Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings, DraftDay and StarStreet 8/13/14 Our Free Baseball eBook is live! Check out the details, and get your copy now! Don't make another lineup before reading this book! It contains one mistake that basically everyone in the daily fantasy baseball industry is making! Ready to make the leap and get access to the exclusive projection system that produces these picks? Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel and DraftKings. And try out our partner ScoreStreak and our exclusive exclusive ScoreStreak picks.   Pitchers Good news first. Some crappy pitcher is going to win people money tonight. Bad news: You need to wade through a bunch of crappy pitchers and matchups to find the winner. Jordan Zimmermann - FD 8700 DK 9200 DD 17550 SS 26700 I'm actually surprised our system doesn't like Zimmerman more today, but I suspect he'll be a fairly heavy cash game play because of the matchup and the park. The Mets rank in the bottom third of the league in team wOBA against righties and Zimmerman has been kind of great this season. He's striking out more than eight batters per nine and walking almost no one. Among qualified starters he has one of the lower BB%'s in the league. This is such a solid spot even against Big Fat Bartolo Colon. Jose Quintana - FD 7600 DK 8100 DD 16000 SS 22800 Has had a decent enough season with an xFIP in the mid three's and fine enough peripherals. Really trying to pick up some value on the margins and this price tier is a bit of a log jam. Could just as easily make case for Jered Weaver except Quintana has a better xFIP while Weaver has a better matchup. I'll take the dude over the opponent in the slightest of edges here. Ian Kennedy - FD 7600 DK 8300 DD 15750 SS 23500 Oof, doesn't feel great. But the Rockies aren't exactly the same mashing team on the road. In fact, away from Coors the Rockies are ranked 28th in team wOBA. That's such a significant drop and I'm willing to buy Kennedy not primarily, but heavily on this discrepancy. It's stark. Kennedy is fine enough, striking out his fair share while walking some too. It isn't all aces, but he's coming very cheap and this game going in San Diego means the power upside for the Rockies is severely limited. Kyle Lohse - FD 6900 DK 8000 DD 15200 SS 21400 Cubs are brutal against righties this season. Just brutal. They strike out more than 22% of the time in that split and rank 28th...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 8/13/14 DFSR has partnered with ScoreStreak: a new, innovative style of DFS play. Gone is the salary finagling, mixing and matching, and hair-pulling that goes into setting lineups. ScoreStreak simplifies the process in an easy-to-use interface. Employing a prop-pick style, ScoresStreak leagues are specific outcome dependent with three categories: Total Bases, Hits, and for pitchers, Strikeouts. New users who deposit through DFSR will get an extra $10 to play with. We are putting in picks every night and giving you some of our top plays each day. Two are on us, the third is all you. Or go your own way. As always, if you are new to daily fantasy baseball, make sure read our Free Baseball e-book. It contains one mistake that basically everyone in the daily fantasy baseball industry is making! Also be sure to sign up for a free 3-day trial to access the MLB system and spreadsheets that help produce our picks. And give ScoreStreak a try. You'll like it as much as we do.   Total Bases David Ortiz Been some time since I put Papi out there but today seems like as good a day as any. He's struggled a bit this season thanks in part to a much lower Babip than his historical averages. This has driven down his triple slash line. It isn't the only problem, but it's worth mentioning. Today he faces average dude Mike Leake in a decidedly hitter's park. I'm buying on Papi for the first time in a while and think he offers some nice total bases upside in the early slate. Jay Bruce Going a little off board today, but since I focused on the early slate with Papi, I'll give you another guy you can pair with him during the early PM games. Bruce has struggled this season, but he faces low K, middling prospect Anthony Raunaudo. This is a solid spot for Bruce, hitting at the top of the lineup in a matchup that downgrades his chances at K-ing repeatedly. Looking for a little separation from the field with this pick and I think the upside is there.   Hits Jose Altuve I don't want to get in the habit of picking him every single day, but sometimes that kind of repetition is warranted. Such is the case with Altuve who is just have a crazy good season. his contact rate is awesome, he rarely walks and today the stars align as he faces a pitcher in Kyle Gibson who doesn't strike anyone out. The latter consideration is especially important as whatever happens with Altuve today, it's as heavy a favorite as you'll see to at least have...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings, DraftDay and StarStreet 8/12/14 Our Free Baseball eBook is live! Check out the details, and get your copy now! Don't make another lineup before reading this book! It contains one mistake that basically everyone in the daily fantasy baseball industry is making! Ready to make the leap and get access to the exclusive projection system that produces these picks? Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel and DraftKings. And try out our partner ScoreStreak and our exclusive exclusive ScoreStreak picks.   