August 21st, the day when MLB looks like a damn NFL pre-season slate. The pitching tonight is an absolute hogwash of journeymen, call-ups and guys who are just trying to somehow keep their MLB careers alive. It’s ugly. WEATHER Reds at Angels – PPD from lingering Hurricane effects. I see no other issues today PAUL BLACKBURN DK: $7000, FD: $7800 KC is hitting very well in August, but anyone who goes into Oakland at a night game gets downgraded quite a bit. CRISTIAN JAVIER DK: $7100, FD: $9400 I liked Ashcraft a good amount before that game was PPD, so Javier slides in as a similarly priced option who should match or even beat Castillo (chalkier/higher rated) tonight. Boston’s been hitting well and has a couple RHH that give him issues like Justin Turner, but we can search for 6 IP and a good QS none the less from Javier. OTHER PITCHING NOTES Luis Castillo continues to be a much better pitcher at home than on the road (2.70 vs 3.90 ERA difference just for example). The White Sox are coming out of Coors but that’s not enough for me to pay extra for him tonight. RANGERS Seager, Garver, Jankowski Corey Seager, the holy spirit himself, is going back home tonight. Yeah, he’s from North Carolina origionally, but the kid fucking destroyed Chase Field with his time as a Dodger. Granted, he is destroying every field right now and a little road trip should get Texas going PIRATES / CARDINALS PIT: Reynolds, Davis, Hayes STL: Arenado, Edman, Goldschmidt The Cardinals are going to mix Drew Rom and Matthew Liberatore together tonight it sounds like. Drew Rom is a lefty pitcher the Cardinals received in the Jack Flaherty deal with Baltimore. Outside of having decent K% in the minors he hasn’t been very good and I would expect Pittsburgh to hit him tonight — even though they will grade poorly on the model. METS McNeil, Lindor, Nimmo After dealing away their pitching and sending up the white flag, the Mets veterans have finally started to hit. Warm night in Atlanta should only keep that trend going. Also Like: Marlins CATCHER Mitch Garver Martin Maldanado FIRST BASE Justin Turner Nate Lowe Christian Walker Paul Goldschmidt SECOND BASE Ha-Seong Kim Jeff McNeil Jose Altuve THIRD BASE Austin Riley Nolan Arenado Jake Burger SHORTSTOP Corey Seager…...
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