 We've got what looks like a pretty fun slate for it today in daily fantasy baseball already two games have been postponed We knew about the Mets and the Marlins But also this morning the Phillies and the Nationals postponed as a result of just Torrential downpours so cross that game off your list and that does whittle down things a pitcher Unfortunately, it means we will be spending top dollar at pitcher for today Let's dive on and to get you said for this Wednesday slate This is the fan dual live Q&A right here on the Fiendo YouTube with Facebook and Twitter channels My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire comm here to take your questions live on air For the next half an hour to get you said for tonight's slate of daily fantasy baseball as always No matter where you are watching you can get your questions They will take questions via YouTube Facebook and Twitter So no matter where you're watching put that question in the chat We'll get to it live here on air to get you said for tonight's slate as mentioned We have shers are in coal. They are my top two pitches for today Which brings us to John's question over on YouTube John says how would you stack the twins man? The reason this is relevant, especially here is because I Need a lot of salary savers to get to shers are in coal shers is number once Let's lock him in there and the twins actually do give us some salary savings their lineup is out Let's scroll down here to the twins facing Justin steel Steel is a guy who doesn't get a lot of strikeouts doesn't the best bad at ball suppression So definitely someone against whom we can stack and the twins I think have enough bats to make this work the two guys to me who stand out most in terms of Moving the needle to get us up to Shers are in coal are the guys batting sixth and seventh pre-rooker and Ryan Jeffers The reason ranking them above Rob ref Snyder is because ref Snyder doesn't hasn't shown a ton of power so far this year Rooker against lefties has not but he's a powerful dude and he's a righty So I'd expect the power to come eventually for him As far as Jeffers go goes a 254 iso So I think to me if you're trying to build a shers or lineup you want to start with those two guys Let's go to Rooker first Get him in there $2,700. Let's go to Jeffers. I think 22 potentially $2200 for him that gets us to $3,100 left per batter I do think you can go with ref Snyder the again The numbers are not there yet because the iso for him is at 119 super disappointing not a number that you really want But when you look at the bad at ball data for ref Snyder so far It's not bad. He has the 332 expected Woba according to baseball savants. That's a decent number He's making hard contact 44% of the time he has a 40% flat ball rate that to me says the The power could come eventually So as a result I am willing to use ref Snyder despite the fact the the actual iso so far this year hasn't been that great Let's put him in there second base eligible on fan duel and He's $2,100 it puts us at $33,000 left That means you can choose between Byron Buxton or a Polanco Josh Donaldson I assume that they are all in there for today and indeed they are if you are a Regular listener, you know, we're all go with this one. That's gonna be with our boy Byron Buxton got to be him $3,700 is not low, but it's also not too high So we'll go here with Jeffers ref Snyder Rooker and Buxton I would say though if you want to go Donaldson or Polanco to fill those other spots. That's totally okay I am fine with that But to me Buxton is a guy and I am okay with all three of these value plays I'd rank them probably Rooker one Jeffers two ref Snyder three despite the fact that ref Snyder's batting higher in the order again kind of a projection of Future power based on the batted ball data for him. So that's the way I'd stack up the twins for today Let's put Buxton back in there just for the good vibes. There we go. Good vibes only you're on the fan duel live Q&A Let's go to savon over on YouTube. How would you stack Baltimore? Let's check out Baltimore's situation for today They're facing Steven Matz. I probably would not just because Matz does a really good job of suppressing hard contact This is his past nine starts with your curveballs. He has a 17% strike area, which is good good for stacking But also just a 32% hard hit rate allowed. That's not very high Let's check out the results here for Matz. Of course, it takes me to the wrong dude. It's always happens I don't know why I don't learn and just automatically go elsewhere Anyway, let's go here. Let's go to the past nine starts for Matz and Check out the results here. Let's go boom probably about here So ish that's eight starts missed one, but either way you're a 3.81. That's pretty good So the results say I'd want to avoid stacking because the hard hit rate is so low The or sorry the peripheral say that the results say he's been pretty good too So I'd probably avoid stacking