Brian Walton, of Mastersball.com, sent in his picks for this week late in the afternoon yesterday, and we didn’t get a chance to compile them with the others. He wrote:
Hitter (3B): Evan Longoria ($5100) My top spend on a hitter on Friday is on Tampa Bay third baseman Evan Longoria. This will be the eighth year Longoria has faced Baltimore starter Chris Tillman, so there is certainly familiarity. Over his career against Tillman, Longoria is 16-for-49 (.327), including 10 extra-base hits of which six were long balls.
Pitcher: Yordano Ventura ($7300) Ventura and the Royals draw the Twins at home Friday night. In five career starts against them, the right-hander has held the Twins to a collective .231 batting average and logged 10.8 strikeouts per nine.
On a night when no one paid up for Trevor Story, Walton’s picks paid off when combined with solid nights from Jean Segura, Scooter Gennett, Taijuan Walker and Stephen Piscotty.
Other top finishers include Doug Anderson (also rostered Ventura and Longoria, but his big hitter was Chris Carter), Patrick Mayo (got big games from Chris Tillman and Delino Deshields), Michael Beller (Tillman and Ventura and Deshields), and Tom Kessenich (went his own way, with Jaime Garcia, Taijuan Walker, Scooter Gennett and Jean Segura).
Jeff Boggis’s lineup (led by Brock Holt and Starling Marte) was submitted on time but because of a technical glitch landed in the wrong place. He’ll get credit for a fourth place finish.
The rest of the Top 10 finishers were Rotoman, Scott Engel, Gene McCaffrey, Scott Pianowski, Rudy Gamble, Jason Collette and Ron Shandler (the last three in a tie for 10th).
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