Tyler Holt Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections
Tyler Holt scratched from the Reds lineup
Holt has been scratched from the lineup Friday afternoon due to an unspecified reason. He will be replaced by Steve Selsky in right field and bat seventh.
Jaime Garcia may be a strong play tonight despite limited strikeout upside at home against the Reds
This is a great spot at home for Jaime Garcia, who uncharacteristically struck out 11 Braves in his last start after striking out just 12 of the previous 92 batters. His 57.3 GB% is fourth best in the majors though, while his K-BB jumps to 15.3% at home since last season. The Reds have an 80 wRC+ on the road and 82 wRC+ and 16.2 K-BB% vs LHP with names like Tyler Holt and Tony Renda floating around the lineup tonight. Though they have just one LHB int he lineup, Garcia has very little actual platoon split. LHBs do have 11 of his 12 HRs surrendered this year, he's actually generating an even higher ground ball rate against them this year (60%) with an evenly split wOBA just above .280 against batters from either side since last year. Heavily favored (-163), Garcia can be considered a top play on a thin board of aggressively priced pitchers, especially for less than $8K on DraftKings, even if the strikeout upside is usually limited. As one of several offenses projected in the 3.5 run range tonight, there's no interest in the Cincinnati bats here. Despite the heavily RH lineup, Eugenio Suarez (141 wRC+, .250 ISO) is the only substantially above average bat vs LHP this season. Both Cozart and Duvall have a 100 wRC+ and .235 ISO though.
Jay Bruce has been scratched with a sore knee
Jay Bruce is exiting the lineup with a knee injury, opening the door for Tyler Holt. Holt will bat second in the order, but his lineup position is about where the good news stops. Holt's 61 wRC+ against right-handed pitching does not make him a very attractive play today.
Reds leading off with Tyler Holt on Sunday, giving Zack Cozart the day off
Tyler Holt will get the guest appearance in the lead off spot for the Reds on Sunday with Zack Cozart getting the day off. Holt does not offer any power and only brings a career wRC+ versus LHP of 80 coming into today's game. While Holt is not likely to exploit Adam Morgan's 0.533 slugging allowed to RHB this year, Holt could benefit from the 0.333 OBP allowed to LHB.
Reds lineup is without Cozart, Suarez, or Hamilton
Cozart, Suarez, and Hamilton are absent from the Reds's lineup, including instead Tyler Holt, Ivan De Jesus and Jordan Pacheco. Zero of the three players have an wRC+ over 63, so there does not seem to be any clear value plays coming from this Sunday-special trio.