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: Matt Chapman ($3,600) – The Brewers are trotting out Chi Chi Gonzalez on Sunday against one of the most potent offenses in the MLB. Gonzalez has made just three starts this year but has a high ERA and WHIP of 1.55. He hasn’t had an ERA under 5.50 in six years. His fastball is being hit at .333 and carries an expected slugging of .678. Chapman had three hits on Saturday including a home run and a double and a double in each of his previous two games. While the average is low here he has had a strong series in Milwaukee so far and now faces the easiest pitching matchup of the series.
Zach: Gavin Sheets ($2,100) – Sheets is not the typical player you will find in this article but I really like him for two reasons. The first is his .216 career ISO against right-handed pitching. The second is the fact that the right-handed pitcher he is facing Jordan Lyles is not a good pitcher and has really struggled on the road against left-handed hitting. This season when pitching on the road lefties are slugging .722 with a .479 wOBA.
Jared: Alejandro Kirk ($4,300) – In case you’ve been living under a rock for a little while, Alejandro Kirk has been on absolute fire of late and is stating his case to be the starting catcher for the American League All Star team in the process. And, he’s crushing the ball over his last week of action in particular, with a 289 wRC+, .500 ISO, .579 wOBA and 26.7% barrel rate (24 PA sample size). RHBs are the long ball weakness for Chi Chi Gonzalez, who has a HR/9 in his career of nearly 1.8 in the split (compared to about half of that vs LHBs), so this is a good opportunity to take advantage from a matchup perspective, too. If Kirk happens to sit out, my pivot will be fellow Blue Jays righty Lourdes Gurriel Jr ($3,000) who is seeing the ball incredibly well in his own right at the moment (261 wRC+ in his last week of work).
Overall Standings
| James | 20.5 (17 total home runs) |
| Zach | 22.5 (16 total home runs) |
| Jared | 21 (15 total home runs) |
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