May 10, 2016; Boston, MA, USA; The Boston Red Sox warm up prior to a game against the Oakland Athletics at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports

MLB Picks and Pivots – FanDuel Baseball Picks May 11 – Main

Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Picks & Pivots, a daily fantasy column focused on providing analysis for the upcoming MLB FanDuel slate. The purpose of this column is to first identify key building blocks that can be used for any roster construction and then identify pivot points to help differentiate your lineup in hopes of a big pay day!

FanSided and FantasyCPR have you covered – For additional FanDuel MLB analysis, take a look at Matt Rogers FanDuel Economics column or Mike Marteny who provides Draft Kings MLB Picks analysis giving you the most in depth DFS coverage for tonight’s baseball slate.

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 Hump Day! We get a nice little dual slate on Wednesday with 8 games kicking off at 1PM EST on the early slate and another 9 games in the main slate at 7:05PM EST.

I will continue to track winning Tournament lineups and compare trends over 5 day periods to help us understand what it takes to remain profitable. I HIGHLY recommend each of you do this each morning to look back on the previous night and understand how the winning lineups are constructed in the games you participate in.

The view below tracks GPP entries over various time periods, breaking out key metrics to understand the trends and compositions of GPP winning rosters:

Monday’s tournament winner posted a massive score driven by a value starting pitcher in Aaron Sanchez who posted 45 points and put up 6.3x value at only $7,1000. The hitters across baseball are putting up monster games on a nightly basis and with the increased FanDuel points for offense, we are seeing the target points per batter move between 25 and 30 on a daily basis. Monday night with a game in Coors Field we saw Jake Lamb put up a 50 burger while Jackie Bradley Jr. continued his torrid pace with 45 points and Ketel Marte bust out with 47 points.

I highly recommend gamers track their game performance across the various types of games they play – GPP’s, Cash, Multipliers etc – as this simple exercise will help teach you more about profitable roster construction than you can imagine.

Now on to the picks…