Happy 4th of July everyone! MLB has us loaded up with a heavy night slate today after the spaced out early games. WEATHER Highest spots for storm chances are CIncinnati, Kansas City and Atlanta. BRANDON WOODRUFF (DK: $8600) Folks we have a bunch of non American pitchers going today, but you don’t get much more american than Brandon Woodruff. We could make the same claim for Merrill Kelly but he went and spent time in Korea for a couple seasons. Woody is a Mississippi boy, went to Miss St. and just oozes American pride. Alright, fine, here’s some good analysis for ya. His two starts since coming off the IL (which happened after facing Arizona for 1 IP in April) has been 79 and 84. Projecting him to get into the 90’s today is not that much of a stretch. No injury concerns, or limits in my mind and there’s no reason to think Marte or Carroll tear him up — although Max Kepler/Arenado roping back to back doubles is probably gonna happen but hopefully after the pen is in. KYLE LEAHY (DK: $6800) The first rule of the blowout theory is that you go opposite. The second rule…. Well, we never really defined what to do after you blowout one team and then get blown out the next day – but I do believe that means we get a nice under tonight in Wrigley Field. The night elements help this out quite a bit. The only problem is that I really don’t want the roller coaster Shota Imanaga and nor do I want to be trusting myself to a friendly Asian on the 4th of July – as nice as he is. EXPECT TO PITCH FINE Chris Sale: If you can force him in with Woodruff it’s obviously more comforting than Leahy. Drew Rasmussen: Another short pitcher to handle the Astros FADES Sonny Gray Yoshinobu Yamamoto PHILLIES I had a really enjoyable Friday evening watching Baseball. I can honestly say it felt different, refreshing, entertaining. No stress. Oh…. Right. The Royals weren’t playing. Sorry, but there is no scenario where Michael Wacha throws anything near the plate to Kyle Schwarber and if he does it’s going into the Fountains for certain. But really this just means he’s going to waste 12-16 pitches on Turner/Schwarber/Harper and then have to pray Marsh/Bohm and Stott do not…...
