 There are a full 15 games on tonight's slate for MLB DFS, which means we have got a lot of options, both at pitcher and at stacks. And despite that, there are some pretty clear teams and pitchers I want you prioritized for today, even if they be tough to jam them in together. I think we can do it. And I want to make that clear, but it will be pretty difficult. So our task for today is to first identify what those priorities are, and then try to figure out a way to get both in together within the same lineup. And again, I think we can do it. So let's dive on in and get you set for tonight's slate. Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network and NumberFire.com. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for NumberFire.com. Here to break down Tuesday's 15 game main slate with lock set for 705, a four or two night. There are a couple of weather notes for today. There's a chance of rain tonight in Cleveland as they host Detroit. It doesn't look super concerning, but it is enough where I would check back on that one later on. There is also a chance of light rain tonight in Chicago for the White Sox and the Twins. Again, it looks like lighter rain. I bet that they're pretty motivated to get this game in after postponing yesterday. So should be good to go, but check back on that one later on. Winds in Colorado are out to center at 11 miles per hour. That's fun. It's an upgrade to bats for the Rockies and the Pirates. And it is just 63 degrees in Oakland for the A's and the Rangers. That is a bigger discrepancy from other temperatures than usual because a lot of places warmer than usual for today. So Oakland being still 63 degrees means it's gonna be pretty tough to get to bats for the A's and the Rangers. I'm not saying cross them off because the A's are a very good offense and a good matchup, but you should account for that and downgrade them a pretty significant amount. 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Call 1-800-270-7117 in Tennessee. Call the red line at 1-800-889-9789 or in West Virginia, visit 1-800-gambler.net. Pitching preview for this Tuesday main slate, Brandon Woodruff is the highest salary pitcher on Fandal. He checks in at $11,400 followed by Robbie Ray at 10-8. Kevin Gosman is $10,500 facing the Dodgers. Walker Bueller facing Kevin Gosman is 10,000. Lucas Geolito rescheduled two-tonight checks in at $9,800. Hosts of your Kiti Freshoff, a nice showing versus Baltimore, facing Baltimore, is at $9,500. Charlie Morton also in a repeat matchup at the Metz, $9,000, and then Trevor Rogers, Andrew Heaney, Blake Snell and James Caprellian are the others at $8,000 or higher. Now to me, when I look at the pitching for today, there are a lot of good options. Love Woodruff, I like Gosman, I like Rikiti, like Morton for sure. I like those guys quite a bit. But to me, it's pretty obvious, despite the presence of a lot of good options that Robbie Ray is the top pitcher for tonight and a massive priority for me when it comes to filling out limes for today. And I wouldn't expect a ton of pushback here with regards to Ray. He has been tremendous recently. We have a seven-start sample on Robbie Ray with more sliders and fewer curveballs. And that's more than enough time for the key stats we look at to stabilize. In that time, Ray has a 33% strikeout Ray with a 2.92 skill interactive ERA and a 6% walk rate. When you add those numbers together, that is a pitcher with big upside. And he has shown that upside in his results. He has hit double digit strikeouts twice in that time. And those double digit strikeout games came against the White Sox and the Red Sox. Two very tough teams on lefties, but it didn't bother Ray that much. The matchup here, much softer, facing the Mariners who have an 88 WRC plus against lefties with a 28% strikeout rates, their walk rate is low, which means Ray could easily put up 10 strikeouts once again. He's also at home for just the third time in now this eight-star stretch. So a lot of positives here. The one downside for Ray is that he is still letting up hard contact, which is a staple for Robbie Ray. The hard hit rate is 49% in that time, about 10 percentage points above league average. So some components of our old friend Robbie Ray are still in there, but the overall picture is great and he's in a great matchup. And that to me makes Ray the top starter on the slate and I feel very comfortable putting in there. He is 10-8. That means that if you want to stack the team that I want to stack, which is the Rockies, we'll talk about them later on, it'll make you get a bit creative with your second stack, but I think that it's worth it. And I think we can do it based on the salaries for the Rockies for today. So Robbie Ray to me, the number one guy on this slate. Now at the Rockies in mind, it's hard to pair them with Ray, as mentioned, we can do it, but it's even harder to pair them with Brandon Woodruff. Woodruff is 11-4. If I were ranking pitchers in a vacuum, Woodruff would rank second for me. But with this context of, I like Ray more at a lower salary and I