Happy Sunday and no better way to end your weekend than with some major league baseball! Sunday baseball has a reputation for being out of the ordinary, so fantasy baseball managers must be on their toes as they build their MLB DFS lineups. Today’s DFS slate starts at 1:35p ET on DraftKings, FanDuel and Yahoo Fantasy. DraftKings and FanDuel will both cover nine games while Yahoo brings us 14 games throughout the afternoon. The weather forecast looks pretty good besides some questions in the Twins/Tigers game, so far but make sure to check our MLB Weather Center before lock. We also have MLB Lineups, MLB Vegas Odds plus projections and a lineup builder in our DFS Alarm MLB Tools page. To get the big arms and bats in your lineups you will need to find some value plays and that’s where we come in. I have spent the morning researching and coming up with the best point per dollar plays on the slate. So let’s get right into it and open Sunday’s MLB DFS Value Vault..

 

 

DFS PITCHING VALUE

 

Ian Anderson (ATL) $6.5K DK/$36 Yahoo

On FanDuel Ian Anderson is overpriced but he comes in as a value on the other two sites today. I am not in love with pitching value on this slate, but Anderson does have one of the best matchups of the day against the struggling Angels. This is an offense that is missing Mike Trout and is striking out a league worst 27.4% to right-handed pitching. Anderson came up a few years ago labeled as one of the top young pitchers in the game but has really had bad command and will implode if he is not on his game, no matter what team he is facing. He has two games this season where he scored over 20 DKFP, one was in early April (Padres) and then in June he had a big outing against the Cubs. Anderson could very well have a huge game today facing a projected Angels lineup that is striking out 30%+ to righties but with a 4.79 ERA/1.51 WHIP and 7.73 K/9 rate on the season he does cause me much intrepidation.
 

 

Mitch Keller (PIT) $6.8K DK/$7.5K FD/$33 Yahoo

Mitch Keller is very affordable today and offers upside in a matchup against the Marlins. He doesn’t have a huge upside but he his coming off two solid starts of 24 and 21 DKFP and one of those was against this same Marlins offense. He pitched seven innings and struck out five while only allowing one earned run in a quality start in that game. In four of his last six starts Keller has allowed five hits or less and has struck out 31 batters in 34 innings. Keller has always had the talent, but he is a young volatile pitcher that is still learning how to throw in the big leagues and will have his ups and downs. The Marlins lineup is a trainwreck at the moment and Keller rarely gets blown up making the righty viable in tournament formats. 


 

DFS HITTING VALUE

 

Rowdy Tellez (MIL) $3.8K DK/$2.7K FD/$14 Yahoo

The Brewers will be facing mediocre Chad Kuhl who struggles against left-handed bats. Kuhl is allowing a .215 ISO/.355wOBA and 45.7% hard contact to the left side and this puts Tellez in a perfect spot for a home run call. Tellez has a .259 ISO against right-handers with a 43% flyball and hard contact rate and crushes the sinker- a pitch that Kuhl throws 44% of the time to lefties. He is struggling a bit at the plate but Chad Kuhl could be exactly what Rowdy Tellez needs to get started back up again.

 

 

Alex Kirilloff (MIN) $3.1K DK/$2.2K FD/$12 Yahoo

Akex Kirilloff is a free square on Fan Duel today and is still way too cheap on the other two sites. He is projected to be in the middle of the order today and is currently on an eight game hit streak where he is slashing .370/.452/.407 during that span. Quietly the young slugger is hitting .343 over his last 20 games with a .396wOBA and 154.0 wRC+ and gets the platoon advantage today over right-hander Rony García of the Tigers. Garcia is allowing a 54% flyball rate this season with 47% hard contact to left-handed bats which means Kirilloff could be going yard if he gets into one this afternoon. 

 

Other Top Values:

Yoán Moncada (CWS) $3.1K DK/$2.9K FD/$12 Yahoo

Luke Raley (TAM) $2.0K DK/$2.0K FD/$7 Yahoo

Joey Votto (CIN) $3.1K DK/$2.8K FD/$10 Yahoo

Max Kepler (MIN) $2.4K FD/$13 Yahoo

Bobby Dalbec (BOS) $2.1K DK/$2.1K FD/$7 Yahoo

 

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