Happy Mothers Day to the Mom’s and this is the 2nd of 3 Sunday “Holiday” slates, which always seem to have some weirdness to them. Yeah, it’s not really a Holiday, but you get the idea. Today’s weirdness is that there are quite a few double headers to make up for the rain games and also a very short Sunday slate with a good amount of west coast games that are obviously not included because they recognize we like to Tilt and then Tilt-Tilt on Sunday’s. Lets go find some more grand slams, shall we? Thank you Soler and Margot! Oh, and yes, we have Site Synchronicity [spacer height=”20px”] WEATHER All the games scheduled for the slates should play. There is a chance of some rain in Minnesota but it should be gone by first pitch. It’s also cold still and it’s May 8th for crying out loud. Ridiculous. [spacer height=”20px”] Advantage to about 80% of the pitchers today, but it doesn’t mean just pick anyone because there’s a few specific guys with lots of upside. GERRITT COLE Neither the Yankees or the Rangers have swung bats against live pitching since Wednesday. That’s a long lay off for the Rangers to wait and then come out and face Cole who generally has pitched well as a Yankee at home in day games. Texas wasn’t doing too much offensively either in their previous games before the rain outs and I would much rather have Cole at home vs them than Manoah on the road vs a pesky Cleveland team. CHARLIE MORTON My eleanor, ole Chuck. Last year I kept stacking against him waiting for his demise and failed while this year I have trusted him only to see him fail. Let’s try it again one more time today against a free swinging Brewers team who finally met their match in Max Fried last night and now Morton is a pitcher they have also struggled against. Command has been a little off for Morton but he seemed to show signs of getting the old arm loose around the third inning last game when he went 99 pitches and 28 batters deep vs the Mets. Milwaukee’s got some hot bats, but they have some strike-out bats as well. I expect Morton to be among the top 3 SP on this slate. CHRIS PADDACK CP2pitches or CP3 and 0 count as he could also…...
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