Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 9/16/14 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. Also, new users who deposit through DFSR will get an extra $10 to play with.  And if you are new to daily fantasy football, make sure read our Free Football e-book. Also be sure to sign up for a free 3-day trial to access the MLB and NFL system and spreadsheets that help produce our picks. And give ScoreStreak a try. You'll like it as much as we do. Now go win that Tesla!   Total Bases Hanley Ramirez While it's true that Hanley's lost a step or two, you can't complain about his performance against left handed pitching this year. He's got a .402 wOBA against lefties this year, and that includes actual major league quality pitchers. On this night he faces Tyler Matzek in Coors Field. Oh, baby. Michael Cuddyer Cuddyer is simply a dynamic power hitter, and he particularly thrives at Coors. Haren's pitch to contact approach might work in the spacious Dodgers' home park, but it ain't gonna fly in the mile high air. I think Haren gets run from this game, and that Cuddyer is right in the center of it.   Hits Robinson Cano Cano has torn the cover off the ball this season, and while Cory Rasmus has some nice peripherals this year, it remains to be seen how those will translate away from the long relief role. Cano happens to hit righties better as well, but the main thrust of this ranking comes from the opposing pitcher. Denard Span With a 17.1% K + BB rate, Span tends to put balls in play. And when he does, he gets a hit about 32.1% of the time. That's mathspeak for "good at getting hits." And he's even better against righties than lefties. While Harang has been a little better than league average this year, it should stop Span from putting some hard hit balls in play. Strikeouts Corey Kluber What's there to say about Kluber? 230 Ks against 46 BBs in 212.2 IP this year are purely ace numbers, and he's facing down a team that has struck out with the 3rd highest frequency of anyone in the majors. Kluber should go deep in this one, and if he does, a high K total feels like a lock. Johnny Cueto Speaking of ace, Cueto has really come into his own as a strike out pitcher this year. And he actually...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 9/15/14 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. Also, new users who deposit through DFSR will get an extra $10 to play with.  And if you are new to daily fantasy football, make sure read our Free Football e-book. Also be sure to sign up for a free 3-day trial to access the MLB and NFL system and spreadsheets that help produce our picks. And give ScoreStreak a try. You'll like it as much as we do. Now go win that Tesla!   Total Bases Justin Morneau Chris Dickerson For the total bases category I think these two guys are the top picks by a mile. They've both raked righty pitching in Coors this season and have just crushed this platoon split over the course of the season. Today they face Roberto Hernandez who doesn't strike anyone out and gets lit up by lefty bats. The Rockies could put up some significant runs in this affair and I like both Morneau and Dickerson's chances at hitting multiple bases either through one swing of the bat, or just by higher than average opportunity. Either way, I don't think it pays to fade Coors today.   Hits Robinson Cano I'm mostly buying him here based on his successes against righties this season and his contact rates in that split. Matt Shoemaker has been a good arm for sure, but Cano's contact-fueled .900 OPS against righties just makes him so safe on a game-to-game basis. Again, the matchup isn't ideal, but I think the bat outweighs the arm in this one.   Strikeouts Stephen Strasburg The Braves are one of the worst teams in baseball hitting against righty pitching. And though they've had success against Strasburg this season, I think you should let your competitors let that fact talk them off the best pitching option today. Strasburg's peripherals have been awesome this year and his xFIP is running almost a whole run lower than his ERA. He strikes out a ton of batters and the Brave go down swinging more than 22% of the time against righties. Max Scherzer Considering his skill set I'm surprised how little our system like Scherzer today. Part of the reason my be the Twins' success against righties, though they do go down on strikes 21% of the time in the righty split. Scherzer can be hit or miss, but he still K's more than 10 batters per nine and should be able...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 9/14/14 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. Also, new users who deposit through DFSR will get an extra $10 to play with.  And if you are new to daily fantasy football, make sure read our Free Football e-book. Also be sure to sign up for a free 3-day trial to access the MLB and NFL system and spreadsheets that help produce our picks. And give ScoreStreak a try. You'll like it as much as we do. Now go win that Tesla!   Total Bases Freddie Freeman Colby Lewis has allowed a ridiculous .387 wOBA to opposing lefties this year, and Freddie Freeman is not your run of the mill opposing lefty. In the Texas heat, Freeman and the Braves are fixing to have a huge outing against him, and Freeman is as big a threat as anyone to put a huge night up. Miguel Cabrera With 5 homers and a .432 batting average in September, it's going to take a lot more than Trevor Bauer to get Miguel Cabrera to shake in his boots. Bauer has actually fared worse against opposing right handers this year, but the big thing driving this ranking is the whole world's inability to get Miggy out.   