Every day this season, our team shares who we believe has the best chance to leave the yard. From one-off plays to core parts of daily stacks, we hope this fun article will help you build winning lineups along the way.
Welcome back MLB DFS grinders to the 2022 season! As always, FantasyCruncher will have several daily articles from pitching to stacking, to home run picks, to general cheat sheets to help you build your daily lineups. And the best news, it is all free! This year for 2022, we are changing up the scoring for the home run calls to be weighted based on the player’s salary. If one of our writers chooses a player with a salary over $5,000 it will be worth 0.5 points. Between $4-$4.9k is 1 point, $3-$3.9k is 2 points, and anyone $2.9k or below is worth 3 points. In terms of salary, we are going off of DraftKings salary for this article. Again, the scoring system is just a fun and friendly competition between our MLB content writers.
Today’s Picks
James: Pete Alonso ($4,800) – It’s Patrick Corbin day! Rinse and repeat here so if you read this every day sorry for sounding like a broken record. Surprisingly, Corbin has only allowed one home run on the year after allowing 37 last year and 35 to right-handed hitters. That being said, just because the ball is staying in the yard doesn’t mean Corbin has been good! In fact, he’s been horrible, allowing 37 hits in 27 innings and 22 earned runs. His ERA is 7.16 and his WHIP is 1.81. Somehow Corbin went eight innings in his last start, even though he allowed nine hits and five runs (three earned). No metric is redeeming and all of his current ranks or expected ranks fall in the bottom-third of the MLB. Righties hit Corbin the hardest and the Mets have a good amount of righty power. Give me the big bat of Alonso here.
Zach: Aaron Judge ($5,900) – Give me the league leader in home runs against a pitcher who has given up a lot of home runs this season. It truly is as simple as that when it comes to Judge tonight. Judge has nine home runs which are tied for the league lead and has an ISO of .333 which is the second-highest this season. Yusei Kikuchi has allowed at least one home run in four of his five starts and has an HR/9 rate of 1.74 this season. Judge has also had some success against Kikuchi in the past with two home runs in his 11 at-bats against him.
Jared: Tyler O’Neill ($4,100) – Kyle Bradish has really been struggling at the major league level thus far, and he heads into his Tuesday tilt with a talented St Louis offense that should have no problem knocking him around. Through 2 starts, he holds a 5.00 SIERA, 4.5 K/9, 6.17 xERA and has coughed up 2 long balls. Not a huge sample size, but enough to show me that he’s just not going to be all that prolific at getting MLB hitters out. O’Neill has been off to a relatively slow start in 2022, but is turning the corner. In his last week of action, he has a .286 ISO, .399 wOBA and 23.1% barrel rate. The 13.8 degree launch angle and 95.7 mph exit velocity show us that he’s definitely “home run ready”, and I’m very happy to have him as my guy here this evening. If he’s out of the lineup for any reason today, I’ll pivot to fellow Cardinal Juan Jepez.
Overall Standings
| James | 11.5 (10 total home runs) |
| Zach | 10 (5 total home runs) |
| Jared | 16 (9 total home runs) |
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