The Daily Grind: DFS, Streaming, and More for June 9

Agenda

  1. The Dialy Grind
  2. The Daily Grind Invitational and Leaderboard
  3. Daily DFS
  4. SaberSim Observations
  5. Tomorrow’s Targets
  6. Factor Grid

1. The Dialy Grind

I listen to weird music on Spotify. Presently, I’m listening to a song called Woctor Dialy, the new unofficial theme song of The Dialy Grind for obvious reasons. It’s performed by a band named Armcannon. The song itself is the theme music of Wily’s Castle in Megaman 2. The band name also appears to be Megaman inspired. Regrettably, I only ever played Megaman on my TI-83+.

2. The Daily Grind Invitational and Leaderboard

Congratulations are due to Boomer438. A combination of strong pitching, and big boomers led him to a closely contested victory. Usually, 191 points is an easy victory but three other owners were within 10 points. The leaderboard is updated.

Because it is convenient to me, we are returning to FanDuel tonight. It’s a seven-game contest at the usual time with the usual $2 and 20 owners. There’s no FanDuel email list.

3. Daily DFS 

Yesterday’s Grind

Early: Two games are early, but they also aren’t within three hours of each other. The sites have basically tossed them aside. Sorry for ya if you were looking to exploit the Houston-Texas game or the Pirates visiting Coors Field.

Late: It’s a seven game slate and there’s no ace. I love when there’s no ace. Adam Wainwright has been OKish in his last few starts – 3.04 ERA, 6.75 K/9, 1.69 BB/9, and nearly seven innings per start in his last four appearances. I’m not thrilled to try him at Great American Ballpark, but there’s a good chance he’ll toss seven solid innings with an easy win. Try someone else if you’re playing a 50/50, double up, or cash game.

The Magnificent Bartolo Bartola has challenged Jimmy Nelson to a cage fight. Surprise! There’s a tiger nicknamed Miller Park in the cage. These are typically low risk, low reward pitchers. Pitching in Milwaukee increases the risk without improving the reward.

Ervin Santana occasionally uses his veteran wiles to post big outings. It’s rare these days. What a thrilling recommendation, eh? He’s opposite the Marlins at Target Field.

I like to pick on Jhoulys Chacin in this column. He’s the cheapest pitcher on FanDuel at $5,900. Given your other options today, he may be the best point per dollar pick. The Yankees are pretty bad after all. Well, so long as folk hero Chris Parmelee doesn’t hit two more home runs. I’m nicknaming him The Violent Cheese.

Stack Targets: Chacin, Brandon Finnega, Santana, Tom Koehler, Miguel Gonzalez, Ivan Nova, Tyler Wilson

4. SaberSim Observations

Nate Karns, who I completely ignored for cost reasons, has the top projection per our favorite source of daily projections. Marcus Stroman, Gio Gonzalez, Wainwright, and Nelson round out the top five. Stacks to target include Bryce Harper (just him), Mike Trout (also just him), Blue Jays, Brewers, Twins, Mets, Yankees, White Sox, and Cardinals.

5. Tomorrow’s Targets 

Pitchers to Start: “Unenthused.” That’s how I feel about the starter options tomorrow. I don’t want to try DeSclafani in his return, especially not at Great American Bandbox. Andriese is probably the best freely available pick. There are issues with his ability to actually finish off hitters. I still fear the Houston lineup too. Guerra would look better if he wasn’t opposed by a resurgent Matt Harvey.

Also consider: Anthony DeSclafani, Matt Andriese, Junior Guerra

Pitchers to Exploit: I haven’t forgotten when a bump in velocity and past success had everybody drooling over Hector Santiago. Now he looks like another scrubby lefty. The Indians have a few guys who exploit scrubby lefties.

Also consider: Mike Pelfrey, Michael Wacha, Bud Norris, Kyle Gibson, Jon Gray, Andrew Cashner, Justin Nicolino, Derek Holland

Hitters (power): Franklin Gutierrez is going to face a lefty. Specifically, he is going to face Derek Holland. Put one home run in the bank.

Also consider: Dae-ho Lee, Chris Iannetta, Mike Napoli, Brandon Drury, Rickie Weeks, Jon Jay, Brett Wallace, Hyun-soo Kim, John Jaso, Rob Refsnyder

Hitters (speed): Cameron Maybin is technically 51 percent owned and thus ineligible. Speed options haven’t been plentiful this year so I’ll push my self imposed barriers. Maybin is riding plus plate discipline and a .469 BABIP to All Star quality numbers. He’ll eventually regress but first he has a plus matchup versus the suddenly crafty CC Sabathia.

Also consider: Rajai Davis, Albert Almora

6. The Factor Grid

The table below indicates which stadiums have the best conditions for hitters today. The color coding is a classic stoplight where green equals go for hitters. The weather conditions are from SI Weather’s home run app. A 10/10 means great atmospheric conditions for home runs. A 1/10 means lousy atmospheric conditions.

Check out all the pitcher’s parks.

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wjylaw
7 years ago

Regarding Santiago for tomorrow, the Indians are not as good vs LHP as they are made out to be. They have a couple of guys who mash lefties and not much else. Paxton and Miley just went through them with little problem.