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.
Citizens Bank Park is settling into that early-season sweet spot where the air finally carries. Mid-80s at first pitch, a light breeze, and two lineups that have already traded blows in this series. Both teams sit at 8-9, both have shown they can score in bursts, and the market is still leaning Philadelphia like they’re […]
April 15, 2026
Target Field tightens games when the wrong lineup meets the right arm, and that’s where this one starts. Boston arrives having steadied itself with consecutive series wins, Minnesota sits 9-7 after taking two of three from Toronto, and the matchup runs straight through Garrett Crochet against Bailey Ober. Below is my preview, prediction, and pick […]
April 13, 2026
Scoring in PNC Park leans quiet when the game asks it to with its current era of pitching staff. The ball does not carry the same way, innings stretch out, and when a frontline arm takes the mound, the pace tends to follow him. Washington arrives at 7-8 off a sweep in Milwaukee, carrying early […]
April 13, 2026
Matinee out west! Seattle enters at 7-9 but has taken the first three games of this series, including a 6-1 win Sunday, while Houston sits at 6-10 and just 1-8 on the road. The Astros are trying to stabilize a battered rotation and stop a slide; the Mariners, on the other hand, are leaning into […]
April 13, 2026
Sunday Night Baseball in Atlanta lands in that narrow band between bounce-back spot and trap game. The Braves are 11-4, the Guardians 8-7, and the first two games of the series have already shown both available scripts: Atlanta won 11-5 Friday, Cleveland answered with a 6-0 shutout Saturday. The market still leans hard to the […]
April 12, 2026
Christian Yelich injured his hamstring at some point during Sunday’s home game against the Nationals. He didn’t leave the contest officially until the later-innings, but beat writers are speculating he may have suffered the injury on a first-inning run-out: Yelich left in the fifth inning, and was replaced at DH by Gary Sanchez. After the […]
April 12, 2026
Texas at Los Angeles, a Sunday rubber-match kind of game even in April, with the Dodgers sitting at 11-3 and the Rangers hovering at 7-7, already chasing tone against a lineup that has turned every inning into pressure. The first two games have run 8-7 and 6-3, 14 Dodgers runs across two nights, and the […]
April 12, 2026
Not long before first pitch on Sunday, the Philadelphia Phillies announced that their scheduled starter, young future-ace Andrew Painter, will not make today’s scheduled start due to the onset of migraines. Zach Pop will start in his place. It sounds like this is just an anomaly, an acute spell that’ll cost Painter only one start. […]
April 12, 2026
Due to inclement weather in the Kansas City area, the Royals just announced that they’re not currently intending on starting their home game today against their divisional rival Chicago White Sox on time. Noah Cameron and Grant Taylor are slated to take the mound when the game eventually begins for the Royals and White Sox, […]
April 12, 2026
Who can suppress all the greatest forces of competitive volatility for six outs? The juicy NRFI—a wager on sequencing, on command showing up immediately, on hitters needing just one more pitch to calibrate. Even this early in the season, the modern game is louder than ever—exit velocity, launch angle, damage on contact. But the first […]
April 12, 2026
It’s rare in April to hear that winds at Wrigley are blowing out at all, let alone at a 5+ mph clip. We’re starting our home run panhandling for Sunday there, and I’ve got my eye on that Pittsburgh/Cubs game as a potential hill in which them there is certainly gold. Spring weather is unfurling […]
April 12, 2026