Saturdays in the Spring. The sounds of lawn equipment firing up early in the morning, birds chirping non stop, making pancakes and FanDuel rolling out as many slates as humanly possible to ruin the day. Fortunately they only did three today, but we did not get any site synchronicity as DraftKings opted for a GOOD early slate starting at 1PM. It’s larger than the 7PM slate, but I have considered this to be early with 7PM being the Main slate. This article covers 1PM. WEATHER All clear. We do have some wind going OUT in New York, Kansas City & Cincinnati. Overall this pitching slate is fairly boring for massive upside plays, so we find ourselves gravitating towards the dont get blown up options. ERICK FEDDE (DK: $7700) It’s a shame these two teams can’t play 162 against each other. I really cannot stand either lineup and won’t try to sell you that Fedde is anything more than give me a 12 on DraftKings and move along. He shouldn’t walk many guys & will give us 6 innings. JOE RYAN (DK: $8800) I am 100% out on Joe Ryan, he has far too often been inconsistent but lets get this scar out of the way as quickly as we can. On a yucky pitching slate I will opt to go with a double stack on SP from the same game. The Cardinals lineup shouldn’t be one to not swing and miss, so I don’t see how he wont have 5+ strikeouts. OTHER PITCHING THOUGHTS … Max Fried, Justin Verlander, Nestor Cortes and Jesus Luzardo all get the do not touch on their new team treatment. I would say the same for Max, but you aren’t using Max against Baltimore after he complained about his thumb all spring. Among these however, Luzardo is the best play because the Nationals aren’t going to be as strong vs LHP. Gavin Williams: All eyes on Gavin Williams for me today. He was the pretty boy hyped up in the Spring but I still have some “show me” questions if he can avoid nibbling whenever he gets tired in the 3rd or 4th inning of a game. BLUE JAYS The tradition of Blue Jays home games on Saturday’s and them going off is due to come alive with Dean Kremer taking the mound for Baltimore. Throw in Anthony Saturday Santander in his first…...
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