 Just three games on the main slate for tonight and daily fantasy baseball is they're kind of clearing path for college football Which has a lot of games going on a fortune night And that means we had to do a kind of a fun format once again Where I get to go through every pitcher on the slate and outline how well whether I want to use them for DFS What a whether I want to stack against them if they're in between and purgatory there and kind of sell on my thoughts and all These guys that's where I do once again for today Go picture by picture break down my thoughts in them and let you know where my heads up on each and every starter on tonight's slate Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the fendal podcast network and fendal research My name is Jim Sonis. I am a managing editor of digital media for fendal research here to break down Thursday nights three game main slate with locks out for 7 0 5 p.m. Eastern for tonight locks at 7 0 5, but The second game does not begin until 940. So a lot of time to late swap in there depending on how things go in that first game Which is always fun. So big be sure to take full advantage of the things afforded to you with the schedule for tonight No weather notes for tonight And I think that's actually pertinent the fact there are there are no weather notes because the Temperature gap between all three stadiums is basically non-existent So you can kind of treat things pretty close to straight up where you can just kind of go with your favorite offenses and not Fret as much as you typically would about things such as park factor highest temperature 76 lowest temperature 71 So kind of a nice relief tonight to have one less thing to think long and hard about For tonight we'll dive on into what that means and more and go through my favorite pitchers and all the pitchers in Just one second the first a reminder to make sure you are subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get Your podcast the solo shot is continuing throughout September during NFL season to the end of the regular season So we will be here with you on the solo shot each and every weekday Through the end of the regular season in addition to our NFL podcast Daily ISO it's on Becky. 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It's a 111 WRC plus for the opponent for Strider 121 for Lynn and a much higher ISO as well Both strikeout rates are pretty low here. The Dodgers are a 21% in that regard But Strider has been on a tear in that department recently He's come back on his change of usage over his past nine starts now And he has a 37% strikeout rate in that time and he's letting up just a 29% hard hit rate So again, trying to counteract a very good offense Getting strikeouts and suppressing our contact is the best formula you could ask for I had Strider projected for 8.9 strikeouts here That is lower than his typical mark, but it's still pretty high So I think the Strider is worth the $12,000 and a guy I am very willing to be on for tonight As for Lynn, you likely remember that I was pretty high on him for a long stretch He was bathing and strikeouts, but he was also letting up a lot of runs So it was not to my benefit that I was on Lynn for a lot of this I don't think the Dodgers wanted the latter part letting up a lot of runs to continue So when Lynn came to LA They had him cut back on his cutter usage and I get that because the cutter gets whiffs But it also does let up a lot of loud contact The expected slugging percentage against that slider is 498 or that cutter is 498 according to baseball savant So this move to have Lynn throw fewer sliders or the more selectively Is probably a good move by the Dodgers to cut back on the hard contact and the homers It's just eaten into Lynn's strikeout rate quite a bit because his strikeout rate is 21% across five starts with the Dodgers Some of that's because he has faced low strikeout teams, but he did have one dud in the mix too But that was also his most recent start. He is at home tonight And if Strider does slip, it's pretty likely that Lynn is a guy who benefits as the second best option for tonight So I'm gonna rank Lynn second, but I do think there is a pretty significant gap between him and Strider So to me as far as guys, I actually feel good about using a pitcher. It really is those two I know the matchups are tough, but I feel like that's the way we'd want to go Let's talk now about Braxton Garrett because you may be a bit confused as to why I'm not itchy To put Garrett above Lynn Lynn given their respective matchups because Garrett is facing the nationals and He's a good pitcher But it's not a high strikeout spot The nationals have an 18 strikeout rate against lefties which is the lowest on the slate by a good amount Garrett has gone back to throwing more forcing fastballs recently and It's cut back on his strikeouts a bit and the marlins also are not letting Garrett go super deep in games yet He has not thrown more than 90 pitches across his past four stars Now he could buck that here because the marlins need wins and it's a good matchup for him But it's not a guarantee Plus the nationals just saw Garrett last week and he went six innings there let him three or runs with three strikeouts So not the best showing he now gets to face him again and he has to go on the road So that's why to me if I could put Garrett in purgatory and not use him as a pitcher or stack against him I really would like to do so the problem is i'm not sure I can Given both strider and lynn are in such difficult matchups. There is downside potential there and although the nationals are a low strikeout team They're not a great team either better against