Million Dollar Musings: Monday, July 30th
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Monday, July 30th
Happy Monday! We’ve got an interesting nine-game slate on tap for tonight with quite a bit of good pitching available. The hitting will be a little tougher to feel good about with most of the games taking place in good pitcher’s parks and no must-attack gas cans to load up against. We’ll start with the pitchers as usual, but right off the top, I’ll point out that just about all of them are playable tonight.
MONDAY NIGHT PITCHING
A MATCHUP OF ACES, SORT OF
Gerrit Cole at Mariners
James Paxton vs Astros
The two best pitchers on this slate are squaring off in Seattle, but with Paxton still dealing with a back injury, it may just be the one best pitcher on the slate with Cole. In looking at Paxton, he missed 10-days on the DL and was all set to come back last week, and I was excited to jump on board at a discount. But he was scratched from that start, and now we’re looking at over two full weeks missed and a tough matchup on top of it. The good news in the matchup is that with both Altuve and Correa missing from the Astros lineup, it’s less of a deadly assignment for lefties, but still a below average strikeout team with above average power.
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