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- 0:16Speaker 1: You gotta slip in your palm and a hole in
- 0:20Speaker 1: your chips.
- 0:20Speaker 2: The black coffee on the felt. Man, you look like
- 0:24Speaker 2: a mess.
- 0:25Speaker 3: Three teen Parlette turned the dust in your head.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Now you stare at the chips like they made you
- 0:32Speaker 1: this man.
- 0:33Speaker 2: But don't you go quiet? Don't you fade from the floor.
- 0:37Speaker 3: Your name steal mean something on somebody for show?
- 0:41Speaker 1: Put the glass down, baby, look at me. No, hold on,
- 0:51Speaker 1: hold on nothing nice. Now, hold on, hold on me,
- 1:10Speaker 1: but it don't get the crown. Hold on, hold on.
- 1:17Speaker 2: And stay with me. Now what's up, everybody? It's towed
- 1:29Speaker 2: back with you with Toadstool Sports for Saturday, July twenty fifth.
- 1:35Speaker 2: I got it wrong on yesterday's show The Play. The
- 1:38Speaker 2: day before that, the Toronto play actually had to be
- 1:42Speaker 2: a no play because the starting pitching changed. So Ian
- 1:48Speaker 2: Seymour did not start for Tampa Bay. He came in
- 1:50Speaker 2: after an opener, after legumina, so I was not expecting
- 1:55Speaker 2: that to happen. Otherwise I would have said play at
- 1:57Speaker 2: action if I thought they were gonna do that. They didn't,
- 2:00Speaker 2: so that had to be a no play. So I've
- 2:02Speaker 2: updated the record to reflect that, and it also reflects
- 2:06Speaker 2: the two and one day yesterday. We had a winning
- 2:08Speaker 2: day yesterday, although it was close. Obviously, the Cubs won
- 2:13Speaker 2: an extra innings. That was a close game. It was
- 2:15Speaker 2: a low scoring game. Both starting pitchers were good, you know.
- 2:21Speaker 2: I mean, I like Jones, Jared Jones, he was good
- 2:24Speaker 2: in the game. I didn't think he was gonna be
- 2:25Speaker 2: as good as he was. And Cubs. I mean, part
- 2:29Speaker 2: of the handicap was the bullpens. But yeah, maybe the
- 2:32Speaker 2: Cubs shouldn't have won. I don't know, they got out
- 2:35Speaker 2: hit a little bit in the game. The other one,
- 2:38Speaker 2: the Yankees winner, I mean they won one and nothing.
- 2:42Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not happy about the Yankees winning, obviously,
- 2:45Speaker 2: I'm happy about giving out a winner on the show though,
- 2:48Speaker 2: But the under was obviously the right way to play
- 2:51Speaker 2: that game, the Yankees with a one nothing win, but
- 2:54Speaker 2: the Yankees did win. I mean, it's still you get
- 2:57Speaker 2: the Yankees as an underdog with Schlittler on the mound, dude,
- 3:00Speaker 2: until he gets to the point of the season where
- 3:02Speaker 2: maybe he's gonna run out of gas a little bit
- 3:04Speaker 2: because he's thrown too many innings or whatever. Getting him
- 3:07Speaker 2: as an underdog is kind of ridiculous. The Lozardo seems
- 3:10Speaker 2: like he's figured out his issues at home, or maybe
- 3:15Speaker 2: it's just maybe the Yankees hitting just they've been bad recently,
- 3:19Speaker 2: the Yankees offense. So I don't know, but we did
- 3:22Speaker 2: get the win with that one, and then the over
- 3:24Speaker 2: in the Arizona game did not win, And of course
- 3:27Speaker 2: I was right about the other over that almost made
- 3:29Speaker 2: my card. I hate that the Astros White Sox. But
- 3:34Speaker 2: the Arizona Washington game, I mean that was there probably
- 3:39Speaker 2: should have been more runs in that game. It was
- 3:41Speaker 2: a two to two game in the fourth inning, so
- 3:43Speaker 2: it was trending at least close to being an overplay there.
- 3:49Speaker 2: And of course, given one of the bullpens is terrible,
- 3:53Speaker 2: it was looking all right there, and then the bullpens
- 3:56Speaker 2: just were good in the game. I don't know what
- 3:58Speaker 2: else to say about. I don't know how the were
- 4:00Speaker 2: that good in that game. The team's got more hits
- 4:05Speaker 2: than what you would think based on the amount of runs,
- 4:07Speaker 2: Like there were fifteen hits combined in the game. Usually
- 4:10Speaker 2: if that happens, you're gonna see more than five runs
- 4:13Speaker 2: come across. There were some walks going on there too,
- 4:15Speaker 2: and neither team could get these guys home. There were
- 4:18Speaker 2: a lot of base runners stranded in that game. Still,
- 4:21Speaker 2: probably wasn't the right call, but it was not as
- 4:24Speaker 2: bad as the final score made it look. All right, Charles,
- 4:29Speaker 2: what's up? We will have one underplayed today. All right,
- 4:35Speaker 2: let's see here. All right, Yeah, let's get into it.
- 4:40Speaker 2: Just baseball today. I mean, I'm not talking about the
- 4:43Speaker 2: WNBA All Star festivities that are going on. WNBA will
- 4:47Speaker 2: be back tuesday. We saw I tweeted out that Angel
- 4:52Speaker 2: Reese looked like a drag queen out there. She's like,
- 4:57Speaker 2: we're supposed to believe that she looks good right now,
- 5:01Speaker 2: like with pink dyed hair or whatever. She was like,
- 5:04Speaker 2: I don't even know what was going on there, man,
- 5:07Speaker 2: she does not look good. Okay, it's not even possible
- 5:11Speaker 2: for her to look good. But whatever, baseball, let's do this.
- 5:14Speaker 2: We do have one earlier afternoon game. Kind of weird.
- 5:18Speaker 2: I mean, Saturday used to be like all afternoon baseball.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Now it's mostly evening baseball. But there are some afternoon
- 5:24Speaker 2: games today most there are some late afternoon games. There
- 5:28Speaker 2: are some early ones that are only later here on
- 5:31Speaker 2: the East coast, but there earlier on the Pacific coast.
- 5:35Speaker 2: There's one early early one here Kansas City and Detroit
- 5:38Speaker 2: one ten pm Eastern on ESPN Unlimited. Detroit already has
- 5:42Speaker 2: won two games in the series. This is gonna be
- 5:44Speaker 2: the third game of a four game series. They won
- 5:47Speaker 2: each game by one run. Detroit probably not a good
- 5:52Speaker 2: sign that they put up like no runs in yesterday's
- 5:54Speaker 2: game against against some pitcher that like his career has
- 5:59Speaker 2: never taken off or whatever. Whoever started for Kansas City
- 6:03Speaker 2: yesterday against school ball, I mean schoob Ball did his part,
- 6:06Speaker 2: but Detroit's offense did not. Detroit only used two relief
- 6:11Speaker 2: pitchers yesterday. Kansas City used one, which was actually the
- 6:16Speaker 2: guy that they had start beck Way, so they must
- 6:19Speaker 2: have had like a starter come in after him. I
- 6:21Speaker 2: don't know who Kansas City used yesterday. They must have
- 6:23Speaker 2: had a starter or pitched the rest of the game
- 6:25Speaker 2: or something after that. I don't know what that was.
- 6:28Speaker 2: This is a much better pitching matchup though, in this game,
- 6:31Speaker 2: well at least from Kansas City's perspective. But we have
- 6:34Speaker 2: two good pitchers in this game. The bullpen's Detroit has
- 6:39Speaker 2: the better bullpen. They're ranked eighteenth. They're not too bad.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Kansas City is ranked dead last, although their ERA is
- 6:46Speaker 2: better than the A's, but this is still a very
- 6:48Speaker 2: bad bullpen. Both offenses are mediocre slash not very good.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Kansas City eighteenth, Detroit nineteenth. Kansas City not as good
- 6:57Speaker 2: on the road offenseily or just generally. Detroit is a
- 7:02Speaker 2: better home team generally. Michael Waka is getting to start
- 7:06Speaker 2: for Kansas City. He's their best starter. I mean he's
- 7:10Speaker 2: he's like they're only good starter. But he's better at
- 7:12Speaker 2: home than on the road. He's got a three point
- 7:14Speaker 2: six to sixty RA one point one seven whip. He's
- 7:17Speaker 2: not as good on the road, like I said, four
- 7:19Speaker 2: point two to three Roady Ray. He was good in
- 7:23Speaker 2: his last start against San Francisco. He was struggling a
- 7:26Speaker 2: little bit going into the All Star break. He actually
- 7:28Speaker 2: pitched in the All Star Game. Uh. He's mostly been
- 7:31Speaker 2: good though this year. His hit rates pretty low, his
- 7:34Speaker 2: walk rates low, strike out rate isn't really that high,
- 7:37Speaker 2: but that's just not His game. Numbers against Detroit are
- 7:41Speaker 2: pretty solid as well, one hundred and sixty one at bats.
- 7:44Speaker 2: He has a huge sample size against them, and they
- 7:48Speaker 2: you know, that's just not a good side for the
- 7:50Speaker 2: hitting because they just they've had all that experience against him,
- 7:53Speaker 2: they haven't really been able to really get to him.
- 7:56Speaker 2: They have a two forty eight average six eighty six
- 7:58Speaker 2: ops against him. A lot of walks in here, though, Well,
- 8:03Speaker 2: it's just few strikeouts, really, is what this is. It's
- 8:05Speaker 2: a bad ratio. Twenty seven strikeouts, twelve walks. It's not
- 8:08Speaker 2: really a lot of walks. It's just not many strikeouts.
- 8:11Speaker 2: But yeah, walkout generally does okay against Detroit. Casey Mize
- 8:15Speaker 2: is pitching for Detroit. Miz is having his best season.
- 8:18Speaker 2: He's got a two point seven to nine ERA, one
- 8:21Speaker 2: point zero three whip that's good. He's been really good
- 8:24Speaker 2: at home two point five. Homie Ray not quite as
- 8:29Speaker 2: good recently. His last two starts haven't really been that good. Still,
- 8:33Speaker 2: didn't really allow that many runs though He's got a
- 8:35Speaker 2: low hit rate on the season, low walk rate, strike
- 8:38Speaker 2: out rate more than one per inning. That's good as well,
- 8:40Speaker 2: that's high. His numbers across the board are solid. He's
- 8:45Speaker 2: probably Detroit's second best pitcher behind school Bowl against the Royals,
- 8:49Speaker 2: though he's actually had some issues. Sixty six at bats,
- 8:52Speaker 2: three eighteen average, eight h two ops allowed, although a
- 8:56Speaker 2: lot of the damn is just like I said with
- 8:57Speaker 2: School Bowl comes from Salvador. So is one guy really
- 9:02Speaker 2: gonna just like determine this game alone? Probably not eleven strikeouts,
- 9:08Speaker 2: three walks, so myz Yeah, I mean, I know his
- 9:11Speaker 2: numbers don't look great. Overall, You're probably gonna get some
- 9:15Speaker 2: motivation out of Kansas City here if you really want
- 9:17Speaker 2: to buy into those starting pitching matchup numbers. Walka might
- 9:21Speaker 2: have a little bit of an edge here, and you're
- 9:23Speaker 2: getting him as a huge underdog. So I mean Kansas
- 9:27Speaker 2: City in the first five is a way to look
- 9:29Speaker 2: at this game. Detroit. Is it minus one eighty something
- 9:32Speaker 2: here on the full game. I would not want to
- 9:35Speaker 2: do anything with Kansas City's bullpen though, other than avoid it.
- 9:38Speaker 2: But given what this price is, I mean, you could
- 9:41Speaker 2: get Kansas City plus half a run in the first
- 9:44Speaker 2: five at probably a pretty good price. Walk Them might
- 9:46Speaker 2: be able to battle Myze early in this game. So
- 9:49Speaker 2: I think that is one way of looking at this game.
- 9:53Speaker 2: The other option, I would say would be first five
- 9:55Speaker 2: under full game totals around eight, So you're probably gonna
- 9:59Speaker 2: be looking at A on a four and a half
- 10:01Speaker 2: in the first five, which is I think pretty reasonable.
- 10:04Speaker 2: If that's what the number is, fifty six percent of
- 10:06Speaker 2: tickets on the over, ninety two percent of the cash
- 10:08Speaker 2: on the under. I think generally both these pitchers are
- 10:11Speaker 2: fairly good, so first five under might make the most
- 10:15Speaker 2: sense in this game. First five Kansas City run line
- 10:19Speaker 2: is probably the other way that I would look at
- 10:20Speaker 2: that game. All right, Uh, yes, Braves, Yeah, I mean
- 10:26Speaker 2: they're they're winning again, all right, although I'm not expecting
- 10:31Speaker 2: them to win today. Arizona at Washington. This is gonna
- 10:35Speaker 2: be one of my plays. And no, this is not
- 10:43Speaker 2: gonna be an under. What are you crazy. We're gonna
- 10:46Speaker 2: go with one of the best first five pitchers in
- 10:48Speaker 2: baseball here, and we're gonna play him to do it again.
- 10:50Speaker 2: Although we have to lay a run line on this
- 10:52Speaker 2: because the money line's way too high. We're gonna take
- 10:55Speaker 2: Washington minus a half run in the first five and
- 10:58Speaker 2: you have to lay minus one twenty on this. But
- 11:00Speaker 2: I think this is a big pitching mismatch here in
- 11:03Speaker 2: favor of Washington in the first five. I don't want
- 11:06Speaker 2: to deal with the bullpens. If you go money line
- 11:08Speaker 2: on this, you have to lay like mice one seventy,
- 11:10Speaker 2: So obviously, I'm gonna knock this price way down and
- 11:14Speaker 2: get Washington to a They have to be winning at
- 11:17Speaker 2: the end of five, but I think they could do
- 11:18Speaker 2: this year. I think we have a couple of things
- 11:21Speaker 2: going for us year. Washington just returned from a road
- 11:23Speaker 2: trip yesterday and lost, and I like playing on teams
- 11:27Speaker 2: to bounce back after that happens, because I always talk
- 11:30Speaker 2: about how the road trip return is a negative. It
- 11:32Speaker 2: can be a distracted spot, and if the team loses
- 11:35Speaker 2: a lot of times, they will bounce back in the
- 11:37Speaker 2: next game. So I like that for Washington. One thing
- 11:40Speaker 2: I really don't like is the bullpen, of course, which
- 11:42Speaker 2: is why I'm taking them out. Arizona had very light
- 11:44Speaker 2: usage yesterday. They use three guys out of the bullpen,
- 11:47Speaker 2: but very limited usage. Washington use four. Washington's the worst
- 11:52Speaker 2: bullpen anyway. They're twenty seventh, Arizona sixth, with an era
- 11:57Speaker 2: like a run better even though they're he's not even
- 12:00Speaker 2: really that good. So yeah, we'll factor out the bullpens.
- 12:04Speaker 2: Washington does have the better offense, the ranked number two
- 12:07Speaker 2: Arizona twenty second, so we will get the better hitting
- 12:10Speaker 2: behind us here and we're gonna get the better starting
- 12:12Speaker 2: pitcher here. We're gonna fade Mitch Bratt here for Arizona.
- 12:17Speaker 2: He might wind up being a decent pitcher, although I
- 12:19Speaker 2: don't know, man, I don't really think he's that highly
- 12:22Speaker 2: toted of a prospect. He is young, he's a left hander,
- 12:25Speaker 2: but he doesn't throw that hard. He's kind of a
- 12:27Speaker 2: small ish dude as far as pitchers go. At least,
- 12:31Speaker 2: he's got a five point six ERA one point seven
- 12:34Speaker 2: to eight whips so far. That's not good. Six ray
- 12:38Speaker 2: on the road is not good, although his road batting
- 12:40Speaker 2: average against is actually way better. Do with that what
- 12:44Speaker 2: you want. But he's not going deep into outings either.
- 12:46Speaker 2: I mean, they are ramping him up. So he did
- 12:48Speaker 2: go a little bit deeper in his last outing, which
- 12:50Speaker 2: actually was not too bad against the A's. But I'm
- 12:54Speaker 2: really not expecting him to do a whole lot good here,
- 12:57Speaker 2: and he might not make it even you know, the
- 13:00Speaker 2: fourth inning here or whatever, So he might be out
- 13:02Speaker 2: of the game earlier than the end of the fifth
- 13:05Speaker 2: inning here. He's going up against a pretty potent offense here.
- 13:09Speaker 2: They haven't seen him, which I know, I say is
- 13:11Speaker 2: usually an advantage for the starting pitcher, But in this case.
