MLB DFS Picks Today: DraftKings Top Plays For Tuesday, June 30

Most Tuesday slates push you to punt a pitcher and hope. Today is the rare one where the better play is to pay all the way up at both spots, because the value to fund it is sitting right there in a 5.5-run team total nobody is paying for. Here is how the Perfect Lineup crew built it on DraftKings.

In Summary

• Slate: A monster 12-game Tuesday on DraftKings, with only three of the early 6:00-ish games, and 12 pitchers carrying a strikeout prop of 5.5 or higher spread across every salary tier.
• The Contrarian Move: Pay up at both pitching spots. The cheap stack covers it.
• SP1, Cam Schlittler (NYY): Highest-projected pitcher in the Stokastic DataHub, a 7.5 strikeout prop, and elite home-run suppression against a high-strikeout Detroit lineup with a 3.3 team total.
• SP2, Bryan Woo (SEA): A $9,000 value with absurd home splits at T-Mobile Park, facing an Angels offense that whiffs constantly and is still without Mike Trout.
• The Stack, San Diego Padres: A 5.5 team total, No. 1 in value on the Sims, and dirt cheap. Anchored by Fernando Tatis Jr. (SD), Ty France (SD), Manny Machado (SD), Xander Bogaerts (SD), and Miguel Andújar (SD).
• The Finish: Carson Kelly (CHC) and Seiya Suzuki (CHC) bring a mini game-stack, with Shohei Ohtani (LAD) as the one-off. The Single Lineup Simulator graded the build at a 108 sim ROI, 46% cash rate, and 3% chance to win.

Watch: The Perfect Lineup

Josh and the crew walk through every play on tonight's slate and let the Sims grade the final lineup in real time.

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How We Build This Lineup

Every play below starts the same way: we let the tools do the heavy lifting, then plug in the build. The Stokastic MLB Sims generate projections and projected ownership for the full slate, the DataHub ranks the top-pitcher and top-stack probabilities, and the Single Lineup Simulator takes a hand-built roster and runs it through the contest tens of thousands of times to grade it on sim ROI, cash rate, and chance to win. That last tool is why we can confidently pay up at both pitching spots: the simulator confirms the salary tradeoff actually works before we lock it.

It is the difference between trusting one projected score and seeing how a lineup actually holds up across an entire simulated 12-game slate.

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Pitching: Pay Up At Both Spots

A dozen pitchers with a 5.5-plus strikeout prop spread across every tier usually screams "go cheap at SP2." We are doing the opposite. The two arms we want both project at the top of the board, and the cheap stack leaves us the salary to roster them.

Cam Schlittler · SP1 · NYY vs. DET

He is the highest-projected pitcher in the Stokastic DataHub and carries the highest top-two-pitcher probability on the slate, which also makes him the second-most-owned pitcher tonight. We are fine with that, because we can get unique with our eight hitters instead.

The case:

• A 30% strikeout rate into a Detroit lineup with the fourth-highest K rate against right-handed pitching, north of 24%.
• A 7.5 strikeout prop, a monster number for a single start.
• Elite power suppression: a 6% barrel rate and a 6% home-run-to-fly-ball rate, and just one home run allowed across 40 innings at home this year.
• Detroit's 3.3 team total is among the lowest on the board, even with the 86-degree New York heat baked in. The Tigers have some pop (11th in ISO vs. righties), but Schlittler has dampened hard contact all season.

Bryan Woo · SP2 · SEA vs. LAA · $9,000

This is where the value lives. Woo is the second-highest-projected pitcher on the slate behind Schlittler and second in top-two-pitcher probability, yet he is only the sixth-highest-priced arm at $9,000 flat, the fifth-best value score on the board.

The case:

• Woo's home splits are the outlier of the slate. Through seven starts and 45 innings at T-Mobile Park: a .091 weighted on-base average allowed, a 32% strikeout rate, a 4% walk rate, a 0.69 WHIP, and a 1.9 FIP.
• Another 7.5 strikeout prop in one of the most pitcher-friendly venues in baseball.
• The Angels strike out at a 24.5% clip against righties, only the Reds' active roster whiffs more vs. RHP, and they are still without Mike Trout.
• For the ceiling at this price point: teammate George Kirby (SEA) went eight innings with seven strikeouts last night for roughly 28 DraftKings points at a mid-$8K tag. Woo has been the better pitcher at home this year.

