Covering The Bases: Saturday, April 28th
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Saturday, April 28th
Good day, Grinders! I’ll be driving the car with you for the next few days, but I want to give a shout out to Cheese for his article yesterday here real quick. I had won a ticket to the DraftKings double live final qualifier last night and wasn’t sure if I wanted to use a Reds or Blue Jays stack with that ticket. Largely thanks to his confidence in the Reds against the awful Phil Hughes, I ended up opting for a Reds stack and was able to take down a seat. Thanks, Cheese!
On to today, we have a split slate with 17 total games on the docket (there are two doubleheaders today). The slate is split between eight early games, eight late games, and one awkward 6:05 start between the Braves and Phillies that isn’t on any main slates. We will ignore that game for our purposes, so we are left with two eight-game slates. FanDuel has further split the early slate into a three game “very early” slate and a five game “early” slate, but the same eight games are included. I will break down the early slate as a whole here but will differentiate as needed for FanDuel’s two slates. Let’s get to it!
Early Slate Arms…. in the VERY EARLY Games
There aren’t a lot of pitching options in the first three afternoon games if you are playing the “very early” slate on FanDuel, so Jose Quintana gets the nod almost by default on that slate. You can pretty much ignore the six pitchers in those three games if you are on DK/FDRAFT. Quintana has been a relative disappointment over the season’s first month and doesn’t offer a ton of strikeout upside to begin with, so he needs to be perfect to offer any sort of upside. His dip in strikeouts and increase in walks so far this year is also quite a concern. The good news is that his struggles are largely priced into his DFS tag, and the wind will be blowing in with some gusto at Wrigley Field this afternoon. This will make runs difficult to come by, and the Brewers have been scuffling at the plate in this series.
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