 With tomorrow being the trade deadline, I've got a request that if anyone Sees any trades that actually go down during the show today put those in the comment section where you're watching because I Grow up a twins fan. I am nervously watching to see whether Jose Borreos and Byron Buxton get moved So it's a little bit of a tense time Do you see any trades go down whether be the twins or otherwise put it in the chat because? We're sitting on pins and needles here for the next I guess 25 hours as we get set for the trade deadline We can distract ourselves with some good MLB DFS for tonight This is the fan dual live Q&A right here on the fan dual YouTube twitch Facebook and Twitter channels My name is Jim Sonnis I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire dot com here to take your questions for the next half an hour No matter where you are watching you can get your questions in but take them via the YouTube chat Facebook Twitter or Twitch as well Get them in well and some live here on air to get you set for Thursday nights a five game main MLB DFS slate Quick scheduling announcements. We will not be here tomorrow. Dr. Disrespect is Is taking over the YouTube channel that's starting at 1 p.m. I believe 1 p.m Eastern tomorrow Dr. Disrespect will be on so if you are a fan of the two-time defending world champs Swing by tomorrow 1 p.m. Eastern talk to check out Dr. Disrespect So no MLB Q&A stream sell the solo shot in the morning talk about the 15 game slate there Also, if you want a screenshot of what tomorrow's pictures look like there you go That is a tomorrow's pitching slate pretty fun ones. We'll talk about that tomorrow on the solo shop Let's start things off for today by talking to Michael on YouTube. He says let's win tonight Michael Let's do it guaranteed when actually there are no guarantees, but let's win some money tonight I agree good sentiment. Good vibe start off the show for today Aaron says Jose Barrios is going out east tonight is my guest. Are we are I think are we thinking Mets here Aaron? I wouldn't be I wouldn't mind Mets. I can talk myself into some guys there Sounds like Dodgers and Padres are up on the list too That is yet to go a lot further east to get there But that could be a consideration as well John says you like a stab with Baltimore's top four guys I do. I've not seen their lineup as of yet. So let's pull that up over here and Okay Mullins Hayes Mancini Stewart still know Anthony Santan dare yet He's not back from the COVID IEL so I could talk myself easily into all four of those guys Ryan McKenna though batting sixth is kind of interesting. I didn't realize He was gonna be in there for today, but if you look at his AAA numbers, they are pretty fun Let's go through that here quick before we Make it just the top four guys 79 played appearances in triple a 313 ISO obviously there's not transit yet to the big league So maybe I shouldn't talk myself into McKenna. Maybe I should actively avoid that Ramona Rios also in a consideration Actually has decent numbers versus righty. So I would say top five maybe John as being the considerations of Baltimore for today Pull up a Rios's numbers here compare them to guys like Stewart's Mancini and Mullins are just the two locks here So you're kind of deciding okay between who do I rank highest between Hayes Stewart and Rios? I would say Hayes first Stewart second and then a Rios third You need to got to fill out that final spot there or if you need a one-off shortstop anything like that That could work as well So yes on board with all of the top five guys in Baltimore for today Savon on YouTube. What's up, man? I'm curious if you can rate the A's team for me so I can stack them So it's a doubt the lineup is in yet This list Alex Cobb is a starter that is not accurate to my understanding it'll be Dylan Bundy for tonight Let me just double-check though to make sure that has not been refuted But I'm pretty sure it is Bundy for today For the Orioles or for the angels which would mean oh, it's extra revenge game. I know it's not facing I want to talk about anyway Dylan Bundy starting today. It appears. Okay, so we're good to go So the A's against Bundy to me you Rick Matt Olson won with no thought you just do it Let's see what else the projected lineup has here for the A's for tonight versus Bundy Olson, Loreano, Canna, Chapman, Lowry, Moreland, okay, perfect. We can rock with that. So let's go here and check out the numbers versus righties Actually want to check something quick just on the the A's recent lineups here to see what they've looked like recently Yeah, I don't know why they have Loreano projected about seventh in the module here. That seems weird to me That's why I had to go check because I was like did he get moved down? I don't recall this happening because Loreano tends to be One of the guys we turn to you first. It's only Marte on the A's here yet Doesn't appear he is he's probably not in the player pool at all for tonight then yeah, so no strongly Marte kind of a bummer But that is okay. We can still deal with it regardless So Matt Olson is one there is no thought involved there Loreano to no thought involved there That's definitive