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Welcome to 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 make up for streaming Brubaker yesterday in a decent matchup, 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.
We only have five pitchers who are over 90% rostered and another ten that are above 50%. That leaves us half the pitchers to choose from on waivers in most leagues. Are any of them good enough to stream? I'm sure we can find something here!
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Hitter Streamers for 6/15 - Shallow Leagues
Dylan Moore (OF/2B, RHB, SEA) - 42.2% Rostered
Matchup: vs. MIN LHP J.A. Happ
Happ has only allowed less than four runs in a start once since May 4. He has allowed six homers in his last three starts. He is basically a pitching machine on the mound right now. Moore is 3-9 with a homer, a steal, and two RBI since coming off the IL three days ago. Moore had five homers in 119 at bats before landing on the shelf, but he looks much more comfortable at the plate so far. He definitely should be against Happ tonight.
Amed Rosario (SS/OF, RHB, CLE) - 41.9% Rostered
Matchup: vs. BAL RHP Matt Harvey
As if the 7.41 ERA and 1.68 WHIP didn't tip you off, none of the splits on Harvey are good this year. However, most people don't realize just how bad his reverse splits are. Righties are hitting .359 against Harvey this year with just 29 strikeouts in 142 plate appearances. Why teams keep throwing lefties at him, I don't know. The Cleveland righties are in a superb spot here. First and foremost is Rosario, who is 11-22 with six runs, two RBI, and a steal in the last week. At the very least, Rosario will help your average. Against Harvey, he should do a lot more than that.
Jonathan Villar (2B/SS/3B, SHB, NYM) - 33% Rostered
Matchup: vs. CHC RHP Alec Mills
Mills has allowed 10 runs in his last eight innings of relief over five outings. The Cubbies are getting desperate with Adbert Alzolay on the IL. Villar is hitting a modest .313 in the last week with four runs, a homer, and a steal. This is as good a place as any to deploy him, especially with the Mets offense finally starting to get healthy.
Adam Duvall (OF, RHB, MIA) - 24.2% Rostered
Matchup: vs. STL LHP Kwang Hyun Kim
Kim will come of the IL to start here against Miami. The Marlins even got to Adam Wainwright a little bit last night, so I'm feeling pretty good about Duvall here. His average is suffering a bit this year, but Duvall has three homers, eight RBI, and two steals in the last eight games. Of his 12 homers on the season, four have come against lefties in just 56 at bats. I like those odds.
Hitter Streamers for 6/15 - Deeper Leagues
Willy Adames (SS, RHB, MIL) - 19.4% Rostered
Matchup: vs. CIN RHP Luis Castillo
Yeah, I know, Willy Adames is still not a sexy name. However, that doesn't mean that he can't help your fantasy teams. After an absolutely horrid start in Tampa, Adames is hitting .280 with three homers, 14 RBI and nine runs scored in 21 games with the Brewers. Perhaps the biggest thing with Adames is the spike in OBP and OPS with the Brewers. Castillo has pitched better of late, but I have serious questions about that Reds bullpen right now. We can do a lot worse than Adames in the middle infield.
J.P. Crawford (SS, LHB, SEA) - 17.9% Rostered
Matchup: vs. MIN LHP J.A. Happ
Some are going to see the lefty-on-lefty matchup and run the other way. Don't be one of those fools. First off, Crawford is hitting a blistering .346 against lefties this year. He is also hitting .365 against everyone over the last two weeks with a homer, a steal, seven RBI, and eight runs scored. Top that off with a struggling pitcher with one of the worst bullpens behind him, and I'm expecting big things from Crawford tonight.
Max Stassi (C, RHB, LAA) - 14.9% Rostered
Matchup: at OAK RHP Frankie Montas
Stassi has four homers in the last seven games and has driven in nine runs in that span. The 11 runs scored certainly aren't hurting his cause either. Montas is in a bit of a rough patch, having given up three or four runs in each of his last four starts. That's not terrible, but it does go to show that Montas isn't invincible. I'll ride the red-hot Stassi, who is hitting .455 in this last week.
Jake Fraley (OF, LHB, SEA) - 13% Rostered
Matchup: vs. MIN LHP J.A. Happ
Like I've said, nothing about Happ or the Minnesota bullpen scares me. Fraley is hitting .300 with two homers, two steals, five RBI, and four runs scored in the last week. He's becoming a nice power/speed combo guy. It may not last, but keep running him out there until he cools off in case it does.
Pitcher Streamer for 6/15 - Shallow Leagues
Mike Minor (LHP, KC) - 40.6% rostered
Matchup: at Detroit
The Tigers are getting better. They have 21 homers in 11 June games after hitting just 48 in the first two months of the season combined. However, they are still only hitting .218 against lefties and struggled with a couple of southpaws in the White Sox series. Minor has faced the Tigers twice so far this year and has allowed six runs, including two homers, in just 11.2 innings. However, he has racked up 17 strikeouts. If you are looking to get a leg up on strikeouts and have ERA/WHIP covered in your matchup, I like Minor here. In the game that he pitched in Detroit in April, he struck out nine and got the win in that one.
Pitcher Streamers for 6/15 - Deeper Leagues
Sammy Long (LHP, SF) - 7.3% rostered
Matchup: vs. Arizona
Long's major league debut went well as the long reliever at Texas last week. Long went four innings, allowing just one hit, one walk, and one run while striking out seven. That's right. Seven strikeouts in four innings. That alone should have us taking notice. Add in the park factor for his home digs in San Francisco and this could be another strong performance for Long. The bottom of streaming options is full of struggling pitchers. Long seems much safer than the rest.
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