We have a fantastic slate of MLB games on Friday, with some interesting series to kicking off this weekend. Leading the way is a NL East matchup between the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves at 7:15 p.m. ET, and an AL East matchup between the Rays and Orioles getting started at 7:07 p.m. ET
Below, we’ll give you the top MLB DFS picks for Friday in the Cheat Sheet, as every team is in action today.
Friday’s MLB Cheat Sheet for MLB DFS includes two pitchers and two hitters to target on PrizePicks in your Lineups. On PrizePicks, you can make MLB predictions to win real money every day.
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MLB DFS Cheat Sheet Today: June 27
Here are the best MLB DFS picks and predictions for PrizePicks today. Use this analysis to build your PrizePicks MLB Lineups on Friday, June 27. Click to read more about each pick.
- Orioles P Tomoyuki Sugano - 2.5 Earned Runs
- Padres P Dylan Cease – 4.5 Hits Allowed
- Diamondbacks 2B Ketel Marte - 6.5 Fantasy Score
- Braves RF Ronald Acuna Jr. - 9.5 Fantasy Score
Orioles P Tomoyuki Sugano – 2.5 Earned Runs
- Orioles P Tomoyuki Sugano is prone to giving up the long ball and has allowed 14 home runs this season. The Rays are 14th in home run rate in 2025 (2.9%).
- Sugano cannot induce swings and misses as his whiff rate is in the third percentile this season (17.2%). The Rays are 13th in whiff rate this season (24.7%).
- Sugano has a solid 3.55 ERA, but he’s caught a lot of luck with 4.99 xERA, which is in the 14th percentile.
- The Rays have been one of the best offenses recently and lead the league in wOBA (.382) and AVG+ (132) since June 20.
- Sugano's earned runs are also a pick in Shayne Trail's Rays vs. Orioles breakdown today.
Padres P Dylan Cease – 4.5 Hits Allowed
- Dylan Cease has twice finished in the top five in Cy Young, but this season he struggled with below-average metrics, including being 27th percentile in barrel rate and 45th percentile in hard hit rate.
- Cease has exceeded this hits allowed projection in four of his last six starts.
- The Reds are coming in hitting pretty well, with the sixth-most hits in their last three games (8.67), and eighth in BABIP (.302) in the lsat 14 days.
Diamondbacks 2B Ketel Marte – 6.5 Fantasy Score
- Diamondbacks switch-hitting 2B Ketel Marte is having one of the best seasons of his career, as his .319 xBA is not only a personal best, but is in the 99th percentile.
- He’s coming in hot as he has exceeded this fantasy points projection in three of the last five games.
- Marte has been one of the league’s best hitters recently as his 12 hits are the most, and four doubles and three home runs are the second most since June 20.
- He will face Marlins P Eury Perez, who throws a four-seam fastball on 51.7% of his pitches. Marte is hitting .392 against that pitch this season.
Braves RF Ronald Acuna Jr. – 9.5 Hitter Score
- Ronald Acuna Jr. has exceeded this projection in four of the last five games.
- Acuna Jr. has hit well from the moment he returned from his year-long absence recovering from a torn ACL. His .431 expected wOBA is in the 99th percentile.
- Plate discipline has been an important part of Acuna Jr.’s ability to reach base. Since his return on May 23, his 25 walks are the second-most — one reason to take his fantasy score over his Hits+Runs+RBIs projection.
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