WEATHER
All clear
SPENCER ARRIGHETTI (DK: $9900)
Spencer is such a fine fellow. He is going to spend 2+ hours of his Sunday afternoon with the Baseball Handicap Association of Kansas City, MO. What a fine gentleman he is.
EMERSON HANCOCK (DK: $8800)
We gotta make our stand on some of these “its hot and good wind” games today. Hancock gets hit hard up in the zone, the Nats lefties will want it down and in. It could lead to him taming Wood and Abrams like he has done for lots of LHH on the season.
WILL WARREN (DK: $7800)
Alejandro Kirk is not going 3-3 again after his return yesterday. So that’s one threat. It’s literally just Okamoto and a not so motivated Vlad Guerrero Jr. here.
SUNDAY SLEEPER
- Zac Gallen: Two games that I thought were going way over went way under and here I am going with a bad pitcher who hasn’t been good in a while. Yep. The Reds are righty heavy, they don’t really hit RH fastballs extremely well but do swing at them a ton. I can see a path here for Gallen to start well and then go into cruise mode if his hitters wake up and spot him 4 runs early.
FADE
- Casey Mize: Mize returns now from the IL and I was going to be a sheep and just try to say – hey, no Bubba Ramirez – lock him in. That’s a little bit of a trap. He’s never been a 110 pitch guy to begin with and needs lots of ground balls and good drop on his splitter. If he does get that, he can handle Manzardo/Schneeman. But if he doesn’t this is still a good lefty lineup and in good conditions for lefty power today. This is a sneaky over game.
METS
Sundays. Citi Field. Overs. We should be paying close attention here to Bo Bichette, who is hot and being almost as much of a free swinger as Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau you have to think his hot streak continues until he has a day off. If Benge is on base, he’ll score and Elder has struggled with Soto in 9 prior meetings. Mets do well, Riley/Olson/Smith do well for the Braves. Yeah, I think we get the over here pretty easily.
- Bo Bichette
- Carson Benge
- Juan Soto
OTHER TOP GAMES
- Padres/Orioles
- Cardinals/Twins
CATCHER
- Ivan Herrera
- Gabriel Moreno
- Gary Sanchez
- Francisco Alvarez
FIRST BASE
- Pete Alonso
- Freddie Freeman
- Alec Burleson
SECOND BASE
- Cole Young
- Amed Rosario
- Ketel Marte
- JJ Wetherholt
THIRD BASE
- Nolan Arenado
- Austin Riley
- Manny Machado
SHORTSTOP
- Bo Bichette
- Xander Bogaerts
- Anthony Volpe
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Kyle Schwarber
- Juan Soto
- Kyle Tucker
- Carson Benge
OUTFIELD – TIER II
- Lars Nootbar
- Riley Greene
- Kerry Carpenter
- Chase DeLauter
- Kyle Schwarber – OF – Philadelphia Phillies – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Bo Bichette – SS – Mets
- Kyle Tucker – OF – Dodgers
- Kerry Carpenter – OF – Tigers
- Nolan Arenado – 3B – Diamondbacks
- Pete Alonso – 1B – Orioles
- Francisco Alvarez – C – Mets
- Cole Young – 2B – Mariners
- BONUS … Manny Machado – 3B – Padres
BETS
- Braves / Mets OVER 8.5
- St. Louis ML