Crow-Armstrong leads McClure's MLB DFS picks for Friday
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- Friday's MLB slate features all 15 games, with first pitches ranging from 6:40 p.m. ET to 10:15 p.m. ET and a marquee interleague matchup between the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
- Mike McClure, a DFS professional with over $2 million in career winnings and a predictive data engineer at SportsLine, uses a model that simulates every minute of every game 10,000 times to generate his daily picks.
- Pete Crow-Armstrong is McClure's top DFS target at $6,300 on DraftKings and $4,400 on FanDuel, coming off an 8-for-18 stretch with two homers over his past four games, including a 3-for-5, two-homer, four-RBI performance in Wednesday's 7-6 win over the Dodgers.
- Crow-Armstrong's season line of .289/.316/.560 with 22 doubles, seven triples, 26 home runs, and 69 RBI across 116 games underscores why McClure rates him as Friday's premier value play.
- McClure is stacking Crow-Armstrong with Cubs catcher Carson Kelly ($3,500 DK, $2,800 FD), who has hits in six of his past seven games and was also 3-for-5 in Wednesday's win over Los Angeles.
- Other notable names in McClure's player pool include Max Fried, Shohei Ohtani, Jackson Chourio, Brice Turang, Corbin Carroll, Jose Ramirez, Ben Rice, Alec Burleson, Kyle Tucker, Bobby Witt Jr., and Riley Greene.
- McClure flagged a second premium pick with an optimal matchup that could be the difference between winning tournaments and cash games, though his full lineup is gated behind a SportsLine subscription.
Why it matters: For DFS players working under a tight salary cap on a 15-game slate, McClure's Cubs stack — pairing two hot hitters who just torched the Dodgers in the same lineup — offers a concentrated correlation play. Crow-Armstrong's $4,400 FanDuel salary against his .289 average and 26-homer power creates one of the slate's clearest value-to-production gaps, while Kelly at $2,800 lets lineup builders free up cap for pricier bats like Ohtani or Witt Jr.
