This Monday in mid/late April features a seven game MAIN slate with action in a suddenly warmer Coors Field (73 degrees) and five other teams playing home games who were also home on the weekend. The one who isn’t is the Angels. As a side note, I really hate that the MLB still does the home and away scheduling for non-divisional series so that you are done with a team after the first few weeks of the season. The Royals host the Blue Jays tonight and soon will go back to Toronto. They just finished up with Baltimore over the past weekend. I mean, the asshole(s) making the schedule couldn’t spread that shit out better? I’m available for hire BTW. WEATHER We are good to go tonight. CHRIS PADDACK (DK: $7400, FD: $6300) Facing the White Sox. I mean, I really do not need to say much more than this on a nightly basis. BRADY SINGER (DK: $9200, FD: $9100) A baseline projection for Singer tonight needs to find a way to get through 6 innings with 5+ strikeouts. If he can just hit those two numbers then he’ll be in the right area and his slider should be able to get him there against this Jays lineup. ALBERT SUAREZ (DK: $4000, FD: $5500) Someone at both sites should be fired here. I realize that they think Suarez is just a RP for the Orioles, but you gotta pay attention better than this. Baltimore is letting him start and while he only threw 75 pitches in his first start back in the majorsl, there’s no reason for him to be $4000 tonight and especially not against a team who has the third highest weighted K% on the slate. And especially not with a Coors slate out there. Fire every intern DraftKings. Fire them all. Other Pitching Thoughts … Dylan Cease made one prior start in Coors and it wasn’t anything special. He’s not a bad play today, I just don’t trust the guy. ROYALS Witt, Velazquez, Perez I feel like we have all been waiting all season long for the Kikuchi take it in the (negative) spot and there should be some fastball hunting from the Royals after getting shutdown by a lefty on Sunday. BRAVES Duvall, Arcia, Ozuna Advantage to the Braves simply because the Miami bullpen remains atrocious, but there are good Marlins to consider here…...
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