Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
Milwaukee comes into Target Field at 24-17 with real traction after a 5-1 homestand, carrying a lineup that has been more complete than flashy and a pitching staff that has kept the Brewers steady through changing rotation pieces. Minnesota is 20-24 and playing better baseball than its record suggests, with four wins in five games […]
May 15, 2026
The Florida matchup at the Trop looks cleaner for Tampa Bay on the standings page than it does once the pitching setup and early-game shape get unpacked. The Rays are 28-14, 14-4 at home, and built around contact pressure, left-handed volume, speed and matchup management, averaging 4.5 runs per game with a .257 average, .330 […]
May 15, 2026
Dodgers ace Blake Snell, who was scheduled to pitch against the Los Angeles Angels for the first game of their intrastate rivalry series, has been scratched. The Dodgers instead will go with a bullpen game, according to Katie Woo of The Athetic There’s no word yet on the nature or severity of the injury, but […]
May 15, 2026
The Red Sox-Braves opener at Truist Park brings a clear standings gap into a price-sensitive board. Atlanta enters at 30-14, first in the NL East, with one of the cleanest full-roster profiles in baseball: 5.4 runs per game, 9.3 hits per game, a .270 average, .447 slugging, .779 OPS and 61 HR, all sitting at […]
May 15, 2026
The Crosstown Classic opens at Rate Field with the kind of Rivalry Weekend charge that actually fits the records. The Cubs are 28-16 and still sitting atop the NL Central, but the trip to the South Side comes after a strange offensive week: they avoided a sweep in Atlanta with a 2-0 win, yet scored […]
May 15, 2026
Curry Barker’s Obsession, both as an installment in a new cycle of internet-native horror and as a threshold object for the YouTube-to-theatrical pipeline, arrives with a charge that exceeds the usual marquee-debut ballyhoo. It’s out for night-before showings in theaters as of this writing, with an official May 15, 2026 nationwide release. My full review is below, with […]
May 15, 2026
The San Francisco Giants (18-25) and Los Angeles Dodgers (25-18) close their series Thursday night at Dodger Stadium with Los Angeles trying to turn Wednesday’s 4-0 win into something sturdier than a one-night reset. The Dodgers snapped a four-game skid behind Shohei Ohtani’s seven scoreless innings, back-to-back solo homers from Santiago Espinal and Mookie Betts, […]
May 14, 2026
UPDATE: Dollander left the game with right arm tightness, and will go for imaging. Rockies breakout pitcher Chase Dollander appeared to suffer an injury to his pitching arm in the bottom of the second inning in the game between the Pirates and the Rockies today. You can see Dollander shake his arm, as Mike Kurkland […]
May 14, 2026
The Chicago Cubs (27-16) and Atlanta Braves (30-13) close a first-place series at Truist Park with Atlanta carrying the cleaner current shape. Chicago still owns the NL Central lead, but the trip has gone cold fast: four straight losses, three total runs in those four games and only 13 hits during that drought. Atlanta has […]
May 14, 2026
The Seattle Mariners (21-23) and Houston Astros (17-27) close this series at Daikin Park with a board that looks tighter than the surface records suggest. Seattle has the steadier overall pitching infrastructure, but Houston has already turned this series into a traffic-heavy, late-inning grind, and Thursday’s matchup puts the game back on the two starters […]
May 14, 2026
The Giants (18-24) and Dodgers (24-18) meet at Dodger Stadium with the series already tilted toward San Francisco, which has taken the first two games in Los Angeles and has won four of five meetings against the Dodgers this season. Los Angeles is trying to stop a four-game slide, and the shape of this matchup […]
May 13, 2026