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MLB DFS Picks and Pivots: Aug. 28 – Coors is King!

By Brian Tulloch

DENVER, CO - AUGUST 27: A general view of the stadium as the Boston Red Sox face the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on August 27, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
DENVER, CO - AUGUST 27: A general view of the stadium as the Boston Red Sox face the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on August 27, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images) /
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DENVER, CO – AUGUST 27: A general view of the stadium as the Boston Red Sox face the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on August 27, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images) /

MLB DFS – Building Our Bats:

Another night of the Red Sox in Coors Field and with Peter Lambert on the mound and an 8+ IRT as of this writing, this is once again is the core piece of my builds tonight where I will argue ownership simply does not matter once again.

Listen, I get fading the chalk for ownership sake but there are times where eating the chalk is the right move and when you have one of the best offenses in baseball heading to the best hitters park in the league against a bad pitcher, I see no reason to get cute. Now, add on the fact that we will see a 20-degree jump from last night with game time temperatures at 94 degrees and this could be another double-digit night for the Red Sox bats.

Lambert is giving up a .230+ ISO mark to hitters from both sides of the plate this season and with the top 4 in this Boston line-up all sporting .244 or higher ISO marks against RHP since the start of 2018 – well, you can understand why eating the chalk makes sense. Mookie, J.D., Devers and Xander are a core four for me tonight and with Andrew Benintendi likely out until later this week (keep an eye on the lineup to confirm), we could see Mitch Moreland once again move to the 5th spot in the order.

While the Red Sox were heavy chalk last night, it was interesting to see the disparity in ownership in the same game as guys like Nolan Arenado (9%) and Charlie Blackmon (15%) were owned at far less clips than guys like Mookie/JD who were both well over 30% in the FantasyDraft Home Run GPP.

Tonight, I think we could see a similar trend and with a lefty on the mound in Eduardo Rodriguez and Blackmon being the only bat at $10K or higher on Colorado, you can actually get a nice discount on a Colorado team that still has a 6+ IRT in the same advantageous hitting conditions. We have a lefty on the mound in Coors, so the flow chart tells us to follow the dotted line – lefty, Coors, play Nolan Arenado and Trevor Story. Adding in Ian Desmond ($7.6K) to a three man here gives you three bats with .241, .291 and .310 ISO marks against LHP this season.

While last night’s cheap arms allowed us to pay up for a one-off, tonight I think we need to enact the #FreeSquare rule on FantasyDraft where we have a few bats at a minimum price including Oakland’s Seth Brown ($3.9K) who should once again find himself in the heart of the A’s order against Jakob Junis and the Royals. On FantasyDraft where we need to have batters from 3 teams, using a punt one-off like Brown opens up so many high ceiling roster paths and on a night where Coors is king – it makes him a key to unlocking that path.