- 13:15Speaker 2: I don't know how much of an advantage it's really
- 13:17Speaker 2: gonna be. I think Washington's gonna be able to score
- 13:19Speaker 2: against him, and we're gonna Backfoster Griffin here, who, like
- 13:24Speaker 2: I said, he's been one of the best first five
- 13:27Speaker 2: inning pitchers in baseball. If you look at the pitcher's
- 13:30Speaker 2: first five records, his is really good. And he's been
- 13:34Speaker 2: really good on the season, shockingly from out of nowhere
- 13:37Speaker 2: a two point six to eighty array one point zero
- 13:40Speaker 2: three whip. I don't think it's really misleading. He's been
- 13:44Speaker 2: only slightly worse at home two point seven to five.
- 13:46Speaker 2: Homie Ray had an All Star appearance, which a lot
- 13:50Speaker 2: of times will throw a guy off. First time you're
- 13:52Speaker 2: in an All Star Game or whatever, didn't matter to him.
- 13:55Speaker 2: He went to the A's stadium, which is really difficult
- 13:58Speaker 2: to pitch, and he held him to earn run in
- 14:00Speaker 2: seven innings. Yeah, that's pretty good, So he was not
- 14:03Speaker 2: thrown off by being in the All Star Game. He's
- 14:06Speaker 2: allowed one or zero earned run in every start that
- 14:10Speaker 2: he's made, going all the way back through the beginning
- 14:12Speaker 2: of June, and he's gone more than five innings and
- 14:15Speaker 2: the majority of those two. Is that good? Yeah, I
- 14:19Speaker 2: think that's pretty good. He's got a low hit rate,
- 14:22Speaker 2: low walk rate, his strikeout rate is decent, and he
- 14:26Speaker 2: does induce some pretty good amount of ground balls as well,
- 14:29Speaker 2: so he does pitch into some light contact here or whatever.
- 14:32Speaker 2: Arizona is zero for twelve off him, by the way,
- 14:35Speaker 2: with four strikeouts and no walks. So Arizona's current lineup,
- 14:39Speaker 2: nobody in this lineup has reached base against him before,
- 14:42Speaker 2: although I will say they've seen him once now. So
- 14:45Speaker 2: sometimes I talk about that the unfamiliarity when it goes
- 14:49Speaker 2: away and then that second time the offense faces that pitcher,
- 14:52Speaker 2: sometimes they will do better. But I don't even know
- 14:54Speaker 2: if that's gonna be enough. He did pitch at Arizona
- 14:57Speaker 2: in early June. He held him to one run in
- 14:59Speaker 2: five innings. So they did have a couple of guys
- 15:02Speaker 2: in that lineup that got hits off him, and those guys,
- 15:04Speaker 2: I guess are not in the current lineup for Arizona.
- 15:07Speaker 2: I have no idea, but whatever, we're gonna back Griffin here.
- 15:11Speaker 2: We're gonna take Washington in the first five. I just
- 15:13Speaker 2: think it's a pitching mismatch here. In my opinion, And yes,
- 15:17Speaker 2: I know the price is a little bit much. Minus
- 15:20Speaker 2: one fifty something on the full game, minus one seventy
- 15:23Speaker 2: on the first five. We're gonna lay minus one twenty
- 15:26Speaker 2: to lay the half run instead seventy five percent of
- 15:30Speaker 2: tickets eighty three percent of the cash on Washington. They
- 15:33Speaker 2: look like they're kind of a public side, but I
- 15:35Speaker 2: think the public might have this one right. Looks like
- 15:37Speaker 2: I think the actual money is also playing Washington here,
- 15:41Speaker 2: so the books probably are gonna need it to not happen.
- 15:44Speaker 2: But we could also get this right and lose the
- 15:47Speaker 2: full game, you know what I mean. Washington could be
- 15:50Speaker 2: winning after the first five and lose the game because
- 15:52Speaker 2: their bullpen sucks, So that could definitely happen here and
- 15:55Speaker 2: we'd still get this win. The money's also playing the
- 15:58Speaker 2: over at about nine. I don't have a strong opinion
- 16:02Speaker 2: on the total there because I like one picture and
- 16:04Speaker 2: I don't like the other one, so that will lead
- 16:07Speaker 2: me towards the side rather than a total. So that's
- 16:10Speaker 2: what I got on that one. Anaheim at San Francisco.
- 16:15Speaker 2: I thought San Francisco was in a bad spot yesterday,
- 16:18Speaker 2: in a return home spot where Arizona or Anaheim was
- 16:21Speaker 2: staying on the Pacific coast San Francisco return home. San
- 16:24Speaker 2: Francisco wound up winning on a walk off Dever's double yesterday,
- 16:30Speaker 2: so a very dramatic win for San Francisco in the
- 16:34Speaker 2: return home spot. I mean, I don't think either of
- 16:36Speaker 2: these teams are good though, so there is that. So
- 16:40Speaker 2: this is kind of like, I don't know, I don't
- 16:42Speaker 2: know what do you even call this matchup? I don't
- 16:44Speaker 2: even know. It's a kind of bottom of the barrel
- 16:47Speaker 2: match up here. Anaheim used almost all of their relief
- 16:49Speaker 2: pitchers yesterday, which is not gonna be a good thing.
- 16:52Speaker 2: These six guys out of the bullpen. Their bullpen's not
- 16:55Speaker 2: very good. San Francisco's has not really been that good either,
- 16:58Speaker 2: but they'll probably have an advance here. They used four
- 17:01Speaker 2: guys out of their bullpen yesterday. Anaheim is actually ranked
- 17:05Speaker 2: higher and whip like they have a better whip than
- 17:07Speaker 2: San Francisco twenty first versus twenty fourth, same era. But
- 17:12Speaker 2: I think the Giants probably do have the better bullpen here,
- 17:14Speaker 2: and they're in the better rest shape, so they probably
- 17:17Speaker 2: have a slight bullpen edge. Don't think i'd really want
- 17:19Speaker 2: to back either, bullpen though Anaheim is twenty third in offense,
- 17:23Speaker 2: Giants are fifteenth. But I think both offenses are not
- 17:26Speaker 2: that good. De bite what we saw yesterday with a
- 17:29Speaker 2: lot of runs scored in the game yesterday. Maybe it'll
- 17:32Speaker 2: happen again here though, I mean, this is not a
- 17:34Speaker 2: very elite pitching matchup here. But you could also maybe
- 17:37Speaker 2: make the argument that maybe both pitchers won't be that
- 17:40Speaker 2: bad here. It's difficult to figure this game out. Ryan
- 17:43Speaker 2: Johnson is pitching for the Angels. He's very young, hasn't
- 17:47Speaker 2: been that good so far six point one era one
- 17:49Speaker 2: point four to three whip kind of indicates his cra
- 17:52Speaker 2: should probably be more like five ish, which is still
- 17:55Speaker 2: not good. But there are some signs that Johnson might
- 17:59Speaker 2: actually not be that bad, although he's been bad on
- 18:01Speaker 2: the road seven point three six were road, Yeah right,
- 18:04Speaker 2: yet that's obviously not good. Wasn't too bad in his
- 18:07Speaker 2: last outing. That really his last couple of outings haven't
- 18:09Speaker 2: been that bad, except his walk rate has been too high.
- 18:12Speaker 2: But he's been pitching kind of okay. Five innings in
- 18:17Speaker 2: each of his last two starts didn't really allow that
- 18:19Speaker 2: many runs. He's had a couple of starts, so he's
- 18:22Speaker 2: gotten blown up. But he's had some pretty good starts
- 18:25Speaker 2: in here too, So I don't know. Man, He's a
- 18:27Speaker 2: little bit all over the place. His hit rate is
- 18:29Speaker 2: slightly high, walk rate is still a bit too high,
- 18:32Speaker 2: strikeout rate is not really that great either. Sea overall,
- 18:35Speaker 2: we're still looking at not great numbers here, but he's
- 18:38Speaker 2: shown some signs that maybe he's not that bad. Giants
- 18:41Speaker 2: have never faced him before except for Ramos, who was
- 18:44Speaker 2: over one often with no strikeouts, no walks. What I
- 18:49Speaker 2: will at least say is I think Johnson's not as
- 18:52Speaker 2: bad as his numbers look. That's that's how far I'll
- 18:54Speaker 2: go with him, and he might be able to do
- 18:56Speaker 2: okay against a pretty weak San Francisco offense here in
- 18:59Speaker 2: this is a pitcher friendly park. Robbie Ray is pitching
- 19:03Speaker 2: for the Giants here. He's been okay. A three point
- 19:05Speaker 2: three to three ERA one point three whip is not
- 19:08Speaker 2: that good, probably indicates his CRA should be a little
- 19:11Speaker 2: bit higher than it is. He's been good at home though,
- 19:13Speaker 2: two point four to four Homeyra only made it four
- 19:17Speaker 2: innings last time out against Seattle, but the fielding was
- 19:20Speaker 2: bad behind him. He only gave it one earned run
- 19:22Speaker 2: and looks like he couldn't get out of whatever inning
- 19:25Speaker 2: he was in the fifth inning, I guess because fielding
- 19:27Speaker 2: was a problem behind him. He's been pitching okay recently,
- 19:31Speaker 2: though in general, he went on a stretcher. He allowed
- 19:34Speaker 2: no er and runs in all but one start of
- 19:37Speaker 2: the month of June, and then he's allowed three or
- 19:39Speaker 2: fewer in all of his starts in July so far,
- 19:41Speaker 2: so that's not too bad. Overall, He's got a low
- 19:45Speaker 2: hit rate. His walk rate is too high though, and
- 19:47Speaker 2: his strikeout rate is low. So yeah, the walks are
- 19:50Speaker 2: definitely a concern from him. He's not really a strikeout pitcher.
- 19:54Speaker 2: I think he's just kind of a mediocre pitcher. I
- 19:56Speaker 2: think he's not as good as he looked for the
- 19:59Speaker 2: majority oflast year. He had a really good season last year.
- 20:01Speaker 2: He had an all Star season last year, and then
- 20:04Speaker 2: after the All Star break he got worse, which I
- 20:06Speaker 2: kind of thought was gonna happen. However, all that being said,
- 20:10Speaker 2: he's been pretty good against Anaheim, but in a limited
- 20:13Speaker 2: sample twenty three at bats, five hitters have faced him
- 20:16Speaker 2: one seventy four average, six forty nine oh ps, ten
- 20:19Speaker 2: strikeouts six walks not a good ratio there. That's too
- 20:23Speaker 2: many walks, but Ray generally has been pretty good against Anaheim.
- 20:28Speaker 2: I don't have much on this game, man, I mean,
- 20:30Speaker 2: given Johnson being unfamiliar and maybe isn't quite as bad
- 20:36Speaker 2: as he looks, Ray at least might have a decent
- 20:40Speaker 2: matchup here. I could see an argument for a first
- 20:43Speaker 2: five under in this one. I would not go full
- 20:45Speaker 2: game under. The money's backing the over, though. Eighty one
- 20:48Speaker 2: percent of tickets on the under, sixty three percent of
- 20:50Speaker 2: the cash on the over totals at nine, so the
- 20:53Speaker 2: oddsmakers are kind of telling you. They put it out
- 20:55Speaker 2: at eight and a half on the opener though, and
- 20:59Speaker 2: it moved up to nine, so the money has kind
- 21:01Speaker 2: of pushed this number up. So there is definitely money
- 21:03Speaker 2: coming in on the over here. So oddsmakers kind of
- 21:06Speaker 2: think it's a high scoring game. Professionals seem to think
- 21:08Speaker 2: it's a high scoring game. I still kind of disagree
- 21:12Speaker 2: with that. Like I said in the first five, I
- 21:14Speaker 2: kind of lean under verse five, but I would not
- 21:16Speaker 2: want to risk it, obviously, and the market doesn't agree
- 21:19Speaker 2: with me. So that's not a great sign. Usually, Although
- 21:23Speaker 2: I know I went against the market red with the
- 21:24Speaker 2: Cobs yesterday and that wound up being a winner. The
- 21:27Speaker 2: money is also back in San Francisco here at about
- 21:30Speaker 2: minus one thirty eighty three percent of tickets ninety three
- 21:33Speaker 2: percent of the cash on them. I mean, I understand it,
- 21:36Speaker 2: like Ray is the more established pitcher, and he has
- 21:39Speaker 2: some numbers that we can read into against Anaheim. So yeah,
- 21:42Speaker 2: I mean I probably wouldn't disagree with San Francisco, and
- 21:45Speaker 2: they probably do have the better bullpen too, so San
- 21:49Speaker 2: Francisco probably is the side that makes more sense. There's
- 21:53Speaker 2: there's no way I would want to play that game though, Yes, Yeah,
- 22:03Speaker 2: unfamiliar Johnson going under. Yeah, San Diego at Miami. Miami,
- 22:10Speaker 2: they gotta get a win here, man. I mean, they've
- 22:12Speaker 2: lost ten games in a row. They were in a
- 22:13Speaker 2: difficult spot yesterday, in a return home spot, not a
- 22:17Speaker 2: very good spot, as I always say, and a lot
- 22:18Speaker 2: of times that team will bounce back. So my first
- 22:22Speaker 2: reaction to this game was I want to look to
- 22:24Speaker 2: play Miami in this game, especially because I think they
- 22:27Speaker 2: have the better starting pitcher on the mound two. So
- 22:30Speaker 2: I think Miami is the way to look in this game.
- 22:33Speaker 2: It's not gonna make the cut for me, as we'll
- 22:34Speaker 2: see in a minute, but the situation supports Miami here.
- 22:38Speaker 2: I think they're finally gonna break this losing streak. I mean,
- 22:41Speaker 2: this has been bad, dude. Miami went from being a
- 22:43Speaker 2: wild card team to not being one. I mean, they're
- 22:49Speaker 2: definitely they're they're falling on some hard times here. Max
- 22:53Speaker 2: Meyer is injured for them now, and he was going
- 22:55Speaker 2: to pitch yesterday if he wasn't injured. Yeah, so things
- 22:58Speaker 2: not going well. Miami also so was forced into using
- 23:01Speaker 2: a bullpen game yesterday. They use everybody pretty much. They
- 23:04Speaker 2: use seven relief pitchers, so Miami's bullpen is in very
- 23:07Speaker 2: bad shape right now, so that's not good. San Diego
- 23:12Speaker 2: used quite a bit as well, they use five, but
- 23:14Speaker 2: they still have the better bullpen in my opinion, although
- 23:17Speaker 2: their el ray is almost four. I don't know what's
- 23:19Speaker 2: going on with San Diego's a bullpen right now. I
- 23:21Speaker 2: don't think they're anywhere or actually three point seven eight,
- 23:24Speaker 2: I don't think they're anywhere near that bad. Though they're
- 23:27Speaker 2: ranked eleventh, Miami's running fourth, but I give San Diego
- 23:30Speaker 2: a bullpen advantage here. Hitting wise, Miami has the better hitting.
- 23:34Speaker 2: I don't think they're really the eighth best offense, but
- 23:37Speaker 2: they're better than San Diego. San Diego has been better recently,
- 23:40Speaker 2: though they've moved up to twenty sixth. Still, I think
- 23:44Speaker 2: Miami's offense is better. This game's on Fox Sports one,
- 23:47Speaker 2: by the way, and San Diego is gonna be going
- 23:49Speaker 2: with JP Sears here. I think Sears is a pretty
- 23:53Speaker 2: mediocre pitcher. I don't think he's that bad, but he's yeah,
- 23:57Speaker 2: like I said, mediocre, four point three eighty RA one
- 24:00Speaker 2: point two to six whip isn't that bad. He's a
- 24:03Speaker 2: little bit better on the road, believe it or not,
- 24:05Speaker 2: four point three ROADI ira. Even though pitching in San
- 24:07Speaker 2: Diego should be good for pitchers, Sears he's basically alternated
- 24:13Speaker 2: good and bad starts here, and if he continues doing that,
- 24:16Speaker 2: this one would be a bad start. So just keep
- 24:19Speaker 2: that in mind. He pitched pretty well against Atlanta last
- 24:21Speaker 2: time out. They've been limiting his pitches over his last
- 24:24Speaker 2: three starts. He's actually been pretty efficient with his pitches,
- 24:28Speaker 2: though it seems like they're kind of limiting him to
- 24:29Speaker 2: five innings. Really is what they're doing here, But yeah,
- 24:34Speaker 2: I mean Seriously, he's difficult to figure out. Uh, kind
- 24:36Speaker 2: of He's got a reasonable hit rate here, it's at
- 24:38Speaker 2: least below one per inning. His walk rate's not too bad,
- 24:41Speaker 2: strike out rate is okay. So yeah, overall, not horrible
- 24:45Speaker 2: numbers here. It's a limited sample size though, because he's
- 24:48Speaker 2: only made five starts this season. I think he was
- 24:51Speaker 2: like in the minors or something. And I don't think
- 24:54Speaker 2: he was doing well in the minors either, But I mean,
- 24:57Speaker 2: I think he's good enough to be a major league pitcher, dude.
