WEATHER MIL @ STL – Storms throughout the day, but clearing enough that they would be likely to play without delay. CIN @ COL – Not as bad here, but could get some pop up storms. My big whiff yesterday was Mitch Keller, who I have been pleased with all season but felt he wouldn’t dominate back to back starts. He did, he is so legit and for real this year and in many ways is this years Dylan Cease. So after that miss yesterday, I am going to … yep, take a gut feel stand here today, and do it with three guys who each can serve up some homers with the best of them, but also to me have the perfect setup today, except two of them are on the road FREDDY PERALTA Freddy is the first one I look at tonight and the benefit for him on the road is that St. Louis hasn’t been great at home and is coming off the Sunday Night Baseball travel scenario. Reaching for 7-10 strikeouts is not a big ask in my mind. Peralta should handle the secondary batters on this lineup just fine. Will have to monitor weather here, I would prefer the game to start in a delay than to start and then delay obviously. MERRILL KELLY I had Hunter Greene wrote up initially but will go with the more secure Kelly. While we could try to argue he won’t get strikeouts, I see the Athletics really struggling right now and just want to take a secure 7 inning clean start. ALEK MANOAH No doubt in my mind that the pitch clock has bothered Manoah, but the guy gets amped up for the Yankees and the whole stadium should be amped up all series long. There are a ton of teams that are in okay spots today and this is one of the hardest slates to breakdown in quite some time. My build will be to go with a balanced approach tonight across various spots. MARINERS Teoscar Hernandez, Jarred Kelenic Two elite level picks in Teoscar (Fenway dominator) and Kelenic (great matchup off a day off) to go along with some cheap bats throughout the lineup. The Red Sox bullpen is the real weakness here, so if they can do enough damage on Houck then this will turn into a 7-8 run spot. TWINS Byron Buxton,…...
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