 This is often the case on a 12 game sleep, but I feel like especially for today The stacking options are really good. There are no options discussed in the show today where I feel like it's a Well, I guess if I have to and the well I guess if I have to stack is pretty common for shorter slates and stuff like that but for tonight We're definitely not getting those. These are legitimate stacks I feel good about ones that I am excited to use for tonight We're gonna break down what those stacks are top pitching options and more to get you ready for Friday night in MLB DFS Welcome on into the solo shop. That's right here on the fan dual podcast network and Number fire calm. My name is Jim Saunas. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire here to break down Friday's 12 game Main slate will accept for 705 p.m Eastern for tonight couple weather notes before the slate the first one is that there is a chance of Thunderstorms in Atlanta for the Braves in the Marlins. They appear to be isolated. So Should be good to go there, but check back on that later Finally very high temperatures in Kansas City in St. Louis for tonight That is 93 degrees the Royals and the Dodgers in Kansas City and 91 degrees in St. Louis for the Cardinals in the Yankees There is some chance of thunderstorms in St. Louis But if they play I jack up offenses for the Yankees Cardinals Royals and Dodgers and those teams will be focuses for us in the stacking section later on not just because of the weather But it definitely does not hurt. So Check back on the timing of storms for St. Louis and Atlanta But jack up offenses in Kansas City and St. Louis We'll dive on into this slate talks and pitching talks and stacks later on in just one second A first-day reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast Wherever you get your podcast We are now podcast Spotify, etc. Etc. 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I like Kramer quite a bit overall Kramer has not been great this year He has a 4.5 oh era with a 4.33 skill interactive era And that's not something you want to feel super good about but we did see Kramer make a start a tweak Seven starts ago and in that start he basically ditched his slider entirely Instead leaning more in his cutter now That's a sweeper over baseball savante the slider is and he had decent numbers on that according to baseball savants But the cutter is a pitch you can throw to both righties and lefties. It's a more dynamic pitch This has been a pretty good shift for Kramer because in those seven starts he has a 3.91 skill interactive era He has a 24% strike average for which for this slate isn't too bad He has not had more than seven strikeouts yet, but he's had at least five in each so maybe there is upside for more if we get those strikeouts super concentrated and Some of those matchups were tough. He's facing the twins at home and the twins give a big boost to righties 28% strikeout rate against righties on the current act of roster. That's the highest number on the slate by a decent margin I think that allows us to use Kramer at $8,700 if we had more firm studs if Paxton were healthy or McClanahan were healthy, maybe we'd go at them but I think on this specific slate with the way things break down Kramer actually is a guy who makes a lot of sense So Dean Kramer not typically a stud we turn to in DFS before tonight specifically on this slate I do like him in the salary savings he brings at $8,700 The number two slot is a more traditional stud That's John Gray who has had some hiccups recently. He's facing the Astros But I do like him despite that the hiccups to me on gray are the bigger concern He had a short outing against the blue Jays and in that game the velocity was down, but then last time out Gray lasted just five innings against the Yankees. So back-to-back starts with some sort of red flag But in the Yankees game the velocity for gray was back up and it's not like he got knocked around He just didn't get many strikeouts or many whiffs So that's why he's not first in this list the concern that I have from those past two starts But again, the Vila was fine against the Yankees He was still throwing his slider and sometimes if guys are banged up You might see them cut back on breaking pitches, but the slider uses there for gray was still very good Even including those two down starts. We've got eight starts with gray using his slider more often once again And in that time he has a 3.64 skill interactive ERA with a 27% strikeout rate and just a 35% Hard-hit rate allowed. He is a very good pitcher as long as we can believe that he's healthy and still Clicking along as well as he was before this year. I think I've seen enough here to believe that he is So I am gonna use gray with his salary of $10,000 I think there are enough red flags to push him below Kramer for me, but it's not enough for me to cross gray off entirely So to me the top two pitchers are Dean Kramer and John Gray I Feel a bit of uncertainty with both of them for one reason or another but you're not gonna find a Rocks rock sock and loaded if that's actually a phrase starter on tonight's slate So I do feel good enough about about gray to use him here at $10,000 The third slot is between Pablo Lopez and Griffin canning both these guys have tough matchups Lopez facing the Orioles on the road Canning gets Arizona at home. I'm gonna go canning for the reasons we'll discuss But Lopez is in play for