MLBPremium MLB DFS Aces & Stacks (Apr. 28) Joel Bartilotta 5 months ago written by Joel Bartilotta Welcome to Friday's edition of Aces and Bases, where I’ll be going through the top MLB DFS Aces and Stacks on DraftKings and Fanduel. It’s Friday and we have ourselves a nice sized 11-game slate of MLB DFS. We have ourselves a Jacob Degrom night. Our dilemma will be do we use him against a good Yankees lineup? We also have ourselves a Coors slate and that always brings into question whether or not to fade that game. One thing we’ll need to keep an eye on is the weather tonight. Things look pretty dicey in the northeast. The Mets/Braves should play, but anything can happen when it rains. The Pirates/Nationals game doesn’t have a remote chance of playing as it’s supposed to rain all day in DC. Let’s dig and make some money! MLB DFS Aces – Main Jacob deGrom vs. New York Yankees I miss him in the blue and orange. I talked myself into, “it’s ok, he’s always hurt.”. But man, when he’s on he’s the best pitcher of our ... 5 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
MLBPremium MLB DFS Aces & Stacks (Apr. 21) Joel Bartilotta 5 months ago written by Joel Bartilotta Welcome to Friday's edition of Aces and Bases, where I’ll be going through the top MLB DFS Aces and Stacks on DraftKings and Fanduel. It’s Friday and we have a massive 12-game slate of MLB DFS! On the hill tonight is Shohei Ohtani against a weak Royals team. Anytime that he’s on the hill makes for a fun night of baseball. With pitching tonight after Ohtani, we have a bunch of mid-level arms. We also have some bats in solid spots. Let’s dig and make some money! MLB DFS Aces – Main Shohei Ohtani vs. Kansas City Royals Shohei Ohtani will be the chalk pitcher of the night. He gets a glorious matchup vs. an awful lineup in the Kansas City Royals. The Royals so far in 2023 have been downright bad vs. righties. They have a 25% k rate vs. them and an OPS under .600. That OPS is just brutal! Ohtani has been pitching lights out, as usual. Over the first month of the season, he’s thrown to a .86 ERA and ha... 5 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
MLBPremium MLB DFS Aces & Stacks (Apr. 17) Joel Bartilotta 5 months ago written by Joel Bartilotta Welcome to Friday's edition of Aces and Bases, where I’ll be going through the top MLB DFS Aces and Stacks on DraftKings and Fanduel. Happy Monday Funday! Tonight have a nice-sized 9-game slate of MLB DFS. We have a couple of studs on the mounds that we’ll need to decide on. We also have some arms in the mid-salary range that look extremely appealing. This is shaping up to be an extremely fun slate of MLB DFS. Let’s dig and make some money! MLB DFS Aces – Main Jacob deGrom vs. Kansas City Royals This is essentially a rematch of deGrom’s last outing. A week ago, deGrom faced this same Royals team. He had a really good outing, but it was nothing special. He finished that game with 9 strikeouts over 7 innings of work and allowed 2 ER. I’d expect more of the same tonight against the Royals. Normally we shy away from taking a pitcher throwing against the same team in back-to-back starts. But not with deGro... 5 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
MLBPremium MLB DFS Stack City (Apr. 7) Joel Bartilotta 1 year ago written by Joel Bartilotta Welcome to the premier edition of Stack City, where I’ll be going through the top MLB DFS Stacks on DraftKings and Fanduel. After an extra-long break due to the lockout, we’re finally back. Both sites have different-sized slates that we’ll have to deal with today. Today’s Main Slates kicks off at 2:20 on FanDuel for a 7 game slate and at 4:10 on DraftKings for a 6 game slate. DFS wise, opening day is one of the tougher days to navigate through. We normally have a slew of Aces on the mound, making stacking that much more complicated and condensed. Always make sure to read Adam’s Starting Rotation when setting your lineup. It’s hands down the best pitching article in the MLB DFS business. Let’s dig in and see if we can find some stacks to use today! MLB DFS Stacks San Diego Padres vs. Madison Bumgarner I’ll start by saying this is the chalk stack of the day. Everyone and their mother will be on them, a... 1 year ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
