CheeseIsGood's Million Dollar Musings - MLB DFS Strategy: Thursday, June 9th

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Happy Thursday! We’ve got a split slate kind of day with an early 4-gamer starting at 12:35pm ET, followed by a main slate that has a 30-minute gap in start time between the sites. DK is running a 5-gamer starting at 7:10, while FD’s main slate adds an extra game and starts at 6:40. I’ll go ahead and buzz the tower quickly on this early slate in order to get it out early and then we’ll do another fly by later with the evening games added in.

Early Slate Pitching

Wowzers, this is a lot of great pitching for a small slate. Most full slates don’t even have this many top tier options. Seven of the eight starters are very playable here, and even the last guy on the board is not nearly one of the worst pitchers in the league. I’ll separate it into three groups, looking like this:

Three Aces

Corbin Burnes vs Phillies
Shane McClanahan vs Cardinals
Dylan Cease vs Dodgers

Four Good Pitchers

Tyler Mahle vs Diamondbacks
Tyler Anderson at White Sox
Zach Eflin at Brewers
Miles Mikolas at Rays

Cheap Nonsense

Zach Davies at Reds

Three Aces Are Really Two

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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