The Friday before a Holiday weekend, which means we will start to see the balls flying out of parks as always and tonight is a very nice old school Friday night slate. We have no Cubs afternoon Wrigley game and there are four ‘Turbo’ slate games, which includes Alek Manoah versus the Tigers and MacKenzie Gore on the bump for Washington. But none of that matters for us here, because we will use those long 25 minutes between slate locks to build our Main slate lineups, thank you DFS sites for thinking of us on this fine Friday where no human being should be doing anything important after 2PM. The slate features Dodgers in Cincinnati, Phillies in Coors, and Premium Pitching. It’s very much a ‘stars and scrubs’ type build to things tonight on the initial glance. WEATHER Overall no issues tonight. Expect a possible delay for the Cubs/Cardinals and Orioles/White Sox games, but everything will play. It is a premium pitching slate with four players over 9k and another six in the 8k range on DraftKings. There are also a couple young arms that I think are overpriced with ceiling limitations but they have a good chance of pitching well in Kyle Harrison, Christian Scott and Christopher Sanchez. The last of which is in Coors Field, so even though he’s only $7200 it’s still a bit steep for a guy I think wants to be a black Dallas Keuchel. You should IMO have one if not two of these studs, but the premium on hitting obviously makes us want to take a look at the Tier 2 arms. CORBIN BURNES (DK: $10.6k, FD: $10.6k) As noted the last time Burnes took the mound, we are about to see him explode into the former Cy Young level Burnes. Eleven strikeouts against the Mariners and now another good K% upside team in the White Sox. Put me down for another 10+ whiffs here and not a single hitter in the South Side lineup has favorable power metrics vs Burnes. BAILEY OBER (DK: $8300, FD: $8400) Rangers are worse vs LHP but we’re banking on Ober’s talent himself and the way he has pitched in May (prior to the last start) to be the anchor here. Overall a nearly 40% K rate in the last monthand the Texas 5-9 lineup is very cold right now. It’s also not extremely warm up in Target Field…...
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