want to jam in the Rockies, I'm going to go with Lucas G. Alito second for the second straight night and taking into account the context. I do think G. Alito is number two. He's $9,800. The same things I liked about G. Alito yesterday are in play once again for today. And I love how steady he has been since the sticky stuff discussion began. G. Alito has made four starts in the month of June and he has had at least a 29% strikeout rate in all four of those starts. Some of those came against, you know, weak competition, both of them. This is the toughest task he will have faced in that time, but he has shown before that he can handle this twins offense. He faced them back on May 19th, which is long enough ago where they're not going to be super familiar with him, but it's also recent enough to say, hey, he can handle them. He had eight innings, two hits allowed, one run, 11 strikeouts. Since then, G. Alito has hit 12 strikeouts once and nine strikeouts twice, which is good upside for any slate, but it's even more enticing when you can get that upside for just $9,800. G. Alito also very willing to go super deep into games. He has gone 102 or more pitches in five straight starts. He went 111 in one of them. So even if he does stumble, it has like a bad inning, something like that. You've got wiggle room to still get him deep into the game. If you use G. Alito, you've got 31.50 left per hitter and that should be enough to help you stack the Rockies, which makes me high on G. Alito once again, hoping the rain holds out this time around. So to me, it's Ray won G. Alito two among the studs. I do think you consider Rikidi and Morton. I think both those guys definitely work. The reason I was lower on them than G. Alito is because they are both in repeat matchups and that does matter for me. So I like Rikidi, I like Morton. Just the repeat matchup thing does scare me a bit, but I will still probably use them for today. There are two value plays that are very much worth considering in my eyes for tonight. One of them is Nick Povetta against the Royals. The other one is Joe Ross against the Rays. I like both these guys a decent amount. And I'll likely honestly use both tonight to get more exposure to Coors Field. So very dissimilar to last night where I was kind of just ready for Ulta once G. Alito got rained out, but I'm willing to use a couple of guys for tonight. If I had to give the edge to one of the value plays, I would go with Povetta. And the big reason for Povetta is the matchup. He is facing the Royals, whereas Ross is facing the Rays. Rays a high strikeout team, but they're also a good team. The Royals, not as much, 88 WRC plus against Rides with a 140 ISO. So the matchup favors Povetta despite the fact they are a lower strikeout team. The Royals, as mentioned, are a lower strikeout team, but they also don't draw many walks. And I think for Povetta, especially that's kind of a nice thing, he hasn't generally gone super deep into games this year, but it's not a pitch counting. He's gone 111 pitches within his past five starts and he's generally in the upper 90s. The problem Povetta has is that he's not super efficient with his pitches. The hope here would be that the Royals not taking a lot of walks would be enough to keep the plate appearance is shorter, which might allow Povetta to go deeper in the game. Again, they're not a super high strikeout team and that does hurt his upside a bit, but the hope is that the length, the increased length for Povetta will be worth the trade off there. Povetta, unlike some of his teammates like Garrett Richards, has not been super bothered by the sticky stuff discussion. He threw six and two thirds, no hit innings against the Rays last week. His pitch count was just too high for him to finish the job. He had eight strikeouts there. He got six in each other June start, including nine against the Astros, although that was June 2nd, so slightly before our usual cutoff for the sticky stuff. But either way, Povetta is a good pitcher who is flaws with the lack of efficiency in his pitches maybe covered up due to the matchup. That is enough for me to get Povetta a slight edge over Ross. Again, I do like Ross enough to use, especially because these guys let you go nuts at Coors Field, go nuts with Clevelands, the Astros, stuff like that. But I do think Robbie Ray is the number one priority. Both these guys worth consideration for me. Let's move now to the stacking discussion and talk about why I am in on the Rockies for today, despite the fact they are a terrible offense. There are very few situations in which I wanna be super, super committed to Colorado even when they are at home. Today is one of those times though. They're facing Chase DeYoung and DeYoung has made five starts in the big leagues so far this year. The movement decreased on his fast ball in his second start. That was the first after the sticky stuff discussion. And since that time, DeYoung has had pretty rough numbers across the board. He has a 5.02 skill interactive ERA over his past four starts. His strikeout rate is 21% within 