CheeseIsGood's Million Dollar Musings - MLB DFS Strategy: Friday, August 26th

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Happy Friday! We’ve got a big ole 14-game slate that has a good bit of everything. We’ve got multiple aces along with reasonable pitching options in all pricing tiers and several different ways to view offense with slate winning upside all over the board. Let’s jump right in and see what we find.

Friday Night Pitching

I’ll start with three tiers, based mostly on the pricing and then we’ll break them down.

A Bunch Of Aces Or Basically Aces

Gerrit Cole at A’s
Spencer Strider at Cardinals
Chris Bassitt vs Rockies
Joe Musgrove at Royals
Shane Bieber at Mariners
Logan Gilbert vs Guardians
Freddy Peralta vs Cubs
Lance McCullers vs Orioles

Mid-Tier Maybes

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CheeseIsGood
Dave Potts (CheeseIsGood)

One of the preeminent baseball minds in all of fantasy, Dave Potts (aka CheeseIsGood) has won contests at the highest levels of both season-long and DFS. He is a 2x winner of a $1,000,000 1st-place prize in DFS, having won the 2014 FanDuel baseball Live Final and following that up by taking down a DraftKings Milly Maker Tournament in 2015. In addition, he’s won the Main Event championship in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship and the NFBC Platinum League, which is the highest buy-in entry league. His consistent success in the NFBC tournaments earned him a prestigious spot in their Hall of Fame. Dave can also strum a mean guitar while carrying a tune, and if you’re lucky, you’ll see him do so on one of his MLB Crunch Time appearances. Follow Dave on X – @DavePotts2