MLB DFS Picks Today: Best Pitchers & Stacks for Monday (8/3)

MLB DFS Picks Today: Best Pitchers & Stacks for August 3

Noah Simpson Aug 3, 2026 0

Well hello. Fancy seeing you here. Today is MLB trade deadline day, so we won’t have to worry about late scratches or mid-game pulls anymore. There is a decent chance one or more of the pitchers currently scheduled to start tonight will be on the move before 3 ET, but we’ll have plenty of time to adjust accordingly.

This looks like a pretty horrific slate of pitchers once you get past the first few names, so I can already tell this is a slate where I’ll be doing some really nasty stuff on the pitching front. Let’s talk about some nasty stuff.

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Noah Simpson is a New England-based DFS writer who has spent the better part of a decade obsessing over MLB DFS. He got his start playing DFS recreationally before realizing he was spending more time building spreadsheets than actually watching games, and decided to make it official. At DFSBuild, Noah covers MLB DFS strategy with a focus on finding edges that casual players overlook. When he's not staring at Statcast data, he's somewhere on a hiking trail in Maine with his two dogs, Sandboy and Johnner, who are undefeated at ignoring his lineup advice, because they are dogs. They don't have the cognitive or motor skills required to operate a computer, let alone process complex theories and information.