 Hey, what's going on? I am Greg Sosman joined today by Jim Saunders of Fandall to break down today's MLB slate. What's happening Jim? It is all good Greg. It's kind of a weird slate as I'm sure we will discuss the pitching options shaky at best I think is the best way to put this but hey, we're gonna roll with it Nobody else is good pitching options either So we'll try to make the best so we have and see what happens. How are you? Oh great because in season long I was looking at the waiver wire. I'm like, I who can I pick up? It's a good pitcher for early in the week and I saw Kyle Gibson. I'm like, all right Sure based in the Mariners I can buy him at this and I wake up this morning and I check my email and the top pitcher that you want to talk about is Kyle Gibson. Do you realize how warm and fuzzy that made me feel inside? Probably as warm and fuzzy as it made me when I was on Yahoo like 15 seconds ago adding in for my season long team To clearly I pay very close attention to my season long roster I'm doing this at 10 o'clock on a Monday morning, but that can be set aside I pay way more attention for DFS and I think that like Gibson kind of makes sense there too because yeah You go Patrick Corbin here, but he's 1080s facing the Mets for the second straight start So Corbin's my third pitcher for tonight. Gibson's gonna be number one. He is cheap He is at home. He's in a good matchup and on a shaky pitching slate. That's a lot of boxes to check I also like that Gibson is fully stretched out He has gone 93 and 103 pitches in his first two-star series looked really good a 28% strikeout right now That's not gonna stick his swinging strike rate is under 10% So the strikeouts will come down but I think that the way you look at this is the odds that Gibson pitches deep into this game gives you a Chance at a quality start, which is worth four points itself on Fandle potentially gets you a win as well Those odds are pretty good if he gives you strikeouts on top of that It's kind of just a cherry on top because there aren't any really solid pitching options for tonight But Gibson objectively is a good pitcher. He is not great for DFS But I think on this specific slate facing a high strikeout team at home in a spot where he should go deep in the game I think he checks enough boxes to actually be a cash game viable pitcher now on most slates Greg We're not gonna be having Kyle Gibson here But I think on this specific slate where there are so many issues at pitcher I kind of think he does stand out. So it's weird to have Gibson as my number one pitcher for tonight He's not something not something I expected going into the year But I think we can embrace it put him at number one Hope we get that get him to go deep in the game and see if we can get some strikeouts on top of that I mean man, you get that win you get those strikeouts. Hey, why not tonight with Kyle Gibson? The matchup is good the options aren't plentiful. I mean You're not in on Kyle Gibson there other there are other directions to go and they're not great options But there are other choices to have and includes Dustin May who I actually thinks a bit of a sexier option probably Then Kyle Gibson the whole ginger guards then playing for the Dodgers and he is a little bit cheaper here tonight Then Kyle Gibson. Why is Dustin May? I guess your secondary option tonight over Kyle Gibson Yeah, I think that there are a lot of similarities between Gibson and May. They are both at home They're facing high strikeout teams. They've got a lot of strikeouts this year But not a lot of whiffs like they literally check all four of the exact same boxes Dustin May swinging strike rate 8.7% Whereas Gibbons is 9.6% So you do expect the strike area to come down for Dustin May It may not come down tonight though because the Padres while being very good and having their number about that These junior are really good. They do strike out quite a bit So it's a high strikeout matchup for Dustin May and that's what we care more about in DFS Than the overall strength of the team. So that's a good matchup There are two there are two reasons Greg Why I have Kyle Gibson number one versus Dustin May the first one is pitch count Dustin May is still working his way back up You went 60 and then roughly 70 or so in the 82 is last time out So 82 is as max so far whereas Gibson's minimum is 93 So from a pitch count perspective, I expect more volume out of Kyle Gibson The second reason is that this is a repeat matchup for Dustin May We did see him just blow through the Padres But that was also his most recent start six innings eight strikeouts That's the good the bad is that they are now familiar with that disgusting to seem fastball Like they saw the pitching gets as much as we did on Twitter So they know what's coming now and that's a little bit of a concern It's not a big enough concern for me to push May below Patrick Corbin for tonight But it is enough me to push him below Kyle Gibson. So they're very similar pitchers to me I know that in like a real world sense There are very few similarities between Kyle Gibson and Dustin May outside of the fact that you know They both have red hair outside of that There's not a whole lot working in their same favor, but from a profiling perspective for DFS They are very similar the two things pushing me towards Gibson on the pitch count and the familiarity But anything that Dustin may deserves be number two on our list despite those two minor negatives in his corner Familiarity can be both a good thing and a bad thing on each side of the ball from pitching to hitting man Machado is not gonna look like a fool again I could assure you that two home runs yesterday for Machado Dustin may a solid option here on tonight's late Just not as good as our guy Kyle Gibson So the top later on your board tonight is Trevor store We talked a lot about him last week and how hey if he was giving you