No Cubs home game this afternoon and two games on the 6pm Senior Citizen’s Slate, so we are smaller than usual on this Friday the 13th – but we have 13 games. So break out all the jinxes and superstitions you can handle tonight. Does this mean it’s a heavy narrative weekend? We’ll soon find out. [spacer height=”20px”] WEATHER All games are good to go! Very good start to the weekend. What could possibly go wrong? [spacer height=”20px”] This is one of the most balanced and normal pitching slates we have seen in quite a while. There are 11 total pitchers who are 8k and above on DraftKings, six of them being 9k or more and three of them being 10k or more. So what if I told you that out of those 11 there would be a minimum of seven (7) who would hit 20+ DK Fantasy Points tonight and out of those 7 that four (4) would be in the 9k and above range. Your answer should immediately be – okay, I will swim in that spot to take the path to getting 50+ points from my pitchers and worry about mixing in the hitters afterwards. And I would say, Yes. Good job. Now get me a beer. MAX SCHERZER Max Scherzer should absolutely just love pitching in Citi Field on Friday the 13th in the Mets Black Uniforms against a young lineup. You know how the other night you were thankful you had Justin Verlander against the Twins? Similar spot tonight but with more strikeouts. LOGAN WEBB Here it is….. Guys…. Over here! I found it. It’s the Logan Webb start we have all been waiting for. Webb is very strong against RHB, which the Cardinals offense is mostly reliant upon and one of those is Tyler O’Neil which is Irish for 0-4 with 3 strikeouts. The Cards and Webb just met last week in San Francisco, when Buster Posey had to be all special and have his ceremony before Webb took the mound. It lead to a rough start for Webb in a warm afternoon and I bit the bullet on his less than dominant start. But if you look closer at how he pitched, there was a lot of promise and whenever Hitters/Pitchers see each other twice in a row I tend to go with the side who struggled more the time before. So Webb…...
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