Hot diggity damn we have a slate which begins at 7PM and has a decent amount of games on it and has no Pirates on it either, which is just how we like it. WEATHER Dodgers at Twins – PPD risk here. They play a day game tomorrow as this is a short two game series, but they likely would try to wait it out for a little if they can. If it delays, we fade, if it starts on time, we play. Although it is cold so there’s really not a TON to like here except for oh my god, yes, that is Andrew Heaney on the mound for LAD and that won’t end well for him. Royals at Cardinals – The suckitude of the Royals pitching staff has brought with it some winds blowing out heavily to LF [spacer height=”20px”] There’s a crap ton of “not my guys” on this slate tonight. Eric Lauer, Yu Darvish, Chad Kuhl, Chris Archer, Andrew Heaney, Yusei Kikuchi, I say stick a fork in my eye…. ALEX COBB A new year makes a new man? Well, Alex Cobb now with the Giants showed up to Spring Training throwing straight heat and struck out 9 batters over 7 1/3 IP while allowing just 1 ER. Big deal you say, it’s just Spring Training, to which I agree except his velocity suddenly went from 92-93 MPH to 97 MPH this spring. Either this guy has found the secret sauce, is about to go on the IL for the season or will be busted for PED later this year. In two of those scenario’s, he’ll reproduce it well enough today in the large stadium against a weak offense. And he is the other SP in what should be a low scoring game against the likely chalk SP1 tonight… DAKOTA HUDSON Hudson draws the Royals who were seeing the fewest pitches per AB through the first three games of the season and that has historically been a trend with that offense. Hudson needs to avoid a mistake down in the zone to Salvador Perez and he can get through 5 IP with likely having the lead to qualify for a win as well. The upside is limited, but I trust he wont be negative either. [spacer height=”20px”] LONGSHOT ARMS JESUS LUZARDO & PATRICK SANDOVAL Alright, so we found “my guys”, but there are some glaring trouble…...
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