The pitching section is lean on arms with just three featured this week, and two of them are aces. Furthermore, I’m a huge fan of pairing both five-figure aces highlighted in this piece. With that in mind, the hitters section is littered with bargains in order to facilitate the double-ace lineup build. Having said that, there is a bargain SP2 who stands out as a strong play, and he’ll award gamers who veer from the double-ace lineup the freedom to add another couple of boppers. One of my favorite top-shelf hitting options is included, yet he’s still not that pricey at just $4,900. A 3.5 runs over/under total, per Pinnacle, for one team playing in an extremely pitcher-friendly park will throw gamers off that offense, but I’m an advocate of a three-man stack, and the three lefty killers are part of the reason a double-ace lineup is able to work.

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Pitchers

Chris Sale (BOS): $11,100 vs. White Sox
Justin Verlander has been outstanding this season, but even before accounting for the $1,300 salary discount for spinning down to Sale, the southpaw is the superior play. Sale and the Red Sox are the biggest favorites on the slate at -305, according to Pinnacle, and the Pale Hose’s team over/under total is a measly three runs. The odds numbers alone support Sale as a solid play, but it’s the strikeout potential that makes him a drool-inducing selection at SP1 tonight. Among qualified pitchers this year, Sale ranks third in strikeout rate (34.0% K%), K-BB% (27.5%), and swinging strike percentage (15.4% SwStr%), according to FanGraphs. His elite bat-missing ability pairs nicely with the White Sox struggles avoiding strike three. The White Sox 27.7% K% against lefties this year is the highest in the league by a margin of 1.4%. Sale hasn’t reached double-digit strikeouts in his last four starts, but if you set the over/under total on punchouts at 10.5 for tonight against his former club, I’ll take the over.