Baltimore for today. So Vanna is asking How do you like Oakland for tonight? So the A's are facing Wiley Peralta pretty similar situation I would be more inclined to stack the A's than the Orioles because he is really good and They get a park factor boost being in not Oakland for tonight So if you force me to choose to bomb between stacking Oakland and stacking Baltimore, I would say Go with Oakland for tonight because Peralta does not get that many strikeouts Let's check out the results here because again He is similar to Matz in the sense that he does do a good job of suppressing hard contact. So We should at least check things out here and see what he's done. We've got one game for Peralta since he came off the aisle. Let's see what he did there because that could give us an indication of What to expect here actually this is his first game off his first game off, okay So this is his first game off the aisle recent stat cast data against Peralta Did a let up seven hard hit balls and his most recent start against Toronto, but that's Toronto They're a really good team. So Against Oakland hasn't have faced them yet and check out the results here 3.75 era He's been pretty solid overall and again That's because he does do a good job of suppressing our contact Let's second check out the platoon splits here for all to see if we can get jazzed about maybe one side over the other Again ignoring the results based off But very low strikeout rate of versus righties with a 12% strikeout right there the batted ball data Pretty good at ground ball right against both sides So I don't think there's a huge read here But I would say the A's more in play for me than the Orioles for tonight so on any under the radar stacks Let's go over here and check out some implied totals for tonight's see which teams may go overlooked just because the betting odds not super in their favor for today and Boop No, I said boop either way, okay, so The Yankees might be a little bit less popular than they should the twins also might be less popular although they do Have a lot of value which could drive people there. I would say This Kansas City Cleveland game may be less popular than it should be I think that both these sides are stackable Cleveland doesn't bring a lot of value Which is why they're not as high on my list But like I think they're in a pretty good spot Bobby Bradley is in a good spots specifically for a value play I like Kansas City against Logan Allen. I got some guys that's in power at least who had power in triple a so I would say Kansas City Cleveland is a good matchup on both sides to potentially fly a bit under the radar Julius over on Facebook. What about a Toronto stack tonight? Definitely on board there The only issue that I have with Toronto I mean, I love them because they're facing that hard the only issue I have is that I'm trying to get up to Scherzer and Cole and realistically It's tough to see Having the value on this slate to make it work with Toronto tonight because their salaries are so high Let's check out though to see if the lineup is out yet for Toronto I'm guessing it won't be because they probably want to see what George Springer is looking like today Yeah, so no no blue jays lineup yet. I would say that's that core Dickerson Assuming he's in there with with Springer being banged up. I bet he'll grayed out pretty well Alejandro Kirk I've talked about a couple of times this week didn't play last night But Danny Jansen the be spectacle beast went yard. So that's definitely positive as always Make it you get Kirk in there And then you might have the flexibility to get to some of the actual dudes We want to use on Toronto So I try to make it work Julius because I do think they grayed out well versus Harvey But I would rather have the white socks among like the higher salary at stacks And I'd also probably rank the Yankees a bit higher in the blue jays among the high salary stacks But I would never say flat out. No the stacking a team that good especially against Matt Harvey Let's talk to Michael on YouTube any love for Rodan versus Pittsburgh. I love Rodan and I love the matchup I just don't have the pitch count for tonight Rodan has been back for one start in that one starting with 67 pitches That means they'll probably be around 80 to 85 for tonight so The next start after this one for Rodan will probably be there because he's tremendous and he gets strikeouts We love all that the problem is I'm guessing the pitch count won't be super high for tonight He's not coming at a big discount relative to Scherzer and Cole because he's the I think 10 3 somewhere in there 10 2 So I would rather find the salary to get to Scherzer and Cole what we know Have a full pitch count for today speaking of that. Let's talk to Salvatore on YouTube Cole or Scherzer Salvatore The answer is yes is yes to both. So yes, I like both if I had to choose I would go Scherzer The reason is that reasoning there is twofold