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Welcome to the Tuesday, May 12, DFS MLB Playbook, courtesy of Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Every day, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com will publish their top daily fantasy baseball plays at each position across various DFS sites in the Playbook. It's a great place to start your MLB DFS research for the day, but there's much more behind the curtain.  The DFS MLB Playbook PRO  comes with a full top 10 at each position every day, optimal lineups for each DFS site, deep stats and daily projections, hitting and pitching strategies, a live DFS scoreboard to track your players and much more. So, enjoy the free sneak peek into the best DFS MLB plays for Tuesday night's games below and check out FantasyAlarm.com's premium product when you're ready to go PRO.  READ MORE: Today's SP rankings & more | Sporting News DFS | Play FanDuel! TUESDAY'S DFS MLB PLAYBOOK   Check for pregame updates to the Playbook at FantasyAlarm.com READ MORE: Today's SP ranki...

Find fantasy baseball sleepers with First Pitch! You can use our starting pitcher rankings and bullpen notes to set your season-long lineup or create a winning lineup in daily fantasy baseball contests, too.   Here's a look at pitcher rankings, saves sleepers and weather warnings. Today's action gets underway at 6:10 p.m. ET in Cleveland with the  Cardinals-Indians . READ MORE: SN Fantasy  | Daily lineup splits SP RANKINGS 1.    Chris Sale, CWS at MIL 2.    Stephen Strasburg, WAS at ARI 3.    Chris Archer, TB vs. NYY 4.    Collin McHugh, HOU vs. SF 5.    A.J. Burnett, PIT at PHI 6.    Jake Arrieta, CHC vs. NYM 7.    Lance Lynn, STL at CLE 8.    Carlos Carrasco, CLE vs. STL 9.    Dan Haren, MIA at LAD 10.    Ian Kennedy, SD at SEA 11.    Edinson Volquez, KC at TEX 12.    Anthony DeSclafani, CIN vs. ATL 13.    Alfredo Simon, DET vs. MIN 14.    Mike Fiers, MIL vs. CWS 15.    Nathan Eovaldi, NYY at TB 16.    Noah Syndergaard, NYM at CHC 17.    Carlos Frias, LAD vs. MIA 18.    Drew...

Not sure whom to buy today in DFS or whom to sit in your season-long fantasy leagues? Let us help set your daily fantasy baseball lineups with today’s most important splits and batter vs. pitcher stats. For more fantasy baseball advice and sleeper picks, check out our daily starting pitcher rankings and the DFS MLB Playbook from our partners at FantasyAlarm.com every morning. Below are our top buy/sell picks in today’s key matchups: READ MORE: Today's SP rankings, saves sleepers  | SN Fantasy - Adam Jones is a great buy today; he’s 16-for-37 (.432) with four doubles and two homers against Mark Buehrle. Also consider Delmon Young, who’s 22-for-56 (.393) with four homers and three doubles against the lefty. - While we’re talking about Buehrle, it’s worth noting he has struggled mightily against both righties (.363/.391/.569) and lefties (.390/.419/.585) this year. Don’t be shy about starting Orioles against him. - Jacoby Ellsbury is 10-for-15 (.667) with a homer against Chris A...

Welcome to the Tuesday, May 12, DFS MLB Playbook, courtesy of Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Every day, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com will publish their top daily fantasy baseball plays at each position across various DFS sites in the Playbook. It's a great place to start your MLB DFS research for the day, but there's much more behind the curtain.  The DFS MLB Playbook PRO  comes with a full top 10 at each position every day, optimal lineups for each DFS site, deep stats and daily projections, hitting and pitching strategies, a live DFS scoreboard to track your players and much more. So, enjoy the free sneak peek into the best DFS MLB plays for Tuesday night's games below and check out FantasyAlarm.com's premium product when you're ready to go PRO.  READ MORE: Today's SP rankings & more | Sporting News DFS | Play FanDuel! TUESDAY'S DFS MLB PLAYBOOK Check for pregame updates to the Playbook at FantasyAlarm.com READ MORE: Today's SP rankin...

Find fantasy baseball sleepers with First Pitch! You can use our starting pitcher rankings and batter vs. pitcher stats to set your season-long lineup or create a winning lineup in daily fantasy baseball contests, too.   Here's a look at key stat splits, pitcher rankings, saves sleepers and weather warnings. Today's action gets underway at  1:05 p.m. ET in Washington with the  Marlins-Nationals , and it's highlighted by a doubleheader in Denver between the  Diamondbacks  and  Rockies . READ MORE: Sporting News Fantasy - Victor Martinez is 15-for-32 (.469) with three homers and three doubles against Chris Sale . - Kyle Seager is just 3-for-36 (.083) with 15 Ks against C.J. Wilson . - Buster Posey is 15-for-37 (.405) against Ian Kennedy , while Brandon Belt is slugging .600 in 25 at-bats against the righthander. - Despite the lefty/lefty matchup, Brett Gardner (1.007 OPS), Brian McCann (1.078) and Stephen Drew (1.134) have crushed Mark Buehrle . - Carlos Santana is 7...

Rookie tight ends are notoriously unreliable fantasy football choices in Year 1, but some in the 2015 draft class have landed in situations that could yield immediate value. The increasing creativity of pass offenses across the NFL should continue to lump tight ends into the expanding middle class. Examining their paths to targets is a good step toward identifying rookie sleepers and fliers in 2015. MORE: Rookie rankings | TE Breakout trends Puncher's chance at being a starting fantasy TE in 2015 Maxx Williams, Ravens Two injury-marred seasons for Dennis Pitta  (hip) have put Baltimore in the market for another high-end "move" tight end. Williams fell into the Ravens lap, as prospects given first-round grades are wont to do. This bodes well if Williams' succession occurs early this season: Joe Flacco  made Pitta the most targeted TE not named  Jimmy Graham and Greg Olsen over the final four games in 2013 and first two games in '14 (51 targets). The "move...

The 2015 NFL Draft is in the books, which means fantasy football owners can’t wait to deploy another exciting wave of rookies entering the league. Although much can change in the next four months, here's our initial ranking of the new offensive skill players, based on talent and situation. Annual reminder: The order in which these players were drafted in real life has on bearing on this exercise: MORE: Draft-day insight on 35 key skill players DRAFT 'EM 1. Melvin Gordon, RB, Chargers . Gordon is tabbed to be an early-down workhorse role in an established, balanced offense, replacing Ryan Mathews . Danny Woodhead will cut into third-down work, but that’s the only real downside. (Draft-day value: RB2) 2. Tevin Coleman, RB, Falcons . Veteran  Steven Jackson is gone, and Devonta Freeman is coming off a less-than-meh rookie season. Atlanta didn’t hide how much it loved Coleman and will give the Hoosier a shot at a heavy workload. Matt Ryan and the passing game ensure Coleman wo...