Early is big with a 9 game slate this afternoon.  Games locking at 1PM on both sites but FanDuel has two early slates and DraftKings has the proper one larger early slate.   WEATHER All games will play, but Houston and Boston likely have to wait out some early rain or decide to play through it early.   Well the youth movement is officially underway for the Angels.  Or, something?  The Angels of course have two guys right now who are a big threat as always… Yes, I am referring to Luis Rengifo and Brandon Drury.  But at some point that Luis Rengifo heater ends and that some point should be today.  Sanchez is my donkey chalk locko it in top arm.  I really like Gibson and Miller after him. Cristopher Sanchez (DK: $7400, FD: $8300) Kyle Gibson (DK: $7800, FD: $8700) Bryce Miller (DK: $9100)   Toronto Blue Jays Schneider, Springer, Guerrero Philadephia Phillies Turner, Castellanos, Bohm Seattle Mariners Raleigh, Hernandez, Crawford St. Louis Cardinals Edman, Goldschmidt, Gorman   CATCHER Cal Raleigh Alejandro Kirk Adley Rutschman   FIRST BASE Paul Goldschmidt Vlad Guerrero Jr. Alec Bohm   SECOND BASE Tommy Edman Whit Merrifield   THIRD BASE David Schneider Gunnar Henderson Eugenio Suarez   SHORTSTOP Trea Turner CJ Abrams Willy Adames   OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore Nick Castellanos Teoscar Hernandez Anthony Santander Christian Yelich     David Schneider – 3B – Toronto Blue Jays – Chairman of The First Timers Dongers Club    

13 Main slate games tonight for this big Tuesday slate.   WEATHER All games will play   As much as DraftKings pricing algorithm loves to jack up hitters this time of year, it certainly has a blind spot on right now to the pitching performance from young hard throwing lefty Cole Ragans.  Throw on top that we have another Braves in Coors night and the Pirates hitting .196 vs LHP over the last week and you could see the highest owned Royals pitcher ever. Cole Ragans (DK: $6000, FD: $6600) … Drean Kremer (DK: $7700, FD: $8800) … Picking on the White Sox, not as dominant as GrayRod but a good mid range option. Pablo Lopez (DK: $10,800, FD: $11,300) … After 16 runs last night, I would lean towards both these pitchers doing well tonight.  Lopez needs a shutdown game here for himself and the Twins. George Kirby (DK: $9700, FD: $10,800) … Lopez ceiling is higher IMO, but Kirby is pretty reliable at home vs Oakland   The Cheap / Punt Options Zach Thompson (DK: $5600)     BRAVES / ROCKIES Olson, Murphy, McMahon, Blackmon The other 3B in this series goes yard tonight and that’s Ryan McMahon, he jacks one out and so does Charlie Blackmon off Charlie Morton.  Otherwise, pivot back more to the Braves again and move on. Not sure how Peter Lambert expects to get through Olson/Ozona/Murphy tonight.  Good luck kid. RED SOX Turner, Duvall, Story, Devers RHB vs JP France has been great all season, and Boston just lit him up for 10 ER over 2 1/3 down in Houston.  No, they’re not gonna repeat that, but they should hit him again.   CONTRARIAN: Rangers (Semien, Seager, Lowe) VALUE: Reds (Marte, Senzel) Royals (Velasquez, Massey)   CATCHER Sean Murphy Keibert Ruiz Andrew Knizner   FIRST BASE Matt Olson Justin Turner Christian Walker   SECOND BASE Michael Massey Marcus Semien Nolan Gorman   THIRD BASE Ryan McMahon Rafael Devers Nolan Arenado   SHORTSTOP Trevor Story Ezequiel Tovar Dylan Moore   OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore Adam Duvall Marcell Ozuna Charlie Blackmon Max Kepler     Ryan McMahon – 3B – Colorado Rockies – Chairman of The Dongers Club Charlie Blackmon – OF – Rockies Trevor Story – SS – Red Sox Max Kepler – OF – Twins    

