Today’s May 5th slate has 10 games, and Shane Bieber (CLE) and Freddy Peralta (MIL) top the DFS Army KScore category as the only pitchers carrying a number over 600. Of course, other bigger names like Beuhler (LAD), Darvish (SD), and even Alzolay (CHI) present viable options, too. Then, the dropoff begins, and that is where we start looking for hot bats that bring tournament winning DFS MLB upside. It’s never a bad idea to consider targeting the cheapest pitchers on a slate. Kittredge/Yarbrough (TB), Thorpe (MIN), Montgomery (NYY), and Anderson (PHI) give us plenty of viable options to target, as they are all under $6400 on Fanduel and bring fairly high WScores with them.
The DFS Army crew has you covered today with tools and content all day long. Starting with our Full Count slate breakdown, grabbing an overview of the slate has never been faster.
Our Leverage Stacks and Ownership Report rank the best offenses to stack.
And, the detailed notes in our MLB Cheatsheets show you exactly where to gain leverage over the field in your big money tournaments.
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MLB DFS Tournament Winning Power Picks
Baseball is a streaky, volatile sport. Choosing those hot hitters often comes down to matchups and short sample statistics pointing out batters currently on a tear. Below is a list of players hitting for high wOBAs and ISOs over a 14-day stretch. Look into these hitters tonight when constructing your lineups. Some are obviously chalk, while others will be flying well under public radars…
Atlanta Braves – Ozzie Albies, Austin Riley
Boston Red Sox – Xander Bogaerts, JD Martinez, Rafael Devers
Chicago Cubs – Kris Bryant, Jake Marisnick
Cleveland Indians – Jose Ramirez, Franmil Reyes
Houston Astros – Yuli Gurriel
Kansas City Royals – Andrew Benintendi (if you notice from yesterday, Carlos Santana has sufficiently cooled off and drops off the list)
Anaheim Angels – Mike Trout
Los Angeles Dodgers – Chris Taylor
Milwaukee Brewers – Kolten Wong
Minnesota Twins – Byron Buxton
New York Mets – Pete Alonso
New York Yankees – Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton
Philadelphia Phillies – Bryce Harper
San Diego Padres – Fernando Tatis Jr
San Francisco Giants – Brandon Crawford
St. Louis Cardinals – Tyler O’Neill
Toronto Blue Jays – Marcus Semien, Vladimir Guerrero Jr
Washington Nationals – Ryan Zimmerman
These above names are hitting over .400 wOBAs and over .200 ISOs over the last two weeks. I want more of these players in my lineups, and as a result, I will boost/adore every name above in our Domination Station Optimizer as part of my daily process.
Team Offenses with MLB Tournament Winning Upside Tonight!
Correlation is king in MLB DFS, especially when it comes to winning a big tournament. Stacking up multiple hot hitters from the same team is by far the most common technique to leverage fantasy points. Which formations work best on tonight’s slate? We back-tested over two years worth of slates and put together a hyper-simple graphic showing the optimal MLB stacking formations.
Washington Nationals – 735
Texas Rangers – 708
Boston Red Sox – 694
Oakland Athletics – 682
Atlanta Braves – 677
Above are the top 5 WScores combining a pitcher’s tendency to give up production and an opposing offense’s ability to create production. These teams are in position to unload tonight.
Top Chalk Offenses to Consider Fading
MLB DFS is the ultimate contrarian sport. The goal to winning a life-changing tournament is NOT to build the optimal lineup like so many sites try to teach you. The goal to win life-changing money is to score the most points! That sounds the same, but it is quite different. In baseball, we often build sub-optimal lineups that have similar chances to scoring the most points in a given night to dodge the popular “chalk.” The chalk fails in MLB DFS more than any other sport, which leaves us tremendous opportunity in taking a road slightly less traveled for the nights we are right and the sinking Titanic drags large chunks of the population to the bottom of the ocean with it as it sinks.
Atlanta Braves – 127
Boston Red Sox – 101
New York Yankees – 80
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