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

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

• Brock Holt and Travis Shaw will be getingt a breather in today's contest.
• Shin-Soo Choo will sit out of today's contest as well with back issues.
• Tommy La Stella will hit leadoff for the Cubs today..
• Brandon Phillips left Friday's game with a calf injury. We can consider him day-to-day for now.
• Travis Shaw left Wednesday's game with a left foot contusion. He is considered day-to-day for now.
• Ketel Marte is considered day-to-day with an ankle sprain.
• Daniel Murphy is dealing with hamstring issues. Consider him day-to-day for now.

Top Tournament Stack

Yankees

This Yankees-Red Sox contest sure is going to be a fun with a projected run total of 9.5, so go ahead and get some exposure to this game. I know people will be all over Boston, but why not give the Yankees a shot? I know their offense is not as good as Boston's offense, but they have a beautiful matchup. They will be going up against the 23-year-old southpaw, Eduardo Rodriguez.

I know the Sox' think highly of this kid, but he just has not been able to put it together so far this season. He is coming into this contest sporting an 8.59 ERA to go along with a 6.96 FIP (YIKES). Not only will the Yankees be going up against a guy with an ERA over eight, but hitters own a 35.7% hard contact rate and 47.7 FB%. Pitching at Yankees Park certainly won't help him out in this contest, so look for them to put some runs on the board.

The "Every Lineup" Guy

Carlos Gonzalez FD 3500 DK 4300
Opponent - ATL (Foltynewicz) Park - @ATL
FD - 11.71 DK - 8.99

Although this game doesn't take place at Coors, you can go ahead and get exposure to the Rockies' left-handed bats.. My favorite of them all is of course, Carlos Gonzalez. Since 2013, Cargo owns a .403 wOBA to go along with a .289 ISO. He crushes righties and there is no better right-handed pitcher to go up against than the one and only, Mike Foltynewicz. On the year, righties own a .384 wOBA to go along with a .618 SLG. It's safe to say lefties devour him, which is why Cargo is the guy you need to have in all your lineups!

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