The plan remains that today would be the final Dongers Club for 2023 Regular Season, with full plans to do the usual Post-Season analysis and DFS when we have good slates in October. It should be a fantastic post-season this year, especially in the American League.
For those playing through the final week, the Dashboard/Model will continue to update and for those going into this weekend enjoy all the rain issues that are gonna pop up.
WEATHER
All 11 games on the MAIN slate should get through tonight. I think the rain holds off in DC to let Atlanta/Washington get tonight in & honestly they should have adjusted to start early and play 2, but hey, what do I know.
Same too for Mets/Phillies
The top options today:
- Pablo Lopez (DK: $10,700) … Challenge for the Angels tonight. Get a hit. Let’s see if they can do that.
- Brandon Pfaadt (DK: $6800) … Do not use Pfaadt on FanDuel. Arizona needs to keep winning and there’s no reason for them to let him pitch out of a jam come the 4th or 5th inning. But if he can avoid that then at $6800 on DraftKings he should be viable against a Yankee Lineup already working on their fall vacation plans. Shit, they’ve already done the fall ones, they’re working on Christmas plans. What do you think Aaron Judge gets his wife for Christmas? No doubt he gets her a full sized poster of himself getting thrown out of games, right? What a douche.
The other pool of options
Charlie Morton, Chris Sale and even Cole Ragans were all tempting, but expecting a huge must own game from any of them is a stretch. Sale makes some sense against his now way former team the WHite Sox, but $9200 for Sale is uneasy when we are locking in on Lopez as SP1.
I gave some consideration to Ken Waldichuck at $7100, hell even a little thought on Touki Toussaint hoping for strikeouts against the Red Sox but no thanks.
It’s ugly…
The Mariners and Rangers begin a HUGE serires in Texas and tonight should be a good back and forth 7-6 type final where the lead changes 4 or 5 times.
The Royals always rake in Houston, they should hit Framber Valdez too. The $3700 price on Maikel Garcia makes him a nice pair with Texas boy Bobby Witt (even tho it’s north Texas where he is from). Nelson Velazquez is playing great and Olivares should hit Framber too.
Mets/Phillies could just be getting the game over with as fast as possible, so true for the Braves/Nationals, but certainly those are viable spots to consider. I would say Taijuan Walker is due to put it all together one of these final two starts before the playoffs, I just cant trust it with the Mets actually hitting okay lately.
Top teams to stack
- Mariners
- Royals
- Rangers
- Athletics
CATCHER
- Cal Raleigh
- Martin Maldanado
- Francisco Alvarez
FIRST BASE
- Christian Walker
- Nathaniel Lowe
- Ryan Noda
SECOND BASE
Rangers offense low key has to get Semien on base a ton tonight to win, expect him to do such against Miller with some good early PA
- Marcus Semien
- Zack Gelof
- Jose Altuve
THIRD BASE
We had to wait until end of September, but the Arenado tour to PETCO is here and that should ignite him to get his final HR of the season tonight. Wouldn’t mind Arenado & Garcia on FD.
- Nolan Arenado
- Maikel Garcia
- Eugenio Suarez
SHORTSTOP
Great position here as well, just stay in the state of Texas tonight.
- Corey Seager
- Bobby Witt Jr.
- JP Crawford
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Nelson Velazquez
- Jarred Kelenic
- Juan Soto
- Kyle Schwarber
OUTFIELD – Value
- Seth Brown
- Edward Olivares
- Nolan Arenado – 3B – St. Louis Cardinals – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Marcus Semien – 2B – Rangers
- Nelson Velazquez – OF – Royals
- Bobby Witt Jr – SS – Royals
- Christian Walker – 1B – Diamondbacks
- Cal Raleigh – C – Mariners
- Seth Brown – OF – Athletics
- Juan Soto – OF – Padres
- BONUS ………………. Corey Seager – SS – Rangers