Million Dollar Musings: MLB DFS Picks Today for Tuesday 9/9

by Dave Potts (CheeseIsGood) Last Updated 2025-09-09 18:34:45 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 Tuesday! We’ve got a good-looking 11-game slate that appears to have a good mix of everything. At first glance, my lean is a little more towards spending my salary on the hitting side, but we’ll see what we find as we dig in.

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Tuesday Pitching: MLB DFS Picks on FanDuel & DraftKings

We’ve got a sizeable group of spend-up options, but there are question marks with most of them. I’ll sort into three tiers based on DK pricing, and I would expect to land on a pretty condensed pool based on what I’m seeing at first glance.

TOP TIER PITCHING

• George Kirby vs. Cardinals – 23.6% K, 5.9% BB, 4.47 ERA, 3.70 SIERA
• Shane Bieber vs. Astros – 3 starts this season
• Robbie Ray vs. Diamondbacks – 24.6% K, 9.4% BB, 3.31 ERA, 4.12 SIERA
• Michael King vs. Reds – 1st start off IL
• Emmet Sheehan vs. Rockies – 27.6% K, 8.3% BB, 2.81 ERA, 3.62 SIERA
• Spencer Strider vs. Cubs – 24.2% K, 9.4% BB, 4.97 ERA, 4.12 SIERA

George Kirby had a terrible outing last week, his 2nd 7-run disaster in his last 4 starts, but I would still call him the ‘safest’ cash game spend-up option. All of his issues have come on the road this season, and his pitching style gets a boost in his home ballpark, where he has a 3.16 ERA in 51 innings. However, he is also not a big strikeout pitcher, and he is even lower at home where he’s more content getting easy innings and relying on his control. The matchup is very good, and he’s not overly expensive at $10,000 on both sites. My initial thought is that I’m completely fine with Kirby in any lineup on any site, but he’s not some kind of must-play with a huge ceiling, so let’s see what else we find.

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