the first one is that Scherzer's at home That's always good. That means he is facing a pitcher tonight Whereas Cole is not the second reason is that the angels just saw Cole a couple of starts ago So they are more familiar with him and the Braves are with Scherzer that is nitpicking But I think when both these guys are so good you kind of have to nitpick So I'll put Scherzer number one Cole number two and Cole comfortably number two for me facing the angels for tonight Savanna is asking how we stack the white socks for today. So let's go over here and See what we've got If their lineup is out yet because the lineup will be a key dictator here. It is out. Okay, cool Once again, no Tim Anderson, which does mean that we have both Yes, money grondahl and Brian Goodwin in there Those guys are lower salary plays in a slate where we need some lower salary guys Let's put grondahl in there first and then let's go with Brian Goodwin both these guys Good power numbers versus righties both lower salaries. We plug them in. We've got some more flexibility. I Think if we do that We have the ability to go a couple places Gavin sheets is batting eighth interesting. Let's uh Pull up his numbers here quickly to see if we can get excited about that He did have some moments earlier on this year, he's batting eighth I don't think that's a massive massive detriment just because I think this offense is so good They should turn things over quite a bit. So Let's see what sheets has done this year versus righties. We got a 87 plate appearances 299 ISO 40% fly ball rate a lot of hard contact. So actually don't mind sheets Let's do this here Put him there and then we it means we can't use a braille you but I Think I like you'll alloy Jimenez has been in a bit of a slump recently Not a lot of dingers from him at least not as many as he had When he first came off the aisle but things trend me back up recently So I'm gonna go with Jimenez over Robert and I would say this is a good four-player stack for the white socks makes getting insurers are pretty Easy, so I like this one a lot. It's a super salary saver Maybe you don't need to go quite that hard could check out a braille you if you got some other value plays That's gonna be tough But I think that I would say I would give the green lights of on on all three of Goodwin Grandal and sheets as being value play is for today DJ I'm not sure why that the notifications are not working to join you had to go to the Facebook page. I Got a weird notification about like needing to relink the Facebook account So I just saw it so I haven't gotten a look to I haven't been able to dig in further yet But we'll check that out for you DJ and hopefully get that resolved for tomorrow So Vaughn best Starting pitcher and stacks for single entry for single entry. I feel like you just go Scherzer He has the best like projection in terms of upside And I just want the highest scoring guy on this late Max Scherzer probably gonna be that I would say so I'll go Scherzer in single entry I know he's not gonna be You know low rostered, but I would still go there as far as stacks. I like Kansas City I think they should go a bit overlooked here despite having a peachy spot despite having some guys who can hit for some power So I would say I Check out the Royals in terms of single entry I do like the White Sox still do like the twins and I would say those are good spots to go for tonight Let's talk to Rudney over on YouTube Rodan barely getting to six innings pitched. Is there an injury there? The White Sox holding for October. He had an injury and just came off the IL he Don't recall the actual injury for Rodan, but he just made his first start back and he went 67 pitches So I'm guessing he will be probably 80 to 85 for tonight. It's not like a Longer-term thing but probably something that'll hold him back for a bit at least for this next start So we'll be back on Rodan eventually just not quite there yet I want to see him get more stretched out first, but tail. I like the Yankees and the Giants tonight so far What do you think? I think the Yankees a pretty good one facing Paki Norton great name Didn't have the best numbers down in triple a but did get some ground balls That's why the Yankees not quite as high on my list, but I think the Yankees do great out Well the Giants are facing Brett Anderson Anderson's actually pretty good just because he gets so many ground balls So I am less interested in the Giants for tonight, but I do like the Yankees Michael any interest in other there at the Monde to see as part or as part of a Kansas City stack. Yes He's back our darling boy is bought his back Michael He had a couple dingers and his final two rehab starts. So I like I would like to get there The problem is the salary is not super low. I think he's $3,500 for today So he's not going to be a big salary saver if I'm in that range on the Royals I'd rather get to Salvador Perez over Alba Bertha Montesey, but I