MLB DFS: Top DraftKings, FanDuel daily Fantasy baseball picks, lineups, advice, stacks for May 11, 2024
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The Colorado Rockies won back-to-back games for the first time this season when they beat the Giants on Thursday and the Rangers on Friday. Charlie Blackmon and Ezequiel Tovar both finished with three hits in a 9-1 win on Thursday, returning big numbers in MLB DFS contests. Center fielder Brenton Doyle has been a valuable player to include in MLB DFS lineups as well, batting .285 with four home runs and 11 RBI during his second big-league season. He has a favorable matchup on Saturday night against Rangers starting pitcher Andrew Heaney, who is 0-4 with a 4.50 ERA through his first 36 innings of the season.
Heaney is coming off his best two starts of the season though, allowing just one earned run against both the Nationals and Athletics. Finding an ideal matchup is one aspect of building a winning MLB DFS strategy, and recent form is certainly part of that equation. Before submitting any MLB DFS picks for Saturday, be sure to check out the MLB DFS advice, strategy and projections from SportsLine daily Fantasy expert Mike McClure.
McClure is a daily Fantasy pro who has won more than $2 million in his career. And when it comes to daily Fantasy baseball, McClure is at his best. Recognized in the book “Fantasy Football (and Baseball) for Smart People: How to Turn Your Hobby into a Fortune” as a top MLB DFS player, McClure’s proprietary projection model simulates each game 10,000 times, taking factors such as matchups and recent results into account. This allows him to find the best values on every site.
On Friday, McClure highlighted Braves starting pitcher Charlie Morton as one of his top MLB DFS picks on both sites. The result: Morton allowed one earned run and struck out seven batters across seven innings, returning 29.4 points on DraftKings and 49 points on FanDuel. Anybody who included him in their lineups was well on the way to a profitable day.
Now, with the 2024 MLB season rolling, McClure has locked in his top MLB daily Fantasy picks for Saturday, May 11. You can head to SportsLine now to see them.
McClure’s top MLB DFS picks for Saturday
One of McClure’s top MLB DFS picks for Saturday is Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. at $6,400 on DraftKings and $4,300 on FanDuel. Witt is among the league’s leaders offensively so far this season, batting .310 with five home runs and 20 RBI. He has gone hitless in his last two outings, which is the first time he has gone back-to-back games without a hit this season.
Witt had three multi-hit performances in a four-game stretch earlier this week, hitting his fifth homer of the season against Milwaukee on Wednesday. He has scored at least one run in 10 of his last 14 games, leading Kansas City’s offense with 36 runs overall this season. Witt is facing Angels starting pitcher Tyler Anderson, who allowed four earned runs on six hits at Pittsburgh his last time out.
McClure is also rostering Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy at $4,700 on DraftKings and $3,700 on FanDuel. Muncy continues to add power to MLB DFS lineups, as he sits in a tie for eighth on the MLB home run leaderboard. He has hit nine long balls this season after hitting 39 of them during the 2023 regular season.
Muncy had one of the biggest individual performances of any player this year when he went 4 of 5 with three homers and four RBI in a win over Atlanta last Saturday. He added a grand slam against Miami on Tuesday, and he is always a threat to post huge numbers due to the Dodgers lineup. Muncy draws a favorable matchup against Padres starting pitcher Matt Waldron, who is 1-4 with a 5.82 ERA. See McClure’s full MLB DFS player pool at SportsLine.
How to set your MLB DFS lineups for May 11, 2024
McClure is also targeting an undervalued player who is set to explode for huge numbers on Saturday. The stars are aligning for him to return tournament-winning value and he comes at a price that won’t break the bank. You can only see who it is, and get the rest of McClure’s MLB DFS picks, here.
So what are the top MLB DFS picks for Saturday? Visit SportsLine now to see DFS millionaire Mike McClure’s complete player pool and picks for FanDuel and DraftKings, all from the DFS expert who has won more than $2 million.
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