Win Daily on Deck: Pregame Notes and Updates for 5/29

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Notes for 5/29 main slate (Published 5:04 pm EST)

• Austin Meadows is leading off for Tampa Bay tonight against Trent Thornton. Despite only a three at bat sample size, Meadows has two prior homers against Thornton and comes into this game red-hot averaging a .414 BA over the last seven days (29 AB) with three homers! Austin Meadows is my second favorite play of the night. Who’s first? Guess you’ll have to keep reading.
• Okay so this is a unique value play but i’m very confident in a solid floor tonight for Baltimore’s most recent call up, D.J. Stewart. He has been on fire between his month of May in AAA and his 2019 debut last night where he went 3 for 4 with a SB totaling 15 FanDuel Points. In fact, Stewart has been tearing it up in AAA for some time now, posting a .316 BA with 35 RBI over 152 at bats in 2019 playing for the Norfolk Tides, a AAA team in the International league. I’m locking in D.J. Stewart as my value play of the day. **Don’t forget Camden Yards is a hitter’s paradise.**
• I hope it’s no secret that Nolan Arenado is the must play of the night as he is batting .382 with five doubles, one triple and three home runs in just 39 at bats against Robbie Ray. Not to mention, Coors Field is allowing 1.456 runs/game which is ranked highest in the majors. Don’t think about this one, lock him in!
• Wade Miley is going up against a Chicago Cubs team that has struck out 77 times over the last seven games, which leads the league by far. At the moment the Cubs are striking out at a shocking rate and they set to face a left handed pitcher in Wade Miley who has been playing well as of late. Also, the Cubs as a team have problems with lefties, hitting a mere .240 team against southpaws so far this season with only 29 home runs in 362 at bats.
• I’m not in love with this play but Mike Yastrzemski is batting second and is therefore worth a second look tonight against Pablo Lopez.

(Updated 5:33 pm EST)

• Brandon Lowe is sitting in that cleanup spot. I love his power along with his increased RBI opportunities tonight. Vegas has the under/over for the Rays matchup with the Blue Jays at seven, which isn’t the best of news if you’re investing in two of Tampa Bay’s most talented hitters. But with that said, Tampa is favored by -260 which is very high. Count on the Rays winning this one 6 or 7 to zero with Snell dominating the mound. Also, count on a big part of Tampa’s offense to come from Meadows and Lowe, I love having high exposure to the 1 and 4 batters only as a sneaky(ish) two man stack, especially tonight in a lineup that I think can do some serious damage.

(Updated 5:56 pm)

• Starlin Castro has some impressive BvP stats against Bumgarner while sitting in the clean up spot on an offense that is currently thriving going 8 and 3 over their last 11 games. Castro owns a career .424 BA in 33 at-bats vs. Bumgarner. If the RBI opportunities are there (which they very well should/could be), expect some serious production from the Marlins second basemen at a low price of $2,200, likely at low ownership. Can you ask for anything more?

(Updated 6:00 PM EST)

• Ketel Marte is OUT

(Updated 6:16 PM EST)

• If you need value, two back end stacks are very interesting to me and they’re in the same game! Yes, I said it! Back end game stack baby! When have you ever heard of that? But seriously, the more I dive into this slate, the more I see potential for the 5,6,7,9 batters on Detroit and the 7,8,9 batters on Baltimore. If you have the guts, it’s a very interesting lineup structure but will allow you to get Snell, who should be in for one hell of a night! Just to be clear I’m talking about Dixon, Rodriguez, Hicks and Jones on Detroit and D.J. Stewart, Austin Wynns and Richie Martin on Baltimore. Clearly a risky stack and clearly these are all low owned value plays, but hey, that’s what takes down a GPP tournament!

(Updated 6:20 EST)

• Waiting on the last lineup confirmation (NY Mets) to make final lineup decisions.

More to be updated closer to 7:05 lock…