Pitchers Chris Sale - FD 10600 DK 12500 DD 20800 SS 32000 What's not to love today? He's a favorite against Ryan Vogelsong and the Giants who rank in the bottom third of the league against lefty pitching. They strike out a fair amount in that split and don't offer a ton in the way of power. Sale's been magnificent this season striking out more than ten batters per nine, walking less than two and carrying an xFIP well under three into this one. Even for the money I'm willing to roll him into cash games for the expected safety. Adam Wainwright - FD 9900 DK 9500 DD 20550 SS 29100 This is more a DraftKings pick. I wouldn't do him on FanDuel as he's so close in salary to Sale and the latter is a much better play. But where he's priced significantly lower than Sale I think you can consider him against the Marlins. His ERA is well outpacing his xFIP but the Marlins strike out a ton against righty pitching and Marlins Park keeps down power. Wainwright has been lucky this season for sure, but where the price is right you can roll him out there. The waters get pretty murky after these two dudes. Collin McHugh - FD 7400 DK 8700 DD 16800 SS 24100 He offers some upside, especially in the strikeout department against the Twins who K more than 21% of the time against righties. Minnesota can hit a little, so it isn't a dream matchup, but McHugh's racked up the K numbers this season putting down more than ten batters per nine and keeping his xFIP in the low threes. Makes a nice GPP play or a second starter on 2 SP sites. Your Hail Mary types: C.J. Wilson - FD 6800 DK 6300 DD 12600 SS 18200 Mike Minor - FD 6400 DK 6700 DD 11950 SS 17600 Both of these guys face teams near the bottom of the league against lefties in the Phillies and Dodgers. Both of these dudes can walk the ballpark and get bombed on the regular. But they...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 8/12/14 DFSR has partnered with ScoreStreak: a new, innovative style of DFS play. Gone is the salary finagling, mixing and matching, and hair-pulling that goes into setting lineups. ScoreStreak simplifies the process in an easy-to-use interface. Employing a prop-pick style, ScoresStreak leagues are specific outcome dependent with three categories: Total Bases, Hits, and for pitchers, Strikeouts. New users who deposit through DFSR will get an extra $10 to play with. We are putting in picks every night and giving you some of our top plays each day. Two are on us, the third is all you. Or go your own way. As always, if you are new to daily fantasy baseball, make sure read our Free Baseball e-book. It contains one mistake that basically everyone in the daily fantasy baseball industry is making! Also be sure to sign up for a free 3-day trial to access the MLB system and spreadsheets that help produce our picks. And give ScoreStreak a try. You'll like it as much as we do.   Total Bases Mike Trout With so many good arms on the mound today we want to make sure we avoid “real” starters whenever possible. Thankfully Jerome Williams isn’t one of those guys. Though not as bad as his 6.07 ERA would suggest, dude still doesn’t strike many batters out and is a bit prone to the long ball. Mike Trout doesn’t need to worry about platoon splits. He chooses to destroy both hands with the same reckless abandon. Will be in one of my top two slots for sure. Mark Trumbo Probably a little off board here, but if you read these posts you know our system loves the guy against lefties. He has a career mid .800’s OPS against lefties and I like slotting guys like him in the bigger ScoreStreak six-man competitions when possible because I think it allows for a little separation. T.J. House is decidedly average and though the ballpark is completely ideal, I’ll still take Trumbo here.   Hits Victor Martinez When I’m sniffing out hits on a daily basis one of the main things I’m looking at are contact rates. I want to know a batter has a solid chance of getting the ball in play. Babip lets us know that they won’t always turn into hits, but increasing the expectation is the first place to start. V-Mart is one of those guys. He’s nearly impossible to strike out (less than 8% of the time against righties) and Edinson Volquez isn’t an overpowering pitcher. This is a nice matchup for Martinez. Martin Prado Weren’t expecting this name were you? This is why you come here though. To...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings, DraftDay and StarStreet 8/11/14 Our Free Baseball eBook is live! Check out the details, and get your copy now! Don't make another lineup before reading this book! It contains one mistake that basically everyone in the daily fantasy baseball industry is making! Ready to make the leap and get access to the exclusive projection system that produces these picks? Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel and DraftKings. And try out our partner ScoreStreak and our exclusive exclusive ScoreStreak picks.   Pitchers Oh my goodness is this position a disaster today. As difficult a decision as I can remember. In some ways that makes me want to just chuck Felix out there and hope. But he’s also facing the top righty hitting team in baseball. And you’d be paying so much for very little upside considering the matchup. But honestly the guys below him are all in tough matchups as well or just aren’t that good to begin with (or both). I think I’m of the mind to just populate lineups with the top end hitters on the day, spending as much as possible on value bats and then rotate a cast of losers through the pitching slots on the hopes one will come through with a Hail Mary. So long story short, let it be known that I don’t feel super about any of these guys. Yovani Gallardo - FD 6900 DK 7300 DD 14600 SS 21600 Makes the most interesting mid-tier guy on the day mostly considering the matchup. The Cubbies rank near the very bottom of the league in team wOBA against righties and just generally stink in that platoon. They strike out a lot throughout the lineup (outside of Rizzo) and the bottom of the order becomes a black hole real quick. Gallardo’s peripherals aren’t solid with only about seven K’s per nine a walk rate that doesn’t allow him a lot of room for error. It’s dicey, but his salary gets some heavy hitters in your lineup, and there is a chance he goes seven innings with some strikeouts and the win. Drew Hutchison - FD 6300 DK 6000 DD 12350 SS 18900 The Mariners are a middle of the road team against righties and don’t possess a whole lot of power that allows a game to get out of hand quickly. Safeco keeps down power and Hutchison’s strikeout rate is fine enough. The big problem here is that the win expectation is so low facing King Felix. Dan Haren - FD 6800 DK 5700 DD 12850 SS 16000 This is a real roll of the dice....