Lisalverto Bonilla Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections

A full strength Toronto offense has the highest implied run line on the late slate (5.27) facing Lisavlerto Bonilla. After a SwStr above 14% in each of his first two starts, he dropped down to 3.8% in his most recent and has now allowed five HRs in 23.1 IP with 8.1% Barrels/BBE. While his hard hit rates are not that high (LHBs 30.4%, RHBs 25%), LHBs have hammered him for a .426 wOBA this year due to a 0.0 K-BB%. RHBs have just a .315 wOBA, but Josh Donaldson (152 wRC+, .264 ISO vs RHP since 2015) and Jose Bautista (140 wRC+, .260 ISO vs RHP since 2015) are both top overall projected bats on the slate (RotoGrinders Player Projections) along with Kendrys Morales (114 wRC+, .222 ISO vs RHP since 2015), who has a 206 wRC+ over the last week. Justin Smoak (104 wRC+ .218 ISO vs RHP since 2015) is a viable pivot in stacks.

On a particularly strong slate for pitching, there are three starters tonight with a strikeout rate in excess of 30% and the Daily K Predictor is optimistic about a few arms tonight with three arms (Chris Sale, Nate Karns, and Alex Wood) projected for seven strikeouts or more tonight. Curiously absent is one of those 30% arms in Jacob deGrom, likely because the Angels have had low strikeout rates in the past. However, they are a league average 20.4% vs RHP this year. The Predictor may be under-cutting deGrom, who has a SwStr above 13% in five of his last six starts. Chris Sale (38.8 K%, 16.1 SwStr%) has been the best (fantasy) pitcher in baseball this year, while some can make the argument that Alex Wood (33.1 K%, 12.1 SwStr%, 2.27 ERA, 2.47 SIERA) has been better than Kershaw. Nate Karns is second on the K Predictor (8.57) and has struck out 22 of his last 48 batters with the lowest walk rate of his career (7.7%), but continues to have HR issues and rarely pitches more than six innings. All pitchers mentioned are strong options tonight, though a few of them may need to be paired with a cheaper second pitcher on DraftKings. One thing to consider is that Lisalverto Bonilla has had a SwStr above 15% in each of his two starts and faces a Colorado offense with a 74 wRC+ at home, 71 wRC+ vs RHP and 61 wRC+ over the last week. Their K-BB in those situations (18.3%, 15.6%, and 19.7%).