A seven-game slate highlights Thursday's Major League Baseball schedule. Among the top matchups is a battle between two first place teams when the NL East-leading Atlanta Braves and left-hander Chris Sale (12-9, 2.20 ERA) battle the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers and RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (12-7, 2.61 ERA). The Thursday MLB schedule starts at 1:05 p.m.
ET, while the final first pitch is at 9:45 p.m. Among the top options in the MLB DFS player pool include Jacob Misiorowski, Sale, Ben Rice, Jackson Chourio, Rafael Devers, Bobby Witt Jr., Corbin Carroll, William Contreras and Yordan Alvarez. With only so much MLB DFS salary cap space, you'll have to be judicious on who you select to compose your daily Fantasy baseball lineups.
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He's also a predictive data engineer at SportsLine who uses a powerful prediction model that simulates every minute of every game 10,000 times, taking factors like matchups, statistical trends and injuries into account. This allows him to find the best MLB DFS values on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel and create optimal lineups that he shares only over at SportsLine. They're a must-see for any MLB DFS players at DFS apps.
McClure has turned his attention to MLB action on Thursday and locked in his top daily Fantasy baseball picks. You can only see them by heading to SportsLine. For Thursday, one of McClure's top MLB DFS picks is New York Yankees first baseman Ben Rice ($6,000 DraftKings, $3,800 FanDuel).
Rice has been on a bit of a roll, with four hits over the past three games. He homered, drove in three runs and scored three times in Wednesday's 9-3 win over Houston. He was 2-for-5 with two RBI in an 8-3 win over Toronto on Sunday.
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