11% walk rate. He has allowed a 45% hard hit rate with a 51% fly ball rate. And most importantly, it's because it's Colorado, those came against bad teams or for the most part not great offenses. He faced Miami, Milwaukee and Washington in the first three starts and all those teams are pretty rough against righties. They're not as rough as Colorado, but it does help to see that he has had some issues against not great teams. The Rockies biggest woes this year have been on the road. They've been a decent offense and they've been at home, especially against righties. So I think that they are the top stack here and that's even with my general reluctance to stack the Rockies. I still think they are the number one stack for today. And it does help that the Rockies salaries are not that terrible. They're likely to have Yana Fendazza batting second for today. He's not a big power guy, but he can get you upside just by breathing and being in the line up at Coors Field. He's $3,000. Ronald Tapia, Brandon Rogers are both $3,600 or lower. So there's still a bad offense and I do want to get to Ray, but in this spot, given the not terribly restricted salaries, given that Ray is 10, 8 instead of like 12,000 or something, I think we can make it work and I'd like to try to do so. We'll talk about some value plays to make it a bit easier throughout the podcast later on. A team that doesn't have a ton of value plays is Cleveland, but I do think that they are worth targeting for today against Jose Orenia. We've been stacking against Orenia for a while now and I see no reason to stop this time around. I think that Cleveland is a team that makes a lot of sense once again for tonight. Orenia was trending down toward the end of May and then the sticky stuff discussion began and things have gotten even worse for Orenia since then. He's up to four starts since that all kind of that happened. He has a 6.51 skill interactive VRA with an 8% strikeout rate, eight single digits and a 12% walk rate, which means Orenia is letting up the ball and play 80% of the time, 42% of those balls and play have been hard hits and his fly ball rate is 34%. Now that is still better than average, the fly ball rate at 34%. But it's higher than it was and it's higher than it needs to be for him to get by as a pitcher. The ERA for Orenia in this time is 6.51 and I think it could be even worse than that. Cleveland is a softer matchup than what Orenia has had in a bit, but I still think we should stack them here and see what happens. The other issue for Orenia specifically tonight is that Cleveland has a ton of lefties and Orenia, even when he was like pitching decently always struggled versus lefties and that's continued so far this year. So I know Bobby Bradley is not low salaried by any means at $3,500, but I adored him tonight. He has a 3.11 ISO versus righties. There's a lot to like there. So Cleveland's not gonna be the team to stack with Colorado if you wanna go with Robbie Ray, but I think that if you go Joe Ross, Nick Pineda, you've got salary to burn, get Jose Ramirez, get your Rockies in there, like Ryan McMahon, Trevor Story and just use a good place here. I think they're a great place to dump some salary. The salary savers Ahmed Rosario and Harold Ramirez, both righties, but they do deserve to be in a rotation for stacking despite the fact they will not have the platoon advantage over Orenia for tonight. The Padres are facing Tony Santian in Cincinnati and that is a massive park factor upgrade for San Diego, but I also think Santian is worth targeting with stacks in general, which puts me on the Padres for today. The big reason I wanna second Santian is the contact profile. He's actually getting strikeouts. His strikeout rate is 25% through three starts. He got eight his last time out, which is a lot higher than I generally wanna deal with my stacking perspective, but Santian is letting up a lot of loud outs. He's allowed a 49% heart-hit rate with a 51% fly ball, right? And those issues seem to be true in AAA as well because his fly ball right there was 44%. The Padres just saw Santian two starts ago or two weeks ago. When that game Santian lasted three innings, he let up three runs with two home runs allowed. His swing strike was 5.7%. So yeah, the good game Santian had last week does matter and I'd expect him to be a guy who does get strikeouts in general. I'm just not sure that'll be enough here given all the issues he has had with hard contact. So I do like the Padres quite a bit as a stacking option and they weirdly have some salary savers. I talked about this a bit last week, but I'm betting on a Trent Grisham bounce back here pretty soon. He got moved down the order last week, but since returning his ISO is still 245, very good number. He had three doubles on Sunday. He's not hitting the ball as hard as he was before. He got hurt, but he's in Cincinnati. He might be moved back up in the order. He had second on Sunday. I'd expect pretty big things in this series for Trent Grisham and I like him a lot here at $3,000. He's 3,000, Will Myers is 