MLB PrizePicks Predictions Today: Top Plays for Sunday, May 26th
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 Sunday, May 26th
- Ranger Suarez MORE Than 5.5 Strikeouts
- Taj Bradley MORE Than 5.5 Strikeouts
- Chris Sale MORE Than 7.5 Strikeouts
- Mookie Betts MORE Than 8.5 Fantasy Points
Ranger Suarez MORE Than 5.5 Strikeouts
This is in Coors, but the Rockies are just bad — especially against lefties. Their projected lineup has a 27.3% K rate versus lefties, while Ranger Suarez sits at 27.6% on the season. He’s gone at least 7 innings in 5 of his last 7 starts — 6+ in 8 of 10 starts this season. Averaging around a strikeout per inning, 5.5 is way too low of a projection from PrizePicks, as we have Suarez projected for 6.4. His floor is in the neighborhood of 5, with his ceiling around 10 considering his volume and the juicy matchup. I could play this in 80% of my contests.
Taj Bradley MORE Than 5.5 Strikeouts
The RG projection for Suarez isn’t the great disparity on the board. Taj Bradley and his 11.15 K/9 is projected for 6.5 Ks. The Royals have a very low K rate, so I don’t wanna overexpose us to this play, but the projection says that we should have some exposure, as Bradley is projected for 90 pitches and has gone 7 and 6 IP in his two Tampa starts, which is a great place for him to pitch.
Chris Sale MORE Than 7.5 Strikeouts
We only have Chris Sale projected for 7.7 Ks, but I’d be more likely to buy 6 as a floor with a double-digit ceiling. Sale has racked up 9+ Ks in his last 4 starts, going 7, 7, 6, and 5 IP. The Pirates come with a 25.7% K rate against lefties, while Sale has a 11.01 K/9 to go with his long leash. We have Sale conservatively projected for 98 pitches despite him hitting 100 in 3 of his last 4. One hundred pitches against the Pirates in Pittsburgh should get him to 8 Ks more often enough than not.
Mookie Betts MORE Than 8.5 Fantasy Points
It’s Mookie Betts in Cincinnati’s Great American Small Park against a lefty who can’t strike many people out and struggles with power prevention. Brent Suter has a 21.4% K rate, and he allows a 10.7% barrel rate to righties. Meanwhile, Betts comes in with a .439 wOBA, .307 ISO, and a 12.8% barrel rate against lefties. We have him projected for 11 fantasy points, making his MORE than 8.5 fantasy points the best fantasy points play on the board.
All projections referenced are accurate at the time of writing but subject to change.
The DEMON boosts aren’t in yet, but we should love all of the usual Dodgers suspects for MORE than 2.5 total bases. We should also watch the PrizePicks strikeout projection for Bryan Woo. They opened it at 5.5, and they pulled it as this article was being composed. If he’s down to 4.5, we should consider some exposure, as our projections have him for 3.5 in 80 pitches despite how economical he can be with his pitch count. Also, rain is likely in St. Louis; the question is when, because Sonny Gray has a 6.5 PrizePicks projection compared to our 7.2. If Kevin Roth says there will likely be a late start after which a full game can be played, Gray is a go; if he says an in-game delay is likely, we can go the other way with the LESS than 6.5.
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