The Dongers Club – Aug 23rd
SLATE THOUGHTS
Now this is my kind of slate, with 14 games on a Friday night. The only thing better would have been if the one island game was the Cubs at 2:20 this afternoon but we’ll just have to use that time to plan for College Football tomorrow instead.
WEATHER
All Clear
TOP TWO SELECTIONS
- CARLOS RODON (DK: $9700, FD: $9700) … Congrats if you are a contrarian single entry player. This is gold here because Rodon is a sometimes risky pick who is surely gonna be near the highest owned SP tonight. The Rockies outside of Coors are an easy target and they aren’t that great vs LHP either. Rodon’s been a steady arm for the Yankees in the second half prior to his last start at Detroit. I don’t see any major blow up coming tonight and a great chance for a 7+ strikeout start. But yeah, if you wanna just swim against the main stream, he’s your fade.
- JP SEARS (DK: $8300, FD: $9200) … Milwaukee will have a .323 xWOBA against Sears tonight and is hitting sub .200 against LHP over the last 10 days. Big park for lots of pop-up foul ball outs as well off the Milwaukee bats to help Sears who is coming off a 105 PC game. But it’s late August and he’s been steady all season long as he has proven to now be a full time starter for a second year in a row. Side note here, if you are in seasonal leagues next season buy into Sears as lefties generally take longer to get it figured out but his near 40% ground ball rate and dropping WHIP is going to make him a very appealing arm in mid rounds of drafts next season.
ALSO SHOULD PITCH JUST FINE
- Chris Bassitt
- Chris Sale (Dont see him blowing away Rodon for almost 2k more)
- Hunter Brown
- Aaron Civale
- MacKenzie Gore
TOP TEAM
- Arizona Diamondbacks … They gotta Ambush Bello who has struggled big time with LHH and that’s a core of what Arizona will be able to throw at him tonight. Past Bello you have a terrible bullpen and favorable hitting conditions in Fenway. Love Jake McCarthy, and certainly Corbin Carroll being able to steal bases left and right
SECOND TIER
- Toronto Blue Jays … Popular again tonight. Everything starts and ends with a Springer Dinger leading off.
- St. Louis Cardinals … My favorite contrarian game/team tonight is this one in Target Field. There’s gonna be a ton of homers in this game.
- NY Yankees
CATCHER
- Willson Contreras
- Salvador Perez
- Adrian Del Castillo
FIRST BASE
- Josh Bell
- Paul Goldschmidt
- Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
- Nathaniel Lowe
SECOND BASE
- Gleyber Torres
- Brendan Donovan
- Will Wagner
THIRD BASE
- Nolan Arenado
- Alec Bohm
- Josh H Smith
- Royce Lewis
SHORTSTOP
- Corey Seager – LiC
- Bobby Witt Jr.
- Xavier Edwards
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Jake McCarthy / Corbin Carroll / Joc Pederson … Tempted to just use all 3.
- George Springer
- Alec Burleson
- Nick Castellanos
OUTFIELD – Tier II
- Cody Bellinger
- Jesus Sanchez
- Luis Robert Jr.
- Riley Greene
- Nolan Arenado – 3B – St. Louis Cardinals – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Nick Castellanos – OF – Phillies
- Willson Contreras – C – Cardinals
- Gleyber Torres – 2B – Yankees
- Corey Seager – SS – Rangers
- George Springer – OF – Blue Jays
- Joc Pederson – OF – Diamondbacks
- Josh Bell – 1B – Diamondbacks
- BONUS …. Luis Robert Jr – OF – White Sox
TOP BETS
- DBacks/Red Sox OVER 10
- Astros/Orioles UNDER 9
- Marlins ML (+105)
- Diamondbacks ML (+110)
- Phillies/Royals OVER 9