MLB Pitching Primer: Friday, April 6th
Everything in the sport of baseball comes down to the hitter-versus-pitcher matchup – which makes pitching the most important element of MLB DFS play. Without an understanding of the best pitching plays on the day, your DFS efforts will be sunk! Each day, the Pitching Primer will provide you with some of the top pitching plays on the day – taking a close look at the “why” behind these picks, and helping you to identify pitchers others might overlook.
Friday, April 6th
Arms To Trust
Lance McCullers vs. San Diego Padres
Let’s get the low hanging fruit out of the way first. On FD, this is clearly your cash game pitcher. He is way too cheap on that site. And due to (once again) a lot of bad prices on hitters, it is quite easy to put a ton of good bats around him. Before we discuss whether we are playing him in that format on DK/FDr, let’s dive into McCullers as a pitcher first.
Call him an ace. Call him a borderline ace. Or call him a really good pitcher with ace potential. Whatever you call him, he is definitely the top pitcher on this slate tonight. If we look at just 2017 numbers, only Luis Castillo (27.3%) had a better K% than McCullers (25.8%) of the pitchers throwing tonight. And that K% for Castillo was only in 89 innings (first season in the bigs). McCullers has him edged out everywhere else.
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