Daily Fantasy Baseball News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 5/17/16

Welcome to the daily MLB updates and news article. We'll try and update it right up to line-up locks with as much information as comes across our desks. Let's get to it!

Last night's picks can be found here, so you can wrap your mind around what you need to be looking at before lineups lock today.

By the way - we keep our projection system updated with all of the batting lineup changes as they occur throughout the day right up until lineup lock. Every day. If you want access to that system so you can cut out a lot of the research element, click the button below!

What We Know

Odor suspended 8 games... He will play

Odor has already been suspended 8 games and Andrus has been suspended 1. Odor will both appeal which will keep him in the lineup tonight. Andrus on the other hand, will serve his suspension tonight. Everyone else will be in the lineup as normal tonight.

Personnel

Note - I will update this section throughout the day as lineups are released and injury news is broke

• Rougned Odor has been suspended for 8 games. However, he will appeal which will keep him in the lineup tonight.
• Starling Marte and David Freese are out of the lineup.
• Lucas Duda is out of the lineup.
• Todd Frazier is out of the lineup
• Brandon Moss and Randal Grichuk are out of the lineup
• Elvis Andrus will miss tonight's game due to suspension.

The "Every Lineup" Guys

Miguel Sano FD 3300 DK 4000
Opponent - DET (Pelfrey) Park - @DET
FD - 14.32 DK - 10.85

Miguel Sano is in a prime spot here tonight against one of the worst pitchers in the league, Mike Pelfrey. Pelfrey has been atrocious against right handed batters as evidenced by his .346 wOBA and 36.8% hard contact rate. Miguel Sano on the other hand, has hit righties tremendously over the course of his short career with a .368 wOBA and .236 ISO (isolated power). While this ballpark is not ideal, Sano has proved he can hit it out anywhere as he hit 12 home runs last year in Target Field.

Kris Bryant FD 4300 DK 5000
Opponent - MIL (Anderson) Park - @MIL
FD - 15.2 DK - 11.73

Kris Bryant and the Cubs are another team that is in a spectacular spot here against the Brewers and Chase Anderson. Anderson has been a reverse splits pitcher over the last 3 years of his career with a .353 wOBA against righties. Kris Bryant has done more of the same with a .375 wOBA and 37.4% hard contact rate. This ballpark is one of the best in the league for right handed power and Bryant might just put that to the test tonight.

One other note: There are big differences between DraftKings and FanDuel pricing so the optimal lineups are looking quite different.

These are players that show up in each of the top 10 lineups as produced by our lineup optimizer. This doesn't necessarily mean that they're "safe," it just means that their projected weighted-mean point total is a solid building block for a great lineup foundation today.

Good luck out there today! If you want access to all of our numbers, get started with a free trial below of our lineup optimizer, on us!