 I am back from vacation just in time for the field of dreams games night between the Yankees and the White Sox Which should be a pretty fun game to see how that plays out if you've not been to Dyersville, Iowa It's a pretty fun place to go. There's also like a big die cast toy store for like NASCAR stuff That I enjoyed as a kid So big fan of Dyersville big fan of what they are doing For tonight and excited to be here once again and talking then they'll be DFS with all of you This is the Fanduola live Q&A right here on the Fanduola YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter channels My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com Tossing out a big thank you to Tom Vecchio for holding on the Q&A over the past 10-ish days Tom has always did a fantastic job. So thank you Tom for doing that for me while I was gone And again in the future appreciated Tom when he will be in here once again We're gonna break down tonight's for a game MLB DFS late and take your questions No matter where you are watching YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Twitter It does not matter get those questions and we'll take them live here on air But first a quick little scheduling announcement for tomorrow. We've got a fun stream coming your way starting at 3 p.m Eastern where you're going to have An NFL best ball draft live on air be myself J.J. Zacharyson and Brandon Cadiola Rob Lopez on air We're gonna be a 12 teams draft so the four of us will all be in there We'll be breaking down our teams letting you know which players we like at their current ADPs break down our teams tilting We get sniped and stuff like that So that's at 3 p.m. Eastern will still have the regular NFL or MLB Q&A at 4 p.m So swing by here 3 p.m. Eastern tomorrow for the best ball draft live on air with the four of us and Get your NFL questions in to should be a really fun time to be sure and again MLB will follow After that as well Let's take the questions now and head over to Mateo over on YouTube is Tatis really playing tonight because I like the White Sox and Padres offense I don't know they've said he'll be activated at some point during this series with the Diamondbacks Did not say if it would be tonight I'm kind of assuming no right now because of the wording that he'd be back sometime in the series Usually they'd say he'll be back for the series opener. They didn't say that so to me that says he's probably not gonna play for tonight And I guess I'm operating under the assumption that he will not go So I think that I'm gonna build my Padres preliminary line of some of the assumption that Fernanda Tatis is not playing so That's my thought right now. If that changes sweet, I'll be hiring the Padres and be fine But I think they are the number one stack for today regardless Mateo likes both the White Sox and the Padres I like both as well. They're my top two stacks for today Padres facing Taylor Weidner He's got strikeout juice for sure But everything else is advantageous for hitters a lot of walks a lot of hard contact a lot of fly balls And the Padres just saw him last week. He did pretty well seven strikeouts in five innings So he played pretty well, but I do still think the Padres great out. Well, they are my number one stack for today Roof is closed in Arizona. So make sure you're accounted them are in your park factor thoughts But it is still a good spot for me The White Sox number two at the field of dreams facing Andrew Heaney a guy gives up a lot of hard contact a lot of fly balls Does get strikeouts, which means there is risk here But I think there's risk with everyone given how good the pitchers are for tonight. So to me It's Padres one white socks to very much on board with Mateo for tonight Let's talk to DJ on Facebook thoughts on Logan Webb He's facing the Rockies, which is always a good thing for sure and the issue That I run into it web is that there are just too many other good pitchers on tonight's slate who I want to use Like Logan Webb is good and he's in a good matchup But when you look at his strikeout rate relative to the rest of the slate It's actually the lowest in the slate pitch count has been, you know Reserved since he came back. He's made six starts. He's back to pretty much full strength But has not gone more than 95 pitches yet So to me, I'd rather take a shot at someone like you Darvish in an equally good matchup Facing the Diamondbacks. He's been better than Logan Webb so far So I'd like Darvish more and I also like Lance Lynn Moore against the Yankees super deep pitch count I think that those be the two guys right above web for sure So I think I'm not stacking against web I'd prefer not to at least because the Rockies are really really bad But web not quite enough strikeout juice and such a good slave for tonight Randall's asking who will win him guessing this is for the White Sox Yankees game give me the White Sox Because I love Lynn I think that the White Sox offense to your damage versus the lefty So I'll go White Sox your tonight Randall and that feel the dreams game Jackie