Yahoo MLB Expert Picks: Saturday, August 25th

by Tony Niehaus (BigT44) Last Updated 2018-08-25 22:56:07 Premium Content Part of the product Core4

Each day when there are two or more MLB games, our daily fantasy sports experts will provide their top plays for Yahoo. These picks will help you find the best values and top overall plays to build a foundation for all types of contests. Our top-ranked experts will also provide the reasons for their picks, so you can make informed decisions when setting your lineups.

Saturday, August 25th

Early Slate Thoughts

We have another nice little slate to get our Saturday started like most weeks during baseball and some really nice opportunity as far as tournaments. San Fran has been awful all year for the most part and they have another nice implied total today, which really sticks out to me. Everyone is going to be on the Cubs and Red Sox, which is fine obviously, but going against Castillo and a good Tampa staff in a tough park I am even more so on San Fran. They are in a tough park like always, but with this total and a terrible pitcher on the hill sign me up.

Another nice thing about the early slate is we have a bunch of good pitching, which allows us to maybe play a few different combos of pitching with the full San Fran stack and try to ship something. Wheeler has been really good for most of the year and looks really good again today. Porcello gets Tampa in a good park, Pivetta is going to be low owned and has upside, Yarbrough is going against Boston but has a great park and has looked great at times unowned, I hate Roark but he gets this terrible Mets team in a good park, Suarez gets a great park and solid matchup, I also hate Quintana but another great spot and even Castillo goes against the chalk offense but has the stuff to deliver. Pitcher is just off the charts deep for a short slate and makes my decisions even easier to play a couple different combos and load up San Fran and hope they come in nice and low owned, like I think they will be.