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MLB DFS picks and pivots: Friday, September 20

By Brian Tulloch

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JULY 19: Jacob deGrom #48 of the New York Mets pitches against the San Francisco Giants in the bottom of the second inning at Oracle Park on July 19, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JULY 19: Jacob deGrom #48 of the New York Mets pitches against the San Francisco Giants in the bottom of the second inning at Oracle Park on July 19, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images) /
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 19: Masahiro Tanaka #19 of the New York Yankees is doused with champagne after the New York Yankees clinched the American League East division title at Yankee Stadium on September 19, 2019 in Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/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 all about nailing your pitchers and picking the right mini-stacks to win big as three of the top six raw point plays on the slate were arms in Mike Clevinger, Jack Flaherty and Masahiro Tanaka. The winning lineup in the $25 Home Run GPP, went high/low with a chalky Clevinger (75%) and Tanaka (50%) build which reminds us that sometimes eating the chalk is the right play!

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!