Today brings you an 11 game Sunday slate with just 2 games in the Tilt Afternoon slate. It’s a heavy Sunday afternoon and the first of the final Sunday month+1 week of the MLB season before NFL kicks off next month. WEATHER ARI @ MIN: I would imagine with both teams needing to play this game that they will wait it out or play through some light rain. The Twins for some reason opted to sign Dallas Keuchel AND start him today, which I assume is just a giant middle finger to the rest of the AL Central considering they could sleep walk to the title … then again, Cleveland is showing some fight now if you know what I mean. At any rate, I believe this game will play and you weren’t going to want to use any pitchers in it anyway (sorry Zac Gallen) Happy Za(chk) day folks. Zac Gallen, Zack Greinke and Zack Thompson all pitching today. No, I don’t like any of em… The theme on pitching today is guys returning to the mound such as Jose Urquidy, Brandon Woodruff and yes, Dallas Keuchel! TYLER GLASNOW SCRATCHED KYLE BRADISH Coming in as my favorite SP option on the day. There is a lot to like with Bradish’s development in 2023. He gets a 34% whiff rate on his slider and 33% on his curveball, both which should help him continue a stretch where he has had 7+ strikeouts in 5 of his last 8 games and only once in Philly did he give up more than 3 ER in that time. The Mets are a dead man walking team as we know & I expect them to be not much of a threat. SANDY ALCANTARA Remember someone who said the best pitcher in the second half this season would be Sandy Alcantara? Well, nobody is ready to admit it yet, but he’s putting it all back together with back to back dominant outings and when a good pitcher is on a roll, you ride him. The Sunday Sleeper … AUSTIN GOMBER Just 2 walks over his last 24 IP, a very good sign for the lefty and we’ll probably see some old school Goldy/Arenado chalk vs LHP today. I don’t like it much, and with the way the entire Cardinals offense is striking out vs LHP of late there’s a good path here…...
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