We made it to May! Finally the weather is going to start warming up, right? Right??? Sigh. Not yet, but close my friends, close. In a shocking twist we have another Sunday slate where DraftKings has said no thank you on the Rangers home game and FanDuel has opted to put a waiver claim in adding it over on their slate. Neither site, thankfully, has included the Reds and Rockies game in Coors Field today. As always, just the one main article for Sundays with thoughts on the afternoon slate posted in Discord if I find it relevant and then we go into the Showdown Tilt Tilt slate which should be a very good game tonight in Citi Field. [spacer height=”20px”] WEATHER About that weather, here are the spots today which are worth monitoring for rain. I expect that these games will try to get played. Padres at Pirates This has the higher rain % chance which could impact the pitching options today. Basically if they give it a go from the start they will play through it as much as they can with some later afternoon storms getting stronger. If they start in a delay, we will fade pitching and sadly one of the hitters here. Red Sox at Orioles This will play, but a stray shower or two might drop in to say hi. ROOFS I expect closed in Toronto, Milwaukee and Ugly in Tampa. Miami is TBD. [spacer height=”20px”] SANDY ALCANTARA Happy South Beach day everyone! We get the team who has the longest trip out of everyone to South Beach going up against one of the best SP in the NL right now as Sandy Alcantara is going to remind everyone that he is the Marlins Ace and not Pablo Lopez (but we like Pablo too) and Sandy will lower his ERA from whatever it is (1.78, damn) because he won’t give up a run this Sunday afternoon vs the Mariners. CORBIN BURNES With offense down there is an argument which might be said about why bother paying up for pitching and it’s just dead wrong. First off, we aren’t paying that much for our SP2 in most cases and second off with offense being limited it has only further made the top end guys that much more reliable and dominant. Case in point is Corbin Burnes, who has been shot out of a cannon to…...
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