Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Tuesday

Hitting

Catcher -- Pedro Severino (R), 9%, Baltimore Orioles vs. Seattle Mariners (LHP Nick Margevicius): While you can stream Margevicius, you can certainly stream hitters against him as well, especially at the wasteland that is catcher. Severino will hold the platoon and home field advantages and is about as good as you can get at this spot.

First Base -- Rowdy Tellez (L), 7%, Toronto Blue Jays vs. New York Yankees (RHP Jameson Taillon): Taillon looked good in his first outing with the Yankees. but this is more about attacking the spot than the pitcher. Dunedin projects as an extreme hitters environment, especially once you factor in the weather (which is 76 degrees with some wind out to left today). Tellez has scuffled to start the year, but he's a talented enough hitter in an elite lineup. The same goes for Alejandro Kirk at catcher.

Second Base -- Rougned Odor (L), 2%, New York Yankees at Toronto Blue Jays (LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu): It's yet to be seen how often the Yankees will deploy Odor, but as mentioned with Tellez, this is a great hitting environment, and the RBI/run potential in this lineup is big if Odor cracks the lineup.

Third Base -- Eduardo Escobar (S), 39%, Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Oakland Athletics (LHP Jesus Luzardo): Luzardo is a talented young pitcher, but Escobar is a good hitter in his own right and hits better from the right side of the plate. It will be in the low-80s if the roof is open, but even closed this would still effectively be one of the hotter games of the day.

Shortstop -- Elvis Andrus (R), 23%, Oakland Athletics at Arizona Diamondbacks (RHP Zac Gallen): It's looking like Gallen could make his 2021 debut today, and it's always possible there will be some rust he'll need to shake off before settling in. Andrus will have the same positive hitting conditions as Escobar, and Gallen is a pitcher that is exploitable on the basepaths by somebody with Andrus's speed.

Corner Infield -- Renato Nunez (R), 1%, Detroit Tigers at Houston Astros (RHP Jake Odorizzi): Nunez has been hitting cleanup for the Tigers lately, and he'll benefit from Odorizzi's extreme reverse platoon split. If the roof happens to be open, we'd be looking at 80-ish degrees, but even 70 with a closed roof would still mark this among the best hitting "weather."

Middle Infield -- Ha-Seong Kim (R), 15%, San Diego Padres at Pittsburgh Pirates (RHP Chad Kuhl): Kim isn't much more than an average MLB hitter, but a rising tide lifts all boats, and the quality of the Padres lineup (even without Tatis) boosts his RBI and run equity against one of the weakest pitchers on the slate.

Outfield -- Adam Duvall (R), 10%, Miami Marlins at Atlanta Braves (LHP Max Fried): The Marlins get out of the pitcher-friendly confines of loanDepot park (I'm still not used to this gross name and weird stylization) and will enjoy 78 degree temps with a bit of wind to left. Given the conditions, the platoon advantage, and the groundball/flyball advantage (Duvall is a flyball hitter, Fried a groundball pitcher, which conveys an edge to the hitter), Duvall sets up as the top streaming option on the slate. Brian Anderson and Garrett Cooper are also worthwhile streams.

Outfield -- Avisail Garcia (R), 10%, Milwaukee Brewers vs. Chicago Cubs (RHP Kyle Hendricks): This is purely about Avisail being a better hitter than his 2021 numbers and rostership indicate. The playing time concerns following the JBJ signing have proven moot as Avi has started all but two games all year, and while Hendricks isn't an especially attackable pitcher, Garcia does have the recency advantage, having faced him just a week ago. But more than anything, the 91st percentile Barrel%, 84th percentile Max Exit Velocity, and 72nd percentile HR Zone Launch Angle% are the reasons to roster him.

Outfield -- Justin Upton (R), 22%, Los Angeles Angels at Kansas City Royals (LHP Danny Duffy): Duffy is an extreme flyball pitcher with a very large platoon split, making him particularly susceptible to right-handed power. That's Upton's entire game in a nutshell, making this about the perfect matchup type for him.