Million Dollar Musings: MLB DFS Picks Today for Sunday 3/29

by Dave Potts (CheeseIsGood) Last Updated 2026-03-29 14:47:14 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 give you his musings on the March 29, 2026 MLB DFS slate.

Happy Sunday! We have a big Sunday slate with 11-games starting at 1:35pm ET. There is a noticeable lack of quality pitching, leaving some tough choices to make, particularly on DK. Not only is the pitching unclear due to the lack of quality arms, we also have a lot of unknowns with little-to-no MLB sample size. I’ll sort things as best as I can, but this is very much a play whomever you want kind of slate. I end up a bit more narrowed down with some favorite offenses, although you can also make a case for pretty much everything on the slate from the hitting side as well. If you’re a max-entry MME player, this is your kind of slate. Let’s dive right in and see what we find.

Sunday Pitching: MLB DFS Picks on FanDuel & DraftKings

We have an extremely tough pitching slate, with a whole bunch of guys with either no sample size or tons of up-and-down numbers. You could really throw darts at basically the whole board, but I’m going to narrow my pool down. Outside of the top 2 being priced up, the salaries are pretty bunched together and not even all that much of a factor. I generally put things into tiers based on salary, but that doesn’t look like the best way to do it today. I’m going to group these into three buckets that make sense to me, and I hope they make sense to you!

MY TOP FOUR, MAYBE?

• Nolan McLean vs. Pirates – 48 career IP – 30.3% K, 8.5% BB
• Jesus Luzardo vs. Rangers – 28.5% K, 7.5% BB ,3.92 ERA, 3.40 SIERA
• Shota Imanaga vs. Nationals – 20.6% K, 4.6% BB, 3.73 ERA, 4.36 SIERA
• Max Meyer vs. Rockies – 23.9% K, 7% BB, 4.73 ERA, 3.72 SIERA

The most expensive pitcher on both sites is the Mets’ Nolan McLean. His 48-inning rookie season looks promising. He has a 30.3% K rate and 8.5% walks, but while he is a highly touted prospect, he was also only a 27% strikeout pitcher in a longer sample size at Triple-A last year. His 10.9% swinging strikes also don’t imply that there is anything believable about that 30% K rate. He is not quite as stretched out as some of the other pitchers heading into the season. I’m not anti-McLean, either today or in general, but I also don’t think this is something we need to spend up in this first start. Playable, sure. Priority, no.

Jesus Luzardo has not topped a 28% K rate in three of the last four seasons, and the control has remained steady at 8% walks or less in three straight. He also has a good strikeout matchup against the Rangers, and I’m optimistic on his ability to limit hard contact, though the extent of that is still up in the air. For me, Luzardo would be the SP1 to spend up for ahead of McLean today. Let’s see what else we find as we start going cheaper before we decide how important it is to spend up.

The first place I’m really torn is with Shota Imanaga. I love his elite control, and I love his matchup with a Nationals team that is not good in any way against lefties. However, Imanaga is an extreme fly-ball pitcher and the kind of guy who is more reliant on HR/FB than almost anyone. That means the weather in his home ballpark is especially important, and it does look like we have a hitter-friendly wind blowing out today. Imanaga is not the kind of guy who strikes everyone out, as he’s more about quick, easy innings on fly balls. The Nationals lineup is such a low-power group against lefties that I think I’m still in here, knowing that even if he were to give up a couple homers, he should be able to limit baserunners outside of that. For $8,400 on DK and $8,000 on FD, I’m in on Imanaga.

Max Meyer gets the magical matchup at home against the Rockies, which immediately puts him in the discussion. But there is more than just matchup to like here after he posted a 23.9% K rate with 7% walks in 12 starts last season. He also had a solid 54% ground-ball rate to righties, and an overall 49.4% ground-ball rate in 127 career innings. The biggest question mark is his workload, as he hasn’t made a spring start in several weeks. The last thing I can find is a 60-inning backfield session, so he probably doesn’t have a full leash today. But on this slate, I don’t think anybody has much leash, so I’m fine with 75-80 pitches of a good pitcher at home against Colorado. On FD, I prefer Imanaga at a lower salary, but on DK, I side with Meyer at just $7,600. I’m calling him my SP1 on DK with salary considered.

UNKNOWNS AND WILD CARDS

• MacKenzie Gore at Phillies – 27.2% K, 9.4% BB, 4.17 ERA, 3.80 SIERA
• Shane Baz vs. Twins – 24.8% K, 9% BB, 4.87 ERA, 3.95 SIERA
• Tatsuya Imai vs. Angels – MLB debut
• Connelly Early at Reds – 19 career IP – 36.7% K, 5.1% BB
• Brandon Sproat vs. White Sox – 20 career IP – 20.2% K, 8.3% BB

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