think they're both good options so Perez of her over Montesey, but If you can get to both I would do it because Montesey really fun super high upside guy coming off of his injury Let's go to Brandon on YouTube best lower salary pitchers are mid salary Brandon There aren't any today and like I I try every day to give out a value type picture I can't like there's nobody below $9,000 I can get jazz about like a prelian is okay against Detroit But like he's not going to match the Scherzer and coal on it So you've got a lot of ground to make up and I'm not sure the higher salary batters will help you get there So I know that's a really stupid answer Brandon. I'm sorry, but like I don't think there are any good value pictures for tonight I just I can't get there If Joe Ryan's available like maybe you can consider him, but like he's not in the Fandall player pool. I don't think Let me check Nope not added So no use talking there is pitch count will be low probably on 80 or so because he was in the Olympics Went pretty hard there in terms of like intensity So I'd expect right if you're an 80 or so pitches, but like I think to me It's all about Cole and Scherzer if you want to save a bid Kevin Gosman's okay at $9,500 But it next reads a good picture, but just a really tough matchup So the lowest I will go tonight Brandon is Kevin Gosman. I know that's not value or mid-salary But like I think that's the way you want to play things for tonight DJ thoughts on Brett Anderson and Capreley in Anderson doesn't get enough strikeouts really need to squeeze a lot more out there. So I Can't do that one Capreley in Good matchup in terms of strikeouts of the Tigers, but just not enough I don't know. He's there's not enough of a salary gap between Capreley and and Gosman and then Scherzer and Cole So that's that's tougher for me. Let's talk to Justin on Facebook. What's the winning lineup? Great question Justin I don't know you tell me Put it in the chat and we'll we'll run that one out for tonight Jerry. Good day, Jim I want to play Rizzo Gallo and judge with Oakland Marta and Olson with two Minnesota bats and a one-off for Cleveland How do you feel about this? I try to make it a bit more concentrated I know you have a three-player stack in there, but I try to find a four-player stack So if you're going Rizzo Gallo and judge Maybe squeeze in Luke Voight if he plays I would try to get him in there. Let's see if the Yankees lineup is out I would try to squeeze in a fourth of Yankee and do that and then probably Squeeze out the cleats and Cleveland one off and get it a four two two Somewhere in there is try to find a way to get to a four-player stack likely with the Yankees in there for you Jerry Salvatore does the post-season approaching effect Cole or Scherzer pitch counts nights? I think for a lot of guys it could potentially like you seem that a lot of the Brewers But we've seen Cole and Scherzer go deep in games recently Scherzer Went 104 last time out Cole has not fully worked his way back up from COVID But I guess he went 104 last time so I would say no for right now. I think they should be good to go Jerry a lot of time for a September call ups. Yeah, there are a lot of a lot of new names Here for today Joe Ryan is one Max Kranick was up here before but now back with the with the pirates We've got Jackson co are starting so it's a packy noddin for the angels to so a lot of new dudes it does require more research but Hopefully if you're doing the work yourself, you will give yourself an edge over everyone else DJ Can you show me how to stack Detroit? I probably wouldn't because Capreley in Doesn't let up a lot of hard contact Detroit not very good versus righty So I would probably stay away from Detroit for tonight Jerry two four five six is how I would go guessing that's for the Yankees stack for Jerry there DJ a sale still on the pitch count. I don't know if it's a pitch count because He went five innings each of his first two starts But like it was 89 pitches the first start in 71 the second Then he went back out for the sixth inning in his third start and he hit a guy He walked a guy to get yanked so like I'm not sure if it's a pitch count or an innings count or what it is But it's it's it's annoying so to me I want to see Cole or sorry sale get to six innings when he does that I will be in or get to 90 pitches I'll be in then but like it's too hard to predict good matchup with the Rays or at least a high strikeout matchup, but I Just think his workload is is not very stable right now. Let's talk to savon. How would you stack Kansas City? Let's see if the lineup is out here yet because I do like Kansas City for today Hard hit wit baton lead off Salvador Perez batting third Carlos antenna Michael Taylor other bear at the Montessy. Okay, so there is no Edward Olivares. That's kind of sad Disappointed in that but let's go uh over here and check out the royals for today I know Perez is not a value plant 34 to