CheeseIsGood's Million Dollar Musings - MLB DFS Strategy: Wednesday, May 25th
We’ve got a weird little day with games sprinkled all over the place and a few different slates to deal with. I’ll focus on the 7-game FD and 5-game DK main slates. If you’re playing on FD tonight, be sure to note the earlier than usual start time at 6:40pm ET. I’ll start with a quick Cliff Notey look at the 4-game early slates that begin at 3:45pm ET. 3:45? Okey dokey.
Afternoon Pitching
Robbie Ray vs A’s
Yu Darvish vs Brewers
Julio Urias at Nationals
Paul Blackburn at Mariners
Jake Junis vs Mets
Aaron Ashby at Padres
Thomas Szapucki at Giants
This is a pretty strong group of pitchers for a small slate. With matchup factored in, Robbie Ray looks like the runaway winner for SP1. He has not been as good as the 2021 version, but he’s also clearly much better than the pre-2021 version. He is allowing runs, but the strikeouts have come along nicely in much tougher matchups than this. 27 strikeouts in his last 18 innings, with swinging strikes over 19% in those three starts is enough to sell me. Even against Oakland, he is not without risk, but the upside is underpriced.