We have some nice weather conditions on this Memorial Day weekend and with the most underrated month of the calendar year (June) coming up I am most definitely in a good mood today, so let’s Ambush the Competition. On this day in 1982, Cal Ripken did not play. He would go on to play the next 2,632 games. It’s a shame he didn’t make it to 2,803 games. On this day in 1995, Yankees SS Derek Jeter made his Major League Debut going 0-5. On this day in 2010, Phillies SP Roy ‘Doc’ Halladay tossed a perfect game. He opened the game with a 3 ball count to three of the first four batters he faced. These nuggets courtesy of @theaceofspaeder on Twitter. [spacer height=”20px”] WEATHER The weather today is very nice and all games will play and with favorable conditions for hitting. [spacer height=”20px”] MAX FRIED Lots of good high end pitchers on this slate today, but I trust Fried to continue his solid May run where you know you get 6-7 innings out of Fried, an efficient pitch outing and 6-8 strikeouts. The Marlins offense usually does better when they go into Atlanta, but outside of Cooper and Soler I don’t see much in this lineup that should have any chance of pushing Fried out of this game early. Plus, he’ll get plenty of run support. LUIS SEVERINO What’s more American on a Holiday weekend than going to Costco on a Sunday afternoon? That’s what we’re going to do here as we have a very nice pitching match-up between Sevy and Sugar Shane down in Tampa with two cold offenses in the pitcher friendly warehouse. I prefer Severino for the cost difference because there are limitations with McClanahan being trusted to go deep and also the Yankee lineup looks like it could actually avoid a high strikeout game against McClanahan today based on some of my pitch type metrics. For the cost savings, Severino should match Shane and continue his resurgent season. KYLE FREELAND Rather than write up a third guy who is in the 8-10k range, we should take a gamble on a cheaper arm today. Freeland does a good job generally of keeping the ball on the ground and for $6,100 he has the best chance to deliver a 5+ inning game without a ton of damage off him. If he can keep Cruz from jacking…...
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