It’s the third week of the second period of Tout Daily. Clay Link and Gene McCaffrey have a good lead for the Golden Tickets into the championship. There’s a heated battle for the final ticket. Check your favorite Tout’s plight on the Leaderboard.
Here’s where some of us are looking to anchor our lineups.
Jeff Boggis (Fantasy Football Empire, @JeffBoggis)
Gerrit Cole: He’s now thrown a quality start in all eight starts since joining the Astros and has an outstanding 13.7 K/9 and 1.43 ERA.
Adam Jones: Value play of the day. His .259 batting average this season is lower than normal and I see this increasing (hopefully tonight).
Lawr Michaels (CreativeSports2, @lawrmichaels)
Zack Greinke: Greinke comes in with 53 whiffs over 48.6 frames and faces the Brewers who have struck out 284 times facing righies, and with Grienke hurling at home, let’s give him the advantage.
Carlos Santana: Switch-hitting Santana (.320-4-14 last week) travels to Baltimore and faces the completely hittable Andrew Cashner, his 4.80 ERA and 1.50 WHIP.
Todd Zola (Mastersball, @toddzola)
Noah Syndergaard: With the warning the game is in peril along with all the east coast contests, the Jays are without the DH, facing a well-rested Thor at a price below the other aces.
John Hicks: Josh Tomlin has allowed 13 homers in 25.2 innings. ‘Nuff said.
Gene McCaffrey (Wise Guy Baseball, @WiseGuyGene)
Eduardo Rodriguez: High K’s and low hard-hirt rate have me leaning to Eduardo Rodriguez as a salary saver.
Mookie Betts: Mookie Betts is very expensive at $5900 but he’s great and he’s on a roll and I doubt the A’s staff will stop him.
Ray Murphy (BaseballHQ, @RayHQ)
Eduardo Rodriguez: Sub-10k, at home, favorable matchup… but watching the weather closely.
Andrew Benintendi: Also watching weather here, but at home vs. Daniel Mengden at a favorable price… and he’s warming up.
Jason Collette (Rotowire, @jasoncollette)
Jack Flaherty: not a bad price – coming off an outing with 25 swings and misses in Triple-A as that slider is looking sharp
Joey Gallo:
Clay Link (Rotowire, @claywlink)
Jack Flaherty: Was thinking about paying up for E-Rod as my SP2, but the weather has scared me off. I’ll pivot and go with Flaherty.
Marcell Ozuna: I am becoming increasingly concerned with Jose Berrios and Ozuna has finally come on at the plate, collecting multiple hits in three of his last four games. At $3,600, he’s cost-effective.