Daily Fantasy Baseball Playbook: August 8th

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Now on with the show...

As boring as the pitching options are tonight I actually am very confident in the group I have put togehter here especially comapred ot the last two nights. Scott Kazmir and Jered Weaver are basically guaranteed wins (so stupid to EVER use "guarantee" in anything fantasy related but screw it) tonight. I am very comfortable with Madison Bumgarner and Hisashi Iwakuma as well and best of all is none of these starters witll break your budget. This is setting up to be a very competitive Friday across the DFS industry as a result of these options. 

My favorite stat or line of stats I should say that I came across today in running the numbers for this Playbook was from Dodgers 1B Adrian Gonzalez. I love to look at ballpark data and not that obvious "Coors Field = GOOD" bullshit but how do hitters fare at visiting ballparks over long periods of time. Earlier this year I won some major duckets using of all players Paul Konerko at Comerica Park in Detroit. Konerko was hitting .298/.369/.469, 16 HR & 62 RBI at the Tigers home ballpark which is ridiculous considering he had 439 AB's there and had to go against a VERY tough Tigers staff during that span. Well tonight Adrian Gonzalez is playing at Miller Park where he has hit .372/.444/.698 in 86 AB's with 7 HR and 20 RBI. This is Gonzalez best numbers of any visiting ballpark in which he has at least 50 PA's which is a reasonable sampel in my mind. Something to consider in building your lineups tonight for sure.

The only downfall tonight is that I really don't have a team or teams that I like enough to stack. If I had to I suppose that the Angels and the Indians would top the list but neither I am extremely enthused about this evening. Overall I really don't have any true big priced superstars in the Playbook tonight. That is a good thing my friends. This will weed out all of those who don't do the research (or trust someone who does) and just chase the big names and guess on values. These are the days that separate men from boys and winners from losers. 

With that said...here is the DFS Playbook for August 8th:

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