MLB DFS: Monday Cheat Sheet

Written by

Derek VanRiper

Updated on June 4, 2018 9:00AM EST

Here's a quick glance at Monday's slate(s).

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Park Factors & Lines

Park factors in this piece are a three-year average from 2015-2017, indexed (100 = average). For example, left-handed home runs at Guaranteed Rate Field (home of the White Sox) have a three-year index of 122, which means there have been 22% more homers hit by lefties from all teams during that span in that park compared to a completely neutral environment. Left-handed hitters have a significant advantage when hitting at Guaranteed Rate Field.

AT&T Park (home of the Giants), has a three-year run index of 90, which means that games played at AT&T park have had 10% fewer runs scored overall than a completely neutral environment. Overall offensive production is reduced by a significant amount for games played in San Francisco, making it a safer environment than most for pitchers.

				Lefties		Righties
Road Starter	Home Starter	Home Tm	R	AVG	HR	AVG	HR	K	O/U	HmL	1st Pitch
Luis Severino	Drew VerHagen	Tigers	103	98	104	103	101	104	10.0	175	1:10 PM
Domingo German	Mike Fiers	Tigers	103	98	104	103	101	104	10.0	175	7:10 PM
Danny Duffy	Nick Tropeano	Angels	91	96	91	96	102	109	8.5	-190	10:07 PM
Julio Teheran	Clayton Richard	Padres	92	97	85	97	97	103	7.5	-125	10:10 PM
Zack Godley	Derek Holland	Giants	90	97	53	100	74	99	8.0	-120	10:15 PM

Pitcher Skills

These stats look at each starting pitcher's stats since the start of last season.

The final two columns are team stats for each pitcher's opponent.

OwRC+ is the team wRC+ for the current season, against the handedness of that pitcher.

TeamK% is the strikeout rate of the opposing team for the current season, against the handedness of that pitcher.

Note: Opponent team matchup data from 2018 season.

Player	Opp	IP	K%	BB%	K-BB	HR/9	ERA	WHIP	DK	FD	OwRC+	OsK%
Danny Duffy (L)	at LAA	211.0	20.4	8.0	12.4	1.15	4.39	1.36	$4,700	$7,000	90	20.2
Mike Fiers (R)	v NYY	208.0	20.1	8.1	12.0	1.86	5.02	1.40	$5,000	$6,500	122	23.8
Domingo German (R)	at DET	49.0	28.0	12.3	15.6	1.29	4.78	1.35	$8,700	$6,600	92	20.7
Zack Godley (R)	at SF	216.7	24.8	9.3	15.5	0.96	3.66	1.26	$10,200	$8,500	106	24.6
Derek Holland (L)	v ARI	193.3	17.4	11.3	6.1	1.86	5.82	1.59	$5,600	$6,300	107	24.5
Clayton Richard (L)	v ATL	271.3	18.2	7.2	11.0	1.09	4.78	1.46	$6,200	$7,200	123	17.8
Luis Severino (R)	at DET	271.3	29.6	6.6	23.0	0.83	2.79	1.02	$13,400	$10,700	92	20.7
Julio Teheran (R)	at SD	255.3	18.8	9.4	9.5	1.48	4.37	1.33	$9,800	$7,600	85	25.6
Nick Tropeano (R)	v KC	45.0	20.4	8.8	11.6	1.60	3.80	1.24	$8,300	$8,000	89	17.6
Drew VerHagen (R)	v NYY	44.3	19.3	8.6	10.7	2.03	5.89	1.44	$4,000	$5,500	122	23.8

Pitcher Splits

These splits cover each pitcher's performance against left-handed and right-handed hitters since the start of the 2016 season.

Stats highlighted yellow indicate matchups favoring the pitcher. Stats highlighted blue indicate matchups favoring opposing hitters.

		v. Lefties					v. Righties
Name	Opp	K%	BB%	K-BB	HR/9	wOBA	K%	BB%	K-BB	HR/9	wOBA
Danny Duffy (L)	at LAA	27.2	4.7	22.6	0.48	0.214	21.9	7.5	14.4	1.43	0.339
Mike Fiers (R)	v NYY	19.0	8.2	10.7	1.59	0.339	19.7	6.1	13.7	1.70	0.356
Domingo German (R)	at DET	23.8	11.4	12.4	1.38	0.278	32.1	13.2	18.9	1.17	0.332
Zack Godley (R)	at SF	23.0	10.8	12.2	0.92	0.319	22.9	6.9	16.0	1.29	0.314
Derek Holland (L)	v ARI	15.0	8.5	6.5	0.85	0.278	16.7	10.4	6.3	1.86	0.377
Clayton Richard (L)	v ATL	25.5	5.5	20.1	0.11	0.289	14.4	8.6	5.9	1.28	0.364
Luis Severino (R)	at DET	28.3	8.1	20.3	1.02	0.291	27.2	6.0	21.2	0.89	0.268
Julio Teheran (R)	at SD	16.6	11.5	5.1	1.42	0.331	23.8	3.9	19.8	1.18	0.285
Nick Tropeano (R)	v KC	22.4	11.2	11.2	1.47	0.362	21.6	8.5	13.1	2.01	0.333
Drew VerHagen (R)	v NYY	15.8	10.9	5.0	1.33	0.408	17.0	6.8	10.2	2.09	0.362

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