DraftKings and FanDuel MLB Picks for Saturday 8/7/21 - Main slate Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB, NBA, PGA, NHL, and NFL optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clickiang the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Pitchers Yu Darvish FD - P 9000 DK - SP 10100 Opponent - ARI (Taylor Widener) Park - SDFD - 42.9 DK - 24.32 His last three outings or so have been a bit rough, but Darvish is still one of the better pitchers in the game and has had a strong season overall. He is still striking out batters at a closet 30% rate and has mostly been able to limit the walks. He is a massive -260 opening favorite against the Diamondbacks who lack much punch in the lineup. And he’s pitching at home in one of the better pitchers parks in baseball. Everything is lining up for Darvish to be the cash game play on Saturday evening. Charlie Morton FD - P 8700 DK - SP 9400 Opponent - WSH (Josiah Gray) Park - ATLFD - 38.65 DK - 21.39 Morton has quietly been one of the stronger and consistent pitchers over the last few seasons. Though he has made a few different stops along the way, the results have been mostly the same, which is to say, good. This season he is striking out more than 10 batters per nine and still induces groundballs at a 47% which is close to elite. He is a -214 home favorite in this one and way too cheap on FanDuel. Catcher/First Base Ji-Man Choi FD - 1B 3000 DK - 1B 4700 Opponent - BAL (Spenser Watkins) Park - BALFD - 13.12 DK - 9.82 The Rays are in one of the best spots on the slate against Spenser Watkins and the Orioles. Choi is projected to hit second in the lineup for a team coming in over six implied runs. You love to see it. Choi strikes out almost 30% of the time, but he also walks at a 15% rate and gets on base about 36% of the time. Watkins has really struggled in the majors and the swing and miss stuff isn’t a problem for Choi here. Joey Votto FD 4100 DK 6100 Opponent - PIT (Mitch Keller) Park - PITFD - 13.71 DK - 10.29 Votto is very expensive so this is a tougher sell, but it is hard to argue with what the guy is doing this season. He is having an amazing bounce-back season with 22 home runs and an OPS well over .900 at this point. It is his best...

DraftKings and FanDuel MLB Picks for Wednesday 8/4/21 - Main slate Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB, NBA, PGA, NHL, and NFL optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clickiang the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Pitchers Lucas Giolito FD 9200 DK 10600 Opponent - KC (Carlos Hernández) Park - KCFD - 40.6 DK - 22.02 There are a couple of ace-level pitchers going on this slate making for some interesting decisions about where to spend on arms. Giolito is a -245 home favorite against the Royals who rank 26th in team wOBA this season. They don’t strike out a ton, but they are a weak-hitting bunch. Meanwhile, while the K stuff is down a little bit this season he is still one of the better arms in the game, striking out about 10.5 batters per nine and walking fewer than three. I like the FanDuel price point especially and he has some of the best win odds on the slate. Shohei Ohtani FD - P 10700 DK - SP 9500 Opponent - TEX (Kolby Allard) Park - TEXFD - 40.03 DK - 21.39 What can you say about the season Ohtani has had? It has simply been amazing with the only real negative being that the Angels have struggled and Mike Trout hasn’t been around all that much to see if because of injury. While the 3.05 is running better than his 3.65 xFIP, this is still a guy striking out close to 12 batters per nine on the year. He faces the Rangers on the road as a -155 favorite with a 8 o/u. Texas sold off its biggest bat at the deadline and this is a compromised lineup, to say the least. Have to love Ohtani on this main slate. Jameson Taillon FD - P 8000 DK - SP 10200 Opponent - BAL (Matt Harvey) Park - NYYFD - 35.42 DK - 18.72 He is pitching in Yankee Stadium which isn’t all that great considering the short porch in right field, but he comes in as a great, -205 money line favorite against the Orioles in this one. Taillon has put down almost a batter an inning on strikes and kept the walks mostly under control. Baltimore is a bottom-third offense on the season while striking out 24% of the time as a team. I like Taillon as a DraftKings SP2 here. Lucas Giolito (FD $9200 DK $10600) Catcher/First Base Gary Sánchez FD 2800 DK 4400 Opponent - BAL (Matt Harvey) Park - BALFD - 13.64 DK - 10.07 Sanchez has a FanDuel price that just remains too cheap for his...