absolutely going to be number two for me Then it gets a bit tougher to grade the guys after that so let's go back here and check out with the Expected line it is canna Chapman Moreland I don't like Mitch more than that much personally. I guess he has a 156 size so that has been rising a bit Can is at 179 that's probably going to be good enough. There's a six still on basis too So we'll go Olson one Loreano to canna three Matt Chapman got off to a really slow start this year because he's had injuries Shoulder injury last year that he was coming off of so it was a rough start I want to see what what Chapman has done in the month of let's just let's check since the all-star break first just for funsies 150 ISO that's in line with his full season number The stack cast date on him is since the all-star break He has two barrels in 21 events six hard hit balls It's not ideal necessarily. So let's expand this here and check out month of july get a larger sample here 8.5 percent barrel rate A 43 art area that's a bit better. I did have a home run and a barrel last night So I would say it's probably going to be Chapman four So ranking here for the a's I'm going to go put Montas in there too because I do like him. We'll go Olson We'll go Loreano We're going to go with canna and then we'll go Chapman I think that's probably the optimal stack and we can't use marté for today for the a's So this is what I like for the a stack, but If you have to go Lowry or Moreland, that's fine between the two I would prefer Jed 41 percent fly ball rates plenty of hard contact enough high enough ISO So I would say the Jed's up there maybe in the Chapman tier But I think these three Olson Loreano in a tier by themselves Canna kind of in a tier by himself and then Chapman Lowry Moreland in the tier after that Jerry is asking for weather concerns for today did have the weather pulled up here via Kevin Roth the rotor grinders He thinks we're good to go from Milwaukee Pittsburgh, which is good because I do think that the pitchers. They're pretty interesting It seems like the Baltimore Detroit game should be okay. Let me pull up the Dark sky weather there. Yeah, it looks like they should be fine And then the one that he does see some concern with is Toronto and Boston So if you want to stack the red socks, which I would like to do personally I would make sure you check out Kevin's updated weather forecast at 530 So go to at Kevin Roth WX on Twitter See what he says at 530 about the weather in Boston Make sure that game is good to go because I would like to stack the red socks for today So Jerry your checklist games I think we should be fine in Baltimore and Detroit But check back on the Toronto and Boston game as well Danny is asking for the top two stacks for today I've been kind of going back and forth on this throughout the day And I feel like I do want to go with the A's higher than I had them this morning So let's go with the I might put the A's first honestly I just I can't I was concerned this morning because Bundy wasn't gonna gonna go super deep in the game But like most of the damage in DFS comes the first couple of innings So like I probably shouldn't care as much about that as I did So Danny, I'm gonna put the A's one total change in this morning. They were fourth for me. I'm gonna put them one I guess So let's go A's one Let's go Tigers two Red Sox three Orioles four as a stack ranking for today And those four do have a decent amount of distance for me above the rest the powders to be fifth against Kyle Freeland But he does a pretty good job suppressing hard contact. So I'll put them fifth I'm moving the A's up to one pretty radical change in this morning But they were all in the same tier and they're still in the same tier, but I just I keep getting Talking myself more and more into the A's as an option for today Danny is asking favorite pitcher as well. Also an A Frankie Montas. He's been outstanding recently More splitters for him Also more foreseeing fastballs the splitters has been up his past four starts four seamers have been down Uh, or have been down his past five starts. The sample here is his past five starts I wanted to extra started data in there 3.46 skill interactive. You are a 29 strikeout rate He had 10 strikeouts against both the astros and the the uh, the mariners Both those on the road and he had had previous previously had pretty big home road splits So that's reassuring to me. So Montas to me number one freddy Peralta two normally Peralta would be one but The brewers have said they're gonna limit their starters down the stretch and we saw the Peralta last time out Got piggybacked that they're adrian hauser hauser pitched yesterday. So that's not a concern specifically But they still got dudes they can use So It's not going to be a Peralta every time it will sometimes be with woodrobes sometimes the burns etc etc So it's not like we have to cross him off But it does sour me a bit. So Peralta's two And then third is a little sketchy. We can see if we talk about that later on Aaron is asking about Aaron on youtube asking about cash on fan duel mitch moorland or miguel cabrera same salary So I did kind of poo poo earlier