Million Dollar Musings: MLB DFS Picks Today for Friday 6/26

by Dave Potts (CheeseIsGood) Last Updated 2026-06-26 16:52:28 Premium Content Part of the product MLB DFS

Whether you are looking for the top pitchers or the best stacks, Dave Potts (aka CheeseIsGood) has you covered with an extensive deep dive into his MLB DFS picks today. Cheese, one of the preeminent baseball minds in all of fantasy sports and a winner of a $1,000,000 1st-place prize on both DraftKings and FanDuel, is here to muse about the June 26, 2026 MLB DFS slate.

Happy Friday! We have a massive 13-game slate on tap, and it is not an easy one to sort through. We’ve got loads of pitching options in all different pricing tiers and a slew of offense that is all very closely bunched. I’ll do my best to narrow down the pool, but this is one of those slates where you can go a lot of different directions and get no argument from me.

There are a bunch of games with less than perfect weather according to our MLB weather page, but at this point, I don’t see anything worrisome enough to warrant changing your opinion on anything. We also have several teams with unconfirmed starters at the time I’m writing this (e.g. Royals, White Sox, Mets, Giants), but I’m going with what we have projected on our MLB lineups page for now.

Friday Pitching: MLB DFS Picks on DraftKings and FanDuel

We have some huge salary gaps that make this slate tougher than just identifying the easily identifiable best options. I’m going to put everything over $7,500 on DK in one tier, even though these pitchers are not all really in the same realm talent-wise.

TOP TIER PITCHING

• Jacob Misiorowski vs. Cubs – 39.1% K, 6.5% BB, 1.45 ERA, 2.20 SIERA
• Zack Wheeler at Mets – 26.6% K, 6.9% BB, 2.11 ERA, 3.41 SIERA
• Max Meyer at Cardinals – 27.1% K, 9% BB, 2.80 ERA, 3.66 SIERA
• Nathan Eovaldi at Blue Jays – 23.7% K, 5.7% BB, 4.24 ERA, 3.48 SIERA
• Payton Tolle vs. Yankees – 23.8% K, 6.9% BB, 3.08 ERA, 3.91 SIERA
• Will Warren at Red Sox – 24.7% K, 7.6% BB, 3.45 ERA, 3.73 SIERA
• Roki Sasaki at Padres – 24.1% K, 8.6% BB, 4.76 ERA, 3.92 SIERA
• J.T. Ginn at Angels – 21.3% K, 10.2% BB, 3.16 ERA, 4.34 SIERA
• Taj Bradley vs. Rockies – 25.4% K, 9.7% BB, 4.11 ERA, 4.00 SIERA

Jacob Misiorowski is up to $13,000 on DK, which seems kind of crazy, until you look at his numbers. He’s fully worth that salary. On FD, I’d say his $11,400 salary is not nearly high enough. We’ve seen the two extremes from him in last 2 starts, but to me, his ‘bad’ start of 19.9 DK points is maybe even more impressive than his 58.6 DK points before that. Of course the 58.6 DK points was an outlier, but part of what you’re paying for with aces is not just the ceiling…but the floor. There will always be random cheap pitchers putting up good games, but they don’t have the ability to score 20 DK points even when they are ‘bad.’ In 15 starts for The Miz this season, he has 1 start in mid-April with 15 DK points…and everything else is 19+ DK points. Holy floor Batman! And of course, you could argue that the 30-point level, which he has surpassed in 8 of his last 9 starts, is more likely than anything below it. The question is not whether The Miz is the top pitcher on the slate by a huge margin; it’s just if we can find a way to afford him. Let’s move on and see what else this slate has to offer, then we’ll reassess.

Zack Wheeler is awesome. He is one of the most consistent pitchers in the world, and I would consider him to be a high-floor pitcher as well. But he’s also in a full pricing tier above everyone else, so just like with The Miz, if you just get one of those average, high-floor games, you probably wouldn’t want it for $11,000. So far, I think DK has the pricing just right. We have a wildly-clear SP1 and SP2, but it’s not like you can just run out and play them and still get anything else. On FD, Wheeler barely makes the pool at all, as a $600 price gap between him and The Miz is not enough. Let’s keep moving on before we try to decide if we’re spending all the way up.

At this point, I think we should jump down the salary board a bit and discuss the weird chalky elephant in the room. That would be Taj Bradley at home against the Rockies.

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