DraftKings and FanDuel MLB Picks for Tuesday 8/3/21 - Main slate Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB, NBA, PGA, NHL, and NFL optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clickiang the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Pitchers Zack Wheeler FD 10700 DK 9700 Opponent - WSH (Patrick Corbin) Park - WSHFD - 44.01 DK - 24.29 Today is an interesting day for cash games because there is one ace-level arm but then also a ton of big money bats were are going to want to have in cash. It could make for som salary squeezing. But it is tough to fade Wheeler here who is a -169 road favorite against the Nationals who shipped off some key bats at the trade deadline. Wheeler has been excellent this season, dialing up the strikeouts to a career-best 10.6 K/9 rate, easily the highest of his career and it hasn’t come at the cost of control. He is the best pitcher on the slate. Adrian Houser FD 6800 DK 7600 Opponent - PIT (Max Kranick) Park - PITFD - 29.21 DK - 14.66 Houser isn’t anywhere close to the strikeout pitcher that Wheeler is, not by a longshot. But he does something else on an elite level and that is generate groundballs. Opponents are putting the ball on the ground 60% of the time against the righty which is helping him keep the ERA low despite the lack of high-end K upside. He is a -204 favorite against the lowly Pirates on this slate with the latter one of the worst offenses in the league this season. Dylan Cease (FD $8300 DK $8400) Catcher/First Base Gary Sánchez FD 2800 DK 4600 Opponent - BAL (Alexander Wells) Park - BALFD - 13.42 DK - 9.91 Sanchez has never been able to fully recreate his unreal rookie season, but he still remains a dangerous bat in the Yankees lineup. He has 17 home runs on the season and for his career has been batter against lefties with a 118 wRC+ and .347 wOBA in that split. He takes more walks against southpaws, though does strike out more in that platoon as well. No matter against Wells who doesn’t have swing and miss stuff in his repertoire. C.J. Cron FD 3800 DK 4000 Opponent - CHC (Zach Davies) Park - CHCFD - 14.43 DK - 10.87 You are going to see a lot of the same teams for these cash plays because two squads are just in much better shape than anyone else. Cron has been decent this season with an OPS up and around .800, striking out just 22%...

DraftKings and FanDuel MLB Picks for Sunday 8/1/21 - Main slate Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB, NBA, PGA, NHL, and NFL optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clickiang the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Pitchers Adam Wainwright FD - P 9700 DK - SP 9600 Opponent - MIN (Michael Pineda) Park - STLFD - 35.4 DK - 18.54 AdamWainwright is having a little bit of a turn back the clock season this time around, striking out more batters than he ever has in his career, sporting the best xFIP (3.79) he’s seen in the last seven seasons. It is a nice story for the 39-year-old who was starting to look a bit cooked. Now he’s facing the Twins who sold some pieces off and are in rebuild mode off a younger lineup. I think he’s a solid play at these prices and the matchup is a good one. This is a rough day for pitching and we are going to have to take what we can get. Jordan Montgomery FD - P 8000 DK - SP 7400 Opponent - MIA (Undecided) Park - MIAFD - 29.73 DK - 15.51 Speaking of taking what we can get, Montgomery is a good, not great option here, but that is kind of the story with everyone on the slate. The good news is he gets a choice matchup against the lowly Marlins who rank second-to-last in the league in team wOBA and don’t have much in the way of getting better for the rest of the season. They strike out 26% of the time as a team and Montgomery is putting down about a batter an inning. When lines release for this game (they haven’t yet) he should be a big favorite. José Berríos (FD $9000 DK $8600) could end up being a big money line favorite in his first start with the Blue Jays. Kyle Gibson (FD $9000 DK $6900) is in a great spot against the lowly Pirates. Catcher/First Base Pete Alonso FD - 1B 3800 DK - 1B 5600 Opponent - CIN (Vladimir Gutierrez) Park - NYMFD - 13.68 DK - 10.16 The Mets have made some improvements to their lineup and could start causing some real damage going forward. On Sunday they get Vladimir Gutierrez who is among the worst regular starters in the game, sporting a 5.75 xFIP through 60+ innings this season with a putrid 1.5:1 K:BB ratio. Alonso hasn’t been able to recreate his rookie season numbers, but he is still a deadly hitter with a mid-800s OPS and 23 home runs in 374 plate appearances. We aren’t...

DraftKings and FanDuel MLB Picks for Saturday 7/31/21 - Main slate Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB, NBA, PGA, NHL, and NFL optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clickiang the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Pitchers Yu Darvish FD 9600 DK 10500 Opponent - COL (German Márquez) Park - COLFD - 41.89 DK - 23.66 Darvish has the best money line odds of the main slate, facing off a against a very weak Colorado Rockies lineups outside of Coors. He is -188 at home with the lowest implied run line of the slate. Darvish has a 3.27 RA on the season, though the xFIP is about a half a run worse. Still, he’s striking out close to 10.5 batters per nine and has mostly been able to keep the walks in check. This is too good a spot to pass up o him, especially for the sub$10K price on FanDuel. Aaron Nola FD 11000 DK 9700 Opponent - PIT (JT Brubaker) Park - PITFD - 41.05 DK - 22.23 Nola is also in a great spot against the Pirates on Saturday evening with the latter bringing in the third-worst team wOBA in the majors this season. The Pirates are just a bad team all-around and Nola is a -168 road favorite in this one. Nola has an xFIP that is about a run better than his ERA and brings in great peripherals to the matchup. He is striking out close to 11 batters per nine and has a nearly 7:1 K:BB ratio. That is among the best in the majors this season. I think you can easily roll both of these arms on DraftKings too. Catcher/First Base José Abreu FD 3400 DK 5000 Opponent - CLE (Triston McKenzie) Park - CLEFD - 12.48 DK - 9.44 The White Sox are in one of the best spots on the slate facing off against Triston McKenzie on Saturday afternoon. They have the highest implied run line going here and Abreu, in the middle of the order is in a good spot against a very wild McKenzie. The former hasn’t put up quite the same power numbers this time around, but there is still some pop in the bat and he doesn’t strike out a ton. With a little patience, the White Sox should be able to get to the righty in this matchup. Max Muncy FD 3900 DK 5600 Opponent - ARI (Merrill Kelly) Park - ARIFD - 14.28 DK - 10.52 The Dodgers are another team with a higher implied run line on the day and will be without both Mookie Betts and newly...