CheeseIsGood's Million Dollar Musings: Saturday, March 31st

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Saturday, March 31st

Happy Saturday! For most of this season, STLCardinals84 will writing this article on Saturday and Sunday. However, you’re stuck with me for the next couple weeks while Cards finishes up NBA season, as well as tax season.
We have a full day of games, but the slates are split up. All three sites have the Main Slate with the seven beginning at 7:05 ET, so that will be the focus. But, we also have an early seven game slate on DraftKings and FantasyDraft, and an All-Day Slate on FanDuel, so I’ll start out by looking at the first round of games, which is also where we happen to find most of today’s pitching.

EARLY GAMES OVERVIEW

RETURN OF THE ACES

The early slate features three top of the line aces with Stephen Stasburg, Jacob deGrom and Carlos Carrasco. Not far behind are James Paxton, Luis Castillo and Lance McCullers, making this a day you’re likely to need some serious point totals from your starters. Let’s take a look at the 2017 skill sets from this group:

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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