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MLB DFS Pitching Primer: Thursday, July 18 – Thor Will Drop The Hammer

By Dan Palyo

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 15: Pitcher Noah Syndergaard #34 of the New York Mets runs back out to the mound to pitch the ninth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates during a game at Citi Field on June 15, 2016 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. The Mets defeated the Pirates 11-2. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 15: Pitcher Noah Syndergaard #34 of the New York Mets runs back out to the mound to pitch the ninth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates during a game at Citi Field on June 15, 2016 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. The Mets defeated the Pirates 11-2. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images) /
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MLB DFS Pitching Primer: Thursday, July 18

Welcome back to the Thursday edition of the MLB DFS Pitching Primer! I’m Thunder Dan and I’ll be covering pitching for MLB DFS on all season long at FanSided Fantasy. I’m including both FanDuel and DraftKings pricing and will be covering my favorite pitching options for both sites.

If you haven’t noticed yet,  FantasyCPR is now officially FanSided Fantasy, you’re one-stop site for everything fantasy sports-related. I know everyone on our staff is really excited about the transition and the opportunity to grow our reach to more fantasy sports fans! Nothing on our end is going to change, we just happen to have a new site to host our articles and we have big plans to continue expanding our content to give our readers the most comprehensive analysis of season-long and DFS, all for free!

Last night we saw some dominant pitching performances from Mike Clevinger, Gerrit Cole and Chris Paddack which is why I (the pitching guy) continue to beat the drum that you need to pay up for pitching on certain slates. A 25% owned Jesse Chavez tanked a lot of lineups as he didn’t get out of the first inning and my mantra will continue to be “play good pitchers more often than bad pitchers who happen to be cheap and in a good matchup.”

Today we have a split slate with 4 games on the early slate and another 8 games (7 on FanDuel) on the main. I will be breaking down the arms for both slates today and giving you my top plays for both cash and GPP contests.

"The goal of the pitching primer is to help you narrow down your pitching options for both your GPPs and cash games. Analyzing pitchers and pitching matchups is something I really enjoy and I hope to give you a detailed analysis of why I think each pitcher makes for a compelling cash or GPP play."

I always like to start by laying everything out for you in my “first look,” which is where I put together a macro look at all the pitchers on today’s slates complete with Vegas odds.