- 25:00Speaker 2: So it was kind of crazy that no major league
- 25:02Speaker 2: team wanted him when there are some other pitchers that
- 25:05Speaker 2: are way worse that are out there. Uh and Padres.
- 25:09Speaker 2: I mean, they have Griffin Canning and their starting rotations,
- 25:12Speaker 2: so so why why wouldn't they have Sears in it too? Uh?
- 25:15Speaker 2: Sears has bet in the Canning Sears I was looking
- 25:18Speaker 2: to maybe fade him, but he does have good numbers
- 25:20Speaker 2: against Miami and twelve at bats, they only have two
- 25:23Speaker 2: hits off him, no extra base hits, no strikeouts, no walks.
- 25:26Speaker 2: It's only five hitters will faced him though, one sixty
- 25:29Speaker 2: seven average, three thirty three ops. I think Sears might
- 25:34Speaker 2: be able to actually pitch okay. Here he's going up
- 25:37Speaker 2: against Juri Perez. Perez is the better of the two pitchers, though.
- 25:40Speaker 2: Perez is still super young, and he's putting up a
- 25:43Speaker 2: good season here three point five to three e RA,
- 25:46Speaker 2: one point one to one WHIP, even though he is
- 25:48Speaker 2: also multiple TJ surgery is into his career as well.
- 25:53Speaker 2: He's got a three point two home y RA, so
- 25:55Speaker 2: he's been solid at home. He's pitching well recently. He's
- 25:58Speaker 2: given up two or fewer and runs in every start
- 26:02Speaker 2: going all the way back into mid May, although he
- 26:04Speaker 2: did miss about a month with an injury in there
- 26:07Speaker 2: between late May and late June. But since he's come back,
- 26:09Speaker 2: he's been very good. Still, Perez like really low hit rate,
- 26:15Speaker 2: He's very hard to hit. His walk rate is a
- 26:18Speaker 2: little bit high. He does have some wildness, but he's
- 26:21Speaker 2: kind of gotten better in that department this year. And
- 26:23Speaker 2: he has a high strike out rate too. So I
- 26:25Speaker 2: think Perez is the real deal. I think he's good
- 26:28Speaker 2: against San Diego. He's been good and twenty five at
- 26:31Speaker 2: bats not a huge sample, one sixty average, allowed four
- 26:34Speaker 2: to sixty two oh ps, sixty two strike out walker
- 26:37Speaker 2: his show. Yeah, I mean not a huge sample size,
- 26:39Speaker 2: but still pretty good numbers there. I still gonna lean
- 26:43Speaker 2: to Miami, but I'll lean first five Miami here, and
- 26:46Speaker 2: I think the under might make some sense too, probably
- 26:49Speaker 2: in the first five. I just I don't see a
- 26:51Speaker 2: way to back Miami's bullpen here after they use everybody yesterday.
- 26:56Speaker 2: But I think it should be a bounce back spot
- 26:58Speaker 2: for Miami. I think perez As is preferable the seers here.
- 27:02Speaker 2: You're looking at minus one thirty something on Miami here.
- 27:05Speaker 2: You're probably looking at a bigger price in the first
- 27:08Speaker 2: five though, But I think that is the way to
- 27:10Speaker 2: look at this game is to look at Miami in
- 27:12Speaker 2: the first five and if it's if it's like minus
- 27:15Speaker 2: one fifty or something on Miami there, I would say
- 27:18Speaker 2: lay the half run with Miami if you're gonna do
- 27:21Speaker 2: it that way. Fifty tickets, ninety four percent of the
- 27:24Speaker 2: cash on Miami. So the money seems to be agreeing
- 27:27Speaker 2: with me on Miami there. The money's also playing the
- 27:29Speaker 2: over eight, but you saw the matchup numbers there. I
- 27:33Speaker 2: think a first five under is also the way that
- 27:36Speaker 2: I would lean in this game. But I think my
- 27:38Speaker 2: preference is still Miami in the first five though, given
- 27:41Speaker 2: that it's a bounce back spot for them. Plus I
- 27:43Speaker 2: think Perez is the better pitcher, way higher ceiling there,
- 27:47Speaker 2: so I think it makes sense, better spot, better started
- 27:51Speaker 2: pitcher basically there. Miami first five would be my best
- 27:55Speaker 2: lean in that game. Toronto at Boston my bust and
- 28:00Speaker 2: Red Sox got the win again. Yesterday. Sandoval was like
- 28:04Speaker 2: skating on thin ice the whole time. Toronto. They stranded
- 28:08Speaker 2: a lot of bass runners. Yesterday Toronto did and then
- 28:10Speaker 2: the Red Sox blew a four nothing lead in the
- 28:13Speaker 2: game and then they wound up winning anyway, So that
- 28:18Speaker 2: I mean, do what you want with all that info,
- 28:20Speaker 2: but the Red Sox are able to do. I get
- 28:21Speaker 2: some runs off of you, Savage yesterday and Sandoval, I
- 28:26Speaker 2: will say that Toronto in the first inning, like a
- 28:29Speaker 2: lot of the stuff that was going on the Toronto
- 28:31Speaker 2: when they were putting guys on base and whatever, they
- 28:33Speaker 2: weren't actually hitting Sandoval. They had like some cheap hits.
- 28:36Speaker 2: There was some bad fielding. Sandoval was not on the
- 28:40Speaker 2: same page with Long, the catcher there, like he was
- 28:44Speaker 2: crossing up Long constantly. There was a wild pitch and
- 28:48Speaker 2: a pass ball in the first inning. I don't know
- 28:50Speaker 2: how Toronto didn't score in the first inning either. It
- 28:53Speaker 2: was just crazy. There was a lot of stuff going on.
- 28:55Speaker 2: But we don't have to worry about Sandoval pitching here
- 28:57Speaker 2: in this one. And on the surface, yeah, this looks
- 29:01Speaker 2: this looks like it's gonna be a pitching duel. Looks
- 29:03Speaker 2: like it's gonna be an under But I'm gonna push
- 29:06Speaker 2: back on that a little bit here. As far as
- 29:09Speaker 2: the bullpens, Toronto used five guys out of the bullpen yesterday.
- 29:13Speaker 2: Their bullpen is decent, but the Red Sox bullpen is better.
- 29:15Speaker 2: Red Sox used four guys. They did use Chapman yesterday.
- 29:18Speaker 2: They use pretty much all their better relievers yesterday. But
- 29:23Speaker 2: you know, the Red Sox are still a very good bullpen.
- 29:25Speaker 2: They're number two in whip and also number two in ERA.
- 29:31Speaker 2: Toronto not bad. Out of the bullpen, Toronto's thirteenth. The
- 29:35Speaker 2: Red Sox have the better offense too, their twentieth. Toronto
- 29:39Speaker 2: is dead last at thirtieth. Dylan cees though it's pitching
- 29:43Speaker 2: for Toronto here cease. I mean, he's been really good
- 29:47Speaker 2: this year. Two point six to seventy RA, one point
- 29:50Speaker 2: one four whip he's been even better on the road
- 29:53Speaker 2: two point two eight road e Ray looked like he
- 29:57Speaker 2: didn't pitch that well last time against Tampa Bay, but
- 30:00Speaker 2: he only gave up three or runs. There was some
- 30:01Speaker 2: bad fielding going on behind him. He didn't actually pitch
- 30:04Speaker 2: bad in that game, so Cease is still in good
- 30:07Speaker 2: form right now. He did pitch in Fenway earlier this year,
- 30:10Speaker 2: and he had some command issues there, which has been
- 30:13Speaker 2: a problem for Cease throughout his career. He walks a
- 30:15Speaker 2: lot of guys, but he still shut the Red Sox
- 30:18Speaker 2: out in that game, although he kind of got lucky
- 30:20Speaker 2: to go five shutout innings there. The Red Sox just
- 30:22Speaker 2: stranded a bunch of base runners there. You can't really
- 30:25Speaker 2: expect to walk a bunch of guys and not take
- 30:28Speaker 2: some damage. But Cease has been really, really difficult to hit.
- 30:32Speaker 2: His strikeout rate is really high, so he blows guys away,
- 30:36Speaker 2: but it does lead to some inefficient pitch counts, and
- 30:39Speaker 2: his walk number is still way too high, so that's
- 30:41Speaker 2: his main issue there. But he's so good otherwise that
- 30:44Speaker 2: his numbers are all good anyway across the board except
- 30:47Speaker 2: for the walks. However, the Red Sox are actually not
- 30:50Speaker 2: that bad against The Red Sox have some kind of
- 30:52Speaker 2: mediocre numbers against him, sixty eight at bats to sixty
- 30:56Speaker 2: five average, seven thirty nine ohps, nineteen to eight. Right,
- 31:00Speaker 2: I got walk ratio, so Cease doesn't completely dominate the
- 31:03Speaker 2: Red Sox. Red Sox have Sonny Gray on the mount.
- 31:06Speaker 2: Gray has been really good two point four to eighty RA,
- 31:09Speaker 2: one point one two whip two point one ERA at
- 31:12Speaker 2: home with a below two hundred opponent batting average at home.
- 31:16Speaker 2: Gray has definitely thrived in Fenway for whatever reason. He's
- 31:20Speaker 2: in good form right now as well, other than the
- 31:22Speaker 2: fact he had too many walks last time on against
- 31:24Speaker 2: Tampa Bay. Got a little bit lucky in that one,
- 31:26Speaker 2: but he did limit the damage there. Gray has been
- 31:29Speaker 2: good overall anyway, though he's allowed more than three or
- 31:33Speaker 2: runs only once this season. He's got a pretty low
- 31:36Speaker 2: hit rate, his walk rate is low, his strikeout rate
- 31:38Speaker 2: isn't really that high, but he gets a lot of
- 31:41Speaker 2: soft contact, induces a lot of ground balls. You know,
- 31:45Speaker 2: sheer talent wise. Obviously he's not as good as Cease,
- 31:47Speaker 2: and he's older than Ceased, but obviously he's pitch well. However,
- 31:51Speaker 2: he doesn't do well against Toronto in one hundred and
- 31:53Speaker 2: five at bats to sixty seven average, eight fifteen ops,
- 31:57Speaker 2: twenty one to five, twenty one to fifteen excusually strike
- 32:00Speaker 2: out walk ratio. That's not very good, especially for Gray,
- 32:04Speaker 2: who's not a guy who walks too many guys like
- 32:07Speaker 2: he usually does not have a bad strike up walk ratio.
- 32:11Speaker 2: There's not a lot of leeway here if you're gonna
- 32:13Speaker 2: try to play an under man. It looks like it's
- 32:14Speaker 2: an under on the surface here, and the money is
- 32:17Speaker 2: back in the under. The total seven and a half
- 32:19Speaker 2: sixty five percent of the tickets and fifty six percent
- 32:22Speaker 2: of the cash on the over, so the money seems
- 32:25Speaker 2: to be back in the under. And I understand these
- 32:28Speaker 2: are both generally really good pictures here, but you just
- 32:31Speaker 2: saw the matchup numbers like there's not a lot of
- 32:33Speaker 2: leeway here. If you're gonna try to play the under
- 32:36Speaker 2: I don't think i'd do it. And the Red Sox
- 32:39Speaker 2: are very public. Eighty nine percent of the tickets, fifty
- 32:43Speaker 2: nine percent of the cash. Yeah, because the Red Sox
- 32:46Speaker 2: have been winning all these games. They've won sixteen of
- 32:49Speaker 2: their last seventeen games. Dirty sock, what's up? Yeah, I mean,
- 32:55Speaker 2: I would not play the Red Sox. I would probably
- 32:57Speaker 2: play I think I would play Toronto in the first
- 32:59Speaker 2: five here if I was gonna do anything with this,
- 33:02Speaker 2: I think Cease probably has the upper hand over Gray,
- 33:04Speaker 2: believe it or not. Or I might even maybe even
- 33:09Speaker 2: lean towards an over here. Again, there's not a lot
- 33:13Speaker 2: of leeway, and I think this game might wind up
- 33:14Speaker 2: going over just these pitchers don't have like elite numbers
- 33:19Speaker 2: against these opposing offenses year. But yeah, the money is
- 33:23Speaker 2: definitely fading the Red Sox though, eighty nine percent of
- 33:25Speaker 2: tickets fifty nine percent of the cash on them at
- 33:27Speaker 2: about minus one to eighteen. At this point, it looks
- 33:30Speaker 2: way too easy to play the Red Sox here, even
- 33:32Speaker 2: though Cease is a well known pitcher. Both these pitchers,
- 33:36Speaker 2: you know, get some like credit in the public's mind
- 33:39Speaker 2: and whatever, so even though Cease probably gets a little
- 33:42Speaker 2: bit more. But yeah, I mean, I think grabbing Toronto
- 33:46Speaker 2: in the first five as probably a slight underdog might
- 33:48Speaker 2: be the right lean there. Unfortunately, all right, Yankees and Philadelphia.
- 33:54Speaker 2: We did get the win with the Yankees yesterday one
- 33:57Speaker 2: to nothing. Lozardo pitched better than that. I thought he would.
- 34:01Speaker 2: This game is not going to be a very good
- 34:03Speaker 2: pitching matchup. Though Philadelphia has not decided on a pitcher.
- 34:08Speaker 2: It would be Ron Hell if they continued with what
- 34:12Speaker 2: they did five games ago, but they sent him to
- 34:14Speaker 2: the Miners, so I don't think it's gonna be him.
- 34:17Speaker 2: I think Philly's going with some sort of bullpen game here,
- 34:20Speaker 2: which I'm pissed about that because the Yankees run into
- 34:24Speaker 2: Philly's worst pitching setup in this series, you know what
- 34:26Speaker 2: I mean? Like I wanted the Yankees stap to face Lozardo,
- 34:31Speaker 2: Wheeler and Sanchez, and they will have to face Sanchez tomorrow,
- 34:34Speaker 2: but uh yeah, they're not gonna face Wheeler in the series.
- 34:37Speaker 2: And Philadelphia has an undecided pitcher here. Whatever they're doing,
- 34:41Speaker 2: it's not gonna be good. Okay, And Ryan Weathers this
- 34:44Speaker 2: pitcher for the Yankees, which I'm gonna look at in
- 34:47Speaker 2: a second. The Yankees bullpen is in good shape. They
- 34:51Speaker 2: used two guys yesterday, so they did have to use
- 34:53Speaker 2: their closer Bednar, but yeah, I mean, Schlittler got them
- 34:57Speaker 2: like seven innings yesterday or whatever. Philadelphia on these two guys,
- 35:01Speaker 2: so both bullpen's arrested. The Yankees have the better bullpen,
- 35:04Speaker 2: though they're ranked third and they're number one in Bullpenny
- 35:07Speaker 2: Ray right now. Philadelphia not great at twentieth out of
- 35:11Speaker 2: the bullpen. Yankees have the better offense. So the This
- 35:16Speaker 2: Yankee offense has been bad recently, like they've scored two
- 35:19Speaker 2: or fewer runs and I think most of their games
- 35:22Speaker 2: over the last week. They ranked ninth right now, tied
- 35:25Speaker 2: with Milwaukee. But I think their offense is better than that.
- 35:28Speaker 2: But they're definitely uh, you know, the Yangas have been
- 35:32Speaker 2: succumbing to being without Aaron Judge. Let's let's put it
- 35:35Speaker 2: that way. Phillies still worse. The Phillies are twenty fourth
- 35:40Speaker 2: in offense, although they do hit a little bit better
- 35:42Speaker 2: at home. Ryan Weathers is pitching for the Yankees. He
- 35:46Speaker 2: was going to pitch yesterday, but they put Schlitzler in
- 35:48Speaker 2: there instead, and that's why we made the play on
- 35:50Speaker 2: the Yankees yesterday. Weathers, I mean, he's okay, a four
- 35:54Speaker 2: point four e RA one point twenty seven whip. He's
- 35:57Speaker 2: a little bit better on the road of four point
- 35:59Speaker 2: two to three d not in good form recently, though
- 36:02Speaker 2: three of his last four starts have been bad and
- 36:05Speaker 2: He's failed to make it five innings and all three
- 36:07Speaker 2: of those, so that's not really that good of a sign.
- 36:11Speaker 2: His hit rate is right around one per inning, which
- 36:13Speaker 2: is mediocre. His walk rate is pretty low, though strike
- 36:16Speaker 2: out rate is high, so the stregout walk ratio is
- 36:18Speaker 2: still really good. So he has good command. So there
- 36:22Speaker 2: is that against Philadelphia, though Philadelphia's kind of rocked him
- 36:26Speaker 2: in thirty eight at career at bats three sixty eight average, fourteen,
- 36:30Speaker 2: twenty six ohps, six to two strike a walk ratio,
- 36:34Speaker 2: seven home runs off him. That is a ridiculous home
- 36:37Speaker 2: run rate. Yeah, they've hit him for a lot of powers.
