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fan graphs. Hello and welcome to the Field of Streams podcast for Thursday

May 14th. I'm your host, Dylan Higgins. My usual co-host for

Thursday is Brad Johnson, but he has a personal emergency today. It's going to

be flying solo on the podcast, recording just for for you just by myself.

Kind of worried gonna sound like a crazy person with this monologue and we'll probably be keeping it short.

But I want to make sure to get an episode out for you guys today and get some picks that I highlighted that I thought looked okay for

Thursday for you. It's probably a short episode but that'll be okay. I just got back

from the Seattle Mariners game last night where I went and saw the Padres take on Seattle in game two of the Vedder Cup this year,

which I've talked about all week, which was good.

Took some pictures and got some garlic fries, which I'm... which was

supposed to spend 10 minutes on today for Sean Rizalis but it sounds like he's only going to get 10 seconds on it

that said checklist garlic fries dot only going to get 10 seconds on it. That said, checklist. Garlic fries. Done. Anyway, we got a weird split

slate today. Five early games going on and Thursday and then six evening games.

So it was two opportunities to play some DFS, including starting really early

about noon on the East Coast with St. Louis and Cleveland.

So at Catcher today, I had three guys. I really liked that I thought you could. Louis and

it captured today. I had three guys I really like that I thought you guys should check out

starting with Salvador Perez at Ross Stepwiler.

Salvador Perez hits lefties really well and Ross Stepwiler is nothing special to put it nicely.

I think Salvador Perez could do just fine in a stack. He's a

the Kansas City stack at Texas. He's pretty good right-handed bat. Him and Lorenzo Kane, which he'll get to later, can do some damage there. And even though Kansas City has a bunch of left-handed bats in it, they can all do fine against Rostet. While there, I can see some runs there. and Tropicana Field's not a great place to play but

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