Welcome to MLB DraftKings Saturday! Baseball is finally back which means that we can now double up on our DFS addictions with late-season NBA and some early-season MLB action. It’s a seven-game main slate for tonight, and all lineup suggestions will be geared for tourney play.
If you’ve played MLB DFS before, you probably already know the strategy to take down a tourney – select the top two pitching plays and stack two teams in hopes that they score a whole bunch of runs. Much easier said than done. Let’s first take a look at my top two pitching plays for the night:
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Pitchers
Yu Darvish (CHC): $12,200 @ MIA
Yu Darvish will be making his Cubs debut tonight after signing a lucrative six-year, $126 million contract this offseason. Darvish is clearly the premier pitching play and his price reflects it as he is $2,100 more than the second-highest-priced pitcher, Zack Greinke. With a weak pitching slate overall, it will be hard to pass on Darvish who is one of two pitchers averaging more than five strikeouts per game over his last ten. The Vegas stats are favorable as well with the Marlins being the only team on the slate projected to score less than 3.5 runs (3.22) and the Cubs have a projected win percentage of 66.6%, the highest on the slate.
