It really sucks that we miss out on the 6:40/6:45 start times as a 15 game full slate would be fantastic, especially with that Mets/Red Sox series being out of our sight but such is life. WEATHER Guardians at Twins: PPD Mariners at White Sox: Rain tapering off closer to game time but not completely stopping. They could deem the field unplayable, otherwise if they will wait it will play. Nobody looks that great tonight. The top arm is obviously Skubal & I have no issues with him but I don’t think you want to feel like he’s a must own at that high price and without a ton of good value arms or even bats. DYLAN CEASE (DK: $8800, FD: $9900) When you have a guy who is conditioned to throwing 100+ pitches with ease against Toronto you gotta be interested. Bichette and some others are free swingers in this lineup, which helps to pad what should be a game that Cease has early run support in as well. HAYDEN BIRDSONG (DK: $6300) There’s definitely a ceiling limit on Birdsong, but the Royals aren’t going to blow him up & we’re likely to see what you saw last night in many games tonight. In this game, that would be an under which is 1-0 or 0-0 at best through 5 innings. MICHAEL LORENZEN (DK: $8200, FD: $9700) With some key injuries the Royals need Lorenzen to give them good starts right now. A big park, a mediocre Giants lineup vs RHP and another low scoring game should be in the cards tonight. OTHER PITCHING THOUGHTS Keegan Akin will be drawing the start for Baltimore. If he was more stretched out we would actually not hate it. Trust me. We hate it. They’ll then turn to Chace McDermott (RHP) after him. It should be ugly for the Orioles once more. No thanks on Will Warren and Jesus Luzardo. Two trendy choices. PADRES Getting out of San Diego is going to be HUGE for this team. They go to Toronto and then Atlanta this week & I expect the ebbs and flows of Baseball to coincide with two great park shifts and we get some Padres double digit run totals. For this to happen, Bogaerts/Sheets/Cronenworth have to wake the fuck up — Xander and Sheets should. Plug this with Merrill and Araez/Machado combo’s and you have a nice 5 man…...
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