Welcome to the Playbook for Monday, May 15th
 

We have a slim eight-game slate tonight in MLB and there are plenty of buying opportunities out there today. Use this Playbook to help you set winning lineups. Today, there are two clear-cut top starting pitchers in the slate with the Rays Chris Archer and the Indians Carlos Carrasco. So, there are a couple of ways to play it. In cash games, you’ll want to either have both of those arms in there (for sure, at least one of them) and find the value bats. In GPP’s, you can fade them both and try to find the lesser known pitchers to throw gems, giving you a leg up in the hitters that you can employ.
 

Value Plays
There are a few players that I didn’t do a full write-up on, but like for value plays and may make it into my Optimal Lineups. They include:
 

C - Tyler Flowers - DK

C - Jeff Mathis - DK, FD & Y!

C - Yan Gomes - Y!

1B - Kendrys Morales - DK

1B - Luis Valbuena - DK + FD

1B - Carlos Santana - FD + Y!

2B - Brandon Phillips - DK + FD

2B - Brad Miller - FD

2B - Jason Kipnis - FD + Y!

2B - Chris Taylor - DK

3B - Yunel Escobar - DK

3B - Yangervis Solarte - FD

3B - Christian Arroyo - Y!

SS - Andrelton Simmons - DK, FD & Y!

SS - Chris Owings - FD

SS - Dansby Swanson - Y!

OF - Matt Kemp - DK

OF - Manny Margot - DK + Y!

OF - Corey Dickerson - DK + FD

OF - Cory Spangenberg - FD

OF - Kole Calhoun - FD

OF - Carlos Beltran - Y!

OF - Matt Joyce - Y!
 

Injuries
Here are some injury updates to some key players today:
 

1B - Albert Pujols - Personal matter

2B - Robinson Cano - Quad

2B - Ben Zobrist - Back

3B - Kris Bryant -- Sick

3B - Travis Shaw - Finger

SS - Asdrubal Cabrera -- Thumb
OF - Carlos Gomez - Hammy

OF - Adam Jones - Hip

OF - Hunter Pence - Leg

OF - David Peralta - Leg(s)

OF - Gregory Polanco - Hammy
 

Weather
With less games, comes less weather concerns. There is a slight risk of a delay in Seattle with Oakland coming to town. We’ll keep an eye on that but aren’t too concerned at this point.

 

Stacks

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