Well that was fun right? Hope everybody had a great time yesterday hopefully hanging out with friends and family eating and drinking to your heart’s content. Cooked up some ribs and everybody devoured them so I guess my contribution to the gathering was a hit(or there wasn’t anything else). Played a little DFS yesterday did pretty good with the White Sox and Padres in some games so off we go to today where we have a nice tidy 11 game slate to discuss. My focus pitcher on today’s games is Max Fried ($9,100). If you watched the Brave game yesterday or highlights it went back and forth all game between the Marlins and the Braves pulled it out in extra innings on a pinch hit base hit by none other than your boy Max Fried. The way he celebrated it looked like he had just pitched a perfect game or something it was pretty cool to see. Fried has been pitching well of late after a dismal April and has a tasty matchup today against the Pirates who look pretty awful right now and other than the Diamondbacks have to be one of the worst teams in the league at the moment. Fantasy players are usually indifferent towards Fried as he can be sometimes soft at times and gets nicked up and misses starts but in certain situations Fried can really be dominant. Two starts stand out to me both in May where he went against the Dodgers and Cardinals and pitched a combined 13 innings with 13 k’s and only gave up 2 ER. Both of those starts where at home where Fried has pitched better but this road match up is just too good to pass up. The Pirates are throwing Chase Dejong out there who has not pitched well and I don’t see the Braves losing here. I think Fried carries his momentum from last night’s game into tonight’s game and pitches very well. Fried is one of the best pitchers right now at limiting hard contact and exit velocity and the lineup the Pirates threw out there against another lefty on Saturday (Lauer) had C Stallings in the 4th spot and guys like Oliva Evans and Newman in the starting lineup so the only righty batter that can really cause some damage is KeBryan Hayes. I think Fried will be owned significantly but with Gausman Woodruff Buehler and Musgrove there are other options that will lower his ownership. I think Fried goes at least 7 INN with 5 Hits 1 ER and 7 K’s and gets the win today.

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