Sports fans, where does April rank in terms of action and excitement? The NBA and NHL playoffs both will begin next week, the world’s best golfers are currently at Augusta National Golf Club for The Masters Tournament, and baseball season is truly underway.
All but four teams will be in action as part of DraftKings’ 13-game MLB DFS featured slate, so users have plenty of options as they put together their lineups for tonight’s contest.
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Jacob deGrom, Texas Rangers at Seattle Mariners, $9,500 – As much as I wanted to pick my Los Angeles Dodgers starter, Yoshinobu Yamamoto ($9,700), who I’m convinced is going to become the first Japanese pitcher ever to win a Cy Young Award, the Chicago Cubs’ offense is just too good. Instead, I’ll go with a man who’s actually won the Cy Young before — twice, in fact — and is still capable of pitching at a high level when healthy. He proved that his second Tommy John surgery hadn’t hindered him too much in his season debut on March 30, going five innings and giving up no runs on two hits and striking out six (20.3 FPTS). This season, Seattle ranks in the bottom 10 in OPS, runs, and strikeouts, and while the Mariners do walk a lot, deGrom has the third-lowest walks per nine innings figure of any active pitcher.
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Sean Newcomb, Boston Red Sox at Chicago White Sox, $6,200 – As they were last season, the White Sox have been an easy target so far in 2025. Chicago is just 2-10, a game and a half worse than any other team in the American League, and they still rank last in the league in runs, hits, and OPS. Newcomb hasn’t been great in either of his two starts — going four innings and giving up four runs (3 FPTS) on March 31 and then giving up one run in 4.2 frames (12.5 FPTS) on Sunday — but if there’s any team he’s going to turn it around against, it’s the White Sox. Plus, his first two starts came at Oriole Park at Camden Yards and Fenway Park — two relatively hitter-friendly parks — and now he’s going to Rate Field, one of the most pitcher-friendly venues in the league.
INFIELDER
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Jazz Chisholm Jr., New York Yankees vs. San Francisco Giants, $5,700 – So far in 2025, Chisholm has had extreme home-road splits. At Yankee Stadium, he’s slashing an extremely impressive .292/.370/.792 (14.7 FPTS per game), including a two-homer (39-FPT) performance on March 30. On the road, he’s struggled to the tune of a .077/.143/.154 slash line (5.5 FPTS per game). But he’s back on friendly grounds for tonight’s game against San Francisco, against a pitcher in Robbie Ray ($8,000) who has been somewhat inconsistent so far this season. So fair, Ray has paired a fourth-percentile barrel rate with a league-average pull rate, and to the southpaw Chisholm, a barreled pull means a home run into the short porch in right field.
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Pete Alonso, New York Mets at Athletics, $5,700 – The four-time All-Star has been on fire to start his 2025 season, slashing .333/.451/.667 and ranking ninth in batting average, fourth in OBP, fifth in slugging, and fifth in offensive WAR in the NL so far. He’s also drawn more walks than strikeouts for the first time in his career. Alonso has a great matchup against an Athletics team that has allowed the third-highest ERA, walked the third-most batters, allowed the highest WHIP and second-highest batting average, and the 11th-highest average exit velocity. Somehow, the Athletics have been even worse at “home” at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento, with an eye-popping 6.83 ERA in six games.
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Josh Jung, Texas Rangers at Seattle Mariners, $3,500 – Jung, a former All-Star and World Series champion, would probably be higher if he hadn’t missed most of the season so far with neck spasms. He’s been very consistent so far in 2025, recording at least one hit and five FPTS in each of his games so far. He’s also driven in at least one run in each of his past three games, including a three-for-four return with a double and a triple (20 FPTS) in Tuesday’s loss to the Chicago Cubs. The Mariners’ starter, Bryce Miller ($8,500), wasn’t great in either of his first two starts of the season, allowing six or more hits and three or more runs in each one.
OUTFIELDER
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Kyle Tucker, Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers, $6,300 – For as excellent as Yamamoto has been so far this season, the 26-year-old Japanese right-hander has struggled slightly with his control, walking three in his most recent start last Friday, when he took the loss despite not giving up a single earned run. That’s bad news against Tucker, who ranks second in the National League with 14 walks and leads all of the major leagues with 16 hits and 19 runs so far this season. Chicago’s offense has been miles ahead of anyone else’s to begin the season, and that brilliance can be tied mostly to Tucker, who’s reached base in every game except his season debut — which, to be fair, came against Yamamoto on March 18.
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Corbin Carroll, Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Milwaukee Brewers, $5,900 – The Diamondbacks are a solid 7-6 and somehow still sit fourth in the NL West, which shows just how incredible that division has been so far this season, the Colorado Rockies aside. Arizona has won two in a row, though, beating the Baltimore Orioles twice at home, and Carroll recorded two hits including a solo home run (21 FPTS) in each game. He’s now recorded at least two hits in four of his last six games, accounting for at least 18 FPTS in each one. Jose Quintana ($7,000) hasn’t yet made his season debut, but he likes to throw fastballs, and Carroll is recording a .523 wOBA against 108 fastballs so far this season.
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Mike Yastrzemski, San Francisco Giants at New York Yankees, $4,000 – I’m picking Yastrzemski here for much the same reason as I picked Chisholm — Yankee Stadium is a hitter’s paradise, especially for left-handers. Yastrzemski is in hot form, having recorded at least one hit in each of his last five games and slashing an impressive .344/.462/.594 this season. 31.8% of his hits this season have been pulled in the air, which is an ideal combination for the short porch in right field, and his walk rate also ranks in the 94th percentile. New York’s starter, veteran Marcus Stroman ($6,900), has struggled with every facet of the game this season, but he has allowed a lot of pulled fly balls and not induced many chases. For his career, he’s also been worse against southpaws like Yastrzemski.
