The daily grind: 9-3
by Brad JohnsonSeptember 03, 2012
The Daily Grind provides daily match-up advice based on my every-morning waiver wire search. I welcome advice to help make this column more effective. Ownership rates are from Yahoo!
The Fanduel picks are a mixture of Daily League specific advice and information for the more typical fantasy owner.
A call to arms: With September games underway, playing time trends can become unpredictable. I can't watch 30 teams at once so if you discover a trend that can be leveraged, please share.
Today's grind
The Fanduel Daily League Players of the Day are:
Pitcher (to start):Ross Detwiler is fairly reliable and it's hard to ask for a better match-up than the Cubs.
I don't know much about Jeff Locke besides his minor league numbers, but said numbers are good and the Astros lineup is not.
I'm an early fan of Patrick Corbin and I expect he'll survive his match-up with the division leading Giants just fine.
Pitcher (bum): If you're looking for a bum today, it's Bruce Chen against the Rangers. Alternatively, I don't see the Brewers being too kind to Ricky Nolasco.
Hitter (power): Jonny Gomes against C.J. Wilson tops the list of power options today. That list trails off surprisingly quick, mostly because there are a lot of solid pitchers going today.
Hitter (speed): Rajai Davis will have the platoon advantage against a thoroughly mediocre pitcher. Jon Jay has a fair match-up and could score a handful of points.
Tomorrow's grind
Kyle Kendrick is on the best run of his lifetime, allowing only four runs over his last four starts. I know some of my readers will want to ride the wave. Good luck to you, I'm going to observe from a distance.
You can try Jarrod Parker against the Angels, because he's a solid pitcher and he at least has the Oakland Coliseum on his side to slow down the Angels' powerful lineup.
Scott Hairston stands out as possessing a strong match-up.
Carlos Gomez and Norichika Aoki get to face Jacob Turner, who simply isn't ready for MLB hitters.
Our old favorite David Murphy should turn in a couple of hits against Jeremy Guthrie.
Tommy Hanson has struggled lately (to the point that I cut him in a league), which is why I like Tyler Colvin tomorrow.
Reliever watch
The Phillies received an ugly combined effort from Jeremy Horst and Jonathan Papelbon that ended in a Chipper Jones walk-off home run. The Phillies will overreact in the offseason to "fix" their struggling bullpen, but clearly Papelbon is more than safe at this point.
A question
I'm thinking about taking my down time today to experiment with a subtle format change. Basically, I would be moving the table behind the scenes and going back to reporting only the top match-ups of the day. I hope to provide some additional information as well.
My question is: given that we're in the stretch run, should I wait until next season to try a new format?
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