dollars, but I would still Want to get to him. So let's put him in first just to do that get that out of the way Probably gonna wind up going Michael a Taylor just because You know his powered numbers are not good, but he could hit the ball hard So like from a strictly like if we're looking just at his ISO. I think it's like 120 versus lefties Maybe somewhere in there Um Yeah 120 on the button nice call like it. Uh, okay, so 27 hundred dollars. I think that's fine. He has some upside He's got some speed You can get behind that They don't have as much value as I was hoping they would have for today hunter doger's batting eighth pretty low in the order 128 ISO Disappointing so I thought that the royals might give us more savings than they are that's a bit Disappointing maybe that does let them fly a bit more under the radar, but Um Yeah, Santana is not a big power guy versus lefty It's always kind of been the case where he would hit for more power versus lefties and more on base stuff Versus uh or more power versus righties more on base stuff versus lefties I don't know. Um, maybe you do still go with him hard hit widths a bit high salary. So It's tough. I'll probably just put modesty in there Do that, um I don't know. They're tough They're tougher to get to than I thought they'd be maybe we just go with those or and put them there I don't know. I thought they'd have more salary savings than they do for today. So a bit disappointed in that Kansas said he lied at savannah asking for the best a value hitter with upside, um Okay, let's go over here I think cori dickerson's probably a pretty good option there Because he's facing that harvey and he can go yard. Uh, so don't mind dickerson Don't mind taylor just because he can again hit dingers. He can steal some bases. So Dickerson works bobby bradley's a pretty good one for cleveland. He'll probably bad. I would guess fifth or so But what yard last night? So it seems like he's healthy once again coarser guy who can't let us some hard contacts I like bobby bradley and then rooker and jeffers for the twins both those guys would work there as well Hopefully that's a good list for you. But if I had to pick one I would go I guess I'd probably go brent rooker Uh for the best value. Uh, it's him or bradley one of those two guys. I would say best like raw value play for tonight Uh, let's talk to bliz massy over on facebook best stack or high scoring game tonight in your opinion Uh, so best stack for today. I like the white socks a lot. I think that's a really good team. Uh facing crannick actually Best value plays. Yes, money grundall. I don't know why glossed over him. He's the best value play today 20 hundred dollars. Uh, so I would say white socks are the best to stack overall best game for offense in general Tough one there. Um, let's see here I think Maybe Like if we're looking at like ones that will go overlooked, I still think cleveland can said he's pretty good They're totals lower. So they're not gonna grade out super well, but I think that they're pretty interesting for today Jerry says I have a value picture. He may get hit, but I think he would do well For gosman Yeah, I think that he's my favorite the lowest I'll go today I think that he's fine I will likely wind up with some gosman today just because it's a high strikeout match Not as high strikeout as it was previously, but gosman's good He's at home facing a team that will strike out gosman works, but I just prefer to get up to Cole insurers are when I can uh savon any more home run calls salvador pares uh I've kind of Tapped out on the osmani grandal like I he he paid off for us last night. Should I push my luck and go home again? Maybe So let's go with let's go with salvador pares number one I think dickerson's a pretty good home run call if we're looking for like a value play grandal works once again Uh, so you're looking for like under the radar dudes, but like the obvious one to me salvador pares He was the boring home run call in the solo shop this morning and I'll stick with that for today Savon is asking for a boston stack or tampa bay. Okay, let's go here boston facing drew rasmussen rasmussen I think has pretty good results, but the peripheral is a bit more concerning This is his seven starts with more pitches 4.63 skill interactive era a lot of hard contact So yeah, boston could work for sure the problem that they have is that they've got a lot of dudes out because of covid zander bogart says it positive last night There may be some more ramifications there So don't stack tampa bay, but I am okay stacking boston at times for today DJ would you stack pittsburgh considering rodan won't pitch a full game? Nope not enough power out of them jerry can city stack pares lopez big hit wit merafield. Yeah, um, I think that Lopez is harder for me to get to lefty on lefty pretty low power guy, but I do like pares I can better talk myself into santana than I came with Lopez I am okay with michael a