Jared Levitt 
Happy Saturday y’all! It’s the last weekend of the season and we have ourselves a nice sized 7-game slate of MLB DFS tonight. Going into the final weekend, all but one race is complete. We now have 3 teams tied for the final 2 playoff spots in the NL. The Braves, Mets, and Dbacks are even and all play on this evening’s slate. This sets up for an exciting slate. It’s slate thought that is void of any true difference-making pitcher. We have some solid spots for bats though.
Let’s Dig in and make some money!
MLB DFS Aces – Main
Reynaldo Lopez ($9.6k on DK) vs. Kansas City Royals
Although the Royals clinched the final Wild Card spot, it isn’t because of how well they are playing currently. They are just 3-7 in the last 10 and should be thankful for how much worse the Twins are playing. They just barely snuck in. After getting blanked by Max Fried last night, they’ll have another tough go of it as the Braves will turn the ball over to Reynaldo Lopez this evening.
The Braves right-hander has had one of the finest seasons of his career. His 2.03 ERA is the lowest of his career and his K/9 of 9.58 is the second-highest of his career. He’s been a big reason the Braves have stayed afloat this season with all the injuries they’ve had. He’ll be facing a Royals team tonight that has put up little to no offense over the last week. Their power has all but vanished. Look for Lopez to dominate them tonight, just like Fried did last night.
Andrew Heaney ($7.7k on DK) vs. Los Angeles Angels
This is how bad pitching is tonight IMO. Heany is coming off back-to-back rough starts vs. the Mariners but gets a much matchup today vs. the Angels. This is an Angels team that will finish the year as one of the worst teams in baseball. Only 3 teams will finish with more losses than them and they’ll look to add to that total tonight. The projected lineup for the Angels tonight is more resembling a minor league than major league team.
They have a wOBA of just .233 vs. lefties this season and a .064 ISO. Just terrible stuff. While he gives up a smidge more power to righties, he also has a higher K rate vs. them and will likely face an entire lineup of righties tonight. I think he has some K upside tonight at a very reasonable price.
Other pitchers that I like tonight will be Seth Lugo vs. Atlanta, Luis Castillo (need to see if he has a pitch limit, he likely will) vs. Oakland, and Jose Quintana vs. Milwaukee.
MLB DFS Stacks – Main
As was the case last night, the Dodgers are far and away the best team to stack tonight. They are crazy expensive though so full stacking is extremely tough. Ohtani, play him if you can afford him.
Baltimore Orioles vs. Minnesota Twins
With the AL Playoff picture all set, I suspect this will be more than likely the last game for most of the regulars for the O’s so they can get a couple of days off to rest and recoup for Tuesday’s matchup with either the Tigers or Royals. And what a matchup to go out in as they take on Zebby Matthews of the Twins. While Matthews does have some solid stuff, it’s not Major League ready yet and it’s shown as he has really struggled thus far.
Through 8 starts, he owns a 5.71 ERA and an alarming 2.34 HR/9. He’s really struggled to keep the ball in the park as he’s already allowed 9 homers in just 34 innings of work. He’s been extremely susceptible to lefty power has 7 of the 9 have been to lefties. They also have a 1.012 OPS vs. him. This is a lefty-dominant lineup that should smash this evening.
Core Plays: Gunnar Henderson, Colton Cowser, Anthony Santander, Cedric Mullins
Secondary Plays: Jordan Westburg, Adley Rutschman
Value Plays: Ryan Mountcastle, Ryan O’Hearn
Texas Rangers vs. Griffin Canning
The Rangers get to take one of my all-time favorites to stack against in Griffin Canning. Canning is having his typical bad season. His 5.24 ERA is the second-highest of his career, his BB/9 of 3.46 is one of the highest, and his 1.62 HR/9 is the second-highest. Somehow, he still has a job in the Majors. Any other franchise besides the Angels would have already cut ties. Canning has more than a handful of starts this season giving up at least 6 ER.
That’s just wild to me that the Angels just continue to let him go long enough for that to happen. I’m not going to be concerned about splits here as he is bad against both sides of the plate. Both sides have 15 homers against him and comparable slugging %’s. Lefites have a bit higher of a wOBA and OBP though.
Core Bats: Wyatt Langford, Adolis Garcia, Marcus Semien, Josh Smith
Value Bats: Jonah Heim, Nate Lowe, Leody Taveras
Other bats I like tonight will be the Mets vs. Jared Koenig, Mariners vs. Joey Estes, and Padres vs. Eduardo Rodriguez.
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