If you enjoy sitting down from 7pm to 9pm Eastern Time during the summer and watching Baseball games (yes, it’s still summer), well then you are fucking shit out of luck mother fuckers.
Yeah, so we have a 3 game Turbo slate, and then a 7:40 PM game in Chicago and …. crickets. It’s west coast week with games in L.A., Sacramento, Arizona, Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco. And yeah, it’s gonna get worse tomorrow. Zero balance on the schedule this year, just bad.
These are the things we bitch about when we get old.
WEATHER
All clear
It is a top heavy SP night tonight and there’s a few extras such as Chase Burns, Robbie Ray (8k), Wheeler vs Gilbert and even Kevin Gausman that should all be goo today. This is what pivots me onto looking at two pay up pitchers instead of taking a likely chalk SP2 in Klassen as one of your must owns tonight. Because there’s enough paths to getting a 20 from you pitcher & Klassen probably hits some bumps with the Angels so he isn’t gonna be 4x or anything drastic like that.
Braxton Ashcraft (DK: $10,000)
Very much back to his early season form with just three walks over the last four starts, three of which are on the road where he seems to be very comfortable & PETCO isn’t a tough spot. Merrill is on fire & should be a spot for Brax to have to work around but Merrill also has very little protection behind him.
Parker Messick (DK: $9500)
He was 4th on my list with Klassen being third, but upon logic settling in, there is almost no reason not to ride with Messick at the top of the board with the other top arms going today.
George Klassen (DK: $6500)
Aint broke, dont fix it. Just a value play, I’d lean on paying up but this could be a chalky SP2 today.
The Twins and Athletics out in Sacramento should be by far the chalk today. There’s only one other really good stadium in the Cubs @ Diamondbacks, so the ownership’s likely heavily on those Twins/Athletics hitters for good reason.
TWINS
Keaschall, Clemens
CUBS
PCA, Suzuki
WHITE SOX (& Rangers)
Murakami, Montgomery
CATCHER
- Elias Diaz
- Carson Kelly
- Ryan Jeffers
FIRST BASE
- Munetaka Murakami
- Michael Busch
- Royce Lewis
SECOND BASE
- Jeff McNeil
- Nico Hoerner
- Kody Clemens
THIRD BASE
- Jose Ramirez
- Miguel Vargas
- Zack Gelof
SHORTSTOP
- Colson Montgomery
- Matt McLain
- Donovan Walton
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Luke Keaschall
- Pete-Crow Armstrong
- Seiya Suzuki
- Lawrence Butler
OUTFIELD – TIER II
- Jo Adell
- Byron Buxton
- Esmerlyn Valdez
- Munetaka Murakami – 1B – Chicago White Sox – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Jose Ramirez – 3B – Guardians
- Kody Clemens – 2B – Twins
- Colson Montgomery – 3B – White Sox
- Pete-Crow Armstrong – OF – Cubs
- Seiya Suzuki – OF – Cubs
- Lawrence Butler – OF – Twins
- Elias Diaz – C – Rangers
- BONUS … Carson Kelly – C – Cubs
BETTING CARD
- Rangers / White Sox OVER 8.5
- Cubs / D’Backs OVER 9