25, Tommy Pham is 3,000. If you wanna use Eric Cosmer, he's 27. I don't know, I'll talk myself into that one, but the Padres is pretty easy team to stack, whether you're going Ray, Woodruff, anyone else, and potentially good stacking partner with the Rockies for tonight, which is weird, but I do think that that is the way things break for right now. Let's head to things to watch for today and talk through a couple more stacks on a fairly large slate. There is, as of right now, no official word on who will start for the Orioles against the Astros tonight. It could be Travis Lakins, and Lakins went four innings last week. Kind of seems like they might be stretching him out. It was five days ago. I'd be fine stacking against him if it's confirmed that he'll start. He's not a big strikeout guy. He doesn't get a ton of ground balls. He's now being stretched out potentially. So if it is Lakins to the starter, the Astros would rank third for me for stacking behind the Rockies and Cleveland, though once you consider the salary savings, realistically the Padres would want it being higher. So the Astros after considering the salaries might still be fourth, but very much team I'm expecting to be in on for today. I think the Braves could be a good spot for some value tonight. They're facing Tyler McGill, and I think McGill is interesting. He had good numbers in the minor leagues, didn't have a terrible start last week. The problem is that he's facing the Braves for a second consecutive start. They seem to be seeing him decently well the first time, and the game is in Atlanta, which is a good part for hitting. So the core four value plays here, Abraham Amante, Austin Riley, Dan C. Swanson, William Contreras, they're all still $3,000 lower. So I think that definitely works. And I think that between the Braves, Padres, et cetera, we shouldn't have value to get to the Rockies with Ray for today, and I'd like to do so. So if you're looking for value, Padres are good, Braves are good, as far as like teams that are just overflowing with value and good high upside value for today. Finally, I'm probably gonna get questions on the Red Sox tonight, and I am in on them. I think that they definitely work. It's just tougher for me to get there realistically when stacking the Rockies with Ray or Geolito. But if you're not going Rockies, the Red Sox work, or if you wanna go with Nick Pavetta, Joe Ross, the Red Sox work there too. I would also say that for one offs, both Hunter Renfrow and Michael Chavis are interesting value plays. Renfrow just keeps on hitting dingers, even against Reides, so I'm on board with him there. Chavis might hit lead off at $2,400. Pretty good numbers in triple A before he got repromoted. So if they allow you to get to Coors plus Ray, then I'd bump them up on the list. So check out the Red Sox lineup. If Renfrow and Chavis are in good spots in the order, I'm on board as one offs or like a mini stack or maybe a full stack too. So the Red Sox to me, definitely worthy of consideration for today. Just the salaries pushed them a bit lower on my list. Let's finish up here with some Dinger calls for today. It is Dinger Tuesday, so why not? As always, boring one and one fun one. The boring one, kind of like a higher profile guy who not super out there to predict they'll go yard. I would say Shohei Otani, but that might be too boring even for the boring section. So I'll go with this teammate. Jared Walsh facing Jameson Tyone. Tyone has had some issues with fly balls and hard contact recently. He cut back on his slaughter usage 10 starts ago and in that time, 45% hard hit rates with a 45% fly ball rate. So I'll go Jared Walsh as my boring pick for today. And the fun one is the guy we talked about before, that is Trent Grisham. He is facing Tony Sontyon in Cincinnati, good park for hitting. Grisham, I am expecting to bounce back here pretty fast. So the two Dinger calls for Dinger Tuesday, Jared Walsh and Trent Grisham for tonight. That is all that we have here for today on the solo shop. But as mentioned back here, later on 10 a.m. Eastern, the Fandal YouTube page, going through this week's Rocket Mortgage Classic with Brandon Gadoula. Then Brandon is live with you at 3.30 p.m. on the Fandal YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages all swing by at 4.00 p.m. to talk MLB DFS. Aaron Dolan is live at 4.30 to talk NBA betting. So a lot of good stuff here, whether it be on the Fandal YouTube, Twitch, Facebook or Twitter pages or on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed, make sure you are subscribed and also if you like what you hear, leave us a rating and review. If you have questions for me, I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis, J-I-M-S-A-N-N-E-S. You can also follow the Fandal Podcast Network at Fandal Podcast. Thank you to everyone for tuning in for today. Good luck for you tonight, 15 games, whole lot to work through, but some fun options across the board. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow. This has been the solo shot right here on the Fandal Podcast Network.