using mitch moorland but I think I'd rather use him than miguel cabrera just because I'm fond of the eight or the the tigers versus lefty, but cabrera specifically just doesn't tend to have a lot of upside But the way that I phrase it is I want to have guys who can erase some mistakes I make so I will make mistakes and do some stupid stuff and Pick some stupid guys. So I need to have someone who can erase some mistakes I don't think cabrera can do that. Oh 71 iso even versus lefties Let's pull up the actual player page here. So you can show you the fan duel point totals like Try to guess the last time you had a 20 point game. It might have been reason. I don't know either way Let's look. Uh, okay. It was two days ago. Either way He had one then two So he can top 20, but I want dudes who can get 40 and I don't think cabrera can do that moorland probably can either Uh, but between the two I would go moorland over Cabrera for today. Let's see. Wow fun. It's a lot of zeros bud Uh, yeah, I mean I'd still go moorland, but like Neither are great options if you can avoid them for cash gains. It's probably better But like I still want dudes who can erase my mistakes there Uh, alvin, do you like the Padres or the blue jays? If I had to pick one I'd go the Padres because I have a lot of faith in Eduardo Rodriguez He had great peripherals earlier on this year And then but the results weren't good The results have also been good recently did leave his last start early because he was sick Uh, I think he like threw up. He's punched over and stuff like that But it sounds like he's good to go So I know the or the blue jays are amazing versus lefties and I want to stack them always We'll be stacking them tomorrow because they're facing daniel lynch was very good last time out but still okay stacking against him, but As a believer in Eduardo Rodriguez, I'm okay being lower on the jays so between those two I would go with the Padres DJ is asking if boston got rained out. Let's go. Uh, let me check over here To see if there's been update on that Doesn't appear if it's been rained out yet So we should be good to go as of right now for the game But dj would check back on that weather later on alvin one lineup Which team would be the four in a 4 3 1? So on which team can I most easily talk myself into four batters? It'd be boston or oakland I would say as being the top options there for detroit It's kind of I think they're better suited for a for the three in the four three one because the guys like detroit are scope Grossman and haas I can talk myself into condolario. I could talk myself into zack short a bit lower in the order But getting to that fourth guy is tougher. So I would say If you're going four three one, I would be okay Making the tigers beat that three Either the red socks or the a's being the four and then whichever the red socks the a's you don't use Or if you want to go with cedric mullins and one off because he's disgusting I would say that'd be a consideration. So the the tigers to me alvin are well suited for a three player stack whereas I like the uh, because we with the red socks can go martinez renfro kike and then bogarts easy four players there for the a's we've got um loriano olsen Canna and then if you want to go Chapman you want to lowery, etc It's that we give four there. So tigers are well suited for a three player stack the a's and the red socks Is very well suited for a four player stack and I would say the orils are well suited for a four player stack, too The tiger specifically the one where I'm okay Capping it at three for today. Let's talk to dj cool or my's and which do I stack with? So it has come up um It will indeed be chad cool as my, uh Third pitcher for tonight. Do I feel good about it? Obviously. No, you can tell from my voice that I am Very sheepish about this and don't feel good about it. But I do feel like He's kind of in play The sample I have on chad cool is his past six starts with his foreseen fastball usage up And the reason that matters is because his sinker sucks. It's terrible. I hate sinkers in general Chad cool specifically is hideous terrible really bad pitch, but he realizes that kudos to him He's been leaning more on his foreseen fastball as past six starts and 24 strikeout rate really good bad at ball data The brewers will definitely strike out 25 strikeout rates. So to me cool is the number three pitcher for tonight Uh, and I'm okay using him I would rather I'm gonna have a lot more exposure at monthos and parolta But cool will probably be number three above gel muskrove above hungen re you for tonight Jumping into kenneth kenneth says that it looks at the Padres are close to acquiring Max scherzer. Okay. Let me go over here. Check out. I've got my twitter account up on my other one just because I want to be able to Okay, it is yep. That is indeed from ken rosenthal Kenneth was not pulling a fast one on us max scherzer likely going to san diego That's kind of fun. Probably means a host a barrios is Not going to be going there. Maybe we'll go to la. I don't know. We'll see But max scherzer I'm not sure why they didn't finish that trade before the start today to keep him fresh But