White Sox and Yankees game is NOT included on DraftKings despite being listed on DraftKings.
Tigers and Phillies IS on FanDuel.
WEATHER
All clear
TOP ARM(s)
Justin Verlander (DK: $8600, FD: $9400)
I do not fall into the category of those who think Verlander is going to look for revenge on Alonso getting hit. That’s behind the teams right now and they wont risk JV doing something like that tonight.
Bottom line, the Braves with all their potential at times still are among the more generous teams with their swings and misses and $8600 on Verlander should pay off immensely tonight.
SP2 CANDIDATES
Locking in on JV with Strider is a little contrarian, I like it with one main team as a stack tonight (see below), but even that could be a tough pill to force in. The Astros believe it or not have struggled of late with their own strikeout rates, 28% total over the last week — lots of that boosted by their performance vs Gausman in this series — and could be in line for similar results tonight, Berrios is ok — but not free of a mistake to Kyle Tucker or Alex Bregman.
My Pick: Jose Berrios
Contrarian/Sneaky: Drew Smyly
CUBS
Swanson, Suzuki, Wisdom
Love the Cubs. Reid Detmers is also likely to be a chalky SP2 at $6500 on DraftKings which is even better. They have power vs LHP and wind blowing out to center won’t hurt either.
RED SOX
Verdugo, Yoshida, Devers, Casas
The Guardians are facing an unknown in Dermody, but it’s the Red Sox who have the road Lefties here to hammer Civale and his horrific splits vs lefties in a lefty friendly stadium.
CATCHER
- Yan Gomes
- Connor Wong
FIRST BASE
- Triston Casas
- Josh Bell
- Trey Mancini
SECOND BASE
- Nico Hoerner
- Andres Gimenez
THIRD BASE
- Rafael Devers
- Patrick Wisdom
SHORTSTOP
- Dansby Swanson
- Bo Bichette
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Seiya Suzuki
- Masataka Yoshida
- Kyle Tucker
- Alex Verdugo
FanDuel Only: Nick Castellanos, Trea Turner
- Masataka Yoshida – OF – Boston Red Sox – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Patrick Wisdom – 3B – Cubs
TODAY’S BETTING ANALYSIS
Good Over Upside — Meaning these have best potential to go way over…
- Cubs/Angels over 9, I think the Cubs score 7 themselves
- Red Sox/Guadrians over 8.5
Good Under Upside — Meaning best potential to be a 2-1 game.
- Mets/Braves
- Astros/Jays
ML Targets
- Mets