Daily Fantasy Baseball News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 7/7/16

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, so you can wrap your mind around what you need to be looking at before lineups lock today.

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What We Know

Personnel

• Matt Carpenter suffered an oblique strain last night and will likely hit the shelf. Look for Kolten Wong and Jedd Gyrko to replace him on the diamond.
• Jean Segure was pulled out of last night's game with bruised triceps and is considered day-to-day as of now.
• Steve Clevenger is heading to the 60-day DL with a hand injury.
• Jemile Weeks is heading to the 60-day DL with a hamstring injury.
• Travis Shaw left Wednesday's game with a left foot contusion. He is considered day-to-day for now.
• Curt Casali suffered a head injury in yesterday's contest and is considered day-to-day as of now.
• Brandon Moss is heading to the 15-day DL with an ankle sprain. Randal Grichuk will get another opportunity in the big leagues
• Marco Estrada is placed on the 15-day DL with a back injury.
• Tajuan Walker is heading to the 15-day DL with a foot injurt.
• Matt Harvey

is heading to the 15-day DL with shoulder issues.

Top Tournament Stacks

Rockies/Phillies

Welcome back into our lives, Coors! We don't have a lot of great options on the bump today, but we do have a whole lot of stacks to attack! With that being said, we will be able to pay up for some bats tonight and what better stacks to grab on your roster than the Phillies and Rockies? Not only will this game be played at Coors, but it also has a 12.5 run total. Both pitchers on the mound (Chad Bettis and Adam Morgan) have struggled this season, so look for Coors Field to have some fireworks of their own tonight.

Tigers

Since 2015, Drew Hutchison has struggled mightily. He owns a 5.56 ERA to go along with a 4.52 FIP, which shows us that he's not a very good pitcher. The other thing that will hurt him in this contest is pitching at home. I know pitching at home is supposed to help a pitcher, but not when your home ballpark is the Rogers Centre. It is a hitter's friendly park and is a place Hutchison has struggled over the course of his career.

We all know what the Tigers are capable of doing on offense, so if you're looking for a way to fade Coors today, I recommend going with a Detroit stack!

 

The "Every Lineup" Guy

Nolan Arenado FD 4400 DK 5400
Opponent - PHI (Morgan) Park - @COL
FD - 16.08 DK - 12.41
Trevor Story FD 3200 DK 5100
Opponent - PHI (Morgan) Park - @COL
FD - 13.15 DK - 10.65

I know I mentioned a Rockies stack in the section above, but these two guys will be the chalkiest play of the day. Besides the fact that they will be playing at Coors, they will also have a very favorable L/R matchup going up against southpaw Adam Morgan. Morgan is known to give up the long ball and pitching at Coors certainly won't help him out. With not a whole lot of high priced guys taking the bump today, these are two guys you will probably have enough money to pay up for (especially on FanDuel).

Sneaky Pitcher

Lucas Giolito FD 7200 DK 8100
Opponent - NYM (Colon) Park - @NYM
FD - 32.02 DK - 17.44

The question here is why not go with the 21-year-old? There is no clear-cut starter on today's slate and he draws a favorable matchup against the Mets.

While his big league debut was cut short due to the rain, he was having a nice year in AA. He owned an ERA and FIP under 3.40 to go along with a 9.13 K/9. He was off to a marvelous start and his strikeout numbers shows us that he has some upside. While this is obviously a risky play, he will allow you to pay up for all of those Coors bats, so I personally think it's worth the risk.

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