Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings, DraftDay and StarStreet 8/6/14 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 mistak e that basically everyone in the daily fantasy baseball industry is making! Try a free 3-day trial to our Lineup Construction Tools for FanDuel and DraftKings. And try out our partner ScoreStreak and our exclusive exclusive ScoreStreak picks. Fair warning! You aren’t going to see too many early slate plays on here today. That group of games is real rough. Not to say there isn’t value in there, but it was hard to justify a full separate write-up with that group. You’ll see some names sprinkled in, but for the most part the later slate seems like where it’s at.   Pitchers Danny Salazar - FD 7500 DK 7100 DD 13950 SS 21200 I simply cannot, nor do I want to, quit this guy. I’m just too intrigued by the upside. His K rate is close to ten per nine innings and today he’s facing a Red’ squad that ranks near the bottom of the league against righty pitching. They are a very weak, somewhat top-heavy lineup that gets real bad, real quick. Salazar is a siren song, has been unlucky a bit this year and his xFIP is in the high 3’s, about a half run lower than his ERA. Pitching is a bit dicey today. But I’m willing to take a chance on the guy. Yordano Ventura - FD 7000 DK 6700 DD 14050 SS 19400 He’s not going to go nuts with the K’s. And ballpark doesn’t play great for pitchers. But the Diamondbacks were a middle of the road team against righties even with Goldschmidt. Without him they are significantly weaker. Ventura needs to keep his control to be truly effective and I think he has a chance today against a below-average team. Chris Sale - FD 10700 DK 12200 DD 21000 SS 32200 Putting him on here more out of a sense of duty than what I actually think he represents as value. He is expensive today, but is by far the best pitcher going. That alone makes him worth the slight overpay. His matchup against the Rangers in U.S. Cellular isn’t exactly ideal, but Sale’s been (outside of a misstep last game) excellent this season. Again, this is more on name than it is points per dollar value, but how can I not mention the guy? Yovani Gallardo - FD 7100 DK 7500 DD 15250 SS 22000 The Giants have been below average this season against righty pitching and Gallardo’s a mid 3’s xFIP guy....

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 8/6/14 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 There is a tight grouping of guys in our system today. Hard to pick the top two. Miguel Cabrera I don’t want to seem like a chalk-line frontrunner when I’m continually putting him in as a top total bases play. We have a system for producing the ScoreStreak picks on a daily basis and it’s liked Miggy a lot in recent days. That’s what happens with a string of lefties facing Detroit will do. Today’s another one to add to the list with Chris Capuano hurling in Yankee Stadium. Miggy’s having a down year for him on the lefty side of the split thanks in part to a reduced Babip and slightly lower Hr/FB%. That’s all to say, he’s still awesome (though maybe in a decline) and is in a solid spot today for sure. Jose Bautista Caught a whiff of what he’s doing against lefties this season? Let me lay it on you. 1.139 OPS and a 211 wRC+ for starters. Toss in a .483 wOBA and you’ve got a dude just crushing the hopes and dreams of lefty pitching throughout the majors. Wei-Yin Chen is no pushover, but Bautista’s profile and career numbers, along with projected out stats make him a top play in our system.   Hits Ian Kinsler Mentioned Capuano just two paragraphs before if you are the kind of guy/girl who likes to skip around. The Tigers, in general, are a great squad to target today in the hitter's park in the Bronx. What I like about Kinsler in this format is that in addition to being a better hitter over his career against righties (not as good this season) he's nearly impossible to walk. His 2%...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 8/4/14 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 Jose Abreu Our system hates Colby Lewis. That’s great news for those wanting to play the Pale-hose today. (Is that how you spell Pale-hose? It looks weird to me.) Lewis’s tendencies toward allowing monster, moonshot homeruns is part of the reason for this pick today. The other is that our system loves Abreu today without even knowing about his success against righty pitching this season. He’s crushed it in his first look at major league pitching. And even with the unsustainable Hr/FB% he’s still a solid play today when you factor for Lewis and U.S. Cellular. Nelson Cruz Oh does he ever pound lefties. Oh does he ever. Cruz is rocking very close to a 1.000 OPS on that side of the split this season and his 172 wRC+ only backs up his career averages. Mark Buehrle pitches to enough contact that in the Rogers Centre he’s could be in real trouble from the likes of Cruz. Toronto plays well to power and Cruz is sitting on the great side of his platoon split.   