whatever either way the trade that line is fun this year. This is great. Thank you kenneth for letting us know about that Uh, okay, uh, dj also asked who do I stack with I would say again top stacks for today Are going to be as one Tigers two red sox three and then the orials number four John who would your top four hitters be in milwaukee's lineup again, probably don't want to go milwaukee because I do like chad cool so I'm not going to stack them personally given that I think cool is in play as a pitcher dj is telling me I should have faith in chad cool so We ride at dj. We stay in dj and I think that uh, I think the chad cool can be okay for tonight Uh, michael over on youtube. What about kanna for the a's is he ago? He is ago. Yeah, I think that if he plays I'm down for him pretty high iso for kanna versus righties. I know he's thought of as being a lefty masher, but Has a good iso versus righties can steal some bases He's number three for me in that a stack behind olson and loriano Uh, force is also asking if the uh red sox game is rained out again I didn't find anything about that game being rained out. So maybe it is and I haven't seen it But if it is rained out, let me know Um, if that is the case, uh, jerry also also asked about cool We're good to go with that one michael asked is muskrove a go to stack with uh, I don't really So you can talk yourself into muskrow for tonight Because the matchup is so good the rockies are legitimately really bad Uh, so like that does bump things up quite a bit the reason I have a tough time getting there Someone who loves muskrove. I have profited off muskrove this year. It's been great Uh, but it's just it's hard for me to get there with how bad he's been recently This is his past six starts with his velocity being down 18 strikeout rates He faced the marlins last week in a plus matchup four strikeouts there He's at home this time and the rockies are worse than the marlins, but like I just have a lot of concerns if i'm picking a third pitcher after After we go, uh with montas and parolpa I would go cool over muskrove now with that said I probably don't want to stack against muskrove either because Good bad at ball data still the rockies are really bad So I think it's just kind of a stay away where I don't want either side of that matchup Alvin says they win it all if they get maxed talking about the padres I'm okay with that because I have a padres ticket from earlier this year the all season I think it was nine to one. It was not a good number But uh after they got you I was like, okay, I want to cheer for you this year And I felt like that was the best route for doing so so Financially, I'm okay if the padres do win it all for this year Aaron says trade buzz with the cubs. Yeah, no, uh, rizzo and no bryant today I feel like if they weren't going to trade them mid game They should just let them play to like give them like a a send off at wriggly I feel like those dudes specifically deserve that given how much they've contributed to that team So kind of a bummer they weren't in there for today. Hopefully I don't know. I think they're not at wriggly tomorrow. So Maybe they gave him a sundoff I didn't get to watch the end of that game But either way kind of a bummer they didn't play for today if they do want to trade in which I have to assume that they will All right Jerry is giving his home run calls and they are two that I agree with he likes trey mancini and matt olson Jerry I can't push back on it. Those are good calls matt olson was my home run call this morning on the solo shot is my boring one So i'm fully on board there and trey mancini disgusting. He's so fun to cheer for really good at baseball uh kasey myse Bad at ball data has been sliding back Reese. It's Jerry thumbs up. I like both those quite a bit Danny, who is your best value player for today? um Let me think about this. So it's not going to be on the a's Probably not going to come from the red sox Probably gonna so like if we're talking value in terms of under salaried I think that cedric mullins is the most under salary guy in the slate. He's like $3,100. He's absurd So under salaried, I would say Cedric mullins if we're looking for like a value play from a dfs perspective Probably austin haze or dj steward. I did wind up liking both those guys quite a bit uh when Looking at their numbers versus righties. I prefer haze overall, but You can make a case of both those guys. I think they're both $2,500 for tonight So, uh, they are easy to get to honestly. I'm not thinking salary will be a huge impediment for me across the board haze 25 And then uh rios is 23 steward's 21. So there you go. I would say dj steward Ramona rios austin haze all the all those guys viable options Uh, no mount castle for the uh for the orials for today Ralph is asking montas or peralta. I'm gonna go with montas personally again It comes down to not having a lot of confidence in the workload for peralta They are being smart and I talk about this a lot. We're like I don't want to seem like i'm criticizing a team when I say They're not adding good even games like with the brewers. That's smart. They've got a seven or whatever game lead in