Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 9/18/14

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Total Bases

Michael Cuddyer
Coors? Check. Crappy lefty on the mound in Vidal Nuno who gets raked by righty bats? Yup. Great platoon splits for Cuddyer against lefties? You got it. In love? I dare say that I am. Cuddyer has a small sample size of utter dominance against lefties this season and has been much better against them for his career. I've got him going in all formats today and total bases will be one of them.

Jayson Werth
Assuming he's back in the lineup today for the Nats, Werth is a solid play for the total bases category. The only thing that gives me even a sliver of pause is that his walk rate is a bit high against lefties. Of course this is great for a regular hitter, but does cut down a little on his total bases expectation. That being said, Brad Hand is bad against righties and Werth eats up lefties.

Hits

Jose Reyes
Shane Greene has actually been below average this season against lefties and I think Reyes, batting at the top of the order in such a great hitter's park is in a decent spot today against the righty. Reyes is better on this side of the split, doesn't take a ton of walks and should stand to see and extra plate appearance if the Jays can muster up any kind of offense against Greene.

Michael Brantley
Contact hitters like Brantley are great in formats like ScoreStreak. He faces a low K guy in Scott Feldman and Brantley almost never goes down on strikes against righties. He has a crazy low 7.2% BB and K rate on that side of the split meaning about 86% of the time he's getting the ball in play. Love that number and it means a high expectation for a hit in any given game.

Strikeouts

Danny Salazar
Crazy to think that he has about as high a K upside of any pitcher going today. And that includes King Felix and Greinke. Salazar is a great play for the 9K slot for a couple of reasons. This number is tough to hit for any pitcher and there is almost never a "safe" play here. I'd be content putting Greinke and Felix in the lower slots, hopefully getting some nearly guaranteed points and throwing Salazar in for the big pay off. Because Salazar is so hit or miss, he seems just as likely to (or a bit less probably) to miss the six K slot because he gets knocked around. But if he gets it rolling against the Astros (who strike out a ton against righties) then there is a pretty high ceiling.