- 36:41Speaker 2: So I don't really think Weathers is gonna pitch particularly
- 36:44Speaker 2: well here, and Philly's pitching set up is probably not
- 36:49Speaker 2: gonna be good. So I think you we're gonna try
- 36:51Speaker 2: to play this game not even knowing who Philly's pitcher
- 36:54Speaker 2: is gonna be. I would say play the game. Over
- 36:57Speaker 2: the totals nine, it's fairly high total. The money's backing
- 37:00Speaker 2: the under makes no sense to me. Fifty four percent
- 37:04Speaker 2: of the tickets and eighty seven percent of the cash
- 37:05Speaker 2: on the under. Yeah, that is not what I would do. So, yeah,
- 37:10Speaker 2: I mean I think the only way that you could
- 37:11Speaker 2: really play this game give give them what we know,
- 37:14Speaker 2: is to take the over here. I'm not gonna do it,
- 37:16Speaker 2: but that's what I would do if you force me
- 37:19Speaker 2: to do anything with it. The money's backing the Yankees.
- 37:22Speaker 2: Tickets on Philly sixty nine percent of the cash on
- 37:25Speaker 2: the Yankees. The Yankees are road favorite here, I like
- 37:28Speaker 2: minus won twenty something. And you know, I pointed out yesterday,
- 37:31Speaker 2: Philadelphia is not that good at home. They're like right
- 37:34Speaker 2: around five hundred at home. The Yankees are like ten
- 37:37Speaker 2: games above five hundred on the road. So the Yankees
- 37:40Speaker 2: home road splits, beat Philly and beat Phillies. And what
- 37:43Speaker 2: I also pointed out yesterday was Philly has a negative
- 37:47Speaker 2: run differential, like their record is very misleading. Philly is
- 37:50Speaker 2: not that good based on the run differential, and the
- 37:53Speaker 2: Yankees have a very positive run differential like plus eighty something.
- 37:57Speaker 2: Philly is negative like fifteen or six sixteen run diff
- 38:01Speaker 2: So the Yankees are the better team based on that,
- 38:04Speaker 2: even though I know the Yankees play more AL opponents
- 38:08Speaker 2: and the AL is weaker than the NL. But even
- 38:10Speaker 2: given all that, the run differential is still extremely different
- 38:13Speaker 2: between the two, all right, Cleveland and Tampa Bay. I mean,
- 38:18Speaker 2: this looks like an under just based on who the
- 38:20Speaker 2: starting pitchers pitchers are here, and I think maybe that
- 38:23Speaker 2: is the way to look at this game. This one's
- 38:25Speaker 2: not making the cut for me or anything. But Tampa
- 38:27Speaker 2: Bay won the game yesterday eleven to three, despite being
- 38:30Speaker 2: in the return home spot. They had a pitching edge there.
- 38:32Speaker 2: It was McClanahan against Cantillo, and Tampa Bay was able
- 38:37Speaker 2: to put up a ton of runs and win that game.
- 38:39Speaker 2: Tampa Bay used two relief pitchers. Cleveland has had a
- 38:42Speaker 2: lot of usage over the last two days. They used
- 38:45Speaker 2: five guys yesterday and they used a bunch of guys
- 38:48Speaker 2: in the extra inning game the day before that. Cleveland
- 38:51Speaker 2: is that they're at a bullpen disadvantage here, even though
- 38:53Speaker 2: they have the better bullpen era the rank sixteenth the bullpen,
- 38:57Speaker 2: Tampa fifth in whip. But given the rest scenario, yeah,
- 39:01Speaker 2: Tampa does have the bullpen edge in this particular game.
- 39:05Speaker 2: Tampa Bay is sixth in offense. They obviously have the
- 39:08Speaker 2: better offense. Cleveland is twenty seventh. Even though I don't
- 39:11Speaker 2: think Tampa is quite that good, they're still better than Cleveland.
- 39:15Speaker 2: Cleveland is going with Tanner Biby here. I think Biby
- 39:17Speaker 2: is the better of these two pitchers, Like I think
- 39:20Speaker 2: he just has the better stuff, and he's the younger
- 39:23Speaker 2: pitcher here. Biby having a pretty good season three point
- 39:26Speaker 2: eight six ERA, one point one five whip, although he
- 39:29Speaker 2: gets very little run support, which is why his record
- 39:32Speaker 2: is so bad. He's been good on the road, a
- 39:34Speaker 2: three point six sixth ROADYRA. He's in pretty good for
- 39:38Speaker 2: him right now. His last two starts have been pretty good,
- 39:40Speaker 2: although he had a lot of walks against Miami. Was
- 39:44Speaker 2: good in the next start. We lost on an under
- 39:46Speaker 2: in that next start where he was up against Joe
- 39:48Speaker 2: Ryan and somehow Cleveland just exploded against Joe Ryan. I
- 39:53Speaker 2: don't know what the fuck that was. But yeah, Biby
- 39:56Speaker 2: has generally been pretty good. He's got a low hit rate,
- 39:59Speaker 2: it's walk rate's pretty as well. Strike out rate is
- 40:01Speaker 2: not really that high, doesn't really strike guys out at
- 40:04Speaker 2: this point in his career. But he's still pitching, or
- 40:06Speaker 2: well really maybe he's just never done it, but yeah,
- 40:09Speaker 2: he's not too bad. Against Tampa Bay, he's been quite good.
- 40:13Speaker 2: In sixty three at bats, one ninety average allowed six
- 40:16Speaker 2: point fifteen ops fourteen to five strike out walk ratio
- 40:19Speaker 2: not the greatest ratio, but overall, he's got good numbers
- 40:22Speaker 2: here against Tampa, and Tampa is going with Nick Martinez,
- 40:25Speaker 2: who I kind of think he's overperforming this year. But again,
- 40:29Speaker 2: Tampa's pitching coaching, they do something with these pitchers, man,
- 40:33Speaker 2: they get the most out of their pitchers. Martinez is
- 40:36Speaker 2: not a young man and he's having one of his
- 40:39Speaker 2: best seasons two point five to ninety RA, one point
- 40:42Speaker 2: one two whip. He's been a little bit worse at
- 40:44Speaker 2: home though, three point oh seven homy Ira. But he's
- 40:47Speaker 2: also in reasonable form right now, except his strikeout rate
- 40:52Speaker 2: has been really low. Recently. He pitched in the All
- 40:55Speaker 2: Star Game and then he came out of the All
- 40:56Speaker 2: Star Game had another good outing against Toronto, but he
- 40:59Speaker 2: had no strike outs, so that that's kind of a
- 41:02Speaker 2: red flag. And going into the All Star break, he
- 41:04Speaker 2: had one strikeout in a start against Seattle. That kind
- 41:08Speaker 2: of worries me, man that he's just not striking anybody
- 41:10Speaker 2: out at all. He does have a reasonably low hit
- 41:13Speaker 2: rate here. His walk rate is definitely low. He doesn't
- 41:15Speaker 2: walk guys. His strikeout rate is really low, So this
- 41:19Speaker 2: type of profile, I mean, the advanced analytics guys definitely
- 41:22Speaker 2: don't like it because he's fly ball heavy, so he's
- 41:25Speaker 2: relying on a lot of flyball outs, which is not
- 41:28Speaker 2: exactly what you want, but it is what it is. Man,
- 41:32Speaker 2: He's still pitching effectively, so you got to give him that.
- 41:35Speaker 2: And he's facing a weak Cleveland offense here, and Cleveland
- 41:38Speaker 2: has not done well against him in forty five at
- 41:40Speaker 2: bats one seventy eight average, five seventy eight ohps, nine
- 41:43Speaker 2: to four strikeout walk ratio. Yeah, like I said, this
- 41:48Speaker 2: game looks like an under to me, I think first
- 41:50Speaker 2: five under might be the right way to look at
- 41:52Speaker 2: this game. But the money's back in the over. But
- 41:54Speaker 2: the total seven and a half, so the oddsmakers were
- 41:57Speaker 2: eight in some places. Odds makers are telling you that
- 42:01Speaker 2: they think it's gonna be a low scoring game here,
- 42:04Speaker 2: and obviously a lot of it has to do with
- 42:05Speaker 2: the starting pitching. I don't like the bullpens really though,
- 42:09Speaker 2: Like Cleveland's bullpen is very, very taxed right now, so
- 42:12Speaker 2: I think a first five under is probably the way
- 42:14Speaker 2: to play this, but you're gonna be looking at like
- 42:16Speaker 2: a three and a half. It worries me a little bit.
- 42:19Speaker 2: There's just not a lot of leeway there, you know.
- 42:22Speaker 2: And Tampa's like minus one thirty or so on the
- 42:25Speaker 2: money line here, eighty nine percent of the tickets, ninety
- 42:27Speaker 2: percent of the cash on them. I mean, Tampa's very
- 42:31Speaker 2: public here. I don't think I would want to play Tampa,
- 42:33Speaker 2: even though I mean Tampa's very good at home. I
- 42:38Speaker 2: will say that there. I think they have the best
- 42:40Speaker 2: home record in baseball. But I think Baby might be
- 42:44Speaker 2: the better pitcher out of the two here. Cleveland is
- 42:47Speaker 2: an underdog in the first five. I think maybe makes
- 42:50Speaker 2: some sense, but first five under makes the most sense
- 42:53Speaker 2: to me in that game, all right, Chicago and Pittsburgh,
- 42:58Speaker 2: Cubs and Pirates. I should say we got the win
- 43:01Speaker 2: yesterday with the Cubs. They won an extra innings. We
- 43:03Speaker 2: got a little bit lucky with that one, but that
- 43:05Speaker 2: was a winner on the show yesterday with the Cubs.
- 43:08Speaker 2: I mean, hey, the bullpens were prout of the equation
- 43:10Speaker 2: man in both the Cub win yesterday and the Yankee
- 43:13Speaker 2: win yesterday. The Cubs used three relief pitchers yesterday. They
- 43:18Speaker 2: have the better bullpen over Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh used four. Cubs
- 43:22Speaker 2: have struggled a bit recently out of the bullpen. They're
- 43:24Speaker 2: fourteenth right now, but that's still better than Pittsburgh, who
- 43:27Speaker 2: are twenty third and have a worse bullpen ERA and
- 43:31Speaker 2: less rest here, so we'll give the Cubs the bullpen
- 43:34Speaker 2: advantage here. Both teams have been good offensively, especially at home.
- 43:38Speaker 2: For Pittsburgh that've been good, although they didn't do much yesterday,
- 43:40Speaker 2: but their third overall Chicago is a fourth the Cobs,
- 43:45Speaker 2: so both teams can hit. However, I don't think we're
- 43:49Speaker 2: gonna see a lot of offense in this one, given
- 43:51Speaker 2: what this pitching matchup is showed to. Im Naga's pitching
- 43:53Speaker 2: for the Cubs. I told you he's still good man.
- 43:56Speaker 2: People are saying, oh, he's been figured out now he's
- 43:58Speaker 2: all of a sudden bad like. No, he isn't.
- 44:01Speaker 3: Like.
- 44:01Speaker 2: He's given up some home runs, but his overall numbers
- 44:04Speaker 2: were pretty good and his ERA is now back into
- 44:07Speaker 2: the three. He's three point nine to one ERA, one
- 44:09Speaker 2: point one to one whip. Those are good numbers. He's
- 44:12Speaker 2: been good on the road as well, three point six
- 44:14Speaker 2: to eight road. The Ray pitched quite well in his
- 44:17Speaker 2: last outing against Minnesota, which was at home. He's been
- 44:21Speaker 2: good for a couple of starts in a row here.
- 44:22Speaker 2: Three of his last four have been pretty good, so yeah,
- 44:25Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's kind of back and form here.
- 44:27Speaker 2: His command numbers have been pretty good over that stretch. Overall,
- 44:30Speaker 2: numbers look pretty good across the board. A hit rate
- 44:34Speaker 2: is reasonable, definitely not too high. His walk rate is low,
- 44:38Speaker 2: his strikeout rate is decent. Yeah, I mean, I still
- 44:40Speaker 2: think i Monaga is a good pitcher. He pitched well
- 44:43Speaker 2: against Pittsburgh early in the season. In fact, he had
- 44:46Speaker 2: a six inning no hitter against Pittsburgh and they took
- 44:49Speaker 2: him out at one hundred pitches, didn't let him go
- 44:52Speaker 2: for the no hitter man, But he's been good against
- 44:55Speaker 2: Pittsburgh throughout his career. Fifty five at bats, he's basically
- 44:59Speaker 2: completely dominated them. They have one extra RaSE hit, which
- 45:02Speaker 2: is a double from Triolo one twenty seven average three
- 45:06Speaker 2: zero three obs, nineteen to two strikeout walk ratio. Yeah,
- 45:10Speaker 2: Ima Naga has been dominant against Pittsburgh. Although Pittsburgh is
- 45:14Speaker 2: better this year than they have been in the past,
- 45:16Speaker 2: and they do hit well at home, but I think
- 45:18Speaker 2: the matchup favors Ima NAGA against their offense, and Pittsburgh
- 45:22Speaker 2: is going with Paul Skeens. So yeah, I mean, obviously
- 45:25Speaker 2: this looks like it should be an under. But I'll
- 45:28Speaker 2: show you Skeens matchup numbers in a minute, and they're
- 45:30Speaker 2: actually not really that good. Skeens three point four to
- 45:33Speaker 2: three ERA, which is not good for for Skeens, that's
- 45:37Speaker 2: too high. But his whip is pretty good at one
- 45:39Speaker 2: point oh four, so I think his ERA should be
- 45:41Speaker 2: lower than that. He's been better at home three point
- 45:44Speaker 2: oh four home era was really good in his last down.
- 45:47Speaker 2: He's been good just generally recently. His last three starts
- 45:51Speaker 2: have all been pretty good. Getting his strikeout rate back
- 45:54Speaker 2: up as well. He's got a low hit rate on
- 45:56Speaker 2: the season, low walk rate, high strikeout rate. I mean,
- 45:58Speaker 2: obviously you expect all of that out of him, and
- 46:01Speaker 2: that's all still happening. Pittsburgh had gone on a stretcher,
- 46:04Speaker 2: they lost like ten starts in a row of his
- 46:07Speaker 2: they've broken out of that and they've won his last
- 46:09Speaker 2: three starts and he's won all of them, so you
- 46:12Speaker 2: know they're backing him with some runs now. He's still
- 46:14Speaker 2: pitching pretty well against the Cubs, though his numbers are
- 46:17Speaker 2: kind of mediocre. In one hundred and seven at bats
- 46:20Speaker 2: two forty three average, seven to twenty five ops, forty
- 46:23Speaker 2: to sixteen strikeout walk ratio is not really that good.
- 46:27Speaker 2: Although eleven of the walks are between Bush and Hap,
- 46:31Speaker 2: who are two of the guys that hit him better
- 46:33Speaker 2: in this lineup, he's still not bad against them, but
- 46:36Speaker 2: he's not dominant against them. I mean, I still think
- 46:40Speaker 2: probably a first five under is still probably the way
- 46:43Speaker 2: to look at this game, although you're gonna be probably
- 46:45Speaker 2: looking at that dreaded three and a half number there
- 46:47Speaker 2: if that's what you're gonna do, and everybody kind of
- 46:50Speaker 2: knows Paul Skeins is a guy that you probably want
- 46:53Speaker 2: to try to go under with the total. You actually
- 46:56Speaker 2: might get a little bit of a better total on
- 46:57Speaker 2: this because the total is around eight at some point,
- 47:00Speaker 2: so you might be able to find a four in
- 47:02Speaker 2: the first five here. And maybe not, but possibly, But
- 47:05Speaker 2: the money's backing the over fifty one percent of tickets
- 47:08Speaker 2: on the under eighty four percent of the cash on
- 47:10Speaker 2: the over. Obviously, like I said, I would play the
- 47:13Speaker 2: first five under here, I would avoid Pittsburgh's bullpen. But
- 47:17Speaker 2: first five under makes sense to me, and Pittsburgh is
- 47:19Speaker 2: getting the money at about minus one thirty seventy six
- 47:22Speaker 2: percent of tickets ninety one percent of the cash. On Pittsburgh,
- 47:25Speaker 2: I actually disagree with that. I would lean towards the
- 47:28Speaker 2: Cubs in this one. I would take the Cubs as
- 47:30Speaker 2: the dog in the full game because im Naga. You
- 47:33Speaker 2: saw his matchup numbers, dude. I think he can at
- 47:35Speaker 2: least kind of battle schemes here and get us to
- 47:38Speaker 2: the bullpens, and then I think the Cubs will have
- 47:39Speaker 2: a bullpen edge there. So I like the Cubs on
- 47:42Speaker 2: the side in that one. But I think first five
- 47:44Speaker 2: under probably makes more sense than anything else. But it's
- 47:47Speaker 2: not gonna make the cut for me. This next game
- 47:50Speaker 2: is going to and this is more about pitching form
- 47:53Speaker 2: and Garrett is not going to like this, but the
- 48:00Speaker 2: money agrees with me on this. We're gonna take Baltimore
- 48:02Speaker 2: in the first five innings against Atlanta at minus one twenty.
