Woo Hoo. Day Baseball! This means we of course cannot get site synchronicity. In my mind the 1PM DraftKings slate is the MAIN slate today and is the proper configuration. FanDuel has three slates and good luck navigating that disaster of a site today. WEATHER Angels at Cardinals: They could wait all day on this one as neither team plays tomorrow. In fact, most of the league doesn’t play tomorrow which is just criminal. I expect it to play & it does feature Kikuchi! Twins at White Sox: Being a divisional game they could pass on this one and PPD it. Which would be a blessing for all of us. Roofs closed in Milwaukee and Toronto Very Warm in Tampa. It is Florida after all. If you like pitching then this is the slate for you my good friend. Skenes, Skubal, Gore, Ragans, Cease, Easton Lucas… Wait, what the hell is an Easton Lucas? Ah, that would be 28 year old southpaw for the Jays who has appeared in 14 games over his career — one that includes him having being traded for both Jonathan Villar and Shintari Fujinami — so put that on your Immaculate Grid my friends! He sucks, don’t use him. But it is a lefty vs the Nationals, sooo… No. We’re not going there. Logic says though that early in the season you try to shy away from paying up too often for pitching because they don’t have the upside of going deep into games as often. Hard to ignore the big guns today but the depth in the 7k to 9k range for pitching really makes it easy to pivot off Skenes or Skubal without much fear. COLE RAGANS ($8100) A horrible lineup today from the Milwaukee Brewers is all the extra juice we need to push Ragans to the top of the list. I know Skenes and Skubal are going but at this price you get almost the same upside considering the lineup he gets to face. 7+ strikeouts coming. MACKENZIE GORE ($7600) I will not stop buying Gore at these discount prices. He won’t follow up the same K% that he had vs the Phillies but he should pitch great again today and for the whole season. CLAY HOLMES ($7000) Whether you are a believer in Holmes like the Mets or think he is JAG you can’t be uncomfortable using him against the…...
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