The Dongers Club – Tue 5/14
Twice as big of a slate today up to 12 games with 2 games earlier at 6pm and one in the afternoon at 2:00 pm. The weather today looks free of any issues with the roof open again in
The Dongers Club – Mon 5/13
Only a small six game slate to begin the week today but we do have one game with potential weather issues in Philadelphia (MIL-PHI) to monitor but it likely will play after a short delay. Outside of that the
MLB DFS: The Daily Diamond – 5/13
*All pricing references are based on DraftKings unless otherwise noted This article is designed to give you a head start/a brief look at the top pitchers and hitters on the slate from a cash game and single entry contest point
The Dongers Club – Sun 5/12
Happy Mother’s Day. One of the few weird Sunday MLB DFS slates of the year. Although most Sunday’s this far have been underwhelming and the weather today is rather wet, shall we say. Already PPD Miami @ NY Mets
Weekend Dongers Club – Sat 5/11 – Main
Just a nice quiet, relaxing Saturday night in early May to sit down and enjoy the night cap 8 game main MLB DFS slate. As we pull up the games tonight we walk through the list of games and everything
Weekend Dongers Club – Sat 5/11 – Early
Weekends are made for Baseball and a jam packed 6 games early and 8 games late, but the best game today is the one at 1PM between the Mariners and Red Sox. For those of you playing on DraftKings (the focus of this article because it is the bigger slate), enjoy all those HR alerts from that game while we sit and wait for our guys on the 2PM slate to do something. FanDuel has the 1PM game on a 4 game early slate on their site to tempt us. Weather Concerns All games should play. Anaheim at Baltimore will have some rain/storms creeping in but with more rain coming tomorrow they’re likely going to try to find a way to play the game today. The games in St. Louis and Wrigley may have a shower or too as well. Games will play. Zach Davies ($7,900) Davies has been nothing short of impressive this year and some will see Kris Bryant’s domination of him but I love the Brewers to sweep Chicago this weekend and the weather favors the pitchers in Wrigley today. Marcus Stroman ($8,000) I’m not generally a big Stro fan in DFS because he is too much of a contact/ground ball guy who doesn’t possess heavy strikeout upside. But coming off two rough starts after his big emotional game when Vlad game up I like him to bounce back this afternoon. The Sox won’t be patient enough to draw walks and wait for a good pitch to drive and Stroman can give us 7 innings today and get 16+ DK points. FADE – Trevor Bauer ($11,400) One might look here and say, Bauer the only stud pitcher on the slate, pitching back in California (home) and facing an Oakland team that just hasn’t been explosive in 2019 like they were in 2018. But with Davis likely back in the lineup, Olson settling in and a day game here I could see some reason to fade Bauer who has NEVER won in Oakland. He’ll gain a ton of ownership and Oakland definitely can pop up and be pesky here today. It’s a dangerous fade, but it’s one that has some potential logic to working out in my mind. If you are playing three lineups on a 6 game slate (which isn’t a bad idea) then consider going Bauer on only one. The Angels, Twins and Cardinals are the likely most popular/highest owned teams on this smaller slate. Anaheim is facing Dylan Bundy which will feel like a tempting stack, but let’s be honest, its a Saturday and Trout is in America so he would have been in play no matter what. I am going to give you enough plays here to list out options to build three lineups today, but for my primary spots to build a single main lineup look at the positional breakdown below. St. Louis Cardinals … Cards are the new Saturday afternoon dominant team eh? Another afternoon game in St. Louis and Jordan Lyles will take the mound for Pittsburgh. The chances of him shutting down this Cardinals lineup today seem fairly slimp to me. Great spot to jump on Goldy and Ozuna. Paul Dejong Marcell Ozuna Paul Goldschmidt Cleveland / Oakland … Francisco Lindor cannot be ignored today. I broke down his Oakland stats yesterday and overall he’s probably my favorite hitter this afternoon. The Oakland side is relevant because of the Bauer ownership and chalk and how I am already leaning towards a fade on him. Olson-Davis-Chapman core would have to get damage on Bauer for it to pay off so look there. But Cleveland is the logical side here to wake up and have a decent day. Don’t go here thinking they score 6-7 runs folks, they’re still the fricken Indians for God’s sake. Francisco Lindor Carlos Gonzalez/Tyler Naquin – Value OF Khris Davis Detroit Tigers … They haven’t scored a run in 18 straight innings and will now have to play a double header today. They’re not getting shutout again by Pineda. Niko Goodrum [Left early last night, status TBD] Miguel Cabrera Nicholas Castellanos The other top teams to pick exposure from today will be Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Anaheim CATCHER Yadier Molina – at $4400 he is not someone you would want to play solo. If he does damage it will be on a 2 RBI single, so build accordingly. Francisco Cervelli Roberto Perez FIRST BASE Miguel Cabrera: Goldy and Bour are in fine spots today as well, but Miggy doesn’t have rain to deal with like they do and his price fits well for those who are going to force in Trevor Bauer today. He’s a shell of his former self no doubt but Pineda is someone he has had no problems facing and he forever was the king of Target Field along with Victor Martinez. Paul Goldschmidt Justin Bour * – Since he played on Friday, I am guessing that he sits Saturday. Hit 2 HR off Bundy last time they met in Camden. SECOND BASE This overall is a pretty bland position today. These are my favorites but none would be considered guys that I am heavily recommending. Eric Sogard is the best option here, but is way overpriced. Adam Frazier Eric Sogard Jason Kipnis Steve Wilkerson THIRD BASE Vlad Jr: I could be forcing this but it’s a pretty basic gut feeling I have on Vladdy Jr today. This position isn’t exactly popping off with hot hitters elsewhere and the best matchup guy (Bryant) is going against a SP I want to use. So Vlad Jr, today is your day my friend. Jose Ramirez Matt Carpenter SHORTSTOP Francisco Lindor: I broke down his stats in Oakland in yesterday’s article and he has now hit in 6 of his last 7 games after being back for about 2-3 weeks. He’s poised to continue a streak and that 2 HR game is definitely right around the corner if not today. Paul
The Dongers Club – Fri, May 10th
Fourteen games today!!!!!! Fridays! You know what that means…. ONE OFFS! That’s right. You can certainly go heavy on teams tonight but with 14 games we can definitely narrow our focus down to the best 3 plays at each position
MLB DFS: The Daily Diamond – 5/10
*All pricing references are based on DraftKings unless otherwise noted This article is designed to give you a head start/a brief look at the top pitchers and hitters on the slate from a cash game and single entry contest point
The Dongers Club – Thu, May 9th
The sites did the right thing today by included the 6:35 PM Yankee game so that we could have a five game slate. Thank you DFS sites for doing the right thing. All five games play. Roof in Houston
The Dongers Club – Thu, May 9th (Early)
Was going to skip this early slate due to weather but it looks like 4 of the 5 games will play and there’s some good spots that I see out there to jump into the early slate action today. The