Daily Fantasy MLB Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft - The Wild Card Round The shortest of short slates, and all great pitchers. Gulp. Here's the thing - on a slate this short, writing any picks at all is basically giving you access to our projection system. That won't be the case for all of the nights of the playoffs, but it's true tonight. We do offer access to our NFL and NBA projection systems as well, though, so you should go get a trial for those as well! Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft. Click here for a free 3 Day Free Trial Note: You're going to see a lot of hitters who we are recommending against the same pitchers. Obviously, if you're trying to win a big tournament, you probably shouldn't play hitters against the same pitchers. You might need to take less orthodox guys in those cases. Still, though, these are the best value plays that we can come up with for tonight. Pitchers FanDuel Gerrit Cole - FD 10000 DK 10600 StarsDraft Opponent- CHC (Arrieta) R Park- @Pit He's projected for the highest raw total in our system today, and he's the second cheapest guy. Cole struck out 17 batters in 13 innings in his last two starts against the Cubs, and it was no accident - the Cubs struck out at the highest rate in the majors against right handed pitching this season. Their 24% rate is historically bad, and this is a match-up you won't often get come playoff time. The Cubs obviously hvae a ton of upside here as well, but every team has offensive upside in the playoffs. Arrieta is obviously a beast on the mound for the Cubs, but these teams are equal enough that I don't think you can weigh Arrieta against Cole's chances any more than you can any other pitcher going tonight. On a night where financial flexibility will make a huge difference, I love Cole in any format on FanDuel. DraftKings Masahiro Tanaka - FD 9600 DK 9000 StarsDraft Opponent- Hou (Keuchel) L Park- @Hou You could make an argument for Tanaka on FanDuel as well, but I love just hedging him across the two sites. Cole on FD, Tanaka on DK. He hasn't been fantastic in the immediate past, but the guy has a 2.96 xFIP and nearly a 5:1 K:BB in his 290 major league innings. He's a monster. The Astros, for their part, are just behind the Cubs in terms of strike-out percentage against righties. They've whiffed at a 23.6% clip, making Tanaka a play with plenty of...

Daily Fantasy MLB Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft 10/4/15 Well, it's finally here. The last day of the regular season. The last time you'll get to pick hitters playing against pitchers this bad. The last time you'll see David Buchanan in a box score, or Tommy Milone, or Christian Bergman. Excuse me - I'm tearing up a little bit. Let's just get into it. Go ahead 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, DraftKings and Starsdraft. Click here for a free 3 Day Free Trial A quick note: Listen - managers are doing all sorts of bizarre stuff on the final day of the season. The Padres are starting someone from their bullpen, for instance, and we don't know who yet. Our projection system isn't going to be able to account for this. But, you can probably just start every single Dodger against all the bums they are going to throw out there. I'll do my best to parse all of this, but let's start with the understanding that this day is going to be an absolute mess, and if you're playing today, you're probably doing so for fun as much as profit. Actually, screw it. This article is just going to have a different format than usual. It almost has to - there's no sense in me writing up a bunch of guys that may or may not play. Instead, I'll break down the best match-ups that you can get by who I think will pitch in tomorrow night's games. The Teams With Something to Play For Far and away, this is the day to take good players from the very few teams with something remaining to play for. At least in your double-ups and 50/50s. The Houston Astros My favorite "team with something to play for" stack, and I don't think it's very close. The Astros will be up against by far the worst pitcher that a team with something to play for will be facing - Robbie Ray. Ray actually has a lot to be proud of this season. He went from being generally terrible in 2014 to simply below average in 2015. His 4.13 xFIP is largely a result of his total lack of command (as evidenced by his 3.50 BB/9), and he's some good HR/FB luck away from having an ERA to match his general lack of skills. Here are the prime guys to target: Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, George Springer, Evan Gattis, and Chris Carter (as an upside only play) are all fantastic plays today. The Texas Rangers In...

Daily Fantasy MLB Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft 10/3/15 In case you didn't know this by now, it's basically impossible to know who will play, and for how much at this time during the season. But if you're crazy (or addicted) enough to keep playing - read on. You're among family, here. And while you're here, go ahead and get a free trial of access to the exclusive projection system that produces these picks for the NFL, MLB, and NBA! Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft. Click here for a free 3 Day Free Trial Pitchers Early Slate Rainout fun! I recommended Gio before last night's rain out, and he makes a good play in the first half of this double-header as well. Here you go! Gio Gonzalez - FD 9300 DK 8200 StarsDraft Opponent- NYM (Syndergaard) r Park- @NYM If the Mets are going to continue to trot out the B team, Gio makes for a pretty interesting play here. With 20+ FanDuel fantasy points in his last 5 starts, and you're not going to find a lot of upside like this on these relatively low prices this late in the season for a couple of reasons. First of all, a lot of the best pitchers are on good teams, and they aren't going to pitch deep into games right now unless they are still fighting for a playoff spot. Gio's still nearly a strikeout per inning guy with a better than league average xFIP, and that should be enough to get it done against the Mets' back-ups. If they start the actual good hitters maybe I'll reconsider, but this is a good tournament play from where I'm sitting. Late Slate Max Scherzer One never knows how many innings one is going to get out of a big name starter with nothing to play for at the end of the year, but that was true in Scherzer's last start as well, and he pitched 8 nearly no-hit, 10 strike-out innings against a good-hitting Red Sox team. Today he'll get the Mets, who have literally nothing to play for, and with Scherzer making a fringe Cy-Young case, he may very well get left out there for a decent amount of time. If you think the Mets are going to play their starters in the 2nd half of a double-header with the play-offs around the corner, I got a bridge to sell you. Scherz should be shooting fish in a barrel. Shelby Miller - FD 6800 DK 7700 StarsDraft Opponent- STL (Lackey) R Park- @Atl Shelby Miller has 17 losses this year, leading the...

