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⚾ Early Slate Playbook (4:05 ET · 6 games): Arms, Position Boards & My Stacks In Order

⏱ 20-minute combined playbook · Classic 10-man, 4:05 ET lock. The chalk writes itself today — a $10.9K rookie arm at 40% ownership and a Yankee offense implied at 5.6 runs. The money is in what the field does NEXT: a $6,000 arm our model grades the best value on the board, and three stacks priced at a third of the Yankees' ownership with 90% of the firepower. Top arms, 2-3 plays at every position, and my stacks ranked in order — then the contest-by-contest attack.

Article by James at CourtEdge · MLB Early Slate — Sat 7/11 · 4:05 ET lock · CourtEdge Analytics · Proprietary Models

🌇 FINAL PULL UPDATE (pre-lock — read this first): The last the model pull moved real money. 1) Austin Wells is OUT of the pool — the value-catcher seat pivots to Ali Sanchez $2,200 (A+ grade) or pay up for Hicks/Raleigh. 2) Schlittler got BETTER and CHEAPER to roster: projection jumped 16.2 → 19.2 and his ownership settled in the low-30s (final pull ~35%) — at a 19+ projection that ownership is EARNED; he is correct in every format, and the leverage now lives in the bats around him. 3) The arm tier compressed upward: Gilbert (17.2 proj, ~31%) and Eury Perez (17.9, ~36%) spiked — and Griffin Jax popped to 16.3 proj at ~29% as the mid-priced pivot. Mahle still owns the value math ($6,000, 15.2, ~22%). 4) Caminero is the board's new #1 bomb (25.9% HR) — still barely owned. 5) MIL and PIT lineups confirmed 1-9 — the MIL stack thesis stands exactly as written. Also scratched with Wells: Bello, Caballero, Bichette, McMahon — the builder pool is already clean of all of them.

The slate at a glance: six games, and Vegas has spoken clearly: NYY@WSH (9.4 total, NYY 5.6 implied) is the scoring environment, with MIL@PIT and COL@SF (9.0 each) right behind. The pitching board is thin at the top — one true ace price, then a cliff — which makes this a pay-down-at-arm slate, and that decision cascades into everything: paying down at pitcher is what FUNDS the Yankee bats everyone wants.

The free look — the two arms that decide your slate:

Arm$ProjOwnThe read
Cam Schlittler (NYY)$10,90016.2~41% 🚨Top projection, correct in cash — but 41% owned at max price is a GPP tax
Tyler Mahle (SF)$6,00012.9~26%80% of Schlittler's points at 55% of the price — our model's best-graded arm on the board, cash AND GPP

Behind the paywall: the full arm rankings, 2-3 plays at every position with grades, my stacks ranked 1-6 with the why, the cash core, and exactly how I'd attack the popular contests — plus every build is one click away in the classic builder (10-man, real contest dropdowns + custom).

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