- 48:06Speaker 2: This is kind of similar to the Washington play in
- 48:09Speaker 2: that both teams are just outside of DC No. But Baltimore,
- 48:13Speaker 2: like Washington, just returned home from a road trip and
- 48:15Speaker 2: took the loss yesterday, So I think a lot of
- 48:17Speaker 2: times the team has a tendency to bounce back after
- 48:20Speaker 2: that happens, because that road trip returns spot is difficult.
- 48:23Speaker 2: I know they only lost seven to six, but I
- 48:25Speaker 2: think it could be a bounce back coming off of that.
- 48:27Speaker 2: And obviously I like the starting pitching matchup here to
- 48:30Speaker 2: favor Baltimore. I'm gonna leave their bullpens out, even though
- 48:34Speaker 2: Baltimore's bullpen has been good recently, but I'm gonna keep
- 48:37Speaker 2: them out of the equation because Atlanta does have one
- 48:39Speaker 2: of the best bullpens. Baltimore used four guys out of
- 48:42Speaker 2: their bullpen yesterday, Atlanta used three. Atlanta's still the number
- 48:47Speaker 2: one bullpen and whip they're number three in a era
- 48:51Speaker 2: still really good though Baltimore's ninth, and Baltimore's been one
- 48:54Speaker 2: of the better bullpens in baseball over the last few weeks.
- 48:57Speaker 2: But I'm gonna leave them out of this equation. It
- 48:59Speaker 2: justocused on the starting pitching here because at the very least,
- 49:02Speaker 2: both bullpens are good here, but probably Atlanta does have
- 49:06Speaker 2: the slight bullpen edge. Atlanta's ranking seventh in offense, Baltimore
- 49:10Speaker 2: is seventeenth, So yeah, Atlanta does have the better offense,
- 49:14Speaker 2: but I don't think it's that significant, even though Atlanta
- 49:17Speaker 2: is better on the road. But we're gonna fade Bryce
- 49:19Speaker 2: Elder here, man. I mean, I think Elder he's kind
- 49:23Speaker 2: of falling into bad form again.
- 49:25Speaker 3: Man.
- 49:25Speaker 2: He's got a four point six ERA one point two
- 49:27Speaker 2: to three whip. I know those are not terrible numbers.
- 49:30Speaker 2: He was good for a good chunk of the season,
- 49:32Speaker 2: but he's been pitching pretty poorly recently, and he also
- 49:35Speaker 2: isn't good on the road five point three to one
- 49:38Speaker 2: road ERA. So we're playing into the home road splits here.
- 49:42Speaker 2: He's got bad home road splits for the road games.
- 49:45Speaker 2: He was really really pitching poorly through four straight starts
- 49:49Speaker 2: between the June fourteenth and July July ninth, and a
- 49:54Speaker 2: couple of those were against bad offenses Mets in San Francisco,
- 49:57Speaker 2: and those are both on the road. I had a
- 50:00Speaker 2: good start last time out, but it was against San
- 50:02Speaker 2: Diego at home, so I'm not gonna put that much
- 50:04Speaker 2: weight into that. And San Diego has not been a
- 50:06Speaker 2: very good offense, so I don't really consider that to
- 50:09Speaker 2: be Elder totally coming back into form here. Elder overall,
- 50:13Speaker 2: him and his hit rate is not too bad. His
- 50:15Speaker 2: walk rate is okay, his strikeout rate is okay. So yeah,
- 50:19Speaker 2: it's a lot of mediocre to hear from Elder. But again,
- 50:21Speaker 2: he's not good on the road. I don't consider him
- 50:24Speaker 2: to be in good form at all. Right now, soums
- 50:26Speaker 2: against Baltimore are not that bad. They only have four
- 50:29Speaker 2: guys who have faced him. But again, I'm going with
- 50:31Speaker 2: pitching form here for this and situation for this game. Here,
- 50:37Speaker 2: Baltimore has a two thirty eight average seven to thirty
- 50:39Speaker 2: three ops against him. It's kind of mediocre stuff there,
- 50:44Speaker 2: and I know they're unfamiliar with them to some extent,
- 50:46Speaker 2: but I think they should be able to get something
- 50:48Speaker 2: off of him here. They have three strikeouts one walk
- 50:50Speaker 2: against him. But I'm gonna back Brandon Young here. I
- 50:53Speaker 2: think Young is still pretty under the radar, dude. I
- 50:55Speaker 2: think Young is actually not that bad of a pitcher.
- 50:59Speaker 2: He's shown Glynn in the past, but this season has
- 51:01Speaker 2: been pretty decent for him, and he is also pitching
- 51:05Speaker 2: well recently, which is, like I said, we're playing into
- 51:07Speaker 2: the recent form here. Baltimore has also won a bunch
- 51:10Speaker 2: of his games. I mean, he's eight and two, so
- 51:12Speaker 2: Baltimore plays well with him on the mound, so maybe
- 51:15Speaker 2: there is something to that. He has a three point
- 51:17Speaker 2: two to five RA one point three to one whip.
- 51:19Speaker 2: He's been better at home, although slightly three point oh
- 51:23Speaker 2: four RA. His opponent of batting average is slightly worse
- 51:26Speaker 2: at home, so splits just aren't that significant. But he
- 51:29Speaker 2: was really good last time out against Houston. Baltimore's won
- 51:32Speaker 2: all three of his starts this month. They won six
- 51:34Speaker 2: of his last eight starts. Actually, they've won ten of
- 51:38Speaker 2: his last twelve starts, I should say, and actually twelve
- 51:41Speaker 2: of his fifteen on the season. So or no, yeah,
- 51:47Speaker 2: is that right? Yeah, I think that's what it was. Yeah.
- 51:49Speaker 2: So he's been good, like basically all season. He's a
- 51:52Speaker 2: lot more than three or on runs only twice on the season,
- 51:55Speaker 2: or no, yeah, twice. He's got a reasonably well he's
- 51:59Speaker 2: hit rate, I guess kind of mediocre. I guess strike
- 52:02Speaker 2: out rate is or excuse me, walk rate is okay,
- 52:04Speaker 2: strike out rate is not really that good. See, I
- 52:06Speaker 2: know his overall numbers aren't really that good, but we're
- 52:09Speaker 2: playing into the current form here. Like I said, he
- 52:13Speaker 2: wasn't that good towards the beginning of the season. He's
- 52:15Speaker 2: been pitching better throughout the season, Like the last couple
- 52:18Speaker 2: of months, he's been good and he's gotten his walk
- 52:20Speaker 2: right way down recently, so that's a good sign to me.
- 52:24Speaker 2: And against Atlanta, they only have one guy who's faced him,
- 52:27Speaker 2: Dubon is zero for five with a strikeout against him,
- 52:30Speaker 2: So Young has unfamiliarity here against Atlanta. So that's the
- 52:33Speaker 2: other thing I'm playing into, is the unfamiliarity aspect of this.
- 52:36Speaker 2: I think also favors Young. And the money is heavily
- 52:40Speaker 2: agreeing with me on this. Seventy percent of tickets on Atlanta,
- 52:43Speaker 2: ninety two percent of the cash on Baltimore at about
- 52:46Speaker 2: minus one sixteen or so. We're playing first five only,
- 52:49Speaker 2: so we don't have to try to go up against
- 52:51Speaker 2: Atlanta's probable bullpen edge here. But I like to starting pitching.
- 52:55Speaker 2: I like it to be a bounced back spot for Baltimore.
- 52:58Speaker 2: I like him to come out with some intensity here,
- 53:01Speaker 2: or whatever you want to call it in baseball focus.
- 53:04Speaker 2: We'll take Baltimore in the first five. It's a little
- 53:07Speaker 2: bit of a heavier price, but not too much to
- 53:09Speaker 2: play them in the first five instead of the full game,
- 53:12Speaker 2: because the oddsmakers know that the bigger edge they have
- 53:15Speaker 2: is the starting pitching. All right, as in Minnesota, I'd
- 53:20Speaker 2: said this looked like an over series, but yesterday's game
- 53:23Speaker 2: went way under h. Jacob Lopez, I guess, was really
- 53:26Speaker 2: good in the game, and I showed you he had
- 53:28Speaker 2: good numbers against Minnesota, although he sucks, but that game
- 53:31Speaker 2: was very low scoring. Zebbi was probably pretty good in
- 53:35Speaker 2: that game yesterday too. I think if any of these
- 53:37Speaker 2: games in the series is gonna go over at this point, though,
- 53:41Speaker 2: it's gonna be the one today because Joe Ryan is.
- 53:45Speaker 2: Joe Ryan screwed me many times this year though, But
- 53:48Speaker 2: Joe Ryan is pitching tomorrow's games, so and I thought
- 53:52Speaker 2: he was gonna pitch today, but I guess it's because
- 53:54Speaker 2: Minnesota hasn't had a day of rest or whatever, so
- 53:56Speaker 2: they're pushing Ryan back to tomorrow and we have no
- 53:59Speaker 2: idea who Minnesota's pitching today. That's probably not a good thing,
- 54:02Speaker 2: because Minnesota's pitching sucks. They're not good, dude, except for
- 54:07Speaker 2: Joe Ryan. Well, and actually Tadj Bradley and Zebi are
- 54:11Speaker 2: actually not really that bad. But Minnesota's other pitchers all suck.
- 54:15Speaker 2: Minnesota use three relief pitchers yesterday. Their bullpen sucks. The
- 54:19Speaker 2: A's bullpen also sucks. They used four guys out of
- 54:22Speaker 2: the bullpen. These are two bad bullpens. A's are twenty
- 54:26Speaker 2: eighth and they have the worst bullpen e RA. Minnesota
- 54:29Speaker 2: is twenty ninth. They're also bad. Both offenses are pretty
- 54:33Speaker 2: capable on Minnesota is where are they at now? Thirteenth?
- 54:37Speaker 2: As are eleventh, tie with Houston's. Yeah, these are both
- 54:40Speaker 2: offenses that can get the job done. Minnesota tends to
- 54:44Speaker 2: play a lot of high scoring games at home, and
- 54:45Speaker 2: the A's are going with Mason Barnett here. Barnett, he's
- 54:49Speaker 2: pretty young, but he has not had a good career.
- 54:52Speaker 2: This season. He's got a four point six y four ERA,
- 54:55Speaker 2: one point three to six whip, and I think it's
- 54:57Speaker 2: all relief appearances this year. Last year he was a
- 55:00Speaker 2: starter and he did not do well. His ERA was
- 55:03Speaker 2: almost seven through five starts and his WHIP was one
- 55:07Speaker 2: point sixty six. Yeah, that's not good, even though sometimes
- 55:11Speaker 2: these young guys will turn it around. But there's really
- 55:13Speaker 2: not a lot to like with Barnett here. His numbers
- 55:16Speaker 2: this year are not any good coming out of the bullpen.
- 55:19Speaker 2: He's been a little bit better on the road. I
- 55:21Speaker 2: guess he can give him that four point one five
- 55:23Speaker 2: roadyra He's made a lot of just short appearances. Though
- 55:28Speaker 2: you look at his overall numbers, the walks have been
- 55:30Speaker 2: a huge issue. Like his hit rates not too bad,
- 55:32Speaker 2: his strikeout rates pretty good. Walk rate is way too high.
- 55:38Speaker 2: He's close to walking one guy an inning. You can't
- 55:40Speaker 2: do that, man, Minnesota's never faced it before. But I
- 55:43Speaker 2: don't trust Barnett here. I know he has the unfamiliarity edge,
- 55:47Speaker 2: but he might even be an opener here. He might
- 55:49Speaker 2: not even go that deemon in this game. I guess
- 55:51Speaker 2: you have to look at what do the A's do
- 55:53Speaker 2: five games ago? Let me see the as use Lopez?
- 55:59Speaker 2: But wait, what really? But he pitched yesterday. I don't know.
- 56:03Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on with the A's, but
- 56:04Speaker 2: it looks like it's gonna be some sort of bullpen
- 56:07Speaker 2: ish game from them, and it looks like it's gonna
- 56:09Speaker 2: be the same for Minnesota. So it's hard to figure
- 56:13Speaker 2: out anything with this game, not really knowing a whole
- 56:15Speaker 2: lot about it. But the total is really high at
- 56:17Speaker 2: ten and a half, which the Osbiggers are telling you
- 56:20Speaker 2: they're expecting runs here. I think I would play the
- 56:23Speaker 2: over if you forced me to give out an opinion
- 56:25Speaker 2: on this. That's really the only thing that I got
- 56:28Speaker 2: that I could see of this game is it looks
- 56:29Speaker 2: like you're gonna have a horrible pitching throughout this entire
- 56:32Speaker 2: game from both teams. So I think the over makes
- 56:35Speaker 2: the most sense here. It is a very high total, though,
- 56:38Speaker 2: but you're under that key number of eleven. Though fifty
- 56:41Speaker 2: percent of tickets on the over, eighty eight percent of
- 56:43Speaker 2: the cash on the over money is back in the A's.
- 56:46Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you why seventy nine percent of the
- 56:50Speaker 2: tickets on Minnesota fifty eight percent of the cash on
- 56:53Speaker 2: the A's. I understood why the money was back in
- 56:55Speaker 2: the A's yesterday. I kind of liked it in a
- 56:58Speaker 2: way because Minnesotas are turning home from the road. Lopez
- 57:01Speaker 2: had good matchup numbers at least, But I worried about
- 57:04Speaker 2: it still because I thought Zebbi was just the more
- 57:06Speaker 2: talented picture there. This one. I don't really get it
- 57:10Speaker 2: other than it's, oh, we know who the picture is
- 57:12Speaker 2: for the A's and we don't know who Minnesota's picture
- 57:14Speaker 2: is yeah, okay, but you could argue for a bounce
- 57:18Speaker 2: back spot for Minnesota, right, because when a team loses
- 57:21Speaker 2: in the return home spot, you could argue they're gonna
- 57:23Speaker 2: bounce back in the next in the next game there,
- 57:27Speaker 2: All right, I'll be right back. I'll talk about the
- 57:29Speaker 2: remaining five games here and then that'll do it for
- 57:31Speaker 2: the show. I have one more play here, and like
- 57:33Speaker 2: I said, it is it is an under and you
- 57:35Speaker 2: could probably already guess which game it's going to be
- 57:37Speaker 2: in if you well, actually maybe you can't, but maybe
- 57:40Speaker 2: you can. I'll be right back. Yeah, yep. Inside, I
- 57:53Speaker 2: want to kill myself. We were on OWN seven run
- 57:57Speaker 2: over the last two days after tonight. It was just
- 57:59Speaker 2: complete bullshit. So that's that's how I'm gonna start off
- 58:03Speaker 2: this show. Horrible Sunday one and five. I don't even
- 58:06Speaker 2: know what to tell you about that. I just don't
- 58:08Speaker 2: want to do this anymore. I have never seen anything
- 58:12Speaker 2: like this. Man with the slump continuing, two straight losses,
- 58:16Speaker 2: not a good day at all. Own four that have
- 58:20Speaker 2: not had a good season. Man with wickens the slump
- 58:25Speaker 2: that I'm on, and the slump continues. I've reached a
- 58:28Speaker 2: new peak. Actually, I'm gonna burn my Bruins hack, Man,
- 58:33Speaker 2: I don't know what is going on with the Bruins.
- 58:35Speaker 2: March eight, Is that what it is? I don't even
- 58:38Speaker 2: know it's March ninth? I think who even knows? Man,
- 58:42Speaker 2: I don't know what day is anymore. But I don't
- 58:44Speaker 2: even know what data is anymore. Man, back with you
- 58:47Speaker 2: after the worst day that I could possibly have, Back
- 58:50Speaker 2: with you as I always am until I die, at
- 58:54Speaker 2: least oh and two yesterday and yesterday it did not
- 58:57Speaker 2: go well for me. Own five the worst month that
- 59:01Speaker 2: I've ever had in my eighteen years doing this. I
- 59:04Speaker 2: don't know what to even tell you about this anymore.
- 59:06Speaker 2: To the Slump series, the Slump Discontinus, the slump continues.
