OK, I kinda lied yesterday. There will be just this one MAIN article for the 4:05 slate today as I’ll be driving down to the Lake for a few days. So I am not likely to touch on the 7PM shorter slate tonight. WEATHER Wind blowing out to LF in Philly & Boston AARON NOLA (DK: $8700, FD: $) I have absolutely nothing bad to say about Nola today and neither should you. Is it warm in an afternoon in a small park? Sure, okay, fine. Whatever. JAKE IRVIN (DK: $7300, FD: $) Tampa Bay is winning games, but they’re not insanely dangerous offensively. Yandy Diaz is riding a long 20 game hit streak and is an ok DFS one off, but otherwise I lean on Irvin to benefit from a swing happy team. MAX FRIED (DK: $8800, FD: $) The headline this afternoon is going to be Paul Skenes against Max Fried, which is just fucking awesome. I’m flip flopping here, because that Skenes 12 K game through 4 innings is kinda tempting. I kid, or do I? Either way, gimme the almost sure thing in Fried. Other Pitching Notes Zac Gallen is back, no reason to jump into it though. Justin Steele is pitching great and could/should be chalky. This is the spot to slide off the band wagon. Aaron Civale is bait. PHILLIES Brandon Marsh, Bryson Stott, Trea Turner, Nick Castellanos and hell, even David Dahl No Harper, no Schwarber, no problem. Roddery Munoz is that bad. Right now he is the worst pitcher making active starts in all of major league baseball and that includes Patrick Corbin & Dallas Keuchel. BREWERS Contreras, Adames, Hoskins Pretty contrarian here, but I expect this to be the game of the day with lots of runs and homers. RED SOX Abreu, Devers, Duran Always go opposite after a blow-out/rout theory in full effect here. Good weather conditions as well. DIAMONDBACKS Marte, Lourdes, Walker, Grichuck Feels very weird to see a Diamondbacks afternoon game on a Saturday and have it on a MAIN slate. We have them facing a LHP for the day night in a row and we gotta expect them to do more than just one inning and then an implosion. Side note: Their Bullpen is a complete shit show right now so Gallen going more than he should off the IL would not shock me…....
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