A Happy Friday afternoon to each and every one of you. Guys, it’s the last Friday in May and …. GUESS WHO IS GOING TO POUND HIS CHEST THAT HE WAS RIGHT????????? That’s right. The Summer Baseballs are coming out tonight. Which, is a little worrysome for my pitcher play of the day, but ah, fear not, what can go wrong. We nailed it last night and we’ll nail it again tonight. I say all of this just to really give a PSA that we’ll have an afternoon article for what should be the MAIN slate tomorrow and I expect there to be a million homers on Saturday afternoon. So, just plan accordingly. WEATHER White Sox at Orioles: They moved this game up to 4:30 PM, so cross it off… Rockies at Mets: Evening rain MAX FRIED (DK: $10,300, FD: $10k) You can make your decision one way or another on this series, I don’t care. I’ve seen it a million times and I can tell you exactly how this series plays out. There will be one game that’s a pitchers duel. There will be another game that is off the charts offense 10-9, and then there is another game which starts out white hot with 5 runs in the first three innings and then completely dies off. The Sunday game is the ESPN Sunday night game, so that’s the latter of those three with Yarbs vs Yamamoto going. Tomorrow night is Will Warren and Landon ‘My job is to give up Homers’ Knack… Tonight is the pitchers duel, and it features home town boy Max Fried back in L.A. where hes has good starts (sure, last year wasnt) and comes in pitching as well as he has all season & might (i.e. SHOULD) be under 5% owned on a slate with limited pitching depth options up top. Lock and load a 7 inning 2 hit performance from Friex. NICK PIVETTA (DK: $9800, FD: 10,300) This is the obvious one everyone will draw towards. PETCO’s been warming up of late, but a night game is still one that usually favors the pitchers. Pittsburgh’s likely to hit under the mendoza line today vs Pivetta & his strikeout range is going to be 6+ with 6 innings and limited damage. Hard to see him not delivering as a chalky SP1. OTHER PITCHING THOUGHTS So those two are the 1a and 1b for…...
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