Hey, welcome to a Monday in late August where the Braves are in Coors Field. Okay, see ya!   WEATHER All games will play   This is more of a decision on if you are itching to play say $7000 Ronald Acuna in Coors Field and how much $ you can justify spending on pitching tonight.  I see three guys who I think are worth their price up top. Gausman is the one who has the best chance to ‘go off’ but he really has to go 7 IP and 10+ strikeouts against a Nationals lineup which isn’t garbage, so if Gausman is contrarian he’s worth the flier IMO though. GrayRod and Jon Gray are both facing offenses that they should be able to handle fine and are priced very affordrable Grayson Rodriguez (DK: $7500, FD: $8700) Jon Gray (DK: $8100, FD: $9400) Kevin Gausman (DK: $11.2k, FD: $10.9k)   The Cheap / Punt Options None of these options are going to post a 20 and break the slate for you.  But I don’t see them getting blown up. Kyle Harrison (DK: $6500) … Reds coming into town, usually young does hit young but it’s a bad park shift and Harrison should pitch well at home. Michael Kopech (DK $6300) … Baltimore has gone cold Zack Greinke (DK: $6000) … The Royals arent extending Greinke because they want to get other guys some work in, but I see a 5 IP and a Win for Greinke tonight     ROYALS Maikel Garcia, Drew Waters, Michael Massey Royals get to come back home after slowing down in Seattle as expected.  Look for them to have a big week against the Pirates pitching, which also carries a 4.63 ERA over the last 10 days and too many walks.  Nice value spot here. BRAVES Austin Riley, Marcell Ozuna Everyone hits Austin Gomber, so naturally the Braves should hit him too, right?  Marcell Ozuna probably is one of the highest owned guys, he’s been hot in the second half and is only $5100 here.  Really though I don’t see how Austin Riley doesn’t have a big game tonight. ASTROS Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman, Jeremy Pena High $ pivot off Atlanta.  Seeing Sale twice in a week’s span and Houston always smashes Boston in Fenway.     CATCHER Martin Maldanado Salvador Perez (Can use at 1B also here to save $ at C) Danny Jansen […]

Down to just two Sunday’s remaining for MLB DFS content as the prize pools go away once NFL officially returns on Sunday’s and next weekend is of course over a Holiday weekend. Meanwhile, over at FanDuel, they have already given up on Sunday’s with today’s MAIN slate featuring everything through the 4PM games. This is an 11 game Main Slate on DraftKings. For the FanDuel crowd, the Mariners/Royals game is going to be 2-1 and the Reds probably are worth consideration but there’s plenty of other hitting options so I would just ignore the 4PM window games all together.   WEATHER All clear   I’m just going to go completely off the gut here today, and there are four pitchers total who I would go with. Justin Verlander Yusei Kikuchi Mike Clevinger Carlos Rodon Yes, you are reading that correctly.  Obviously Verlander going back into Detroit is going to be the #1 spot for us today.  Even with the Astros being smart and keeping him under 100 pitches each outing he has shown that he can produce enough swings and misses & now see’s a Detroit team that should produce another high K% spot. Kikuchi is always a gamble, if his command is off then its nighty night against a patient Cleveland lineup, however, the Oscar Gonzalez, Ramon Laureano and bottom part of the order AB’s should result in him getting strikeouts up in the zone with his fastball.  Nobody will trust him at that price against Cleveland, nobody except me. Clevinger and Rodon fall into the real ‘sleeper’ category, although Clevinger vs Oakland likely draws some relative ownership.  Rodon wont, but Rodon is your real K% upside sleeper today.  I don’t trust Tampa at all.   I would spread out hitting exposure today with the heavier slate of games and I doubt we see a ton of explosive offensive outbursts today.  The Orioles and Blue Jays are top end CORE teams to load up with.  Toronto seeing Thor should be able to get on base, run and also touch him in up in their hitter friendly park. The Orioles against Ty Blach are also in one of the better humid/heat games today & always hit well at home on Sunday’s. Orioles (Hays/Mountcastle/Rutschman) Blue Jays (Merrifield/Bichette) Going with the GUT feel today, the Astros will hit 2 HR off Faedo and one of them is Yordan Alvarez.  He is the […]

