It’s the second week of the second period of Tout Daily. Here are some of the picks in quest of the next three Golden Tickets.
Jeff Boggis (Fantasy Football Empire, @JeffBoggis)
Pitcher: Dylan Cease – Dylan Cease – $7,000 – Trying to save some salary cap money with starting Dylan Cease tonight at home against the Minnesota Twins. He has 40 strikeouts through 30 1/3 innings pitched. He’s averaged 10 strikeouts per game over his past 2 outings. He’s sporting a solid 2.37 ERA heading into tonight’s contest.
Hitter: Luke Voit – Luke Voit – $3,700 – Luke Voit was activated for tonight’s game and will make his 2021 major league debut at Tampa Bay. It’s go time. I’ll take the off of the DL discount for tonight’s contest.
Howard Bender (Fantasy Alarm, @RotobuzzGuy)
Pitcher: Brady Singer – At $5,700 and facing the worst offensive team with the highest strikeout rate in the league, Singer is a HUGE bargain. He faced them in late April when the Tigers weren’t completely dead and limited them to one run on three hits with eight strikeouts over seven innings. We don’t even need hoim to do that at this price, but we’ll certainly take it again!
Hitter: Matt Adams – Listen — anytime you can get a power-hitter in Coors Field for $2,600 on DK, you have to give it a go. The lefty-swinging Adams gets to take center stage with CJ Cron on the IL and he’ll take on right-handed Dinelson Lamet. Not an ideal match-up, but for this price, he doesn’t need to do much to return a 3x value. And if he can gt a hold of just one and park it over the fence? Oh baby!
Todd Zola (Mastersball, @toddzola)
Pitcher: Walker Buehler – Top projected points and I can make the salaries fit
Hitter: Josh Bell – Avoiding stacks, but LHB vs. Chase Anderson calls for a couple Nats
Brian Entrekin (Benched with Bubba, @bdentrek)
Pitcher: Shohei Ohtani – We are getting an ACE tonight at $7400. The pitch count, walks, blisters, many things have prevented Ohtani from going deep in games. Regardless of distance in the game, Ohtani has been a beast. He has a strikeout rate through the roof, which is what we want for DK point production. The Astros don’t strike out a ton but they also haven’t faced many like Ohtani. Take the discount while you can tonight as a great SP2 in tournaments.
Hitter: Hunter Dozier – Dozier has gone hitless in his last 4 games but has been on a tear otherwise. Dozier has 7 XBH over the last 8 games. The quality of contact (barrels/HH) have been through the roof. The Royals are one of my top stacks tonight versus Boyd, starting with Whit & Dozier. They both have had amazing career success versus Boyd and look for that to continue tonight. Dozier goes yard, book it.
Shelly Verougstraete (Dynasty Guru, @ShellyV_643)
Pitcher: Brady Singer – Take advantage of a cheaper option going up against the Tigers and use those savings to load up on hitting.
Hitter: Alex Verdugo – Verdugo has been hitting well lately and going up against Chris Bassett in Fenway seems like a pretty cheap option.
Phil Hertz (BaseballHQ, @prhz50)
Pitcher: Madison Bumgarner – He’s been pitching well and his ‘injury’ was to his non-pitching hand.
Hitter: Matt Olson – Price is right and Eovaldi has been struggling of late.
MIke Gianella (Baseball Prospectus, @MikeGianella)
Pitcher: Matthew Boyd – Strikeouts have been low but he has pitched well this year and faces an opponent that has been in the bottom five this year against LHP by wOBA.
Hitter: Mookie Betts – He’s quietly starting to heat up in May and is as good a place as any to put my Boyd dividend (cheap pitcher) against a LHP in Kikuchi.
Steve Gardner (USAToday Fantasy Sports, @SteveAGardner)
Pitcher: Brady Singer – I’m targeting the Tigers with this pick and it’s supposed to be in the low 50s at Comerica Park.
Hitter: Luke Voit – Let’s get last year’s home run champ back into our lineups! He hit three homers in five rehab games and he’s only $3700.
Zach Steinhorn (CreativeSports2, @zachsteinhorn)
Pitcher: Brady Singer – Singer seems to be a popular pick here, and for good reason. His first full season in the majors has gone rather smoothly so far as he sports a 3.41 ERA, a 1.17 WHIP and a 29/11 K/BB through 29 innings. Oh, and the Tigers rank last in the AL in both runs scored and OPS. But most importantly, he’s massively underpriced.
Hitter: Jean Segura – He’s 8-for-13 with a homer, three RBIs and three runs scored over his last three games and Erick Fedde is a pitcher worth picking on.
Jeff Erickson (Rotowire, @Jeff_Erickson)
Pitcher: Marcus Stroman – I expect more people to be on the other side of this pitching matchup, but pivoting to Stroman (and Dylan Cease) gives me the means to afford my Jays stack against Bryse Wilson.
Hitter: Bo Bichette – I have five Jays hitters going tonight, paying up for Bichette and Vladito among others.
Charlie Wiegert (CDM Sports, @GFFantasySports)
Pitcher: Pedro Lopez, – Great for K’s and great match up, hopefully a win is in the Cards also.
Hitter: Jared Walsh –