Welcome to the daily MLB updates and news article. We'll try and update it right up to line-up locks with as much information as comes across our desks. Let's get to it!
Last night's picks can be found here, so you can wrap your mind around what you need to be looking at before lineups lock today.
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Danny Duffy is expected to be held to 60 pitches
Note - I will update this section throughout the day as lineups are released and injury news is broke
Opponent - MIN (Dean) Park - @MIN
FD - 15.29 DK - 11.53
Jose Bautista is likely facing some insecurities currently after getting embarrassed by a 5" 11, 195 pound second baseman just last week. Since that game, he has accumulated 5 hits and 2 home runs. However, he gets one of his best match ups of the year so far against Pat Dean. Dean is a weak left handed pitcher who has struggled against both lefties and righties throughout his minor league career as evidenced by a +.400 wOBA. Now let's get back to Bautista and look at a sample size bigger than 5 games. Over the past 3 seasons, Bautista has sported a .382 wOBA alongside a tremendous 38.7% hard contact rate against lefties. While this ballpark is certainly no hitters haven, it ranked slightly above average for right handed power. This offense is going to put up runs and Bautista is the most consistent hitter on the team.
Opponent - CIN (Lamb) Park - @CIN
FD - 13.88 DK - 10.5
Cruz is moving from one of the worst hitter environments in the league in Safeco Field to a top 3 park in Great American Ballpark. Touching on Cruz for a moment, he has absolutely dominated lefties over the course of his entire career with a .392 wOBA, .252 ISO and a spectacular 37.2% hard contact rate. Moving over to John Lamb, he has struggled mightily against righties since entering the league with a .352 wOBA and 6 home runs allowed in only 49.2 innings. The combination of this match up and ballpark create as close to an optimal situation as possible for Cruz.
One other note: There are big differences between DraftKings and FanDuel pricing so the optimal lineups are looking quite different.
These are players that show up in each of the top 10 lineups as produced by our lineup optimizer. This doesn't necessarily mean that they're "safe," it just means that their projected weighted-mean point total is a solid building block for a great lineup foundation today.
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Josh Donaldson just screwed us all by getting ejected in first at bat.
That sucked. Threw the whole stack off.
Donaldson. Why???
Donaldson ? sure has came along way since Oakland. His Ego sky rocketed once he got to Toronto
he was highly owned...wouldnt worry too much about it....can still pay out!
He was 89% owned in my $11 50/50 on Aces. I'm not overly worried about it.
Ugh I'm done with Toronto! I've lost my shirt the past two days because of them bums!
Anybody know if Puig is starting tonight??
7 slot cody
deGrom's Pt/$? Glad I'm on a Tanaka budget.
Heck with deGrom's Pt/$. What's Lester's?
So according to FanDuel, LAA has no starting catcher tonight?!?! Only 2 listed aren't starting.