Covering The Bases: Saturday, May 26th

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Saturday, May 26th

Well, hello there! Welcome to another weekend edition of the Covering the Bases article! We have our usual split-slate Saturday on tap today, but the good news is that we don’t have to deal with different slates on the different sites! That’s a minor miracle, but the reason is because a lot of games start at similar times today. We have a solitary early afternoon start between the Braves and Red Sox, but that game is simply excluded from the early slates today. Your only access to that game will be through an “all day” slate, but I would just suggest not worrying about it. Beyond that, we have an eight game early slate (with all eight games starting at 4 PM eastern) and a six game main slate. Let’s take a look at both slates in turn.

EARLY SLATE BREAKDOWN

Three Top Arms on a Rough Slate for Pitching

We have a major theme on today’s slate – there’s not much out there for pitching. That theme will hold true for both the early slate and the main slate. There are really only three arms to like on the early slate, and they all carry high price tags.

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Justin Van Zuiden (aka stlcardinals84) is a longtime RotoGrinders contributor and show host. He’s appeared in numerous Live Finals, has logged countless 6-figure wins in a host of different sports (including 5 in PGA), and is a former DFS Writer of the Year Nominee by the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. You can find Justin’s ‘Covering The Bases’ series on weekends during the MLB season. He is also a main contributor of sports betting picks at our sister site, ScoresAndOdds, and is a co-host on the RotoGrinders Game Night show on SiriusXM. Follow Justin on Twitter – @stlcardinals84