Happy Flag Day and Happy Father’s Day Weekend. It’s a great time of year, we are approaching the Summer Solstice, the Cubs are hosting the Cardinals in the afternoon today and we get to actually benefit from the Turbo slate games by avoiding Yankees/Red Sox tonight. If you don’t think the juiced balls are coming out today, you are mistaken. WEATHER Alright, it’s hot as hell now. We have chance of storms in Baltimore and New York (Mets), but otherwise a clear night and those two games should really be fine as well. Lots of dome game son this slate too with Arizona, Toronto, Milwaukee and Houston all hosting and all having their tops closed. HUNTER BROWN (DK: $7200, FD: $8600) Brown is acting a lot like a hitting prospect who came up, then got roughed up and was on the verge of losing his role only to recover and ascend up. Ever since Houston took him out of the rotation briefly he has been on a roll, compiling about six straight decent starts, but two of them were the Angels, one the Mariners and one against these same Tigers. Not exactly a murders row of lineups — yet we can only play who we face, right? KEVIN GAUSMAN (DK: $8500, FD: $8900) Going a little contrarian, but Gausman can negate the lack of strikeouts from the Guardians generally. He is coming off his peak start of the year out in Oakland with 10 K, 0 ER and just 6 H/BB. If this is the turning point for Gausman & he can put home struggles behind him then we’re going to reap the rewards tonight. Naylors the main bat I fear, and he’s cooled off a little. CHRIS SALE (DK: $10.5k, FD: $11.1k) When at his peak, Sale against Tampa was an automatic cheat code and some of those Tampa teams, while bad, were better than this current Rays lineup. With a ton of hitting out there tonight, finding some security in a projected 8 to 12 strikeout performance is very nice, even if you gotta pay for it. LUIS CASTILLO (DK: $8600, FD: $9900) No game/series is gonna test the ‘juiced balls’ theory more than this one, which features Castillo being pushed back to Friday to face Texas instead of a free square vs Chicago last night. If Corey Seager returns I would downgrade Castillo further because Semien and Langford…...
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