MLB Pitching Primer: Monday, August 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.

Monday, August 6th

Arms To Trust

Trevor Bauer vs. Minnesota Twins

If you want to spend up on pitching tonight, Bauer is clearly the guy. I feel like anything I say at this point will be wildly repetitive, as I’m pretty sure he appears in this article as a trustworthy arm any time he is on a slate.

One thing I have alluded several times before is how consistent he has been all season long. If we are talking FanDuel scoring, he has been below 30 fantasy points exactly two times. One of them was a dud earlier in the season against Kansas City (11 FD points), and the other was three starts ago in the heat in Texas (21 FD points).

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Andy Means (aka meansy53) was a walk-on with the esteemed Duke University basketball team for 3 years before graduating in 2004. He also has a Master’s in Accounting from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and has been playing DFS since 2014 (qualifying for multiple Live Finals). In the summer of 2022, Andy took over the role of Premium Content Director for the RotoGrinders Network, overseeing the vast array of content that is created on RotoGrinders, ScoresAndOdds, and FantasyLabs. Follow Andy on X – @ameansy
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