Almost August, which means we are getting closer to the weekends shifting to College & Pro Football and away from Baseball. This is also usually the best sneaky time for MLB DFS, so lets find some gems out there. Tonight we have a good 13-game Saturday night slate. WEATHER Big threat of storms in Atlanta, typical Summer stuff down there. Game probably gets played okay though. Let’s call this the master of 5 innings slate tonight because there’s so many pitchers going who are capping out around 70 pitches and 5 innings. TOP THREE OPTIONS BRANDON PFAADT — DK: $6,200 | FD: $6,200 Pfaadt and Orioles top SP prospect Grayson Rodriguez were two hot young names coming into 2023 and both struggled in their initial call-up to the big leagues before going back to the minors to work on things. Grayson has figured it out and Pfaadt looks to be doing the same. He’s also going to get a great boost here with Seattle’s strikeout problems even though they have calmed down some over the last week. My theory on young hitting young also does not work in here because that Seattle lineup besides Julio is a veteran team, If he pitches like he did in Cincinnati he’ll be among the top SP options today. JAMES PAXTON — DK: $9,900 | FD: $10,400 The Giants are among the bottom 5 teams in hitting over the last week, and do not hit as well at home. Just a couple soft reasons to be comfortable with Paxton, who is continuing to have a good season and continues to do well vs RHH with a near 33% strikeout rate. Given the Giants are likely to roll out a bunch of RHH blindly I like him to have a good game. BAILEY OBER — DK: $10,300 | FD: $10,200 The Royals won a game last night. If they win again today, that would be two in a row. If they win again tomorrow that, would be a winning streak. It has happened before… It’s not happening here though. Take the Twins to the bank my friend and back Ober to go 6 innings, strikeout 7 and leave with the W. OTHER PITCHING NOTES Logan Allen & Mike Clevinger just missed the cut for me… I don’t think its too much to think they could be in a nice pitchers duel either……....
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