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 MLB DFS lineups along the way.
As always, FantasyCruncher has 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: Austin Riley ($5,300) – Patrick Corbin is allowing a ton of home runs to right-handed hitters and while his last three starts have been stronger, it still isn’t enough to overshadow the last season and a half of data on him. Corbin has allowed 46 homers to right-handed hitters since the start of 2021 and faces a RHH heavy Braves lineup on the road. When Corbin pitches on the road the numbers get worse as he has a WHIP of 1.90 and an opponent batting average of .352. Any right-handed power bat is in play here, but I am going back to Austin Riley who is slugging .795 over his last ten games.
Zach: Marcel Ozuna ($4,000) – I’m on the same wave length as James today in regards to the Braves. Corbin struggles with two things: right handed hitting and pitching on the road. We get both here. Ozuna is riding a short five-game hitting streak but has as much raw power as anyone else in this lineup.
Jared: Keston Hiura ($2,800) – He’s as boom or bust as it gets these days, sporting an insanely high strikeout rate (44%), but a .226 ISO and career bests in the barrel rate (18.2%) and hard hit rate (49.1%) departments in the process. With how much opposing SP Zach Thompson has struggled of late (3.21 HR/9 in his last 14 innings and a 14.6% barrel rate), I like the idea of Hiura as a HR threat today as long as he’s in the lineup. My fallback is Jordan Luplow (another sub-$3,000 candidate) just in case Hiura’s sitting.
Overall Standings
| James | 22.5 (18 total home runs) |
| Zach | 31.5 (20 total home runs) |
| Jared | 22 (16 total home runs) |
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