Rise & Grind: August 1st, 2014
Welcome to the RotoGrinders Rise & Grind. Start your day off on the right foot with yesterday’s happenings and take a peek at the the upcoming day in the world of DFS.
In Case You Missed It
- Last Night’s Winners – Grinders Live host BoggsLite had a great night on FanDuel, taking first and third in the 25k Strikeout with scores of 54.25 and 53.5 Mcjester also had a good night, he topped the leader board in the 40k Monster with a score of 51.75. In the early slate Grinders member Kuperman took down the 20k Mini Monster.
On Draftkings 00oreo00 picked up the 10k first place prize in the 20k Gold Glove. Stlcardinals84 and Csuram88 also placed in the top 5 in the 50k Perfect Game user gcnmoo held on to a 1 point lead to beat out 2nd place finisher DirtyGirl15 and win the $10,000 first place prize.
Trade Deadline
- MLB Trades – There was a lot player shuffling going on yesterday in MLB.
- David Price was sent to the Detroit Tigers from the Rays in a 3 team deal with the Mariners. Austin Jackson goes to Seattle and the Rays will recieve Drew Smyly, Nick Franklin, and Willy Adames.
- John Lester and Jonny Gomes are headed to Oakland in a trade for Yoenis Cespedes.
- The Cardinals will get John Lackey, Corey Littrell, and $1.75 million from the Red Sox in exchange for Allen Craig and Joe Kelly.
- The Braves picked up Emilio Bonifacio and James Russell from the Cubs in exchange for cash and prospect Victor Caratini.
- The Astros shipped Jarred Cosart, Enrique Hernandez, and Francis Martes to the Marlins for top prospects Jake Marisnick and Austin Wates. They also receive Colin Moran and an unnamed pick.
- The Yankees picked up Martin Prado from the Diamondbacks for Peter O’Brien and a player to be named later. The Yankees also got Stephen Drew from the Red Sox for Kelly Johnson.
- Asdrubal Cabrera is now a Washington National and Zach Walters is a Cleveland Indian.
- The Orioles picked up relief pitcher Andrew Miller in the Red Sox fire sale in exchange for Eduardo Rodriguez.
- The Twins get Tommy Milone from the Athletics in exchange for Sam Fuld.
- Chris Denorfia was sent to the Mariners from the Padres for Abraham Almonte and Stephen Kohlscheen.
- And Gerardo Parra will now be a Milwaukee Brewer in exchange for prospects Mitch Haniger and Anthony Banda.
- FantasyAces – We are pleased to announce that FantasyAces will be the new sponsor for the 4:30 pm Daily Fantasy Happy Hour on Grinders Live. If you haven’t check out FantasyAces yet now is a great time to take advantage of the 100% Deposit Bonus up to $500. They have an incredible user interface and along with the standard salary cap games they off a unique Salary Pro type of game that that rewards you for going over or staying under your salary cap. They also have a Salary Pro free roll where the top 10 finishers win cash. For those of you that like survivor style contest this month they are running a 10k 4 day survivor contest with a $55 buyin.
You can check out the full RotoGrinders review of FantasyAces Here
- Thursdays Dongs – There were an even 20 dongs Thursday and no double dongs.
Thursdays 5 longest DONGS
Hitter | Team | Length |
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Jason Kipnis | CLE | 412ft |
Neil Walker | PIT | 412ft |
Jon Singleton | HOU | 403ft |
Torii Hunter | DET | 396ft |
Yasiel Puig | LAD | 389ft |
- RG Contest
If you entered stevietpfl ‘s week 1 NLF contest your lineup must be submitted and sent to Stevie today. Full details can be found Here.
Today’s MLB
- Today’s Action – Today we have a full 15 game slate starting at 7:05 pm.
Today’s GPPs
Here’s a quick snapshot of some of the biggest games available today.
FanDuel
TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
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$200k Fri MLB SUPER Monster | $200 | $200,000 |
$35K Fri MLB Strikeout | $25 | $35,000 |
$18K Fri MLB Squeeze | $2 | $18,000 |
$12.5k Fri High Roller Satellite | $1065 | $12,500 |
$12K Fri MLB Line Drive | $10 | $12,000 |
$3k Fri MLB Rally | $3000 | $3,000 |
DraftKings
TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
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MLB $100K Perfect Game | $200 | $100,000 |
MLB $40K Payoff Pitch | $27 | $40,000 |
MLB $10K Silver Slugger | $530 | $10,000 |
MLB $7.5K High Heat | $109 | $7,500 |
MLB $17K Moon Shot | $2 | $17,000 |
MLB $18K Check Swing | $12 | $18,000 |
MLB $6K Flare | $5 | $6,000 |
DraftDay
TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
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MLB $2.5k Field of Dreams | $109 | $2,500 |
MLB $1.5k Knucleball | $15 | $1,500 |
MLB $1k Wiz Walkoff | $3.30 | $1000 |
MLB $160 Big League Blast Qualifier | $160 | $2,120 |
MLB $300 R.A Pickey (Pickem) | $5.50 | $300 |
MLB $1k $109 Double Play | $109 | $1000 |
FantasyAces
TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | Format |
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MLB $550 Frozen Rope | $11 | Classic |
MLB Top 5 Guarantee | $5.50 | Salary Pro |
MLB 50/50 Guarantee | $11 | Classic |
MLB 50/50 Guarantee | $22 | Classic |
MLB Salary Pro 50/50 | $11 | Salary Pro |
MLB $109 Winner Take all | $109 | Classic |
On the Grinders Schedule
Daily Articles | |||||||
# 1 ) | MLB Grind Down | Notorious breaks down all the matchups in tonight’s action on the diamond in one quick, easy to read location. | |||||
# 2 ) | MLB Daily Plays | Stlcardinals84 gives you all the plays you’ll need for tonight’s schedule. | |||||
# 3 ) | Daily Pitcher Breakdown | Psporer digs deep into the advanced pitching stats to find you the arms with the best matchups tonight. | |||||
# 4 ) | Daily Hitter Breakdown | Varcass shows you all the splits and points out the bats in the best situations for tonight’s slate. | |||||
# 5 ) | Head-to-Head vs. GPP | Pepsi7 separates the high floor players from the high ceiling guys to help you construct your rosters for every game type. |
Grinders Live Schedule | |||||||
TIME | SHOW | SPONSOR | |||||
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3:30 PM | The Afternoon Grind | Fight that early afternoon boredom with expert baseball analysis from BritDevine and BoggsLite. | |||||
4:30 PM | Daily Fantasy Happy Hour | FantasyAces | Does your local happy hour have awesome baseball analysis? Didn’t think so. Join us this afternoon and let Dean and DraftCheat serve you up some knowledge. | ||||
5:30 PM | Grinders Live | DraftKings | CSUram and StlCards will take you right up to first pitch with our flagship Grinders Live show. |
Is there something else you’d like to see in this column? Questions or comments? Leave them below and we’d be happy to consider them. See you tomorrow!