Monday’s MLB slate brings a robust 14-game main board, giving DFS players plenty of paths to build a winning lineup. With one true ace anchoring the pitcher pool and a handful of hot bats scattered across the board at manageable salaries, tonight sets up well for both cash games and GPP builds.
Our approach for today’s MLB DFS picks blends a premium arm at the top with a cheaper second pitcher option, then rounds out the roster with hitters who are locked into confirmed lineups and carrying real recent production. Here are five plays worth building around for DraftKings and FanDuel lineups tonight.
Jacob Misiorowski, SP — Milwaukee Brewers ($12,000 DK)
Misiorowski is the priciest arm on the slate for good reason. He’s running a 1.62 ERA and a 0.76 WHIP across 111 innings this season, with 167 strikeouts in 18 starts — a rate that puts him firmly among the best strikeout arms in baseball. His fastball is averaging over 100 mph, and his K-BB% sits at an absurd 33.2%, numbers that explain why he’s failed to crack 20 DK points only three times all year.
Over his last seven starts, Misiorowski owns a 1.34 ERA with 67 strikeouts across 47 innings — an elite recent stretch that shows no signs of slowing down. He’s allowed just nine home runs all season, and his average exit velocity allowed (87.3 mph) and barrel rate (3.2%) both point to a pitcher who is missing bats and limiting hard contact simultaneously. Facing the Mets tonight, he projects as one of the highest-owned plays on the board, but the price tag is earned. For cash game builds, he’s about as safe a top-of-lineup anchor as you’ll find on any MLB DFS slate this season.
Jack Flaherty, SP — Detroit Tigers ($7,300 DK)
Flaherty gives DFS players a way to get quality pitching without paying up to the Misiorowski range, and his recent form supports the price. Since returning from the injured list, Flaherty has posted three consecutive strong outings — 26.2, 24.4, and 21.9 DK points — allowing just two runs across 16 2/3 innings while racking up 20 strikeouts over that span.
That kind of workload efficiency and swing-and-miss stuff makes him a strong pivot off the true stud arms tonight, especially in tournament builds where saving salary at pitcher lets you pay up elsewhere in the lineup. At $7,300, he offers a real floor-to-ceiling profile that’s hard to find at this price range, and he’s a clean way to build a two-pitcher combination that still leaves plenty of cap space for stacking hitters.
Kyle Stowers, LF — Miami Marlins ($4,100 DK)
Stowers brings legitimate thump to the middle of Miami’s lineup, and tonight’s matchup plays right into his strengths. On the season he’s hitting .239 with 12 home runs and a .777 OPS, but the underlying Statcast data is even more encouraging — a 91.8 mph average exit velocity, an 11.8% barrel rate, and 75.2 mph bat speed all support real, sustainable power.
Against right-handed pitching specifically, Stowers carries a 119 wRC+ with a .231 ISO, and 11 of his 12 home runs this season have come against righties. He draws Ronel Blanco tonight, a pitcher who has been especially vulnerable to left-handed power — six of the seven homers Blanco has allowed have come off the bat of a lefty, and he’s sporting a brutal 7.8 FIP against left-handed hitters. That combination of skill and matchup makes Stowers a strong value play in Miami’s lineup against Houston.
Ty France, 1B — San Diego Padres ($3,100 DK)
France is squarely in the “buy while he’s hot” category tonight. Over his last seven games he’s gone 11-for-24 — a .458 average — with four home runs and an average of 15.3 DK points per contest. That’s an extraordinary recent stretch for a player still priced at just $3,100, and his 83.3% hard-hit rate over his last four games confirms the surface numbers aren’t a fluke.
France draws Bryce Elder and the Braves tonight, and Atlanta’s starter carries a 4.44 FIP against right-handed hitters this season, who are slashing .297/.342/.455 against him. At this salary, France offers one of the better points-per-dollar profiles anywhere on the board, making him an easy fit in cash game builds or as a low-owned GPP piece paired with the rest of San Diego’s lineup.
Griffin Conine, OF — Miami Marlins ($3,100 DK)
Conine rounds out the value tier as a cheap outfield option who’s actually performing like one of the hotter bats in the league right now. He’s hit .310 over his last 20 games with five home runs, averaging 9.3 DK points over his last nine contests — production that would typically command a much higher salary.
Tonight he faces Ronel Blanco, who is coming off the injured list for Houston, giving Conine a favorable matchup to continue his hot stretch. Stacking Conine alongside Stowers gives you exposure to two hot Miami bats against the same shaky right-hander, a stacking approach that lets you concentrate correlated upside without breaking the bank on either piece.
Building Your Lineup
Tonight’s slate rewards a barbell approach at pitcher — either pay up for Misiorowski’s elite strikeout ceiling or pivot to a value arm like Flaherty and spend the saved salary on hitters. Both paths are viable for MLB DFS lineups, whether you’re building for cash games or firing GPP entries.
On the hitting side, the Miami stack of Stowers and Conine against Blanco stands out as a correlated, inexpensive core to build around, and pairing that with France’s scorching recent form at first base rounds out a lineup with real production at a fraction of the cost of the slate’s premium bats. If you’re deciding how to track today’s MLB odds alongside your DFS build, keeping an eye on the game totals can help confirm which matchups project as the highest-scoring environments.
For DraftKings lineup construction, prioritize confirmed starters and monitor projected ownership on Misiorowski and the Miami bats — both are likely to be popular tonight, so differentiating with a value pitcher like Flaherty or a lower-owned stack can be the difference in large-field GPP contests. Cash game players should lean into the safest floor plays: Misiorowski at pitcher and France as a high-probability contributor at first base. Whichever build you land on, today’s slate has enough depth at multiple price points to construct a lineup with both a strong floor and real upside.
