Today’s May 7th MLB slate is huge at 14 games. Trevor Rogers and Jack Flaherty take the lead in the DFS Army KScore category as the only pitchers carrying a number over 540. Blake Snell should carry ownership and cash considerations, and sneaky names like Zach Eflin and Eduardo Rodriguez appear to have a tough matchup, but do carry strikeout upside if they can spot their pitches. Our bottom-feeders like Harvey, Skubal, and Suter all price out under $6000 on Fanduel and make Boston, Minnesota, and even Miami worthy of some stack considerations.
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…
Arizona Diamondbacks – Josh Rojas
Atlanta Braves – Ozzie Albies
Boston Red Sox – Xander Bogaerts, JD Martinez
Chicago Cubs – Kris Bryant, Javier Baez
Cincinnati Reds – Jesse Winker, Nick Castellanos
Cleveland Indians – Jose Ramirez, Franmil Reyes
Colorado Rockies – Trevor Story, CJ Cron
Houston Astros – Yordan Alvarez
Kansas City Royals – Andrew Benintendi
Anaheim Angels – Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani
Miami Marlins – Jesus Aguilar
Milwaukee Brewers – Kolten Wong, Lorenzo Cain
New York Mets – Michael Conforto, Kevin Pillar
New York Yankees – Giancarlo Stanton
Oakland Athletics – Ramon Laureano
Pittsburgh Pirates – Jacob Stallings
San Diego Padres – Fernando Tatis Jr
San Francisco Giants – Brandon Crawford, Buster Posey
St. Louis Cardinals – Tyler O’Neill
Texas Rangers – Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Willie Calhoun
Toronto Blue Jays – Marcus Semien
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.
Seattle Mariners – 743
LA Dodgers – 717
Houston Astros – 708
New York Yankees – 701
Milwaukee Brewers – 686
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.
Houston Astros – 108
Minnesota Twins – 82
New York Yankees – 75
But, don’t forget the huge slates really disperse ownerships. It’s not hard to get “unique” on large slates, and you can even get away with hardly worrying about it at all.
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