WEATHER Cardinals at Braves: Chance of storms here. All games should play GERRIT COLE (DK: $9000, FD: $9600) … So are we just gonna apply the Max Fried rule on Cole all season long, because the guy should be a 10k pitcher very soon and in a normal scenario when facing Tampa Bay he should be an 11k or 12k pitcher — ON BOTH SITES. Unless Tampa somehow signs Ji-Man Choi back to their roster before 7pm tonight I don’t see anyone in Tampa’s lineup having much success off Cole. He’s got no real restrictions & should be 90% owned tonight as he puts up a 27.5 on draftkings.. HUNTER BROWN (DK: $8400, FD: $9100) … A lot of fantasy people soured on Brown real quick late last year and early into this season and I was close to doing so myself but there’s no doubting that he’s quite possibly the Ace of the Astros staff in this second half. Going into Seattle has been a blessing for pitchers and we’ve known about some guys complaining in regards to the batters eye (although it never bothered Nelson Cruz, Mike Trout or Mike Zunino, ahem…) but I heard something VERY interesting over the all-star break. It was in regards to Teoscar Hernandez and his time with the Mariners and the claimed that the batters box was diagonal to the pitcher, or at least he felt like that was the case. Most likely this is a depth/eye perception issue but we cannot ignore the constant data this year telling us that guys just cannot hit in SafeCo/T-Mobile Park. That includes the home town Mariners and between Brown and Castillo in this game, I lean Brown more just because I hate Castillo knowing that at any point he can rip your balls out like a pissed off and hungry hyeena. OTHER PITCHING THOUGHTS Nick Pivetta is one of the more interesting spots tonight. He was clearly in a bad groove for almost a month and couldn’t get his location right, couldn’t get whiffs and just couldn’t be trusted. Then the magic of facing the Marlins and Athletics in back to back spots seems to have gotten his confidence back and now a 9 day break to get his energy back could prove to be a perfect adrenaline rush to just come out and ball out for 5-7 innings against the Dodgers at…...
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