For today’s early slate we have both FD and DK ignoring the Royals/Diamondbacks game and DraftKings has the Rangers/Reds game as a Showdown only contest at 12:35. This type of stuff like last night is very annoying when we have start times of games about 30 minutes apart and they are on different slates just for money grabs. Are we gonna convert NFL to be 4PM as the Main slate and 1PM as the Turbo slate going forward? Last night was a perfect example of why larger MLB slates are better because once again all those Turbo games were filled with good options and this moron decided to stack up the White Sox.
On to Wednesday, five game early slate (DK) and six game (FD) now and then another short main slate article tonight.
WEATHER
All early games are fine and chilly with two dome games (Milwaukee, Toronto)
We have two Germans, two Asians a Tanner and a Tyler, which is about as nice of a way as I can say this group of pitchers sucks.
FREDDY PERALTA
Chalky Freddy Peralta, winds up with him giving up 3 HR or striking out 12. It’s the Tigers, who have won two in a row vs the Brewers in Milwaukee, so I am going to lean that the striking out 12 is bound to happen here.
DOMINGO GERMAN
Another cold game in Minnesota and German was great vs the Twins on April 15th getting 41% CSW in that start at Yankee Stadium. Let’s not expect him to repeat that exactly today but out of the 9.5 pitching options we have, he’s servicable.
TANNER HOUCK
Houck is the one arm who I could see matching Peralta’s upside. Would use him as a direct pivot off Peralta with some Tigers bats to further your leverage.
FanDuel Only:
Jon Gray vs Graham Ashcraft. Back Gray as an SP1.
Pitching notes on other guys …
- Cleveland has called up Tanner Bibee, a 6’2 RHP prospect as we’re likely to see Cleveland shift in the new era of pitching to jumpstart their slow season. It’s a rookie SP but he is pitching in the cold, I don’t think he’ll be terrible outside of early inning walks and a Ryan McMahon homer. He is $8,100 on FD and not in the DK playerpool.
- Kenta Maeda is back on the mound, let’s see what injury he leaves with today. I’m going with a broken finger nail.
- German Marquez will pitch for the first time since April 10th and Cleveland is completely lost at the plate right now. He should be able to go 70-80 pitches but I want no part at $7900.
- I’ve never been a huge Michael Lorenzen guy. Not gonna start now.
BLUE JAYS
Vladimir Guerrero, Bo Bichette, George Springer, Daulton Varsho
The best fastball hitting team getting 60-70% fastballs. Sign me up.
BREWERS
Willy Adames, Rowdy Tellez, Brian Anderson
Something that isn’t being talked about much right now is how better the Detroit bullpen is this season. They have some good stuff in their pen and so I don’t see Milwaukee having a HUGE 10 run type day, but I do like the 3-6 part of this order to do some damage off Lorenzen.
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FD Only: Texas
CATCHER
- William Contreras
- Connor Wong
FIRST BASE
- Vlad Guerrero Jr
- Rowdy Tellez
- Andrew Vaughn
SECOND BASE
- Marcus Semien (FD)
- Kike Hernandez
- Ryan McMahon (2B/3B)
THIRD BASE
- Brian Anderson
- Jake Burger
SHORTSTOP
- Willy Adames
- Bo Bichette
- Elvis Andrus
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- George Springer
- Luis Robert Jr – Slump buster comes today.
- Alex Verdugo
- Christian Yelich
OUTFIELD – Value
- Jesse Winker
- Whit Merrifield
- Anthony Santander
- Luis Robert Jr – OF – White Sox – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Yasmani Grandal – C – White Sox
- Vlad Guerrerro JR – 1B – Jays
- Willy Adames – SS – Brewers
- Enrique Hernandez – 2B – Red Sox
- Ryan McMahon – 3B – Rockies
FAVORITE BET(s)
- White Sox / Blue Jays over 9.5
- Yankees ML + Brewers ML Parlay
TOP PROP(s) OF THE DAY
- Freddy Peralta over 6.5 strikeouts
- Jon Gray over 5.5 strikeouts