these numbers Will he be a top player and he is giving you those types of numbers It's $4200 tonight the Rockies are in Colorado all week So we're gonna talk about Trevor story quite a bit here But I read an article this morning about story how if he was playing in New York He would be a top 10 player in baseball everybody would be talking about me on billboards and commercials He's in Colorado So we're not and more people need to be here Jim. Yeah, if he were in New York his salary wouldn't be $4,200 I think that like as weird as it sounds to say that a guy who was $4,200 is underpriced I still think that's true for Trevor story because we talked about this when we were discussing story last week Greg and it was something discussed in that piece you just alluded to is that his strikeout rates down He's getting better as a hitter somehow his strikeout rate is still about 13 percent as a sample expanse And that's a key for tonight because the Rockies are facing Robbie ray and Robbie ray has a lot of faults right now But he is still getting some strikeouts about a 25 percent strikeout So you want to go hitters who avoid strikeouts obviously that means Nolan Aronato is going to be among the top hitters in the slate too But with Trevor story's strikeout rate being as low as it is I think that he deserves to be above Aronato for tonight given the upside that he has both as a hitter and on the base pass Looking at Robbie ray specifically Teens are not swinging at his pitches like his his chase rate is down to 22 percent Versus 30 percent last year and that's concerning now. He has faced the Dodgers and the Astros in that time Two really good teams the Rockies very much not on that level from a plate discipline perspective So maybe ray perks back up tonight But with how good story has been with how good Aronato has been I think those two guys specifically are in a tremendous spot because when Robbie ray does not get a strikeout It is calamity almost every single time these two dudes just aren't striking out right now So to me, I think that story is a number one hitter straight up on this slate Aronato is number two You can't go wrong with either but because story has the ability to swipe bags as well I think right now Greg. He might be one of the top two or three best Fantasy assets in the entire game and I agree if he were playing in New York He would be talking a whole lot more about Trevor story and how good he is But right now I'll settle for the reduced salary at forty two hundred dollars I think my favorite part of that was that Robbie ray has his warts right now It's a couple of things wrong with Robbie ray right now like it hasn't been the same I should be the last ten years of Robbie ray Oh, yeah, he can strike some guys out, but everything else is a calamity. Yes, you're right, Jim That's true right now and always for Robbie ray. So let's take advantage of your man Let's catch over story. He's not striking out. Let's try to fit our not only doesn't strike out both these guys on the slate Make a ton of sense. So let's capitalize We're also going to capitalize on well, Colorado and Coors Field and specifically Cole Calhoun You want to get as many pieces at Coors Field as you can and Calhoun's a cheap way to do it He's thirty three hundred dollars tonight on fanbill need a bunch of outfielders Calhoun obviously make sense Yeah, he's thirty three hundred dollars at Coors Field batting second against a guy who's not getting strikeouts right now Like how much more beautiful can you get them that for Cole Calhoun John Graves results have been good so far as Yeah, Ray is still in the threes, but he has like a ten percent strikeout rate He's allowing ground where he's not getting ground balls. His heart hit rate is high So although the results been good for John Gray, I do not expect that to persist So like if you gave me just one team to stack, I probably put the the diamond backs higher I prefer the individual batters a story in our not oh, but as a full team stack Give me the diamond backs over the Rockies for tonight Calhoun is a big part of that because like he said thirty three hundred dollars Really good cheap way to get exposure to Coors Field and Calhoun himself individually has also been good He was wretched at the start of 2019 but came back from an injury started hitting the ball really well And now when you look at his numbers since the start of last year including that tough stretch until now against right He's a 45 percent heart rate with a 38 percent fly ball rate Those are pretty nasty numbers when you put them at Coors Field the human are still in play But not as much of a factor when they go to Coors Field versus when they're in Arizona So I think Calhoun is the number one guy within this diamond backs team for tonight Kettle Marte is not that expensive Eduardo Escobar is always pretty fun Christian Walker sneakily pretty good against righties, too So I like a lot of players on this team the diamond backs my number one stack for tonight and Calhoun I think might just be the first guy you lock in because that salary is so forgiving It's the salary it's where he's in the order It's a course where he's playing diamond backs the top stack on the board according Jim even over the Rockies a lot of good pieces Moving of course field is shooting a wild game tonight, and at least we hope from a daily fantasy perspective Let's move outside of Colorado though away from the diamond backs and the Rockies for just a moment And that brings us to Yuli Garriel. He's under $3,000 tonight 2,800 on a fan bill for the Houston Astros Why is Gary else someone that you got to get into your lineup? I tend to use him a lot Like I think that like if if people use Yuli Gurriel as much as I did his salary probably a lot higher than it is Because I just seem like I feel like I always want to blow I guess I want cheap expert of the Astros I guess it's Yuli