KBO Dongers Club – Thu June 11th
One game got PPD yesterday so they’ll play two today between the Wyverns and the Twins. The first game is at 2:30 AM EST which means we have an early lock time for that specific game and the projected pitchers are Ricardo Pinto (SK) against Min Ho Lee (LG) All other games look clear of any rain. PITCHERS Mike Wright – NC Dino’s – $10,000 … Very steep price to initially consider but when we factor how good he has been vs LH hitters this year it can be justified against the lefty heavy Bears. Won Tae Choi – Kiwoom Heroes – $9,300 … Samsung is just a terrible hitting team and coming off their win last night I expect them to get mowed down by Choi today. Ricardo Pinto – SK Wyverns – $7,500 … Roberto Ramos probably takes him deep but he has shown the ability to go deep into games (partially because he has to work to get outs) and the salary relief he provides should be safer than going with other options on this slate as lower priced pitchers. STACKS Kiwoom Heroes – Right now they are producing very well. Dae Woo Kim has always had a 5+ ERA and all three HR he has allowed this year to lefties have come at home. Keon Chang Seo Jung Hoo Lee ByungHo Park KT WIZ – They are on a 6 game losing streak and were shut down in a shortened game yesterday, but are under the radar vs a bad pitcher. POSITIONAL TARGETS Catcher Dong Won Park – Heroes Sung Woo Jang – Wiz First Base ByungHo Park – Heroes Dae Ho Lee – Giants Second Base Keon Chang Seo – Heroes Chi Hong An – Giants Third Base Find the guy from your stack or just punt this position. You want salary relief for pitching and this is your spot to take it. Shortstop Jin Hyuk No – Dinos Ha Seong Kim – Heroes Outfield Preston Tucker – Tigers Jung Hoo Lee – Heroes Ah Seop Son / Jun Woo Jeon – Giants Mel Rojas Jr – Wiz CHAIRMAN, of The Dongers Club Preston Tucker – OF – Tigers
KBO Dongers Club – Wed, June 10th
A drastic change in the pitching selections from yesterday to today, that makes me very happy. But also at the same time very cautious. Will we see the Hanwha Eagles break a 15 game losing streak today? Will the Lotte Giants beat them up again? And will anyone slow down the NC Dinos? Lets find out… WEATHER Well fuck me sideways. We have rain issues now KIA @ KTW – IFFY SK @ LG – IFFY PITCHING Eric Jokisch (Heroes, $9700) This is not a hard decision to make today. Jokisch has consistently been a favorable target this season with all five of his starts resulting in favorable scores and two of them topping over 30 fantasy points. He is actually coming off a “cant miss” start where he only put up 13 fantasy points but the Kiwoom Lefty should be on your radar even at very high ownership today versus the Lions. Chan Gyu Lim (Twins, $7500) I like both pitchers in this game with Tae Hoon Kim (SK) being the other arm in this game. But Chan Gyu is the heavy home favorite and has a better (deeper) lineup behind him to give him a little edge in terms of run support and less risk. VALUE / LOW UPSIDE Kyung Eun Noh (Giants, $6000) While he isn’t a great pitcher with allowing 1.25 HR/9 and only a 15.7 K% to a 5.7 BB%, he is only 6k and he is at home against the loser of 15 straight Hanwha Eagles. Even though I would bet the Eagles today (hey, they’re due, no?) I wouldn’t expect them to beat up on anyone right now and with Kyung Eun Noh showing he can go 5+ IP he could give you 2x on a cheap salary. HITTING KIWOOM HEROES: Kiwoom and Kia are my favorite pivots off the Bears/Dinos today. If you are looking for teams to go 5 deep with I would look at these teams, with an edge going to the Heroes top of the order which I expect to produce 2 HR today, likely from the guys below: Ha Seong Kim (SS) … Better vs LHP, but should deliver a solid game either way. Jung Hoo Lee (OF) Byung Ho Park (1B) Dong Won Park (C) KT WIZ: I’ve used opposing SP Aaron Brooks quite a few times this season but he has been mostly solid against RH bats while allowing lefties to hit .366 off him with 2 HR and 4 doubles. This is a spot where the KT Wiz can do heavy damage off Brooks from Yong Ho Jo (OF), Baek Ho Kang (1B/OF) and Mel Rojas Jr (OF) Yong Ho Jo (OF) Baek Ho Kang (1B/OF) Mel Rojas Jr. (OF) LOTTE GIANTS: There are two Min Kim’s on this slate and neither is very good. Lotte gets to face Min Woo Kim for Hanwha and yeah, I said bet Hanwha, but the odds honestly aren’t strong enough for me to load up on them today. So this is a spot where guess what — I’ll go back to the well of banging batters in a ballpark that I like. The hedge lineup I did last night cashed using this game stack and I think it can out shine the Dino-Bears game today. Jun Woo Jeon (OF) Ah Seop Son (OF) Yoon Seok Oh (1B) … Still cheap and playing well since getting playing time. GAME QUICK THOUGHTS Bears vs Dinos: These pitchers are good enough to be able to expect a game that goes towards the under and we can finally get away with not loading up on the Dino’s. That said, look at Jin Hyuk No (SS), for the Dino’s who should be batting ahead of the white hot Aaron Altherr. Eagles vs Giants: Wrote above that going with the Eagles in an upset is bound to happen soon, but the Giants side have better metrics clearly. Tigers vs Wiz: Top game on the slate for combined offense between the two teams. Bet the over. Heroes vs Lions: Heroes should thump them. Wyverns vs Twins: Twins get the edge. CHAIRMAN OF THE DONGERS CLUB Jung Hoo Lee – OF – $5,200 – Kiwoom Heroes
KBO: Dongers Club – June 5th
Welcome to the weekend of KBO DFS. As we head into the weekend and continue to no doubt have KBO in our lives for another month or more as MLB does … nothing … we should really factor in the bullpen usage more and more. Here’s a quick high level data point on the bullpen’s heading into the weekend action. Rank Team Bullpen ERA 1 Twins 3.59 2 Heroes 4.79 3 Dinos 4.91 4 Lions 4.95 5 Wyverns 5.20 6 Tigers 5.25 7 Giants 5.35 8 Eagles 6.23 9 Bears 7.36 10 WIz 7.68 Yeah, I wish we had some better scraped metrics right now on the bullpens other than ERA but it’s a starting point and clearly indicates what we have seen for example with the KT Wiz who have really struggled late in games as well as Doosan and Hanwha. LG is far away better than every other teams bullpen right now, and many times bullpens will be worse early in a season than the middle of a season, so I would suspect everyone improves making LG a team to avoid attacking when they have a solid starter on the mound. WEATHER No issues PITCHING Mike Wright – $9100, NC Dinos Most pitchers having success (i.e. big games) in the KBO either have a strikeout rate over 20% or their opponents have a high strike out rate as well. Mike Wright today has both going for him as he is the lucky dog who gets to face the Hanwha Eagles. Ricardo Pinto – $7500, Samsung Lions This is an interesting spot as Samsung faces SK and these teams are slowly starting to improve offensively and neither Pinto or Dae WooK Kim is a steady plug and play forget about it arm. They both have risks, but Pinto doesn’t have to face Jeong Choi and Jamie Romak like Kim does. Being the home pitcher I’ll give him the slight nod in a spot I wouldn’t be opposed to just game stacking the pitchers. Sneaky #3 Shi Hwan Jang – $6900, Hanwha Eagles He could get overlooked pitching against Mike Wright but SH Jang has really high strikeout rates and the Doosan Bears are up there in strikeouts as well. If you