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MLB DFS Picks and Pivots: August 2 – Gingergaards debut

By Brian Tulloch

CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 07: Dustin May #12 of the National League Futures Team pitches during the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game at Progressive Field on Sunday, July 7, 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 07: Dustin May #12 of the National League Futures Team pitches during the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game at Progressive Field on Sunday, July 7, 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images) /
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 07: Jack Flaherty #22 of the St. Louis Cardinals pitches against the San Francisco Giants in the second inning at Oracle Park on July 07, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) MLB DFS
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 07: Jack Flaherty #22 of the St. Louis Cardinals pitches against the San Francisco Giants in the second inning at Oracle Park on July 07, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) MLB DFS /

Welcome to the Friday edition of MLB DFS Picks and Pivots, a fantasy baseball column focused on helping you find the best core lineup for this slate of DFS action!

For those of you finding us for the first time, the concept behind MLB DFS Picks and Pivots is to give you a first look at the day’s MLB DFS slate, including our top picks, plays and pivots, using FantasyDraft pricing as a reference to help you build your best fantasy baseball line-up and win big.

Picks and Pivots is not a simple “best plays” column but rather it focuses on slate strategy and roster construction to help give you insight into how I will look to play this slate.

Thursday’s MLB DFS slate was dominated by cheap arms like Jack Flaherty and Max Fried who put up 35 and 24 fantasy points as the top two scoring arms, even on a slate where we had studs like Cole and Kershaw up top. Dropping down to those cheaper arms allowed folks to spend up for big bats like Cody Bellinger, George Springer, Alex Bregman and the slates leading scorer, Xander Boegarts, who hammered 2 HR’s and put up 38 fantasy points.

Picks and Pivots is not a simple “best plays” column but rather it focuses on slate strategy and roster construction to help give you insight into how I will look to play this slate. The goal of this article is to dig through the slate, highlight our top plays and help you identify the best slate strategy across your MLB DFS line-ups.

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Without further ado, let’s get into today’s slate!