This is the best slate of the season. It is not a coincidence that it comes as we are so close to June (the best MLB DFS month) and WEATHER Padres at Royals — Rain all day in KC area, so they may have a delay possible. Ronel Blanco is the highest priced pitcher? Seriously? Hard pass… WALKER ‘Fn’ BUEHLER (DK: $8700 – FD: $8300) Mr. Friday Night at home and he gets the Rockies off a hot home stand going back on the road to only cool the hell off. You think Brendan Rodgers, Brenton Doyle and Ezequiel Tovar are gonna hit on the road against Buehler? No, fucking, chance. 6 innings, 0 ER, 9 strikeouts as Buehler is getting the training wheels taken back off of him coming off a 90+ pitch game and should be ahead in the count often and pitching with confidence at home. TANNER HOUCK (DK: $9600 – FD: $10,600) Too much on FD given the Buehler spot, but easily in the top 4 on DraftKings overall tonight. There’s no being sneaky here, he is a logical pick tonight who won’t burn you. MARCUS STROMAN (DK: $8400 – FD $9200) It would not shock me if Stroman finished with a no decision in a low scoring game, but his risk should be lower than Jordan Hicks on the other side. All total I like an under here and Stroman getting a ton of ground balls in a night San Francisco game is gonna be the key for him to do such. Other Pitching Thoughts Pablo Lopez has a “nice” bounce back start tonight after two rough ones vs Washington & Texas. Jose Urena is returning to Miami. Should go well … for the Marlins! A few guys that I kinda like and would understand if you took darts on them are Jose Soriano (ANA) and Reynaldo Lopez (ATL) It’s Kenta Maeda’s birthday. Happy birthday to him. I like Boston, not enough to stack them though. While we could see the return of “Friday Juiced Balls” tonight, I would still lean on a 2-2-2 type core build for lineups, avoiding that 5-2-1 type build is the best route in my mind unless you are going many multi-entry lineups. THE PIRATES Oneil Cruz, Bryan Reynolds Berrios can be really frustrating to stack against at times and the Pirates are equally a frustrating stack. But…...
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