WEATHER Cold and Wind blowing IN at Wrigley Field. There’s also some lingering rain but I believe they play and I believe the pitchers will get hit a little but obviously not a lot of scoring or HR upside. Expect roof to be OPEN in Arizona There’s no free square like Strider last night and really lots of arms that are in question here today. NESTOR CORTES Minnesota could not be more jeckyl and hyde vs LHP right now. On paper there’s potential for some good splits in this lineup but in reality we also see plenty of strikeouts vs LHP and just overall average performances. It’s once again chilly and the wind is blowing IN at Target, so Nestor should be fine and hopefully he can repeat some of what Sale did vs the Twins last week. A big decision on DK today is Nestor or Joe Ryan, who should wind up doing well like Sonny Gray did last night but Nestor is my lean to beat him and paying for both makes things tricky on DK. If you want to be simple and move on, just gamestack these two together. BLAKE SNELL If there IS rain here I would shy away, but if it’s just cold and misty then I trust Snell with the wind blowing in and a night Wrigley game. I mentioned that there will be runners on base on both sides, but Snell is more likely to have that big strikeout game and can get out of the jams tonight. His FanDuel $7600 price is very tempting. Why I am still trusting Brady Singer … In other words, you can just keep on reading beyond this because yes, I write him up all the time and yeah he hasn’t been 2022 Singer the last couple of starts. I base most of that on his time spent in the WBC where he sat on his ass mostly and he has struggled so far getting the same whiff % and giving up too much hard contact. But he’s still great vs LHB and Arizona might roll out 5 of them tonight, so I’ll take the risk as an SP2 or second lineup with Singer tonight on a day with very limited pitching options. While this slate is weak in terms of ‘lock’ options up top, it does offer some depth in what I would categorize as…...
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