Uriah Wesson 
Happy Friday folks! I’m in a bit of a rush today, due to the recent protest we did not have a slate for either FanDuel or DraftKings today until about 10:30 AM est So I’m going to skip the usual introduction and get right into my FanDuel main slate breakdown for 8.28.
Slate note: I can not stress this enough, DO NOT PLAY TODAY IF YOU CAN NOT BE IN FRONT OF YOUR LINEUPS PRIOR TO LOCK. We have no idea what games, if any will be protested and postponed today and weather is a mess on top of it.
FanDuel Main Slate Breakdown for 8.28 Pitching:
Max Scherzer, Natinals 10.6K:
No need to get cute here, if you can afford the salary play him. He as close to a sure thing as you’re going to get tonight. We drastically overrated the Red Sox offense coming in to the season but we all see just how bad they are now. We might see a 60+ FD point outing tonight from him. This is additionally the only game I have zero weather concerns of. Also, I’m aware of my spelling. If you don’t know what I’m referring to look it up, it is quite humorous.
Daniel Ponce De Leon, Cardinals:
If you play anyone besides Max today in cash I really feel like you are playing cash games wrong, but if you must pay down pay all the way down to Ponce De Leon and really load up on premium bats. Wind is blowing in improving park conditions. Indians are near the bottom of the MLB in every major offensive statistic category and De Leon while in limited innings has a 40+ percent K-rate. If he can stay in control he did throw 94 pitches last game which should get us at least through the fifth inning getting us a potential quality start and win bonus.
Triston McKenzie, 8.7K, Indians:
I’m pretty limited with weather in terms of pitching but I would be willing to kick the tires on McKenzie today, we only have one major league start to go off of and boy was it electric. Unfortunately it was also against the Tigers which does not really give us much to go off of. He has a four-seamer that gets into the upper 90’s and he has maintained a K/9 rate of well over nine in his minor league career. The immediate jump to almost 9K might be enough to scare a few folks off of him and we can hope for a repeat performance.
FanDuel Main Slate Breakdown for 8.28 Stacks and Bats:
Astros:
You can really stack both sides of this game tonight if you wanted to, it is going to be hot, humid, and the wind is blowing out at well over 10 MPH. Some of the wind might be negated by the roof but it should not limit it much. Every 5 mph adds around 20 feet to a fly ball, I’ll let you math that out. I’m especially loading up on as many left handed bats as possible because Chris Bassitt is terrible against them allowing a 44 percent hard hit and fly ball rate.
Cash:Kyle Tucker, Michael Brantley GPP, George Springer: Josh Reddick, Yuli Gurriel
Padres:
Here we go again, wind blowing out in Coors in hot muggy conditions . You can load up to your hearts content tonight at possibly lower ownership that usual due to Kyle Freeland’s solid pitching this season and his earlier shutout of the Padres a couple of week ago. I really don’t expect the same result from this contest tonight since Freeland is allowing a ton of hard contact this season (41.4%) even though his end result has been good overall. ***There are potential weather issues so determine your risk tolerance before using***
Cash: Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado, Will Myers GPP: Eric Hosmer
Rockies:
Same as above, great park conditions, potential recency bias because of the last dud and a bunch of guys who profile well. I’m stack both sides tonight.***There are potential weather issues so determine your risk tolerance before using***
Cash: Trevor Story, Noland Arenado, Charlie Blackmon GPP: Sam Hilliard
Rangers:
I need to give you one that may go a little under the radar and the Rangers fit that bill very well today. Great park and weather conditions, aside from on solid outing Dustin May has looked middling at best, and his splits skew wildly in favor of lefty bats which the Ranger have several. Half of May’s pitches are sinkers but oddly they don’t drop out of the zone much and lefties historically hit low strike zone stuff much harder than righties which may explain the splits.
Cash: Joey Gallo, Shin-Soo Choo GPP: Danny Santana, Derek Dietrich
Others to consider: Always Dodgers, White Sox/Royals (Late storms could cause this one to end early but both sides are stackable), Angels
Favorite Pitcher:
Cash: Max Scherzer
GPP: Can I say Max Scherzer again??? Fine. Triston Mckenzie
Favorite Stack: Astros
Favorite Chalk Player: Charlie Blackmon
Favorite Low Owned Player: Joey Gallo
Salary Saver: Shin-Soo Choo
Home Run Call: Michael Brantley
Thrive Fantasy
Have not had much time to look at the props on thrive today due to the time constraints but I will be back to giving you all my selections next week.
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