- 59:11Speaker 2: Somebody fucking kill me, please. I don't even know what
- 59:15Speaker 2: I should do at this point, other than potentially end
- 59:18Speaker 2: it all, all right. I just saw on ESPN over
- 59:26Speaker 2: here it looks like Asi fud I guess won the
- 59:30Speaker 2: WNBA three point contest, which I was paying no attention
- 59:34Speaker 2: to it. I guess she's the first first round draft
- 59:38Speaker 2: pick to win it as a rookie or something very strange,
- 59:41Speaker 2: because I thought she was like a defensive player, like
- 59:44Speaker 2: I thought that was her thing, like just all defense,
- 59:47Speaker 2: because she hasn't been putting up offensive numbers, so I
- 59:49Speaker 2: don't know. She's the player that Dallas drafted out of
- 59:53Speaker 2: Yukon and she's literally dating Dallas's previous first round first
- 59:59Speaker 2: overall pick, which Becker's who is hurt right now. I
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: think they're both out of Yukon and they're both on Dallas.
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: It's a very very weird situation. But yeah, whatever, w
- 1:00:09Speaker 2: NBA is a strange thing. Man Fenway Franks. Fenway Franks
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: are pretty good, but they cost like ten bucks apiece now,
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: it's completely ridiculous.
- 1:00:21Speaker 3: So though.
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: One of the games I was at last year, I
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: got I got like multiple free ones towards the end
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: of the game because one of the dudes whatever you
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: call the dudes that walk around, the hot Dog guy,
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: he was walking around in my area and he just
- 1:00:36Speaker 2: had a bunch of hot dogs that nobody was buying
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: at the end of the game and had to just
- 1:00:39Speaker 2: get rid of them because I guess they're just gonna
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: throw them out if they don't. So I'm like, yeah, yeah,
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: I'll take a couple of those, yes. Elmer will uh
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: as the fudd is uh is black, so't I don't.
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: I don't know what Elmer was doing, all right. Next
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: game is Colorado and Milwaukee. Colorado one yesterday. I have
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: no idea how I mean, Milwaukee was a huge favorite
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: in that game. I'm pretty sure Milwaukee is the better team. Colorado,
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: I guess, probably has a chance in this game because
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: the pitching is just not anything special on either side here,
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: So I guess this game could be kind of chaotic.
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: Milwaukee might be in bounced back mode ever, kind of
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: an embarrassing loss yesterday, though this Milwaukee team is good.
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: They used two guys out of the bullpen yesterday, Colorado
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: used three. Milwaukee has the way better bullpen here. Milwaukee
- 1:01:38Speaker 2: is ranked eighth, Colorado twenty fifth. There's a big edge there.
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: Colorado has been good offensively fifth, although I still am
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: not sure they're that good. On the road, Milwaukee is ninth,
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: tied with the Yankees. Ryan Feltner is pitching for Colorado here.
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: He's he's not good, but he's one of their less bats.
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: A pictures and one thing that you know, it had
- 1:02:02Speaker 2: n't really crossed my mind because I'm like, oh, well,
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: Colorado was all these bad pictures because they're stadium like
- 1:02:09Speaker 2: ruins every picture. But the other thing is pitchers just
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: never want to go there, you know what I mean,
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: because it's so difficult to pitch a course field, so
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: they can't even get good pictures to come to their
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: team basically, you know what I mean. Even though you
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: would think that if they make a move for a
- 1:02:25Speaker 2: guy like he has to go there, he has no choice.
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: I don't know whatever. But Feltner's pitching here. He's got
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: a five point four to eighty or a one point
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: four to two whip, obviously not great. He's better on
- 1:02:35Speaker 2: the road by a little bit, which is expected a
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: five point three to two roady a rail those opponent
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: batting average on the road is actually worse, although it's
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: in a small sample size. A Feltner he was pitching
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: well for a stretch, but he's been bad his last
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: couple of outings. One game on the road to get
- 1:02:53Speaker 2: San Francisco and then at home last time, horrible performance
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: against Cincinnati. His hit rate is right at one per inning,
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: which is mediocre. His walk rates too high, his strike
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: gut rate is not particularly high. Nothing to really like
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: about Feldner here with these numbers, except that he's actually
- 1:03:10Speaker 2: good against the Brewers. In eighty one at bats, they
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: have a one seventy three average, four sixty four ohps,
- 1:03:17Speaker 2: twenty one to six strike at walk ratio, So Feldner
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: might actually pitch okay here. There's definitely a possibility of that.
- 1:03:25Speaker 2: Milwaukee's going with Robert Gasser, who is a mediocre I
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: would say a four point nine to one ERA one
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: point two to one whip is not that bad Gasser.
- 1:03:35Speaker 2: He's been bad on the road, but he's been good
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: at home, and that's where he is today, three point
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: one six home e Ram had a pretty bad outing
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: a couple outings ago at Pittsburgh, but he's been pretty
- 1:03:47Speaker 2: good in the other starts around that, so he's pitching
- 1:03:50Speaker 2: okay recently. He's obviously the pitcher that's in the better
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: form here and probably just the better overall of these
- 1:03:56Speaker 2: two pitchers. His hit rate is reasonable, it's below one
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: per inning. His walk rates not too high, pretty decent there.
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: Strike got rate is decent as well. So yeah, Gaser
- 1:04:06Speaker 2: is the better of these two pitchers, and Colorado's never
- 1:04:09Speaker 2: faced him before. The thing is, if you want Milwaukee here,
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: you're like, yeah, they should have the pitching edge throughout
- 1:04:15Speaker 2: this game. You gotta pay minus to thirty basically for
- 1:04:19Speaker 2: Milwaukee here. You can't do that minus two thirty with
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: Gasser as the starting pitcher. I don't think Gasser should
- 1:04:26Speaker 2: be that much of a favorite against anybody man, even
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: if he is better than Feltner. You just saw that
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: Feltner has good matchup numbers here of tickets ninety one
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: percent of the cash on Milwaukee. They're very very public,
- 1:04:40Speaker 2: you know. I mean, the money's back in the over
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: at nine here. I think a first five under might
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: be worth a consideration here, given that Feltoner actually pitches
- 1:04:50Speaker 2: pretty well against Milwaukee, He's not a course field here
- 1:04:53Speaker 2: in Gasser has the unfamiliarity against Colorado. It sounds insane
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: and there's no way I would actually want have money
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: on that. But if you needed to be, like, if
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: I had to give you a lien on that game
- 1:05:04Speaker 2: at all, I think that might be what it would be.
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: I haven't in a course field now, yeah, I mean
- 1:05:12Speaker 2: it's a somewhat newer stadium. Yeah, I'm sure the stadium
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: is it better be because the team, the quality of
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: the quality of baseball is not good, so the stadium
- 1:05:26Speaker 2: itself better be all right. It'll be like being in
- 1:05:29Speaker 2: a minor league game. You know how they are all
- 1:05:31Speaker 2: these minor league stadiums that are nice stadiums, and you know,
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: they really emphasize the fun because a lot of parents
- 1:05:39Speaker 2: will like take their kids, like, oh, let's go see
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: a baseball game, and it's less expensive. I used to
- 1:05:43Speaker 2: go to a lot of Patucket Red Sox games with
- 1:05:46Speaker 2: my dad. The paw Socks, who are now the WU Socks,
- 1:05:50Speaker 2: And the WU Socks just brought up Franklin Arius. By
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: the way, who's the Red sox number one prospect. He
- 1:05:57Speaker 2: might be up with the major league team before the
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: end of the year. Man, let's go the reds dude.
- 1:06:02Speaker 2: It's crazy that the Red Sox are doing what they're
- 1:06:03Speaker 2: doing right now with all these injuries. Like, think about
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: how many injuries the Red Sox have right now. Roman
- 1:06:08Speaker 2: Anthony's hurt, Marcella Meyer is hurt, Garret Crochet is hurt,
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: Connolly Early is hurt right now, Ryners Suarez is hurt
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: right now. It's it's ridiculous. So three of their starting
- 1:06:19Speaker 2: pitchers who are in would be in the rotation, they're
- 1:06:23Speaker 2: all out. A couple of their best young talented hitters
- 1:06:27Speaker 2: are out. I mean, it's so insane. All right. Next
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: game is Houston and the White Sox, and looking at
- 1:06:35Speaker 2: this starting pitching, my first instinct was, yeah, this looks
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: like an under. It's Hunter Brown against Sean Burke. I've
- 1:06:41Speaker 2: started looking into it and I'm like, I don't think
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: this is gonna be an under. Like, certainly not gonna
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: be a bet for me. Houston used basically everybody out
- 1:06:52Speaker 2: of their bullpen yesterday. They use six relief bitches out.
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: That is seven, six, I think is what that is.
- 1:06:58Speaker 2: I can't count with my stroke brand. I can't see
- 1:07:01Speaker 2: how many lines there are. It's very, very weird. The
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: White Sox where are they at? They used four, so
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: their relief staff is a little bit more rested here.
- 1:07:12Speaker 2: I don't even know who won the game yesterday, to
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: be honest, I think Houston did. Yeah, that's right, yeah, right,
- 1:07:17Speaker 2: because I remember that game went over, which is what
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: I That was my recommendation on that game yesterday was
- 1:07:22Speaker 2: the over. It wasn't a play for me. I wish
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: it was, but yes, Houston won the game nine to five. Yesterday,
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: the White Sox were returning over from a road trip
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: so the White Sox might be the way to look
- 1:07:33Speaker 2: in this game, because when you return home from the
- 1:07:36Speaker 2: road you have a bad game, a lot of times
- 1:07:37Speaker 2: you play better in the next game, So the White
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: Sox might do that here. As far as the bullpens,
- 1:07:43Speaker 2: I don't love either bullpen here. Houston's been better though,
- 1:07:47Speaker 2: at least over the last month plus. At this point,
- 1:07:49Speaker 2: they're seventeenth now, which isn't too bad. The White Sox
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: are nineteenth. They have a better era than Houston and
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: they're more rested, so the White Sox probably a slight
- 1:07:58Speaker 2: bullpen edge here. Houston's tied in eleventh in offense with
- 1:08:02Speaker 2: the A's White Sox are fourteenth in offense. These are
- 1:08:06Speaker 2: both decent offenses. Hunter Brown is pitching for the Houston.
- 1:08:10Speaker 2: I think he's good, but he's had some issues this year. Man,
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: he's a good young pitcher, but these injuries that he
- 1:08:17Speaker 2: that he's had have kind of derailed him a bit,
- 1:08:19Speaker 2: and I think at some point he is going to
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: bounce back, but he's been out of control recently, like
- 1:08:24Speaker 2: his wildness has been really really insane, and I don't
- 1:08:27Speaker 2: think he's backable given how many walks he's issuing. Recently,
- 1:08:31Speaker 2: he's got a four point zero five ERA one point
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: four to five whip That is not good, although again
- 1:08:37Speaker 2: he is much better than this if you look at
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: what he's done the last couple of seasons. He's got
- 1:08:42Speaker 2: a three point six Roady Ray, so he has better
- 1:08:44Speaker 2: on the road, and his opponent batting average is very
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: low both home and away, so he's not allowing a
- 1:08:49Speaker 2: lot of hits. And the problem is the walks. Dude,
- 1:08:52Speaker 2: He's had fifteen walks in fourteen to two thirds innings
- 1:08:55Speaker 2: in the month of July. What the hell is that?
- 1:08:58Speaker 2: More than literally more than one walk per inning. You
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: can't do that. I mean, that's unbelievable, really really, really bad.
- 1:09:07Speaker 2: He's got a pretty low hit rate here on the season,
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: his walk rate is ridiculously high because of this month
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: pretty much, and his strikeout rate is high, so again
- 1:09:16Speaker 2: he does have his strikeout ability. He's getting a lot
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: of ground balls too. He's a good pitcher. He's just
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: got to figure out this control issue that he's got
- 1:09:24Speaker 2: right now. You know, other than that he'd be pitching. Well,
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: we've gotten screwed on the show trying to back him
- 1:09:30Speaker 2: a couple of times, I think, But and I think
- 1:09:32Speaker 2: one of the times we did get a win when
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: we backed him in one of these games. But whatever,
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: I don't think he's backable right now with how many
- 1:09:39Speaker 2: walks he's issuing it against the White Sox. They only
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: have three guys who have faced him, but they've done
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: damage against him, and of course one of them is
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: Ben and Tendy, who does have a home run against him.
- 1:09:48Speaker 2: They have a three fifty seven average eleven forty three
- 1:09:51Speaker 2: ohps against the two strikeouts four walks Brown. Given that
- 1:09:56Speaker 2: he's walking a ton of guys right now, the White Sox,
- 1:09:59Speaker 2: even though they're kind of un familiar with him, the
- 1:10:00Speaker 2: guys that have faced him have done well. I don't
- 1:10:03Speaker 2: think Brown is necessarily going to be that good here.
- 1:10:05Speaker 2: Sean Burke is pitching for the White Sox. He's having
- 1:10:08Speaker 2: a good season. He's in better form right now, a
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: much better form than Hunter Brown. Right now. Burke has
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: a three point two ERA one point one to three whip.
- 1:10:17Speaker 2: He's worse at home though, for whatever reason, three point
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: seven to seven home ERA. But he's been really good recently.
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: Like I said, he's allowed two or fewer on runs
- 1:10:25Speaker 2: and six starts in a row, He's allowed no more
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: than one in any of his starts this month. He's
- 1:10:30Speaker 2: got at least six innings in all three of them.
- 1:10:32Speaker 2: He has a twenty five to one strikeout walk right
- 1:10:35Speaker 2: here this month, as opposed to Brown, who has an
- 1:10:37Speaker 2: eleven to fifteen ratio. Yeah, Burke, his command has been
- 1:10:42Speaker 2: completely on point here. He's pitching really well at the
- 1:10:47Speaker 2: moment and overall throughout the season he's been good. He's
- 1:10:49Speaker 2: got a low hit rate, low walk rate, pretty high
- 1:10:52Speaker 2: strikeout rate as well. He's good. However, Houston has clobbered
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: him in seventeen at bats. Most of theirs have faced
- 1:11:00Speaker 2: them before five point twenty nine average sixteen to seventy
- 1:11:04Speaker 2: three ops. I know seventeen at bats is not much,
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: but basically everyone in their lineup has seen him like
- 1:11:09Speaker 2: one time, one strike out, one walk here overab but
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: Burke bad matchup numbers. It's a small sample for both starters,
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: but I'm kind of thinking over is the way to
- 1:11:21Speaker 2: play this game. And I also would probably agree with
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: the White Sox if you're looking at pitching current form
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: plus the situation, which I think favors the White Sox
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: and the bounce back spot. White Sox makes some sense
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: as far as a lean there mightus won twenty something.
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: I think probably have a little bit of a bullpen
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: edge too, so I think you could go full game
- 1:11:41Speaker 2: White Sox. They have sixty two percent of tickets seventy
- 1:11:44Speaker 2: six percent of the cash on them. That would be
- 1:11:46Speaker 2: one lean for me, and I think the over might
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: be the better lean in this game. And it looks
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: like the money agrees the totals at eight and a half,
- 1:11:54Speaker 2: fifty five percent of tickets on the under, ninety one
- 1:11:56Speaker 2: percent of the cash on the over given to these
- 1:11:59Speaker 2: starting pitchers are you would think the total would be lower,
- 1:12:02Speaker 2: but the odds makers kind of hinting at something by
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: not putting this total, Like I thought it would be
- 1:12:07Speaker 2: like seven and a half or maybe eight, and it's
- 1:12:10Speaker 2: eight and a half. So I think the and that
- 1:12:12Speaker 2: it opened at eight, but juice to the over, So
- 1:12:15Speaker 2: I think the odds makers are kind of telling you
- 1:12:17Speaker 2: a little bit there with that total there. So yeah,
- 1:12:20Speaker 2: I think the over is actually the best way to
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: play that game. But I would also lean to the
- 1:12:24Speaker 2: White Sox there. I mean, it's not really the injured play.
- 1:12:28Speaker 2: The injured player theory is a is a single game thing,
- 1:12:32Speaker 2: and I don't think it matters much at baseball at all.
- 1:12:36Speaker 2: Like it's just the Red Sox have really really good
- 1:12:39Speaker 2: team chemistry right now, all of a sudden, they're starting
- 1:12:41Speaker 2: to actually have fun playing the game, and the crowd
- 1:12:44Speaker 2: is back into it in Fenway, and uh, the dudes
- 1:12:48Speaker 2: are doing the tops off. Everybody's taking their shirts off
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: in Fenway. Now, yeah, it's a it's a good environment
- 1:12:55Speaker 2: at this point in Vnway. But yeah, all right, next,
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: this game is my last play, so you already know
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: what it is. Maybe this one seems too obvious, and
- 1:13:09Speaker 2: whenever I say that, it feels like I lose the play.
