| Date | Opp | DKSAL | FDSAL | DKFPTS | FDFPTS | k | ip | ab | sho | w | hra | l | er | cg | ha | 3ba | bba | sba | ibba | whip | hbp | qstart | 1ba | k/9 | 2ba |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-04 | @ NYY | -- | -- | 8 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.25 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 2021-06-27 | vs. PHI | $4K | $5.5K | 14.6 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 2021-06-23 | vs. ATL | -- | -- | 8.25 | 16 | 2 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7.73 | 2 |
| 2020-09-20 | vs. ATL | $8.6K | $5.5K | 2.9 | 5 | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.64 | 1 |
| 2020-08-25 | vs. MIA | $11.2K | -- | 13.8 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6.75 | 0 |
| 2020-08-18 | @ MIA | $8.6K | -- | 10.15 | 19 | 4 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.15 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8.31 | 2 |
| 2020-07-26 | vs. ATL | $7.3K | $5.5K | 0.2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.75 | 4 |
Corey Oswalt Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections
The Not So Curious Case of Corey Oswalt
The case for Corey Oswalt goes something like this: he's cheap and he's facing the Marlins. Not much else can be said in favor of the Mets righty who has struggled significantly at times this season and is almost certainly a below average pitcher. Zach Davies is my preferred option over Oswalt in this price range, and you're not playing Oswalt on FanDuel where Tyler Glasnow is cheap, but Davies/Oswalt teams sure are fun on DK.
Jacob deGrom scratched Sunday; Corey Oswalt will start in his place
deGrom will have his previously scheduled start pushed back, likely until tomorrow, and consequentially won’t pitch for the New York Mets in Sunday’s home matchup against the Philadelphia Phillies due to a managerial decision that was coerced by forecasted inclement weather. He’ll be replaced on the mound by Corey Oswalt, who, like deGrom, is a right-handed pitcher, so his presence on the bump shouldn’t alter the confirmed lineup of the Phillies in any significant fashion, if at all. That said, still be sure to double check out the Starting Lineups page and projections in LinuepHQ for any notable changes prior to submitting lineups for tonight’s main slate.
One of the Best Matchups on the board
I am going to do zero to try to convince you that Oswalt is a good pitcher. He is average by virtually every single statistic. Decent walk rate, k rate, gb rate, hard contact rate, etc. but this Miami lineup is just one of the worst I have seen in a while. Looking all the way up and down this lineup the only 2 people I really have any fear for is Realmuto and Dietrich (kind of). We don't have a huge sample size on a lot of these guys, but the 20.6% K rate that's showing in plateIQ is defininely too low (a lot of these guys don't have a big enough sample size to know). If the high K rate weren't enough, the projected lineup only has a .125 ISO and .293 wOBA. All this and he's playing in one of the best pitchers ballparks in the league. Essentially what we have is a triple A matchup here in a good ballpark and that's gonna be more than good enough to pay off Oswalts 5.6k pricetag.
