Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 9/9/14

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Total Bases

Mike Trout
Never stepping out on any kind of limb to pick one of the best (the best?) hitters in baseball to lead out your total bases category. But we don't pick Trout everyday, just the ones where he has a solid matchup. Today is one of them. He faces (somewhat) home run happy Colby Lewis in the Ballpark in Arlington, a hitter's haven through and through. Trout doesn't have issues with platoon splits in that he hits everyone well. His .912 OPS against righties this season is testament enough.

Josh Donaldson
Just destroys lefty pitching. Crushes lefties souls. Donaldson has tuned up southpaws with a 1.088 OPS and .459 wOBA against them on the season. Today he faces John Danks, a middling lefty, in one of the best hitters parks in U.S. Cellular Field. I'm going to have a lot of exposure to Donaldson today as the historical resume he's put up in this platoon is just too good.
 

Hits

Jose Altuve
Whenever he's facing lefties, Altuve is a guy you want in this category. He's next to impossible to strike out (8.9% K rate) and never walks, meaning the ball is in play more often than not when facing a lefty. Today it's Roenis Elias who doesn't have any significant swing and miss stuff. This is kind of no-brainer on the day. Put him up for your two hit category.

Erick Aybar
Aybar's contact rate is excellent against righty pitching as he strikes out less than 10% of the time and walks less than 6%. That means the ball is in play about 84% of the time when he is facing righty pitching. Combine that with him facing up against mediocre righty pitching with a guy like Colby Lewis and you have a good hit expectation.
 

Strikeouts

Jon Lester
Max Scherzer
Again, there are some days when these plays are rather easy to make. Granted the subtlety of ScoreStreak is how you allocate your players into the best possible chances for success. I don't think I would put either of these guys into the nine K slot on the day. For Scherzer, the Royals simply don't strike out enough against righty pitching to have any real upside, even for a guy like Max. For Lester, I like the matchup, but he doesn't strike out batters enough to get into that slot with any real upside. This isn't to say they can't do it, I just would rather play it safe in the seven and six columns.