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Top daily fantasy baseball streamers and waiver wire adds for 4/27/21. Mike Marteny identifies MLB hitters and starting pitchers to stream based on matchups.
Welcome to the another edition of our daily fantasy baseball streamers! Are you playing in leagues with daily moves and looking to beef up those rosters? We here at RotoBaller are there for you and all of your streaming needs. Whether you are just trying to get that elusive category win or you are trying to give your pitching staff a lift because Max Scherzer got blown up at a minor league park, we can help. Each day RotoBaller will provide you with some of the best streaming options to consider in both shallow and deep fantasy baseball daily leagues. Streaming hitters and pitchers to exploit matchups are important to help you win your league.
It is important to know your league if you're going to stream. I'm not just talking about which teams your leaguemates root for. I'm talking about whether strikeouts count against you for hitters or if fielding stats are included. Most importantly, you need to know how many transactions you have per week. You don't want to blow your allotment within a couple of days. You can also use these recommendations to help build your DFS lineups. This article will use rostered percentages and position eligibility from ESPN leagues.
Today we have a full slate, but nearly half of the starting pitchers are owned in more than 50% of leagues. On the bright side, only six of the remaining pitchers are owned in less than 10% of leagues. The pickings aren't as slim as they can sometimes be. Let's dive right in!
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Hitter Streamers for 4/30 - Shallow Leagues
Adolis Garcia (OF, RHB, TEX) - 48.2% Rostered
Matchup: vs. BOS RHP Nathan Eovaldi
Just pick this guy up already! Garcia's ownership is up 14% since I wrote him up on Tuesday. If you're a bit late to the party, you've missed a couple of hits, a run, and a stolen base since then. The steal was the first of his career. While Garcia can run, power is more his game. He has five homers and 13 RBI in 60 at-bats this year. Eovaldi has some really nasty reverse splits dating back to 2018. Last year righties hit a robust .355 off of him in the truncated season. While the split isn't as pronounced this year, Eovaldi is still allowing a much higher average to righties.
Colin Moran (1B, LHB, PIT) - 33.7% Rostered
Matchup: vs. STL RHP John Gant
Not everything in the Pittsburgh offense is bad. Moran has 10 RBI in the last fortnight along with a pair of homers. The bad news is that Moran has only scored three runs in that span and John Gant has some reverse splits in his career. Lefties only hit .223 against Gant, but they have almost twice as many homers in 100 less at-bats than righties. Lefties hit Gant hard when they do hit him. Moran has the power to get one out tonight.
J.D. Davis (3B, RHB, NYM) - 29.4% Rostered
Matchup: vs. PHI RHP Chase Anderson
I will be picking heavily on Chase Anderson tonight. Not only does he have a 6.48 ERA through four starts this year, but right-handed hitters punish him. Righties are hitting .275 against Anderson with a .818 OPS. The 4.47 ERA in ten career starts against the Mets looks good for picking as well. There is not one metric that looks good for Anderson, and considering his struggles last year, it wont change anytime soon. Anderson has allowed 14 homers in 49 innings between 2020 and 2021.
Jordan Luplow (OF, RHB, CLE) - 25.3% Rostered
Matchup: vs. CHW LHP Dallas Keuchel
21 of Luplow's 29 career home runs have come off of lefties. He also hits 70 points higher against southpaws. His lefty proficiency has him sitting atop the Cleveland order with a lefty on the mound. Luplow is a streamer's dream. He smashes lefties, but is often poor enough against righties that he doesn't get to play against them at all. That usually leaves him planted on the wire for us to harvest when he's facing a lefty. This is one of those nights.
Hitter Streamers for 4/30 - Deep Leagues
Guillermo Heredia (OF, RHB, ATL) - 11.2% Rostered
Matchup: vs. TOR LHP Robbie Ray
Heredia is hitting .333 with a pair of homers, eight RBI, and seven runs scored over the last fortnight. This is a potent Atlanta lineup, so just being in there is a boost to Heredia's peripheral numbers. Robbie Ray is a solid pitcher, but he has always had an issue giving up gopher balls. He has allowed 104 homers to righties in 2,442 at-bats in his career. Enter Heredia, whose average is 50 points higher against lefties. Heredia doesn't have the huge power splits that Luplow has, but considering Ray's issues keeping the ball in the yard and Heredia's success against lefties, he's worth throwing in your lineups tonight.
