Overview With another road course on the schedule, there are a lack of laps as far as dominators go. However, with qualifying being somewhat chaotic there are plenty of drivers starting towards the back that aren’t necessarily accustomed to such treatment. There will be plenty of place differential to be had. Top Drivers Tyler Reddick […]
WEATHER All games will play Like everyone else I saw Spencer Strider get rocked the other day and now am just going to ignore the Braves Ace, I don’t have a feeling that he’ll have this massive bounce back game but generally it’s just not a spot I wanna pay for more than anything else. BRANDON WOODRUFF Better play given the pricing on DraftKings, an alternative for FD players would be Zac Gallen at $10,500. Both are going to have lots of AB where they should be able to get to 2 strike situations, Woodruff looked great in his last outing vs the Pirates and now faces the White Sox. What a lucky guy. COLE RAGANS Yeah, I’ll bite on the Royals kid again. Young hits young, so the Cards vets Goldy?Arenado which will be chalk are fades for me. Plus the Ragans experience for the Royals has been too good, what can go wrong here as the Cards strikeout nearly 30% over the last week vs LHP. He’s gonna get run support too, so thats nice. ANDREW HEANEY Good park for pitchers, but he’ll see a ton of RHH which is a little scary for the HR% upside but temps are low, wind is calm and Heaney’s strikeouts should get him out of jams tonight. ASTROS Jose Altuve & Alex Bregman … with CJ Cron from the Angels on the other side. ROYALS Witt, Perez, Olivares BRAVES Sean Murphy and Ozzie Albies the favorite options here vs Quintana. Finding a way to fit in a third high $ Brave tonight is a tough one but Riley would be the logical pick. DIAMONDBACKS Gurriel, Marte, Walker CATCHER Sean Murphy Carson Kelly Adley Rutschman FIRST BASE CJ Cron Christian Encarnacion-Strand Christian Walker SECOND BASE Ozzie Albies Dylan Moore Ketel Marte THIRD BASE Alex Bregman Austin Riley Emmanuel Rivera SHORTSTOP Willy Adames Corey Seager Elly De La Cruz OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore Lourdes Gurriel Jr. Teoscar Hernandez Bryan Reynolds Christian Yelich OUTFIELD – Tier 2 Edward Olivares Esteury Ruiz Tyler O’Neill CJ Cron – 1B – LA Angels – Chairman of The Dongers Club Edward Olivares – OF – Royals Corey Seager – SS – Rangers Christian Yelich – OF – Brewers Bryan Reynolds – OF – Pirates Ozzie Albies – 2B – Braves Sean Murphy – C – Braves Alex Bregman […]
Overview Indianapolis Motor Speedway is one of the most historical venues in racing and this weekend the XFINITY Series will take on the Road Course at The Brickyard. With qualifying still to come, I’ll look at who to target ahead as the drivers will spin 62 lap on the 2.44-mile road course. Most comparable tracks: Watkins […]
WEATHER There should be no significant issues on the main slate tonight. Below are the top three options Justin Verlander (DK: $9600, FD: $10.5k) … Back in familiar Houston, JV against the Angels with a recent 27% strikeout rate and 29% DCPA strikeout rate should increase over his last 4K outing. Ohtani is an obvious spot for a solo HR off him but as long as he handles Cron I think JV will give you 7 IP and 7 K. Kyle Gibson (DK: $7700, FD: $9600) … Baltimore wins, Gibson rolls. Love him here. Jon Gray (DK: $8100, FD: $8200) Top offenses Padres Orioles Phillies CATCHER Adley Rutschman Gary Sanchez Jake Rogers FIRST BASE Alec Bohm Vlad Guerrero Ryan Mountcastle SECOND BASE Mookie Betts Michael Massey Ha-Seong Kim THIRD BASE Arenado Riley Henderson SHORTSTOP Jeremy Pena Trea Turner Francisco Lindor OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore Bryce Harper Juan Soto Anthony Santander Adam Duvall Adley Rutschman – C – Orioles – Chairman of The Dongers Club
*NOTE: This article is being produced ahead of qualifying. Be sure to look in Discord after qualifying (4:00 p.m. eastern) for any updates and some more drivers to roster. Top Drivers Zane Smith ($10,900) Regardless of where Zane Smith starts, he’ll be a contender to win as he’s simply one of the better drivers in […]
Broken down by pricing tiers, Mark Farris outlines his favorite PGA DFS plays on DraftKings
We’re back, nice mid week slate tonight. WEATHER No issues Max Fried Yu Darvish Kyle Hendricks Red Sox Blue Jays Astros CATCHER Salvador Perez Cal Raleigh Yasmani Grandal FIRST BASE Matt Olson Triston Casas Ryan O’Hearn SECOND BASE Jose Altuve Ketel Marte Whit Merrifield THIRD BASE Alex Bregman Rafael Devers Gunnar Henderson SHORTSTOP Dansby Swanson Bobby Witt Jr. Miguel Rojas (Value) OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore Yordan Alvarez Seiya Suzuki Masataka Yoshida Eloy Jimenez Alex Bregman – 3B – Astros – Chairman of The Dongers Club
