MLB DFS Tournament Winning Power Picks

Tuesday’s May 4th slate has 12 games and lot of options from a pitching and hitting standpoint. deGrom (NYM) and Lamet (SD) sit atop the DFS Army KScore category. Nola (PHI) and Pivetta (BOS) slot in the next tier. Then, the dropoff to oblivion 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. Hentges (CLE), McClanahan (TB), Fulmer (DET), Keller (PIT), and Kay (TOR) give us plenty of viable options to target, as they are all under $6000 on Fanduel.

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.

Apr 27, 2021; Dunedin, Florida, CAN; Toronto Blue Jays infielder Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (27) hits a grand slam home run during the third inning against the Washington Nationals at TD Ballpark. Mandatory Credit: Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports

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 (.421/.333), Austin Riley (.559/.289), Cristian Pache (.523/.500)
Boston Red Sox – Rafael Devers (.414/.300)
Cleveland Indians – Jose Ramirez (.506/.425) , Franmil Reyes (.505/.410)
Kansas City Royals – Carlos Santana (.445/.289), Andrew Benintendi (.464/.263)
Anaheim Angels – Mike Trout (.585/.371)
New York Yankees – Giancarlo Stanton (.440/.244), Aaron Judge (.461/.316)
Oakland Athletics – Matt Olson (.434/.364)
St. Louis Cardinals – Tyler O’Neill (.463/.359)
Texas Rangers – Isiah Kiner-Falefa (.440/.259)
Toronto Blue Jays – Vladimir Guerrero Jr (.455/.306)

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 – 824
San Diego Padres – 720
Oakland Athletics – 712
Toronto Blue Jays – 703
Houston Astros – 695

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.

New York Mets – 86% projected team ownership
Kansas City Royals – 76% projected team ownership
Philadelphia Phillies – 68% projected team ownership

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