A full 15 game night slate tonight provides multiple routes to attack your gpp’s. Fifteen teams currently have implied run totals of under four runs, while only two sit at over five. The Cubs are always a popular stack, and in play tonight. I’ll focus below on the two other highest run projected teams, and two possibly lower owned options.

As always, things can change based on lineups and weather, so do stay up to date using the Playbook Pro tools. Below are my favorite stack options for the day. Good luck!

Stacks for Tuesday, May 2

Yankees

The Yankees check in barely with the highest implied run total of the slate at 5.3 runs vs Mat Latos. He hasn’t looked horrible in his first two starts, but has walked six batters in just eleven innings. Why are the Yankees projected so high then? Latos has only a 10.6% K rate so far, and his 39.4% of throwing at least two strikes over his first three pitches is dead last on the list of starting pitchers. The Yankees aren’t swinging wildly either, chasing just 17.7% pitches (73/412) when the pitcher is behind in the count this season (League Avg: 25.0%). They must be waiting to go deep then having homered every 16.9 at bats in home games this season (Rank: 1st of 30 in MLB).

The projected Yankees lineup has a combined 87 AB vs Latos, but Gardner has their only HR. Holliday leads the BvP numbers though, having gone 11-29 with 8 RBI lifetime vs Latos.

Top Targets: Brett Gardner, Matt Holliday, Jacoby Ellsbury, Chase Headley

Secondary Stack Option: Aaron Judge, Starlin Castro, Didi Gregorius, Gregory Bird

Red Sox

Just below the Yankees, the Red Sox sit at a 5.29 implied run total tonight as they face off vs Alec Asher. He’s the lowest priced pitcher on DK, and just slightly above Latos and Tyler Glasnow on FD. Asher is spot starting for Tillman, and shut down a poor hitting Blue Jays team, at the time, in his only start this season. Outside of that, he has just two relief appearances. The wind looks to be blowing out at Fenway tonight, and last year, Asher was not a high strikeout pitcher but did throw for contact. As a starter, Asher has a strike rate of 72.3% (154/213) vs right-handed batters since the 2016 All-Star Break (Rank: 1st of 206 qualified SPs in MLB). At the same time, opponents have a miss rate of just 11.3% against him as a starter with two strikes since the 2016 All-Star Break (Rank: 193rd of 196 qualified SPs in MLB).

The only five Red Sox hitters who have previously faced Asher are a combined 4-9 with five RBI, so not much of a sample size, but still a favorable one. Boston hitters currently strikeout the least in the league at 17.1% (MLB; League Avg: 21.5%), but sit dead last in homers at every 56.0 at-bats  this season (MLB; League Avg: 28.9). Hopefully they will get out of the cellar tonight like Vegas and I believe they will.

Top Targets: Mookie Betts, Andrew Benintendi, Hanley Ramirez, Jackie Bradley Jr.

Secondary Stack Options:  Mitch Moreland, Xander Bogaerts, Dustin Pedroia, Sandy Leon

Cardinals

The Cardinals face Wily Peralta, who somehow is 4-1 to start the season. He has not fared well over his last two starts though. Peralta allowed four solo shots in his last start, coming against Cincinatti and took his only loss of the season vs. St. Louis in his second to last start during which he failed to punch a hitter out and lasted just four innings. The trend is spiraling downward for Wily, and I think it continues tonight against a Cardinals squad looking to bounce back from a rough start.  Finally, Peralta is 1-4 with a 5.60 ERA lifetime at Busch Stadium (22 runs in 35.3 innings).

Tough to ignore what Jedd Gyorko has been doing from the plate, including going deep twice yesterday. Not a huge surprise, but he is also 5-12 with a HR lifetime vs Wily.  Matt Carpenter has been heating up too, with two homers and two doubles accounting for his last four hits. He’s batting .465 with three home runs in 43 career AB vs Peralta. A smaller sample size also shows Aledmys Diaz is 4-8 vs Wily.

Top Targets:  Jedd Gyorko, Matt Carpenter, Aledmys Diaz, Dexter Fowler

Secondary Plays:  Stephen Piscotty, Yadier Molina, Randal Grichuk, Kolten Wong

Rays

If you're thinking that the Cards are going to end up too highly owned, take a look at +120 road underdogs in Tampa Bay. This is more about targeting a weak pitcher in Edinson Volquez. Edinson has yet to record a quality start or win on the year, while averaging just five innings a start. He has also recorded 12 walks to only 10 strikeouts over his past three starts.

While Tampa doesn’t look as good as CIN, PIT, TEX, or LAD do for putting up higher runs than expected, it is a solid GPP option to roll out if entering multiple lineups. There's also the added benefit of helping to save some salary to pay up for Chris Sale or another top-priced pitching option. A downside though, is the fact that they are playing in Miami, so late-game double switches could take out a bat in your lineup when a pitching change happens. The same risk applies to knowing that the Rays are striking out the most in the league at 26%, and towards the bottom in most offensive categories.  On the plus side though, they should have Evan Longoria back, as well as plenty of power and stolen base upside.

Top Targets:  Steven Souza Jr., Brad Miller, Logan Morrison, Kevin Kiermaier

Secondary Plays:  Evan Longoria, Corey Dickerson, Derek Norris, TBD Punt OF