WEATHER
Very low chance of rain in New York and St. Louis. No reason to expect any issues.
SHOHEI OHTANI
The time of fading Ohtani post all-star break ended clearly when he went full God mode against the Tigers in a double header start a week ago. Now he welcomes in Seattle, who is striking out slightly less and usually hits well in Anaheim, but fear not, Ohtani will reign supreme tonight.
If you need stats to back it up, please, go enter a NFL Pre-Season Showdown contest instead of playing MLB tonight.
CRISTIAN JAVIER
Hey nice, Yankees found a way to hit Shane McClanahan, who now has an injury just like every other Rays pitcher. Cool, lets bring in the guy who has a prior no hitter off the teams most recent no hitter upon acquiring a guy with 3 no hitters back onto the roster tonight. The heart of the Yankees order should not be able to hit Javier.
MITCH KELLER
Keller is the one SP to consider as a pivot off either Javier or Ohtani. After a rough middle of the season I believe we’ll see the young kid get back to his early dominant form late and Milwaukee is 18th on the season against Cutter and 27th against Sinker, his two primary options.
OTHER NOTES …
There is no benefit for me to justify recommending any of the cheaper spots today. Guys like Clarke Schmidt, Matthew Liberatore, Jameson Taillon, Luke Weaver, just none of that is worth going with today. Sorry to be boring with the two SP mentioned above, but it is what it is.
DraftKings Pairs Ranked
- Ohtani & Javier
- Javier & Keller
FanDuel Options Ranked
- Ohtani
- Javier
CUBS
Happ, Bellinger, Swanson
Not sure what is in the coffee in Chicago these days, but the pricing on Ian Happ against a near 50% fast ball pitcher in Luke Weaver should set him up for great success again today. Cincinnati’s issue is NOT their offense, it’s the bullpen, so going both sides in this game once again should not hurt.
PIRATES
Reynolds, Suwinski, McCutchen, Davis, Hayes
That’s a lot of Pirates folks. I do not expect them to put up 11 runs, but they should get 4+ off Adrian Houser. I simply laid out the ones who have the most interest for me today. Hayes is kind of a one off spot here, he doesn’t hit well often but in Milwaukee he has some good history. The stack portion is Reynolds-Cutch-Davis, all cheap and all fits well with the SP1/SP2 pay up route.
CATCHER
- Ryan Jeffers
- Matt Thaiss
FIRST BASE
- Joey Votto
- Freddie Freeman
SECOND BASE
- Jorge Polanco
- Jose Altuve
THIRD BASE
- KeBryan Hayes
- Elly De La Cruz
- Mike Moustakas
SHORTSTOP
- Carlos Correa
- Jeremy Pena
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Bryan Reynolds
- Kyle Tucker
- Byron Buxton
- Mickey Moniak … It stinks that we cannot use Ohtani as a hitter tonight vs Woo, since he has shown little signs of handling LHH, but we’ll take the Moniak HR instead.
OUTFIELD – Tier 22
- Ian Happ
- Cody Bellinger
- Mickey Moniak – OF – Angels – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Bryan Reynolds – OF – Pirates
- KeBryan Hayes – 3B – Pirates
- Ian Happ – OF – Cubs
TODAY’S BETTING ANALYSIS
Good Over Upside — Meaning these have best potential to go way over…
- Pirates/Brewers
Good Under Upside — Meaning best potential to be a 2-1 or 5-2 type game.
- Athletics/Dodgers
ML Targets
- Astros
- Pirates
- Angels