aren’t considering Doosan in a pitchers park like me then look at Shi Hwan as a nice leverage option. HITTING KT WIZ Jeong Dae Bae, Yong Ho Jo, Mel Rojas Jr., Sung Woo Jang The Giants home stadium is statistically (and visually) one of the best looking hitters parks in the KBO. It’s ++ in every hitting category except for triples and we combine two bad bullpens along with two bad starting pitchers — both with low strikeout rates and high contact allowed rates and we’re in line for a potential must play game. For the KT Wiz, they’ve got good recent form coming off their series against Doosan, but are usually a lineup that murders LHP and is just ‘decent’ against RHP — especially with their best RHP masher Baek Ho Kang out. KIA TIGERS Preston Tucker, Ji Wan Na, Hyung Woo Choi They’re underdogs and will be under the radar against Doosan. But Young Ha Lee’s been struggling keeping guys off the bases despite doing well at limiting runs. Signs indicate though the damn is gonna burst and his 0 HR allowed this season doesn’t jive with his historical stats. Great spot for Preston Tucker as you can see and he’ll be a little on the low ownership side with some of the other higher priced stud OF being in great spots. LOTTE GIANTS Ah Seop Son, Jun Woo Jeon, Dae Ho Lee, Chi Hong An Lotte is a top heavy team, meaning their production comes at the top of the order. Note: KT Wiz starting pitcher Min Soo Kim is likely going only 2 innings based off his prior game logs. He is a bullpen guy who hasn’t faced more than 7 batters in a game all year. POSITIONAL CHEAT SHEET Position Top Play Value C Dong Won Park (KIW) Hong Gu Lee (SK) 1B ByungHo Park (KIW) Jae Il Oh (DOO) 2B Kyung Soo Park (KT) Chi Hong An (LOT) 3B Jae Gyun Hwang (KT) Dong Hee Han (LOT) SS None Woo Jun Sim (KT) OF Jun Woo Jeon (LOT) Ji Wan Na (KIA) OF Preston Tucker (KIA) Eun Sung Chae (LG) OF Mel Rojas Jr (KT) Yong Ho Jo (KT) Notes … First Base is top heavy today, I’m not on Doosan much so those value guys dont jump out that much to me. Shortstop is a position to pay down at. Outfield has the most depth with good High end guys (Tucker/Rojas), nice middle plays as normal and some solid value (Na, Chae, Ho Jo) Chairman of the Dongers Club Jun Woo Jeon – OF – Lotte Giants – $4500
KBO Dongers Club – Sun, May 31st
We made it through another month without Major League Baseball. I say this every day, but man I miss it. That said, KBO is doing just fine for my bankroll for now but I doubt I’ll stay up all night again watching Sunday games again this week. We have a nice 5 game slate of games that will be played in the afternoon in Korea and very little weather issues. WEATHER Mid to upper 70’s, no rain PITCHING Chang Mo Koo ($9,400 – NC Dinos) … The Dino’s “ACE” will look to get them back on the winning track on Sunday against the Lions and they have a distinct advantage in pitching because Chang Mo Koo is doing even better this year as his K% has been up to 30% through his first three starts and he’s holding opposing batters to a low .115 average. Normally on a Sunday I’d kinda lean against going with an ace like this but given the fact that Samsung has won the first two games I don’t see the Dino’s getting swept here. Chris Flexen ($8,600 – Doosan Bears) … Flexen gets a chance to bounce back after starting off with 19-21-32 in his first three games he had only 11 back on May 26th. The fact that he is at home and drawing a righty heavy Lotte Giants projected lineup has me penciling him in over the other candidates today. Jong Hoon Park ($7,500 – SK Wyverns) … SK is on a roll and this is the best value spot on the slate. The Eagles offense is a league low .319 wOBA coming in with a very low ISO and while normally