WEATHER
No major issues. The Pirates/Orioles game will be waiting for rain to clear out early but will have a fine evening window to play Baseball in.
Chase Field roof is closed.
ZAC GALLEN
Roof closed and Gallen at home. Can we go ahead and pencil in the 24-26 DK fpts now? Yes, yes, we can.
DYLAN CEASE
Everyone has been bashing Cease this season, but I will continue to remind everyone that he is the new Trevor Bauer. What I mean by this is he is a pitcher who does not mind working into deep counts and going 100 pitches through 5 innings simply by setting up the hitter to where he can get them put away after having them guessing as to what is coming next. He does it more with location than anything else, and so this results in hitters who eventually get to see him more and more having better success against him. Thus we’ve seen him struggle with teams in the AL Central more and more. Today he gets a Houston lineup though which he can handle somewhat better. And unlike some early games this year in Chicago, the weather is not really setup for this to be a high scoring spot.
ROYALS
Melendez, Pratto
PHILLIES
Stott, Turner, Harper
PADRES vs DODGERS
If this was early April or late September I would be cautious with potentially having shadows in this game. But this time of year L.A. is gonna be more of a spot where the ball flys out of the park with no shadows and a 4PM local start time.
Not sure we will find a good build to full stack this game, but Nelson Cruz and JD Martinez could have a nice ‘remember me’ setup today.
CATCHER
- Salvy Perez
- JT Realmuto
- Austin Nola
FIRST BASE
- Nick Pratto … Going off what could be a chalky Pasquantino today because I love Pratto vs Houser. He should get something down and in that he can drive into the RF seats.
- Carlos Santana
- Nelson Cruz
SECOND BASE
- Brice Turang
- Bryson Stott
- Adam Frazier
THIRD BASE
- Manny Machado
- Max Muncy
- Brian Anderson
SHORTSTOP
- Willy Adames
- Xander Bogaerts
- Trea Turner
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- MJ Meldnez … The days of MJ at catcher are done on DK, so he is OF only now
- Bryce Harper
- Christian Yelich
- JD Martinez
OUTFIELD – Tier 2
- Anthony Santander
- Fernando Tatis Jr
- Jesse Winker
- Nick Pratto – 1B – Kansas City Royals – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Manny Machado – 3B – Padres
- Salvy Splash – C – Royals
- Willy Adames – SS – Brewers
- Christian Yelich – OF – Brewers
- JD Martinez – OF – Dodgers
- Anthony Santander – OF – Orioles
- Brice Turang – 2B – Brewers
- BONUS …………….. Nelson Cruz – DH – Padres
TODAY’S TOP BET(s)
Royals/Brewers OVER 9
Padres ML