Hunter Stokes (Chief Writer/Part Owner) 

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I am loving the Jays rallying around the Jose Bautista incident on Sunday to absolutely crush Drew Smyly in Tampa Monday Night.  I will use a 4 hitter stack of RHB including Edwin Encarnacion. Jose Bautista, Troy Tulowitzki and Josh Donaldson (who is 7 – 14 – with 3 HRS career vs the Rays Southpaw).

By the way here, the Jays are awesome (GVP’s – Great Value Plays) with EE, Joey Bats and TULO at $3700 each, while the reigning AL MVP is listed low at $4300.  I suppose a lot of the pricing has to do with possible suspensions, however I fully expect these guys to appeal, which would grant them a stay of execution for tonight.

There is a misconception that Smyly is an elite pitcher.  He often yields one homer per start.  In his 29 career Innings worth of work versus Toronto, he has given up 6 HRs.  I am calling for 2 HRs versus Smyly int his contest from these four gentlemen.

I also will use J.A. Happ to slow down the Rays lineup.

Jon Niese is to be used in the 2nd pitcher slot – because quite frankly, the Braves are 9 – 27, on the year, so Poppa Smurf has a chance to victimize the lineup.

By using the Pirates starter tonight, it affords me to use Giancarlo Stanton, Mookie Betts and Dustin Pedroia.  I like the Boston 1 and 2 hitters because they have been swiping bags in addition to helping the Red Sox lineup.

Edwin Encarnacion has been one of the top 5 offensive hitters in the AL since the start of the 2012 year. His May numbers have been incredibly insane – with him netting 30 HRs in his last 270 AB. He is just as ferocious in June too, so he should be earmarked for DFS lineups for the next 6 weeks. EE has started a little slower for his OPS this year at .743 – as opposed to the last 4 years all being over .900, so look for a market correction.  Encarnacion still has a respectable 7 HRs and 28 RBI on the year thus far.  He is also holding a .964 OPS vs LHP on the year.

Sample Lineup (Jays 4 stack of hitters)

P – J.A. Happ, TOR @ TB, $11, 900

P – Jon Niese, ATL @ PIT, $5800

C  – Welington Castillo, NYY @ ARI, $3400

1B – Edwin Encarnacion,  TOR @ TB, $3700 (.964 OPS vs LHP)

2B – Dustin Pedroia, BOS @ KC, $4100

3B – Josh Donaldson,  TOR @ TB, $4300 (1.189 OPS vs LHP, 34 RS in 39 GP this year, 3 HRs in 14 AB lifetime vs Smyly)

SS – Troy Tulowitzki, TOR @ TB, $3700 ( 7 for last 20, with 3 HRs and 7 RBI).

OF –  Jose Bautista, TOR @ TB, $3700

OF –  Mookie Betts, BOS @ KC, $4700

OF – Giancarlo Stanton, MIA @ PHI, $5100

$49, 400, 000 ($600 left)

If you’re not familiar with the points breakdown, here’s the format utilizing a $50 million salary cap.  

Scoring System: https://www.draftkings.com/help/mlb

2 Starting Pitchers (SP)

1 Catcher (C)

1 First Baseman (1B)

1 Second Baseman (2B)

1 Third Baseman (3B)

1 Short Stop (SS)

3 Outfielders (OF)

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