MLBDaily Fantasy Sports MLB DFS: Aces and Bases – 9/18 (FanDuel Main Slate) Antonio D'Arcangelis 2 years ago written by Antonio D'Arcangelis Today’s edition of Aces and Bases focuses ONLY on FanDuel’s eight-game MLB DFS Main Slate for 7:05PM ET, hopefully finding you some green screens!No heavy rain in the forecast tonight, but there are a few light showers in the San Francisco area for Braves-Giants. Nothing that should keep us off the game.MLB DFS: The AcesTop MLB DFS Ace: Corbin Burnes ($11,200)Burnes is coming off an 8.0 IP, 14 K (and no-hit) masterpiece in Cleveland on Sept. 11 where he racked up 76 FD points. The only thing that gives me pause is the fact that after a 15 K game against this Cubs team on Aug. 11, he only recorded 3 Ks in his next outing versus the Cards. But that’s nitpicking. He’s the best arm of the slate with the highest floor and ceiling, and it’s not particularly close. Unless he gets lit up, he’s probably looking at a 40-point floor and 70-point upside again.Best GPP Value: Lance McCullers ($9,900)I think we probably need to find a way to fit Burnes into most of our GPP builds tonight as well, but McCullers in a home matchup against the Diamondbacks does offer some opportunity for salary relief with about 75-80% of the upside that the Milwaukee hurler does. The biggest knock against him tonight is the fact that Lance isn’t great against lefties, and Arizona (a high strikeout team for sure) could roll out up to seven against McCullers in this game. Still — there are not any really cheap options on this slate that don’t involve massive risk, so I think the best bet is still using a top arm and finding value in the bats.Contrarian GPP Play: Lance Lynn ($10,300)Lynn is the only other pitcher on the slate with 65-70 points upside, but it’s ben a while since we’ve seen that kind of dominance out of the right-hander. The appeal here is the tasty matchup facing the Rangers, a small cost savings from Burnes and lower projected ownership, but I’m not sure that sacrificing the upside and floor is worth rolling him out in any more than one or two GPP lineups out of 10. McCullers and Lynn project for similar outcomes tonight.MLB DFS: The BasesTop Stack: Houston AstrosIt’ll be damn near impossible to afford the top bats (Jose Altuve at $4,200, Alex Bregman at $4,300 and Yordan Alvarez at $4,000) from Houston tonight in lineups that lock in Burnes, but if we grab some value bats from the bottom of this potent lineup, we can get a piece of this high projected run total (5.7) and still get exposure. I’m looking primarily at righty killers Kyle Tucker ($3,900) and Yuri Gurriel ($3,300) with Jose Siri ($2,700) and Jake Meyers ($2,400). Chas McCormick ($2,400) is obviously also an option if one of the other OF sits.GPP Value Stack: Los Angeles AngelsAttacking objectively bad sinkerballer Daulton Jeffries, who is starting for the A’s, is where we can find the necessary firepower to build a winning lineup. If we start out our FD builds with Burnes and sinker destroyer extraordinaire Shohei Ohtani ($4,400), we have $2,771 per remaining hitter left in salary. This leaves us with the value options in the aforementioned stack and guys like Brandon Marsh ($2,400), Darrin Fletcher ($2,600), Max Stassi ($2,400), Jared Walsh ($3,000) and Luis Rengifo ($2,300) — who hits sinkers particularly well, as Adam Strangis points out in his MLB DFS Starting Rotation 9.18 article.GPP Stack #2: Oakland AthleticsIf we’re grabbing some Angels, there’s no reason we can’t get some of the other side of this matchup as well, as the Athletics offer some excellent value options in their lineup facing lefty Jose Suarez. Those bargain bats include 2B/3B/UTIL eligible leadoff man Josh Harrison ($2,900), Chad Pinder ($2,200), Yan Gomes ($2,600) (or Sean Murphy at $2,100) and Khris Davis ($2,100). If there’s room for Mark Canha ($3,200), Starling Marte ($3,800) and Matt Olson ($4,200), that’s great — we could even mix and match and exclusively game stack OAK-LAA — avoiding the chalky Houston bats altogether in some of our GPPs.Bonus Contrarian Stacks: Seattle Mariners, Milwaukee BrewersMake sure to keep an eye on the starters as lineups are released. Good luck tonight, and please utilize the MLB Projection models to land on your one-offs and off-the-wall value plays! 2 years ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
MLBPremium MLB DFS: Aces and Bases for Thursday – 08/19 Joel Bartilotta 2 years ago written by Joel Bartilotta Welcome to the Thursday edition of Aces and Bases. Tonight we have a small 4 game main slate of MLB DFS on Fanduel to navigate through. My goal today will be to walk you through my 3 favorite pitchers and 3 favorite stacks on the day. With a small slate comes a limited pool of options.Let’s dig in to today’s slates!MLB DFS: Early Slate ThoughtsPithing isn’t great on the early slate. Thankfully we only have to pick 1. My lean right now is to stick with either Chris Flexen or Dylan Cease. Flexen will probably be my main target as he gets the best match up vs. the lowly Rangers. With bats we go right back to the well against the Orioles. Lopez has really struggled the last 30 days and his biggest weakness has been the lefties. They have a .451 wOBA against him over that period. Lowe ($3.7k), Choi ($2.5k), and Meadows ($3.2k) are the targets there. If Phillips ($2.6k) plays he’ll also crack my lineup. White Sox vs. Irvin will also be a place to... 2 years ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