taylor So it might be a better three player stack versus a four player stack get modesty in there, too Just because there weren't as many value guys that thought there might be savon Where would you or would you go to cleveland for the value instead? They don't have a lot. I think the one guy that got for value is bobby bradley But let's check out their projected lineup for today For cleveland and make sure i'm not overlooking anyone In that regard. Okay. So I mean from the arrays is under salaried. That's good. I was going to mercado $2,400 Let's see what he's been doing versus righties recently because mercado Is a guy I have liked in the past. I have not been on him as much this year because It's been a pretty rough year for mercado, but I think there's talent there and I can be okay betting on talented times Okay So mercado 134 iso can steal some bags. That's not the worst I'm not entirely sold that he'll play. I think this lineup is kind of jacked up honestly for cleveland for today I feel like they might think they're facing a lefty, but they're actually Facing a righty In koar. Let me just double check that to be sure Yeah Yeah koar is a righty I'm not sure why this projected lineup isn't there for a lefty But uh bradley's a good option for value Let's check out bradley zimmer. He for the longest time did not have a single uh extra base hit versus righties But it seems like he's been hitting for more power recently. So let's check out the let's say Like mid august on numbers for bradley zimmer and see if he's been hitting For more power of late Let's go to stack cast And let's go here to let's say august 10th In that time, he has a 42 hard hit rate still hitting too many fly or too many ground balls But hitting the ball harder at least And let's go over here to the advanced tab and check out the iso in that time It is 133. So it's getting better at least but still Not necessarily great I would say the zimmer is probably fine honestly Assuming that he's in there for today. So bradley and zimmer might work out I think bradley zimmer used to be like a pitcher But anyway, I think those guys could work for some value for today and I might like them more savon than cleveland just because um They do give you a lot of value there and they've got some individual hitters. I like but I like the match up more for kansas city DJ, how would you stack atlanta atlanta's facing max scherzer would not do it? Jerry, how would you stack a 14 stack seems to not work for me? They mainly enlarge player fields. I actually think that um Four player stacks are better in a large player field honestly because like let's say 30 of the field decides to stack the white socks Not all 30 percent will be using a four player stack So basically what you're doing is you're reducing your competition like if you if we assume 30 stacks of white socks, let's say 80 percent of that 30 percent does a four player stack That means you're going up against like 20 white socks on us versus 30 percent My math is very off there, but I would say in in large field tournaments It is actually more advantageous to do four player stacks versus smaller field tournaments Uh, jerry says is going to all lefties for home runs today got gallo rizzo olson and devours do for one tonight Devours, I wish would have had one a couple of nights ago. Um, I would dig on him didn't happen, but I think the the devours calls pretty good there jerry Obviously all those guys have some power. So no directions there dj's home run calls eric haas akil badu and darin ruff Ruff is facing anderson. Yeah, okay lefty, but anderson doesn't let up a lot of fly balls, but Ruff's pretty good been weird to see his like career revived this year been fun for sure For darin ruff former wisconsin woodchuck Savonson's chong is a value he might not play because it's a righty for today So just keep that in mind with chong. Uh, once lineup comes out I would not be shocked if he's not in there and then salvatore says andre van is out Again, I think the gavin sheets as a result of that is a pretty good value for today Lower sour guy has some power in a good lineup. He's batting eighth, but like who cares. So grondal Uh, we have the other one was a goodwin and sheets all good values for today within that white sock stack That is all that we have here for today on the fan dual live q and a but we are back once again tomorrow for p.m Eastern on the fan dual youtube facebook and twitter pages We'll talk to you then should be a fun time. Make sure you are subscribed wherever you're watching Hit that like button as well because that does help us out a huge amount We appreciate it as always if you have more 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 our video producer for running the video side of things here today Thank you cal as always and thank you to everyone for tuning in. Good luck to you tonight We'll talk to you once again tomorrow. This has been the fan dual live q and a