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Let's check out the top options on today's main slate.

Pitching Breakdown

We have some quality high-salary pitchers on the slate -- guys such as Framber Valdez ($10,500), Logan Gilbert ($9,500) and Max Scherzer ($10,500) -- but the top arms are all in tough matchups with Scherzer the one glaring exception.

That makes Scherzer the top arm of the slate -- in my eyes -- as he gets a road date with the Oakland Athletics. Oakland, as you know, is very bad offensively, with an active roster that is dead last in wOBA (.291) against right-handers and also owns the 10th-highest strikeout rate in the split (23.1%). While Scherzer has taken a step back this year, he's still putting up very good numbers -- including a 3.75 skill-interactive ERA (SIERA) and 27.7% strikeout rate -- and Oakland's 3.25 implied total is a slate-low clip.

After Scherzer, I'm going all the way down to Kutter Crawford ($7,900) for my SP2, and factoring in salary, you can make a case for Crawford as the night's top overall arm as using Crawford will allow you to load up offensively.

The matchup is 100% there as Crawford gets the Kansas City Royals, an offense whose active roster is 26th in wOBA (.301) against right-handers and has the 12th-highest strikeout rate in the split (22.7%). Crawford has quietly been pretty dang good of late. In the second half (20 2/3 innings), he's allowed a .237 wOBA with a 29.5% strikeout rate. Yes, please. A reason for hesitation: KC is showing a 4.38 implied total.

Lucas Giolito ($8,100) stands out as another viable value pitcher. He's had a pair of tough assignments in his first two starts with the Los Angeles Angels, but the San Francisco Giants are a much softer landing spot. San Fran's active roster packs some pop against righties (.332 wOBA) but also has the eighth-highest strikeout rate in the split (23.4%). Giolito has enough swing-and-miss ability -- recording a 25.0% strikeout rate and 11.7% swinging-strike rate -- to come through in this matchup.

Hitting Breakdown

The Boston Red Sox had the top implied total last night and flopped, although there were reasons to be wary of the matchup with Cole Ragans. Tonight, Boston once again carries the slate's top implied total (5.62), and I like this matchup versus Brady Singer a lot better than I did the clash with Ragans.

Singer is sporting a respectable 4.39 SIERA, but he struggles to miss bats, amassing a lowly 19.7% strikeout rate. He's posting reverse splits this year, giving up a .354 wOBA and 1.19 homers per nine to righties -- although the Red Sox normally go with a lefty-heavy attack against righties.

Justin Turner ($3,400), Rafael Devers ($3,500), Masataka Yoshida ($3,200), Jarren Duran ($3,200) and Triston Casas ($2,800) will all be on my radar for Boston stacks.

The Atlanta Braves (5.20 implied total) are a top stack, and if you're willing to pass on Scherzer for Giolito or Crawford, you'll have enough salary to really load up on the Braves' best bats. Atlanta will see Mitch Keller. At one point, Keller looked like a breakout stud of 2023, but he's regressed and has a 4.83 expected FIP (xFIP) and 19.6% strikeout rate in the second half.

All the usual suspects are at the top of Atlanta wishlists -- Ronald Acuna ($4,800), Matt Olson ($4,400), Austin Riley ($3,800), Ozzie Albies ($3,700) and Sean Murphy ($3,700). Values Eddie Rosario ($2,600) and Michael Harris II ($2,900) can come in handy.

The Los Angeles Dodgers (4.90 implied total), Milwaukee Brewers (4.93) and Chicago Cubs (4.99) all boast high implied totals and will be teams I get exposure to, but I want to highlight the Seattle Mariners.

While Seattle's 4.54 implied total doesn't stand out much on this slate, I like them in a matchup with Nick Martinez, and with only one bat salaried above $2,800, Seattle is a perfect stack to pair with Scherzer.

Martinez isn't a bad pitcher by any means. He's actually pretty darn good, pitching to a 3.94 SIERA. But he hasn't topped 38 pitches in an appearance since April, so this is going to be mostly a bullpen game for the San Diego Padres, and it's a Padres 'pen that has been used a lot the past two days as San Diego gave up 21 total runs to the Dodgers on Sunday and Monday.

Julio Rodriguez ($3,800) is the lone high-salary bat for the Mariners, and if you have the coin, plug him in. But I'll mostly focus on J.P. Crawford ($2,800), Cal Raleigh ($2,800), Teoscar Hernandez ($2,800) and Eugenio Suarez ($2,900).

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