Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 7/6/14

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Total Bases

Mike Trout
Trout doesn't care about your handedness, or the park he plays in, or the phase of the moon, or really anything. The dude just crushes. The only nit you can pick in taking Trout in your top spot for total bases is that McHugh is a strike out guy, but I'll counter your nit-picking by pointing out that McHugh misses his spots frequently, and Trout is a man who can handle a mistake. Even if you don't put him in your top slot, I think it'd be a crime to not slot Trout in somewhere in the hits/total bases categories. Not exactly a bold prediction or anything, but there you have it.

Giancarlo Stanton
Stanton is an underrated power hitter. I kid. But not a lot of people are probably aware of just how badly he is crushing lefties this season. And he's crushing all lefties.. from the most elite Ace southpaws to pitchers like Marco Gonzales. And wait a second - he's actually facing MARCO FREAKING GONZALES today! If ever there were a favorite to hit a home run in a game, it'd have to be here. Hard to imagine Stanton and his .503 wOBA vs. lefties this season not being a nearly universal play.

Hits

Robinson Cano
Hopefully you stuck with Robinson Cano through his tough times - if you did, you've gotten paid in the hits category pretty much every night for the last week. This is an ideal match-up for Cano. A terrible pitcher in a great hitter's park, and a right hander to boot! Cano will be at the top of all of my hits lists tonight.

Daniel Murphy
A couple of off nights for Murphy, but he'll have a lot going for him in today's contest. He'll be squaring up the barrel against Nick Tepesch - he of just 29 Ks in 44 innings pitched this year. There's not really a lot of different ways to say this, but I think the Mets will run Tepesch off the field, which should mean lots of plate appearances in a favorable match-up for Murphy.

Strikeouts

Fair warning - I am going to put my best pitchers in the 2nd and 3rd slots today, and I'm going to chase the top slot by trying to get lucky with Colin McHugh. Just one man's approach!

Tim Lincecum
Saying that this is an ideal match-up for Lincecum is probably an understatement. He's no-hit these poor bastard Padres twice in the last year, they own by FAR the league's worst wOBA at .272 (the next worst is .294), and they are in the bottom 5 in the league in terms of total strike outs. And the park is ideal. The low wOBA means Lincecum will likely pitch deep into this one, giving him plenty of chances to rack up even more Ks than usual. It's hard to imagine not slotting Lincecum in everywhere and anywhere.

Taijuan Walker
If you want to go a little bit off board today, consider Taijuan Walker. The guy was an absolute phenom when it came to K rate in the minors, and the White Sox are another team that falls in the bottom five in the league in strike out percentage. It's definitely a risk, but on a night that features very few true aces (and Price is facing Detroit, gulp), I think you could do a lot worse than slotting Walker in and hoping he builds upon his solid first start in the majors against a pretty pathetic offense. And the beauty of Scorestreak? You don't have to worry if Walker is negatively impacted by the bad park situation.