WEATHER No issues Yet another awful pitching slate, which having less games to pick from compounds the issue tonight. When I say awful it’s not so much the names as it is the construct of how we get there. SHOHEI OHTANI (DK: $11,500) If Ohtani gave up homers then maybe we could find a fault here, but he doesn’t. And the Twins are not a team who really can step in having not seen him in forever and give him problems. There’s only one path to getting around not having him and that’s him getting busted for betting on womens tennis — which I doubt is happening — so just play him, enjoy the 25+ point outing and move on, because nobody else will touch him today. GAGE JUMP (DK: $8800) Alright, I’ll take notice and take the great park & bad Giants offense here to trust the kid. Another case of a college pitcher getting up to speed pretty quickly though & while I avoid any rookie pitcher earlier I do acknowledge when they look comfortable. Gage has ‘jumped’ (sorry, had to do the pun) into the A’s rotation with some favorable opponents (Angels, Rockies, Cubs before they started juicing again) and he gets another tonight. TREY YESAVAGE (DK: $8400) After his first 7 starts this year resulted in 0 HR allowed, Trey has given up 5 over his last 3 in June. Could be a sign of the baseballs changing as two of the games were at home and not really prone to heavy humidity/warmth. But with a thin slate on pitching options and his strikeout upside still being strong I would put him back in the mix that he is able to fix the HR trend. His downside is 3+ HR, but these aren’t the Astros of old, they do have whiffs in the lineup. OTHER SP NOTES Imanaga vs Senga finally tonight at Citi Field for the second game. With the first one going over and the path of the Cubs the lean is Mets and under, but I would generally just stay away from this game all together. JP Sears is back and with the Padres. He was terrible in the minors. BREWERS My patience is wearing thing with this series and specifically you Brice Turang, and you Christian Yelich. No clean path for Lowder to get through the Turang-Bauers part of…...
