Million Dollar Musings: Thursday, June 28th

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Thursday, June 28th

Happy Split Slate Thursday! We’ve got another typical Thursday in MLB with a couple of smaller slates. The evening Main Slate is just four games, while the early slate features five games on DK/FDRFT starting at 1:05 ET and FanDuel starting an hour earlier at 12:10 ET for a six game early slate. I’ll tackle this early slate first and then be back in a few hours with the Main Slate analysis.

EARLY SLATE PITCHING

The big name and big salary pitcher on this slate is Clayton Kershaw, but there are still a lot of question marks around him, so let’s start there and work our way down.

Clayton Kershaw vs Cubs – I desperately want to see vintage Kershaw again, but there is a chance that it’s just gone forever. In his first start off the DL, he lasted just three innings on 55 pitches. He got a few strikeouts, but was not generating swings and misses. He will still be watched closely here, as they are not going to rush him back to a full workload, so even if he pitches well, his usual upside is not here. I am not overly concerned with what the matchup is, this is simply a matter of whether he gets back to being Kershaw or not.

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Dave Potts (CheeseIsGood)

One of the preeminent baseball minds in all of fantasy, Dave Potts (aka CheeseIsGood) has won contests at the highest levels of both season-long and DFS. He is a 2x winner of a $1,000,000 1st-place prize in DFS, having won the 2014 FanDuel baseball Live Final and following that up by taking down a DraftKings Milly Maker Tournament in 2015. In addition, he’s won the Main Event championship in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship and the NFBC Platinum League, which is the highest buy-in entry league. His consistent success in the NFBC tournaments earned him a prestigious spot in their Hall of Fame. Dave can also strum a mean guitar while carrying a tune, and if you’re lucky, you’ll see him do so on one of his MLB Crunch Time appearances. Follow Dave on X – @DavePotts2