the central It makes sense freddy peralta is good. You want freddy peralta in october not july So I get what they're doing. They're not going to tell us when they're going to piggyback so Every day from this day forward We need to have some amount of weariness with peralta woodruff burns under the concern that they could limit them and piggyback them In order to save them for october That's a concern. So that's why he's second for me. I do still like him If it weren't for that he'd probably be first over Montas just because the matchup is so much better But with that being a a thing in my mind the peralta. I will go montas number one uh savon You make this baseball dfs so easy. I love it. Uh, it's not easy. So I'm glad that it's coming off as easy There will be rough points. I guarantee you It'll happen. So I'm happy for the vibes. I appreciate it. It's letting you know It's a volatile sport and uh, some rough things will happen eventually But I'm glad it's going well so far one more question. Are you able to rate boston for today? Yes Let's do that right now. They're facing hungen re you and re you Is a guy I used earlier this year and do like broadly think he's a really fun good pitcher just hasn't had it recently strikeout rate down to 16 percent over his past seven starts Lot of hard contact too. So boston definitely in play for stacking again assuming the weather winds of clearing up there boston's pretty easy to rank it is going to be jd martinez one It will be hunter renfro too. It'll be zander bogart's three. He is dealing with a wrist injury. That's a minor concern for me That's why he's below renfro But he's still number three for me. I'll put him there and then let's check out the rest of the lineup here Oh, we've got oh keke her nanda's keke her nanda's definitely number four Should I put keke above zander bogart's? I should given the wrist injury given the numbers. Yeah, okay So martinez renfro keke martinez or bogart's I should say those are the top four by a decent margin Sharon diran, I don't know what his splits look like versus lefties in the minors So hard to have a ton of a really a firm take there verdugo versus lefties Oh 38 iso, so it'll definitely be pretty low. I put diran above verdugo for today christian vasquez hasn't shown a lot of power this year. Oh 80 iso So I would say those four the one three four five batters from boston are really good The drop off occurs after that bobby dollbeck. I would say is not the worst idea 2019 iso does strike out a ton but like, you know, again, we're using out so I can a lot of dudes right now so I would say dollbeck might actually wind up being fifth above diran and above verdugo, but diran's in that mix as well Jerry likes baltimore for salary savings made mount castle and haze No mount castle for today With the lineup being out there, but I do think haze works and I think steward works or reos works I know McKenna hasn't done it in the big leagues yet, but i'm still kind of tempted So I would still think consider McKenna in there as well all All the top six guys here are in play and haze steward or reos and McKenna can save you salary Maybe i'm Using some wishful thinking on McKenna, but i'm okay Doing that to try to be ahead of things. I think it's least a consideration for me Uh, so d or jerry's taken steward. He likes that dj steward for today. Okay, so dj steward I think that that works too very much on board there Aaron says he imagines, uh, rizzo and buxton go into the mess tonight. Aaron if uh, Byron buxton gets traded as a result of this you putting this in the ether I will be very upset So it is now on you if Byron buxton gets traded and that's why i'm actually not on air tomorrow It's not dr. Disrespect. It's because i'll be vomiting if um if Byron buxton does get traded Danny says thanks for your great intel brother. Thank you. Danny appreciate it dj says no send off get in the homerun or if that's for bryant and rizzo The homerun calls for him are colton wong, eric haas and phil gosselin thoughts eric haas i love he was the second homerun call for today after Matt olson on the solo shot this morning. So very in there gosselin probably no not the biggest power guy against montas Montas does let up some impactful contact So I think you could talk yourself into like show. Hey otani quite good at baseball, but I won't get there Uh colton wong facing chat cool again, I think that cool is pretty good given the contact suppression But um, I like it dj pretty bold and we'll see how those pan out Jerry also likes wong and haas So we we are all in on eric haas eric haas the thumbnail for today on the youtube uh youtube link So we got that going for us all the good eric haas mods are out there again I think the troid is best suited for a three player stack due to The fact that there aren't really four dudes I want to use but with that said I feel really good about Scope grossman and haas all three of those guys definitely work I think shortworks too. He's batting eighth. It's just kind of annoying, but I do think that he Could work there dj is saying pit potentially could be rained out. Yeah, again Uh kevin said it looked like it'd be okay with some