No clue why but this has a nostalgic feel for me today. I think it’s because there are almost no late games so it feels like a throw back to when Sunday MLB DFS was the entire slate of games, yes, I am old. Pitching Openers today Josh Winckowski opening before Nick Pivetta vs NYY Jake Junis opening before Sean Manaea vs ATL Ryan Borsucki opening before Osvaldi Bido vs MIN WEATHER I see no issues today MAX SCHERZER DK: $11000, FD: $10900 Historically Max has had problems with the Brewers lineup, but this is a new Max pitching with energy and on an absolute tear in his new uniform down in Texas. LOGAN ALLEN DK: $8800, FD: $9100 Detroit’s hitting just .204 with a 30% strikeout rate against LHP over the last week and Javy Baez just homered yesterday. He won’t homer again today even though it is Sunday and that’s usually his best day. MAX FRIED DK: $9900, FD: $9800 From 72 pitches to 79 pitches and then 83 pitches despite allowing 8 hits in his last start. Max #2 is a little overpriced here because he’s trending towards an 88 or 90 pitch outing with 5 hits allowed and 5 strikeouts, not quite enough to push Scherzer off the top spot but also a limited damage scenario against the Giants. SUNDAY SLEEPER(s) We’re not gonna use any sleepers here today on the pitching front. The only ‘bad’ pitchers who I could see pitching better than expectations are Dallas Keuchel and Carlos Carrasco, neither of whom I would feel comfortable with using but if you had to pay down it would be Cookies Carrasco because at least he could pull out 5 or 6 strikeouts. Keuchel’s facing a team struggling with LHP of late, but he just is an innings eater at best for the Twins and hasn’t shown to have anything left in his two spot starts for them. Clarke Schmidt probably has the best ‘arm talent’ of anyone under $8000 on DraftKings who isn’t facing the Atlanta Braves (yes, this is a Jake Junis comment), so I get if you want to justify him, but I would rather trust Matt Ryan with a 28-3 lead than anything associated with the Yankees right now. Among the openers Sean Manaea and Osvaldo Bido are both fairly cheap and can deliver 2x. Bido is very risky IMO…...
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