The Daily Grind: Holding Down The Fort II

by
July 5, 2019

FanGraphs is mostly dark for a second straight day. And I’ll be using it as an excuse for a truncated column. I’m saving my efforts this day for a Peripheral Prospects post.

AGENDA

  1. TDG Invitational
  2. Weather Reports
  3. Pitchers to Use and Abuse
  4. Life

1.The Daily Grind Invitational

Johnson119 didn’t even need Danny Jansen‘s double-dong to win last night. A fiery Braves stack was more than enough including Dansby Swanson’s double-dong. All told, there were three double-dongs in just four games. Nobody rostered Rougned Odor. Congrats and Leaderboard.

We’re on FantasyDraft for a normal 13-game slate. I’m expecting another large overlay – we had only 35 entries last night.

You Aren't a FanGraphs Member
It looks like you aren't yet a FanGraphs Member (or aren't logged in). We aren't mad, just disappointed.
We get it. You want to read this article. But before we let you get back to it, we'd like to point out a few of the good reasons why you should become a Member.
1. Ad Free viewing! We won't bug you with this ad, or any other.
2. Unlimited articles! Non-Members only get to read 10 free articles a month. Members never get cut off.
3. Dark mode and Classic mode!
4. Custom player page dashboards! Choose the player cards you want, in the order you want them.
5. One-click data exports! Export our projections and leaderboards for your personal projects.
6. Remove the photos on the home page! (Honestly, this doesn't sound so great to us, but some people wanted it, and we like to give our Members what they want.)
7. Even more Steamer projections! We have handedness, percentile, and context neutral projections available for Members only.
8. Get FanGraphs Walk-Off, a customized year end review! Find out exactly how you used FanGraphs this year, and how that compares to other Members. Don't be a victim of FOMO.
9. A weekly mailbag column, exclusively for Members.
10. Help support FanGraphs and our entire staff! Our Members provide us with critical resources to improve the site and deliver new features!
We hope you'll consider a Membership today, for yourself or as a gift! And we realize this has been an awfully long sales pitch, so we've also removed all the other ads in this article. We didn't want to overdo it.

If you have not signed up for FantasyDraft, please use this referral link for tracking purposes. If I understand properly, by using the referral, you will receive a 10 percent return on any rakes you pay.

2. Weather Reports

While not quite all clear, we shouldn’t see anything that causes a delay.

3. Pitchers to Use and Abuse

Let’s just step through some buckets today. The pricey studs are Justin Verlander, Jacob deGrom, and Clayton Kershaw. I’d pass on Kershaw at his price but have no issue with using the others. None have desirable matchups.

The upper mid-tier is Zack Greinke, Masahiro Tanaka, and Jordan Yamamoto. Greinke looks like an excellent value opposite the sea level rockies. Yamamoto is a HARD pass. In fact… see below.

The normal mid-tier is composed of Eduardo Rodriguez, Dylan Bundy, Austin Voth, and Michael Pineda. Pass on Pineda, soft pass on Voth who has a nice matchup against the Royals but is fairly unimpressive. Yes please to ERod in Detroit. I’m undecided about Bundy who remains homer prone but has otherwise righted the ship. The Blue Jays lineup does struggle more often than not.

The bottom of the barrel is crowded. Marcus Stroman, Dakota Hudson, and Julio Teheran stand out both for possessing decent ceilings and pairings against scrubtastic opponents.

Favorite Plays: Verlander, Greinke, ERod, Hudson

Stack Targets: Yamamoto, Pineda, Noe Ramirez, Yusei Kikuchi, Ryan Carpenter, Antonio Senzatela, Steven Brault, Zach Davies, Eric Lauer, Brad Keller, Brett Anderson, Adrian Sampson, Vince Velazquez

So, uh, offense gonna go off tonight, huh?

4. Life

An exciting finish in Florida. Lowe brushed the black of the plate with his fingertip then Joey Wendle scored on a ball through Gary Sanchez’s five-hole. In the top of the 10th, DJ LeMahieu delivers another clutch hit followed by redemption for Sanchez.

The Cardinals seem to like Tommy Edman.

We’ve been waiting for life from Jansen all season.





 

You can follow me on twitter @BaseballATeam

3 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Sellys
6 years ago

I’m not sure how much the Jays offense has struggled the last little while. Since getting smoked (Smoaked?) 22-4 in a 3 game series against the Diamondbacks, the Jays have scored 142 runs in 23 games by my count. 6 runs per game isn’t that bad is it? Admittedly that’s some arbitrary endpoints.

1
MatthewMember since 2017
6 years ago
Reply to  Sellys

didn’t Cavan Biggio and Lourdes Gurriel come up around then? May be some context to support that relative range…

0