CheeseIsGood's Million Dollar Musings: Wednesday, May 5th
Happy Wednesday! We’ve got a 10-game slate on tap tonight, and while there is still rain in America, I am more hopeful today that the shenanigans can come to an end. Well, not all shenanigans, as some shenanigans are good, but not baseball and rain related shenanigans. We’ve got a few top end aces to kick things off, followed by a muddled group of good, but not great pitchers that leave most of the offenses closely bunched. Let’s dive on in and see what we find.
Wednesday Night Pitching
Tres Aces
Shane Bieber at Kansas City
Yu Darvish vs Pittsburgh
Walker Buehler at Chicago Cubs
Dos With Ace Upside
Freddy Peralta at Philadelphia
Shohei Ohtani vs Tampa Bay (not available as SP for DFS)
This gives us…wait for it…Cinco pitchers with 30% K upside or more. It’s really only cuatro, as Ohtani is not available to be used at pitcher tonight, I just really wanted to show off my bi-linguality today. (Although, using the word linguality could imply that I don’t even have single linguality, much less multi.)
However, as much as all these guys are good, there is some very clear separation here. Shane Bieber is the SP1, and Yu Darvish is the SP2, and then everything else is just hoping to stay in the race.
Bieber is right back up to the 40% strikeout mark, and he has no fewer than nine K’s in any start this season. There is just nothing to think about here. He’s only $10,400 on DK, play him. As we’ve seen recently, FanDuel has done a better job separating the salaries, with Bieber and Darvish significantly priced up, but there are enough cheap bats that I would still not mess around in cash games. Plus, if you were going to mess around with a non-Bieber cash lineup, it would just be Yu Darvish because of his matchup with the Pirates. In general, Darvish does not typically reach Bieber’s strikeout level, but he has the ability to do it, with he showed last week. His opponent tonight lends itself a little more to easy innings with low power over big strikeouts, which keeps Bieber on top of my list. On DK, I see no reason not to use Bieber/Darvish as the cash game pairing and in a majority of tournament lineups.