FanDuel Daily Fantasy Baseball Helper: Tuesday 5/25/21

We have some of the best of the best taking the mound on Tuesday, and trying to whittle down the options for tournaments will be no easy task. Should we shy away from those in tough matchups or put our faith in elite talent? And with 13 games on the docket, there's no shortage of stacking options, as well.

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Let's check out the top options on tonight's main slate.

Pitchers

Jacob deGrom ($12,000): Under normal circumstances, deGrom would be a shoo-in top pick against the Rockies at Citi Field, but his workload coming off the injured list is murky at best. While he reportedly won't have a pitch count, the Mets plan to take things "inning by inning," which doesn't inspire confidence when a guy is $12,000. But particularly with other top hurlers in difficult matchups, if deGrom is all systems go, he has the potential to run away with the slate's top score. Colorado's active roster owns the league's worst wRC+ both against right-handers and on the road, and they have the slate's lowest implied total (2.37).

Corbin Burnes ($10,200): Burnes has done his best deGrom impression in 2021, and in some respects, he's been even better and comes in with a 1.47 SIERA, 44.7% strikeout rate, 1.3% walk rate, and 51.3% ground-ball rate. The trouble is his matchup against a Padres lineup that suppresses strikeouts. That said, we just saw Brandon Woodruff record 55 FanDuel points last night, and for as amazing as Woodruff has been, he hasn't been on the same level as Burnes this season.

Joe Musgrove ($8,400): Musgrove's results have been up and down lately, but his underlying numbers remain impressive. He's coming off a fantastic outing versus the Rockies (64 FanDuel points) and draws another enticing matchup in the Brewers on Tuesday. Milwaukee's active roster owns an 80 wRC+ and 26.6% strikeout rate against right-handed pitching, and with Musgrove sporting a 34.7% strikeout rate, we know he's capable of capitalizing here. The combination of talent, salary, and opponent makes Musgrove an easy value tonight.

Andrew Heaney ($7,500): You may not even want to go here on a slate this deep, but it's hard to ignore a guy with a 3.33 SIERA and 30.5% strikeout rate at this salary. Of course, Heaney's actual results have been about as boom or bust as they come, with three of his starts going for 50-plus FanDuel points but the five others all dipping below 30 points apiece -- and two at exactly zero points. Yet, here he is in a possible "boom" spot against the Rangers, a team with a 91 wRC+ and 25.1% strikeout rate versus southpaws.

Others to Consider: Max Scherzer ($11,000), Kevin Gausman ($10,800), Lucas Giolito ($8,500)

Stacks

Minnesota Twins: Dean Kremer has allowed at least one home run in seven of his eight starts, with the going rate coming to 2.65 per nine innings. He's giving up hard contact all over the place -- just look at his Stacast metrics -- and when paired with a low strikeout rate (20.9%) and a high rate of fly balls (45.8%), it's easy to see why we want to continue attacking the young right-hander. Oh, and how about we add some 15-MPH winds blowing out to center in Minnesota as the cherry on top?

Kremer is giving up dingers to both sides of the plate, but he's showing a sizable gap in strikeout rate versus lefties (27.3%) compared to righties (16.1%), so the right-handed bats of Nelson Cruz ($3,500), Josh Donaldson ($2,700), Miguel Sano ($2,800), and Mitch Garver ($2,400) could have an easier time knocking one out.

But outside of punchouts, not much else going right for Kremer versus lefties (4.87 xFIP), as he also allows a plethora of walks and fly balls in the split. Max Kepler ($2,900) is a good fit due to his lower strikeout rate (if he's back in the lineup), but prospects Alex Kirilloff ($2,800) and Trevor Larnach ($2,100) are showing encouraging power thus far, too.

The Twins boast the slate's top implied total (5.51).

New York Yankees: This is just a brutal matchup for left-hander Steven Matz, who has to try to work his way through what should be an entire lineup of right-handed batters. Matz may have solid peripheral numbers overall, but when we narrow it down to just his splits versus righties, he has a modest 20.8% strikeout rate and is allowing 1.54 home runs per nine innings, which falls in line with his career norms.

The Yankees are also all too easy to stack up. Once you get past Aaron Judge ($3,700), every other batter has a salary of $3,000 or below. Luke Voit ($2,600), Gio Urshela ($2,400), Gleyber Torres ($2,400), and Gary Sanchez ($2,500) are among the low-salaried bats who could crack the top six batting slots.

Oakland Athletics: Although Logan Gilbert has shown some promise in the minors, he has only three starts above Double-A, so he's rather short on experience. His two big league starts haven't exactly gone swimmingly, managing just a 21.9% strikeout rate and 13.0% ground-ball rate while allowing a combined 7 earned runs over 6.2 innings. And it's not like he went up against some powerhouses in Cleveland and Detroit.

It all lines up for a possible big night for the Athletics, who have plenty of power between Ramon Laureano ($3,700), Matt Olson ($3,600), Mark Canha ($3,500), and Matt Chapman ($3,000). For value, Seth Brown ($2,500) should be in the lineup against the righty, and Sean Murphy ($2,800) is a low-order power bat, too.

Others to Consider: Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Angels