Pitcher Salary Exploitation: Daily Fantasy Baseball 4-28-15

By: Scott Malewig, Updated April 28, 2015

Each day during MLB season will bring us some major price differences among starting pitchers on all sites. These price discrepancies and the site's roster differences can alter the way we use pitchers on each site. Listed below are five of today's top pitchers, each with their salary listed as well as a ratio that takes into account both the total salary cap on the site and the number of roster positions that need filling. We've also provided some betting info for you reference. The higher the ratio, the more you'll be able to spend elsewhere.

Name	Opponent	FanDuel Salary	DraftKings Salary	Draftster Salary	FD Ratio	DK Ratio	DS Ratio	Opp Vegas Run Total	Money Line
Clayton Kershaw	SF	11500	12400	11900	0.580	0.403	0.467	3	1.57
Johnny Cueto	MIL	10400	10400	9500	0.641	0.481	0.585	3	1.53
Anibal Sanchez	MIN	8500	7700	7800	0.784	0.649	0.712	3	1.72
Michael Wacha	PHI	8400	8300	7500	0.794	0.602	0.741	3	1.47
David Phelps	NYM	6000	4400	6700	1.111	1.136	0.829	4	1.95

Clayton Kershaw

I feel pretty strongly that Kershaw will be the highest scoring pitcher of the night, but that doesn't make him an auto-play on a slate filled with aces in great matchups.