The good news this Thursday afternoon is that all four games will play without weather issues. The three games which are outdoors are going to have 70+ degree temps with wind blowing out at a reasonable rate in all three spots. The fourth game is down at Tropicana Field in Tampa. [spacer height=”20px”] This is a slate with plenty of options at pitching and DraftKings but I am warning you nobody is going to pitch 7 innings of shutout ball out of these options. There’s a bomb here or there just waiting to smack each pitcher in the face. So we are prioritizing strikeouts. DYLAN CEASE As I go through each game to find hitters that I like I found that there are less Dodgers which I want to use today than any other team. Crazy, right? This is a get away game and right now both guys that Cease could struggle with — Mookie & Freddie — are quiet offensively and I hope maybe one of them gets a get away rest game here. TYLER MAHLE Well, fuck me sideways. The highest strike out probability today has to be Mahle who is very cheap on DraftKings for what he has the potential to do. He’ll give up 2 homers and strike out 6+. CORBIN BURNES Milwaukee might need Burnes to hit as well because right now they aren’t doing that, so Burnes will have to be great for them to end the Phillies winning streak. Outside of Kyle Schwarber or maybe Castellanos I don’t see anyone on Philly who is going to repeat what they did the last two nights. Any damage Burnes’ allows via HR’s will be offset by a good strikeout game. [spacer height=”20px”] My Fade Shane McClanahan [spacer height=”20px”] Despite three decent weather games none of them have extremely high Dewpoint ratings. The highest by a slight margin is Cincinnati, which also features the two pitchers most likely to give up homers today. If these four games were on a larger slate I would likely be looking elsewhere to push out a “stack” option, but with just four games the chances of a single team winning everything increases. [spacer height=”20px”] Votto, Pham, Stephenson Joey Votto has definitely been on fire of late and on FanDuel early you will want to play him no doubt where you can use two 1B if you so choose. Zach Davies…...
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