WEATHER
Royals at Tigers: Slight chance or rain. Less of a chance than the Royals scoring 3 or more runs too, so were’ good.
Angels at Yankees: VERY warm.
What a joyous slate of Thursday Baseball we have. Ladies and Gentlemen, the God’s have given us another Urena. No relation to Jose other than also being Dominican, this one is named … Walbert. What? Yes, I said Walbert. No chance that is his real name? I assure you, it is. He will be starting for the Angels today. God help us all.
Now for other pitchers I trust today…
KRIS BUBIC (DK: $9000, FD: $9900)
You are either playing Max Fried in mid-April 90 degree day game or you’re fading him. If you are fading him, you cannot pass up on Bubic IMO. The Royals are looking to avoid the sweep in Detroit and they’re damn well gonna need Bubic to give them 6 clean innings if they can pull that off. His control is very good right now and the weather should be clear enough to let him keep that up.
LANDEN ROUPP (DK: $8000, FD: $8700)
Congrats to the Reds on beating the piss out of Tyler Mahle last night. They can go back to being just a mediocre offense today. 6 of the Reds top 7 hitters have an increase in their K% against RH breaking pitches. Roupp’s curve ball is his plus pitch and RHH are only getting 19% hard hit rates off him. This narrows it down to Friedl and Elly & I love my chances with Roupp against them. I could almost argue that he is SP1 for me today.
OTHER PITCHING THOUGHTS
- Max Fried: This is the fade. He’s gonna be 60% owned in April 90 degree day game against a team with good power vs LHH. Normally the final game after a big series on the road is when Trout stayed up too late in the hotel room watching highlights of Bobby Hebert throwing 4 INT and flipping off the fans vs the Eagles in the early 90’s playoffs and thus he has a quiet game — but something tells me he wants to finish on a bang and got a good nights sleep finally. The Halo’s will make Fried work.
- Keider Montero: Yeah, Royals suck, whatever. They suck every year coming out of Arizona in the Spring and then finally wake up when they get that random non AL Central road trip. Which… *cough* *cough*, is coming. I wont laugh if you use him.
- Braxton Ashcraft: The better of the Asscracks has figured out how to handle lefties when pitching in PNC. Just walk them or hope they chase on things out of the zone. Unfortunately, walking half the lineup is not ideal.
- Chase Burns: Is 6 strikeouts and 3 HR allowed gonna be good? Honestly I don’t think so. I would much rather take my chances with Landen Roupp, who when hne gets hit does not get hit as hard.
SF GIANTS
Most good hitters you can take a risk on when they are “slumping” and thus is the case for Rafael Devers who has 6 strikeouts, 0 extra base hits and 2 bat slams in his last 21 PA. He wakes up today along with Casey Schmitt which really is annoying because you cannot play them both together in DFS on DK. One more HR for Adames as he remembers what it was like to hit in the NL Central too
- Willy Adames
- Rafael Devers (or Casey Schmitt)
- Matt Chapman
ANGELS / YANKS
Fade Judge. Fade Trout. Enjoy the middle-man homer game.
- Trent Grisham
- Cody Bellinger
- Zach Neto
- Jo Adell
JAYS (& BREWERS)
I fucking love Toronto. They’re going to have the ball in play a good amount against the
- Trent Grisham
NATIONALS / PIRATES
- Mentioned the LHH for the Nats are gonna be on base a ton. Daylen Lile has been trying to sneak by all series and then homer at the end after I forgot about him. I see you kid, I know you are going yard today.
- We should expect Foster Griffin to get smacked around early. It’s now or never for Marcell Ozuna
CATCHER
- William Contreras
- Logan O’Hoppe
- Carter Jensen
FIRST BASE
Absolutely love everyone here.
- Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
- Rafael Devers
- Vinnie Pasquantino
SECOND BASE
Absolutely hate everyone here.
- Luis Arraez
THIRD BASE
- Matt Chapman
- Junior Caminero / Yandy Diaz
- Kazuma Okamoto
- Yoan Moncada
SHORTSTOP
- Willy Adames
- Konnor Griffin
- Zach Neto
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Jesus Sanchez
- Daylen Lile
- Cody Bellinger
- Jung Hoo Lee
OUTFIELD – Tier II
- Marcell Ozuna
- Jo Adell
- Daulton Varsho
- Jesus Sanchez – OF – Blue Jays – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Willy Adames – SS – Giants
- William Contreras – C – Brewers
- Marcell Ozuna – OF – Pirates
- Rafael Devers – 1B – Giants
- Daylen Lile – OF – Nationals
- Junior Caminero – 3B – Rays
- BONUS … Vladimir Guerrero Jr – 1B – Blue Jays
BETTING CARD
- San Francisco Giants ML
- Toronto Blue Jays ML
- Giants / Reds YRFI
- Royals / Tigers NRFI