Million Dollar Musings: Thursday, July 26th
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Thursday, July 26th
Well, I guess we all survived that awful four-game slate last night, and we have a nine-gamer to make up for it tonight, but with these pitching options, I would be happy to go back to last night again. We were supposed to get Stephen Strasburg in Miami tonight, but he was placed back on the DL this morning, and we are now completely out of pitching options. I had started by calling this a one-pitcher slate, now it’s a no-pitcher slate, but I think they are still going to want to us to roster somebody, so let’s take a look.
THURSDAY NIGHT “PITCHING”
I am not going to be able to give you anything magical here. This is a terrible, awful, no good pitching slate. There is not one single pitcher that would qualify as a cash game option on an ordinary slate, and hardly even anyone who would qualify as a GPP pitcher.
NONSENSE TOP OPTIONS
Nick Kingham vs Mets – Kingham has had a couple of big starts, but overall, looks like just a moderate strikeout pitcher relying on good control and at this point might be a better real life pitcher than a DFS pitcher. But with that being said, a 22.7% strikeout rate along with a plus matchup on this slate is enough to put him right in the thick of the discussion for the second best pitcher.
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