Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 8/6/14

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Total Bases

There is a tight grouping of guys in our system today. Hard to pick the top two.
Miguel Cabrera
I don’t want to seem like a chalk-line frontrunner when I’m continually putting him in as a top total bases play. We have a system for producing the ScoreStreak picks on a daily basis and it’s liked Miggy a lot in recent days. That’s what happens with a string of lefties facing Detroit will do. Today’s another one to add to the list with Chris Capuano hurling in Yankee Stadium. Miggy’s having a down year for him on the lefty side of the split thanks in part to a reduced Babip and slightly lower Hr/FB%. That’s all to say, he’s still awesome (though maybe in a decline) and is in a solid spot today for sure.

Jose Bautista
Caught a whiff of what he’s doing against lefties this season? Let me lay it on you. 1.139 OPS and a 211 wRC+ for starters. Toss in a .483 wOBA and you’ve got a dude just crushing the hopes and dreams of lefty pitching throughout the majors. Wei-Yin Chen is no pushover, but Bautista’s profile and career numbers, along with projected out stats make him a top play in our system.

Hits

Ian Kinsler
Mentioned Capuano just two paragraphs before if you are the kind of guy/girl who likes to skip around. The Tigers, in general, are a great squad to target today in the hitter's park in the Bronx. What I like about Kinsler in this format is that in addition to being a better hitter over his career against righties (not as good this season) he's nearly impossible to walk. His 2% BB% is about as low as it gets and makes for a great number to see when trying to predict raw hits. The more times the bat's on the ball, the higher the expectation.

Jose Altuve
He's a much better hitter against lefties but little Jose is decent against righties and many of the same considerations posed for Kinsler apply here. Altuve has extremely low walk and strikeout rates on both sides of the platoon and David Buchanan is a low K guy. This is a solid opportunity to buy on Altuve considering the circumstances and he's been a hit machine this season.

Strikeouts

Note: Sale is the top guy today, but I'm mostly focusing on the later slate of games here. He'll be gone by the time you get around to them.

Danny Salazar
Going to see some odd names on this list today. Not exactly the cream of the pitching crop. But we make due with what we are given. I'm still a believer in Salazar, and in terms of raw strikeout upside, he's probably the guy today. His K/9 is more than a batter an inning and he hovers around the 6-7 K mark in any given game. Today he faces the Reds who come in near the bottom of the league against righties and strike out more than 20% of the time.

Drew Hutchison
No we're really getting down and dirty. Hutchison is a risky play today, but our system likes his chances at getting to six K's against the Orioles. It's for sure a tough matchup, but he's shown the ability to rack up K's in games (albeit inconsistently). When you look at the later slate of games the pitching options are rough. But Hutchison is K-ing around 8 batters per nine and if he can last a little in this one I like his chances at getting you some K points.