A wonderful Friday, our second of five in May and I just want to remind everyone what I said last Friday about the “juiced” ball weekends in May. It’s coming…
Today we have no afternoon game in Wrigley though, which is very sad but a great main slate to work with.
WEATHER
- Brewers at Rays: We are into the Tampa Storms part of the season — now we’ll find out why they used to play in a COSTCO Warehouse. This is a hitters only game though and it should find a way to finish.
- Cubs at Mets: I think they play through this, but light rain chances.
- Giants at Twins: Warm
- Dodgers at D’Backs: Roof Open
KEVIN GAUSMAN (DK: $9000, FD: $8600)
Not many better parks for Gausman to go into than the tough hitting Seattle where nobody can see the ball unless they’re a catcher it seems. The Mariners offense at home is bottom 10 in the league, and really bottom 5 if you stop and think long about it. With a bad start in late April in the mirror now for Gausman, we should be confident he will have his mind and his pitch arsenal on point tonight.
HUNTER DOBBINS (DK: $7700, FD: $7600)
Well, the Royals did what they needed to do against Baltimore and Chicago. Now they get a pitcher they don’t know, which never is a good spot for them. Expect this to be a 7-3 type Red Sox win tonight, although Lorenzen should pitch better for about 2 innings before Boston explodes the second time through. For Dobbins, he’s a little heavy on the fastball which could be a problem if the command is off but really don’t think the Royals sudden “offensive” surge will pay off tonight. Ride the theory they cannot advance scout well.
OTHER PITCHING THOUGHTS
- HUNTER BROWN … Brown’s price has been pushed all the way up to 11k and there is no reason to think he won’t do fine tonight back at home. If you are going the Padres in Coors route though then you’ll find it tough to jam him in because you really can’t go Padres without Tatis/Machado/Merrill. But there is some okay value elsewhere and so Brown is definitely not a bad pick (#ToutLife)
- Gut says Clay Holmes throws a masterpiece for the Mets…. But he has limited strikeout upside vs the good Cubs, so that’s kinda just praying he gets BABIP luck if you want to use him.
- The White Sox are not losing tonight, so no Max Meyer.
GIANTS
Matt Chapman, Mike Yasztrzemski, Willy Adames
Very warm up in Target Field tonight, this should boost both offenses and they’re getting two pitchers that somehow manage to stay in their rotations despite not being that great. I think we have to love Chapman, Yastrzemski and Adames
PADRES
Fernando Tatis Jr, Jackson Merrill
The Rockies pitching actually wasn’t the problem early in the season. The Rockies pitching is definitely a problem now.
PHILLIES
Max Kepler, Kyle Schwarber
LiC. Lefties in Cleveland. Thank goodness this game is on the MAIN slate tonight because we get Gavin Williams and the Phillies tee’ing off on him. Welcome back to Cleveland, Max Kepler!
CATCHER
- Alejandro Kirk
- Gabriel Mmoreno
- Patrick Bailey
FIRST BASE
There’s obviously good talent here, you can pay up for that one off homer if you want, but this is also a spot to just punt overall tonight. I’ll be filling in this position last…
- Andrew Vaughn
- Coby Mayo
- Bryce Harper
SECOND BASE
- Jake Cronenworth – Expected back tonight.
- Brice Turang
- Brooks Lee
- Chase Meidroth
THIRD BASE
- Matt Chapman
- Yoan Moncada
- Isaac Paredes
SHORTSTOP
- Francisco Lindor
- Willy Adames
- Elly De La Cruz
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Max Kepler
- Mike Yastrzemski
- Kyle Schwarber
- Fernando Tatis Jr.
OUTFIELD – TIER II
- Byron Buxton
- Christian Yelich
- Kyle Stowers
- Jackson Merrill
- Max Kepler – OF – Philadelphia Phillies – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Matt Chapman – 3B – Giants
- Kyle Schwarber – OF – Phillies
- Mike Yastrzsemski – OF – Giants
- Alejandro Kirk – C – Blue Jays
- Coby Mayo – 1B/3B – Orioles
- Brice Turang – 2B – Brewers
- Francisco Lindor – SS – Mets
- BONUS … Fernando Tatis Jr – OF – Padres
CORE BATS
C – Alejandro Kirk
3B – Matt Chapman
OF – Max Kepler
TOP BETS
- Giants/Twins OVER 9
- Phillies ML + Mets ML Parlay
- Red Sox ML
- White Sox ML