MAIN SLATE   WEATHER All clear   Bradish is pitching better than most pitchers right now, gets the Rockies and should have plenty of run support.  Lock and load. Kyle Bradish Max Scherzer Chase Silseth (Value)   Phillies:  Harper vs Hudson is not a fair match-up.  Not one bit.  Neither is Realmuto when he comes up with the bases loaded and drills a Grand Slam.  Yes, I just called a Grand Slam.  Deal with it. Reds / Diamondbacks:  Both teams finally woke up last night, so lets plug in Ben Lively back into the DFS world and face him vs Zach Davies.  I am sure that will be the perfect addition after an 18 run game Orioles:  You would normally see me stack against Flexen as the #1 spot and if you full stack Orioles you cannot skip Ryan O’Hearn and Anthony Santander’s value.  If Mullins can get 2 AB vs Flexen that means Flexen made it through a few innings, but he won’t make it to Mullins 3rd AB   CATCHER JT Realmuto Gary Sanchez Mitch Garver   FIRST BASE Bryce Harper Ryan O’Hearn Ryan Noda   SECOND BASE Jeff McNeil Ketel Marte Matt McLain   THIRD BASE Manny Machado Gunnar Henderson Alec Bohm   SHORTSTOP Elly De La Cruz Willy Adames   OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore Jack Suwinski Cedric Mullins Corbin Carroll Anthony Santander     Bryce Harper – 1B – Phillies – Chairman of The Dongers Club Cedric Mullins – OF – Orioles Manny Machado – 3B – Padres Elly De La Cruz – SS – Reds Corbin Carroll – OF – Diamondbacks    

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The early slate(s) today are almost the same.  But, they’re not sadly.  FanDuel has the Jays and Guardians, DraftKings excluded that and made it into a showdown spots.  Failure on the part of DraftKings here.   WEATHER All clear   Max Fried will bounce back today out in San Francisco and he will 100% get you over 20 DraftKings points.  I am not positive anyone else can do that, but Eury Perez would be the most logical second choice SP2. I like Glasnow, but everything about the Rays worries me so proceed witih caution about him leaving early due to some random injury. Max Fried Eury Perez Tyler Glasnow   Who else wants to roll a Marlins stack?  Jake Irvin was good early and has been good his last two starts, but this looks like a wheels fall off spot against Miami today.  The Dodgers and Sox won’t go to the moon but Mookie Betts for sure homers and Trevor Story is hot right now at a weak position on this slate. I expect Seattle to be chalky vs Jordan Lyles, but wouldn’t have more than 1-2 Mariners. Marlins Dodgers Mariners Blue Jays (FD)   CATCHER Not worth paying for Mr. Smith or Mr. Murphy because that $ should go towards pitching, but I do like Sean Murphy today if you squeeze him in. Sean Murphy Nick Fortes   FIRST BASE Josh Bell Ty France   SECOND BASE Mookie Betts Brandon Lowe Michael Massey   THIRD BASE Matt Chapman (FD) Jake Burger Jose Ramirez (FD)   SHORTSTOP Trevor Story Enrique Hernandez Osleivis Basabe   OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore Jazz Chisholm Jr Teoscar Hernandez Josh Lowe Jorge Soler     Jazz Chisholm Jr – OF – Marlins – Chairman of The Dongers Club Sean Murphy – C – Braves Trevor Story – SS – Red Sox Mookie Betts – 2B – Dodgers  

