CheeseIsGood's Million Dollar Musings: Wednesday, April 21st

Happy Wednesday! We’ve got another strange schedule today, with a 5-game mid-afternoon slate at 3:10pm ET and then an earlier than usual main slate starting at 6:10pm ET. I’m going to give you a Cliff Notes look at the early slate, and then I will wrap up my final thoughts on that early slate on the first Crunchtime of the day at 2:30pm ET. I’ll be back sometime this afternoon with some thoughts on the 6:10 slate.

Early Slate Overview

Early Pitching Cliff Notes

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Tier One, The Lone Ace

Max Scherzer vs St. Louis

Tier Two

Kenta Maeda at Oakland
Frankie Montas vs Minnesota

Tier Three

Jose Quintana vs Texas

Max Scherzer is in a tier of his own. There is no reason not to play him on DK where you can get a cheaper SP2 to make the salaries work. It’s trickier on FD at $11,000 where you have to choose between Scherzer and the high-end Coors Field bats, but I would still start with Scherzer in most lineups.

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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 Twitter – @DavePotts2