Daily Fantasy Baseball News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 4/6/16

Welcome to the daily MLB updates and news article. We'll try and update it right up to line-up locks with as much information as comes across our desks. Let's get to it!

Last night's picks can be found here (early), and here (late), so you can wrap your mind around what you need to be looking at before lineups lock today.

By the way - we keep our projection system updated with all of the batting lineup changes as they occur throughout the day right up until lineup lock. Every day. If you want access to that system so you can cut out a lot of the research element, click the button below!

What We Know

We've got a multitude of slates today—four at both DraftKings and FanDuel—with a healthy six-gamer starting at 1:10 p.m. Eastern.

For those early games, we should have a handle on what to expect from the weather, as well as the starting lineups, at lock. The one exception is the Boston/Cleveland game, with first pitch scheduled for 6:10 p.m. This might be one to avoid, as there's a 40 percent chance of rain at game time and it only goes up for the rest of the night. The rest of the early slate should be worry-free, as four of the six games will be played indoors.

No such luck tonight, when weather could wreak havoc on nearly half the games. Forecasts to keep an especially close eye on: Cardinals at Pirates, Nationals at Braves, and Phillies at Reds. The situation in Cincinnati looks especially dire, so be sure to check the weather this evening before rolling out all those Brandon Finnegan tournament lineups.

Tournament Stacks

There's a lot to be tempted by on the early slate today. Let's start in Texas, where clear weather, an outward bound breeze, and the unyielding hospitality of Colby Lewis make the Mariners our top choice.

Seattle Mariners
Lewis is a fly-ball pitcher, who doesn't strike people out, twirling in one of the league's most hitter-friendly venues. As a bonus, the Mariners have gobs of moderately priced left-handed sticks. This one doesn't require an algorithm, but if it makes you feel better we've got one and it can confirm everything I just wrote. Nearly every bat in the Seattle lineup is in play today.

Toronto Blue Jays
Even in a pitcher's haven like Tropicana Field and going against a guy with decent strikeout upside, the Blue Jays can't be ignored when facing a southpaw. No team did more damage against lefties last year, and that was with just a partial season of a marginally effective Troy Tulowitzki. While he struggled somewhat last season, Tulo wallops left-handed pitching to the tune of a .959 OPS and a .408 wOBA for his career. Meanwhile, Rays starter Matt Moore has yet to regain his 2013 form and was brutalized last season after returning from Tommy John surgery. Until he shows he can miss bats again, he's a target in matchups like this one.

Baltimore Orioles
The evening matchups aren't quite as tantalizing, but if you want to build some stacks around Chris Davis, our projection system would have no problem with that. Camden Yards is a great place for left-handed power hitters, and a low-K guy like Twins starter Kyle Gibson can be picked on. It's not the gimme that the preceding stacks present, as Gibson has decent stuff and gets ground balls at a solid clip, but you could do worse than fielding tournament lineups featuring Davis, Adam Jones and Manny Machado tonight.

Sneaky Pitcher

Patrick Corbin
We wrote him up last night as one of our picks on the early slate, but it's worth revisiting here. The projection system is high on Corbin, even in a hitter's park, after he posted elevated K rates with better command after returning from Tommy John surgery last season. He's not a safe choice, but in tournaments, he could be a nice way to differentiate lineups and free up salary.

The "Every Lineup" Guys

Robinson Cano
The system loves Cano today and if you believe hot streaks have predictive value, you should love him even more. Aside from the factors detailed above that should benefit all Mariners hitters, Cano has been on a tear this Spring, and the power surge has carried into the regular season with a pair of home runs already.

Bryce Harper
The price is the only deterrent here. Most of the top half of the Nationals' lineup look like solid cash game plays tonight, but the reigning NL MVP is the play of the day if you can fit him in.

One other note: There are big differences between DraftKings and FanDuel pricing so the optimal lineups are looking quite different.

These are players that show up in each of the top 10 lineups as produced by our lineup optimizer. This doesn't necessarily mean that they're "safe," it just means that their projected weighted-mean point total is a solid building block for a great lineup foundation today.

Good luck out there today! If you want access to all of our numbers, get started with a free trial below of our lineup optimizer, on us!