we don’t need salary relief he is a nice mid range on DK and low price on FanDuel to consider as well. TEAM STACKS Projected Chalk: Dinos, Bears, Wiz LG TWINS Eight runs on Friday, sixteen runs on Saturday. This is a good hitting park and Drew Gagnon is going to be a bad choice in DFS in my mind today. Load up on the Twinkies led by Hyun Soo Kim, Eun Sung Chae and Roberto Ramos. Given that they’re the road team and to be a little sneaky I would definitely consider a bottom of the order guy or two, so Ji-Hwan Oh and Kang-Nam Style Yooo are the favorable plays. Hyun Soo Kim (OF) Eun Sung Chae (OF) Roberto Ramos (1B) Ji-Hwan Oh (SS) – Value Kang-Nam Yoo (C) – Value KT WIZ vs KIWOOM HEROES In my mind the Wiz/Heroes game has the combined two worst pitchers on the slate. The Heroes continue to get it done even when I go away from them, but we gotta love Byung-Ho Park today as the anchor in their lineup. Meanwhile, Mel Rojas Jr. and Jeong Dae Bae are rolling for the KT Wiz. ByungHo Park (1B) – Kiwoom Jeong Dae Bae (OF) – Wiz Mel Rojas Jr (OF) – Wiz POSITIONAL TARGETS CATCHER Kang Nam Yo – LG FIRST BASE ByungHo Park – KIW Roberto Ramos – LG SECOND BASE Kyung Soo Park – KTW Joo Hwan Choi – DOO THIRD BASE Jeong Choi – SK … Consider at SS as well. 3B finally a good spot today Jae Gyun Hwang – KTW Suk Min Park – NCD SHORTSTOP Ha Seong Kim – SS Ji-Hwan Oh – LG OUTFIELD – Tier 1 Hyun Soo Kim – LG Hyung Woo Choi – KIA Sung Bum Not Mike Trout – NCD … How does the guy I joke nickname Trout put up a 0 on Saturday? Fraud. Preston Tucker – KIA Value Eun Sung Chae – LG Ji Hoon Choi – SK DONGERS CLUB Hyun Soo Kim – OF – LG – Chairman Byung Ho Park – 1B Jeong Choi – 3B/SS
KBO Dongers Club – Thu May 28th
There are three pitchers we have not seen yet this KBO season going today. One of them is Yoon Dong Heo (Samsung) an 18 year old LHP making his debut today and the other is Dae Hyun Jung (Kiwoom) a
KBO Dongers Club – Sat May 23rd
We are rolling. I’m telling you folks the process is gaining steam and the results are coming. We went from a pitcher not starting to a pitcher facing one batter and getting him out. I call that some progress right
KBO Dongers Club – Friday, May 22nd
Happy Friday, or soon to be Friday somewhere. Actually, in KBO world it is Friday already and hopefully if you are one of those brave souls who wakes up early for the games tomorrow you’ll confirm your starting lineups ahead of the games. The actual hitters didn’t bother me so much as pitchers changing — but it was a slate that was fairly predictable going in as far as pitching was concerned so that was good. You know you want to go heavy this weekend as it’s technically a holiday weekend and what’s better than Holiday Baseball DFS. So go big or go home. Let’s have a great KBO weekend as new series begin and I’m getting to this article a little late otherwise it would have been GIFtastic, but there’s always tomorrow for that…. Or maybe I’ll work some in today as well. WEATHER It’s fine, a couple games have light rain concerns but should play. PITCHING Back to the American’s tonight and it’s Blake Lively night (ok, Ben Lively), as he is back on the hill. Other known names tonight include Warwick Saupold Casey Kelly, Jake Brigham and Odrisamer Desp… Despaigna… Despaig… Despahhh-not-gonna-work here anymore… My Rankings This is a wonderful pitching slate but not in terms of how well they’re gonna do. Lots of games are in hitters parks so there’s no clear path tonight to your 1&2 arms. Naturally we are seeing the heavy favorites eat up the chalk and I don’t wanna double down on that when we have so much volatility likely out there again. I expect the bats to heat up this weekend. Hyun Jong Yang (Kia