Moon on Twitter says welcome back Jim Welcome Jackie He's asking do you know what the qualifications were to get one of the risk-free bet promos yesterday? So bummed I didn't get an offer when the others who don't bet on Fandall much got one is because I already bet too much on Fandall I think that they have a free a risk-free bet for New users. I'm not totally sure on that though There is a new promo for a risk-free bet for new users don't know the full details on that But you should be able to find it over at sportsbook.fandall.com. Let's talk to Savon on YouTube How do you feel about Jose Barrios love him as a twins fan? I still have fun thoughts of Jose Barrios I'm gonna be a you know Probably a bit lower on him for tonight just because he's facing the angels kind of a lower strikeout team Barrios has been awesome and his two starts the Jays. He's been good overall. This is over his past six starts the more curveballs Obviously, it's a very good pitch for him 3.42 skill-interactive ERA 29% strikeout He's been very good, but the angels are good offense to just got Jared Walsh back off the IL So I think on this slate. I'm okay being lower on him I probably prefer him over show. Hey, Otani just because Otani's matchup is is worse, but I think that Barrios is still gonna be behind Lynn for sure behind Darvish for sure and I kind of don't mind Never Marquez like a tournament play just because he's been so good the batch up really really tough But he's been good individually So I'm okay being lower on Barrios for today and Savon also asked what games have had the best offense for today so looking at overall environment I do like the Situation the Padres individually have I know the roof is closed. I did is a downside for sure But still think that they're in a pretty good spot for tonight Blue Jays angels. I like both the pitchers there I think that the field of dreams game probably gonna be better for offense than the other games on this slate There's reading Derek Cardi who I talked about on the solo shot this morning being guys should trust in terms of Tarp Park factors. He looks at weather looks at dimensions all that stuff and he thinks that it will be a park that skews towards offense versus pitching and you're putting the white socks there a good team versus lefties I think that that adds up pretty well So feel the dreams Park does seem like it's one that will set up well for offense for today So I think if we're looking for good offense environments, that might be potentially number one for today Let's talk to USMC over on Twitter to be different. Who do you like more San Francisco or Los Angeles? So San Francisco is facing Emma Marquez not really gonna get there really good at limiting fly balls He's getting strikeouts pitching really well in general. He's a good pitcher. So probably wouldn't want to go there I think you could consider the angels against burrios because he is traditionally has mischievous with lefties and the main guys want to go to on the angels are lefties and Shohei Otani and Jared Walsh, I don't think you can use Otani for today I'm guessing not just because of I'm guessing he's a pitcher and not hitter. Yeah, he's a pitcher So like it'd be more so like a Jared Walsh type one-off thing. Maybe you can consider that So let's check out burrios his numbers versus lefties specifically this year. Yeah 349 Woba allowed to lefties the strikeout rate goes down or actually was up 26% but Ground ball right goes way down hard contact goes way up So I think we're trying to be different maybe use Jared Walsh as a one-off in that scenario to take advantage of the rough platoon splits for Jose Burrios. Kenneth, how do you feel about the Blue Jays? So I don't want us to act against Shohei Otani. I That'd make you very nervous. Let's check out Otani's numbers here though in the starts He's been using his slider more often and see What he has done there at sea because it is a short slate. We got to find some ways We can't just stack the white socks and the Padres and live there exclusively So let's look in here and see what the numbers have looked like for Otani in this time 3.03 ERA despite having that one terrible terrible game with the Yankees mixed in there Overall the matchups have not been super tough face Colorado and Texas in there But obviously Oakland and Boston are pretty tough. So in San Francisco so I think I can see it for sure because Otani has let us some hard contact hasn't had the highest strike area in this time The Blue Jays are very good. So I'm not opposed Kenneth. I think that if you're trying to be a bit different from other people I think that's okay. I think that that could be a a route to go I'm not going to talk you out of it. I think that the given it's a short slate and stuff like that I'm not totally opposed to the Blue Jays despite the fact that Otani is Really really good. Let's go back to Jackie on twitch. Would you stack against that rangers pitcher? He has been brutal this year um, that's not the main slate So I didn't research it because I played the