Brandon Belt (1B, LHB, SF) - 6.4% Rostered
Matchup: at SD RHP Yu Darvish
Darvish led the majors in homers allowed in 2019 and a large majority of those are given up to lefties. Yes, I realize that Wrigley is more of a homer haven than Petco Park is, but Darvish has still allowed three homers in five 2021 starts. It was Evan Longoria that started the season hot for the Giants. He has cooled off some, but Belt has started hitting now. He has three homers and nine RBI in the last two weeks. Hell, he even stole a base!
Sam Haggerty (OF, SH, SEA) - 4.9% Rostered
Matchup: vs. LAA LHP Andrew Heaney
We don't just stream players for homers, especially in deeper leagues. Haggerty has started five of the last six games, hitting .429 in that span with a homer and a pair of steals. That's what I'm looking at tonight. Heaney allowed six steals last season. He's getting worse at holding runners on base. Haggerty has the speed to swipe a bag or two here. There is some risk involved. Despite the higher ERA, Heaney's WHIP is still below 1.00 for this season. I'll take a chance that the hot Haggerty gets on base here.
Gregory Polanco (OF, LHB, PIT) - 4.7% Rostered
Matchup: vs. STL RHP John Gant
Polanco was one of the better prospects in baseball at one time, but injuries and lack of major league success have caused him to go unnoticed for much of the last three years. It might be time to notice Polanco again. Polanco has three homers and two steals in the last two weeks with six runs scored. If he keeps this up, he should move up in the order soon. It's easy to forget that Polanco is only 29 years old and he's finally healthy for the first time since 2018. He still has something left in the tank.
Pitcher Streamers for 4/30 - Shallow Leagues
JT Brubaker (RHP, PIT) - 47.6% Rostered
Matchup: vs. St. Louis
This Cardinals offense doesn't scare me. They are hitting a dismal .217 against right-handed pitching and striking out 28.9% of the time against righties. Brubaker does have some reverse splits so far in his career, but righties are having a harder time squaring up his pitches than last year. You can blame that on increase sink on his sinker and more movement on his fastball. Brubaker has had quality starts against the Twins, Brewers, Cubs, and Reds so far. That's a pretty good track record to start with. I'll trust in what we have seen so far on both sides of this.
Brady Singer (RHP, KC) - 35.3% Rostered
Matchup: at Minnesota
Singer has given up just two runs in three starts since being knocked around by Texas in his first start. What has changed? He's missing bats. Singer has struck out 20 batters in 18 innings since that Texas start. Meanwhile, the Twins have hit the skids, dropping eight of their last ten games. Yes, they have scored 38 run in that span, but they scored 12 in a ten-innng loss to Oakland and put up 10 against Cleveland in that span. That's 16 runs in the other eight games. I don't mind picking on a team that's not scoring runs, especially with a guy that's missing bats the way Singer is.
Pitcher Streamers for 4/30 - Deep Leagues
Chris Flexen (RHP, SEA) - 12.2% Rostered
Matchup: vs. Los Angeles Angels
We've seen this movie before, only the last time the star was Miles Mikolas instead of Flexen. Flexen, after posting a ghastly 8.07 ERA in three years with the Mets, headed to the KBO in 2020. Flexen learned how to pitch over there. He has a 2.74 ERA and has allowed just five walks in four starts this year. Of course, a great pitcher's park for his home park helps some, but Flexen shut down the Red Sox in Boston in his last start. The break on Flexen's curveball and changeup, along with an increased willingness to throw them, makes up for the lack of movement on his fastball. The xERA suggests that some regression is coming, but I don't know that it will come in his home starts. Flexen looks safe to use in that park.
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