It's the oldest trick in DFS. Blah blah blah Rockies blah blah blah Coors blah blah blah all the money. It's true. If you are the type to play multiple lineups in a day (as I do in low dollar contests), it behooves you to follow the blah blah and build a Rockies stack, as well as their opponent. Right now, it's the Los Angeles Dodgers, the same early season juggernaut that sees them second in road wOBA and tops overall against RHP.
Sometimes the Coors stack goes awry, but not in this series. It's been some delicious soft serve home runs for many of the participants, largely due to the usual questionable Rockies pitching. Now Wednesday starter Chad Bettis has been better than most Rockies starters. After all, he does sport a spiffy 3.42 SIERA, which isolates the actual skills of the pitchers. He also has missed 10% of the bats he's faced so far this season, a good measure of the man. Same for the other side, where Michael Bolsinger has surprised, sporting a shiny 3.14 SIERA of his own.
(Sidenote: For comparison sake, Corey Kluber has a 2.45 SIERA, Chris Sale a 3.08 and Mark Buehrle is saddled with a 4.64 number.)
So does that mean you shy away from the game? By no means! There are some excellent bats to target, provided they are playing. In the interest of staying away from this obvious stack below the weekly DraftKings contest invite, here are the names I am tracking for the game today, presented without comment:
Michael McKenry, C: $3,400
Ben Paulsen, 1B: $3,300
Alexander Guerrero, 3B/OF: $3,700
Andre Ethier, OF: $4,400
Joc Pederson, OF: $5,100
The other guys, like Troy Tulowitzki, Nolan Arenado and Adrian Gonzalez, I would love to roster and with some of the picks below, maybe you can fit them in without sacrificing starting pitching. Good luck!
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