Daily Dime: Ride the hot hand with Betts, Grichuk, Gregorius
Full slate Sunday, let's get to it. Your lineups are here, your weather is here.
Joey Votto, 1B. vs. MIA (Phelps), $4000: He’s not the priciest of the first sackers on Father’s Day, but he is at home against an ordinary right-hander. David Phelps has a 4.31 ERA and 1.26 WHIP on the road this season.
Didi Gregorius, SS, vs. DET (Sanchez), $2400: His overall stats don’t look like much, but he’s homered in two straight games and is moved up to the No. 2 position for Sunday. Yankee Stadium can be an awfully small park in the daytime.
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Randal Grichuk, OF, at PHI (Morgan), $3200: The price has come up, but Grichuk’s play has forced it. He’s homered three times in two days, and gets a leadoff assignment against a nondescript left-hander. That will work. The St. Louis offense has been just fine without Matt Holliday.
Mookie Betts, OF, at KC (Young), $3200: I wanted to throw things when he was asked to bunt Saturday, but with 15 hits in six games, it’s been the best of Betts lately. If he gets on base Sunday against Young, stealing second won’t be too hard.
Michael Wacha, SP, at PHI (Morgan), $8800: You never know how many strikeouts to expect, but I’d stream anyone against this Philadelphia lineup right now.
Charlie Morton, SP, at WAS (Gonzalez), $7900: I'm not going to sweat the strikeouts if he keeps getting ground-balls by the truckload. And no one knows what to expect from erratic Gio Gonzalez these days.
Lorenzo Cain, OF, vs. BOS (Miley), $2800: He's a lefty-masher at a giveaway price, and Wade Miley is someone we generally want to pick on, no matter his recent success.
Mark Reynolds, 1B, at PHI (Morgan), $3200: He doesn't have the profile of a platoon masher, but he's been productive when asked to play, he's slotted cleanup, and we want exposure against Adam Morgan.
Brock Holt, 3B, at KC (Young), $3300:
The Red Sox needs to simply give him a starting job and leave him alone. Holt’s OBP is over .400 for the year, and he’s on a 1.357 OPS tear over his last five starts. A perfect No. 1 or No. 2 hitter, whatever Boston feels like.
Jean Segura, SS, at COL (Rusin), $3100: A very affordable option in the thin air, and the opposing pitcher is someone exploitable. Ryan Braun, Aramis Ramirez and Jon Lucroy are other right-handed Brewers to punch up for the late slate.
Evan Gattis, C, at SEA (Happ), $3500: It’s something of a pay-up price, but Gattis draws a beatable lefty and he’s done work against the Mariners this year.
David Peralta, OF, vs. SD (Cashner), $2700: Against a big lie like Andrew Cashner, I’d like to give some run to affordable Arizona lefties. Peralta certainly fits that bill, along with third baseman Jake Lamb (3K).
Charlie Blackmon, OF, vs MIL (Garza), $4100: It sounds like a pricy ticket, but Matt Garza isn’t fooling anyone this year and Blackmon is on a 7-for-17 binge this homestand (homer, two bags). Other Colorado lefties in Sunday’s lineup: Carlos Gonzalez, Ben Paulsen, switcher Rafael Ynoa.