tournaments for sure Part of the reason I like canning is the status of Corbin Carroll He left yesterday's game with a shoulder issue now. He's day-to-day There's a chance he does not play here and that would make Arizona Not a bad offense, but not as good as they've been with their 113 WRC plus in the current act of roster against righty. That's not all Corbin Carroll So they'll still be tough but not as tough and canning is pitching it really well right now His velocity has stabilized now over his past eight starts and in that time canning has a 3.75 skill interactive era with a 24% strikeout rates and a 5% walk rate The big issue he's had is hard contact He's had some bad starts as a result of that But still it's a 3.40 era overall in this time and that's even with five of the eight starts coming on the road I do have Lopez projected for more strikeouts than I think canning But I feel more firm and canning for whatever reason so I would say it's kind of a coin toss I'd probably keep exposure between the two pretty even but I would keep it lower than what I want for gray and Kramer so Focus more so on Kramer and gray But I do think that canning and Lopez both viable options for tonight for that third slot So to me Kramer's the top guy followed by gray and then coin toss between canning and Lopez for the third stop Third slot Let's talk now about these really fun stacks and typically the Tigers not a team will have in this section Especially not if we're enthusiastic about the stacks for tonight But they're at course Facing Austin Gomber and I think we can actually get pretty excited about them here Especially given their salaries are still very low It does help a lot that Gomber is a lefty the Tigers have a 99 a WRC plus against lefties And they're I so go up to 173 with a lot of fly balls So they are much more palatable as an offense against lefties than against righties and Gomber is still struggling Most recently he's been throwing more sliders his past five starts and the strikeouts have gone up a bit But his hard hit were in that time is forty nine percent. It's led to continued poor results I don't think that shift is going to be the skeleton key for Austin Gomber overall this year He has a seven point oh one er a with a six point eight six expected er a and Acquires field he has struggled against some pretty poor offenses And I don't think the Tigers count as a poor offense against lefties So they're not our favorite offense by any means But I do want to be on them for tonight again It does help that the salaries to them did go up, but the baseline was so low. They're still pretty low even at course field The within this offense. They've been hitting Andy Ibanez pretty high in the order recently Ibanez is a 30 so not expecting some like massive massive surge out of him But he did hit for power in triple a and his barrel rate in the majors is pretty good Salary here is twenty eight hundred dollars I've used Ibanez as a one-off a couple times recently even in like not as elite matchups So getting him below three thousand a course field pretty tough to turn down in general We can't feel good about the righties here So I think the Tigers deserve to be our top stack in Ibanez very much in that mix I have a similar sentiment about the Tigers as I do to the New York Yankees The Yankees are an offense that stinks with against righties without error and judge But against lefties their WRC plus in the active roster goes up to 111 and the right so is 211 I think that allows us to stack them here against Matthew liberator I actually did like liberator a lot when he first came back up I used him in his first start back from triple a he looked great down there first start was awesome But over his past four starts The velocity is stabilized back out for a liberator and it stabilized at a lower level than what it was before So the Velo's been down in those four starts He has a five point five one skill interactive Yarae 15% strikeout rate and 45% hard hit rates The results have fallen behind too and part of that is tough matchups But again the Yankees are a tough matchup when it's a lefty and it's crazy hot as far as the weather for tonight in St Louis so I think we can stack them here with an okay amount of confidence even though Things have been rough for the Yankees so far I still think they're a good play for tonight specifically facing off against liberator in very good hitting weather John Carlos Danton definitely having a bad year His OBP is 260 But the hard contact is still there 15.9 percent barrel rate a 43.7 percent hard hit rate and those numbers haven't been as good since he came back off the IL So I don't think we have to go bananas here with Stanton, but his salary also below $3,000. I'm very open to it I think I've seen enough of him to still feel okay about him now that we're getting a salary discount And there are a lot of guys here you can feel good about in the Yankees Harrison Bader's been hitting the ball pretty well I mean Glaber Torres Josh Donaldson has actually been okay against lefties perceived with caution there obviously, but I Do think the Yankees are a fine play for today Despite their overall struggles the third sack will be where we can spend all that salary flexibility. That's in the Dodgers. I We do see teams have a bit of a lull after leaving elevation of course field And that could happen here with them because they were just there But again crazy hot in Kansas