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 ($5,500) – While my colleagues have found success (and fun) chasing home run calls of lower-priced guys (you can see it in our standings and point total below), I am just sticking to boring guns and targeting the guy I just truly think is going to leave the yard. Austin Riley has a slugging of .854 and five home runs over his last ten games and faces Patrick Corbin again tonight. Riley took Corbin deep a week ago and Corbin has been serving home runs up to righties in bunches.
Zach: Eugenio Suarez ($4,300) – Suarez has gone deep three times in his past seven games and has 11 RBIs in those games. Suarez has also been a lefty killer throughout his career and this season in road games has an ISO of .206 against them. Those two factors along with the fact that Taylor Hearn the lefty Suarez is facing is not very good (1.29 HR/9 rate with a 5.86 ERA this season) is the reason why Suarez is my pick to go deep tonight.
Jared: Carlos Santana ($3,000) – When he’s going right, he’s a fantastic power threat. And, since he was traded to the Mariners, he’s really stepped things up. Particularly over the last week of action where he’s gone deep 3 times in 24 plate appearances with a 235 wRC+, .500 ISO, 21.4% barrel rate and 95.4 mph exit velocity average. He’s due to face righty Matt Bush and the Texas bullpen here in a high-temperature game (wonderful hitting environment), and is a great value option for us from a HR perspective to keep things rocking and rolling.
Update: No Santana tonight, so I will pivot this to Josh Naylor. Here’s to hoping he can keep the good times rolling one day later.
Overall Standings
| James | 24.5 (21 total home runs) |
| Zach | 36.5 (22 total home runs) |
| Jared | 28 (18 total home runs) |
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