TONIGHT’S MLB VALUE PICKS                   4/17/15

 

Angel Pagan- OF Giants - $5,000

5K isn’t a huge VALUE PLAY, but I have to roll with him tonight as a good safe play.  The Giants will face Josh Collmenter tonight who is a less than mediocre Starting pitcher.  The Giants have a good track record against Collmenter, and so does Angel.  Lifetime pagan is 7 for 12 (.583) with 2 doubles, and 2 RBIs.   Pagan also is on fire, he has 8 hits in his past 3 games (I like pairing him up with Posey tonight for a 1-2 combo that could be monster)

 

Jon Jay – OF Cardinals - $3,400

St Louis faces Johnny Cueto tonight.  Usually, Im in love with Cueto in daily formats EXCEPT when he faces The Cards.  Cueto has 110 innings under his belt against them and his numbers SUCK: 110 innings, 49 ER, 35 Walks, whip 1.3, and only 62 K’s.  Those are not John Cueto numbers, those are the numbers of a #5 pitcher, not an ace.  Time to look at the Batter vs Pitcher, and one name stands out JON JAY.  Jay is 12/27 with 3 HRS, 7 RBI's, ’nd has strangely enough been HBP 3 times in less than 30 AB’s.  These guys hate eachother.  Jay is cheap, the numbers are there, I gotta run with the value.

 

Zack Cozart – SS Reds - $3,100

$3,100 is almost minimum salary, if I can get someone that cheap, and have some faith in their upcoming performance, I have to play it.  Cozart gets Wacha tonight and is 6/14 with .643 Slugging against him.  Cozart isn’t going to go 4-4 with 5 RBIs, but if he can go 2-4 with a double(possible), he returned his value at $3,100.  If you are rolling with Kershaw or Scherzer, these are the types of players you need to plug in to make your lineup work