Daily Fantasy Baseball News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 6/17/16

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.

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

Personnel

• Kris Bryant(Cubs) is out of the lineup on Friday with minor stomach aches. Javier Baez(Cubs) will start and hit 6th in the lineup.
• J.D. Martinez(Tigers) has been placed on the 15 day disabled list after injuring his elbow running in to the outfield wall making a catch on Thursday night. Steven Moya(Tigers) will take his place and is hitting .302 with 13 HR in AA this season. He is minimum price at the moment.
• Oswaldo Arcia(Twins) has been sent down to the minors to make room for Danny Santana(Twins) who is returning from a hamstring injury.
• Juan Lagares(Mets) will get surgery on his thumb and miss about two months. Alejandro De Aza will be the fourth outfielder and has hit in the leadoff spot at times providing punt value for DFS at times.
• Andrew McCutchen(Pirates) hit his first home run since May 27th. Now that is news!

The "Every Lineup" Guys

Note: We're doing something a little different in this section today and recommending a pair of punt options. The optimizer is all over these guys on their respective sites, and using them will obviously allow you a lot more lineup flexibility as you try to fit in some top stacking options.
Tyler White FD 2400 DK 3200
Opponent - CIN (Lamb) Park - @HOU
FD - 10.56 DK - 8.1

He is in the lower range of salary on both sites but the projection loves him a whole lot more on FanDuel today. He started the season off with a bang in April hitting .340 in the first 20 games of the season. Since then it has been a struggle hitting just .158 but there are signs of positive regression coming soon. First off all he is walking over 10% of the time but is working with an extremely low .184 BABIP. I discussed John Lamb's struggles(low K rate, high walk rate) in the other articles and White has already hit four home runs vs. southpaws. If you are wanting to stack the Astros adding White allows you flexibility as Correa, Altuve, and Springer are very high priced options today, especially on DraftKings.

Julio Urias FD 6800 DK 7600
Opponent - MIL (Davies) Park - @LAD
FD - 31.2 DK - 16.53

If you are into extreme risk you could take a shot with Urias tonight. It appears he will only get one or two more starts before the Dodgers make a decision on his immediate future. He has terrific K upside and has struck out seven batters in each of his last two starts pushing his K/9 rate up to 11.12 on the season. He should be able to keep the trend going against the Brewers who rank 20th in wOBA vs. left handed pitching and strikeout 23% of the time. The big risk here is how many innings he will pitch. If he somehow makes it into the 6th and maybe 7th inning, if he can limit the pitch count, could be in line to crush his value tonight. It's worth a long shot in a large field GPP.
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.

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