Million Dollar Musings: MLB DFS Picks Today for Monday 8/25

by Dave Potts (CheeseIsGood) Last Updated 2025-08-25 16:21:56 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. 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 give you his musings on the upcoming MLB DFS slate.

Happy Monday! We have an incredibly pitching-heavy 10-game slate on tap. It starts up top with 6 aces who are all above 26% strikeouts with walks below 6% this season, and all of them have ERAs below 2.80 and SIERAs below 3.30. It continues on from there with solid pitchers in the mid-tier and one of the better-looking cheap tiers that we’ve seen in a while. All of this leads to very little to love on the hitting side, with just a couple teams that are bound to be chalky.

I’ll do the best I can to pick out some favorites here, but essentially, every pitcher on this slate looks good. The MLB weather also looks good, so let’s dive in and see just how many pitching spots the sites will allow us to have tonight.

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Monday Pitching: MLB DFS Picks on FanDuel & DraftKings

At first glance, almost every pitcher on this slate looks playable. I love the high-end aces, but there are almost too many of them. As we move down, the mid-tier also has plenty of solid options, but I even see something like a half dozen or so interesting names below $7,000 on DK. I guess let’s see what happens as we dig through all of this…

TOP TIER PITCHING

• Tarik Skubal at A’s – 33.1% K, 4.1% BB, 2.32 ERA, 2.55 SIERA
• Brandon Woodruff vs. Diamondbacks – 32.7% K, 6.5% BB, 2.47 ERA, 2.90 SIERA
• Cristopher Sanchez at Mets – 26.6% K, 6% BB, 2.46 ERA, 3.07 SIERA
• Joe Ryan at Blue Jays – 28.2% K, 5% BB, 2.77 ERA, 3.20 SIERA
• Jacob deGrom vs. Angels – 27.3% K, 5.5% BB, 2.76 ERA, 3.30 SIERA
• Hunter Greene at Dodgers – 32.2% K, 4.9% BB, 2.63 ERA, 2.90 SIERA

This is a remarkably fantastical group of aces, with 6 pitchers below 2.80 ERAs and 3.30 SIERAs. I’m going to try and narrow this down, but every single one of these pitchers is a strong option on any slate, in any matchup, at any salary.

I’ll start with the simplest one: Tarik Skubal. All of these pitchers are great, but he’s the only one who is Tarik Skubal. He’s had a few weaker starts recently but bounced right back to another 10-strikeout gem in 7 scoreless innings last week. He piles up innings and strikeouts like nobody’s business, and matchup just doesn’t matter. This is just going to come down to salary and whether or not you want to spread out with your aces in MME. Let’s move on and see what we find before determining how much Skubal is needed.

Looking to the next five pitchers, one thing stands out like a sore thumb. The good kind of sore thumb. What kind of sore thumb is good? Maybe sore thumb isn’t the term for it. How about, one thing stands out like a shiny golden thumb of justice. I’m pretty sure that’s a saying that the kids use.

Anyhow, what I mean here is that Hunter Greene is amazing. His numbers are Skubal-esque and simply better than these other pitchers.

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