Six games early on DraftKings, which is split into TWO slates on FanDuel today boys and girls. Because they gotta take care of those who miss lock on a weekday of course. The six games that we have to feast on this hump day include: Marlins vs Phillies White Sox vs Tigers Astros vs Rangers Reds vs Diamondbacks Royals vs Giants Twins vs Mariners WEATHER It is very hot in the White Sox-Tigers game and all games will play without weather issues. [spacer height=”20px”] There are no pricing decisions to worry about today on DraftKings early slate for picking two guys, nor is there anyone extremely discounted. We do have some pitchers who are going that are not likely to go deep and thus there’s the ole 4k punt play like Daniel Castano for the Marlins and Sean Hjelle for the Giants but neither of them are even worth sniffing. [spacer height=”20px”] LUIS CASTILLO This series re-match has gone the way of the pitchers but today we have two guys facing off who did not meet last week in Cincinnati. Castillo is pitching well and has no restrictions as the Reds bullpen is very thin and so they’ll use him for 100+ pitches. If he can keep his walks down I can see him getting through 7 innings today which should get him to 6+ strikeouts as well. He is the easy choice for me today. ZAC GALLEN The second option comes down to Gallen, Sonny Gray, and Luis H Garcia. I envision Garcia giving up a couple home runs vs the Rangers and Sonny Gray usually only pitches 85 or so when he is healthy, so coming off the IL For his first start isn’t exactly a comforting feeling. Let’s just apply the small slate SP game stack theory in a Chase Field get away game as Gallen does have a favorable K%, SLG and Risk rating against the Reds boring offense. [spacer height=”20px”] Other Pitching Nuggets Gray and Garcia are definite no’s for me and although I can see Marco Gonzales possibly stealing a game vs the Twins I am going to err on the side of what should happen there (him getting hit by a team that hits lefties). That leaves ole Kyle Gibson in a warm day in Philadelphia as the only option against a team who loves to hit the ball down in the zone. That’ll be…...
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