 We have got a juicy 14 game slate on tap for tonight and I'll be DFS and I think that allows us to Get upside a pitcher without totally breaking the bank as you know I am more than okay without locating a lot of salary towards pitchers sometimes to my own detriment But fortunately, I think we can save a little bit You know, we're not going to true value plays but my top two pitchers both has salaries at 10,000 or lower So I feel like because of the options We can allow ourselves to spend down a bit without being totally dumb and ignoring really good options on tonight's lay We're gonna break down who those options are why I like them Where we can Spend those savings at stacks and much more to get you ready for a Tuesday night over on fan duel calm Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the fan duel podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim sauna I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire here to break down with Tuesday's 14 game main slate What locks that for 705 p.m. Eastern for today the one weather note could be a difficult one in Wrigley Field Drizzle is in the forecast all day there for the Cubs and the Pirates It's also just 63 degrees in Chicago So I'm not sure if they'll play if they do I would downgrade bats And it's definitely a risk because that game may not be good to go But it's a drizzle Maybe they play through it either way would downgrade batters for the Cubs and the Pirates at Wrigley Field We'll dive into the pitching options and stacks and much more in just one second But first a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your Podcast because later on today. 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Well with Fandall's NFL best ball drafts You don't have to worry about that Draft your team and each week the highest scoring lineup from your roster will be used as you battle for first place all season long Leagues can be free to play or for money and range from three to twelve players The NFL season will be here before you know it So head over to Fandall today and get in on the action age and residency restrictions apply Pitching preview for this Tuesday main slate George Kirby comes in with the highest salary on Fandall his salary for tonight is $10,800 followed by Zach Wheeler at 10 6 Corbin burns on the road against the twins 10 2 with Hunter Brown at 10,000 flats Pablo Lopez facing burns 98 Alex Cobb 96 We got Chris Bassett also 96 Max Scherzer's 94 Tanner by B91 with Edward Cabrera Joe Musgrove Jack Flaherty and Tony Gonsolin as the others at $8,000 or higher now I do think we have leeway to save a bit of salary for today. We can get quality pitchers in Really nice matchups in doing so I'm gonna start things off with a high floor matchup with a high upside pitcher So hopefully we can blend those two together to get a a real Combo of floor and upside here. That's hunter brown against the nationals Again, it is a good matchup for floor because the nationals against righties their current active roster has an 84 WRC plus with a 124 ISO they never draw walks and The one downside here is they just don't strike out very much It's actually below a 20% strikeout rate and that does hurt browns upside But he has the upside in himself and that does matter as well brown has pitched well pretty much all year, but In his past six stars specifically He has started to lean hard into his forcing fastball and it is a great with a 2.79 skill interactive era 31 strikeout rate and just a 23 fly ball rate allowed now. We have seen Some runs cross a plate in that time because browns era is 4.81 But I don't think that's a huge concern personally given the small sample He has gotten eight plus strikeouts in four out of six games so I think when you combine the fact that ERA can be fluke in a small sample with the fact that the nationals are not the world's most prolific offense against righties And the strikeouts have been there. I'm okay being a bit Oh being a bit dismissive of the somewhat poor results this time He did face the ace twice in the sample. So facing up against a another non-elite offense And in those 19 strikeouts three earned runs across 13 innings And he's also at home, which is a good park for strikeouts So once you account for the low strikeout matchup, I do have brown projected for 6.8 strikeouts That is not as high as corporate birds not as high as max Scherzer not as high as some other guys, but when you Factor in how few earned runs. He's likely to allow in this game I think it's enough to make brown the top pitcher on the main slate his salary again 10,000 dollars You're not paying too much to get there. So to me hunter brown a really fine option for dfs for tonight The other picture I like in what I would view as a plus matchup at least for right now Is max Scherzer. He is facing the Yankees. There is still no Aaron judge here and That roster is just not the same without him the active roster on the Yankees has a 90 WRC plus against righties. They're not a high strikeout team, but they also don't walk a bunch And what that does is it allows starting pitchers to go deep in the game against them Which we've seen a lot against the Yankees already so far this year and Scherzer is pitching better now He's had some hiccups, but since coming off the il. He has a 3.16 skill interactive. He array 29 strikeout rate and 10 walk rate. He's doing that while letting him to stay 35 hard hit rates So the ball's in the air a lot, but not typically well struck Scherzer did let up five earned runs to the braves last week But that was on the road against a tougher offense and he did get 10 strikeouts there across the past three stars Scherzer strikeout totals are eight nine and ten respectively And the swinging strikes have been there too So I think based on this that Scherzer is slowly trending back up He's facing a banged up offense and his salary is back down to $9400 I don't think Scherzer is the top guy straight up In a vacuum. I do like some other guys more But once you add in the savings with Scherzer's salary at 94, I'm okay putting him second behind brown for tonight. So to me After accounting for matchup and salary my top two pictures for tonight will be max Scherzer number two with hunter brown number one As for the top value play, I like jack flairity quite a bit, which you know might not go great But I think the process is here He does need points to hang with those top studs like Scherzer brown, etc. Etc. But I think flairity can't get them He's facing the giants at home and the giants are a very good offense So I don't like targeting them, but they will strike out. They have a 24 strikeout right against righties flairity Has a couple of routes to strikeouts beyond that matchup The first one is pitch count because flairity has gone 100 plus pitches and five consecutive starts I have them with the second highest pitch count projection on this slate as a result And that doesn't matter quite a bit the second route beyond pitch count is that that uh flairity Is just starting to get more strikeouts overall He's been throwing fewer cutters his past six starts and that six starts sample His strikeout rate is 24 which is not a big number and it's in line with what he was doing before this stretch But that's with four of the six starts coming on the road and one was against a super low strikeout cleveland team If you look at one of his home starts against a Higher strikeout team kind of similar to the giants that was against the brewers and he had 10 strikeouts there so I think flairity is upside. He's also getting really good bad at ball data He has just a 27 hard hit rate allowed with a 28 fly ball rate in this time So the matchup is not ideal the giants are definitely a team that can't hurt a righty But the combo of a high pitch count and the good bad at ball data is pretty attractive here I have flairity projected for 6.1 strikeouts tonight That is close enough to the studs for me to justify using him, especially with his salary Down to 83 and a dollar so flairity at least a consideration for player pools for tonight based on I think what he could do in A high strikeout match if it's not really a fantastic one Regardless Let's dig in now to the stacks and talk about options as far as this and I would say pitcher is stronger than stacking for tonight large part because there are a lot of Good pitchers, but let's start things off. You're at the astros facing patrick corbin tonight and we've gotten Away from stacking against corbin haven't been as eager to be here recently But there are still some cracks in his profile right now Which I think allows us to stack houston here corbin obviously struggled to start the year but he's really turned things around Dating back to late april early may and as a result corbin's e r a for the philip season is back down to 4.89 But he's done some of that against softer competition He's also still letting up a lot of hard contact Across his past seven starts corbin has been throwing more forcing fastballs and his hard hit rate in that seven start sample is 50 Very high number. It's a lot of line drives. So like if you look at his fly ball rate, it's not super high but It's not because he's getting a lot of ground balls I think corbin's gotten by in part because of the competition He has faced face of tigers and the royals in this time and even against the royals He let up six earn runs dodgers hit a couple homers against him I think the astros could do that too They're still not back to the offense. They were their wrc plus against lefties is 105 But I think we should be on them for tonight Based on corbin's issues based on the bodies that got right now if they'll too be being back I think there's enough here to be okay with the astros I haven't seen a lot from alex bregman We have not seen a lot from alex bregman so far this year against lefties as far as the results go 72 wrc plus and 094 iso but Those numbers are very fluky in small samples against lefties So wrc plus Not going to put a lot of weight in that iso does stabilize a lot more quickly So you could put more stock in that but in this time bregman has a 56 fly ball rate against lefties And a 7 strike out rate and those numbers do stabilize pretty quickly And the power numbers against righties for bregman are fine So i'm guessing it's really the product of a small sample bregman should improve against lefties as the year goes along so I think getting him tonight at $3,100 Makes a lot of sense. So i'll be there for tonight for sure. Feel okay about him And it would be willing to go there uh within astros stacks altube is kind of the The gem right now with no yordan alvarez So uh bregman the way to save salary beyond altube Now we're not typically going to find ourselves Stacking or wanting to stack both sides of a game Featuring the reds and the royals not going to have to super off neither team has a wrc plus above average against the opposing pitchers handed this first night But I do think we want to be here and I also do like both sides quite a bit So I prefer the reds We'll start with them Then we'll get to the royals after that the reds are facing jordan liles who is 0 and 10 Pitching records are stupid and we should not put weight in them But This one is there for a reason and it hasn't gotten better even as liles velocity has increased That has been the case for liles has passed seven starts in those seven starts He has led up a 50 fly ball right still with a 17 strike out rate and a 5.09 skill interactive era He has led up four plus earned runs and all but one game in that stretch Is er a 7.51 and those have been against some bad offenses His pass three starts to come against the nationals the rockies and the marlins Now the reds aren't terrible. They have a 97 wrc plus against righties