Yasmany Tomas Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections

Inexplicably, a predominantly RH lineup with Paul Goldschmidt in the middle has been struggling against LHP this season (78 wRC+, 15.6 K-BB%). Perhaps it's Goldschmidt's 100 wRC+ and .154 ISO that's responsible for a large portion of that. A 52.4 Hard% tells a better story going forward, but the cost remains steep. He's the second best overall bat according to RotoGrinders Player Projections. The team has also struggled to a 76 wRC+ on the road with a 25.1 K%. Jeff Locke makes his first start for Miami after rehabbing from a shoulder injury. In four minor league starts (all below AAA), he struck out 22 of 81 batters with just two walks and two HRs. He has just a 7.4 career K-BB% in over 600 innings, so 20 innings below AAA is not going to change our minds. Either Nick Ahmed (160 wRC+, .200 ISO vs LHP this year) or Chris Owings (117 wRC+, .158 ISO vs LHP this year) are solid SS options tonight in the top half the lineup with Ahmed more likely to get you to Greinke at a lower cost. Yasmani Tomas destroyed LHP last season, but has just a 51 wRC+ and .173 ISO against them this year, though, like Goldschimdt, he has been hitting the ball hard (39.4%), but has only been getting in the air 27.3% of the time.

Dylan Covey continues to prove that he is far from a Major League caliber starting pitcher and now heads to the hitters' paradise known as Chase Field to take on the Arizona Diamondbacks this evening. Covey's one calling card in Minors was his ability to keep the ball on the ground, something he has struggled with thus far in the 2017 campaign (45.6% GB%). When his low groundballs are combined with an unsightly 12.8% strikeout rate, 9.8% walk rate, and 6.2% swinging strike rate, you come away with his current 5.40 SIERA on the season. For whatever reason, Covey hasn’t been able to generate ground balls like he did in the Minors, and that has simply left him as an extremely hittable pitcher at the Major League level. Unfortunately for him, the Diamondbacks have a plethora of guys that mash right-handed pitching, beginning with Paul Goldschmidt (188 wRC+, .472 wOBA, .313 ISO vs RHP) and Jake Lamb (179 wRC+, .458 wOBA, .342 ISO vs RHP), who look to be two of the top options on Tuesday's entire slate. Yasmany Tomas (136 wRC+, .392 wOBA, .300 ISO vs RHP) and David Peralta (133 wRC+, .387 wOBA, .175 ISO vs RHP) follow closely behind and remain in play for all formats, though Peralta, along with Chris Herrmann (110 wRC+, .349 wOBA, .234 ISO vs RHP since 2016) are virtually must plays on FanDuel for their bargain price tags. If in need of additional salary savings, it's tough to even argue against a guy like Reymond Fuentes, who stands to benefit from leading off for this dangerous Arizona offense in a nearly perfect matchup.

Eric Thames (214 wRC+, .439 ISO vs RHP) is expected back in the lineup after a hamstring scare this week. He's one of two small sample size players topping the RotoGrinders HR Predictor tonight, though few could argue with the matchups. Thames (8.43 Proj HR%) faces Bartolo Colon, who hasn't been terrible against RHP (.323 wOBA since 2015), but has allowed a bit of hard contact (33.2%) in the air (37.6 GB%) against RHBs and transitions to a more hitter friendly environment in Milwaukee tonight. Thames's cost has finally begin to rise however. Trey Mancini (158 wRC+, .389 ISO vs LHP, 7.61 Proj HR%) is much cheaper. He faces C.C. Sabathia, who has allowed a .340 wOBA with 46 of his 53 HRs allowed surrendered to RHBs since 2015. Among those with larger sample sizes, both Trevor Story (6.17%) and Yasmany Tomas (6.03%) stand a decent chance of going deep off a southpaw in Arizona tonight.

If Eric Thames (214 wRC+, .439 ISO vs RHP) is in the lineup (hamstring), he may be the top bat on the board against Bartolo Colon (.323 wOBA, 33.2 Hard% vs RHBs since 2015), though First Base is a power house tonight. Joey Votto (166 wRC+, .246 ISO vs RHP since 2015) faces Lance Lynn (LHBs .350 wOBA since 2015) and Trey Mancini (158 wRC+, .389 ISO vs LHP) may get a shot at C.C. Sabathia (RHBs .340 wOBA since 2015) on the cheap at Yankee Stadium. Paul Goldschmidt (176 wRC+, .234 ISO vs LHP since 2015) may be the most popular bat as part of an Arizona stack against rookie Kyle Freeland in Arizona, though RHBs haven't really been very proficient against this lefty so far (.309 wOBA, 27.6 Hard%). The Diamonbacks just have an easily stackable lineup against LHP at home (Yasmany Tomas 143 wRC+, .257 ISO career, A.J. Pollock 132 wRC+, .211 ISO since 2015) and even Chris Owings (114 wRC+, .178 ISO since last season) and Brandon Drury (203 wRC+ over the last week) to help save some salary. Where players might really save some money tonight is in Detroit, where Mike Pelfrey (LHBs .373 wOBA since 2015) starts for the White Sox and the Tigers are forced to play some lesser known LHBs due to injuries. Certainly consider Tyler Collins (108 wRC+, .159 ISO vs RHP since 2015) and Alex Avila (113 wRC+, .167 ISO vs RHP since 2015) or even Jim Adduci if in the lineup tonight, especially in the top half. All three cost less than $3K on either site and have a wRC+ above 200 over the last seven days.

