MLB DFS Expert Survey: Friday, July 19th
Our panel of experts is here to give you their MLB DFS advice for today’s main slate contests by answering a handful of questions to help you make crucial lineup-building decisions. Want to know CheeseIsGood’s favorite sneaky stack? Or STLCards’ top overall pitcher? Find out below!
MLB DFS Picks: DraftKings & FanDuel Expert Survey for Friday, July 19
Who is your favorite hitter to spend up for in cash games?
CheeseIsGood: Bobby Witt
SquirrelPatrol: Aaron Judge
boggslite: Bobby Witt
ebeimfohr: Shohei Ohtani
Who is your favorite hitter (when considering price, matchup, projected ownership, etc.) on the board and why?
CheeseIsGood: Ezequiel Tovar – If not accounting for projected ownership here, my answer would be Bobby Witt, Salvador Perez, or any Giants bats. But assuming that the Giants are the chalk and Witt takes a bulk of the ownership at SS, I am going next to the Rockies. Opposing starter Kyle Harrison has managed just a 17.5% K rate to righties and is not keeping the ball on the ground. For all of the Rockies’ flaws, righty power is not one of them. Tovar is one of three Rockies righties above a 13% barrel rate against LHP this season, and his strikeout risk is muted by the lack of dominance from Harrison.
SquirrelPatrol: Aaron Judge – My favorite Aaron Judge is Judge at home facing a decent-but-not-great RHP, where he tends to draw much lower pOWN% than he should. Judge has a career .627 SLG% vs. RHP at home, but Judge is seeing single-digit pOWN% because the Yankees won’t be a particularly popular stack.
boggslite: Jorge Soler – Likely leading off in Coors Field, Soler instantly becomes my top overall play given his manageable price tag and solid matchup. He hasn’t put up the best numbers this year, but I like his chances of getting off to a hot start post-ASB, facing a weak righty in Cal Quantrill and a bad Rockies bullpen behind him.
ebeimfohr: Bobby Witt – With Coors Field and some other appealing spend-up options, we are getting slightly depressed projected ownership on one of the best hitters in baseball in a great spot. Chris Flexen has been surviving for a while now, but he’s hanging on by a thread, and Witt has an xwOBA over .400 against RHP this season, with elite steal upside alongside it.
Who is your top overall pitcher (when considering price, matchup, projected ownership, etc.) on the board and why?
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