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: Christian Walker ($3,600) – Antonio Senzatela is a guy who just lets too many balls into play. This can be seen with his 1.71 WHIP or the fact that opponents are hitting .340 or higher against him. Righties have the slugging edge here however as they are hitting .354 and slugging .549. While Senzatela isn’t a guy who gives up a ton of homers, I will always take a shot on a guy who is allowing a ton of contact. Christian Walker’s average isn’t great this year, but he has a 13.7% Barrel% which ranks in the top 9% of the league. The average against righties is poor, but he still has 19 homers against RHP.
Zach: Brandon Belt ($3,000) – Adam Oller has started seven games this season for Oakland. In those seven games, he has allowed multiple home runs five times with 11 total home runs. That works out to be an HR/9 rate of 3.26. While all of the Giants hitters are in play for this article with Oller sporting those kinds of numbers I like Belt the best tonight as Belt does have back-to-back games with a double and Oller is allowing lefties to slug .627 this season.
Jared: Nolan Gorman ($3,800) – Gorman’s slowed down after a hot start to his 2022 in the majors, but he’s in a great home run situation today, so I’m going back to him here. Domingo German’s back with the big club, and through 3 starts has a 2.84 HR/9 with a 6.36 xERA. Not exactly the kind of stats I want to invest in at this early stage in his 2022 season. Meanwhile, German’s 4.52 xFIP and 1.78 HR/9 vs LHB for his career is the weaker split, and Gorman’s superior split vs RHP (.224 ISO) lines up nicely, too.
Overall Standings
| James | 26 (24 total home runs) |
| Zach | 40 (26 total home runs) |
| Jared | 28.5 (19 total home runs) |
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