Back home later tonight and of course the week I leave the west coast is when all these west coast series pop-up.
WEATHER
All clear
The headliner SP match-up tonight is gonna be Sale vs Snell out in San Francisco. The total is only 6.5 and the Braves are coming out of Coors, so I can see why some would think this will be true to form — but that’s just screaming to take the over — so expect a nice, quiet 2-0 Giants win of course.
Joe Musgrove will be returning tonight for San Diego, which is a huge boost if they can get him healthy and actually pitching well down the stretch. The SoCal native has always pitched well out in PETCO park, but first start back and facing a team tonight I wouldn’t mind taking a shot on in the Pirates is reason enough to not even sniff that.
On the flip side, I can justify using Kershaw now. He’s still gonna be a limited PC option but a good one tonight vs the Brewers. Pfaadt and Gil are probably the two chalkier options after Snell/Sale, both of which should be fine and my preferred leans.
- LUIS GIL (DK: $9000, FD: $10.8k)
- CLAYTON KERSHAW (DK: $7700, FD: $8000)
- BRANDON PFAADT (DK: $8600 – FD: $9200)
NY YANKEES
Gleyber Torres, Giancarlo Stanton, Jazz Chisholm Jr.
I swear the Yankees, no matter who is wearing the uniforms, go into AL Central parks and absolutely rake. Throw on top going up against a rookie SP for the White Sox in Ky Bush — making his second ML start now and we’re just asking for Gleyber Torres to please not suck tonight. Don’t sleep on the lefties here either because Bush won’t make it past 3 1/3.
DIAMONDBACKS
Joc Pederson, Josh Bell, Ketel Marte
‘Zona on an extended home streak now, should absolutely murder Cal Quantrill in the first 3 innings.
SECOND TIER TEAMS
RED SOX — Duran, Abreu, Devers
TWINS — Larnach, Castro
CATCHER
- Adrian Del Castillo … Essentially min price and has a chance to hit middle of order.
- Logan O’Hoppe
- Salvador Perez
FIRST BASE
- Freddie Freeman … 11 HR in 36 career games in Miller Park. He’s homering this week, maybe twice.
- Donovan Solano
- Nolan Schanuel
SECOND BASE
- Gleyber Torres
- Ketel Marte
THIRD BASE
- Manny Machado
- Rafael Devers
- Ke’Bryan Hayes
SHORTSTOP
Nobody big name here really stands out, would lean on just filling this in last or as part of stack.
- Tyler Fitzgerald
- Oneil Cruz
- Willi Castro
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Giancarlo Stanton
- Joc Pederson
- Trevor Larnach
- Masataka Yoshida
- Gleyber Torres – 2B – NY Yankees – Chairman of The Dongers Club
TOP BETS
These are some ugly odds tonight.
- Brady Singer under 5.5 strikeouts
- Blue Jays/Angels under 9