WEATHER
No issues, all games play.
PITCHING
It really looks like a garbage slate in terms of pitching but most of that is due to a lack of strikeout potential today. I do think we’ll see the pitchers do alright today across the board but nobody is going off with a 25 or a 30 today. Doosan’s pitcher, Je Young Jo, is making his debut and is not in the DraftKings player pool. So given that I really don’t like anyone but I also don’t hate anyone, where should we go?
Should we go with the $10,100 priced Hyun Jong Yang? He’s the best strikeout arm on the slate and faces a lineup that is heavy with lefties in it — but is getting back their cleanup bat in Baek Ho Kang? 10.1k? No thanks.
How about Casey Kelley (Not Min Ho Lee as previously reported) starting against the lowly SK Wyverns? No thanks, he is coming off a rough start and I don’t see the heavy upside there.
No, my friends. We are going full Dongers Club theories here. The Hanwha Eagles manager resigned which lead to North Korea saying today that they are cutting all ties with South Korea right now. Seems like a pretty drastic measure on North Korea’s part, but I got it on good intel that North Korea has put a kill out today if the “We screw the Dongers Club a” Lotte Giants beat Hanwha with an interim manager. So let’s drink a beer, go to sleep and wake up to a nice 6 inning performance from our Low Rider.
Of course I am speaking of Warwick Saupold – $9500 – Hanwha Eagles
Who gets to face our ole Eleanor the Lotte Giants in a stadium that I have been hyping up for the past few days despite getting constantly burned by it. This should go really well.
Okay… So what’s next?
Oh. You need me to pick a second pitcher?
Fine, I’ll do the “smart” thing here and go with … no, you know what.
We are going full fraud tout today.
That’s right ladies and gentlemen. Hold the phone. We got an idea here. I’m telling you, all the crazies approve of this one…
That’s right ladies and gentlemen and aliens who are about to invade America now that COVID is over and our short attention spans are wading from social justice.
Obviously I am talking about a HEDGE play. And here’s how it’s gonna work.
We roster BOTH pitchers in the Hanwha-Lotte game. Yes. Both Warwick Saupold and the pitcher on the other team. We play that on our main lineup and then we just do a second lineup which is a full game stack…. Nevermind that the other pitcher is Adrian Sampson, don’t sweat that part. This is the play folks. Eleanor (Lotte’s Stadium) can’t fail us here!
HITTING
So obviously we need good plays to pair for the main lineup and just go Hanwha/Lotte (what the fuck?) on our second lineup.
- KIA TIGERS … They’re my favorite play today and the Tucker-Woo Choi 3/4 combination is expensive but if you punt at pitcher today you can easily get them in a full bat heavy lineup.
- NC DINOS … The obvious chalk today. Usual suspects here with Sung Bum Na and Eui Ji Yang.
- Doosan Bears … They are heavy underdogs because they’re on the road and facing the mighty Dino’s with a pitcher making his debut, but they get an equally bad option on the hill on the other side and we shouldn’t ignore that no doubt they get that 9th inning at bat. Both sides in this game make sense, but Doosan 1-5 is the spot to go heavier on. Unfortunately it’s always hard to stack them because they play 3 positions. I love the price here on Jae Il Oh at $3800 and would make him 1B along with Joo Hwan Choi at 2B for only $2400. Take the value on the road getting that 9th inning AB. They will be extremely low owned against a LHP but have done ok vs southpaws.
POSITIONAL TARGETS
CATCHER
- Eui Ji Yang – Dinos
- Seung Taek Han – Tigers
FIRST BASE
- Jae Il Oh – Bears
- Roberto Ramos – LG
SECOND BASE
- Jin Hyuk No – Dinos … Value play today.
- Joo Hwan Choi – Bears
THIRD BASE
- Tyler Saladino – Lions
- Suk Min Park – Dinos
SHORTSTOP
- Sun Bin Kim – Tigers
- Ha Seong Kim – Heroes
OUTFIELD
- Preston Tucker – Tigers
- Hyung Woo Choi – Tigers
- Ji Wan Na – Tigers
- Sung Bum Na – Dinos
LINEUP CONSTRUCTION
So obviously we need good plays to pair for the main lineup and just go Hanwha/Lotte (what the fuck?) on our second lineup.
- Saupold / Sampson + Mix of optimal plays
- Lotte/Hanwha gamestack with Hyun Jong Yang anchoring the pitching
- Completely punt on pitching and pay up for the studs at the hitting spots.
