Down to just two Sunday’s remaining for MLB DFS content as the prize pools go away once NFL officially returns on Sunday’s and next weekend is of course over a Holiday weekend.
Meanwhile, over at FanDuel, they have already given up on Sunday’s with today’s MAIN slate featuring everything through the 4PM games.
This is an 11 game Main Slate on DraftKings.
For the FanDuel crowd, the Mariners/Royals game is going to be 2-1 and the Reds probably are worth consideration but there’s plenty of other hitting options so I would just ignore the 4PM window games all together.
WEATHER
All clear
I’m just going to go completely off the gut here today, and there are four pitchers total who I would go with.
- Justin Verlander
- Yusei Kikuchi
- Mike Clevinger
- Carlos Rodon
Yes, you are reading that correctly. Obviously Verlander going back into Detroit is going to be the #1 spot for us today. Even with the Astros being smart and keeping him under 100 pitches each outing he has shown that he can produce enough swings and misses & now see’s a Detroit team that should produce another high K% spot.
Kikuchi is always a gamble, if his command is off then its nighty night against a patient Cleveland lineup, however, the Oscar Gonzalez, Ramon Laureano and bottom part of the order AB’s should result in him getting strikeouts up in the zone with his fastball. Nobody will trust him at that price against Cleveland, nobody except me.
Clevinger and Rodon fall into the real ‘sleeper’ category, although Clevinger vs Oakland likely draws some relative ownership. Rodon wont, but Rodon is your real K% upside sleeper today. I don’t trust Tampa at all.
I would spread out hitting exposure today with the heavier slate of games and I doubt we see a ton of explosive offensive outbursts today. The Orioles and Blue Jays are top end CORE teams to load up with. Toronto seeing Thor should be able to get on base, run and also touch him in up in their hitter friendly park.
The Orioles against Ty Blach are also in one of the better humid/heat games today & always hit well at home on Sunday’s.
- Orioles (Hays/Mountcastle/Rutschman)
- Blue Jays (Merrifield/Bichette)
Going with the GUT feel today, the Astros will hit 2 HR off Faedo and one of them is Yordan Alvarez. He is the best ‘STUD’ in the OF to pay up for today. The other gut feel is that Minnesota hits Jordan Montgomery.
- Astros …. Yordan/McCormick
- Twins … Correa/Lewis
I have no interest in Dodgers/Red Sox and limited interest in full stacking Philly, although the Phillies at home have been tearing it up in August, so we should expect them to continue to hit Bohm’s if you know what I mean.
San Diego/Milwaukee is an interesting spot. Both Wacha and Houser are capable of pitching very well, although we won’t use either in our lineups, but the one AB that Houser should struggle with is Machado. He’ll put the ball into his heat spot and Manny should hit 1 HR if not 2 and another XBH today as well. He’s the must own.
CATCHER
- Adley Rutschman
- Mitch Garver
FIRST BASE
- Ryan Mountcastle
- Alec Bohm
- DJ LeMahieu
SECOND BASE
no Whit Really sucks
- Nolan Gorman
- Brendan Rodgers
THIRD BASE
- Manny Machado
- Jose Ramirez
- Matt Chapman
SHORTSTOP
- Bo Bichette
- Dansby Swanson
- Willy Adames
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Austin Hays
- Yordan Alvarez
- Chas McCormick
- Luis Robert Jr.
OUTFIELD – Value
- Andrew Benintendi
- Matt Wallner
- Manny Machado – 3B – Padres – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Yordan Alvarez – OF – Astros
- Austin Hays – OF – Orioles
- Whit Merrifield – 2B – Blue Jays
- Dansby Swanson – SS – Cubs
- Alec Bohm – 1B – Phillies
- Luis Robert Jr – OF – White Sox
- BONUS ……………. Nolan Jones – OF – Rockies