very early only slate but not the Uh, not the other slates for today. Let's check out the early only here and see What's going on over there? Looks like that game is Already locked or just locked right now. So sorry the timing that I would have stacked the mariners against that Mike fault nevich So if it goes well great if it doesn't then at least it was after lock right Talked about that starting the time on that one Jackie Uh julius is asking who is the best pitcher for tonight? I think that for tonight. It's going to be you darvish darvish is just a good pitcher overall But also has an elite matchup facing the down and backs Really rough offense 80 w RC plus versus righties 125 isa which is Far and away the worst mark on the entire slate 25 strikeout right ranked second behind the giant So it's a great pitcher in a great matchup. He they did just see him last week. So It's not a situation where Darvish checks every box That's definitely not the case. There are some issues some issues there specifically because they did just see him He's on the road stuff like that But I still think he's number one if you don't want to go darvish because of the repeat match But you think that landslint is number two for me tonight facing the Yankees. They're in a ruts Rizzo is out. So I think that It would be lance lin to you darvish number one for tonight Um, let's talk to savon best type of stacking that today is I want to know who to stack um, I would say I'd probably just try to be concentrated Like I think it's a great single entry night where you just kind of go With whether you prefer darvish or prefer lin Maybe you want to go marquez and liars up to be contra or to be more chalky with your stacks I would say pick a picture and then go with the padres and the white socks It's just so hard to find a lot of goodness elsewhere I think that if I were looking for a way to be different It might wind up being the blue jays just because otani has not had the big strikeout stuff recently And has been on a bit of hard contact. The jays are so good. So I think that for me I want to focus predominantly on the white socks and the padres Reverse order though padres and white socks and then maybe a sprinkler and some jays there, but I do think that it's a night to be concentrated in your exposure because our just aren't a lot of Lot of ways I want to play for tonight based on the stacks dj every line of pysad except for the blue jays angels padres and diamond backs. Okay, so we have the Couple lineups in here looks like the White socks are the lone one in that we want to stack as of right now the baseball press tends to be a bit behind on these so Andrew heaney facing the white socks looks like a pretty As expected lineup the guys I like a lot here I think that if you're trying to be different at an angle batting eighth is Lower in the order likely going to be overlooked because of that right behind lewis robert and probably going to be Less popular than hints if you want a way to be different while stacking the white socks at an angle Be the guy I would turn to there, but just straight up. I would say Eloi Jimenez one stupid power since he came back tim anderson two hosay abray you three Say it's our Hernandez four. I'm actually a lot higher on him versus lefties and righties andrew von five Moncada's tough He's been hitting the ball better recently But like in general not as good at versus lefties as he has righties really low fly ball right versus lefties So I think I'd probably put angle above moncada. Where am I wrong tab? Okay, go over here So I would say I'd actually rank angle above Moncada and robert for for tournaments for tonight just because I'd expect him to be overlooked with other good outfielders on that team so The white socks will be popular because people like stacking against heaney given the the fly balls He allows given that it's a pretty high profile matchup. So I would say If I'm playing in tournaments with the white socks, I'm going to be higher at an angle And I think for a single entry stack I think angle makes a lot of sense if you're stacking the white socks as a way to Get exposure to the white socks without sacrificing power and without going full on full on shock within that stack Savon is asking us to rank the Padres. So This will depend on whether Fernando Tatis is activated or not. I'm going to assume that he's not let's go based on that and The Padres have been In flux from a batting order perspective races Let's check out their recent line-up services righties and see what we can expect probably tommy fam Lead off as he's been there quite a bit recently. Okay, so we just saw them against alcantra last night fam got the day off. Let's go over here and pull up the Padres and go to utility and see what we have here, okay, so when they had fam in there Grisham hit Seventh and then he was also seventh at that time. So probably going to expect Grisham to bat seventh And I think that's probably a pretty fair thing here Got wilmeyers hitting sixth Hosmer cronoworth machado Frazier, okay, let's