Hits Jose Altuve On any given night, you're quite likely to see the Astros 2nd baseman at the top of the hit parade, and tonight is one of those nights. You see, while Altuve is a line-drive machine against everyone, he really dominates left handed pitching. Hector Santiago is pretty much a league average pitcher, which won't spook Altuve a bit. Nolan Arenado It's been a fantastic year for Arenado no matter how you cut it, but he's really shined against left handed pitching. With a .321 batting average against southpaws this year, he's been an incredibly tough out, and Marco Gonzales with his 18 Ks against 15 BBs is essentially the ideal match up. Strikeouts Clayton Kershaw No sense in belaboring the point - the Giants are a league average team in terms of how frequently they strike out, and the world's best pitcher has struck out a staggering 210 batters in 177 innings pitched this year. Just take him. Jon Lester With a K an inning and a history of going deep into games, Lester makes an attractive Ks play on many nights. In this tilt, he'll also have a great park and a team stacked with lefties on his...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 9/12/14 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. Also, new users who deposit through DFSR will get an extra $10 to play with.  And if you are new to daily fantasy football, make sure read our Free Football e-book. Also be sure to sign up for a free 3-day trial to access the MLB and NFL system and spreadsheets that help produce our picks. And give ScoreStreak a try. You'll like it as much as we do. Now go win that Tesla!   Total Bases Edwin Encarnacion Welcome to the league, Nate Karns! You have the opportunity to face Edwin Encarnacion, who has turned right handed pitching into essentially pinata offerings all season long. With all due respect to Nate Karns, who I am sure is a nice guy, he had a 7.5 and 5.08 ERA in AAA this year. This won't be pleasant for him. Evan Gattis If you've followed us at DFSR for any period of time, you'll know that Evan Gattis has tortured left handed pitching like a super-duper-uber-star this season. With a 1.044 OPS, he should give Derek Holland everything he can handle. I know Holland has had a nice 2 starts this year, but in that Texas heat, I think Gattis could really get a hold of one.   Hits Jose Reyes Jose Altuve I'm going Joses in the hits category today. The case for Reyes is essentially the same as the case for Encarnacion - I'm just having trouble picturing Karns getting any outs today. The case for Altuve is similarly easy - the guy never walks, rarely strikes out, and has a sustainably high BABIP. Try as he might, Wilson hasn't totally gotten it together this year, and Altuve won't need much of a chance to put some hard hit balls in play.   Strikeouts Gio Gonzalez With a strikeout per inning this year, Gio is one of the top strikeout talents going today. The real charm of the selection, however, is in his opponent. With a sub .300 wOBA and the league's 11th worst strikeout rate, the Mets are generous with allowing pitchers to go deep and rack up nice K days. Cole Hamels Hamels is simply having a terrific year, and with a K rate similar to Gio's, he's an excellent bet on any given day to compile a nice strikeout total. On this fine day he draws the Miami Marlins, who own the league's 3rd...

Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 9/7/14 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. Check out their new promotion coming for NFL season where you can win a new Tesla! Also, new users who deposit through DFSR will get an extra $10 to play with.  And if you are new to daily fantasy football, make sure read our Free Football e-book. Also be sure to sign up for a free 3-day trial to access the MLB and NFL system and spreadsheets that help produce our picks. And give ScoreStreak a try. You'll like it as much as we do. Now go win that Tesla!   Total Bases Mike Trout It hasn't been the greatest start to this whole major league pitching thing for Logan Darnell, and it isn't about to get any better. He'll take on Trout and the Angels on Sunday, and when Trout marches to the plate, it might be the mismatch of the season. You can take Trout for hits or total bases, but just make sure he's topping one of your lists. Edwin Encarnacion The way E5 has been slamming the ball recently, he probably doesn't require a ton of explanation here. But I'll humor you. Not only does he have 3 homers in the last week, he's actually crushed right handed pitching this year more than he has left. He'll be squaring off against Rubby De La Rosa - the very definition of "generic bad pitcher" - and chicks who dig the long ball should tune in here and take in the magic. Hits Howie Kendrick Kendrick never turned into a super star, but one thing the man can do is get a hit or two. His high effort, high BABIP approach will be perfect to match up against the stuff-less Darnell. The only risk here is that Darnell gets chased before Kendrick can get his requisite plate appearances! Buster Posey Posey is one of the true lefty mashers in the game, and with 13 Ks and 8 BBs in 17 IP this year, this "Kyle Lobstein" fellow isn't doing anything to scare me off taking the Giants catcher anywhere and everywhere. Strikeouts Julio Teheran Teheran is an interesting guy for the top K slot, because chances are pretty slim that he'll actually drum up the 9 you need to win the day. My suggestion? Take a serious boom or bust guy in your top slot, and fit Teheran in that 2nd slot. The Marlins strike...