Jimmy Rollins Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections

Steven Matz has been dominating right-handed batters this season (.219 wOBA) and the White Sox have the heart of their order hitting from that side of the plate. Matz has also been hard on left-handed bats, generating a 77.8 GB% against them at home. Matz has a 29.4 K% with a 2.36 ERA this season. The last 14 days have not been pretty for Melky Cabrera (.270 wOBA), Jose Abreu (.267 wOBA), Brett Lawrie (.243 wOBA), and Jimmy Rollins (.198 wOBA) proving that the White Sox have really been struggling over the past couple weeks. With the numbers really favoring Matz, it'll be tough to recommend any White Sox hitters against him. Matz is the 3rd most expensive pitching option on this slate and could have a lower than usual ownership levels with Jose Fernandez and Jake Arrieta on the slate. On sites that allow for two pitchers, Matz a strong 2nd option to stack with one of the top guys, if you can find value bats elsewhere.

Ivan Nova has been on a pitch count to start the 2016 season. Still, to begin the game, White Sox lefties like Adam Eaton and Jimmy Rollins get a chance to face a pitcher with an early wOBA of 0.348 this year against LHB. Nova’s wOBA against LHB in 2015 was 0.387, not leaving much hope for positive regression. Since the beginning of last year, Eaton has exhibited a wRC+ of 128 against RHP and looks to be a high floor play today from the leadoff position.

Tyler Duffey has allowed an OBP of 0.351 to left-handed batters in his year career, dating back to the beginning of 2015. Jimmy Rollins batting in the 2-spot could provide for a viable value play at shortstop today.

Rollins is absent from the White Sox lineup today, including Saladino at shortstop instead, batting 9th.

When you're K% (9.4) is a league average SwStr%, you are basically automatically disqualified from any daily fantasy consideration, even on the smallest of slates. Wilson has kept his ERA reasonable (3.31) by allowing just two HRs over his 49 innings though, split between bullpen and rotation (six major league starts). The White Sox have a team 135 wRC+ and 1.8 K-BB% over the last week with Melky Cabrera (108 wRC+ vs RHP since 2015) being the hottest batter (219 wRC+, 38.1 Hard%). Todd Frazier (109 wRC+, .213 ISO vs RHP since 2015) follows with a 190 wRC+ over the last seven days. Adam Eaton (129 wRC+ vs RHP) and Jose Abreu (134 wRC+, .229 ISO) have not been hitting the ball as well, but merit some consideration on a short slate. With two hole hitter and SS Jimmy Rollins showing a 65 wRC+ vs RHP since last season, the problem is there's just not much to really like a lot on either side of this equation.

Brett Lawrie might be an under-owned 2B option tonight as he has a 133 wRC+ vs LHP since last season and a 225 wRC+ over the last week. In fact, he is one of six batters with a 105 wRC+ or better vs southpaws over that span with Melky Cabrera (56 wRC+), Adam Eaton (86 wRC+), and Jose Abreu (81 wRC+) shockingly being the exceptions. I don't see this continuing in Abreu's case with a 35.3 Hard% against them, making this an interesting stacking opportunity tonight. Todd Frazier leads the pack with a 131 wRC+, .335 ISO, 38.5 Hard% vs LHP since last season, even though he hasn't been hitting all that well lately (83.75 avg exit velocity on 28 batted balls) and Jimmy Rollins hits better from the right side (124 wRC+ since last season) at this point in his career. Hector Santiago has generated more weak contact than usual over his first two starts (26.2 Hard%), but that hasn't been the case throughout his career (30.4 Hard%). He's up to his old BABIP tricks again (.205), but that won't last, nor should his 5.5 BB% (10.2% career). He might miss a few bats, but is a below average pitcher with many flaws and should be a good pitcher to target with RH bats in a lineup projected to score 4.3 runs tonight.

Sands was one of the top prospects in baseball not too long ago. He's never really materialized in the big leagues, but he's making good on his early opportunities with the White Sox. He'll slot into the five-spot tonight with Melky Cabrera out of the lineup, and given his near minimum price tag across the industry, he's a viable GPP punt play against the sometimes erratic Matt Moore. With Jimmy Rollins out of the lineup, Tyler Saladino will get the start at SS and will bat ninth. Moore allowed a .375 wOBA to RH bats last season, so those are the bats we'll want to target here, although Moore wasn't terribly effective against lefties either. Todd Frazier and Jose Abreu are both very strong options, while Austin Jackson provides nice value out of the two-spot.