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People were doing this in the playoffs last year, in situations where it was clear the pitcher would be on a short leash.

Couldn’t you just bet the Dodgers run line or a Moneyline/Over parlay?

I mean, I’m a Giants fan, and will likely be doing both of these things.

That’s definitely contrarian

Ouch fire pimp bringing the heat. Btw do you have anything of value to contribute? Now that your rant is over?

Wasn’t going to touch this but you mis categorized craft beer. That garbage isn’t craft beer.

I’m at a 5 man Rockie stack AND Paul Goldschmidt… I don’t think too many others will have that set up.

Somewhat new to baseball here. Curious as to how common or wise to roll out a LHB vs LHP in a scenario where you can see pitcher getting scorched early giving your batter an advantage against a RHP heavy bullpen?

Not yet, it’s the girlfriends birthday and she’s sick(caught my funk I had) so I’ve been running around getting her meds and the last of her gifts. Havn’t done any research yet. The Vargas trap stuff though, the guy is hot and doing well. He’s going against the white sox. The odds are there for him to do well. But every DFS site and even fanduels facebook posts are talking about him. So plan on him being highly owned on chalk. His price point also allows you to fit some Coors bats as well or other higher priced guys. I’d say go with Vargas and rely on your bats to win.

The weather in Baltimore I havn’t researched yet but we all know I’m a Rays whore and the Rays have been hot for value. But wily has pitched well, something tells me Archer goes down tonight with a loss. Baltimore has so much power and if they can connect with archer if his control is off balls will be flying out of the park. Just my inner opinion and feeling. Archer could pitch a gem old reliable so far but something inside me says no, no true reasoning behind it but gut feeling.

Look at his home/road splits for his career. Add that to the fact he pitched in SD vs the d backs last time in one of the best pitchers parks in baseball. And now he’ll be on the road vs one of the best offensive teams in one of the worst pitchers parks in baseball.
Anything can happen in baseball but the most likely outcome is you’ll be throwing your money down the toilet tonight if you start him.

Will Jesse Chavez end up being popular today to fit in elite bats?

Jody Mercer on FD

Is that the name of the new Muppet movie??

Because on many nights that it seems obvious they’ll go off (sim to yesterday everybody just assuming Arroyo would get smashed by Cubbies), they won’t go off.

If you have faded them and are on a team or two that does just reasonably well you will skyrocket up the leaderboards.

I think Fire just threw more strikes than any starting pitcher on the slate will tonight. +1 for the laugh, especially for throwing out Chablis which is god awful.

As far as pitchers, we all have to go somewhere and I keep circling back to Brett Anderson. Yes I know Pirates have had the Cubs number over the past few years but I think that is 1 of 2 I will use tonight on DK. Just don’t like any other options. Plus it doesn’t hurt that Kuhl gets crushed by the Cubs so if I get 5 innings out of him should be a W.

Looks like Jimenez is going to be on the hill for the Orioles tonight. Kinda like Archer tonight as well, as he is good for at least 7k’s but as you said he could get knocked around.

What kind of ownership we thinking with Harper tonight, I know he’s very expensive at Coors and facing a lefty, I think he might be less owned than normal? Thoughts?

Sorry for a dumb question, but I’m new to baseball DFS and to the game of baseball at all
Can a confirmed lineup (the order in particular) change after the game has started?

Simple answer is no, once a game has started the only way a lineup can be changed is if the manager Pinch-hits for a player.

Depends on your risk aversion preference. Personally, I want a chance at cashing 50 of 50 line ups so I will put all my eggs in one basket 50 different ways and have had success doing that over the past few years. Spreading things out you will have a more even distribution of your line ups from the bottom to top of the standings and get into the cash more frequently, but cash a fewer % of your line ups at once, in general. Both methods you mention are totally acceptable and could win you first place on any given night. I am just a Quarter Arcade player though so not sure how good my info is, i could be completely out to lunch as far as i know.

I haven’t seen the weather about Baltimore since this morning but it wasn’t looking good. Otherwise I would be all over some rays.
Vargas just purely on ownership I’m off of him I’ve gotten burnt by some highly owned pitchers the past couple days cost me some serious money.
I’m not a Coors guy but today feels to good not to have some exposure
Also plan on looking into Dbacks further against chacin when I get more time. Is the thread about the changes at chase field still up?

That’s who i got. Thanks

Scooter gennett? Going back to Milwaukee?

For some reason I thought wiley was on the mound tonight, that’s tomorrow I believe as I was trying to find pitchers to add and drop for tomorrow in my yahoo league my bad. Hoping for a weather update as this game is in orange and since it’s a division game they’ll have no problem calling this game early or canceling. Looks like I’m fading it for now until more weather research.

Chablis?

WTF. Who the fuck drinks French wine anymore

The people that want to argue “traps” and insult each other on here lol.

Not a good idea on a full slate. Maaayyyybbeeee on a 2 game slate to be extra contrarian. Sounds good in theory but you are seriously stunting your upside by doing this. You are better off just throwing darts at the SP list and picking one randomly.