trying to jam in Wheeler and stuff like that. Okay, so Crawford's a 243 ISO versus righties. That was just disgusting. He's so good Um Busters at 181 I would say we're probably going Crawford here for if we're building with Wheeler Just to get the little bit extra salary savings. I prefer Crawford over Posey. I'll take the hundred dollar hit there to get above So I would say if you're going Wheeler, this might be the preferred stack on This Giants team if you have Galveston there, you could put the Stella at third base instead But I think leading on Wade with Stella. Yes, Trebsky totally find that that in order to get the extra salary savings for Wheeler and to get to Harper if you're building out a Philly stack. Let's talk to Jerry on Facebook So we are the top picture on the slate Who is the best value guy you're looking at? I think to me it's Ian Anderson. He is $8,000 again I want to pull up his game log here because he's kind of a good example of Why I look a lot at pitch mixes so Let's scroll down here to just his past four games since he came off the IO And we'll go to his pitch mix and check out the curve ball usage So the first two starts He wasn't using this curve 14% uses on the pitch part of that could have been because he's at course field but he's also coming off an injury so Could have been a situation where he wasn't feeling the curve ball yet didn't have a grip for that pitch Didn't want to use it. He didn't do well in those first two games but the past two starts the curve usage is up to 28 no 28% yeah, 28.7% in those two starts He has a 3.15 skill interactive ER a strikeout rate is 35% When 99 pitches and that most recent start to swing and strike rate is 16.5% He's been a beast the results have been okay they've been fine in that two-start sample, but 16 strikeouts and ten and two-thirds innings you put him up against Arizona I know the roof is open that does downgrade him for sure, but I think he's good enough to take advantage of that matchup So to me Ian Anderson is the top value for today. I've got cluber, too I think there's a decent gap between Anderson and cluber I still think cluber is usable and I will have in my player pool But I think the Anderson the superior play so Jerry to me Ian Anderson the number one value picture On this slate. He's actually my number two overall behind Wheeler if I'm not going to go to Wheeler. I think that skipping over Bueller at course skipping over sale with his weird pitch counts skipping over Marquez at Coors I think that's the way to go. So to me. It's Wheeler or bust basically on the top end DJ Using Garcia as a pitcher. How do I stack the Yankees Brewers and Braves together? Garcia is a good pitcher. So I think that I can get behind that the one downside with Garcia Is he does not go deep in games? They've got him on a pretty strict pitch count. It seems like As you can see here, he did go six and two-thirds there But for the most part doesn't tend to go deep in games lowers the odds you get that quality star bonus That's why I'm not as high on Wheeler or Garcia I should say as I am on Anderson and cluber the good thing is Garcia's matchups not bad So you can justify in that way, but just explaining why I'm not as high on Garcia personally Basically, the overall takeaway is here. You've got some salary flexibilities So if you don't have to worry about salary stacking the Yankees, I would say We want Stanton We want judge Let's check out the lineup here What Yankees? Okay, let's get Voight in there and Urshela batting seventh is actually pretty high Gala fifth has some power against lefties though. So that's not too bad. Who's catching? Higashiyoka's got some pop against lefties too. So I would say Higashiyoka's in play Not as in the Glaber Torres. Let me check to make sure I'm not being too dismissive here of him Yep, that's fine. So I would say probably Urshela or Higashiyoka Urshela is $2,600 Higashiyoka is Minimum salary if you want to get to like Wheeler, I would say Higashiyoka is in play Joey Gallo strikes out a lot against lefties, but I would still say like DJ Let's say you're building out like a good number of Yankee stacks Make sure you get Gallo in some of those because I know he strikes out a ton But he's got power against lefties still so Try to get Gallo in there But if I were just doing one Yankee stack with Garcia or Anderson a pitcher I would say these are the four guys I would focus on there Let's talk to oh wait, you also asked about the Brewers. Sorry about that DJ missed that Brewers part facing Miles Nicholas I think that's fine. Again the bad of ball data on Nicholas has been better recently since he's been able to use a slider again So that's why I'm not there, but the Brewers definitely do work. It depends on new plays I do like Omar Narváez in general versus righties. So I'd probably include him in a stack I don't need the salary savings, but I still Would be inclined to go there I wanted Warto Escobar from using one of these lower salary pitchers because Escobar has some power, Adames, under salaried Let's check out Yellich. His recent bad at ball data I haven't used a lot of Yellich. So let's see What he's been doing here recently See if I can get get myself bought back in on a former MVP Let's go to stackcast and let's do from September 1st on All right, so September 1st on for Yellich negative 2.3 degree launch angle. That's not great one barrel That's rough. I so here for Yellich is 046 so I would skip over Yellich. I would say Eski get him in there. I want Narváez in there. I want Adam is in there That's probably the main three for me and then Vogelbach Vogelbach's been in the ball pretty hard recently So I would say those are the four I'd be turning to for a brewer stack braves Against righty Depends if you need the salary savings because like the braves have guys in kind of every tier So that's the way that breaks. I would say though if we're looking at the braves in terms of like The non-conventional line of thinking here because Soler hits higher in the order I feel like he tends to be More heavily rostered than Duvall. I would use Duvall over Soler despite the fact he's batting lower in the order Let's talk to