FanDuel Daily Fantasy Baseball Helper: Tuesday 8/3/21

Put on the finishing touches with our games and lineups page to see who's hitting where and what the weather looks like, and you'll have yourself a snazzy-looking team to put up some big point totals. We rank Cease as the night's top arm, projecting him for 36.6 FanDuel points. The slate's highest-salaried pitcher is Walker Buehler ($11,100), and he's got a brutal matchup with the Houston Astros, a team that has the lowest strikeout rate in baseball (19.4%). Miami's 3.38 implied total is the slate's lowest, but we have Walker -- who has permitted at least five runs in three straight starts -- scoring only 25.8 FanDuel points. Cleveland's implied total is only 3.59, and our projections have Ryu recording a decent 30.3 FanDuel points. Houser is taking on the Pittsburgh Pirates, and while the Pirates are not good (28th in wOBA), they don't strike out much (2nd-lowest strikeout rate). Patino's season-long numbers don't align with his $6,800 salary as he boasts a 3.94 SIERA and 26.7% strikeout rate. For the Rox, whose 6.23 implied total is a slate-high mark, Brendan Rodgers ($3,300) may finally be living up to his prospect billing, homering four times across his last seven games -- none of which were in Coors. Milwaukee -- who finished July fifth in wOBA (.338) for the month -- is taking on rookie right-hander Max Kranick, the owner of an 18.7% strikeout rate in 16 MLB innings. Prior to getting the call to the bigs, Kranick had just a 19.0% strikeout rate over 26 1/3 Triple-A innings.