Six game early/afternoon slate today. Major credit to both sites for putting together a competent slate here as we have an East coast game, then two central games, a west coast game in Chase Field and then back to two east coast 4PM games in Philly and DC. A nice little twist for those of us whose brains work right to left time-zone wise on the start times. WEATHER Mets at Nationals: Thunderstorms could cause delay but the game should finish. Brewers at Phillies: Similar, but feels less risky. Roofs closed in Houston and Arizona This is one of those slates where focusing on who is going to throw 6+ IP and get 6+ strikeouts is enough to get you past the finish line. This requires ignoring a couple specific hitters that could take them deep as well AARON NOLA (DK: $10500, FD: $10600) I am fairly certain of a specific player in the Milwaukee lineup that is going to homer off Nola. But I am also finding it impossible to identify enough pitching to say we can fade Nola with that. Expect me to use Nola and that hitter today, because Nola will finish with 7 innings, 2 ER, 8 strikeouts. That’s perfection on this slate. SP2 … Look. I was going to outline the options for our SP2 today, but rather than go into details and specifics, watch this classic clip from the Princess Bride, it will sum it up best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo The bottom line here besides never getting into a land war in Asia, is that they’re all shitty, but we’ve all played MLB DFS long enough to be immune to a negative score here or there. No, we aren’t using Patrick Corbin. Don’t be silly. Nor are we using Aaron Ashby, he’s probably gonna get pulled too early. Spencer Schwellenbach? No, cmon. Ladies and Gentlemen. We’re using Dakota Hudson ASTROS Yordan Alvarez, Alex Bregman, Jake Meyers We would be stupid to not like both Yordan Alvarez (5k) and Alex Bregman (4k) once again. Mikolas shouldn’t strike much fear in either of them and at a minimum you’ll get singles/walks/runs, but there is viable double or homer upside to consider. Unless this game magically goes under after two overs I don’t see Houston managing to not get 4+ off Mikolas… METS Francisco Lindor, JD Martinez, Pete Alonso, Harrison Bader Despite popular belief, Patrick Corbin has not…...
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