We have one of the biggest trainwreck slates of the year today when it comes to starting pitching. This DFS Playbook consists of the six-game evening slates – all with terrible pitching. MORE DFS: FD Week 1 NFL lineup | DK Week 1 NFL lineup I did my best to sort through the garbage, but there is no pitcher in which you can feel confident. On a short slate with pitching this bad, I would recommend playing tournaments....
Wednesday’s early optimal FanDuel lineup features a lot of boom-or-bust sleepers. We’re paying up for Jose Fernandez – who’s by far the best pitcher on the board – which is a recommended strategy now that FanDuel has made pitchers even more valuable. Fortunately, we’re getting great deals around the infield despite landing some star players. Our outfield is full of potential risks, but we still like our chances given the matchups....
Stacking players from often overlooked teams can be a good strategy in GPPs. If those teams go off for big nights, you could be reaping big benefits in the form good stats from low-owned players. MORE DFS: Tuesday’s Playbook | Lineup Builder Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks: Tuesday, May 23 Lineup picks are for a FanDuel GPP tournament Lance McCullers Jr., P, HOU vs. DET ($9,400) McCullers has simply been shutting down all opposition this month....
There just isn’t much to choose from outside of expensive guys in decent-to-tough matchups and decent-at-best guys in good matchups. As much as I like Marcus Stroman and Blake Snell, I think I’m fading those guys, as well. Without further ado, let’s get right to it. MORE DFS: Today’s SP rankings | Lineup Builder Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks
What’s interesting is that even though the overall pitching is better in the afternoon games, there are only two lefties going in the five night games. That means fewer splits of which you can take advantage. Most DFS players in FanDuel and DraftKings contests will likely play the evening slate with more of a “straight up” strategy, meaning they’ll just stack Blue Jays against Nathan Eovaldi or Astros against Ian Kennedy....
While paying up for Kershaw might be the obvious choice in cash games, things might be a little tougher in GPPs. Four AL East pitchers – Marco Estrada, Luis Severino, Dylan Bundy, and Rick Porcello – are in play, but they’re facing each other’s loaded offenses. Gerrit Cole and Amir Garrett are going head-to-head in Cincinnati, and Johnny Cueto is going against Kershaw. That’s seven of our top 13 pitchers in somewhat precarious positions....
The easy DFS picks for today are at the top with aces like Max Scherzer and Jake Arrieta, but there are several other interesting picks further down the rankings that could outpitch their projected rankings. Justin Verlander has major boom-or-bust potential against a Houston team that’s known for swinging-and-missing, and Marco Estrada could be a sneaky play with low ownership, as many DFS players won’t want to use him going up against David Price....
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Here are my predictions for players primed to see a boost in ownership for the Thursday-Monday slate in FanDuel contests. Note: These are not necessarily my recommendations (you can find those here), but rather a guess as to who will be the most owned based on value and matchups. MORE DFS: Tournament lineup | H2H and 50-50 lineup Week 12 projected QB ownership on FanDuel Carson Palmer, $8,100 (at 49ers): Torching good defenses on national TV in consecutive weeks should garner broad appeal....
We’re building our team around a Cowboys stack, grabbing one star apiece at RB, WR, and TE, then filling in the rest of the lineup with value picks? Pretty sound strategy, right? Here’s the reasoning behind our Week 10 advice. Hopefully it helps you build your own winning lineup! WEEK 10 DFS: DK cash lineup | FD cash | FD tournament | Values | DFS lineup builder Week 10 daily fantasy football picks and strategy QB Dak Prescott, DAL at PIT ($6,100): We’re hoping that the Steelers’ No....
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Associated Newspapers, the publishers of the Mail on Sunday, agreed on a financial payment to the Duchess of Sussex after she won her legal case of copyright infringement over a handwritten letter she sent to her estranged father Thomas Markle. On August 27, 2018, Meghan sent a five-page letter to her father and the gist of its content was shared in a February 9, 2019, article in the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline website....
Mets manager Terry Collins said Friday that the 33-year-old Matsuzaka felt something in his elbow a day earlier. Matsuzaka pitched two innings and gave up three earned runs in the Mets’ 9-1 loss at Milwaukee on Thursday night. “He said when he was loosening up, he could feel it a little bit, thought it was nothing that he couldn’t pitch through, but when the game was over it bothered him pretty good,” Collins said before Friday night’s game against the Brewers....
For Dak Prescott, however, the scenario is somewhat different this year. The quarterback and the Dallas Cowboys have been working on a contract extension for months, but Prescott is yet to commit his long-term future to the franchise that selected him in the fourth round of the 2016 draft. In March, the Cowboys franchise-tagged their quarterback but progress over a contract extension has been hard to come by. Troy Aikman, one of Prescott’s predecessors as Cowboys quarterback, however, believes the 26-year-old and the franchise will eventually reach an agreement....
The Cowboys quarterback completed just 23 of 43 passes for 254 yards with a touchdown and an interception, and he rushed four times for 27 yards and another score. The performance wasn’t enough for Dallas to advance past San Francisco in the wild-card round as the 49ers won 23-17. But it was enough for Prescott to win a prestigious honor. He was named the game’s NVP by Nickelodeon during its telecast of the matchup....
Their popularity apparently extends to an important demographic — kids. Earnhardt, NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver the past 11 years, and Patrick have been nominated for Kids’ Choice awards by Nickelodeon. Kids can vote at nick.com. Earnhardt has been nominated for Best Male Athlete, joining NFL quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, NBA stars LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Dewayne Wade, baseball’s Derek Jeter and golfer Tiger Woods. Patrick is nomiated for Best Female Athlete along with gymnist Gabby Douglas, figure skater Gracie Gold, WNBA star Candance Parker, soccer player Hope Solo, skiier Lindsey Vonn and tennis star Serena Williams....
During an early afternoon teleconference with reporters Tuesday, Kenseth was asked if Earnhardt had talked to him about what happened Sunday afternoon at Sonoma Raceway. MORE: Earnhardt gets nose blood | Junior’s ‘messy’ day | Curious case of Carl Edwards | Power Rankings Earnhardt hopped a curb and ran into Kenseth, sending him crashing into a tire barrier that tore apart Kenseth’s car. Vocal after the race about how it was his fault and how he was sick about the wreck, Earnhardt had left no doubt publicly about what had happened....
Jimmie Johnson’s mechanical problem, a broken seal in the car’s rear end, put the six-time Cup champion 36 laps behind the race leader. MORE: Johnson’s Dover disaster | Chase standings entering race | Truex’s pre-race problem Earnhardt was having problems of his own at the Monster Mile. The biggest? Loose lug nuts on his car. As the neared its midpoint, 200 of 400 laps, Earnhardt caught a break. He was about to go a lap down to leader Kevin Harvick when Jeb Burton found trouble, a blown tire that sent his car into the wall....
