SLATE NOTES We went an entire week through the season and all was just fine on the DFS front as we had synchronicity between FanDuel and DraftKings on the slate configurations. DraftKings has given us a 6 game Early Slate that locks at 4pm, which this article is covering. Then a main slate at 7pm with five games which the next article will cover. Meanwhile, on FanDuel they are back to their ways with a Very Early, Afternoon, Early and then Main slate configuration. Just pure brilliance. So as always, we go with the larger slate config as the primary source of information in the article and in this case that means DraftKings and these games: Reds at Phillies Yankees at Orioles Astros at Twins White Sox at Pirates Royals at Giants Mariners at Guardians … Every team now plays every team at least once, but you still play your league teams twice. So why are they finishing up their season series before April 15th??? WTH Man. WEATHER All games play, nothing significant of note. Zack Wheeler Probably popular vs the lowly Reds, who aren’t as good as they’ve started but also not as bad as everyone thinks. Wheeler might have warning signs, but I recall him having those warning signs the last two seasons as well and then he turned it on very quickly. This is an elite strikeout matchup with 8+ strikeout potential. Brad Keller Nobody will touch this one, but us. Keller made some changes with the help of the new pitching staff and some time at Drive Line (“He Went to Drive Line!”) and is expanding his arsenal as well with a new Curveball this season which he used 25% in his first start vs the Twins. One big difference he has improved upon in the Spring was is his command which is huge against a team like the Giants who walks well and wants to work the count into their favor. His first start vs Minnesota wasn’t as clean with 4 walks, but I trust more what we saw in the spring than that one start here. We all saw the Giants just go bananas in nice weather in Chicago but back home in San Francisco this is a 2-run max offense and Keller should pitch well here and for another 2 starts before imploding on some mid-week afternoon game. PIRATES Oneil Cruz,…...
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