You can’t pitch any better than Max Scherzer $12600 did last time out. Well, it was a bloop single and a walk away from absolute perfection — a complete game shutout with 16 K. He’s available only in Early DFS pools at DraftKings that close at 1:07 Eastern. [Read more…]
After about a century of disappointment, the Cubs are on the rise. Through shrewd trades and excellent drafts, Theo Epstein has assembled the deepest collection of brilliant young hitting talent I’ve ever seen — enough future all-stars to trade one to the pitching-wealthy Mets. [Read more…]
We got a few things right on Wednesday and a whole lot wrong. Nobody expected the Cubs to win 17-0 in Cleveland. Or was that the Bears over the Browns? [Read more…]
Wednesday is very interesting in MLB. It’s Interleague week, with everyone playing 2-game sets at home and on the road. The same teams meet for the third straight day, in new venues. [Read more…]
It’s an unusual MLB schedule this week, with every team playing four interleague games. They are divided into home-and-home 2-game series, so this is actually getaway day before the venues shift tomorrow. [Read more…]
You can’t win ’em all. On Sunday we went with Chris Sale instead of the brilliant Max Scherzer and several unlikely hitting heroes emerged. Congratulations if you had 2B/3B Jace Peterson $3500 or2B/SS Ryan Goins $2000, who both showed surprising power. [Read more…]
Sunday Night Baseball is usually top-notch TV with the peerless Dan Shulman doing play-by-play. However, tonight’s game between the Reds and Cubs will be completely overshadowed by the pivotal Game Five of the NBA Finals. [Read more…]
On Friday night, one of my pitchers got rocked for -2.85 FPTS, one of my hitters somehow went 0-for-5 with 3 K in a 13-10 game and another of my guys got only 1 AB before crashing into the wall and leaving with a bruised back. [Read more…]