Garion Thorne gives his top studs and value plays for today\u2019s 10-game featured fantasy baseball slate on DraftKings.<\/p>\n
Hope you set that alarm clock nice and early, because we\u2019ve got a featured MLB DFS slate that gets started this afternoon at 1:10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no time to waste. Like, you shouldn\u2019t even still be reading this intro. Let\u2019s get to the picks!<\/p>\n
Make your\u00a0DraftKings<\/a>\u00a0MLB DFS picks here:\u00a0MLB $200K Bat Flip [$50K to 1st]<\/a><\/p>\n PITCHER<\/p>\n Value<\/p>\n Sean Burke, Chicago White Sox vs. Baltimore Orioles, $6,500 \u2013 After a decent rookie campaign, Burke has gotten off to a fantastic start in his sophomore season. It\u2019s only been two outings, but the right-hander has pitched to a 3.23 xERA and a sterling 1.05 FIP, thanks primarily to a 12:1 K\/BB ratio. In his last appearance against the Blue Jays, Burke tossed six innings and struck out seven, allowing only a single earned run. What more could you ask for from a man with a salary this close to $6K? The Orioles\u2019 lineup has a lot of name value, but the team has struggled through the opening two weeks of 2026, registering a robust 26.5% strikeout rate with an underwhelming .117 ISO. Burke should be able to piece together another nice start on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n INFIELD<\/p>\n Stud<\/p>\n Ketel Marte, Arizona Diamondbacks at New York Mets, $5,100 \u2013 Marte has looked quite like himself in the early going of 2026, but a matchup with David Peterson ($7,000) could be the cure. It\u2019s not even that Peterson is an awful pitcher or anything, it\u2019s just that\u2019s he\u2019s left-handed. Marte has been an animal against southpaws the past few years, slashing .311\/.383\/.564 within the split with a 156 wRC+ since the beginning of 2023. That wRC+ is the fourth-highest qualified mark in that span of time, trailing only Aaron Judge, Yordan Alvarez and Yandy Diaz. Not too shabby!<\/p>\n Value<\/p>\n Willson Contreras, Boston Red Sox vs. Milwaukee Brewers, $4,000 \u2013 I\u2019m not sure if Contreras\u2019 hatred of the Brewers counts as \u201cnarrative street\u201d on Wednesday, but the converted backstop has reached base eight times in the first two games of this series. Hate is a powerful thing, I guess. For the season as a whole, Contreras sports a 163 wRC+ over his 48 plate appearances. He\u2019s been good, and he\u2019s always been at his best in matchups with left-handed opponents. He\u2019ll draw one today in the form of Shane Drohan ($6,900), a 27-year-old former Red Sox prospect who will be making his MLB debut. While Milwaukee\u2019s pitching development program is second to none, I\u2019ll take my chances with Boston\u2019s bats on Wednesday.<\/p>\n OUTFIELD<\/p>\n Stud<\/p>\n Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros at Colorado Rockies, $6,500 \u2013 There might not be a hitter who is off to a hotter start in 2026 than Alvarez. The former All-Star has four home runs in his first 54 plate appearances, yet the most impressive stat might be his otherworldly .606 expected wOBA. Heck, Alvarez has already been intentionally walked four times this season, and I can\u2019t say I blame the opposing managers for their cowardice. Now, Alvarez will draw an opposite-hand matchup with Michael Lorenzen ($5,500), who allowed nine earned runs in his first outing at Coors Field as a member of the Rockies. It\u2019s early, but opposing LHBs are slugging .917 off Lorenzen. Woof. <\/p>\n Value<\/p>\n Jordan Walker, St. Louis Cardinals at Washington Nationals, $3,000 \u2013 I can not believe that Walker remains this cheap on DraftKings. What does the former top prospect have to do to get a little respect? It took a couple years longer than expected, but it does appear like the 23-year-old\u2019s breakout is finally happening. Across 44 plate appearances, Walker is slashing .300\/.364\/.600 with a 182 wRC+ and 100th percentile average exit velocity (98.3). He\u2019s dangerous in a vacuum. He\u2019s especially dangerous going up against Miles Mikolas ($6,000), who is totally washed. Mikolas has already allowed 17 runs in his 9.1 innings of work in 2026. It\u2019s so, so bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garion Thorne gives his top studs and value plays for today\u2019s 10-game featured fantasy baseball slate on DraftKings.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,2291,4,1586,3719],"class_list":{"0":"post-670419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-draft","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-draft","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-draft","12":"tag-rail"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116369693306633245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}