Pitcher	1B/C	2B	3B	SS	OF
Kyle Gibson	Joey Votto	Brandon Lowe	Eugenio Suarez	Fernando Tatis Jr	Jesse Winker + Naquin
Kevin Gausman	Tyler Stephenson	Johnny India	Manny Machado	Miggy Rojas	Juan Soto
Shohei Ohtani	Pete Alonso	Jeff McNeil	Ke’Bryan Hayes	Kyle Farmer	Michael Conforto
Casey Mize	Garrett Cooper	Jazz Chisholm	Rafael Devers	Trea Turner	Duvall + Marte
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Pitching

We have a big 11 game slate on tap tonight with no clear ace-level pitcher. My favorite arm tonight is Kyle Gibson who matches up with the Detroit Tigers. Detroit continues to be one of the worst teams in baseball vs RHP, and Gibson has excelled all season. Even when isolating just the last 30 days, we see a 27% strikeout rate and 3.78 SIERA, extremely respectable numbers capable of carving up this Tigers lineup.

Kevin Gausman is the best real-life pitcher on this slate, aside from Darvish who I am avoiding tonight since he is just returning from injury. He draws a tough match-up with the Dodgers, making him a tough sell as a cash game anchor. I am viewing Gausman has GPP-only in this match-up, but tagging him orange since he is the best pure pitcher on this slate.

The interesting option here, per usual, is Shohei Ohtani. He continues to be prone to bad starts if the control issues show up, but I can argue his 31% strikeout rate is the highest upside on this slate. He bounced back from a disaster against the Yankees to shred the Red Sox last week without walking a single batter. He is volatile, but the highest upside player tonight and I view him as viable in all formats if you can stomach the risk.

 

Batters

We have some CLEAR offensive spots tonight starting with the Reds/Mets game. Both teams are in nuts spots against terrible pitchers in Jerad Eickhoff and Vlad Gutierrez. If I had to pick one of them, I would lean Cincy as Eickhoff has been horrible for multiple seasons. He’s one of the worst pitchers in baseball to left-handed batters, and struggles with power to righties as well. Reds lefties will be a big spot for ownership, making Joey Votto, Tyler Naquin and Jesse Winker priority plays for me tonight.

After those two teams, the next two stacks I’m looking at are facing each other as well, the Nationals and Marlins. Miami gets Jon Lester, who continues to be one of our favorite pitchers to stack against in DFS. This is not a particularly good offense against left-handed pitching, but all of Rojas, Marte, Cooper, Duvall, Aguilar and Jazz hit the ball hard with respectable wOBA’s in the split. I think Miami goes overlooked tonight and could be a great affordable tournament stack.

 

Written by Ben Hossler (Follow @BenHossler on Twitter)