Large afternoon slate features several high strikeout pitchers
The afternoon slate for both sites contains eight games, starts at 12:10 ET, and features just one high priced pitcher. Another potentially interesting pitcher (Nathan Eovaldi) has just been traded an hour before he was to throw his first pitch. Trevor Bauer (31.3 K%, 3.16 SIERA, .273 xwOBA) costs $3-4K more than any other pitcher and is easily the top pitcher on the board. Prior to striking out exactly seven in each of his last two starts, he'd struck out at least eight in nine straight. He's also walked at least four in two of his last three starts, lasting only four innings in Texas last time out. This afternoon, he's facing a contact prone Pittsburgh offense (19.2 K% vs RHP) in a positive run environment. The Pirates also have a league best 180 team wRC+ with a 15.7 K% and 22 HR/FB since the break. The positive is that one of the hottest hitters on the team, Corey Dickerson, is out of the lineup today. Bauer will need double digit strikeouts to cover his price tag. Freddie Peralta actually has a higher strikeout rate (34.5%), while Robbie Ray equals Bauer (31.3%). Peralta has struck out just 14 of 61 batters over his last three starts, utilizing his fastball close to 80% of the time. He's also managed contact well (.284 xwOBA, 86.7 mph aEV, 3.9% Barrels/BBE) and is the second most expensive pitcher on DraftKings ($9.5K). Ray costs less than $7.5K on either site because his walk (11.7%) and hard contact (90.3 mph aEV, 10.7% Barrels/BBE) rates mandate he strike out a ton of batters just stay in the league. In his last outing, he struck out just two Rockies and allowed the same number of HRs. Both have difficult matchups against the Nationals (11.8 K-BB% vs RHP) and Cubs (12.3 K-BB% vs LHP) in dangerous parks. The Cubs are down Kris Bryant today though, a major bat against LHP. Jack Flaherty (29 K%) has the next highest strikeout rate and has also been a quality contact manager (.286 xwOBA, 85.9 mph aEV), throwing his slider 30% of the time. He's been held to 75 or fewer pitches in three of his last six starts, but thrown more than 100 in each of the other three, including a nine strikeout performance last time out. He's in a dangerous park against a competent Reds' offense (11.4 K-BB% vs RHP), but an ice cold one (41 wRC+ since the break), who were nearly no-hit by pitchers making their first major league start on two consecutive days, which means they're probably likely to unload on the most talented pitcher of the three. Walker Buehler (25.3 K%) might be interesting in a high upside spot in a dangerous park in Philadelphia (25.8 K% vs RHP) at a price tag of around $8K, but he's thrown a total of eight innings at every level (MLB, AAA) since the beginning of July. Two low upside pitchers are facing each other in a great park. Clayton Richard (57.5 GB%) has just an 11.1 K% over the last 30 days. Corey Owsalt has struck out two or fewer in three of his four starts, but seven in his other and had a 23.4 K% at AAA this season. Both the Mets and Padres have a 79 wRC+ and 26 K% against the handedness of the pitcher being faced today. Both pitchers have a price range from $5.5K to $7.1K on either site.
Blue Jays host a rookie who was bombed in his first major league start backed by a terrible pen
Corey Oswalt was bombed in his first major league start in Miami (2.2 IP - 6 R - 2 HR), though did pitch well in his major league debut in relief earlier in the season (4.2 IP - 2 R - 4 K) in St Louis. He had a 14.8 K-BB% in AAA this season and a 14.4 K-BB% in AA last season. That suggests league average would probably be his upside, though the 2012 seventh round pick is not much of a prospect at all. In addition, he has a Mets' bullpen with a FIP above six over the last 30 days sitting behind him. A 5.3 implied run line for the Blue Jays may be a bit conservative here. Curtis Granderson (126 wRC+, .240 ISO vs RHP last calendar year) and Teoscar Hernandez (134 wRC+, .278 ISO) are great options tonight in a lineup that does not feature a single batter below a .178 ISO vs RHP over the last calendar year. Batting seventh, Randal Grichuk (119 wRC+, .288 ISO) has the top ISO. Justin Smoak (115 wRC+, .234 ISO) has been the hottest bat in the lineup (181 wRC+ last seven days).
Left-handed Miami bats are viable with the pitching change for the Mets
Cory Oslwalt will start for the Mets tonight and needless to say, that's a tremendous pitching downgrade and puts the two competent Miami left-handed bats back on the board. Justin Bour (148 wRC+, .262 ISO vs RHP last calendar year) and Derek Dietrich (129 wRC+, .211 ISO) are not priced any lower for the matchup with deGrom, but both are decent values against Oswalt, who has struck out four of 18 batters faced at the major league level, but also had a 14.8 K-BB% in 10 AAA starts this year after a similar mark (14.4%) in 24 AA starts last night.