Daily Fantasy MLB Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 5/30/18 Wednesday baseball brings us a full day of MLB action with four afternoon/ early slate games and ten contests going off in the evening. We've got a little bit everything with some top tier arms on both slates, cheaper options taking the bump in good matchups, bad pitchers to target and a game in Coors. It's lining up to give us a lot of options on FanDuel and DraftKings. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Pitcher Early Corey Kluber FD 11200 DK 12200 Opponent - CHW (Reynaldo Lopez) Park - CLE FD - 44.79 DK - 24.93 He’s very expensive, but it’s probably worth it to pay all the way up for Kluber on the early slate of games. After striking out close to 12 batters per nine last season, Kluber has returned to right around a strikeout an inning, more in line with what he’d done in 2016 and 2015. What he’s given up in K’s he’s making up for in just raw innings. He’s averaging more than seven innings per start and has a 2.84 xFIP. He’s also rarely walking batters with a minuscule 3.3% BB rate on the season. The White Sox have actually been one of the better teams against righty pitching this season, but do strike out 24% of the time in this split. Kluber is a -288 favorite (by far the biggest on the early slate) and the win expectation puts him over the top in terms of cash game pitchers. Consider paying for Patrick Corbin as your SP2 on DK though that will mean allocating close to 50% of your cap on pitchers. The issue is the other options are real rough for the early afternoon games. Main James Paxton FD 9800 DK 11700 Opponent - TEX (Matt Moore) Park - SEA FD - 43.02 DK - 23.64 There are a few big-name pitchers going on Wednesday, separated a little by the early and late slates. For the main evening offering Paxton rates out as an almost clear cash game play. The FanDuel price is something of a joke considering he’s been one of the very best pitchers in the league this season. He’s sitting at a 3.15 xFIP with a career-best 11.63 K/9 rate and 4.5:1 K:BB ratio. The Rangers strike out the third-most in the league against southpaws...

DFSR's Daily Fantasy MLB Podcast for FanDuel & DraftKings Friday 5/25/18 DFSR’s Doug Norrie and James Davis take to the podcast discussing a full slate of evening baseball action for FanDuel and DraftKings. There’s a lot to discuss especially with the schedule (finally) heading back to a Coors Field game. The Rockies have spent so much time on the road that we haven’t been treated to some of the highest implied run lines you’ll see on a slate. It’s going to make sense to try to get at least a few Rockies’ bats into lineups against Sal Romano. They discuss some of the top pitching options like Max Scherzer, Noah Syndergaard, and James Paxton all coming with favorable matchups. They also look at Ross Stripling on the cheap as a big favorite against the Padres at home. All of this and more on full Friday podcast for FanDuel and DraftKings. Be sure to subscribe...

DFSR's Daily Fantasy MLB Podcast for FanDuel & DraftKings Wednesday 5/23/18 DFSR’s Doug Norrie and James Davis take to Wednesday podcast discussing a double slate of baseball action for FanDuel and DraftKings. We are able to split up the two aces going today with Justin Verlander taking the mound on the early set of games and Jacob deGrom starting against the Marlins in the evening. That makes the FanDuel cash game pitcher decisions pretty easy. It’s a different story on DraftKings where both guys are priced in the very upper salary tier. The guys also look at arms like Kyle Gibson, Michael Wacha, Kenta Maeda and even consider David Price and Chris Archer faced up against each other. Lots of offenses are in good spots with the Cardinals, Astros, Yankees, and Pirates coming in at big-time run lines. All of this and more on a full MLB podcast for FanDuel and DraftKings. Be sure to subscribe...

Daily Fantasy MLB Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 5/23/18 Tuesday baseball brings us a split slate of action with five early afternoon games and ten main slate contests. It's going to make for an interesting day and luckily some of the value plays are split up between the afternoon and evening. We especially see that with the pitching options. Let's take a look at what Tuesday has to offer on FanDuel and DraftKings. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Pitcher Early Justin Verlander FD 11200 DK 12800 Opponent - SF (Jeff Samardzija) Park - HOU FD - 46.4 DK - 25.32 Verlander comes into Wednesday as the clear cash game play on both sites. He’s a massive -260 favorite against the Giants who have just 2.85 runs entering the contest. Verlander hasn’t been nearly as good as his minuscule 1.05 ERA would suggest with the 3.48 xFIP nearly 2.5 runs behind. But he’s still mowing down batters at a 33% clip (the highest of his entire career). Even with the likely regression coming on the ERA, he’s still the frontrunner for cash game safety considering his body of work and the nature of the matchup. The Giants, at best, are a mediocre offense against righty pitching this season and are actually striking out the fifth-most in the league in that platoon at 25%. His price is easy to fit on FanDuel where he probably should be more around $12K. The DraftKings price will require some extra work at SP2 and with the bats, but the Astro workhorse is worth paying up for in this spot. On DraftKings, you'd be remiss not to consider Brent Suter at only $4000. That's as cheap as you'll ever get a SP2 who isn't a complete bum. Also, if you think Kyle Gibson's early season returns are sustainable, he's in a good spot against the Tigers. Main Jacob deGrom FD 10000 DK 13200 Opponent - MIA (Dan Straily) Park - NYM FD - 41.43 DK - 22.51 deGrom is mispriced on FanDuel, there’s no other way to put it. For the evening slate of games, he’s the (very) easy choice at only $10K there and I expect him to be the overwhelming chalk. It’s closer on DraftKings with the price cresting over $13K though I suspect we still find a way to fit those dollars into lineups. He’s putting up elite numbers...

Three Pitcher Prop Bets for Tuesday, May 22 It’s time to take a look at three possible pitcher strikeout props for the day and how to take advantage of some *early* season biases around pitcher performance. Here we get a chance to look at three pitchers not typically on the DFS radar, but who are coming in with advantageous odds. All odds are courtesy of Bodog. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Pitcher James ShieldsOpponent - BAL (Kevin Gausman) Park - BALUnder 5 K’s Even Odds - Projected: 4.03 K’s Shields is coming off a season-best eight-strikeout performance against the Rangers in which he went 7.1 innings and only allowed one earned run. This, my friends, is what we call an outlier game. The Rangers are a strikeout-heavy bunch (25.7% against righties this season) and it makes sense that Shields could pile up the swings and misses. The Orioles aren’t too far behind at 25% but it’s really more a Shields’ thing here than an opponent thing. He’s only equaled or exceeded five strikeouts in three of his nine starts on the season. Even in games where he’s luck boxed his way into six or so innings, the strikeouts haven’t been there. He’s K’ing 5.86 per nine on the season and one of the only reasons the cumulative numbers look *good* on that end is because he’s gone deeper into games than he should have. The .253 BABIP and 64% strand rate have him at six innings per start. This simply can’t last based on his pitcher profile. Look for him to make an early exit against the Orioles. Lance LynnOpponent - DET (Matthew Boyd) Park - DETOver 4.5 K’s -115 Odds - Projected: 5.1 K’s Lance Lynn has had three major issues this season: Walks, BABIP and LOB%. The seven walks per nine are particularly disturbing and are way, way over anything close to resembling his career numbers. That being said, in his first 23 and two-thirds innings he walked 23 batters. In his last 13 and two-thirds innings, he’s *only* walked six. The reason this is important is that the walks are the main contributor to him not going deep into games. He’s also been crushed in the *luck* categories with a .394 BABIP and 67% strand rate. Simply put, he’s somewhat due to go longer into games and with even modest improvements in...