Back in a spot where I am able to give full attention for detailed write-ups and I also tweaked the algo on the model last night as well to account for more ‘August’ time of year analytics. WEATHER Could see a pop up storm in Chicago or St. Louis. All games should finish. FREDDY PERALTA (DK: $10,000, FD: $10,300) The only negatives on Peralta is that he will carry heavy ownership on a big slate & he is consistently finding a way to give up a HR each start (Reynolds feels like the play today). But the positive is that he gets to face Tommy Pham, although Pham is definitely itching to start some bullshit fight in this series and we just need him to not get Peralta ejected. The path to 20 FPTS here on DK with a slate full of not so sexy options is extremely hard to ignore. MICHAEL WACHA (DK: $8200, FD: $9300) Ignoring that the Nationals are better vs RHP and hit Change-Ups okay, I believe in Wacha and especially at home. He won’t walk batters & should be able to get through a lineup that hasn’t been very good in the second half. JACK FLAHERTY (DK: $9200, FD: $9600) Cant use Skenes at 11k vs the Brewers IMO, and you can’t trust Ray, Strider very much either – although Ray is slightly tempting and the Mets are so much of a mess Strider might no hit them for 4 innings, but the mess isn’t necessarily their offense, so we go to Flaherty if the weather looks alright in Chicago. TIER 1 CUBS … The Cubs have been bottom 10% since mid to late July. Their ownership drops off big time and we’re going to see them Ambush Berrios. Gotta have Busch, Tucker and Suzuki ASTROS … Sanchez, Walker, Pena BLUE JAYS … Not to be overlooked in this game. TIER 2 RED SOX … Picking on Spencer Arrighetti making his Majors return tonight is a good strategy. ATHLETICS … Kurtz, Soderstrom, Butler CATCHER Carson Kelly Will Smith Salvador Perez FIRST BASE Michael Busch Yandy Diaz Nick Kurtz Christian Walker SECOND BASE Marcus Semien Christian Moore Jeff McNeil THIRD BASE Royce Lewis … Getting near the point where Royce Lewis has monster numbers for 2-3 weeks just to tempt everyone on him next March. Matt Shaw Josh H Smith …...
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