The MLB season continues on Monday at 6:40 PM ET with 5 games taking place and there is value all across the board with the MLB Player Props Draftkings Pick6.
Before we look at who should be in your Pick6 lineup, let’s go over a reminder about how the contest works.
The goal for participants is to make more correct picks than the other participants in each contest. Winning entries receive a share of the available prizes. In Pick6, participants can build lineups of between 2 and 6 players and compete against participants with the same lineup size. The more picks you include in a lineup, the higher a payout could be.
Tarik Skubal Under 6.5 Strikeouts Thrown
Detroit Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal is a good strikeout pitcher, but he’s not going to be ringing up a ton of batters here. In Skubal’s last start, he had seven strikeouts, but in the previous two games he finished with six strikeouts. The Texas Rangers aren’t a team that strikeouts a ton, and they are averaging only 7.71 strikeouts per game which is 5th best in all of baseball. Skubal is going to finish under 6.5 strikeouts.
Elly De La Cruz over 1.5 Total Bases
Elly De La Cruz is going to go over 1.5 total bases from hits. Getting the start for the Colorado Rockies will be Ryan Feltner and he sits with an ERA of 5.466. De La Cruz has been a little bit inconsistent here but Coors Field is going to be good to him. Feltner has been awful this season and he’s going to be lit up here. Elly De La Cruz will go over 1.5 total bases.
Matt Carpenter Under 0.5 Hits
St. Louis Cardinals 1st baseman Matt Carpenter is going to really struggle here. In each of the last three games, Carpenter has finished with zero hits and he’s going to really struggle here. Getting the start for the Houston Astros will be Justin Verlander, and he has been dominant this season. Carpenter is going to really struggle here, and he will finish with under 0.5 hits.
Kevin Gausman Over 5.5 Strikeouts
Kevin Gausman is coming off a game where he had only three stirkeouts, but before that the Toronto Blue Jays pitcher was a strikeout machine. Two starts ago against the Detroit Tigers he went six innings giving up three hits and he finished with ten strikeouts. The Baltimore Orioles will strikeout plenty here.