Tigers – $9000) … The southpaw should be a little too chalky tonight but he has over 20% strikeout rate and faces a team who also has a 20% strikeout rate. Despite being on the road he should get enough strikeouts tonight to give good value — but I expect some homers in this game on both sides. He has given up 3 already this year and it’s a good homer park. Expect him to be chalky and given how much I fear the other pitchers today I say we eat him on DK as one of the two — but you can avoid it on FanDuel. Ben Lively (Samsung Lions – $7300) … I’ve made fun of him in the past, but now settling into his third start of the season Lively should closer resemble the 2019 KBO version which had a 1.12 WHIP through 9 starts and only allowed 4 HR while striking out 58 over 57 innings. Lively is a heavy underdog but to me he gets his first win tonight. TEAM STACKS Highest implied totals … In other words the fucking chalk for the lazy DFS players … Kia Tigers, Doosan Bears, NC Dinos TOP TEAM Kiwoom Heroes The fucking Heroes, that’s all I’ll say. They never seem to be right but tonight they’re facing arguably the worst SP on the slate in Kyung Eun Noh. Well, let me tell you, I Noh this guy is giving up 2 homers tonight, including a #CatcherFriday 2-run shot to Dong Won Park in the first inning. Given their run total and cheap prices, the Heroes cannot be faded tonight. ByungHo Park (1B) Dong Won Park (C) Keon Chang Seo (2B) 2% OWNED WINNING STACK Hanwha Eagles – Fly. Eagles. Fly. Great hitters park and Young Gyu Kim has been too ‘decent’ to start this season. Lefties all over the board today which will scare people away from the Eagles against a LHP on the mound, but this guy gives up homers like his name is Homer Bailey. Don’t shy away from the lefties, including Jared Hoying. Jin Ho Jung (OF) Eun Won Jung (3B) — Because 3B Always Sucks Jared Hoying (OF) Other Exposure From: Twins POSITIONAL BREAKDOWN CATCHER Dong Won Park FIRST BASE ByungHo Park – KIW Roberto Ramos – LG – Blah Blah, too fucking cheap still SECOND BASE Keon Chang Seo – KIW … If he leads off as expected he’s the #1 play on the slate. Suck it Joo Hwan Choi – DOO THIRD BASE Joo Hyung Kim – KIW Won Seok Lee – SAM Guess who I am not playing: Jeong Choi … What a fucking waste of space this guy is. Seriously, is he the Asian version of Matt Adams or what? This guy has hit 1 HR on the season, it was opening Day and he was supposed to be the best 3B in the fucking league. What a sham. Get this guy off my player pool, he sucks. SHORTSTOP Sun Bin Kim – KIA Next question OUTFIELD Jared Hoying – HAN Preston Tucker – KIA Hyun Soo Kim – LG Hyung Woo Choi – KIA SNEAKY Jun Woo Jean – LOT DONGERS CLUB CHAIRMAN: Jared Hoying – Eagles
KBO Dongers Club – Thu May 21st
We go full Asian on this slate with 10 Asian born pitchers going, so the names get a little extra confusing but if you have been riding the KBO train then you know which teams are good and which ones are bad by now. WEATHER No Issues PITCHING Did I call it or what? We had a pretty solid depth of pitching choices last night even though it didn’t look so great going into the slate. That coming after Tuesday when it was the opposite. Tonight feels like a night where everyone is gonna end up in that 12-18 DK fantasy points range as there’s no dominant SO pitchers going today in my mind. In fact, there’s NOBODY I love tonight. So let’s go a little contrarian, shall we? Seung Won Moon (SK – $8800) … Let’s break this down in simple DFS strategy terms. His team has won only two games on the entire season, including last night on the road at the Heroes. Logic says no way the Heroes lose again tonight to the poor SK Wyverns at home. Heck, Vegas has the Heroes