FanDuel Best MLB DFS Picks: Cardinals vs. Giants 9/27/24

Major League Baseball presents a matchup between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants. Let’s take a look at this MLB game from a FanDuel perspective.

Before we dive into the St. Louis Cardinals vs. San Francisco Giants game let’s review the rules for the FanDuel single game showdown contest.

FanDuel Single Game Contest Rules

Here are the FanDuel single game contest rules. You have $60,000 to utilize on five players from either team. However, one of those players will be designated as your team MVP. The MVP accumulates 2x times the standard FanDuel fantasy points value.

The remaining four players in your lineup will be one star and three flex plays. The star player will receive 1.5x the standard fantasy points value. The final three flex positions will receive the standard FanDuel points value. Having stated that, it is highly important for you to identify the correct player for your MVP position if you hope to win a large field GPP (guaranteed prize pool) FanDuel single game contest.

If you have additional questions regarding the rules for the single game contest, I highly recommend that you check out the FanDuel website for more details.

*It should be noted that FanDuel does not utilize the pitcher position in single game MLB contests. Having stated that, only batters are available for single game MLB lineups on the FanDuel platform.

Here are my FanDuel picks for this evening’s St. Louis Cardinals vs. San Francisco Giants matchup.

FanDuel MLB Player Selections

MVP-Heliot Ramos, Outfielder, San Francisco Giants $9,000

On Friday evening, Major League Baseball presents the opening game of a three game National League series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants.

How are these two teams playing entering tonight’s MLB game? The San Francisco Giants arrive at the first game of this three game National league series with the St. Louis Cardinals playing rather good baseball. The San Francisco Giants have won seven of the team’s last nine games played in the 2024 MLB regular season, including a dominating 11-0 shutout win over the Arizona Diamondbacks last week.

Similar to the San Francisco Giants, the St. Louis Cardinals have been playing good baseball recently. More specifically, the Cardinals have won seven of the team’s last ten games played this season, including a 7-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies three days ago.

Now that we have determined how both of these Major League Baseball teams are currently playing let’s shift our focus to this evening’s contest. San Francisco outfielder Heliot Ramos has certainly been playing outstanding baseball for the San Francisco Giants in 2024. Let me provide Ramos’s recent game data to better shed light on my previous statement.

San Francisco Giants outfielder Heliot Ramos arrives at tonight’s National League game on the heels of a three-game hitting streak. In that three-game span just mentioned, Ramos compiled seven hits (one home run), two RBIs (runs batted in), one walk, and three runs scored in 14 plate appearances. Clearly, Heliot Ramos is swinging the bat at a high-level entering tonight’s MLB game.

In summary, I am backing Giants outfielder Heliot Ramos at the MVP position for this one game MLB FanDuel DFS contest.

Star-Masyn Winn, St. Louis Cardinals, Shortstop $7,000

St. Louis shortstop Masyn Winn has been a key contributor to the St. Louis Cardinals offense in 2024. Having stated that, how has Winn been playing from a statistical perspective?

In his last five games played for the Cardinals this season, Masyn Winn tallied six hits (one home run), six runs scored, four RBIs (runs batted in), and one walk in 23 plate appearances.

Flex plays I like (FanDuel price noted): Matt Chapman, Third Baseman (San Francisco Giants) $9,500: Tyler Fitzgerald, Second Baseman (San Francisco Giants) $8,000: Paul Goldschmidt, First Baseman (St. Louis Cardinals) $7,000.