And now they're a pretty fun team with led the crews being up there. So I feel good about them against liles for tonight and The salaries are high for the reds. So it can be tough to stack here But I do like them quite a bit and that's part of why I think we have incentive to save a bit of picture when we can Daily crews is not the only guy here. We can feel pretty fun about it does help that the royals are Not great at stolen base prevention teams haven't run a ton on them overall But when they have run they've done so pretty successfully could be a product of playing the al central Not a lot of teams that run in the american league central, but the reds do so Looking at the reds, I think that their base runners will have the green light here So that's the appeal in daily crews, obviously But also matt mclean can run spencer steer jonathan india tj friddle all those guys will run Friddle's the value play sort of fairchild low salary will Benson low salary I think all those guys are fine if you Are looking to save some salary in this team friddle's 29 It's not a huge value, but fairchild and Benson a bit lower and fairchild actually has a barrel in three consecutive games So the reds to me Pretty fun and a team that I want to be on For tonight other side of that game is the royals against brandon williamson And this might be a tougher sell because the royals offense is worse than the reds and not as fun But this is a pretty good matchup We talked about williamson last week before he faced the dodgers and he struggled again there He led up six certain runs across five and two third innings with just three strikeouts The biggest thing has been hard contact for williamson He's letting up a 48 hard hit rate with a 13 percent barrel rate across five starts He's led up multiple barrels and all but one start and not all those came against stellar offense Isiah because he faced the brewers and the rockies two teams that have been pretty rough against lefties this year He did do better in those games, but the hard contact broadly was still there for those The royals at an 87 wrc plus against lefties it is pretty bad, but it's also Not as bad as the rockies at least so I think we have enough here to justify stacking the royals We'll just want to do so While being selective with the guys we include in those stacks bobby wit is obviously fine Salvador pares hasn't hit lefties so far this year But kind of somewhere to bregman where the overall numbers say that pares should get there eventually Edward olivaris has some good pop. Um, I don't think he's in the projected lineup on faddle, but he he'll play It's a lefty. So he should be out there Michael Garcia tends to shift up in the order against lefties too and He's willing to sell bases on them. I'm doing Melendez decent numbers against lefties despite being a lefty so I wouldn't roster just anybody in this lineup against the lefty But I think there are enough guys here to get us a full stack So both the reds and the royals a fun stack in that same game in Kansas City for tonight Let's shift now to things to watch two teams that would have been flirting with the top three for stacks If not for uh lower temperatures in their games for the rays and the cubs I still like the rays and we'll stack them They're facing hogan harris here. He's a lefty who struggles with walks and the rays obliterate lefties so the rays I didn't quite get them in the top three because of the park factor, but um, Did give a consideration because the matchup is good park is good Or park is not good. Uh, you know, but the offense is very good The cubs again may not be able to play because of rain. It's just 63 degrees there. So Whatever, but I do like to match up with louis or tees So if they play I'd rate the cubs below the rays and below those top three stacks But they'd be at worth at least worth digging into for sure Finally, I don't know the rangers are starting today. John gray got scratched Sounds like cody bradford may be the starter He's done a good job with hard contact suppression down in triple a But that hasn't translated the majors as of yet So if it is bradford, I would definitely consider the angels But i'm not sure if it will be yet. So give thought to the angels if it is cody bradford bumping up their righties there, but um And make sure to check back on the rangers starting later on to see who that indeed is Dinger calls here on this dinger tuesday over at fandall sportsbook the boring one I feel like Anytime I get the chance to put a le dala cruise in this I should probably just do it and I get the chance for today Based in the wilds who it sometimes does have pretty weird platoon splits, but we're going to do it anyway le dala cruise We're going to make him the boring home run call for today The fun one other side of that game. Let's go ahead with olivares olivares Has good hard hit hard hit numbers good barrel numbers and now There are good a good expected woeba. I should say if you look at his expected woeba versus actual woeba Facing the lefty for today should probably bat fifth or so for the royals. So I like a lot of that So we'll go with le dala cruise and edward olivares in that kc game as the dinger picks for this dinger tuesday That's all we got here for the solo shot for this tuesday as mentioned We are back with you later on today talking some pga dfs for the us open again to get that Make sure you check out the faddle youtube page new neastern or after the fact on the faddle youtube page there Or over on the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed if you've got any questions for me I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s want to thank you all for tuning in for today Good luck to you with your mlb dfs linux. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow to break down Wednesday's slate. This has been the solo shot right here on the faddle podcast network