Man oh man. You follow Baseball long enough and you see something you would have never imagined. How about a 29-9 score which hadn’t happened in something like 80 years? How about a player hitting 3 HR in a game for the second time in exactly one week? How about that player being in my Mt. Rushmore despite batting 7th in the order and being Adam fricken Duvall? And yet…. We didn’t take down a million bucks? I guess everyone is all focused on their NFL drafts. I’ve already got my NFL analysis for the week mostly wrapped up and will get to my article by Saturday — for now, we keep at the Baseball. Both sites have reduced the contest sizes today as expected and hopefully just for tonight. It’s only a 6 game slate on FD and DK, locking at 6:40 PM EST. WEATHER Baltimore at Yankees is heavy risk of PPD If this game does play, I don’t see a need to look at many options although those Orioles are playing well and Cole hasn’t been dominant all season quite yet…. So it’s worthy of a flyer if you want. Gerrit Cole is pitching for the Yankees against a hot Orioles lineup and with lots of PPD/Rain concerns. I am more not writing him up because of the PPD/rain concerns than the match-up. Chris Paddack This is a heavy chalk pivot off Sonny Gray who should be the highest SP1 if Gerritt Cole is rained out as anticipated. I will ride Paddack at home against the Giants despite them being an improved offensive club this season. Some reasons why and they have nothing to do with analytics. First off, the Cubs and Bauer were chirping so much last night that I believe the Cubs bats will come out and punish Gray for Bauers cockiness. Second off, do you really trust the Reds to win again and the Giants to beat up on the Padres? Me neither. Paddack will win and he’s coming off a good start after a rough stretch so I expect this to be his best game of the season tonight. Josh Fleming Let’s get a little weird tonight? Fleming looks to be a middle of the road lefty who has some viability at times and in a way reminds me of heavier Danny Duffy. So far he has been fairly good…...
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