Daily Dime: Dodgers bats and a house of Cards

We're looking at a light Thursday schedule, loaded with early starts. Let's get to it. As always, we caution you to review the weather reports and check MLB lineups before committing to names.

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Kolten Wong, 2B, at Cin (Lorenzen), $15: St. Louis is facing Cincinnati starter Michael Lorenzen, a less-than-overpowering right-hander (1.58 WHIP). Lorenzen has been absolutely mauled by left-handed batters thus far. For details, I'll yield the floor to our friends at Inside Edge (@InsideEdgeScout on Twitter):

OH, YOU DON'T SAY?

Jason Heyward, OF, at Cin (Lorenzen), $17: Here's another Lorenzen nugget:

So yeah, you might want to make a small investment in Cards LHBs on Thursday.

Matt Carpenter, 3B, at Cin (Lorenzen), $17: One final blurb via Inside Edge:

OK, I'm sold. I'll stop with the quoting. You get the point. Lorenzen has been not-so-great, and left-handed hitters pretty much own him (.436 season OBP, 1.033 OPS). Moving on...

Kurt Suzuki, C, at Tor (Buehrle), $10: As many of you know, I often shop in the junk-catcher market. It doesn't get much junkier than this. Suzuki is dirt-cheap, plus his history against Buehrle is encouraging: 12-for-31, HR, BB, zero Ks. Suzuki sat on Wednesday, so he should be good to go here.

Andre Ethier, OF, at Phi (Buchanan), $14: Buchanan has been crushed by left-handed humans this season (26-for-78, 10 XBHs, 12 BB, 6 Ks), so Ethier, Gonzalez, Grandal and other LHBs are very much in play. Andre entered has seven hits in his previous 18 at-bats (including two homers), so it's not as if he's struggling.

Odrisamer Despaigne, P, at Mil (Garza), $30: Obviously this could go horribly wrong, because Despaigne gives up the occasional messy stat line. But facing the last-place Brewers and the very hittable Garza (1.53 WHIP), Despaigne won't need to be perfect to get us a win. This price is plenty appealing.

Jake Lamb, 3B, at Was (Ross), $15: Lamb has been raking lately, with six multi-hit games (and two homers) in his last 11. Ross has been reliably not-terrible, but left-handed batters have actually hit him well (.300/.344/.533, 5 doubles, 3 HR).

Chris Heston, P, at CHC (Hammel), $46: Heston somehow hasn't allowed a homer since May 23 (at Colorado), which is insane. That's twelve consecutive homerless starts. Chicago is slashing just .239/.315/.374 as a team (not good), and I'm not sure the lineup has topped five runs in any game since, like, 2008. Heston should be safe here.

Michael Wacha, P, at Cin (Lorenzen), $13: Scroll back up to the top and check those notes on Lorenzen, please. This matchup favors Wacha in a ridiculous way. He tossed seven shutout innings with seven Ks in his last start, and his season ratios are still sparkling (3.09, 1.09). This is $47 well spent.

Mike Napoli, 1B, at NYY (Sabathia), $16: Napoli's second-half surge has kinda/sorta saved his season, as he's slashing .296/.377/.593 since the break. He doesn't have a worrisome history against Sabathia, either, for what it's worth: 10-for-38, 3 doubles, 2 HR, 4 BBs.