lefties for sure than they are overall But still not a big power team Don't put the ball in the air a bunch and they don't walk either so If if the braves dodgers game just shoots out there's the potential for Garrett to be the highest scoring guy in the slate but You know, I'm not super enthusiastic about it. So I'd like to put in purgatory So I'm sure if I realistically can do that The one team with an unlisted starter for tonight is the Giants It seems likely that'll be alex wood in a long relief behind an opener Which would make the Padre is pretty interesting. We just don't know if that'll be the case yet But wood has struggled even in his new role He has eight outings with reduced pitch counts and He has a 4.8. Oh skill interactive era in that time with just a 14 strikeout rate His bad at ball data is better. So that's why is era at 3.1 5 and that's part of why the Padres are lower on this list The bad at ball data specifically in addition to the fact that I don't actually know it will be lin or wood for sure and wood Did hold some really tough teams at bay in this time face the face the braves Braves twice will even face the the Rangers in there as well. So You know, he pitched pretty well But the lack of strikeouts could haunt him eventually Sean mania could also be an option here He last pitched on saturday in relief But he's also lefty and the Padres have a 133 wrc plus against lefties on the current active roster That's the best mark on the slate. They have a 199 iso. So I think that the Padres work despite the ambiguity But I had to rank them behind my top two stacks of the night and by process of elimination The top two stacks are going to be the marlins and the marlins and the giants Well, certain things off here the marlins. They're going to be the number two stack Just behind the giants. They're facing you on adon serve for the nationals and adon's doing some things better than what he did last year But there are still some issues in his profile. The big thing is hard contact across four stars this year Adon has led up a 47 hard hit rate with a 44 fly ball rate now that Bad bad at ball data hasn't always heard a don. He actually held this exact offense the marlins scoreless for six innings last week But he did let up six runs to the fillies He had a short start against the a's before that as well. And now the marlins get to see him again That's a benefit. I also think that some of the plate discipline numbers for adon could regress a bit He wasn't necessarily thriving in that department down in triple a So yes adon was awesome against the marlins last week But i'm not sure that'll carry over It makes the marlins least in my eyes one of the better stacks of the night And it does help too that they've got some guys We actually want to use here more than they did earlier on this year jazz chism being healthy Jake burger brings a bit of juice to this offense as well. Now these you know getting full playing time He's maintained the good numbers again even against righties this year batting in the middle part of the order Uh, so that's that's beneficial too We haven't gone to the marlins very often but on this side I think we do need to go that way and they're very worthy of our attention Finally let's finish things up here with the giants They're facing paedra avila and avila struggled in triple a pretty badly his zra down there was 8.57 His exit was 6.42 now avila goes to the majors and he's pitched well so far He's getting whiffs and he's getting ground balls. I just don't know Whether that's sticky yet across 27 and one-third innings avila has a 3.40 skill interactive ERA with a 3.69 expected ERA But he's still letting up hard contact. He has let up a 42 hard hit rate It was 42 triple a as well If avila keeps getting ground balls He can live with that You can let a more hard contact if it's on the ground because it's going to be a single effectively at worst But the ground ball rate for avila and triple a was 42 so The tldr here is that i'm skeptical that he maintains the numbers that have allowed him to pitch well In a small sample so so far in the majors He's facing the giants his offense has definitely fallen off from where they were earlier on this year But they're still not terrible So i'm on board with stacking them here and feel like the giants are a quality stack for tonight My favorite stack that i like among all the options for tonight It also does help we got mike yestremsky back from the il yestremsky probably gonna bat a bit lower in the order Not a ton of confidence from them in him yet But he has a 222 iso against righties went healthy this year So it's not been a great year for yestremsky at all. It's been I would say kind of a lost year honestly, but I do think that There's been power there and power is what we want from a dfs perspective It also does help that this giants team does not have high salaries nor do the marlins So if you want to get to strider you stack the giants stack the marlins log out It's a pretty easy slate in that regard which is why I feel good Putting strider above lin as my top pitcher of the night So again top pitcher is going to be sensor strider fall by lance lin and then maybe braxon garret top stacks in order Are going to be the giants one marlins two padres three That's it. That is every pitcher and every offense on tonight's slate for mlb dfs Tomorrow should be a more robust slate once again back once again Here on the same feed to break down that one So make sure you're subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed to get that one right as it is posted If you got any questions for me. 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