Freelance Baseball

This is the last day of the baseball post-season where we’re assured of at least three games. The problem being, we won’t know if there’s going to be a fourth until later on tonight. I’ll proceed as if there will be four, unless it becomes more than apparent there won’t be before completion.

Today, we cover the two ALCS Game Threes in Detroit (early) and New York (late). It’s an earlier weekday start than Monday by two hours, a 4pm ET start in Detroit with the game in New York four hours later.

We cover a pair of NLDS games on Monday. The Brewers, after a week off, going with a bullpen game. It sounds sketchy. Opening with a lefty (Ashby), sounds like a vehicle to either clear the LHBs or produce a better lineup for someone like Priester to follow, but we’ll cover that more below.

To answer the question that must be burning in all 20 of your minds, why are we here on a Saturday? It’s because this may our last four game late of the season. We’ll cover each Game One and gives some thoughts on each series and try to be here every day there are multiple games except for Sundays the rest of the way.

As we write this open, we’re only assured of two games on Thursday, but a third does seem realistic, considering how much the Yankees were favored by on Wednesday. We don't have DFS prices either because we don't know which teams will be playing yet. 

Of course, the second day of wild card week is a potential knockout game for all four series. We won’t rehash full series notes as much as we did on Tuesday. This will be mostly about each individual Game Two.

We’ll start out Wild Card coverage with a slightly sour, frustrating note. You won’t notice the effects here, but I woke up to find that table capture would not let me transfer more than 250 lines free. They wanted $10 for up to 1000, which is fine and covers most of our data. Except for the individual pitch stats. Take a few hundred pitchers times an average of three to five pitches and now they wanted $120 for more than 1000 lines. It seems like everyone is profiting from this venture except for me.

We're still a full 3pm slate away from the completion of the regular 162 game season as I write this. And let me say that I hate the every game starting at the same time garbage. However, now seemed the optimal time to recap September and the regular season here, getting it out of the way before working on the first four Wild Card games scheduled for Tuesday. 

The last Thursday of the regular season features 12 games, five in the afternoon and six of the seven evening or later games on the main daily fantasy slate. 

Eleven of 15 games are on the main daily fantasy slate for the last Tuesday of the regular season. We’ll have one more large evening slate on Friday.

A large Friday slate includes 12 games on the main daily fantasy slate with plenty of interesting pitchers.

Ten games on the Thursday board is not really a small slate, but with only four on the evening main daily fantasy slate, it’ll be just the initial run through today without the afternoon DFS update.