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: But we're gonna take Dodgers Mets under the eight here,
- 1:13:15Speaker 2: which I found at minus one, p. Fifteen at the
- 1:13:18Speaker 2: scoreboard book that used to be owned by ESPN, although
- 1:13:22Speaker 2: I think you'll find a similar number to this out
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: there at some other books. I would if you want
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: to go under seven and a half, I guess you
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: could do that too. But I saw him under eight
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: at like minus one eighteen or so, which I think
- 1:13:32Speaker 2: is also fine on the surface. Yeah, this looks like
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: a good starting pitching matchup. I mean, when you dig
- 1:13:37Speaker 2: into the numbers. I agree. I think it definitely is
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: also one. Sodo is hurt now, by the way, so
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: I expect Sodo to not play tonight for the Mets.
- 1:13:46Speaker 2: He went out of yesterday's game with an injury, so
- 1:13:49Speaker 2: I think he's probably not gonna be in the lineup
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: for the Mets here, which is going to hurt. They're
- 1:13:54Speaker 2: already not particularly good lineup. This game is on Fox.
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: It'll probably be the game that everybody watches. I mean,
- 1:14:01Speaker 2: who's gonna watch Seattle, Texas? Like really La and the Mets.
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: It's a much bigger market. I mean, both teams are
- 1:14:09Speaker 2: in much bigger markets. I should say who won the
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: game yesterday? I'm assuming the Dodgers did. Yeah, the Dodgers
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: won four to two. It was a Mets return home
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: spot yesterday. Dodgers got the win. Dodgers, we know they're
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: the better team. Dodgers used two guys out of the
- 1:14:24Speaker 2: bullpen yesterday, although I think they used their closer right,
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: which is maybe they didn't. I thought I thought their
- 1:14:32Speaker 2: closer was I forget who I thought they're I don't
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: think it was any of these I don't I don't
- 1:14:38Speaker 2: know what the Dodgers are doing right now, but they
- 1:14:39Speaker 2: used two guys the Mets used three. Both bullpens are
- 1:14:44Speaker 2: pretty solid. The Dodgers are seventh, the Mets are tenth.
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: These are both pretty trustworthy bullpens and they're not really
- 1:14:50Speaker 2: overly worked here, so I think we can use both.
- 1:14:52Speaker 2: We can include both bullpens in this. I think that's fine. Dodgers,
- 1:14:56Speaker 2: we know they're an e leite offense, they're number one,
- 1:14:58Speaker 2: and they're pretty good on the road too, but I
- 1:15:01Speaker 2: think they're gonna be stifled a bit by Nolan McLain here.
- 1:15:04Speaker 2: And the Mets offense we know is bad. They're twenty eighth,
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: tied with the Mariners right now. Bad times for the Mariners, man,
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: but also the Mets. If Sodo is out, they're gonna
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: be even worse here, and they have to face Yoshinobu Yamamoto,
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: who we know is good two point seven to eighty
- 1:15:21Speaker 2: ra point eighty eight whip is really good, and he's
- 1:15:25Speaker 2: been better on the road to two point twenty four.
- 1:15:28Speaker 2: Roady Ray's opponent batting average is below two hundred, both
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: at home in on the road, so yeah, he's been good.
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: He is coming off a complete game against the Yankees,
- 1:15:38Speaker 2: threw over one hundred pitches. But he's thrown over over
- 1:15:40Speaker 2: one hundred pitches regularly, so I'm not really that worried
- 1:15:44Speaker 2: he's I mean, at this point, he's used to that,
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: so I'm not too concerned by that. Maybe you could
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: be concerned a little bit by the letdown aspect of this,
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: because he did just pitch well. It wasn't like a
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: he was nowhere close to like a perfect game or
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: anything like that. And in fact, we lost on the
- 1:15:58Speaker 2: under in that game because the Yankees imploded late. The
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: Yankees bullpen completely fucked up the under there. That game
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: should have gone under. I'm pretty pissed about that. Yamamoto
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: did his part to get us the under their complete game,
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: two runs allowed there. He's been good on the season. Obviously,
- 1:16:15Speaker 2: he's got a low hit rate, low walk rate, strike
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: out rate isn't that high, but he's not a huge
- 1:16:20Speaker 2: strikeout pitcher. But obviously we know he's good. Against the Mets.
- 1:16:23Speaker 2: He's been good forty one at bats, two twenty average,
- 1:16:26Speaker 2: six sixty three ohps, nine to two strike out walk ratio.
- 1:16:30Speaker 2: That's all pretty good there. He pitched against the Mets
- 1:16:33Speaker 2: early this year, I believe, Yeah, back in April. He
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: went seven to two thirds against him, allowed one run
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: on four hits, seven strikeouts, one walk, threw over a
- 1:16:41Speaker 2: hunderd pitches in that one. I expect him to do
- 1:16:44Speaker 2: well again. That was at home, but he's actually better
- 1:16:47Speaker 2: on the road, So yeah, I expect him to still
- 1:16:48Speaker 2: pitch well here. And I like, you know, I like
- 1:16:51Speaker 2: Nolan McLain as well. I think McLain is clearly the
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: best pitcher that the Mets have, even though he is
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: still young, and the warrior is gonna be at some point.
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: Is is going to get up there, and you got
- 1:17:01Speaker 2: to worry about that at some point. But I don't
- 1:17:03Speaker 2: think we need to worry about him quite yet. He's
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: got a three point three four ERA one point zero
- 1:17:08Speaker 2: nine whip. Maybe a concern that he does have a
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: four point four to seven home y RA, so he
- 1:17:12Speaker 2: struggled a bit more at home, although his opponent batting
- 1:17:15Speaker 2: average is still pretty low at home, so I am
- 1:17:18Speaker 2: not too worried about that. He pitched well last time
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: at home against the Red Sox. He's been good four
- 1:17:23Speaker 2: starts in a row, and really he's only had one
- 1:17:25Speaker 2: bad start since the beginning of June, so he's pitching well.
- 1:17:29Speaker 2: He's in pretty good form right now. His walk rate
- 1:17:31Speaker 2: was a little bit elevated early in June, but he's
- 1:17:33Speaker 2: kind of figured that out. He's been good this month,
- 1:17:36Speaker 2: really good command numbers this month, high strikeout rate the
- 1:17:39Speaker 2: last two starts, double digits against Philadelphia last time out. Yeah,
- 1:17:44Speaker 2: he's pitching well. He did face the Dodgers early this season.
- 1:17:47Speaker 2: He was fine in LA. He went seven innings. He
- 1:17:51Speaker 2: gave up two arned runs or gave up one earned run,
- 1:17:53Speaker 2: excusing on two hits, eight strikeouts, two walks, So he
- 1:17:57Speaker 2: pretty much silenced the Dodgers in that outing. On the road,
- 1:18:01Speaker 2: I know he's not quite as good at home, but
- 1:18:02Speaker 2: that's a good sign that he was able to do
- 1:18:04Speaker 2: that on the road to the best offense in baseball,
- 1:18:07Speaker 2: and I think he should be able to do it
- 1:18:09Speaker 2: again here, even though I know in that when he
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: had the unfamiliarity, and I do talk about that, when
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: the pitcher is unfamiliar to the opposing hitters and the
- 1:18:16Speaker 2: pitcher is good, the hitters will struggle that first time
- 1:18:19Speaker 2: to try to figure him out a lot of times,
- 1:18:21Speaker 2: and a lot of times they'll do better the next time.
- 1:18:23Speaker 2: But it's been three months as they've seen him now,
- 1:18:25Speaker 2: so they're not seeing him, you know, twice in a row,
- 1:18:29Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So I think that'll mitigate
- 1:18:30Speaker 2: that a little bit. Plus, I think he's just a
- 1:18:32Speaker 2: good pitcher, So I think he will pitch well enough
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: here to get us this under. He doesn't have to
- 1:18:37Speaker 2: be as good as Yamamoto. Like if Yamamoto outpitches McClain
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: and McClain just does well enough, we can still get
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: this under. Obviously, McLain has a low hit rate. His
- 1:18:48Speaker 2: walk rate is a little bit high. Like I said,
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: he had some command issues for a stretch in June,
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: but he's kind of he's been better at that recently.
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: And his strikeout rate is quite high. And yeah, he
- 1:19:00Speaker 2: has a pretty good ground ball rate too, so yeah,
- 1:19:02Speaker 2: he's not allowing a lot of fly balls not along,
- 1:19:04Speaker 2: which basically translates into not allowing a lot of home runs,
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: you know. And again his strikeout rate is so high
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: that he obviously has the ability to fool guys at
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: the major league level, which is good against the Dodgers,
- 1:19:16Speaker 2: which is mostly that one start from before they're one
- 1:19:19Speaker 2: for nineteen off him. The only guy that had a
- 1:19:22Speaker 2: hit was Monsey with a single. They had seven strikeouts
- 1:19:25Speaker 2: one walk, which was Kyle Tucker, so that translated to
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: an fifty three average and one fifty three ops. Again,
- 1:19:33Speaker 2: even if mcclan doesn't do as well this time, it
- 1:19:37Speaker 2: should still be good enough to get us the under here.
- 1:19:40Speaker 2: So that's what we're gonna do. I know, there were
- 1:19:44Speaker 2: a few games that looked like this should be under,
- 1:19:46Speaker 2: so this is the one that I landed on. I'm
- 1:19:47Speaker 2: a little bit worried that the market read is saying
- 1:19:50Speaker 2: no here in the totals basically seven and a half
- 1:19:52Speaker 2: everywhere now, so I would still probably do it at
- 1:19:56Speaker 2: seven and a half. I mean, you're still on the
- 1:19:57Speaker 2: right side of that key number of seven. We have
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: sixty seven percent of tickets on the under, fifty four
- 1:20:02Speaker 2: percent of the cash on the under, so that worries
- 1:20:04Speaker 2: me a little bit. I do you really think the
- 1:20:06Speaker 2: public is actually playing an under here, even if they
- 1:20:08Speaker 2: know both pictures are good, I'm still not sure the
- 1:20:11Speaker 2: public is really gonna want to come in and play
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: an under in a Dodger game. So I don't know. Man.
- 1:20:17Speaker 2: The market reed does warring me a little bit, but
- 1:20:18Speaker 2: I still think this is an under and the money
- 1:20:20Speaker 2: is backing the Mets here, by the way, the Dodgers.
- 1:20:24Speaker 2: I kind of agree with that too, because the Dodgers
- 1:20:26Speaker 2: are just heavily favored here minus one fifty something. Given
- 1:20:30Speaker 2: that this is a good pitching matchup on both sides,
- 1:20:33Speaker 2: and it's supposed to be kind of a low scoring game,
- 1:20:36Speaker 2: that makes the underdog more appealing, you know what I mean,
- 1:20:39Speaker 2: Because if it's supposed to be a low scoring game,
- 1:20:41Speaker 2: both pictures are good, it could be a closer game.
- 1:20:43Speaker 2: That means the underdog's got a decent chance to hang
- 1:20:46Speaker 2: around ninety four percent of tickets ninety two percent of
- 1:20:48Speaker 2: the cash on the Dodgers. I think if you want
- 1:20:50Speaker 2: to look towards like a Mets money line situation or
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: something like or excuse me, Mets run line situation, maybe
- 1:20:57Speaker 2: money line. You know, I wouldn't necess I sarahly disagree
- 1:21:00Speaker 2: with that, but I think the under is the right
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: way to play that game, all right. Yeah, and then
- 1:21:07Speaker 2: we have a couple more games here, Cincinnati and Saint Louis.
- 1:21:10Speaker 2: I was looking at this, and my initial instinct on
- 1:21:12Speaker 2: this was, oh my god, we're getting Cincinnati is an
- 1:21:15Speaker 2: underdog with Hunter Green on the mound against Piantde Like
- 1:21:19Speaker 2: this really looked like it should be a Cincinnati first
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: five play, and I still agree with that, but looking
- 1:21:24Speaker 2: at the numbers, it doesn't appeal to me as much
- 1:21:27Speaker 2: as I thought it would. Saint Louis lost the game
- 1:21:30Speaker 2: yesterday to Cincinnati four to two. Cincinnati does not have
- 1:21:34Speaker 2: a good bullpen, so I would leave Cincinnati's bullpen out
- 1:21:36Speaker 2: of whatever I'm doing here. They used five guys out
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: of the bullpen Saint Louis had to play the day
- 1:21:42Speaker 2: before that. They used three guys yesterday. I don't trust
- 1:21:45Speaker 2: either bullpen, but Cincinnati's is worse. They're twenty six Saint
- 1:21:49Speaker 2: Louis twenty second. Not good bullpens, not really good to
- 1:21:52Speaker 2: offenses either. Cincinnati twenty first, Saint Louis twenty fifth. And
- 1:21:56Speaker 2: this is a pitcher friendly ballpark. Hunter Green is pitching
- 1:22:01Speaker 2: for the Reds. Like I said, people are gonna shy
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: away from him because he has a six point six ERA.
- 1:22:06Speaker 2: But remember he had one bad start and I tried
- 1:22:09Speaker 2: to back him. I gave out a play on him
- 1:22:10Speaker 2: in that start, and it was bad. He had one
- 1:22:13Speaker 2: bad start when he came back. He started the season
- 1:22:16Speaker 2: late due to an injury. He was dominating in the
- 1:22:19Speaker 2: miners dude before he came back, so I thought he
- 1:22:21Speaker 2: was gonna be ready to go. Had a bad start,
- 1:22:23Speaker 2: but he's been good since then. He's got a one
- 1:22:25Speaker 2: point one six ERA, so that right away tells you
- 1:22:28Speaker 2: his ERA should be nowhere near six, like it should
- 1:22:31Speaker 2: be like three something. So that era is extremely misleading.
- 1:22:37Speaker 2: So that that's a scenario where you usually want to
- 1:22:41Speaker 2: back a picture because you're usually gonna get some value
- 1:22:44Speaker 2: on that picture. And like I said, they're an underdog here,
- 1:22:47Speaker 2: and they probably shouldn't be because I think Green is
- 1:22:49Speaker 2: the better pitcher here. Green he's been a little bit
- 1:22:53Speaker 2: better on the road so far four point five ROADRA,
- 1:22:55Speaker 2: but his opponent batting average on the road is below
- 1:22:57Speaker 2: two hundred. I mean, like I said, he's only made
- 1:23:00Speaker 2: three starts so far. He was really bad in his
- 1:23:02Speaker 2: first start against Baltimore, which was in Cincinnati. He bounced
- 1:23:05Speaker 2: back with an excellent start at home against the Cubs
- 1:23:08Speaker 2: after that, and then he was pretty good in course
- 1:23:10Speaker 2: field after that. So yeah, I think Green after that blip,
- 1:23:14Speaker 2: he looks like he's back. He's a good pitcher man.
- 1:23:17Speaker 2: He's got a reasonably low hit rate already here, his
- 1:23:19Speaker 2: walk rate is fairly low and his strike gout rate
- 1:23:21Speaker 2: is very high, So yeah, he's in his in form
- 1:23:25Speaker 2: as far as uh, as far as I'm concerning that
- 1:23:28Speaker 2: strike out rate is really good. Against the Cardinals, he's
- 1:23:31Speaker 2: been pretty good on forty one at bats to sixty
- 1:23:35Speaker 2: eight average isn't really that good, but a six to
- 1:23:36Speaker 2: sixty eight OPS hasn't a lot a lot of power
- 1:23:39Speaker 2: hitting to them, mostly contact hitting, sixteen to six strikeout
- 1:23:43Speaker 2: walk race should yeah, I think Green should be able
- 1:23:45Speaker 2: to do well here. And Andre Pallante, he's okay in general,
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: a four point two ERA, one point twenty six whip
- 1:23:53Speaker 2: for the Cardinals here. He's not good at home though.
- 1:23:56Speaker 2: He has an ERA of four point nine to nine
- 1:23:59Speaker 2: at home and at two nine three opponent batting average,
- 1:24:01Speaker 2: so he's way worse at home. So all of that
- 1:24:04Speaker 2: looks pretty good for backing Cincinnati here so far in
- 1:24:07Speaker 2: the first five. Problem is and Payonte hasn't really been
- 1:24:10Speaker 2: a good form either. Recently, He's not really striking out anybody.
- 1:24:14Speaker 2: He's given up some runs over the last two starts.
- 1:24:16Speaker 2: Hasn't really looked good, So yeah, he's not a good
- 1:24:18Speaker 2: form either. So Green is in better form. Payonte's hit
- 1:24:22Speaker 2: rate is just okay. His walk rate is not horrible,
- 1:24:26Speaker 2: strike out rate very low. He doesn't strike guys out.
- 1:24:28Speaker 2: He gets a lot of ground ball outs, very very
- 1:24:31Speaker 2: heavy ground ball pitcher, which is it kind of reminds
- 1:24:34Speaker 2: me of David Peterson, except his whip is better than Peterson's.