Gurriel again, but for some reason this salary never goes up So I'm gonna keep on plugging him in and it's weird because he has both good results and peripheral I think we can kind of forget this about Gurriel because he's not Carlos Correa I mean I don't know why I went Correa first, but like he's not Alex Pregman not George Springer But he's not those guys, but he's still really good since the start of last year against righties He has a 138 WRC plus against righties better than Jose Alcube. He has a 41% hard hit rate a 38% fly ball right and he never strikes out. So good results good peripherals great team They're only $2,800 I don't understand why he is so cheap, but again, I'm not gonna complain about it I will take those savings and put him on my lineup once again for tonight The Astros have a lot of things up in the air from a lineup perspective. We don't know if George Springer will play We don't know where Kyle Tucker will be allowed to hit We don't know a lot of things about this Astros team We do know Yuli Gurriel is probably gonna bat fourth or fifth He's gonna be $2,800 and if if the past year has taught us anything he's probably gonna perform as well So I do want to stack the Astros here. I think that Gurriel is a key part of that. So again, I'm just gonna keep on using him It's okay if people don't want to I'm fine with taking the salary discount But hopefully the results stick with Gurriel because it's been it's been a fun ride so far to say the least We mentioned sexy names but it came from the starting pitching like Dustin May earlier And the same goes really for the Astros right like Jose Alcube is obviously struggled with Alcube and Bregman and Correa those are the names that we think of with the Astros even Kyle Tucker who's been in there every day Who knows where in the lineup The Yuli Gurriel has just been as solid as you can be in the middle of the lineup hitting for power not striking out Exactly what you're looking for in a hitter and the best part is because he's not sexy The price doesn't go up under $3,000 for Yuli Gurriel. So once again, let's take advantage One player that we have been in on forever here on the hurry up and certainly in my season long leagues as well It's Willy Calhoun who just has not been able to get it going. He is $2400 tonight. I don't even know that made players $2400 on a fandal, but Willy Calhoun is there We wanted him to be good for so long Why is tonight the night it's actually gonna happen the data says that should happen, Greg So i'm just gonna you know TTP we're gonna trust the process and Willy Calhoun and keep on plugging him in and keep on potentially losing money But again, the data is there. He's facing a righty once again for tonight and Calhoun The peripherals against righties are really good since the start of last year against right-handed pitchers He has a 42 heart hit rate a 45 fly ball rate and just a 15 strikeout rate A lot of times you can get hung up with a high strikeout rate But Calhoun he's hitting the ball hard hitting it in the air and not striking out You think eventually that would all click and it's also good that Calhoun is batting at a high spot in the order Probably going to bat within the top five spots It could be anywhere within those top five because the rangers experimenting trying to get this offense clicking, but He's going to be somewhere in that top five and anyone in the top five spots in the lineup at $2400 who has some pop I'm going to want them for sure the rangers are facing just and done and I love done as a talent because His numbers in the lower miners are so good But because the mariners need arms they had to call him up and he's kind of having to work through those growing pains in the majors Which stinks for him But it also means we can stack against him for now until things eventually click because they will click for just and done Eventually, but for now, I think we can stack against him It's hard to find hitters and the rangers who don't suck right now like they've been pretty rough But I think that Calhoun given the peripherals are there is someone who I trust we can get the Coal and willy calhoun stack that's also an added bonus So there are really no downsides to me greg of willy calhoun, especially If you compare can pair him with coal for tonight because I think they're both in really good spots Both too cheap and both in great matchups as well I love when you give us the ability not to screw up ourselves, right? Because if you just type calhoun in the search bar and you click submit You're right. Perfect. We got an outfielder calhoun No matter which one you choose We're happy with it willy calhoun specifically here for the rangers as they try to get it going try to mix and Naturally this lineup try to make it work. I guess just and done tonight other seattle mariners We're going to get our shot and I don't although although the data has said willy calhoun is going to hit We're still waiting. Hopefully tonight is that night Jim we appreciate the time good luck tonight And I got to say after what byron buxton's been doing. How is he not in the lineup? He will be greg believe me as he's slowly inches higher You can only hope to contain byron buxton I think that's rocko ball bellies plan is like we got to keep this under under wraps You know, we want to save all the the buxton this for later in the year So I get it. I respect it rocko But unleash unleash my man so we can use them in dfs. It's just it's his world It's byron buxton's world. We're all just occupying it and I I respect My my overlord byron buxton for allowing me to occupy space on his planet. I have nothing to add For june's on this. I am greg. So tomorrow davis maddox will join us as we'll discuss What's gonna happen now after colin moraca is a major champion? Have a great night. Enjoy the games and we'll see you tomorrow for another edition of the fan duel hurry up