Welcome to another edition of Sriracha’s MLB Game Theory. In this article, I will outline my favorite plays at each position for the MLB Slate. You can find all of Karma staff’s cores through our MLB Premium Package. Without further ado, here are my favorite plays at each position:
| Pitcher | 1B/C | 2B | 3B | SS | OF |
| Montas | Mancini | Hernandez | Bryant | Correa | Buxton |
| Darvish | Rizzo | Marte | Escobar | Baez | Winker |
| Mahle | Vogelbach | Wong | Lowrie | Lux | Kirloff |
| Gibson | Walker | J. Rojas | India | Rosario | Avi. Garcia |
| TEX | TEX | TEX | TEX | TEX | TEX |
Tilt your mobile device on it’s side for optimal viewing
*If you don’t already play 3 lineups and 3-max entry contests daily, try using the teams provided in the stacks above to maximize upside and correlation in your MLB lineups.
Welcome to another MLB DFS Game Theory for the 2021 season! This year we have a good amount of overlap between the NBA & MLB season, so there is lots of money to be made. This article will highlight my top plays at each position, and in the analysis portion of the article, we will highlight my top pitchers and stacks for the day.
Top Pitchers:
Really interesting small slate today. Pitching options aren’t the best and there honestly isn’t a clear cut pitcher tonight. I will likely play Frankie Montas in my cash games, and this will be my main pitcher on both sites. Although Montas is 2-4 in his last 6 outings, he’s limited the damage and has kept a 3.54 ERA over that stretch. He poses a lot of strikeout upside vs this Texas lineup. Personally I like Montas for cash games purely because there aren’t many other safe pitching options on the slate. The other pitchers I don’t mind are Julio Urias and Yu Darvish. I would try to pick one that you like more, which is why I chose Yu Darvish. He is one of the more reliable pitchers in the NL despite the bad starts here and there. He sports a 2.57 ERA across 84 innings and 14 starts. He faces a Dodgers team that is dealing with a plethora of injuries.
In terms of bats I definitely want to focus on this Brewers vs Diamondbacks game. We have Brett Anderson who has only two quality starts this year and struggles to keep runners off the basepaths, with his 30:15 K:BB ratio and 1.39 WHIP across just 46.2 innings this year. On the other side we have Merrill Kelly who has been awful this season, he hasn’t won a start in nearly two months and has a 5.4 ERA across 78.1 innings. I would focus on both teams here and a game stack would not be out of the question.
Good luck everyone!