Daily Fantasy MLB Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft 10/2/15 This time of year, it's anybody's guess who's going to play until the lineups are live. To that end, I'll do my best to put out some guys who will be good plays (if they play), but I'll never be able to account for the potential last minute lineup changes that will come across. If you want the rest? Go ahead and get access to the exclusive projection system that produces these picks. We'll have a projection in there for any guy you might want to play, and you can make adjustments up to the last minute. Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft, and feel free to use it for NFL and NBA season as well! Click here for a free 3 Day Free Trial Note: Just pretend that every player has a "if he plays" tag after his name for this article. It's just impossible to know who will rest, and why. Good luck! Pitchers Chris Sale - FD 12000 DK 11700 StarsDraft Opponent- Det (Simon) R Park- @Cws Dallas Keuchel - FD 11200 DK 11300 StarsDraft Opponent- Ari (de la Rosa) R Park- @Ari With a fair amount of big names going on Friday, there are a lot of potential directions to go. Jake Arrieta has been amazing, but he's freaking expensive right now, and it's unlikely the Cubs will let him go deep given their locking in the playoffs. And really, when you zoom out on the season, Sale has been the better fantasy pitcher when it comes to things actually in his control. He's got the league's best K/9, the 2nd best xFIP (behind Kershaw), and is generally just insanely good by any metric. While Detroit has crushed lefties this season, there's talk that Cabrera might be shut down - which will change a lot of that. As for Keuchel, our system actually isn't a huge fan, but he's arguably the safer play here considering the fact that Houston's season on the line, and he's been pretty fantastic. Arizona has been pretty decent against left handed pitching in their own right, so it's far from a sure thing - but as far as top dollar cash game plays today, these are the guys I'm looking at. Gio Gonzalez - FD 9300 DK 8200 StarsDraft Opponent- NYM (Syndergaard) r Park- @NYM If the Mets are going to continue to trot out the B team, Gio makes for a pretty interesting play here. With 20+ FanDuel fantasy points in his last 5 starts, and you're not going to find a lot of...

Daily Fantasy MLB Baseball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings and Starsdraft 10/1/15 Well - things are winding down for this regular season. A lot of playoff spots are secure, a lot of awful players have been called up for September, and here we are - just trying to figure out what the heck is going to happen on a day to day basis. Thursday happens to be quite a large daily fantasy baseball slate, so I'll go ahead and give you a play for the early slate, and then a couple of plays in the late slate for each position. If you want the rest? Go ahead 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, DraftKings and Starsdraft - it works for NFL as well, so don't be shy! Click here for a free 3 Day Free Trial A quick note: It's the end of the year, which means that you really have no idea who is going to play, and who isn't. This is based on a best guess, but inevitably some or all of these picks will be sitting for reasons known or unknown. Make sure to check probable starting lineups before you actually lock yours in, and for the love of God, don't play full-day slates. Pitchers Early Slate Jerad Eickhoff - FD 6100 DK 8800 StarsDraft Opponent- Nym (Stauffer) R Park- @Phi Lord knows I spend enough time bragging about my awesome picks, so let me take a refreshing break for you: I couldn't have been more wrong about Jerad Eickhoff. While he's still out-performing his peripherals, it seems like the gains he's made in the last couple of seasons have been legit. He's an excellent control guy, and he has enough stuff to put up a decent strike-out game as well. Today he'll face the Mets, who have nothing to play for - as evidenced by the fact that Tim Stauffer will be taking the mound. Given the other options early (and the likelihood of Price getting pulled early), I think Eickhoff actually makes a fine play in any format. Late Slate Jose Fernandez - FD 10900 DK 11200 StarsDraft Opponent- TB (Odorizzi) R Park- @TB The runaway favorite for our projection system for late slate cash games. Fernandez has been an improved version of his old dominant self through 10 starts this season - posting a 10.71 K/9 against just 2.15 BB/9. In spite of the innings being very limited, he's still averaged 13.4 FanDuel fantasy points per game, and his 2.71 xFIP would be a top 5 figure if he had enough...