go back over here. Check out the Padres. I'm not a big Adam Frazier guy Just not a ton of upside I'm okay skipping over him just by attack. They're probably bad at a good good spot in the order I would go assuming again no tautis. I would go machado one cronoworth two big upside guys batting high in the order They've got some stolen base juice as well. I'll go with those two first I would go tommy fam third because stolen base upside batting high in the order Not the biggest power guy but can't get some power in there wilmeyers would be next followed by trancrisham So to me it is machado cronoworth fam And then I would go with meyers and grisham And then we get to the osmers and the frazier's I would probably go Hosmer above Frazier But both those guys going to grade out lower just because they're a single game upside not quite as high That doesn't matter as much on a smaller slate like you can shoot for floor. I guess but I do think that um, I do think that's It's still not super fun like I want guys who can win me the slate and I don't know if Hosmer and Frazier are guys who can really do that. Let's talk to DJ What can you get for otani as a point value because his points are always so low? um Are you talking about like a projection type thing? I can go over to number fire and check out the projections for otani I feel like he tends to score pretty well um Just because he gets strikeouts goes pretty deep into games from a an innings perspective So you got 43 43 46. Yeah, he scored pretty well um And I think that you know, it is a tough match I'm not going to use otani for tonight as a pitcher because I'm really worried about that That situation Oh, you're talking about the the fan dual points per game Uh, so that's because he has a lot of zeros in there as pitcher So I wouldn't worry about the fan dual points per game for otani because that includes zeros when he's a hitter So that's the reason why it's so low. I would not account for that at all. Let's talk to Jerry, do you think the field of dreams game will be a slugfest kind of feel like it will be Being it's a hitters park and it's not that big of a park. So if made dimensions perspective It's uh, it's short to the corners apparently but like league average to uh to center so I think that the dimensions are fine. It's more so the temperature which which pushes me there Especially the temperature relative to other games on this lake 86 degrees there Whereas all of the games are 79 or lower again with the roof being closed in arizona for today so The weather skews towards them. I do still think that landslin grades out well because the Yankees offense Definitely struggling right now and landslin a pretty good pitcher himself does suppress our contact. So I'll stack the white socks I think you could justify stacking the Yankees because maybe you just make the assumption that the park skews towards Hitters, but for me. I'm okay Playing things pretty straight up here and assuming mostly a neutral slightly above average park factor for offense and still being okay with land So maybe you just kind of head you use land in one lineup stack against one another and see how that works out I think that there could be some value in that given there are some unknowns there. Let's talk to um Jerry he is saying uh, chicago white socks and colorado jerry on facebook So I like the white socks a lot very into that. He might be answering tins question about money lines Um, I think the white socks money line works actually know what the number is. Let's check that first minus 184 that's a stay away from me. I like them, but I don't like them that much kind of a I think that's a a stay away number for me. It's about where it should be so No real read there and then jerry likes the uh, colorado money line I think that's fine. Actually, I know that they're hideous, but like where the guy's good as marquez I can see that so colorado plus 166. I've seen worse For sure john was asking how to rank the padres Uh, looks like that came in right after I asked it but just uh to recap for you john since you came in I would say machado kronenworth assuming no tates for tonight machado kronenworth fam Myers grisham hasmer and then uh, frazier assuming that's the way we get things to break for today savanna want to be different today I'm going to stack chicago white socks with the giants and a sprinkle of toronto and a one off from the padres So you're stacking the the giants against sarah ma marquez I love him. I I think that that will be different because I think that other people are in line with me where they respect marquez lots will be different I think that there is value in that but for me, I'd rather be different by stacking probably the jays I think the jays are the if i'm looking to be different Stacking the jays and then potentially using marquez as a pitcher could be way to be different too Just because the implied totals higher We've got a lot of other shiny objects people look at a lot at money lines for choosing pitchers, which I don't think they should But I do