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.
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
Citizens Bank Park’ll reach the low 80s tonight—and it’s still April! Get ready for the ball to carry. Both clubs sit at 7-8, neither fully formed, but both already showing the outlines of who they are. Philadelphia has leaned into its right-handed matchups, building innings through traffic and lift, while Chicago has survived on run […]
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
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
By Episode 6, Greg Russo’s lectures have started pulling students into his personal logic—stories, grudges, half-arguments dressed up as teaching—and the faculty around him begins to push back as his influence grows harder to ignore. The tension now lives in the room: how far he can go before someone forces a boundary? Katie is operating […]
April 11, 2026
Boston rolls into St. Louis still trying to find innings that carry. Twelve games in, the Red Sox sit at 4-8, scoring 3.67 runs per night, with stretches where traffic builds and then disappears before it turns into anything. The Cardinals have been steadier at 7-5, and the split that matters tonight already shows up—at-bats […]
April 10, 2026
Camden Yards gets a clean, crisp April night for a game that sits in the middle of two different truths. Baltimore is back home at 6-6 after sweeping Chicago and has enough lineup thunder to look like the better club on first glance, while San Francisco arrives at 5-8 with a weaker record but a […]
April 10, 2026