The Stack: San Diego Padres

With both pitchers paid up, we need a stack that hits and barely dents the cap. The San Diego Padres check every box: a 5.5-run team total, a park in Chicago setting up well for offense, No. 1 in value on the Sims, and already a top-five stack on a big slate.

The honest counterpoint: San Diego has not hit lefties well this year (27th in wRC+, 24th in ISO vs. southpaws), and they draw Cubs left-hander Matt Boyd (CHC), who will get his strikeouts. This is an environment-and-price play with leverage built in, not a bet on raw platoon form. Boyd also lets a chunk of right-handed power through, and the park is playing up.

The bats here are essentially free, which is the whole point. Fernando Tatis Jr. is the priciest piece at just $4,500, with names like Samad Taylor (SD) at $3,500 and Manny Machado at $3,900 showing how little this group costs. That is what lets us pay all the way up on the mound and still fill real bats around the stack.

The locked five-man San Diego stack:

• Fernando Tatis Jr. (SD) — $4,500, the most expensive bat in the build
• Ty France (SD)
• Manny Machado (SD)
• Xander Bogaerts (SD)
• Miguel Andújar (SD)

The whole edge of this build is salary synergy: the Sims rate San Diego No. 1 in value, so spending almost nothing on five hitters is what funds two top-of-the-board pitchers.

Filling It Out: Catcher And Outfield

That leaves a catcher and two outfielders, with plenty of salary left for high-end bats. We hand the roster to the Single Lineup Simulator and click complete-this-lineup, which returns the three optimal plays based on the remaining salary and our projections.

It turns the build into a pseudo game-stack. The simulator brings back two Cubs from the other side of the Padres game, Carson Kelly (CHC) at catcher and Seiya Suzuki (CHC) in the outfield, and rounds out the second outfield spot with Shohei Ohtani (LAD) as a one-off. Every dollar of salary is spent.

The Final Build: A Worked Example

With the roster full, we run the lineup simulation to find out whether it grades as well as it looks on paper. It does. This might be the best lineup the Perfect Lineup has built all year: a 108 sim ROI, a 46% cash rate, and a 3% chance to win on a 12-game Tuesday. Here is the full worked example, exactly as the build came together:

Spot	Player	Team	Why
SP1	Cam Schlittler	NYY	Top-projected arm, elite power suppression
SP2	Bryan Woo	SEA	$9,000 value, dominant home splits
Stack	Fernando Tatis Jr.	SD	Priciest bat at $4,500, 5.5 team total
Stack	Ty France	SD	Cheap salary, top-value stack
Stack	Manny Machado	SD	$3,900, middle-of-order pop
Stack	Xander Bogaerts	SD	Cheap salary, top-value stack
Stack	Miguel Andújar	SD	Rounds out the dirt-cheap stack
C	Carson Kelly	CHC	Pseudo game-stack from the other side
OF	Seiya Suzuki	CHC	Pseudo game-stack from the other side
OF	Shohei Ohtani	LAD	One-off ceiling play

You could eat the chalk at pitching and even on Ohtani and still differentiate through the cheap Padres pieces. Some might call it perfect. And if it does not take it down tonight, you run it back tomorrow, same time, same process.

FAQ

Who are the top MLB DFS pitchers on DraftKings for Tuesday, June 30? Cam Schlittler (NYY) and Bryan Woo (SEA) are the two arms the Perfect Lineup is paying up for. Schlittler is the highest-projected pitcher in the Stokastic DataHub against a high-strikeout Tigers lineup, and Woo is the top value at $9,000 with elite home splits versus a whiff-heavy Angels offense.

Why stack the Padres if they are bad against lefties? It is an environment-and-price play. San Diego carries a 5.5-run team total, ranks No. 1 in value on the Sims, and the bats are cheap enough to fund two top pitchers. The poor platoon form versus left-hander Matt Boyd is the risk you accept for that leverage and salary relief.

How was this lineup graded? Through Stokastic's Single Lineup Simulator, which runs a hand-built roster through the contest tens of thousands of times. This build returned a 108 sim ROI, a 46% cash rate, and a 3% chance to win.

What is the cheapest way to build a DraftKings MLB stack tonight? The San Diego Padres. Fernando Tatis Jr. is the priciest bat at just $4,500, and the rest of the stack comes in below that, leaving salary for studs at pitcher and outfield.

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