think that uh marquez could be way to be different at pitcher as well from that perspective Okay, so uh dj is asking for thoughts on connor joe for tonight so With the rockies like I think that you could potentially consider individual batters like they're bad as a team that does impact everyone But if there are like individual batters who you think are good on that team You may have wiggle room because logan webb is not like a she's good I like him a lot, but he's not like a shutdown type guy. He does get ground balls. So again not actively seeking him out uh connor joe versus righties 189 iso 38 fly ball rate good hard contact rates low strikeout rates I could see it. He's one of the rockies batters who is Less terrible than the others. So I don't think it's outlandish by any means And I think that the rockies are at least an option because it is small slates I don't want to full stack it But like from a a one-off perspective if you want to go with connor joe or someone like that I think that that's fine. Just because there aren't a ton of options on a short slate Once a lot of people go in there because the rockies imply total is so low So I would say connor joe is an option for you dj if you want to go there Not actively seeking out colorado, but i'm also not actively opposed to them because it is a uh a short slate Jerry says his home run call is mani, uh, mani machado ryan mcman Eloi Jimenez and andrew vaughn. I think my home run calls for today were Eloi Jimenez and jay kronenworth. That was from the solo shot uh, Jimenez being the boring one and kronenworth being the I I call it a fun one because he's not like the number one guy in that team That's more machado and in tatis if he does play it is kind of boring though So if we're gonna go actually fun, I think that vaughn's a pretty good pick But if I want to go fun, I kind of want to go at an angle for a home run call for tonight sticking with the white socks versus the lefty angle Has more power than you would expect is the way that I would phrase that This year in the big leagues 262 iso seven dingers and 118 plate appearances He has a 10 percent barrel rate 40 percent hard hit rates 39 percent fly ball rate Those aren't bad numbers his numbers versus lefties will be too small for us to like trust them So i'm not going to put a lot of stock in them, but like You know He can yoke it a bit So I think that if i'm looking for a fun home run call for tonight, I would go at an angle And again, I think that he's a good way to Get access to the white socks without using the just straight up most popular guys in that stack I think that he is a better option for tonight than louise robert. I think he's a better option than Maybe not mokada like straight up but like from a turner perspective. I think he's better than mokada So I think that I want to be high on engels because I don't expect a lot of people to be there And there is a path to him having a really good night. Let's talk to diffuse. Welcome back. Thank you diffuse. Appreciate it Uh, I prefer to value picture between barrios and web Um between the two I would go barrios. I know that the implied totals don't skew that way but again, I said I said before that I don't think you should use money lines and try to pick pictures and I said that kind of off hand But to to expand on that a bit the reason I don't think you should use money lines of pictures Despite the fact that you do get points for a win is that and you know, this doesn't count for how good the picture is strikeouts matter so much and Two strikeouts equivalent to one win on fandal. I want to sell out for strikeouts So someone like emma marquez who may be plus one 66 the 66 in the money line will get crossed off for a lot of people The marquez is someone who has really good individual single game upside Because he does get so many strikeouts because it's just a good pitch seven seven eight nine eleven So although the rockies are bad that's going to drag down the money line for marquez He can still have The highest score on this slate So I mentioned that passing that I don't like looking at money lines I also don't like looking at money lines for in terms of like Juicing up a guy as a result of that webs money line obviously very good for him tonight Super low implied total But the strikeouts for him not as high as the strikeouts for a lot of other guys Upping a sinker uses since he returned sinkers in general very bad pitches. So We're not going to be a fan of that in general See what he's done in this time. Obviously a very good matchup But he did nine strikeouts against milwaukee, but no higher than five outside of that as his pitch count was coming up so like web could be the highest score tonight because He has a great matchup because he's a talented pitcher I just want to chase the strikeout upside elsewhere. So to me, I'd go barrio So I think that he's a better shot of having that, you know, super high upside game So I'd go barrios over web, but in general I want to Find a way to spend up and if I'm choosing a value guy Lower