Another split slate as many teams are playing their home openers. Home openers means afternoon baseball. We ended up with a decent selection of Consensus picks.
If you weren’t able to check it out last week, give our Lineup Construction article a read. We performed very well in the opening week and will look to build on that. Brad posts these Construction articles about 30 minutes prior to the first pitch of the first game on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
Below are the expert consensus picks for the evening slate of Monday games from our expert sites. The number in parenthesis shows how many experts picked that particular player.
SP
- Max Scherzer (10x)
- Sonny Gray (8x)
- Jon Lester (7x)
- Hisashi Iwakuma (4x)
- Nick Tropeano (4x)
- Brandon Finnegan (3x)
C
Have to dip down below the 3x threshold for this one today. We had four players that were picked twice so I will list them below.
- Stephen Vogt (2x)
- Devin Mesoraco (2x)
- Salvador Perez (2x)
- Wilson Ramos (2x)
1B
- Lucas Duda (3x)
- Ryan Zimmerman (3x)
2B
- Robinson Cano (7x)
- Daniel Murphy (5x)
- Ben Zobrist (3x)
SS
- Carlos Correa (4x)
- Alcides Escobar (3x)
- Zack Cozart (3x)
3B
- Kyle Seager (8x)
- Daniel Murphy (5x)
- Kris Bryant (3x)
- Mike Moustakas (3x)
OF
- Bryce Harper (7x)
- Colby Rasmus (6x)
- Dexter Fowler (5x)
- Preston Tucker (4x)
- Giancarlo Stanton (4x)
- Ben Zobrist (3x)
- Nelson Cruz (3x)
- Seth Smith (3x)
Top Stacks
- Nationals – 4 (Ramos, Zimmerman, Murphy, Harper)
- Mariners – 4 (Cano, Seager, Cruz, Smith)
- Royals – 3 (Perez, Escobar, Moustakas)
- Cubs – 3 (Zobrist, Bryant, Fowler)
- Astros – 3 (Correa, Rasmus, Tucker)
Come back tomorrow for our next round of the MLB Industry Expert Consensus. Follow me on Twitter at @mbutlerok.
