Early Slate with 7 games on DraftKings and … well, FanDuel is just gonna FanDuel. Basically DraftKings skipped the Cardinals/Pirates game, making that a showdown 12:35 spot start for those who are starting their afternoon lunch early and want to load up on a Cardinals Stack.
FanDuel included that game but only with the 1pm/2pm games on their ‘Very Early’ slate.
This article is going to cover the DraftKings 1PM slate which includes
Cubs/Tigers, Mariners/White Sox, Twins/Brewers, Royals/Athletics, Giants/Phillies, Marlins/Padres and Reds/Angels G1 of their double-header.
Shohei Ohtani is PITCHING in that early game, so that’s how DK has him labeled.
WEATHER
Cubs at Tigers — Thunderstorms could disrupt the game, but they will finish it.
Mariners at White Sox — It’s gonna feel like 100 degrees in Chicago today, closer to 140 if you factor in the temperature of the Mariners offense right now. Oh and the wind is blowing out to left field. Oh and Michael Kopech is pitching. LOL. Fun times my friends, fun times.
This 1-2 combination I have listed below could wind up being a highly chalky spot given their pricing, but I am not worried much about the ownership on either.
- Shohei Ohtani: Day game in Anaheim yes, but no concerns as Ohtani at home always cruises along to get through 6 innings.
- Cole Ragans: Very cheap and pitching well enough to trust. The Royals have no limitations on him at the moment and the consistent 30%+ CSW rate against a young Oakland lineup should continue here today.
I think that Burnes will pitch well enough to not burn you (no pun intended) and Sandy Alcantara has another very SOLID outing as well. They both make for fine secondary options but I have no concerns with Ohtani/Ragans at all today.
MARINERS
Hernandez, France, Rodriguez, Rojas
Kopech has shown zero signs of life that would warrant thinking the Mariners high K% comes back today and he capitalizes on that. Happy Ty France day.
TIGERS
Greene, Torkelson, Carpenter
Torkelson and Carpenter are playing out of their minds right now, both hitting everything well and hard. The player I really like to have a big game though is Riley Greene, he’s $4600 compared to Akil Baddoo for 3100, but if you go Tigers, Greene is the guy to have a 3-5 day with a triple and 3 runs scored.
Also expect to produce well offensively
- Royals
- Phillies
CATCHER
- Cal Raleigh
- Patrick Bailey
- Ryan Jeffers
FIRST BASE
- Ty France
- Spencer Torkelson
- Rowdy Tellez … $2100 here? WTF? Guy didn’t die that bad.
SECOND BASE
- Michael Massey
- Bryson Stott
- Zack McKinstry
THIRD BASE
- Jake Burger
- Eugenio Suarez
- Maikel Garcia
SHORTSTOP
Pretty weak spot today, Witt for $6200 is tempting or Elly vs Ohtani at very lower ownership as well. But when there is a weak spot and the chalkiest team around has a medium priced guy leading off at the position, it’s kinda logical to just take JP Crawford and move along.
- JP Crawford
- Bobby Witt Jr
- Dansby Swanson
OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Julio Rodriguez
- Riley Greene
- Kerry Carpenter
- Christian Yelich
OUTFIELD – Tier 2
- Akil Baddoo
- Mike Trout
- Nick Castellanos
OUTFIELD – Value
- Max Kepler
- MJ Melendez
- Dominic Canzone / Cade Marlowe
- Ty France – 1B – Seattle Mariners – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Riley Greene – OF – Tigers
- MJ Melendez – OF – Royals
- JP Crawford – SS – Mariners
- Christian Yelich – OF – Brewers
- Bryson Stott – 2B – Phillies
BEST OVER POTENTIAL
Cubs/Tigers
Mariners/White Sox
BEST UNDER POTENTIAL
None
DOGS
Twins ML
Marlins ML