There is no Dongers Club today. This is possibly just the second time in the existence of this site where I will not post an article for a large main slate without prior notice, so if you don’t like it then go shove it up the Kikuchi… These are the moments why I put so much effort into the Dashboard, Lineups Page and other tools at ZERO expense that passes down to you. Use the tools, go win some contests. Back tomorrow. Steve
Monday brings us an eight game slate, great series on tap here with lots of middle of pack stadiums and plenty of ‘new’ series. Specifically tonight there is just one divisional matchup and that features the Rangers in Oakland. WEATHER Three spots with some rain possibilities. Braves at Pirates – This one could wind up being the worst of them. But they won’t start and then PPD, so its either an early PPD or they wait it out and get the game in. Cubs at Mets … Should play Blue Jays at Guardians … Should play There is a clear top four today, so I am going to offer my thoughts on all of them, ranked in order of preference. Spencer Strider – $12,800 (DK) | $11,500 (FD) The big price tag on Strider is the only wart that one might be able to find with him and with a clear value option at #2 I see no reason to really get upset about using Strider when I believe he has a 10-12 strikeout window that he should hit. Dane Dunning – $7,200 (DK) | $84,00 (FD) Dunning beats out Patrick Sandoval as the SP2 in the 7000’s today. The difference is minimal but Sandoval’s inconsistency really bothers me this season. Dunning on the other hand seems to hate it when I attack him, so maybe he wont have what he did last start vs Chicago obviously but I still can’t see Oakland with a low .139 ISO against his pitch-type’s coming out to blow him up. OTHERS TO TRUST … Gerrit Cole – $11,300 (DK) | $11,000 (FD) Pivot option #1 off Strider due to PPD risk Freddy Peralta – $9,600 (DK) | $10,500 (FD) Pivot option #2. Colorado is a little scary here for me though. BREWERS Yelich, Contreras, Turang Ole Pete Lambert is more a 1.5 WHIP guy than what he was doing when he trucked through the Tigers-Marlins and Nationals in July. Milwaukee should have 1-2 guys on base EEVRY inning, he only gets a Whiff over 20% with his Change-Up and Christian Yelich is slugging .501 on that. Milwaukee is going off folks. ROYALS Witt, Garcia, Fermin Possibly losing Salvy here in Fenway is a big loss, he would pepper the green monster if not clear it twice, but Freddy Fermin is hitting so well it’s hard to ignore him […]
Today brings you an 11 game Sunday slate with just 2 games in the Tilt Afternoon slate. It’s a heavy Sunday afternoon and the first of the final Sunday month+1 week of the MLB season before NFL kicks off next month. WEATHER ARI @ MIN: I would imagine with both teams needing to play this game that they will wait it out or play through some light rain. The Twins for some reason opted to sign Dallas Keuchel AND start him today, which I assume is just a giant middle finger to the rest of the AL Central considering they could sleep walk to the title … then again, Cleveland is showing some fight now if you know what I mean. At any rate, I believe this game will play and you weren’t going to want to use any pitchers in it anyway (sorry Zac Gallen) Happy Za(chk) day folks. Zac Gallen, Zack Greinke and Zack Thompson all pitching today. No, I don’t like any of em… The theme on pitching today is guys returning to the mound such as Jose Urquidy, Brandon Woodruff and yes, Dallas Keuchel! TYLER GLASNOW SCRATCHED KYLE BRADISH Coming in as my favorite SP option on the day. There is a lot to like with Bradish’s development in 2023. He gets a 34% whiff rate on his slider and 33% on his curveball, both which should help him continue a stretch where he has had 7+ strikeouts in 5 of his last 8 games and only once in Philly did he give up more than 3 ER in that time. The Mets are a dead man walking team as we know & I expect them to be not much of a threat. SANDY ALCANTARA Remember someone who said the best pitcher in the second half this season would be Sandy Alcantara? Well, nobody is ready to admit it yet, but he’s putting it all back together with back to back dominant outings and when a good pitcher is on a roll, you ride him. The Sunday Sleeper … AUSTIN GOMBER Just 2 walks over his last 24 IP, a very good sign for the lefty and we’ll probably see some old school Goldy/Arenado chalk vs LHP today. I don’t like it much, and with the way the entire Cardinals offense is striking out vs LHP of late there’s a good path here […]
