Josh Barzal 
Welcome to the Sunday, May 23rd edition of MLB DFS Picks and Pivots where we dive into the top fantasy baseball plays and slate strategy to help you take down tournaments all season long at Win Daily Sports!
I am here to help step in for our very own Brian Tulloch today as he is still celebrating all the money he won yesterday stacking against Jon Lester and I am excited to get the best plays across for you guys on todays 10 game slate on Draftkings!!
MLB Picks and Pivots: Main Slate Breakdown
Taking a dive into the pitchers on today’s main slate I am going to be diving into two different paths for today, going with Brian’s favorite in double aces and then looking into finding our value plays at the position.
Looking at the most expensive plays on the slate there is no true DFS ace for us to target while we do have the next best thing in Zach Wheeler who is a real-life ace and Freddy Peralta who is a bit risky but has ace upside with his strikeout rate, Draftkings has seen this though as they are both priced way up there at $11,200 and $10,500 respectively. As Adam Strangis broke down in our Starting Rotation today, the match-up in particular for Peralta is one we want to pay up for.
Our way to make sure we can get one of these two into our lineups today is someone that we touched on yesterday in Jordan Yamamoto. Here is an excerpt from yesterday’s article, “Yamamoto has shown swing and miss ability in his career with a 25% K rate and he has flashed the same ability in the minors this season but let’s be real this is a simple price and match-up play. The Marlins have the third-highest K rate in baseball overall and are 2nd in baseball with a 27.2% K rate against right-handed pitching.”
I am looking to take advantage of this matchup with us not needing too much to hit value today either, look to match Wheeler or Peralta today with Yamamoto to get in some of those high-priced bats today.
Our pitching setup allows us to take a look at most bats that we would want to play today including the Indians and Orioles, both teams would qualify as some of my favorite bats today. I am looking to run with a core of J-Ram, Trey Mancini, Austin Hays, and Jordan Luplow.
The Indians get to take on JA Happ, who has been hammered by RHB this season to the tune of a .234 ISO while limiting LHB to a .034 ISO so any Indians stack or mini-stack should be focused on the power righties like Luplow and J-Ram.
Speaking of lefties who have been hammered by righties, Patrick Corbin has surrendered a .290 ISO and near 50% HC rate to RHB so the same Orioles righties we built around yesterday – we can go right back to today!
Taking this one step further – I think we can stay in this game and build a mini-game stack with the Nationals lefties to fill in the gaps going against Matt Harvey who has struggled to keep the ball in the park against LHB this season with a 1.5 HR/9 rate.
MLB DFS Picks and Pivots – The Wrap-Up
I am really liking our SP1-SP2 strategy with Jordan Yamamoto down at $4000 allowing us to get up to our ace upside in Wheeler and Peralta. The salary left gives us a nice path to getting to our Indians and Orioles stacks and filling in with the left-handed power bats from the Nationals today!
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