WEATHER All games will play tonight. Some cloudy/overcast conditions in Washington, New York and Boston, but none of them have a high PPD risk or any major delay concerns either. The best weather hitting conditions are in Coors and Kauffman, but nothing extreme. LOGAN GILBERT Give me Gilbert or give me death. Gilbert against the Athletics is likely to be just as good as Miller was last night, maybe with fewer strikeouts but as good of a chance of allowing 0 ER through his time on the bump today. SHANE BIEBER One of his better starts in 2023 came against the Yankees and they had more fire power in that meeting than they will tonight. I personally think Shane is going to wind up being dealt if Cleveland cannot get it going as a team since they have so much pitching depth in the organization about to come up, and so if he wants that next big contract he needs to start acting like the Cy Young potential that he used to have. This is a good spot for that to come true with the NYY watered down lineup likely giving him a start where he can be in the 70% range on his strikes thrown. FAVORITE CHEAP ARM Miles Mikolas … This is entirely a gut call because obviously Mikolas vs Trout/Ohtani combination warrants some fears but with Ohtani also pitching tonight I believe that does take a little out of him and so the stache just needs to get past Trout and this will be his best outing of the 2023 season. OTHER PITCHING NOTES No Ohtani for me, even vs a bad Cardinals lineup right now. Marcus Stroman should be good, but also should not have a ton of K today, so for 9100 I see no point going there, it won’t win much Kyle Gibson vs a possibly Salvy-less Royals team is going to be good. On another slate he might crack the top 3. Not a heavy ‘must stack this team’ type slate tonight. TWINS vs WHITE SOX The White Sox side seems pretty clear cut to me against Louie Varland. He heavily relies on his cutter which LHH have hit much better in a limited dataset, so Andrew Benintendi gets a rare mention here along with Andrew Vaughn from the right side of the plate for Chicago. To me the sneaky play…...
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