Welcome to another MLB DFS season and while I am not one of those fools who would say “it feels just like yesterday we watched the World Series”, I will say that Spring Training really flew by this year. There’s a sense of optimism that I have for Baseball and DFS this year that I haven’t had since before the COVID season. Which means if history repeats itself we’ll have some jackass catcher hitting two home runs in the final game of the night to cost me big, followed by the Nationals PPD a game with no rain to cost me big and then the best pitcher on the slate at 5% ownership leaving for cramps … yes, to cost me big. Or, if you’re a glass half full history repeating itself kinda guy then we’ll have another pandemic or strike (*cough*, a lockout is already looming, *cough*) and we’ll have to dust off the ole KBO dashboard once again with all the Kims, Jangs and Wongs your heart can desire. We are going to possibly have the true return of a heavy stable of dominant ‘Ace’ pitchers on display this season. Guys like Alcantara, Strider, McLanahan and hopefully deGrom returning to the dominance every few days is going to really increase the high end SP1 decisions each night. There’s always injuries (see Gerrit Cole) that will diminish the pool here, but as I noted last year at some point we’re into a phase now on ace pitchers where they’re back up to that strength level after missing the 2020 season and we can hopefully get some healthy aces for a good portion of the season. SLATE SETUP No synchronicity. Welp, it wont be a perfect season for FanDuel and DraftKings, although credit to FD for getting what the slate should have been correct with the BAL/TOR and MIL/NYY games on the slate. WEATHER Looks pretty good honestly for an Opening Day as all games should play and nothing is freezing cold or any snow like we had a couple years ago. Angels at Royals: Chance of pop up storms. PAUL SKENES – (DK: $10,000, FD: $11,000) I am not going to apologize here. A generational ace pitcher going against one of the worst offenses we have seen in a long time. Sure, “its wrong” can dance all you want on your left shoulder but that wont stop me…...
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