Daily fantasy baseball Playbook for August 5 (night games)

Steve Pimental, FantasyAlarm.com

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Welcome to the free, night-game edition of the DFS MLB Playbook for Wednesday, Aug. 5, courtesy of Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Every day, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com, who won the 2015 FanDuel Playboy Championship, will publish their top daily fantasy baseball plays at each position across various DFS sites in the Playbook. It's a great place to start your MLB DFS research for the day, but there's much more behind the curtain.

READ MORE: Today's SP rankings | Hitter matchups to exploit | More DFS content

The DFS MLB Playbook PRO comes with a full top 10 at each position every day, optimal lineups for each DFS site, deep stats and daily projections, suggested lineup "stacks," hitting and pitching strategies, a live DFS scoreboard to track your players and much more. Check out today's free DFS plays below, and check out  FantasyAlarm.com's premium product when you're ready to go PRO!

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WEDNESDAY'S LATE DFS MLB PLAYBOOK: 

Pos  Player Opp Aces DK FanDuel BreakDown
SP Madison Bumgarner (L) @Braves $7900 $10600 $11400 Even better matchup without Freeman
SP Matt Harvey (R) @Marlins $7850 $11000 $10900 GO PRO !
SP Drew Hutchison (R) v Twins $5800 $5400 $8400 GO PRO !
SP Johnny Cueto (R) @Tigers $7500 $10100 $10300 GO PRO !
SP GO PRO !          
C Buster Posey (R) @Braves $5700 $5100 $4800 Best available, but he will cost you
C Welington Castillo (R) @Nationals $4850 $2900 $3400 GO PRO !
C GO PRO !          
1B Adrian Gonzalez (L) @Phillies $5650 $3900 $3300 10-23 vs. Harang
1B Brandon Belt (L) @Braves $4850 $4100 $3800 GO PRO !
1B GO PRO !          
1B Mark Teixeira (B) v Red Sox $5700 $5500 $4300 GO PRO !
1B Adam Rosales (R) v Astros $3200 $2000 $2200 GO PRO !
2B Ryan Goins (L) v Twins $4000 $2400 $2600 5-9 last 3 games
2B GO PRO !          
2B Cesar Hernandez (B) v Dodgers $4500 $3000 $3100 GO PRO !
3B GO PRO !          
3B Daniel Murphy (L) @Marlins $4750 $3800 $2800 GO PRO !
3B Matt Duffy (R) @Braves $4800 $4000 $3200 .373 wOBA vs. RHP
3B GO PRO !          
SS Jhonny Peralta (R) @Reds $5200 $4000 $3000 .835 OPS vs. LHP
SS Brandon Crawford (L) @Braves $4850 $4600 $3500 GO PRO !
SS GO PRO !          
OF Randal Grichuk (R) @Reds $4750 $4400 $3700 1.250 OPS last 3 games
OF GO PRO !          
OF Lorenzo Cain (R) @Tigers $5300 $5100 $3900 GO PRO !
OF GO PRO !          
OF Jonny Gomes (R) v Giants $3750 $2000 $2200 GO PRO !
OF Ben Zobrist (B) @Tigers $4900 $4500 $4000 GO PRO !

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Steve Pimental, FantasyAlarm.com