Jerry Milwaukee 24 in New York 2 4 5 Atlanta 2 3 4 got to have the sour for them. Okay, so The Milwaukee lineup not out yet. I guess that's probably looking at Yellich if you're looking at the two hole batter I would try to get off Yellich personally because again, I like Escobar more like Narváez more and then Adamas as well Atlanta 2 3 4 so we're looking at the the primary guys there with Riley in there and then the Yankees 2 4 5 Yankees that be Voight Stanton and who was the 5-hole batter for today Gallo. I would try to reconfigure that Jerry to try to get to Judge over Gallo again. I know I mentioned Gallo as being a guy I like But I try to get to to get to judge if I just one lineup I try to get to judge there Kyle try to stack Houston with Philadelphia Who do you prefer as a four player stack between the two? So Houston? Let's check them out here Houston is facing Jansen junk. I like both Kyle. I think they're both awesome. So Give me both if you can if I had to choose one Should probably go with the Astros because the Phillies have been so rough Like if it's a one-to-one comparison where you don't care too much about which guy it is which guy who's in there I would say Try to get to the Astros like if you've got the sour to get them. They are the preferred option It's not really that's not the way things work. Obviously, but actually I guess probably is with Harper being up there McCutcheon's not low souried. So, you know, I would say Astros over the Phillies. That is a Change for me between how I view things this morning. I do think that I bumped up the bumped up the Astros bumped down the Phillies a tiny bit just because the Sours are kind of high outside of Galvis Okay, so fear money entertainment saying the Brewers lineup is out. So the source of music doesn't have it They're delayed. So this is not a shock. This is definitely happened before where I've refreshed that and it's not been out So let's pull up here on my other computer and see what the Brewers lineup is Okay, Colton Wong Eduardo Escobar Christian Yellich VCO Garcia Omar Narváez, Elise Arias, Jace Peterson the first base. Okay Lorenzo Kane So based on that lineup for the Brewers, I would say Escobar Narváez, I don't mind Jace Peterson super low souried. He's got some pop and then Decided between Garcia and Luis Arias. It depends on what you need from a salary perspective So if you need to say some salary, I don't mind Arias. He's he's very good against righties, too VCO Garcia versus righties 222 ISIS. So you have the salary to get up to Garcia I would go for it. If not, Arias is fine. So Escobar Narváez, Peterson, all guys I think that are going to grade out well relative to salary If you've got the ability to get to Garcia, I prefer him over Arias, but they're both in play for me for today Let's talk to Jira. My favorite sacks today are Houston, San Diego, Philadelphia, Atlanta How would you rate those? I love Houston. I love Philadelphia. Think Atlanta is pretty solid rank them one two three Yeah, the Padres are in play too against Scott Kasmere The reason I was not as high on them personally is because they're just not powerful against lefties I mean obviously that thesis but like as a team They're not great against lefties a 148 ISO a 34% fly ball rate That's a bummer. So I would rank San Diego lowest of that group They're not out of play because Kasmere is a guy who I honestly don't know how to read right now So it could be great. It could suck but that's fine. You know, we can take that volatility in DFS So I would say San Diego last in that list not totally out of play The reason they're lower is because of the lack of power. So to me ranking those Houston one Philadelphia two and then Atlanta three San Diego four I know William just asked about San Diego's well good timing on you and your part William there again I think they're in play just not a lot of power there. That's kind of the one Downside for them. Let's put the Padres here and check out their Expected lineup So Tatis Machado both those guys getting the lefties Myers can as well fam can to an extent He weirdly has some like he has less power than you'd expect for our left or a righty versus lefty So fear money says we can only roster four brewers you named six but I get it Listing dudes you can use obviously you can't use all six in the same lineup like It's fairly obvious. I'm listing out dudes. You can use the primary ones I would say for the brewers if we're gonna list out a top four Escobar put him at second base No, Adamus for today, which is annoying But let's go with Narvaez Let's put Jase Peterson in here in the outfields Minimum salary and then you're deciding between Abyssal Garcia and Luisa Rios, I think I'll be able to get to this with Wheeler Despite the fact that Escobar is pretty high salary just because the other guys are so low Let's put Wheeler in there if we do that 3250 definitely the sour to get to Garcia there So I'd say Garcia over Rios if you're willing to go with Narvaez and Peterson personally I am I think that's totally fine So that's the stack I'll be looking at there for the brewers for today trying to remember if there's anything else We have not talked about as far as Stacking options for me do like the Yankees didn't talk a lot about them But I do think they're a pretty good option versus Taylor Herne. I really like the Giants We talked about them early on haven't talked about them since but I really like them. I think they're number two I'm gonna put Houston one Giants to Phillies three and Then going on from there. I think that'd be my ranking for Yankees for for me today So really high in the Giants and I think that they are a high quality team that I'd like to get to as often as I can't That is all that we have here for today on the fan duo live Q&A as a reminder We are back here once again with the usual schedule for tomorrow Brandon Kudula has your Thursday night football previews starting off at 4 p.m. Breaking down the Texans and the Panthers I'll be on at 4 30 to talk MLB DFS for the Thursday slate kind of a funky slate for tomorrow Just a I'm assuming a four-game main slate. 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