as the largest favorite on the entire slate!! So naturally, the whole world should be on the other side in this game but Seung Won Moon is easily the better pitcher on the mound and at his $8800 price likely comes in under 10%. Love him tonight on a slate where no other pitchers should hurt us. Take the chance. Hyeong Jo So (KTW – $7500) … Biggest concern I have is that he’s definitely not going 100+ pitches tonight, but should get through five and the Eagles have ZERO power as we have learned this year. TEAM STACKS Dinos vs Bears The premiere game of the night and it features two pitchers that don’t leap out to me but I don’t think anyone attacks either of them. Really like using this as a game stack focus game tonight and I am leaning on the NC Dinos side Kia Tigers Back on the Preston Tucker Train tonight POSITIONAL PLAYS CATCHER Eui Ji Jang (NCD) … Hard to play the Dinos without him FIRST BASE Roberto Ramos (LG) … Remains criminally underpriced, probably 70% owned one of these days Hyung Woo Choi (KIA) Jose Fernandez (DOO) SECOND BASE Min Woo Park (NCD) Joo Hwan Choi (DOO) THIRD BASE Jeong Choi (SK) Suk Min Park (NCD) — Day to Day Joo Hyung Kim (KIW) SHORTSTOP Ha Seong Kim (KIW) Sun Bin Kim (KIA) OUTFIELD – Tier 1 Preston Tucker (KIA) Hyun Soo Kim (LG) Sung Bum Na (NCD) OUTFIELD – Value Won Jae Lee (NCD) Eun Sung Chae (LG) Ji Wan Na (KIA) DONGERS CLUB CHAIRMAN: Jeong Choi (SK)
KBO Dongers Club – Tue May 19th
I am kind of digging this concept of play six straight days and then have a day off in the KBO. If they have a rain out over the weekend then they will make it up on Monday’s. I know MLB has floated this idea in the past and at first I hated it — but in terms of not worrying a bout waking up at 5:30 or staying up till 1am, it’s nice. This concludes my random thought for the day, thanks for coming. Oh, the games! New series beginning this week Eagles at Wiz Twins at Lions Giants at Tigers Dinos at Bears — What have been two of the best teams in the league, should be a good series Wyverns at Heroes — Wyverns are 1-10. They’re uh. Due? PITCHING Won Tae Choi (Kiwoom Heroes, RHP – $9500) Choi enters this game 0-1 on the year through his first two starts but hasn’t pitched poorly by any stretch. He’s allowed only 3 extra base hits through 12 1/3 IP while striking out 10 to only 2 walks. Now in his sixth year in the league he has continued to improve every season as a starter and has a 16.7% strikeout rate average over the past three seasons. After going 5 IP in his first start, he went 7 1/3 versus the Samsung Lions at home in his last start striking out 6 on just 89 pitches. Samsung isn’t exactly an elite offense but they have to be considered elite compared to the Wyverns who he faces today as they come in dead last in runs scored at 34 and this stadium has has a negative impact on Home Runs historically. Everything aligns well for Choi here, which is why he is a heavy favorite, should be highly owned and even at $9500 is at the top of my model today. William Cuevas (KT Wiz, RHP – $7500) I was bummed that the early line on this game was so heavy on the Wiz, because that means folks not looking into anything will auto play Cuevas as a heavy heavy home favorite. But it’s a great spot for him. Cuevas is his second season now in the KBO will be below a K per IP normally but he’s facing one of the higher strikeout rate teams on the slate and they have NO power with just a projected ISO of 0.088. They let him throw 105 pitches last start, so if he gets through 6 + innings today he can deliver a pretty good stat line for us in a winnable spot. FanDuel Pitching In addition to the players mentioned above, David Buchanan (Samsung) is a nice value