MLB PrizePicks Predictions Today: Top Plays for Monday, May 27th
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, May 27th
- Kyle Tucker MORE Than 1.5 Total Bases (DEMON)
- Austin Gomber LESS Than 17.5 Outs
- Cooper Criswell MORE Than 3.0 Strikeouts
Kyle Tucker MORE Than 1.5 Total Bases (DEMON)
Tucker has the best DEMON hitting play on the board. He faces Bryce Miller, who has been sneaky-bad against power lefties. Miller is a decent pitcher, but he’s surrendered a 12.3% barrel rate to lefties — 18% over the 129 batters faced this season. Tucker has a .251 ISO and 12% barrel rate against RHP, with only a 15.1% K rate. We have him projected for 2.5 total bases. 1.5 is hilariously low for someone who hits this hard this often.
Austin Gomber LESS Than 17.5 Outs
Gomber is a bad pitcher in Coors Field projected for nearly 6 innings by PrizePicks. We should pounce on the LESS play. He’s gone deep a lot lately — 8, 6, 6.2, 6, and 7 IP in his last 5 starts — being very economical with his pitches, but this is a really pesky Guardians offense. The Guardians don’t have much power, but Gomber only has an 8.2% K-BB rate to go with a 48.5% hard-hit rate and 9.1% barrel rate allowed. There are strikeouts in this Guardians lineup, but Gomber doesn’t have the stuff, and they can punish high-contact pitchers by getting a lot of traffic on the basepaths that should knock Gomber out of the game fairly early. We have Gomber projected for 15.6 outs.
Cooper Criswell MORE Than 3.0 Strikeouts
Criswell being projected for 3.0 strikeouts is a bit insulting. His K/9 is up to 8.83 this season, with only a 2.08 BB/9. That BB rate is important because it helps his pitch count and the traffic on the basepaths to keep him in the game. The Orioles are tough, and we have Criswell projected for only 86 pitches, but 3.0 is too low. We just need Criswell to stay in the game for 5 innings to get there on a MORE play. We have Criswell projected for 4.1 Ks, and he’s struck out 5+ in 3 of his last 4 starts.
All projections referenced are accurate at the time of writing but subject to change.
This isn’t a great slate. Honestly, I’m probably playing three contests with these two pitcher plays plus Freddie Freeman MORE than 1.5 total bases exposure. And I’m gonna pick a Royal against the shaky power prevention of Joe Ryan and call it a day.
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