MLB PrizePicks Predictions Today: Top Plays for Monday, August 5th
Traditional MLB DFS formats aren’t the only way to profit from daily fantasy baseball. MLB PrizePicks is a great fantasy pick’em site where we can take today’s projections versus theirs and combine two or more baseball predictions for sizeable payouts.
In this space, we’ll explore a few PrizePicks plays for the upcoming MLB slate. This article isn’t the be-all, end-all of great plays or a recommendation for a full ticket; it’s simply a starting place for you to explore thinking about the game within the game. Maybe you want to scatter these plays across entries. Maybe there are only two or three you think are worth playing. Daily fantasy pick’em gives us the flexibility to make only the plays in which we think there is value rather than being forced to create a full lineup while competing against the best DFS players in the industry.
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MLB PrizePicks Predictions for Monday, August 5th
- Tyler Glasnow MORE Than 8.5 Strikeouts (DEMON)
- Roddery Munoz MORE Than 5.5 Strikeouts (DEMON) and MORE Than 15.5 Outs (DEMON)
- Logan Webb MORE Than 18.5 Outs (DEMON)
- Brady Singer MORE Than 5.5 Strikeouts (DEMON) and MORE Than 6.5 Hits Allowed (DEMON)
- Matt Chapman MORE Than 2.5 Total Bases (DEMON)
Tyler Glasnow MORE Than 8.5 Strikeouts (DEMON)
With Tyler Glasnow projected for 96 pitches, it’s all systems go on Glasnow’s DEMON projection under 9.0. And that’s what we have today: an 8.5 DEMON projection for a guy with a 33.3% K rate and a long leash. We have Glasnow projected for 8.3 Ks.
Roddery Munoz MORE Than 5.5 Strikeouts (DEMON) and MORE Than 15.5 Outs (DEMON)
Munoz is a bad real-life pitcher because he lacks command, but he has a high-strikeout pedigree, and loanDepot Park is good at containing baseballs. The Reds are a pretty weak offense without the bump of their home ballpark, so this is a good spot for Munoz to get some volume and – therefore – strikeouts. He’s gone 5+ IP in each of his last 4 starts. We have him projected for 5.6 Ks and 15.6 outs, so this play is tight, but the DEMON boost gives us enough juice for some exposure to both plays.
Logan Webb MORE Than 18.5 Outs (DEMON)
Logan Webb doesn’t strike anyone out, and that can get him into trouble, but the Nationals are pretty bad, and Webb has one of the longest leashes in the league. He’s allowed just a .294 wOBA and .090 ISO, while Washington’s projected lineup has just a .121 ISO against righties. Outside of a stretch of 3 rough starts in July, Webb’s been lights out this season, tossing a CGSO his last game out. The Giants wanna have him out there throwing 100 pitches in 7 IP every game. We have Webb projected for 18.7 outs in a game where he shouldn’t get knocked around.
Brady Singer MORE Than 5.5 Strikeouts (DEMON) and MORE Than 6.5 Hits Allowed (DEMON)
Brady Singer should get knocked around a bit, but he should get deep into this game after going 7 IP in each of his last 3 starts – 3 of his last 4 and 5 of his last 7. With the volume, 6 Ks looks like a pretty simple benchmark to hit, as should the Red Sox logging 7+ hits. We have Singer projected for 5.3 Ks and giving up 7.3 hits.
Matt Chapman MORE Than 2.5 Total Bases (DEMON)
Matt Chapman and his 18% barrel rate and 66.5% hard-hit rate against lefties since the start of the 2023 season against Patrick Corbin has to be the best total bases play on the board. On top of being bad, Corbin has a really long leash of over 100 pitches, so we should get 3 PAs for Chapman against Corbin to get to our projected 2.6 total bases.
All projections referenced are accurate at the time of writing but subject to change.
An awesome day for pitching makes this a far better PrizePicks day than for DFS. I’d put more eggs in mixing and matching a lot of juicy DEMONs than into DraftKings or FanDuel contests, as the chalk is gonna follow the projections very closely. On PrizePicks, we just have to pounce on the plays early enough before they ferment.
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