WEATHER Dodgers at Red Sox — Rain here will be increasing throughout the game.  Dodgers could run into another ‘suspended’ mid game scenario since MLB loves to do that now.   KODAI SENGA Well there’s no Trout and while Ohtani says he is playing as a DH I don’t know that Senga will make a mistake to his friend here today. MITCH KELLER I expect Keller to finish the season strong like he started it.  His SwStr% has gone back up over 10% each of the last three starts with a 38.8% CSW against the Twins in his last outing.   Velocity and command both being good will do that & the Cubs aren’t a team that has seen him all season long — which is unusual given the divisional correlation. DYLAN CEASE Last night’s chalk Oakland which went off late is probably the most reliable option to attack as a third choice.  Cease will have big time success with his slider tonight.   CARDINALS / PHILLIES Arenado, Goldy Turner, Stott The Phillies are playing GREAT baseball now with Schwarber back alive, Turner hitting well and Harper delivering when they need him too.  But it’s Arenado/Goldschmidt who really stand out to me in this game.  Goldy will do it off Sanchez, Arenado does it mid-game. ORIOLES Rutschman, Hays, Westburg RHH are slugging .528 off Freeland, he doesn’t project to have a strikeout advantage over 7 of the hitters and Baltimore likely rolls out a few crooked numbers early here. GUARDIANS Ramirez, Gimenez, Calhoun   Also good spots Dodgers vs Red Sox:  Rain is the biggest fear here.  Hey, Mookie!  How about that.  Hey Verdugo!  hey Turner!  Adam Duvall is on one of his little heaters at the moment.  LHH rock Lynn the most historically so couple those two with the rest of this lineup and I can see this being a 6-3 game when they suspend it in the third inning. Padres:   Soto, Machado Diamondbacks:   Very under the radar, more of a late slate donkey spot but I don’t trust Hunter Greene vs this team.   CATCHER Tyler Stephenson Adley Rutschman Willson Contreras   FIRST BASE Paul Goldschmidt Ryan Mountcastle Justin Turner Kole Calhoun (DK)   SECOND BASE Jordan Westburg Andres Gimenez Bryson Stott   THIRD BASE Nolan Arenado Jose Ramirez Rafael Devers Yoan Moncada   SHORTSTOP Bobby Witt Jr. Trea Turner Tommy Edman   OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore Juan Soto […]

WEATHER TOR at BAL:  Lingering Rain CHC at PIT:  Lingering Rain All in all, I expect all five games to play.   Only two pitchers I feel very comfortable with tonight: Justin Steele (DK: $9800, FD: $10,400) Ken Waldichuck (DK: $5300, FD: $6700) We can make a good argument for Pablo Lopez, but I just don’t see why you would venture down that path against Texas, who is a ticking time bomb every slate.  Merrill Kelly is someone I am attacking tonight, but I would expect him to be a little popular. Kyle Gibson and Andrew Heaney honestly scare me more than Waldichuk.  Heaney between the two has a higher probability to come out and shove though.   REDS TJ Friedl, Stephenson, De La Cruz, Votto Could be a little crazy here and pluck some bottom lineup value like Benson or Marte to go with Stephenson and Elly as a one off.  Elly in this park should have a field day. ATHLETICS Butler, Gelof, Noda, Rooker, Brown Who else totally see’s Oakland jacking 5 HR’s tonight on the South Side in 90+ degree temps?  I sure as hell do. CUBS Happ, Tauchman, Bellinger     CATCHER Tyler Stephenson Shea Langeliers Mitch Garver   FIRST BASE Vlad Guerrero Jr. Seth Brown / Ryan Noda Joey Votto   SECOND BASE Ketel Marte Matt McLain Zack Gelof   THIRD BASE Spencer Steer Ezequiel Duran Royce Lewis   SHORTSTOP Elly De La Cruz Corey Seager   OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore Thomas Pham Daulton Varsho Lourdes Gurriel Jr. TJ Friedl   OUTFIELD – Value Lawrence Butler Jordan Luplow   Tyler Stephenson – C – Reds – Chairman of The Dongers Club  

Tonight’s Slate: Rockies at Rays is on FanDuel Only Reds at Angels is on DraftKings Only   WEATHER No issues   Kevin Gausman … Returning to Camden Yards, the wall in left field probably pisses him off because with that change he may have never left Baltimore in the first place. Clayton Kershaw … Lower risk than Gore, higher K% upside. MacKenzie Gore … See above re Kershaw     ASTROS Altuve and Bregman DODGERS Freeman and Muncy BRAVES Acuna and Riley   CATCHER Keibert Ruiz Luke Maile Sean Murphy   FIRST BASE Freddie Freeman Pete Alonso Daniel Vogelbach   SECOND BASE Jose Altuve   THIRD BASE Austin Riley Alex Bregman Max Muncy   SHORTSTOP Vaughn Grissom – Value Bo Bichette Amed Rosario   OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore Alex Verdugo Marcell Ozuna Ronald Acuna Jr. Kyle Tucker     Jose Altuve – 2B – Astros – Chairman of The Dongers Club Amed Rosario – SS – Dodgers Austin Riley – 3B – Braves