than darvish. I would go marquez overbolt those guys. He's close enough to them where I feel okay with that So uh marquez for me among the non-darvish non-lyn guys for tonight um DJ says that hamson is his home run call So he's going with garret hamson of the uh of the rockies for tonight Haven't used hamson in a while might not play. So we'll see on that one. Uh, but I think if I had to pick a rocky at progomec man, I know he had a pretty rough stretch there But I think he's a good hitter. So I think that if I had to go to the rocky, I'd probably skew towards man Um, let's talk to savon. How is austin nola? Uh, it's always a question of whether or not he'll play just because um Obviously some catching duties there. We don't have as much certainty around We're out whether catchers will hits. So let's pull up the numbers here Versus righties on austin nola in general. I don't regard him as being a super high upside guy Can't get some steals. So that's a good thing. I guess no steals so far this year. So just kidding 61 played appearances for nola Versus righties 102 iso That's not the kind of guy I want to use in dfs if you're playing in a site where you have to use a catcher Play elsewhere first of all, uh, but potential guys who could work out from a catching perspective for tonight They're not great. So they're not great options Yeah, I would just try to avoid catcher sites in general We would use a catcher because i'm fandal. You don't have to hopefully that helps There Jerry are you sold on the yankees bats against lin? No, uh, not really I think that lin's a better option as a pitcher than to stack against him But as a small slate lin is not infallible by any means so You can get there But if I had to choose between using lin as a pitcher or stacking against him give me lin as a pitcher Pretty much every single time uh savon Um Can you rank toronto for tonight's game against otani? Okay, so let's check out otani's platoon splits here first to see how much We should care. I mean there aren't a lot of lefties we can use here So it might not matter all that much, but I think that we want to look here at what he does Versus righties in general to make sure i'm not totally off base in Saying that the the blue jays could work out in terms of stacking does seem like lefties tend to be a healthy amount better against him than righties so Keep that in mind Righties do though have a higher fly ball rate against him. So maybe you can squeeze him in there for sure So, uh, let's pull up the uh blue jays recent lineups versus righties and see What can do here Okay, facing dylan bundy yesterday. They did get cori dickerson in there I'd probably expect dickerson to play again Just because the platoon splits do so heavily favor the lefties against otani So I think if dickerson gets in there, he grades out pretty well, obviously vlad's one that goes that same vlad one springer two semian three Probably going dickerson four Then we'd go with the shet five tail scar six And then uh gritchick depending on if he plays he might not because he and dickerson kind of overlap a lot But um, I would say that that's probably where i'm looking at there Let's check out, um Valera's numbers though just in case He winds up in there could potentially Go there as a way to exploit the platoon numbers on otani in triple a this year 147 iso has some steals. I guess like that's fine. Um, but I don't know man I probably wouldn't get to valera personally. So stick with mainly this does I think that dickerson's a good guy to turn to for two nights. Um Sorry, so savannah looking at the the rankings for them. I says that you lagged out there. I would say vlad springer semian dickerson bashet and then I think it was tail scar after that and then going from there So that's the way I'd rank the blue jays for today diffuse says will mires I feel it goes over looked in the padre stacks. It looks to be a really nice spot for him I agree. I think that he's pretty fun for tonight. I think that whether it's grisham or him One of those guys probably going to go overlooked and both those guys do great out. Well, so They do look pretty solid for tonight mic mic on facebook final question for today He is asking a favorite pitcher for tonight We are going you darvish ride or die with you darvish for today That is all that we have here for today's a fan duo live q&a But as mentioned, we are back once again tomorrow for a special stream We are doing a best ball season long draft live on air 3 p.m. Eastern fandal youtube twitch facebook and twitter pages Make sure you are subscribed there on your platform of choice and tune in at 3 p.m For that and we'll we'll have the mlb dfs q&a after that as well If you have additional questions for me, I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s big Thank you to calvin theobald for the welcome as well Thank you to cal for the video side of things here today. Thank you cal as always And thank you to everyone for tuning in and good luck to you tonight. 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