FanDuel MLB DFS Picks: Tuesday 9/24/24

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Let's check out the top options on today's main slate.

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MLB DFS Picks

Pitcher Breakdown

There are a few top-notch arms going on this slate, but with Michael King ($9,500) and Logan Gilbert ($9,900) in difficult matchups -- Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, respectively -- I have Framber Valdez ($11,000) and Bailey Ober ($10,300) at the top of my wish lists.

Framber gets the Seattle Mariners, a team that sports MLB's highest strikeout rate (26.9%). Valdez has been truly elite in the second half, limiting hitters to a .210 wOBA in that span while recording a 30.3% K rate and 2.56 xFIP. The salary is way up there and limits what you can do with your bats, but Framber's numbers fully warrant it.

Ober is at home against the Miami Marlins. Miami is next to last in wOBA for the season (.293). Ober is having an excellent campaign, pitching to a 3.57 SIERA, 27.1% strikeout rate and 14.1% swinging-strike rate. He's got more than enough to deliver in a superb matchup, and Miami's 3.05 implied total is the slate's lowest.

It's a Coors slate, so we need to sift through the value options, as well. Of the bunch, Brandon Pfaadt ($8,600) stands out.

For the season, Pfaadt owns a 3.70 SIERA, 23.8% K rate and 11.2% swinging-strike rate. Those are pretty great clips for a guy salaried under $9,000. The matchup is there, too, as Pfaadt gets a San Francisco Giants offense that ranks 27th in wOBA over the last 30 days (.281).

Stacks to Target

• Colorado Rockies (5.12 implied total) and St. Louis Cardinals (5.38)
  • The night's top implied totals -- by a good distance -- come from the Coors game. Obviously, both the Rockies and Cards profile as sweet stacking options. I'm going to say this, though: Colorado's Ryan Feltner isn't bad, registering a 10.4% swinging-strike rate and 4.33 SIERA this year. His home xFIP is 3.85. I'm more into the Rockies than I am the Cards.
• Minnesota Twins (4.45)
  • The Twins have the 10th-best wOBA against lefties, and they're hosting Ryan Weathers, who gave up three dingers in his first start off the IL, although it was versus the Los Angeles Dodgers. Byron Buxton ($3,100), Carlos Correa ($3,300) and Royce Lewis ($3,100) are three Minny righties who come at modest salaries. Fellow right-hander Manuel Margot ($2,500) might be atop the order.
• Los Angeles Dodgers (4.33)
  • LA has a difficult date with the aforementioned Michael King, and the salaries for the Dodgers' top bats make them a tough fit alongside Ober/Framber and Coors bats. Because of those things, this seems like a slate where the Dodgers will be overlooked, and we should always be intrigued when that's the case. Shohei Ohtani ($5,200), Mookie Betts ($4,000) and Freddie Freeman ($3,600) are all worth a long look at what will likely be low draft percentages.

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