Covering The Bases: Sunday, June 3rd
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Sunday, June 3rd
Happy Sunday, Grinders! I am greeting you from the wonderful land of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, as we have arrived in their wonderful world. Before we get our adventure started for the day, though, it’s time to talk some baseball. After a long day yesterday and (naturally) a couple of flight delays, I was excited to write about some baseball action today.
Then, I looked at the slate.
In my six or seven years of playing DFS, this might be the worst Sunday slate I have ever seen… and I’m not using hyperbole here.
I’m going to try to give this breakdown the best “college try” that I can, but I apologize if it is more vague or a little shorter than my normal Sunday articles. That’s not by some purposeful intent or coming from my desire to go rush over to Space Mountain right now; it’s simply a testament to how awful this slate is. Let’s try to find some options, shall we?
An Awful Mess of Sunday Arms… Led By, Well, Nobody
If you want to search for an ace out there today, go ahead and do it. Let me know when you find one. Part of the issue that we have here is that there are only nine games on the main slate today (eight on FanDuel), so the Sunday “main” slate is a little smaller than usual. That limits our options to some degree, and boy could we use some more options.
As such, I’m obligated to lead off the discussion by talking about the safest pitching option of the slate, and that somehow happens to be:
Jon Lester at Mets – Yep, here we go! Are you fired up? This is less about Lester’s skills and more about just how bad the Mets are against left-handers. They rank at the bottom of the league in wOBA and ISO against lefties, and Lester is a strong option in all formats because of that. While his numbers are trending in the wrong direction, they aren’t nearly as bad as Quintana’s, and the latter had a very strong start against the Mets the other night. I see no reason to expect anything different here. Lester is merely average with his strikeouts these days and has a fairly ugly batted ball profile, so he’s not as good as his tidy 2.71 ERA would indicate. However, he rarely gets blown up and has a great matchup. On a slate that is starved for pitching, Lester is the most logical option.
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