DFS MLB Playbook for Thursday's early games

Ted Schuster

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Welcome to today's DFS MLB Playbook, courtesy of Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Every day, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com 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. 

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, hitting and pitching strategies, a live DFS scoreboard to track your players and much more. So, enjoy the free sneak peek into the best DFS MLB plays for Thursday's afternoon games below (late-game Playbook coming soon) and check out FantasyAlarm.com's premium product when you're ready to go PRO. 

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THURSDAY'S EARLY DFS MLB PLAYBOOK

Player Pos Team Opp Aces FanDuel DK Breakdown
Jake Arrieta SP CHC STL 6850 9700 9500 2.84 ERA, almost 9.0 K/9
Edinson Volquez SP KC CLE 6250 8500 6700 3 ER or less in every start
Stephen Vogt C OAK MIN 5000 3900 4000 1.467 OPS in last 7
Miguel Montero C CHC STL 4850 3100 3500 5 for last 11 with 2BB
Anthony Rizzo 1B CHC STL 5750 4400 5100 On base machine
Miguel Cabrera 1B DET CWS 5550 5000 5400 8 for 23 vs. Quintana
Mark Canha 1B OAK MIN 4450 3000 3500 3 HR last 6 games
Brian Dozier 2B MIN OAK 4850 3300 4900 HR/SB combo vs L
Jason Kipnis 2B CLE KC 4800 3500 5100 11 for last 27
Addison Russell SS CHC STL 4000 3000 3600 8 for last 22 w/2 HR
Trevor Plouffe 3B MIN OAK 4750 2800 4400 1.035 OPS in last 7
Brett Lawrie 3B OAK MIN 4450 2600 3900 11 for last 28
Danny Santana SS MIN OAK 4400 2800 4100 Cheap play
Rajai Davis LF DET CWS 4850 3000 4600 11 for 29 vs Quintana
Josh Reddick RF OAK MIN 4850 3900 4200 Still locked in
Joc Pederson CF LAD MIL 4850 3700 4200 5 HR in last 7
Avisail Garcia RF CWS DET 4500 2800 4500 8 for 19, hits LHP well
Torii Hunter RF MIN OAK 4650 2900 4300 13-31 in last 7
Michael Brantley LF CLE KC 5250 4200 5500 9 for last 24
Jarrod Dyson CF KC CLE 4000 2500 3300 Value speed option

Check for pregame updates to the Playbook at FantasyAlarm.com

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Ted Schuster