scattered storms Let me refresh over here to make sure they're not been any updates on That game or the boston game Nothing yet. So I would bet we're good to go with the pittsburgh game the boston game more of a concerns We'll see how things shake out there. Let's talk to alvin on youtube process question. I like this Does it matter to you if batters don't have the results to match the The hard hit rate and the fly ball rates this late in the season Yes, that is why I was able to talk myself out of mackenna a bit is because You know, he had the the power numbers and the miners but that I've not those have not followed into the majors Hard hit rates 38 percent. Uh, the fly ball rate is 27 percent. So that's pretty low So let's try to think of an example here as someone who Has good bad at ball data, but hasn't necessarily come through on I think that actually jet lower He's a pretty good example if you look at his his hard hit rates and his um fly ball You would think that jet lower would be Like a 200 iso type guy. That's not the case. That could be due to park potentially, but I mean, it's also jet lowery So it's probably not um So I think this point in the season alvin i'm okay If if we have enough data like if these are dudes who've been playing the full year I'm okay Lowering the input I put on hard hit rate and focusing fly ball rate does still matter this time of year for me Because maybe it's unsustainable if they are putting up big power numbers, but like for lowery 40 percent hard hit rate 41 percent fly ball rate that would lead to good numbers So yes, it is a concern if if that does not vibe and I will put more weight on iso if I have enough data to do so so Yes, it does matter and I think that this point in the year we could put Put more weight on results specifically iso that tends to stabilize around like 80 ish plate appearances It's a small number so iso to me is a number we can look at and Put weight on that first and then look at the bad at ball data after that to see if we should expect Positive or negative aggression with the bad as we are looking at good question though from alvin Patrick when you consider a milwaukee stack, I don't think it's totally out of play I do like shag cool as a pitcher But I don't think that like milwaukee stack is totally off the wall to five game slay patrick So yeah, I think that you can talk yourself into it I won't be getting there personally because It's a pretty weak offense because cool does or has been doing a good job with contact suppression But they're not off the radar So they're not for me personally But I don't think they're off the radar patrick if your process led you to the brewers trust that trust your process as always But for me personally, they are not a team. I'll be stacking for today Jerry would you stack a three-man baltimore and a three-man oakland with maybe mullins and mancini? If you can get there with cool as your pitcher your thoughts Um With cool as a pitcher you could probably go a bit harder I would try to get to a four player oakland stack and then lop off mancini I think that's the way I'd want to play that because I want the upside of the four player stack So for me, give me the four player oakland stack and go with mullins. I mean mancini you could talk yourself into too so I'm not saying ignore mancini and favorite mullins. I just love mullins because He has multiple paths to blowing the slate open so I would opt for a four player oakland stack with Mancini or with a mullins in there if you can make that work Uh, and then michael final question here, uh frazier or machado for san diego and is it uh, is it with stacking so Again, I'm a little lower on stacking sandy ira san diego just because of uh, I think that freeland is a good job of contact suppression But between those two definitely machado frazier is not a big enough Upside guy for me given the lack of dingers. So machado for me for sure And I think that like he works the one-off. I know i'm not as high on stacking sand diego but I think that machado tatis guys like that work for one-off. So I'm on board there and then uh, jerry likes detroit as well So jerry, I like that. I think that the detroit players you go there Maybe you go Haas is a one-off is if you're gonna stack baltimore there I think that could work too That is all that we have here for today And once again, we are not here tomorrow because dr. Disrespect will be on air at 1 p.m On the fandal youtube page. So if you want some thoughts on mlb dfs Feel free to tune in nine o'clock on youtube for the solo shot That will also be up on the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed Right after that you can find the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast I'll take some questions on twitter as well at jim sonnis If you have any questions over there big, thank you to joy afleck our video producer for running the video side of things here today Joy is also running a draft stream tonight. So joy a true trooper for the fan dual content team joy We appreciate you well done as always. Thank you to everyone for tuning in Good luck to you tonight. 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