City and the matchup is good So I feel like we want to go back to the Dodgers here again They're facing Alec Marsh making his big lead debut in Marsh has had some flashes in the main in the minors Got a ton of whists both in triple a and double a and he got some ground balls as well But he walked a lot of guys and that could be an issue against a very veteran offense That is a 10% walk rate against righties and Marsh was not overly restrictive with hard contact in triple a his hard hit rate allowed It was 39% is era and double a was 5.32 So may have struggled with con hard contact there as well We don't have the data to prove whether that's true now Marsh is facing the Dodgers in Warm temperatures good for hitting He could wind up doing well, but I mean they've got no big league tape on him yet Maybe that helps but I do think that the best way to play things here is to stack the Dodgers and make Marsh prove It before we avoid stacking against it Typically, I'll try to find like a value player some like trendy guy to discuss in the like hitting section of the stack But I also just want to take a second here to marvel at JD Martinez the heater He's on right now. He had three home runs in two in three games of course field his ISO overall This year is now 319 and it's 342 against righty specifically. So we're talking about the Dodgers against a righty I'm gonna prefer Mookie Betts still because he's more likely to run But I think Martinez has pushed himself up into the two-slot as far as prioritizing guys for stacking against righty So above Freddie Freeman above Will Smith above Max Muncie. I think it's Mookie one Martinez to and then those guys from there So good problem to have where it's we're pushing down good batters because we have someone so good and hitting the ball So well this year and it's fun that Genie Martinez back to kind of his old ways once again Let's go now to things to watch didn't talk about shame and clannahan briefly He's facing the Mariners and that's a super high strikeout matchup But coming off a start where he left early due to a back injury and his strikeout rate wasn't super high heading He did that start either so I'm gonna avoid McClann hands night personally but it also could be a spot where that looks stupid just because He could be healthy could go overlooked as a result of that as a result of a salary So I won't be going here personally But if you're drawn there go ahead because it's a really good matchup for strikeouts or McClann hand against the Mariners Going back to the Yankees Cardinals game. I do like the other side of that game as well That's the Cardinals against Luis Severino Severino has struggled this year But he did seem to regain a bit of form last time out And that's why I had the Dodgers above the Yankees or the Cardinals for stacking for today But very receptive to them. Maybe that star could have been a fluke I respect Severino long term as far as a pitching a pitcher goes but Wouldn't mind going at the Cardinals within that same game as well Finally the Rockies are facing Michael Lorenzen, which is not a terrible spot Lorenzen has had good results this year But that's partly due to a lot of plus matchups in the AL central now. This is a plus matchup, too But it's that course field. That's a different scenario. I think we can stack the Rockies here There's definitely a scenario where they win this game. I actually bet their money line for tonight So if they win it that means they score more runs than the Tigers, which would make them probably the better stack so very much in the range of outcomes that the Rockies are the better stack at course field I do want to put them in my player pool as a result. Let's finish up here with the Dinger calls for today I don't typically go with two guys in the same team because it's kind of boring, but I Wanted a fun one to put my money where my mouth is and have a fun Or boring one to put my money where my mouth is and a fun one and that happened to be on the same team So the boring one is young Carlos Stanton I feel like we need to buy into the bad of ball data and kind of you know put myself out there a little bit for him It is a low salary. So it's not a boring or from that perspective But it is young Carlos Stanton really good weather for hitting So we'll go Stanton as the boring home run call for today, but the fun one Anthony Volpe Puts the ball in the air a lot against lefties has hit for hit for power so far this year I think that's a pretty fun combination and probably don't view him really as being a guy with a lot of power batting Lower in the order now. So maybe there's a downside there But I do think the power is fun So we'll go with the young Carlos Stanton Anthony Volpe despite the fact that both you'll probably bat lower in the order for tonight That's all we got for today here on the solo shot But as mentioned next week we saw the shows here despite the fact I'll be gone as Austin Swainman Tom Beckio filling the seats Tom here on the solo shot Austin over on covering the spread So big thank you to both those guys in advance follow Tom on Twitter at DFS underscore Tom and follow Austin at a swing three If you got any questions for me, I'll be kind of MIA for the next week or in weeks and week and a half or so back The Monday of the all-star break, but feel free to reach out. I got if you have questions I'm on Twitter at Jim Sonnis J. 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