Fantasy MLB: Corey Kluber due for bounceback against Mets
— -- In an effort to serve daily fantasy players and season-long fantasy players who use daily lineup settings, we present daily notes each day of the season. It's a daily version of our Fantasy Forecaster in which we project the best pitcher game scores as well as the best team-hitting matchups based upon a number of factors.
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Hang in there Corey Kluber fans, things will get better. In fact, Sunday looks like a great spot for the Tribe's right-hander to kick-start his sluggish season as the New York Mets close out an interleague tussle with the Cleveland Indians in Progressive Field. The visitors are in the bottom third of the league in weighted on base average (wOBA) versus righties and sit in the upper third in terms of most strikeouts. Look for Kluber to build on his league-average peripherals, pushing them closer to the elite level you'd expect from him. Kluber draws the talented but still green Steven Matz, so the win is in play, along with goodly innings and whiffs.
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Last year, if all you did was use southpaw hurlers at home against the Colorado Rockies, you would have cleaned up. Granted, this is a new season, but the suspects are mostly the same as the group that wielded an unsightly 27 percent strikeout rate and .250 wOBA on the road against southpaws. Jon Lester looks to take advantage in the finale of a weekend set in Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs left-hander has fanned only nine in his first 13 innings this season, but by the end of the day Sunday, expect that to be closer to the batter-an-inning mark expected from Lester.
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