Daily Dime: Eight hitters under a blood red sky
This is what I wanted to do: build a Daily Fantasy Lineup with all of my hitters from the Coors Field special between the Giants (hiya, Rusin) and the Rockies (we’ll get you, Vogelsong). The game total is set for 11 runs, well ahead of everything on the Thursday card.
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I couldn’t get Buster Posey or Nolan Arenado into the mix, but I did get eight hitters I like, plus two pitchers I can live with.
Who’s with me? Here are the starters; we'll defend them below.
The beauty of the San Francisco side of the stack is that it doesn’t even cost that much. Pagan and Tomlinson are the 1-2 hitters and go for a collective $21. We have to accept Juan Perez at $7 just to make the salaries fit, and Posey and Marlon Byrd were an eyelash out of the price range. But we also get Matt Duffy hitting third ($17), and three key pieces of the Colorado offense (Hundley, Paulsen, Cargo). There’s a lot of platoon advantage in our Great Eight – only Hundley doesn’t enjoy it Thursday night.
Taylor Jungmann ($45) is a reasonable play at home, even against the playoff-bound Pirates. Jungmann carries a 1.50 ERA in front of Bernie Brewer, he’s been murder on right-handed batters (Pittsburgh’s lineup is RHB heavy), and he won’t be facing Andrew McCutchen here.
Mat Latos ($38) isn't my favorite option, but he's working in a big park (at San Diego) and drawing a weak opponent (Colin Rea). If you want all that Colorado offense, you have to take some chances elsewhere. The Dodgers also check in as -142 favorites.
