Justin Morneau | the DIRTY TURBAN

Happy Patriots Day, my daily degenerates. Let’s do something patriotic to kick off our week like watch baseball, drink beer and invade a small country. USA NUMBER 1!

The other all-American thing we can do is win a few Andrew Jacksons. Not a bad weekend as we went 6/9 in our money games. Yesterday’s picks put up 125.5 total points and easily cashed out across the 50/50’s. Let’s continue the winning as we get one step closer to that winter in Cancun.

The Dirty Turban will be rolling with three different rosters today. Your humble-but-nonetheless-handsome Guru uses a couple different philosophies when playing DFS. 1) A team that features the days best pitcher and a stack of players from a few team that’ll score a lot (hopefully). 2) The days two best pitchers and hitters with the best matchups (good strategy in 50/50 plays).

Today’s team features King Felix and a stack of Rockies who may score 10 runs tonight.

All values are based on DraftKings pricing.

SP 1 – Felix Hernandez, SEA vs. HOU:, $12,500: It’s a pricey play and while Yu Darvish is also pitching today, King Felix will dominate these Astros. Is a no-hitter po$$ible?

SP 2 – Julio Teheran, ATL vs. MIA, $8,100: We’re looking for a good arm at a good price and this $eems low for a pitcher coming off a 35-point performance a week ago.

C – Drew Butera, LAD vs. PHI. $1,900: Total punt play here. Buster Posey is the top catcher today, but he’s pri$ed out of our limit.

1B – Justin Morneau, COL vs. SF, $4,900: The first piece of our Rockies $tack. Morneau gets a bad right-hander in Vogelsong, is hitting at home and is averaging 25+ FPTS over his last three games.

2B – Scooter Gennent, MIL vs. SD, $2,600: The $cooter has been our go-to punt play at second base and as long as he stays cheap we’ll keep rolling with him.

3B – Nolan Arenado, COL vs. SF, $3,900: Good chance for a homer tonight as we’re hoping for a Rocky Mountain high ($core) in Colorado.

SS – Clint Barnes, PIT vs. CIN, $2,200: Yeah, it’s a punt play, but Barnes is 6/17 (.353) against Reds $tarter Mike Leake. If you’re going to punt a position at least find a matchup to exploit.

OF 1 – Carlos Gonzalez, COL vs. SF, $5,500: Make sure to check the lineup and make sure Cargo is in there. He left yesterday’s game with some knee pain. However, we expect him to play. We also expect three homers. Ok, we won’t get greedy. How ’bout$ two?

OF 2 – Charlie Blackmon, COL vs. SF, $4,500: Charlie will be hitting leadoff, is averaging 12+ FPTS over his last three and will have plenty of chances to score tonight as he rounds out our Rockie $tack.

OF 3 – Nick Swisher, CLE vs. KC, $3,800: Liking the Indians bats today vs. Jeremy Guthrie and could see doing another team with a stack from Cleveland. But why get greedy? $wish is 12/33 for 2 homers off Guthrie and the price is right.

Good luck and remember to always check daily lineups and weather conditions.

Featured Writer: The Guru
@TheGuruGS
#TheDirtyTurban

Happy Easter, our dear daily degenerates. Ready to shove some cash in your Easter basket? It’s been a good week for us on DraftKings and we looked to double up last night. However, our pitching – namely Matt “Good For Nuthin'” Garza pooped his pants and things looked lost…that is until Ryan Braun poked his second homer of the night and we cashed all five of our 50/50’s! KA-CHING! Whatever HGH/Cadbury egg concoction Braun is swilling let’s hope he keeps it up.

We have 16 games on the slate this Easter Sunday as we look to continue our winning ways. There are a number of quality pitching options that come at a hefty price including Stephen Strasburg. Taking a look at hitters expect folks to stack the Rockies/Phillies game, but it’ll cost you. Today we are looking for quality and quantity and that should keep us in the money.

Here’s the Dirty Turban roster we’re rolling with today 4/20 *cough cough*

All values are based on DraftKings pricing.

SP 1 – Yordana Ventura, MIN at KC, $10,000: Spending big here, but not as much $trasburg will cost you. The Royal rookie is averaging 25+ FPTS in his first two starts this year and gets a Twinkies team that is fourth in the AL in strikeouts.

SP 2 – Homer Bailey, CIN at CHC, $8,500: We’re relying on our friends over at Razzball here as they project Bailey as the fifth best start of the day. Don’t $teer us wrong.

C – Mike Napoli, BAL at BOS, $4,500: Nap isn’t a catcher anymore, but don’t tell DraftKings that. The bearded Bunyan has two homer$ in four at-bats vs. Orioles starter Jimenez.

1B – Justin Morneau, PHI at COL, $4,700: There will be a lot of Rockies/Phillies stacks today as Vega$ has the o/u at 10. Morneau had a homer last night and has a good chance for another one today.

2B – Scooter Gennent, MIL at PIT, $2,600: $cooter is our go-to punt play and why not, he’s averaging nearly six points a game in his last four.

3B – Eric Sogard, HOU at OAK, $3,100: Kinda, maybe, sorta a punt but $ogard’s hiiting .571 against Lastros started Brad “Beautiful Plumage” Peacock.

SS – Cliff Pennington, ARI at LAD, $2,900: Another spot we look to $ave and it helps that Cliff kills Josh “The Gerbil” Beckett with a .500 average.

OF 1 – Jacoby Ellsbury, NYY at TB, $4,900: Ells is facing a lefty, but his splits aren’t that much different. The chance to hit, steal, score runs and maybe send one deep against a guy names Cesar making his first start of the year is just too good to pa$$ up.

OF 2 – Melky Cabrera, TOR at CLE, $4,900: Melky is off to a hot $tart averaging nearly 9 1/2 FPTS a game and is 4/8 with a homer off Indians starter Carrasco.

OF 3 – Jonny Gomes, BAL at BOS, $3,700: Gomes is playing in the only night game and we’ll cross our fingers he’s in the lineup. No reason he shouldn’t be as Gomes has two career homers off Ubaldo. Actually, all the $ox kill Ubaldo and could make a good $tack.

Good luck and remember to always check daily lineups and weather conditions.

Featured Writer: The Guru
@TheGuruGS
#TheDirtyTurban