on FanDuel TEAM STACKS NC Dinos vs Doosan Bears The NC Dinos are off to a hot 10-1 start this season, but they’ve also faced the Wyverns, Lions and Wiz and two of those are horrific teams so far. Chicken and egg scenario? Who knows, but either way this is a tougher spot for them to beat out the mighty defending champion Bears. Either way, good game for offense in my mind. NC faces the weaker pitcher, so they draw a slight “data” advantage today: Min Woo Park (2B) Aaron Altherr (OF) Sung Bum Na (OF) Eui Ji Yang (C) … Catcher Monday’s in MLB = Catcher Tuesday’s in KBO. Doosan on the other hand faces the “mighty” Mike Wright — who will be a nice mid range popular pick today but not for me. Gimme the Bears Kun Woo Park (OF) Jose Miguel Fernandez (1B/2B) Jae Il Oh (1B) Jae Hwan Kim (1B/OF) Joo Hwan Choi (1B/2B) — Great Value Lotte Giants vs Kia Tigers This game carries a hefty 10.5 total, so you know it’s chalky and the good reason why should be the power bats in this game. Min Woo Lee gives up lots of HR and the Giants should benefit today, but my lineups today will start with the MVP of the KBO thus far Preston Tucker and Ji Wan Na (who is right behind Tucker with 3 doubles and 2 HR to star tthe season and by right behind, I mean half way behind him). I would definitely get exposure on this game, just not a full stack either side. Giants: Ah Seop Son (OF) Jun Woo Jeon (OF) Dixon Machado (SS) Tigers: Preston Tucker (OF) Ji Wan Na (OF) Hyung Woo Choi (1B) .. He is $6300, it’s way too much for me with so many 1B from the Bears that I like but if you wanna stack the Tigers, then fine, add him in too. POSITIONAL PICKS CATCHER Eui Ji Yang (NCD) … Usually not a fan of paying up for catchers but this is definitely a day to do it with Yang. Yong Hwan Baek (KIA) FIRST BASE Dae Ho Lee (LOT) Jae Il Oh (DOO) Baek Ho Kang (KTW) SECOND BASE Min Woo Park (NCD) Jose Fernandez (DOO) Chi Hong An (LOT) THIRD BASE Won Seok Lee (SAM) … Playing well of late and hitting cleanup for a team that will have almost no ownership despite being at home. Suk Min Park (NCD) SHORTSTOP Dixon Machado (LOT) Woo Jun Sim (KTW) … If he leads off at $2500 that’s a value lock Ha Seong Kim (KIW) OUTFIELD Preston Tuckerrrrrrrrrrrrr (KIA) Sung Bum Na (NCD) Byung Hun Min (LOT) Ah Seop Son (LOT) Myung Gi Lee (NCD) DONGERS CLUB Chairman: Eui Ji Jang – Catcher – NC Dinos
KBO Dongers Club – May 17th
As I was out doing some errands today I had this nagging feeling that I had to get my article in before the Saturday evening 7PM Slate. Obviously, I then realized oh wait, I don’t have to do that and then I started to get sad about no Sunday Dongers Club either, because I would really enjoy some Sunday MLB action right now. I guess one could stay up all night and watch KBO for Sunday Baseball, because we have 5 games as usual for the KBO and a decent recent string of DFS action related to it for us to feel confident going into this Sunday slate. One word of caution is to be aware of anyone “Resting” on the Sunday slate — so maybe try to stay up as late as you can for tonight’s games — all of which begin at 1:00 AM EST. WEATHER All games are clear of rain and four of the games will feature temps in the upper 70’s (only the Dinos-Wyverns game is not). I expect we see a high scoring slate of action. PITCHING Drew Rucinski – NC Dinos ($9200 vs SK) If he were 10,000 on this slate then it would be more appropriate. Everything is positive in his favor today and thus we’ll see him carry a ton of ownership even as the highest priced arm on the slate. The opponent is bad (SK Wyverns are 1-9, compared to the Dinos being 9-1), he is a huge -215 road favorite pitching in a below avg hitters park. Then we breakdown