Daily Fantasy Baseball News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 7/18/16

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 Cain will get the nod on Wednesday against the Red Sox .
• Yan Gomez suffered a shoulder injury and is likely heading to the DL.
• Joc Pederson (shoulder) looks like he will be able to join the club tomorrow.
• Mark Teixeira (left foot) is considered day-to-day after X-Rays came back negative.
• Rich Hill left Sunday's contest with blisters on his pitching hand and is considered day-to-day.

Top Tournament Stack

Orioles

The Orioles will be going up against, Ivan Nova, at Yankee Stadium, so look for them to have themselves a night. They devour right-handed pitchers, as they own a .348 wOBA (2nd in MLB) to go along with a .201 ISO (1st in MLB). Sure we have a game at Coors today, but this is an excellent pivot and could be similar to a game at Coors (runs wise). Ivan Nova has a FIP over 4 and an ERA over 5, so look for this Orioles' squad to have themselves a night.

 

The "Every Lineup" Guy

Nolan Arenado FD 4600 DK 3800
Opponent - TB (Smyly) Park - @COL
FD - 15.41 DK - 11.84

We got a game at Coors and the popular play of the day from this contest will be Nolan Arenado. He will be going up against southpaw, Drew Smyly and I see him having a rough outing. Smyly is a fly ball pitcher (47.0%), which won't help him out in this ballpark. Righties own a .330 wOBA against him since 2014, so look for righties to hit him hard in this contest, especially Arenado.

Matt Holliday FD 3000 DK 3200
Opponent - SD (Friedrich) Park - @STL
FD - 12.08 DK - 9.2

Matt Holliday against a lefty? Sign me up! Not only does he hit lefties well (.371 wOBA and .192 ISO since 2014), but there is something else that sticks out to me. And that is his price! On a day where you have a game at Coors and elite pitchers on the mound, you need to find a way to save money. And one bargain play that will do just that is, Matt Holliday. He's cheap and has an elite matchup, so go ahead and roster him into your lineups.

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image sources

• Nolan Arenado: By Keith Allison (Flickr: Nolan Arenado) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons