Daily Dime: Stocking your Tuesday lineup with Trout
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My full lineup (for all games starting after 4 pm PT):
SP: Zack Greinke ($49) – The pitching strategy for Tuesday is pretty straight-forward: Two ace-quality arms facing the two worst offenses in MLB (Philly and Atlanta)
SP: Corey Kluber ($45) – (see above)
C: Yasmani Grandal ($9) – Grandal has homered three times in 10 career ABs vs. Milwaukee RHP Chase Anderson – for a mere $9 bucks, I’ll play that history card
1B: Adrian Gonzalez ($9) – Going to stick with the Dodgers/history theme with Gonzo, who has a 1.380 OPS mark against Milwaukee RHP Chase Anderson in 13 career ABs
2B: Brett Lawrie ($10) – Lawrie is hitting .429 with three home runs in his past five games, and he’s facing Minnesota RHP Kyle Gibson, who is 0-5 with a 6.05 ERA on the season
3B: Adrian Beltre ($17) – After struggling early in his career against New York LHP CC Sabathia, Beltre has taken to the more finesse version of the Yankees southpaw, collecting five hits (including a HR) in his past 12 ABs – Beltre enters this game riding a six-game hitting streak
SS: Francisco Lindor ($20) – The switch-hitting Lindor, who has collected two hits and two runs in each of his past three games, is north of the .300 mark from both sides of the plate this season and his six home runs in June- his best HR/month split in his short career
OF: Mike Trout ($21) – Facing not-so-imposing Houston RHP Scott Feldman, and coming off five straight games with multiple hits (including HRs in each of his past 3), you get arguably the best player in baseball as just the eighth-highest priced OF on the Tuesday DFS slate
OF: Giancarlo Stanton ($12) – Stanton’s bat is starting to wake up, as he’s hitting .371 in his past nine games. He’s also 9-for-19 (.474), with two home runs, in his career against Tigers RHP Mike Pelfrey
OF: Oswaldo Arcia ($8) – Recently dealt to Tampa Bay, Arcia has collected six hits in his past nine ABs for the Rays, and he faces Boston RHP Rick Porcello, who has owns a 2-for-5 lifetime mark against, with one of those hits leaving the yard
