Million Dollar Musings: MLB DFS Picks for Wednesday, September 11th
CheeseIsGood, 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. Whether you are looking for the top pitchers or the best stacks, Cheese has you covered with an extensive deep dive into his MLB DFS picks.
Happy Wednesday! We’ve got an 8-game slate that looks to be well spread out between pitching and hitting. I’m landing on a pretty clear pitcher pool while having a tougher time narrowing down the offense.
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Wednesday Pitching: MLB DFS Picks on FanDuel & DraftKings
There is a strong group of 7 good pitchers here, but four of them have much more difficult matchups, making it a little easier to sort through them:
TOP TIER PITCHING
Blake Snell vs. Brewers – 32.7% K, 11% BB, 3.62 ERA, 3.43 SIERA
Michael King at Mariners – 28.2% K, 8.8% BB, 3.10 ERA, 3.61 SIERA
Hunter Brown vs. A’s – 25.2% K, 8.6% BB, 3.41 ERA, 3.78 SIERA
Cole Ragans at Yankees – 29.6% K, 8.3% BB, 3.33 ERA, 3.41 SIERA
Luis Gil vs. Royals – 27.7% K, 12.5% BB, 3.24 ERA, 4.17 SIERA
Nick Pivetta vs. Orioles – 29.1% K, 6.1% BB, 4.38 ERA, 3.33 SIERA
Bryan Woo vs. Padres – 20.2% K, 2.4% BB, 2.36 ERA, 3.85 SIERA
The first two games of the night feature some high-upside pitchers in tough matchups. If we didn’t have other aces available on this slate, I would be quite willing to consider Cole Ragans, Nick Pivetta, and Luis Gil in these tougher matchups. However, we do have other aces in much better matchups, which leaves this trio as just MME leftovers. Among the three of them, Cole Ragans is the best pitcher, and the one I’d toss in the mix first, but he’s going to end up no higher than 4th place on this slate. With Gil’s horrific control and the power issues from Pivetta, they are both way down the list.
I’m also mostly out on…
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