The daily grind: 9-20
The Daily Grind provides daily match-up advice based on my every-morning waiver wire search. I welcome advice to help make this column more effective. Ownership rates are from Yahoo!
The Fanduel picks are a mixture of Daily League specific advice and information for the more typical fantasy owner.
Today’s grind
Those in leagues with same-day moves should refer back to yesterday’s table.
The Fanduel Daily League Players of the Day are:
Pitcher (to start): Not the best day to stream pitchers.
Tyler Skaggs squares off against Clayton Richard today. Both pitchers are streamable for different reasons, but neither is particularly desirable.
If that’s not floating your boat, Ross Detwiler and Tommy Milone are respectable pitchers, but both are facing decent offenses in the Dodgers and Tigers.
Pitcher (bum): I expect the Phillies to get to Jeremy Hefner, but maybe that’s unreasonable. If you want something more sure-fire, the Reds are likely to be rude to Jason Berken.
Hitter (power): Today features some good power bats on the wire, all with the platoon advantage. These include Seth Smith, Brandon Moss, Andruw Jones, Domonic Brown and Delmon Young.
Hitter (speed): Carlos Gomez is back again. He could provide a little pop too.
Tomorrow’s grind
Some guy named Chris Carpenter is starting today. I need not warn you that it’s been a long time since he has faced major league hitters, but here I am warning you anyway.
Jarrod Parker against the Yankees? Kyle Kendrick versus the Braves? I don’t think so, but you might. If you use either, good luck.
Martin Perez is up against the Mariners. Obviously, the match-up is great, but I haven’t bought into Perez’s readiness quite yet.
I’m not terribly excited about tomorrow’s options. I would be looking in the direction of Jon Jay, David DeJesus, Chris Johnson or Brandon Belt. If all you need are stolen bases, you could also try Ben Revere.
Reliever watch
If you live somewhere with internet access, you’ve probably heard that top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy has been activated to serve in the Orioles bullpen. The impact this season is probably zero, but keeper leagues should have already made their move.
With my pitching leads is it time to improve my offense for last few days of championship or since those categories are so close just hope everything holds up and keep streaming?
Score: 7-1-2 (winning)
R:9-9
HR:2-2
RBI:21-13 (winning)
SB:4-2 (winning)
AVG:.276-.277(losing)
W:5-0 (winning)
SV:6-1 (winning)
K:31-11(winning)
ERA:1.90-8.18 (winning)
WHIP:1.10-1.82 (winning)
Move count left for week:
Me – 3 (already have Friday streamer)
Them – 5
Starts left (not including streamers)
Me – Grienke vs Tex,Wandy vs Mil,Vogelsong vs SD,Bumgarner vs SD,Dempster@SEA,Gallardo@WAS
Them – Fiers@Pit,Detwiler vs LAD,Sanchez vs OAK,Kendrick vs ATL,Moore vs TOR,Minor@PHI,
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My offense
C – Weiters
1B – Reynolds (1B,3B)
2B – Nelson (2B,3B)
3B – Hanley (3B,SS)
SS – Aybar
OF – Granderson/Gordon/Harper/Aoki
UTIL – Pedroia
BN – Seager (2B,3B,SS)
His offense
C – Posey
1B – AdGon
2B – Cano
3B – Headley
SS – Castro
OF – McCutch/Pence/Willingham/Jackson
UTIL – Arod
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Bats available – Rizzo,Smoak,Alonso,Callaspo,Marte,Utley,
McClouth,Barney,Sandoval,Alvarez,Forsythe,Plouffe,Brown
Yes. Focus the rest of your resources on offense.
I think that Hefner pick might have been my best since Humber’s perfecto. At the moment, 0.0 IP, 4 R, bases loaded (all his), and McHugh coming in.
We’ll see how it ends…
wow, Bluff, you own the likes of Nelson, Aybar, Seager, and Reynolds, but Utley, Panda, and Rizzo are all available? run. quick. drop nelson for utley, Aybar for Panda(move HanRam to SS), and Reynolds for Rizzo
He only has about 2-3 moves left for the week if I recall. I would reserve 1 in case he needs a Sunday miracle.