SLATE NOTES
Thanks to the weather lords we have just a 4 game MAIN slate today, which locks early and runs into the late afternoon.
Your four games that are on this slate today include
- Red Sox at Tigers – 1:10 pm
- Blue Jays at Royals – 2:10 pm
- Giants at White Sox – 2:10 pm
- Nationals at Rockies – 4:10 pm
WEATHER
Not warm in any of the games, temps below 60 everywhere and some wind again in all spots.
- 10 mph out to LF in Detroit. Not quite at the Comerica 14+ mph winds out level and we also get to see the new dimension changes at Comerica for the first time as they moved in CF/R-CF fences slightly. This used to be a great triples alley, so we might see a slight hitting reduction in that regard.
- Heavy winds in Chicago (South Side) again, but only mid/upper 40’s. Winds are up to 20 mph gusts out to LF
With a four game slate we immediately move into short slate mode. Here are a few general tips for a ‘short slate’, which to me is anything 5 games or less.
- Game Stack and go. This includes SP game stacks as well, which is often overlooked as a strategy on short slates.
- Full team stacks work more often. If nothing else, you are just searching for the little offense which a slate may bring, and running into that guy hitting 7th who has the top score is going to pay off.
- Catchers. Why do catchers ALWAYS homer on a short slate?
- Choose your contests wisely. I would much rather play a higher $ 3-man contest and just play my contrarian build there where I only have to beat 2 people who are likely using the safe build instead of trying to be contrarian on a 4 game slate with 3000 other lineups who are also being somewhat contrarian.
Kevin Gausman
Yes, we can consider this a SP game stack with Jordan Lyles, but what fun is Jordan Lyles? After a boring poor offensive game last night where the ball did not carry we have even worse weather conditions this afternoon for both pitchers, so I expect another low scoring game in Kauffman and Gausman will get Melendez/Witt/Salvy all to strike out.
Josiah Gray
Off to Coors we go for a contrarian spot. The Rockies first home game of the season and I wanna use Josiah Homer Gray? Don’t be shocked when Freeland is popular in the same game against the Nationals, but this is not 60 degree Coors and my favorite leverage play on the slate.
Gray can get plenty whiffs against the bottom of the Rockies order.
White Sox
Robert, Vaughn, Burger, Grandal, Alberto
The more I looked today the more things kept coming up White Sox. All the RH power today against Alex Wood with strong winds out to LF. Love that Burger is called up and he is Mr. afternoon home game who should be in every lineup you have.
Tigers
Vierling, Baez, Haase, Schoop
Doesn’t matter what year or day it is. Chris Sale back vs the AL Central is a disaster because it gets into his head.
Giants
Pederson, Wade, Crawford
Lynn dominates RHB still, but this is still a heavy LHH team. Wind out to left would have been a no for me in 2022 but the way folks are hitting oppo homers this year, I can see the Giants poking two out.
CATCHER
- Yasmani Grandal
- Eric Haase
FIRST BASE
- Andrew Vaughn
- Joc Pederson (Has 1B on DK now!)
SECOND BASE
- Jonathan Schoop
- Hanser Alberto
THIRD BASE
- Jake Burger … whopper whooper whopper, single, double, triple, whopper…
- Yoan Moncada
- Rafael Devers
SHORTSTOP
- Javy Baez
- Brandon Crawford
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Luis Robert Jr
- Joc Pederson
- Daulton Varsho
- Matt Vierling
- Jake Burger – 1B/3B – White Sox – Chairman of The Dongers Club +550
- Yasmani Grandal – C – White Sox
- Joc Pederson – OF – Giants
- Daulton Varsho – OF – Blue Jays
- Javy Baez – SS – Tigers
FAVORITE BET(s)
- Tigers ML
- Diamondbacks ML
- Blue Jays/Royals under 8
- Giants/White Sox over 8
Dogs … PARLAY(s) OF THE DAY
- DET + ARI
TOP PROP(s) OF THE DAY
Pitchers
- Wood u5.5 strikeouts
- Sale u6.5 strikeouts
- Gausman o6.5 strikeouts
- Gray o4.5 strikeouts
Batters
- Jake Burger Anytime HR +550
- CJ Cron u1.5 hits +205
- Dominic Smith u1.5 hits +195