Million Dollar Musings: MLB DFS Picks Today for Monday 6/22

by Dave Potts (CheeseIsGood) Last Updated 2026-06-22 16:53:18 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 22, 2026 MLB DFS slate.

Happy Monday! We kick off the week with a good-looking 9-game slate that appears to have a lot of everything. Coors Field is back in our lives, but it’s the league’s lowest-scoring offense making the trip to Colorado, so that does not end up as one of my favorite spots on this slate. There are a few high-upside pitchers before things dry up quickly, while the hitting side basically just keeps going.

We do have one MLB weather concern to keep an eye on in the CHC/NYM game. Shota Imanaga would be relevant on this slate if the weather clears up, but for now, he’s not going to make it into my primary lineups.

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We’ve got a few question marks in this top tier, with Hunter Brown and Brandon Woodruff having small sample sizes in their injury-riddled seasons, while Shota Imanaga has the weather issues in New York to contend with. We also have a couple of pitchers who have shown plenty of ceiling but a tremendous lack of consistency, all of which makes this slate quite tough, even before seeing how nonsensical the cheap options are.

TOP TIER PITCHING

• Dylan Cease vs. Astros – 36.3% K, 10.2% BB, 2.71 ERA, 2.87 SIERA
• Hunter Brown at Blue Jays – 2nd start off IL
• Gavin Williams at White Sox – 27.9% K, 8.1% BB, 3.83 ERA, 3.43 SIERA
• Michael King vs. Braves – 21% K, 10.1% BB, 3.60 ERA, 4.45 SIERA
• Brandon Woodruff at Reds – 1st start off IL
• Kyle Bradish at Angels – 24.2% K, 11.7% BB, 4.00 ERA, 4.25 SIERA
• Shota Imanaga at Mets – 24.1% K, 6.3% BB, 4.26 ERA, 3.74 SIERA

My first thought is that while Hunter Brown is a great pitcher – and potentially at full strength after 92 pitches in his first start back – it’s a little silly that he’s more expensive than Dylan Cease on both sites. The sites are only going off of numbers from this season, and the 3 starts from Brown have been fantastic and would warrant these price tags. However, there is nothing under the surface that implies that he’s anything different than the pitcher from last season who had a 28% K rate, and as great as his strikeouts and ERA look, you could choose to be equally concerned about a 14.1% walk rate. Any way you slice it, Brown is a very good pitcher, but he looks overpriced and is going to miss my primary pool.

Dylan Cease has made 13 starts this season, and if it weren’t for the existence of Jacob Misiorowski, Cease would be far and away the top strikeout pitcher in the league. Even better than that, his numbers are far better across the board against righties, which is really all that matters against Houston. Against righties this season, we’re looking at a guy with a 38.2% K rate on a 16.4% SwStr% and just a 7.6% walk rate. He also has one of the most consistently long leashes of any pitcher in the league. I would not call him a must-play at this salary against a lower-strikeout Astros lineup, but he is the clear SP1 if salary allows.

Gavin Williams still has the numbers that make him look like the clear next-best option, but there’s perhaps a little reason for concern at this point. We’re now looking at 3 straight starts with 2 HRs allowed, in addition to sinking to just a 20.7% K rate over his last 4 starts. Those last 4 starts have all been tough matchups, but we’ve also seen a small – but clear – dip in his Stuff+ numbers over this stretch, and for some reason, he’s really cut back on his fastball usage. His velocity is fine, so I don’t know what to make of any of this. My best guess is that he’s totally fine and this is just one of those random blips that happens sometimes, but I’m also a little concerned about this power he’s allowing. The White Sox offer plenty of strikeouts but also plenty of power to contend with. I can easily cross him off the list on FD where he’s more expensive than Cease, but it’s a much tougher call on DK. I have to think the upside is still there, and at $9,300, he is in the pool, but let me see what we find with a couple of these guys in the $8,000 range before deciding what to do here.

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