It’s a special day as we have a solid 12 game Sunday slate, a ode to the old 15 day all day slates almost but without three showdown games at Noon, 4PM and then 7PM tonight. So the six teams whom you are not subjected too today include Cleveland, Tampa Bay, Anaheim, San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia. Unless, of course, you are in need of island showdown action in which case I do not fault you one bit for making Junior Caminero, Jorge Soler and Bryce Harper your captains. We’re also quickly approaching the end of Sunday MLB DFS. Some of you probably find that to be a good thing, and certainly I do not blame you. It’s actually almost the end of weekend MLB DFS as well. So, enjoy it. RANDOM BASEBALL NOTE The Red Sox/Nationals trade is a brilliant trade for both sides. Washington returns Brady House to 3B while getting some much needed pitching help and Boston gets someone who is actually built to rake in Fenway Park in Curtis Mead. I love this deal for both sides, especially Boston. WEATHER Chance of storms in two spots, but no PPD risk Athletics at Twins: Hope mother nature just wipes these teams off the planet. Reds at Cardinals Three aces today going in climate controlled environments. The Miz, Gilbert and deGrom. The latter of which are facing each other down in Texas & will be fighting to see who is first to give up that solo homer that they both can be prone too doing. Miz actually is NOT facing the highest K% on the slate. These Rockies do a good job of getting their bats on the ball — but he is the Miz and the opponent really doesn’t matter. LOGAN GILBERT (DK: $10,300) All that above aside, Gilbert’s going to be my top choice here. He’s in such good form at the moment & I don’t see a blow-up coming today. I’m not opposed to being cute and finding a way to stack Gilbert & Misiorowski together and punt some hitters but my lean is save a little with Gilbert. CONNOR PRIELIPP (DK: $7300) Here, I’ll fix this damn series. There’s about 8 pitchers who are in the 7k-8k range today and most of them just terrify the piss out of me. But, with Prielipp we’re trusting the opponent to keep sucking…...