the metrics for him versus the actual lineup he will face and there isn’t much to be scared of outside of Jeong Choi and Jamie Romak. The only logic in not going with Rucinski today with his high K% against that bad lineup would be if you roll out Choi and Romak as contrarian 3-4 hitters against him — both of whom have some power but also carry high K%. Odrisamer Despaigne – KT Wiz ($8500 vs SAM) Despaigne has been exactly as I figured he would be thus far. With 14 strikeouts through 11 innings he’s looking good but he’s also had to throw 200 pitches across those two starts to get there. That’s what he’ll likely continue to be but Samsung isn’t very deep and so I like Despaigne to rack up the strikeouts at the bottom of this order & at home he’s my favorite SP today (even more than Rucinski). Sunday Longshot: Seung Heon Lee ($4000) … Not just because he is min priced — that is justified as this will be his first action of 2020, and he didn’t do much of anything in 2019. A young pitcher who appears to have some good velocity though against a team with zero dangerous batters (Hanwha Eagles) in their lineup right now is tempting. If he only pitches 3 innings don’t be shocked, but the min priced arm has some tempting value today to keep an eye on. I wouldn’t play 100% of him or on your main lineup. But for a 3 lineup player, he’s in the mix. TOP STACKS LOTTE Giants Min Woo Kim carries a heavy WHIP … No, not that kind of WHIP…. NO. STOP! NOT THAT KIND OF … SON OF A … I REFUSE TO BREAK OUT THE WHIT MERRIFIELD SUNDAY NARRATIVE ON A KOREAN BASEBALL PLAYER ah, son of a bitch…. Let’s WHIP up the Giants 1-5 stack today fellas… Byung Hun Min (OF) Joon Woo Jeon (OF) Ah Seop SONday’s…. (OF) Dae-Ho Lee (1B) Chi Hong An (2B) DOOSAN BEARS They finally cooled off last night and today they get Aaron Brooks during a 1PM home game. I have plenty experience with Aaron Brooks random home 1PM Sunday games. Don’t go there… Right back on the Bears in what should be a great spot for Jim Miller and Marty Booker…. oh wait, wrong Bears… Jose Miguel Fernandez (2B) Jae Il Oh (1B) Jae Hwan Kim (OF) I feel those three are the CORE of your lineup with the Bears, so plug them into those positions then mix and match elsewhere and consider Se Hyuk Park (C) who should be in today hopefully. KIWOOM HEROES I was gonna go back to the LG Twins well and if you want a 5 man stack then sure go with the Twins, but this is your chalk/single entry combination to not ignore today ByungHo Park (1B) and Ha Seong Kim (SS) both have great power and should feast in the same game against the Twins in a great hitters park. Plus there’s that weird ByungHo Park – Twins on a Sunday narrative…. POSITIONAL RANKINGS CATCHER Se Hyuk Park – DOO Kang Nam Yoo – LG FIRST BASE – Deep! Dae Ho Lee – LOT ByungHo Park – KIW Joo Hwan Choi – DOO Roberto Ramos – LG SECOND BASE Chi Hong An – LOT … This is where I put my model to the test. Chi Hong An is about $3k cheaper than Dixon Machado today, likely bats in front of him and I have him ranked higher. Hello Whit Hong An Now, mind you…. This is how dangerous my mind is. I didn’t pull the day of week splits — I SWEAR — before going to dig into Chi Hong An (or Ahn) more, and well. What do you know. This fucker was a .268 hitter for the entire 2019 season last year — but on Sundays? — ah, on Sunday’s the guy was .417 hitter over 17 games with only ONE, yes ONE strikeout in 60 at bats. Guy see’s the ball well in the afternoons and with that awesome backdrop of Dixon Machado behind him he’ll WHIP it up good. THIRD BASE This position sucks, which makes Jeong Choi very tempting Jeong Choi – SK … vs chalk Rucinski Jae Gyun Hwang – KTW Kyoung Min Hur – DOO SHORTSTOP Ha Seong Kim