Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 9/10/14

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Total Bases

Mike Trout
Kole Calhoun
Another day. Another day of Mike Trout (and a little more of Kole Calhoun). Look I'm not just hitting copy and paste here. Our system is able to isolate expectations and Trout isn't a superstar for nothing. He has high value almost everyday and that value only rises when a guy like Nick Tepesch is on the mound. I had both of these guys going against Lewis yesterday and they both paid. Tepesch is worse that Colby and both Calhoun and Trout should be at it again today. Trout is platoon neutral while Calhoun hits righties on a much more consistent basis. The park helps them out as Arlington sends balls over the fences. These two guys will be all over my ScoreStreak lineups today.

Hits

Ben Revere
He doesn't do a whole lot beside singles, but he does enough of those to get into the mix today. Revere is somewhat of a one trick pony. Luckily that one trick (getting to first base) is all you need in this category. He never takes walks (2.5% BB rate) and strikes out so rarely (7.5% K rate) that that rest of the time he's putting the ball in play and trying to leg out a single. It works and has him as a high expectation for multiple hits today against Worley who also doesn't strike out or walk anyone.

Brian Dozier
T.J. House gets drilled by righty bats and Dozier is much, much better on the lefty side of his platoon splits. I'm buying on the idea that House allows a wOBA in the high .300's to righty hitters and Dozier, while striking out some, hits at the top of the order and rakes lefty pitching for his career.

Strikeouts

Drew Hutchison
It's a tough day to chase K's. I'm probably not shooting the moon with either of these guys, though I do think the seven and six K range is more than attainable. Hutchison gets to face the K-happy Cubs who strike out more than 23% of the time against righties. They rank in the bottom third of the league in that platoon and Hutchison has shown moments where his swin and miss stuff can produce decent K games. He's average eight strikeouts his last three starts and should be able to work through parts of the Cubs' order.

Hisashi Iwakuma
Not a huge strike out guy, but crazy efficient. Iwakuma walks no one, less than one batter per nine and that kind of accuracy allows him to stay in games longer. His strike out rate is less than eight batters per nine, but the Astros are another free-swinging club and Iwakuma makes up for his lower K rate by going longer in games. Six or seven strikeouts for him against Texas feels very safe.