It’s Period 4, Week 3 of Tout Daily. Please note we’ll be playing on Friday next week with the Midsummer Classic played on our usual Tuesday evening.
Here’s some of the Tout’s picks – curiously no one recommended an ace, though each team needs two pitchers.
Jeff Boggis (Fantasy Football Empire, @JeffBoggis)
Ryne Stanek: Middle relief pitcher, turned spot-starter for tonight’s game against the Detroit Tigers. He has a salary of only $4,000 which allows me to load up on quality hitters. I just can’t make an adequate lineup that involves rostering Verlander at $13,300 or Bauer at $13,600.
J.D. Martinez: J.D. Martinez is on an incredible hot streak. In his past 10 games, he has 4 home runs and 16 RBI. He carries a $5,800 salary tonight.
Lawr Michaels (CreativeSports2, @lawrmichaels)
Enyel De Los Santos: The ultimate crapshoot gives me a rookie hurler facing a team that is only hitting .232 off right-handers. I need points so taking the underdog makes sense, and ideally the Mets have not seen de los Santos, thus he can confuse them for six innings?
Stephen Piscotty: The Athletics go up against Justin Verlander–a formidable task–but he comes in hitting .333-3-9 over his last ten games and ideally the hot bat will generate some points!
Rick Wolf (Fantasy Alarm, @RickWolf1)
Tyler Anderson: Always good to have a true contrarian play. Anderson pitches in Coors so would be surprised if I am not the only one with him tonight in Tout Daily. He pitched eight shutout innings with 9Ks his last time at Coors. Against LHP, the D-Backs only have one real threat in Goldschmidt and Anderson is smart enough to pitch around him.
Christian Yelich: Any Milwaukee hitter really, but Yelich has the revenge narrative for his old team plus he mashes RHP. Pablo Lopez is young and will be overmatched by the young talented veteran. Look for all the Brew crew to knock the cover off the ball.
Todd Zola (Mastersball, @toddzola)
Matthew Boyd: Likely going against my normal pattern this week (locking in an ace) as there’s too many good bats I want (Boston) so looking at two from Boyd, Richards and Hill.
Mookie Betts: Going to try to fit in Mookie, JD and #votebenny, wish me luck
Gene McCaffrey (Wise Guy Baseball, @WiseGuyGene)
Hill/Chacin: I see the sense in a super-cheap SP tonight but I just can’t pull the trigger. Hoping for mediocrity-plus from Rich Hill and Jhoulys Chacin
Logan Morrison: Last time I checked he had a slugging % of .800 against flyball righties. Ian Kennedy is one. At $3500, frees up cash for use in Coors.
Jeff Erickson (Rotowire, @Jeff_Erickson)
Enyel De Los Santos: Automatic start against the Mets, though he’s not exactly cheap.
Xander Bogaerts: I’m loading up on Red Sox and Twins tonight against Yovani Gallardo & Ian Kennedy – Bogaerts has done better against RHP’s than lefties this year, to boot.