Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for ScoreStreak 9/24/14

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Total Bases

Jose Abreu
Justin Verlander has spent most of this season proving he isn't the Justin Verlander we once knew. Not by a long shot. The strikeouts are down and the xFIP is up. Meanwhile Abreu has spent the season proving he's one of the best hitters in baseball and that splits don't really matter to this guy. He's hit righties about as well as he's hit lefties and if you take out some Babip and Hr/FB% help, he actually might even be better against righties.

Josh Donaldson
Just too good against lefties to ever gloss over when there's one of the mound against him. Donaldson has just destroyed this side of the split this year and I want to have shares of his bat really anytime he's in this platoon. Hector Santiago is worse against righty bats and this is one of those matchups you just set and forget.
 

Hits

Jose Altuve
Picked him yesterday against Nick Martinez, one of the worst pitchers in baseball, but it didn't go all that great. I don't let things like a little o-fer get me down. Altuve's still one of the best contact guys in all of baseball and against Bonilla today in a hitter's park he's in another great spot to grab a hit or two. All we care about is contact rate in this format and Atluve has that in spades.

Brian Dozier
His strikeout rate against lefties is a little high for this format, but Vidal Nuno's been really torched by righty hitting this season and the Dozier is good enough on this side of the split to get into your hits category. He's run a little bad against lefties, but I'll take a free swinger against subpar pitcher all day.

Strikeouts

Clayton Kershaw
Not a whole lot of thought going into this one. There are some stud pitchers going today, but Kershaw is a stud's stud. Without going through the superlatives let's just say he's the best pitcher in baseball and leave it at that. He's struck out at least 8 batters in eight of his last ten games and struck out 9 or more six times in that span. He's filthy and I wouldn't suggest fading him in this format.

Chris Sale
Not nearly as consistent as Kershaw (few are) but has the big time K upside we are looking for in a one-off format. The Tigers are tops in the league against lefty pitching so I'm not shooting the moon with Sale here. But having him hit six K's is more than a reasonable assumption considering he's hit that mark in nine of his last ten games.