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DFS Amateur Hour - Tuesday Night

I've settled into my strategy for now: 6-8 large-field GPP tournament entries with a 2-4 pitchers and various stacks. I made two exceptions today, pairing random hitters I thought were good values with Jacob DeGrom. I realize stacking is the easier path to a monster score, but I want to see if my value lineups can't provide enough points to cash. Put differently, I find myself sacrificing a lot of value just to stack, and because so many tournament lineups stack, maybe the prices have gotten weird enough on players like Robbie Cano ($2,600) and Jose Abreu ($3,300) it's worth going the other way on occasion. In any event here are my eight $5 lineups for tonight's games:

$115 K Tuesday MLB Rally

PosPlayer$Player$Player$Player$
PKershaw11000Kershaw11000Kershaw11000Kershaw11000
CPerez2600Plawecki2200Posey4000Molina2200
1BDavis3000Encarnacion4400Belt3600Abreu3300
2BParedes3100Cano2600Panik2800Wong3200
3BMachado3600Donaldson3700Donaldson3700Donaldson3700
SSEscobar2400Flores2200Flores2200Peralta3100
OFGordon3200Bautista4500Lagares2200Cabrera2200
OFJones3000Cuddyer2200Cuddyer2200Holliday3300
OFCain2900Cabrera2200Pence3000Pence3000
34800350003470035000
PosPlayer$Player$Player$Player$
PDeGrom9700DeGrom9700DeGrom9700Shoemaker8100
CMolina2200Castillo2200Perez2600Gattis3700
1BEncarnacion4400Encarnacion4400Abreu3300Davis3000
2BFranklin2200Cano2600Cano2600Altuve3800
3BSolarte2200Donaldson3700Beltre2800Machado3600
SSFlores2200Reyes3000Flores2200Flores2200
OFMcCutchen4600Bautista4500Jones3000Springer3800
OFTrout5200Smith2200Stanton4200Jones3000
OFCabrera2200Jackson2600McCutchen4600Trumbo3500
34900349003500034700

Notes:

DeGrom has been pretty tough at home, and Kershaw's obvious, so they start in seven of my eight lineups. Shoemaker is a wild card because he has strikeout upside and a decent matchup at home against a righty-heavy opponent.

For the hitters, I have a lot of Wilmer Flores, both stacked with other Mets and orphaned as his price ($2,200) is too low given the pop in his bat. Same with Cano, who keeps sinking, but I have to stick with him almost reflexively at his cost ($2,600.) Incidentally, I had a Red Sox stack, but as that seemed to be the game most likely to get rained out, I scratched it. Just for the right to complain later, I'll note it had Dustin Pedroia, Mookie Betts, Pablo Sandoval and David Ortiz.