- 1:24:38Speaker 2: But the problem is Payonte has been good against the Reds,
- 1:24:41Speaker 2: and that's where I worry. We have a huge sample
- 1:24:43Speaker 2: size here, one hundred and thirty two. They've seen a
- 1:24:46Speaker 2: lot of them. They have not done well against him.
- 1:24:49Speaker 2: Two twenty seven average six sixty five ops twenty two
- 1:24:52Speaker 2: to fourteen strike out walk ratio though that's not a
- 1:24:54Speaker 2: good ratio, but the rest of those numbers are good.
- 1:24:58Speaker 2: I'm still gonna lean towards since NATA since here, but
- 1:25:00Speaker 2: the money disagrees with me. Fifty four percent of tickets
- 1:25:03Speaker 2: on Cincinnati, which makes no sense to me. I don't
- 1:25:06Speaker 2: know why the public would be on Cincinnati. I mean,
- 1:25:09Speaker 2: like they have a picture with a six era and
- 1:25:12Speaker 2: Saint Louis has the better records. I don't buy that
- 1:25:14Speaker 2: the public is on Cincinnati. I don't think they are
- 1:25:17Speaker 2: fifty five percent of the cash on Saint Louis. Saint Louis,
- 1:25:21Speaker 2: like I said, they're a favorite. I look minus one
- 1:25:23Speaker 2: eighteen or the Cincinnati might be a slight favorite in
- 1:25:25Speaker 2: the first five, but I still think that's one way
- 1:25:28Speaker 2: to play this is to play Cincinnati on the first five.
- 1:25:31Speaker 2: And I like Green over Payante for sure, and you're
- 1:25:34Speaker 2: getting some value there, especially if Cincinnati is a little
- 1:25:37Speaker 2: bit of an underdog in the first five. I would
- 1:25:39Speaker 2: not include their bullpen though, and I think the other
- 1:25:42Speaker 2: way to look at this game is to play the
- 1:25:43Speaker 2: first five under, although the money's playing the over. The
- 1:25:48Speaker 2: totals at eight eight and a half of the full game.
- 1:25:50Speaker 2: I don't like the bullpens obviously, but I think first
- 1:25:52Speaker 2: five under. You saw what the pitching numbers looked like there,
- 1:25:57Speaker 2: that might be worth considering a first five under. It
- 1:26:00Speaker 2: would be like probably four and a half. You might
- 1:26:02Speaker 2: be able to get on that. But I still think
- 1:26:03Speaker 2: my preference would be to play Cincinnati in the first
- 1:26:06Speaker 2: five there. It looks pretty tempting, dude. I know, I
- 1:26:10Speaker 2: wish I backed Green in that game against other Cubs
- 1:26:12Speaker 2: like I almost did. Remember I have the only time
- 1:26:15Speaker 2: I bet Green so far was this one bad start
- 1:26:18Speaker 2: and I tried to find spots to back him because
- 1:26:20Speaker 2: he's a good pitcher. So that's what I got on that.
- 1:26:23Speaker 2: And then the last game is Seattle Texas on Fox.
- 1:26:26Speaker 2: Like I said, in Texas, two good pictures on the mount.
- 1:26:29Speaker 2: It looks like it should be an under. The total
- 1:26:31Speaker 2: is low, it's seven and a half. It's a picture
- 1:26:33Speaker 2: friendly park. Texas typically scores less at home. They don't
- 1:26:37Speaker 2: give up as many runs at home. I got some
- 1:26:40Speaker 2: issues though, if you want to try to play the
- 1:26:42Speaker 2: under here, even though it looks like on the surface
- 1:26:44Speaker 2: that should be an under, the oddsmakers are kind of
- 1:26:46Speaker 2: expecting it to be an under here. Both bullpens should
- 1:26:49Speaker 2: be good, but Texas has not been that good out
- 1:26:52Speaker 2: of the bullpen recently. Texas used four guys yesterday five
- 1:26:55Speaker 2: excuse me five. Seattle only used two, so I think
- 1:26:58Speaker 2: Seattle has a bullpen event. But what happened in the
- 1:27:02Speaker 2: game yesterday. Let me see, Texas won. They were able
- 1:27:06Speaker 2: to beat Bryce Miller yesterday. I pointed out, even though
- 1:27:08Speaker 2: Miller has been excellent this year, he had bad numbers
- 1:27:10Speaker 2: against Texas, so that was a little bit concerning. And
- 1:27:14Speaker 2: Texas won the game yesterday five to four, so it
- 1:27:17Speaker 2: could be a bounced back spot for Seattle here. I
- 1:27:19Speaker 2: think Seattle's got the better bullpen right now. I like
- 1:27:22Speaker 2: both bullpens generally, but Texas they've fallen off. Dude, They're
- 1:27:27Speaker 2: I'm looking at a hitting right now. Hang on, Texas
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: has fallen to fifteenth in bullpen and their eray is
- 1:27:32Speaker 2: well over four. Now. I don't know what's happening with
- 1:27:35Speaker 2: their bullpen. That's not good man. And then yeah, I
- 1:27:40Speaker 2: stillid that banner up. I'm not paying attention man, I apologist.
- 1:27:44Speaker 2: Seattle's been good. They're twelfth in bullpen, but their era
- 1:27:47Speaker 2: is pretty strong in the mid threes, so I think
- 1:27:50Speaker 2: Seattle's bullpen is legit. I think they're the better bullpen here.
- 1:27:53Speaker 2: They're more rested here as well. Texas, believe it or not,
- 1:27:56Speaker 2: has been the better offense though they're fifteenth right now,
- 1:27:59Speaker 2: tied with San Francis Skull. Though I don't like San
- 1:28:01Speaker 2: Francisco's offense, but Texas, I think they're at least not
- 1:28:04Speaker 2: like a bottom of the barrel offense anymore. They're like
- 1:28:06Speaker 2: decent offensively, although they're batting average is still not really
- 1:28:10Speaker 2: that good. Seattle's been really struggling offensively. Though they're twenty
- 1:28:15Speaker 2: eighth tied with the Mets, they still have not been
- 1:28:18Speaker 2: able to turn it around. Seattle's going with Brian wu Here,
- 1:28:21Speaker 2: who I think is a good picture, and I think
- 1:28:23Speaker 2: he's better than his era looks four point one six,
- 1:28:26Speaker 2: but his one point zero nine whip tells you that
- 1:28:28Speaker 2: his ra should be better than that. Wu is a
- 1:28:30Speaker 2: good picture. He's been good throughout his career. A problem
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: is he has insane home roads. But he's been excellent
- 1:28:36Speaker 2: at home and he's been terrible on the road. So
- 1:28:40Speaker 2: that's not a good sign for the under or for
- 1:28:42Speaker 2: backing wu Here six point two eight road era with
- 1:28:45Speaker 2: an opponent batting Averager two ninety five. I don't know
- 1:28:48Speaker 2: what is going on with him on the road, dude.
- 1:28:50Speaker 2: He's been really bad on the road, which that's really
- 1:28:53Speaker 2: never been the case, even though he's been better at
- 1:28:55Speaker 2: home throughout his career. But he's never been anywhere near
- 1:28:58Speaker 2: this bad on the road, So I don't know what's
- 1:29:00Speaker 2: going on with him there. He's in pretty good form
- 1:29:03Speaker 2: right now, though his last few starts have all been
- 1:29:05Speaker 2: pretty good. One of them was on the road against Miamia,
- 1:29:08Speaker 2: though that one was the lesser of all of them.
- 1:29:10Speaker 2: Though his hit rate is low on the season, his
- 1:29:13Speaker 2: walk rate's really low. He doesn't walk anybody. His strike
- 1:29:16Speaker 2: out rate is almost one per inning. So it really
- 1:29:18Speaker 2: doesn't make sense why like his Rodeo ray is as
- 1:29:22Speaker 2: bad as it is, because his overall numbers are good.
- 1:29:25Speaker 2: So I don't get it. I mean, I guess he's
- 1:29:27Speaker 2: just that elite at home. His numbers are good against Texas.
- 1:29:30Speaker 2: He should pitch well here, man, even though he's bad
- 1:29:34Speaker 2: on the road this year, which really really scares me.
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: But this is a picture friend the environment, and he's
- 1:29:39Speaker 2: been good against Texas throughout his career. It's seventy seven
- 1:29:41Speaker 2: at bats. This is like dominant stuff here, one eighty
- 1:29:45Speaker 2: two batting average, four to sixty nine ohps, twenty to
- 1:29:48Speaker 2: four strikeout walk ratio. All of that is really good
- 1:29:51Speaker 2: in a big sample size. So I still kind of
- 1:29:54Speaker 2: lean towards WU pitching well here. Nathan Evaldi's pitching for Texas.
- 1:29:59Speaker 2: He was really good for Texas last year. This year
- 1:30:02Speaker 2: he hasn't been as good. A four point two to
- 1:30:04Speaker 2: one ERA, one point two to one whip. I still
- 1:30:06Speaker 2: think he might be a little bit better than what
- 1:30:08Speaker 2: his ERA looks right now. He has a four point
- 1:30:11Speaker 2: six home ERA for some reason. He was way better
- 1:30:13Speaker 2: than that at home last year, but his opponent batting
- 1:30:15Speaker 2: average is actually better at home at two thirty five.
- 1:30:19Speaker 2: So I don't know what's going on. Really, it's the
- 1:30:21Speaker 2: home runs, that's what's going on with him. He's allowing
- 1:30:23Speaker 2: too many home runs and he has struggled recently though,
- 1:30:27Speaker 2: so again, the under looks a little bit questionable, given
- 1:30:30Speaker 2: that he's allowed three plus runs in three starts in
- 1:30:33Speaker 2: a row here, and he hasn't gotten particularly deep into
- 1:30:35Speaker 2: some of these starts here. Recently. The home runs have
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: been an issue for him, but his command numbers has
- 1:30:40Speaker 2: still been really good. He's got a twenty one to
- 1:30:42Speaker 2: five strikeout walk ratio this month. So again, this kind
- 1:30:45Speaker 2: of tells you he's still like in command of his pitches.
- 1:30:49Speaker 2: He's in control of them. He's still pitching really well here.
- 1:30:52Speaker 2: Just the home runs keep getting to him. Man, He's
- 1:30:54Speaker 2: allowed a lot of home runs and he's not even
- 1:30:56Speaker 2: really that much of a fly ball pitcher. He has
- 1:30:58Speaker 2: more ground ball out some fly ballouts, So the home
- 1:31:01Speaker 2: run rate just doesn't make any sense. I can't figure
- 1:31:04Speaker 2: it out. His hit rate is okay on the season,
- 1:31:07Speaker 2: it's below one per inning at least. His walk rate
- 1:31:10Speaker 2: is low, his strikeout rate is high. So again I
- 1:31:13Speaker 2: think he's getting unlucky, like his numbers should be better
- 1:31:16Speaker 2: than this. The home runs are hurting him against Seattle.
- 1:31:20Speaker 2: He's been good in one hundred and fifty two at bats,
- 1:31:22Speaker 2: a huge sample size here forty one to nine strike
- 1:31:26Speaker 2: out walk race here to twenty four average, six nineteen obs.
- 1:31:29Speaker 2: So those are good numbers. So I think this still
- 1:31:32Speaker 2: looks like an under to me, like if I was
- 1:31:34Speaker 2: gonna play this game, maybe even leave both bullpens in still,
- 1:31:40Speaker 2: but the money's back in the over fifty nine percent
- 1:31:42Speaker 2: of tickets on the under, ninety one percent of the
- 1:31:44Speaker 2: cash on the over total seven and a half, So
- 1:31:47Speaker 2: it is low. There's not a lot of leeway there,
- 1:31:49Speaker 2: and it's teetering on seven. I still think that's what
- 1:31:52Speaker 2: I would do if I was gonna play this game.
- 1:31:54Speaker 2: I think I would still jump on the under the
- 1:31:56Speaker 2: seven and a half here because the pitchers are still
- 1:31:59Speaker 2: good here. Man, I think they've both gotten a little
- 1:32:02Speaker 2: bit of a bad I don't know, man, I think
- 1:32:05Speaker 2: the luck for them has been a little bit bad
- 1:32:07Speaker 2: this year. They both got an array over four, and
- 1:32:10Speaker 2: I think neither of them really should. So I think
- 1:32:13Speaker 2: you might have pictures that are a little bit undervalued here,
- 1:32:16Speaker 2: believe it or not, and the money is backing Texas.
- 1:32:18Speaker 2: They're a little bit of an underdog here. Seattle's about
- 1:32:21Speaker 2: minus one twelve or so here. Fifty three percent ticket
- 1:32:24Speaker 2: sixty two percent of the cash on Texas. I mean,
- 1:32:27Speaker 2: I could see the argument for it, right. The argument
- 1:32:28Speaker 2: would be, well, WU has those extreme splits where he's
- 1:32:32Speaker 2: been really struggling on the road, and you're getting Texas
- 1:32:35Speaker 2: as an underdog, and at the very least should be
- 1:32:37Speaker 2: like a matchup where both pictures should be able to
- 1:32:40Speaker 2: duele each other. So I think that would be the
- 1:32:42Speaker 2: argument for grabbing Texas as the dog there. I think
- 1:32:44Speaker 2: if I was gonna do that, I would go first
- 1:32:46Speaker 2: five with it, though you know, I don't know how
- 1:32:48Speaker 2: much of a dog they'll be in the first five though,
- 1:32:50Speaker 2: but Seattle probably does have a bullpen edge there. I
- 1:32:54Speaker 2: think if you're gonna go under, like I said, you
- 1:32:56Speaker 2: get the key number seven and a half on the
- 1:32:58Speaker 2: full game. I don't think you really need to exclude
- 1:33:01Speaker 2: the bullpens, even though I know Texas has been struggling recently,
- 1:33:04Speaker 2: but I'd probably still go full gam on that. But
- 1:33:07Speaker 2: there are some concerns with looking at the under and
- 1:33:09Speaker 2: that and that's gonna do it.
- 1:33:10Speaker 1: Man.
- 1:33:10Speaker 2: My plays today are Washington on the run line in
- 1:33:13Speaker 2: the first five, Baltimore money line in the first five,
- 1:33:17Speaker 2: and we're gonna go under in Dodgers Mets. That's gonna
- 1:33:20Speaker 2: do it. Hopefully we can get them. The market readlooks
- 1:33:23Speaker 2: like it supports at least the first two of those.
- 1:33:27Speaker 2: Let's get it done, man, Let's have a winning day here.
- 1:33:30Speaker 2: Two and one would work for me, even though if
- 1:33:34Speaker 2: we lose one of the ones who were laying the
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- 1:34:25Speaker 2: I do have a lot of savings from working in
- 1:34:28Speaker 2: software for so long, so I'm not dead yet. I'm
- 1:34:31Speaker 2: not broke yet. Although you know, if I push this
- 1:34:36Speaker 2: thing and really just fuck it and just go full
- 1:34:38Speaker 2: professional betting, maybe I should. Man, I'm just worried that
- 1:34:42Speaker 2: there's nothing to really back it, but you know, maybe
- 1:34:45Speaker 2: I should do it because I know how to do it,
- 1:34:46Speaker 2: and you bankroll it and you base your bet amount
- 1:34:49Speaker 2: off of how much is in your bank roll, so
- 1:34:52Speaker 2: you know, doing it that way, the percentages work out
- 1:34:54Speaker 2: such that you can never really lose all of it,
- 1:34:57Speaker 2: you know what I mean, because if you're if you
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- 1:35:01Speaker 2: and if you've won something, your bet size is gonna
- 1:35:03Speaker 2: be bigger. You know, I should do another betting one
- 1:35:07Speaker 2: on one show maybe and talk about I didn't really
- 1:35:10Speaker 2: fully talk about the bank roll management and the other
- 1:35:12Speaker 2: one that I did. I don't know. I'll consider it
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- 1:35:26Speaker 2: do it. That's gonna do it, Dirty Sock. I saw
- 1:35:30Speaker 2: you said you liked the new outro. Hell yeah, have
- 1:35:35Speaker 2: a good Saturday, everybody. There is one already. You can
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- 1:35:41Speaker 2: on here. But maybe I'll do another one because I mean,
- 1:35:45Speaker 2: I don't know. It's kind of evergreen it. Maybe i'd
- 1:35:47Speaker 2: be able to do it in a more structured way.
- 1:35:49Speaker 2: I don't know. Happy Saturday, everyone, peace.
- 1:35:55Speaker 3: If the docs dots talking, hand me the phone, it's somebody,
- 1:36:01Speaker 3: and so let somebody know you do.
- 1:36:05Speaker 2: Not have to.
- 1:36:07Speaker 3: Lose this round Longe. Hold on, hold on nothing nice
- 1:36:19Speaker 3: not now, hold on, hold on. Let me pull you
- 1:36:28Speaker 3: out that bad luck by time, but it don't get
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- 1:36:46Speaker 3: hold on, hold on, You're still here,