Welcome back for another Opening Day! If this is your first time over on this site, glad to have you. I have made several upgrades over the offseason so ready to get things going! This slate overview will be here as many days as I can swing it. Length may vary depending on how things are going. But really just here to get you in the right mindset and highlight some key points on today’s slate.

Slate Lock Time: 1:10 PM ET!

Tip 1: I know Opening Day is exciting, but let’s keep the bankroll in check today! We will never know as little as we do right now. And pitchers may still be getting built up. Now, let’s dive in!

We have a wide variety of weather today, with Chicago being 51 degrees and a chance of rain at the end of the game. Compared to St. Louis that is 90+ deg and winds blowing out! In general, I would divide the games up like this:

Bump to Bats: MIN @ BAL, BOS @ CIN (cross wind but still warm!), TEX @ PHI, TBR @ STL

Bump to Ps: WSH @ CHC (I think the rain holds off)

Relatively Neutral: PIT @ NYM (cool but wind out to CF), DET @ SDP

Opening Day is always a challenge as we balance multiples aces with varying pitch count build ups.

Tier 1:

Garrett Crochet ($9,700 @ CIN): He actually had a tough spring and in a good hitters park. But he’s still a stud against what I believe will be a below-average Reds lineup. Saw where he is built up to 90+ pitches so it should be full go for Crochet. The savings over Skubal is nice too, but he will carry some ownership.

Tier 2:

Matthew Boyd ($7,300 vs WSH): Boyd is at a great price and is probably the most likely to get you 15 points today. Some of the best Nats hitters are lefties so I expect Boyd will do just fine in this matchup. He is coming in as the highest owned P so that drops him a tier. Use him with more contrarian stacks.