DFS Amateur Hour - Tuesday Night

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Published on May 26, 2015

I've settled into my strategy for now: 6-8 large-field GPP tournament entries with a 2-4 pitchers and various stacks. I made two exceptions today, pairing random hitters I thought were good values with Jacob DeGrom. I realize stacking is the easier path to a monster score, but I want to see if my value lineups can't provide enough points to cash. Put differently, I find myself sacrificing a lot of value just to stack, and because so many tournament lineups stack, maybe the prices have gotten weird enough on players like Robbie Cano ($2,600) and Jose Abreu ($3,300) it's worth going the other way on occasion. In any event here are my eight $5 lineups for tonight's games:

$115 K Tuesday MLB Rally

Pos	Player	$	Player	$	Player	$	Player	$
P	Kershaw	11000	Kershaw	11000	Kershaw	11000	Kershaw	11000
C	Perez	2600	Plawecki	2200	Posey	4000	Molina	2200
1B	Davis	3000	Encarnacion	4400	Belt	3600	Abreu	3300
2B	Paredes	3100	Cano	2600	Panik	2800	Wong	3200
3B	Machado	3600	Donaldson	3700	Donaldson	3700	Donaldson	3700
SS	Escobar	2400	Flores	2200	Flores	2200	Peralta	3100
OF	Gordon	3200	Bautista	4500	Lagares	2200	Cabrera	2200
OF	Jones	3000	Cuddyer	2200	Cuddyer	2200	Holliday	3300
OF	Cain	2900	Cabrera	2200	Pence	3000	Pence	3000
		34800		35000		34700		35000

Pos	Player	$	Player	$	Player	$	Player	$
P	DeGrom	9700	DeGrom	9700	DeGrom	9700	Shoemaker	8100
C	Molina	2200	Castillo	2200	Perez	2600	Gattis	3700
1B	Encarnacion	4400	Encarnacion	4400	Abreu	3300	Davis	3000
2B	Franklin	2200	Cano	2600	Cano	2600	Altuve	3800
3B	Solarte	2200	Donaldson	3700	Beltre	2800	Machado	3600
SS	Flores	2200	Reyes	3000	Flores	2200	Flores	2200
OF	McCutchen	4600	Bautista	4500	Jones	3000	Springer	3800
OF	Trout	5200	Smith	2200	Stanton	4200	Jones	3000
OF	Cabrera	2200	Jackson	2600	McCutchen	4600	Trumbo	3500
		34900		34900		35000		34700

Notes:

DeGrom has been pretty tough at home, and Kershaw's obvious, so they start in seven of my eight lineups. Shoemaker is a wild card because he has strikeout upside and a decent matchup at home against a righty-heavy opponent.

For the hitters, I have a lot of Wilmer Flores, both stacked with other Mets and orphaned as his price ($2,200) is too low given the pop in his bat. Same with Cano, who keeps sinking, but I have to stick with him almost reflexively at his cost ($2,600.) Incidentally, I had a Red Sox stack, but as that seemed to be the game most likely to get rained out, I scratched it. Just for the right to complain later, I'll note it had Dustin Pedroia, Mookie Betts, Pablo Sandoval and David Ortiz.