MLBPremium MLB DFS Picks and Pivots: Friday, August 13 Jared Levitt 2 years ago written by Jared Levitt Welcome to the Friday edition of Picks and Pivots. Tonight we have a 14 game day slate of MLB DFS on Draftkings to navigate through. Main Slate BreakdownIt’s Jared and I’ll be filling in for Brian while he takes a much needed and well deserved vacation. It’s Friday and that means we’re back to having a loaded slate. With tonight’s slate we have a handful of pitchers that I’m looking to work in. It all starts with Robbie Ray ($9.2k). We’re getting Ray at the cheapest he’s been in a couple of months. He’s seen a little bit of a downward trend of late as he has just a 24% K rate over the past month. That’s down significantly from his 30% yearly rate. If we look into what happened it’s mostly due to match ups. Three of his last 3 outings have been against the Red Sox and they are a top team against lefties. Tonight Ray gets a much softer match up in the Mariners and he should get back on track. Ray will more ... 2 years ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
MLBPremium MLB DFS Picks and Pivots: Wednesday, August 11 Jared Levitt 2 years ago written by Jared Levitt Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Picks and Pivots. Tonight we have a nice sized 11 game slate of MLB DFS on Draftkings to navigate through. Main Slate BreakdownIt’s Jared and I’ll be filling in Brian over the next 2 weeks when I’m not writing Aces and Bases as he takes a much needed and well deserved vacation. As I started to research tonight’s slate one thing became clear. We have a very possible path to having double aces, well one true ace and a pair of wannabe aces. We have a lineup that is woefully under priced that makes paying up for both pitchers very attainable. Let’s start with pitching. The top pitcher for me tonight will be Corbin Burnes ($10.3k). He gets an extremely soft match up against a team that just isn’t hitting. Over the past week the Cubs have an insanely high strike out rate of nearly 37% with very limited power numbers. Burnes has seem some regression in his strike outs over the past 30 days as ... 2 years ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
MLBPremium MLB DFS Picks and Pivots: Monday, August 02 Jared Levitt 2 years ago written by Jared Levitt Welcome to the Monday edition of Picks and Pivots. Today we have a nice sized 7 game main slate of MLB DFS on Draftkings to navigate through. Main Slate BreakdownIt’s Jared and I’ll be filling in for Brian over the next 2 weeks when I’m not writing Aces and Bases as he takes a much needed vacation. Today’s slate will leave a lot to desired from a pitching standpoint. The most expensive pitcher on tonight’s slate is Tylor Megill. Nothing against Megill as he’s been quite good since his call up, but he shouldn’t be the most expensive pitcher on a slate (at least yet). There are really only 3 pitchers tonight that will have my interest. Tylor Megill ($9.6k), Michael Wacha ($8.4k), and Josiah Gray ($7.6k). As the day goes on I will let ownership dictate who I use. These 3 pitchers provide 2 things I’m looking for on a slate like this. Upside and safety. First let’s look at Megill. He’s facing off against a very... 2 years ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
MLBPremium MLB DFS: Aces and Bases for Thursday – 07/29 Joel Bartilotta 2 years ago written by Joel Bartilotta Welcome to the Thursday edition of Aces and Bases. Today we have 2 slates of MLB DFS on Fanduel to navigate through. A 4 game noon slate and a 5 game main slate.For the first time in a while Fanduel split the slates properly. I'll be walking you through options I like for both slates. We have a couple of decent pitching options on both slates and some solid stacks. Let’s dig in to today’s slate!MLB DFS: The Early Slate AcesGerrit Cole ($10.8K) vs. Tampa Bay Rays - After a stretch in June where Cole was really struggling with getting batters out and striking them out, it appears he has regained his form. Over the past 30 days Cole has a near 38% K rate and he's brought his hard hit rate back down to just 26.9%. The Rays hit for a lot of power, but we also know that if they aren't hitting for power, they're also striking out. Against righties this year they have a 25.5% K rate. Pitching against the Rays is never easy, but I like Cole to continue his stretch of solid pitching.Luis ... 2 years ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
