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MLB DFS picks and pivots: September 25, the Night of Lester

By Brian Tulloch

Jon Lester (Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty images)
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TORONTO, ONTARIO – SEPTEMBER 23: Austin Hays #21 of the Baltimore Orioles gets water thrown at him after hitting a home run against the Toronto Blue Jays in the fifth inning during their MLB game at the Rogers Centre on September 23, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images) MLB DFS
TORONTO, ONTARIO – SEPTEMBER 23: Austin Hays #21 of the Baltimore Orioles gets water thrown at him after hitting a home run against the Toronto Blue Jays in the fifth inning during their MLB game at the Rogers Centre on September 23, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images) MLB DFS /

Welcome to the Wednesday 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.

Tuesday’s winning MLB DFS lineups followed a similar strategy as we laid out yesterday in Picks and Pivots as a double ace strategy around a cheap stack took down the $25 GPP on FantasyDraft. In this case, a Gerrit Cole and Jack Flaherty combo went for 80+ fantasy points built around a 5 man Orioles stack that pushed this lineup well over 200 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!