Hits Starlin Castro Need to have a little Coors exposure today at least. Or a lot of it? I want to spread the wealth a little in ScoreStreak today simply because there are so many great matchups that it’s hard to hone in on just one juicy winner. They all seem like winners. Castro is one of those guys and he’s facing Brett Anderson who strikes out only six batters per nine this season. We’ll take that in this ballpark with Castro’s batted ball profile. Alex Rios Want to pick on John Danks today and this is a place to do it. Honestly, could have thrown out...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings, DraftDay and StarStreet 8/4/14 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 mistak e that basically everyone in the daily fantasy baseball industry is making! Try a free 3-day trial to our Lineup Construction Tools for FanDuel and DraftKings. And try out our partner ScoreStreak and our exclusive exclusive ScoreStreak picks.   Pitchers Corey Kluber - FD 10200 DK 9800 DD 20250 SS 33000 Tough pitching choices today on such a short slate. You'll have to scrape out the value where you can. I think Kluber gives you the best chances considering the opponent and price among the top tier of arms. Kluber has (somewhat quietly) had a phenomenal season. 2.70 xFIP ranks among the best in the league and his peripherals are off the charts good, striking out almost ten batters per nine while walking less than two batters in the same stretch. He faces the Reds, a team that ranks 25th in team wOBA against righties. They strike out around 20% of the time and considering all options, I think Kluber makes the safest bet. Jeff Samardzija - FD 8100 DK 8500 DD 18050 SS 25500 Not the greatest matchup in the whole world, but considering the limited options and the price, he makes for a solid (if unspectacular) start against the Rays. Tampa Bay is fine enough against righties and don't strike out a ton. But Samardzija is a live arm with an xFIP in the low threes (his ERA is a bit lower) and strikes out about eight per nine. That's good enough I think considering he's in the mid tier of pitchers. His K upside probably isn't there, but I also don't imagine he gets shelled in this one.   Catchers Alex Avila - FD 2500 DK 3400 DD 6450 SS 4900 The strikeout rate is completely out of hand against righties, but considering that's his biggest issue we can reduce the expectation just a tad against Brandon McCarthy who only K's about 7.5 per nine (decent, not great). The ballpark also gives Avila a boost as the short porch in right could help him sneak one over. Consider Victor Martinez for many of the same reasons as Avila but the price is a little tougher to handle.   First Basemen Adam Dunn - FD 3100 DK 4200 DD 9050 SS 6100 Sat yesterday though that seems like just a rest day. Nick Martinez is a dude you want to target and for good reason. He blows. Dunn makes an especially interesting play against him because the country boy's...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 8/4/14 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 Miguel Cabrera Feels like I’ve been putting here everyday, but that’s what happens when one of the best hitters in the league heads to one of the best hitter’s parks in all of baseball. Yankee Stadium boosts power to righty bats. And though Brandon McCarthy’s been no slouch this season, Miggy’s platoon splits don’t give him a downgrade against the righty arm. This short slate is a dicey one. Best to default to the best bats and move on. Jose Abreu Speaking of defaulting to the best bats, Abreu is a monster. And that monster faces Nick Martinez, an arm so bad he’d be in the minors on almost any other team. Martinez strikes out less than four batters per nine and walks more. He’s garbage. Abreu meanwhile has been one of the best hitters in baseball in that platoon split. Even accounting for the unsustainable 30% Hr/FB ratio, he’s still a rockstar. His power will regress a bit as some of those flyballs turn into outs. But even with that in mind I’d target him against Martinez.   Hits Adam Eaton Connor Gillaspie Speaking of how bad Nick Martinez is, these two dudes will be at the top of my hits category today. Neither walks too much and their strikeout rates, while in the mid teens, shouldn’t factor in at all today against Martinez who couldn’t strike out my daughter. (She’s so short the strike zone would be nearly impossible to hit, not because she’s any good). If you are looking for players with high contact expectations these are two places to start. Both hit righties well (Gillaspie especially this season) and operate near the top of the lineup. Lots of...