Four games, 3:07 lock. Blake Snell is the only ace on this board who's actually pitching today. He's my first pitcher at $11,400. After that, the slate is about who you don't click.
Look at the top of the pitcher list. Tarik Skubal is $11,000, Chris Sale is $11,000, Yoshinobu Yamamoto is $10,800, Tyler Glasnow is $10,700, and Dylan Cease is $10,400 with an IL tag. None of them is a probable today on MLB.com. Skubal went Friday night. Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr, Sept. 26) wrote that he "dominated" the Giants ([link](https://x.com/billplunkettocr/status/2103713689132290071)). Every one of those salaries is a zero.
Snell has a DTD tag on DraftKings. MLB.com and ESPN both list him as the Dodgers' probable at San Francisco, 4-1 with a 1.86 ERA and 52 strikeouts. Plunkett had the same matchup on Sept. 25: Snell against LHP Matt Wilkinson in the Saturday game ([link](https://x.com/billplunkettocr/status/2103508576056570016)). I trust the probable over the tag. His game starts at 4:05, almost an hour after lock, so late swap covers you if something changes.
Trey Yesavage is my second arm at $8,900. He's 5-5 with a 3.67 ERA and 94 strikeouts per MLB.com, and he's facing Rhett Lowder. Nathan Eovaldi at $8,100 is the pivot, 11-10 with 4.27 and 141 strikeouts. Bailey Ober is $7,400 and fine. I'm not spending up to Snell to save money on the second spot.
The stack is Atlanta. Miami's probable is Jack Ralston, a reliever: 0-2, 4.50, 17 strikeouts. That's a bullpen day, and the Braves have the bats for it. ESPN has Matt Olson at 41 homers. He's $5,300. Michael Harris II is hitting .290 with 26 homers at $4,300. Drake Baldwin is the catcher, .281 with 24 homers at $4,600. Ronald Acuña Jr. is $5,800 with 20 homers and 21 steals in 106 games. If you have to drop one, drop Acuña for Ozzie Albies at $3,900.
Toronto against Lowder is the second stack. Lowder's 6-12 with a 6.01 ERA. Kazuma Okamoto has 33 homers at $4,300, and Alejandro Kirk is hitting .282 at $4,000. You can pair them with Yesavage. That's the same team.
Leave the cheap IL tags alone. Rafael Devers at $2,200 and Byron Buxton at $2,000 are both tagged IL. Josh Jung is out. Brett Bateman is day-to-day and $4,200, and I don't need him.
Snell, Yesavage, and four Braves. Build around that. @numeric_dfs
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