Max rating: Atlanta hurler tabbed among Saturday's best

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: The penultimate Saturday of the 2024 season brings, of course, a full slate of games. Its a roughly 50/50 split of day and night games. There are some solid pitching options, but no starters are tagged with gaudy ratings. The middle of the bell curve is where most of the ratings reside on this particular Saturday. The baseball weather report notes two possibilities of rain showers -- a 25% chance at the SF-KC contest and a 50% chance for a MIN-BOS tussle at Fenway.

Notable Starts:

Max Fried has yielded 7R over his last 12 IP but look for a bounce-back in Saturday's start at the Miami Marlins. The Fish own a .657 OPS over their last 10 games; they own an aggregate .614 OPS against Fried, who has pitched...

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