Coors once again rules in popularity among Projected Ownership leaders tonight, but there are so many strong First Base options that players can pivot to potentially low owned options like Joey Votto or Paul Goldschmidt in favorable parks against opposite handed pitchers. Yasmany Tomas is a lefty-masher (144 wRC+, .259 ISO career) projected for less than 10% ownership on either site. Michael Wacha is surprisingly projected to be just as popular as Kershaw tonight, while Scott Feldman has struck out batters at a league average rate and is facing a highly strikeout prone Milwaukee offense (27.2 K% vs RHP) at around 1% projected ownership rates tonight. Premium subscribers can find ownership projections for all players on our Projected Ownership page.

Most of your premier matchup bats are going to be coming out of Colorado tonight as German Marquez had great difficulty with batters from either side of the plate in his short 20 inning major league debut last season (RHBs .397, LHBs .391) with a below average strikeout rate and Joe Ross has always struggled with LHBs (.355 wOBA, 35.5 Hard%, 36.7 GB%). Harper (167 wRC+, .285 ISO vs RHP since 2015), Turner (138 wRC+, .228 ISO vs RHP career), Zimmerman (307 wRC+, 47.4 Hard% last seven days), Murphy (142 wRC+, .227 ISO vs RHP since 2015) and Eaton (126 wRC+, .171 ISO vs RHP since 2017) should all be highly coveted for good reason from the visitor side, while Blackmon (122 wRC+, .229 ISO vs RHP since 2015) and Gonzalez (128 wRC+, .258 ISO vs RHP since 2015) check all the boxes for the home team. Some of the strongest looking bats elsewhere though, appear at First Base. Eric Thames hit two more last night, both off a lefty, but he also has a .203 wRC+, .415 ISO with a 51.3 Hard% against RHP and though Feldman is more of a neutral arm against LHBs (.317 wOBA since 2015), he has the benefit of a great home environment for LH power hitters and is still under-priced on DraftKings ($4.2K). His counterpart, Joey Votto (166 wRC+, .245 ISO, 41.7 Hard% vs RHP since 2015), is in a similarly strong spot against a pitcher who has floundered in his sophomore year (Zach Davies 6.3 K-BB%, 35.7 Hard% overall this season). Arizona also hosts a pair of potential pivots on each side in Goldschmidt (171 wRC+, .226 ISO vs LHP since 2015) and Tomas (144 wRC+, .259 ISO vs LHP career) for the Diamondbacks and Renfroe (155 wRC+, .242 ISO vs LHP career) and Myers (125 wRC+, .183 ISO vs LHP since 2015). Though Corbin has struggled against opposite handed bats (.355 wOBA, 35.1 Hard% vs RHBs since 2015), Clayton Richard (.349 wOBA vs RHBs since 2015), has at least shied away from hard contact in the air vs RHBs (29.4 Hard%, 59.8 GB%).

Clayton Richard is set to already make his fourth start of the season tonight against the Arizona Diamondbacks after experiencing mixed results over his first three outings. Richard is fairly dominant versus left-handed batters, as he induced an astronomical 80.4% groundball rate while allowing hard contact just 16.1% of the time. This removes Jake Lamb from consideration entirely and is the only left-handed bat in the Diamondbacks lineup this evening. Right-handers are more in play though given Richard's low 11.5% strikeout rate and high 11.0% walk rate. Any time a pitcher is walking nearly as many hitters as he strikes out, a stack can never be entirely ruled out, especially on an abbreviated slate. However, righties with power upside like Paul Goldschmidt (163 wRC+, .426 wOBA, .201 ISO vs LHP in 2016/17) and Yasmany Tomas (177 wRC+, .446 wOBA, .317 ISO vs LHP in 2016/17) may be the more optimal route to take in tournaments opposed to a full stack.

We haven't seen Matt Cain finish a season with an ERA under 4.00 since 2012, and those days aren't returning to the right-hander at this point in his career. Cain has been brutally bad over the past two seasons despite pitching in one of the more pitcher-friendly environments in the league, and wasn't able to climb above 88-89 MPH in his first start of the season, so seeing him get a quick hook from the SF rotation after a handful of bad starts wouldn't be surprising. Even in his spacious home park in 2016, Cain still allowed a .368 wOBA and 10 HRs in 58.2 IP (to R and L handed bats combined). While we'd love to get the D'Backs bats in Chase Field, the fact that they're on the road tonight should keep their ownership percentages way down in tournaments, and it also helps that several sites have priced them down a bit (DraftKings specifically, where David Peralta is arguably the top value play on the main slate). In 148 PAs against Cain, the D'Backs as a team have racked up a .397 wOBA, and some of that data dates back to when Cain was actually a viable major league starter. Cain doesn't excel against hitters from either side of the plate, so the entire D'Backs lineup is in play here. but we're going to want to stick to bats in the top five or six of the order. Pollock, Peralta, Goldschmidt, Lamb and Tomas are all in play here assuming they're in the lineup. Keep up with the RotoGrinders Starting Lineups page and Alerts App to be notified when the lineup becomes official.

If you used the Daily HR Predictor yesterday, it went one for three on its top picks and you may have come away with a minimally priced Joey Gallo bomb. Tonight there are three more players with a 7% or higher projection, including Gary Sanchez (7.72%), who has not started well at all and Yasmany Tomas (8.96%), who torched LHP last year (186 wRC+, 46.9 Hard%). Though he elevated just 24% of batted balls, Matt Moore has just a 37.7 GB% over the last two seasons, which projects well for some solid contact. With the caveat of an extremely small sample size, Trey Mancini (14.44%) may be a low cost Oriole to take note of. J.A. Happ is a fly ball pitcher predicted for regression this year.