A good sized Friday twelve game slate tonight. WEATHER I expect all games to play, with a possible delay in Cleveland but a clear window afterwards to get the game in assuming the daytime weather doesn’t make it unplayable — but that’s a well built stadium, so they should be ok. You do not go from being very bad to bouncing back with an elite start and that is the key thing to monitor here tonight with Kevin Gausman (vs COL) and Max Fried (vs MIA) who are good pitchers that have struggled out of the gate, but now find themselves in great match-ups. I’ll be avoiding both and in the case of Fried, we do not use him until late April/early May every year and that is ringing true again this season. In the case of Gausman, there’s definitely some concerns with the shoulder, so while Colorado is a bad lineup, I would avoid going here because I just cannot see him having a 12 strikeout type performance. Top Recommendations So all those notes aside, here are my top 3 guys tonight. TANNER HOUCK (DK: $8400, FD: $9500) & REID DETMERS (DK: $8300, FD: $9400) … These guys faced off last Saturday night in Anaheim and now they go at it again in Fenway Park. It will be in the upper 50’s and Boston is likely without Rafael Devers for possibly the entire series. Detmers (who is good at home) dominated the Red Sox bats last week and is only $8300 here. He’s definitely worth consideration, but I would not overlook Houck — who was equally very good in that same game. This is almost a spot to double stack them and hope for similar performances, because both opposing lineups look very managable. ANDREW ABBOTT (DK: $8200, FD: $8400) In the same range as a lot of other SP’s tonight, but Abbott is facing the f’n White Sox and while he hasn’t jumped out of the gates this year like Detmers/Houck, I just cannot ignore that he is playing … the f’n White Sox. Other Pitching Notes Tyler Wells is the next guy on my list for $7700 on DraftKings. Just hard to push him above the three guys above. Michael Wacha has zero upside, even facing the Mets in Citi Field. He won’t suck, but…. Blah. Paul Blackburn is not capable of having 3 good starts in a…...
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