Hello friends, what a fine day of Baseball we have going into this Eastern Weekend. A little heads up, there is unlikely to be a Sunday Dongers Club this weekend.
We have the return of Cubs home Friday afternoon games today, making this a nice TestiFriday with the Cubs hosting the D’Backs, then a 3 game Turbo slate and then onto our MAIN 11 game slate.
WEATHER
- Nationals at Rockies: PPD
- White Sox at Red Sox: Chance of rain
This is an offense slate. It’s a holiday weekend technically & warmer temps in a few spots. If you wanna believe in conspiracies then tonight feels like a night when the HR alerts go off non-stop to get folks back into the hype of the long ball.
LOGAN WEBB (DK: $9000, FD: $9800)
After a LONG road trip the Angels got cold late & are back home. Go spend time with the wives, kids, or whoever you have too and then oh shit, we gotta go to the park and … oh wait, we’re down 6-1 in the 7th inning and Logan Webb has 9 strikeouts. How did that happen? Well, you’re the Angels. That’s how.
FREDDY PERALTA (DK: $9500, FD: $9600)
I dont think there is a bigger BOOM or BUST play out there today than Peralta. The Athletics can be sneaky, they have shown some hitting pop & if they lose it’s most likely because of bad pitching lately. That said, they’re still a lineup filled with whiffs & Peralta is looking good this season thus far.
DREW RASMUSSEN (DK: $8300, FD: $8600)
Yes, the Yankees know the park from Spring Training but how often are they playing at night in the bad lighting? Death. Taxes. Rays at home on Friday nights my friends.
OTHER PITCHING THOUGHTS
- For the punt on pitching 2 crowd, Bryce Elder might do well but the Twins are finally playing in warm weather and might feel like they grew 3 inches tonight, too risky.
- Miles Mikolas & Drew Peterson are the two most likely to get into a pitchers duel that nobody wants to watch. But even then, why bother, they’re not free.
It really is a spread em out and bang em out night. Wait, that’s kinda odd sounding, but I mean play a 2-2-2 type core stack build today. Offense should be a plenty…
REDS
While the Orioles will look tempting given recent play, it’s the Reds whom I think are the DFS stack to play around with today. Baltimore’s pen is still shaky & the Reds might do well to get away from home off that bad loss yesterday
BRAVES
Oh look. Matt Olson gets a shitty change-up pitcher in HOT Atlanta tonight and the Braves are everyones whipping boys. Olson/Ozzie/Murphy.
DODGERS / RANGERS
The juiced balls are back baby. No chance they aren’t in this game, right? Dont care that we have a couple big name pitchers going, there’s runs coming from everywhere in this game early on.
RED SOX
Boston SHOULD murder Martin Perez. Should…
CATCHER
- Sean Murphy
- Yainer Diaz
- Austin Wynns
FIRST BASE
- Matt Olson
- Luis Arraez
- Shohei Ohtani
SECOND BASE
- Jose Altuve … Ideal that we can use him here still because OF is going to be deeper for value.
- Brice Turang
- Ozzie Albies
- Matt McLain
THIRD BASE
- Jorge Polanco
- Matt Chapman
- Nolan Arenado
SHORTSTOP
- Francisco Lindor
- Jacob Wilson
- Bo Bichette
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Joc Pederson
- Tyler O’Neill
- Trevor Larnach
- Michael Harris II
OUTFIELD – Tier II
- Fernando Tatis Jr.
- Tyler O’Neill
- Christian Yelich
- Cam Smith
- Jose Altuve – 2B – Houston Astros – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Matt Olson – 1B – Braves
- Jorge Polanco – 3B – Mariners
- Joc Pederson – OF – Rangers
- Tyler O’Neill – OF – Orioles
- Bo Bichette – SS – Blue Jays
- Trevor Larnach – OF – Twins
- Austin Wynns – C – Reds
- BONUS … Shohei Ohtani – DH – Dodgers
TOP BETS
Padres/Astros OVER 9
Dodgers/Rangers OVER 8
Rays ML
Reds ML