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- 0:16Speaker 1: You gotta slip in your palm and a hole in
- 0:19Speaker 1: your chicks.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Black coffee on the felt. Man, you look like a mess.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Three teen Parlette turned the dust in your head.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Now you stare at the chips like they made you
- 0:32Speaker 2: this man. But don't you go quiet. Don't you fade
- 0:36Speaker 2: from the floor.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Your name steal means something on somebody for show.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Put the glass down.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Baby, look at me. Now, hold on, hold on nothing line, now,
- 0:57Speaker 1: hold on, hold on.
- 1:02Speaker 2: Me, but it'll get the crown.
- 1:14Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on.
- 1:17Speaker 2: And stay with me.
- 1:19Speaker 4: Now, what's up?
- 1:28Speaker 5: Eerdbody, It's Toad back with you. Toadstool Sports Sunday, August sixteenth,
- 1:36Speaker 5: one and one on the show. Yesterday it was a
- 1:38Speaker 5: loss because we had two favorite plays. Detroit Tigers did
- 1:43Speaker 5: not get there, you know, a close game.
- 1:46Speaker 4: They were not the better team in the game. It
- 1:48Speaker 4: was not good.
- 1:50Speaker 5: I thought they had the better of the starting pitchers
- 1:53Speaker 5: by a significant margin and that did not really play
- 1:56Speaker 5: out that way in the game.
- 1:58Speaker 4: I'm not happy about that.
- 1:59Speaker 5: We did at the Milwaukee Brewers correct in the night game,
- 2:03Speaker 5: so that was a one to one a day with
- 2:05Speaker 5: those two plays. I'm gonna have two plays today as well.
- 2:09Speaker 5: Both in baseball. I have one side one total. I'm
- 2:13Speaker 5: not loving this board, really, but I don't think I
- 2:16Speaker 5: have much else to say. Let's get into it. And
- 2:18Speaker 5: there's no football even though it's a Sunday. All the
- 2:20Speaker 5: preseason games were Thursday through Saturday, I believe, so I
- 2:24Speaker 5: think we have no football again until Thursday. But I mean,
- 2:30Speaker 5: I'm not doing anything with the preseason anyway. My reads
- 2:32Speaker 5: on those games have been kind of all over the place.
- 2:36Speaker 5: We do have some WNBA today as well, but I'm
- 2:38Speaker 5: not interested in the WNBA games today either.
- 2:41Speaker 4: All right, a lot of afternoon baseball here.
- 2:44Speaker 5: Baltimore Tampa Bay twelve fifteen Eastern Peacock. So once again
- 2:49Speaker 5: I have a play in this game, and once again
- 2:52Speaker 5: you get a play for me.
- 2:53Speaker 4: That's in the first game on the slate, and.
- 2:56Speaker 5: It happens to be a TV game to some extent
- 2:59Speaker 5: as well. It's just the way that it is, man,
- 3:02Speaker 5: It's the way that.
- 3:02Speaker 4: It works out.
- 3:06Speaker 5: We're gonna take Tampa Bay in this one. On the
- 3:08Speaker 5: money line, A minus one thirty eight or so is
- 3:10Speaker 5: the price here.
- 3:11Speaker 4: I know.
- 3:11Speaker 5: It's one of those ones in this range where you
- 3:14Speaker 5: got to pay some money for it if you wanted
- 3:16Speaker 5: to do it a little bit differently and like make
- 3:18Speaker 5: it into a minus one run line to get the
- 3:20Speaker 5: price down. I'm not gonna really disagree with that, but
- 3:24Speaker 5: I say we just roll with this. I think Tampa
- 3:27Speaker 5: Bay is in a bounce back spot here at this point.
- 3:30Speaker 5: This is a wrap around series, so these teams are
- 3:32Speaker 5: actually playing tomorrow as well.
- 3:35Speaker 4: So it's a four game series.
- 3:36Speaker 5: But Tampa Bay's lost the first two games of the series.
- 3:39Speaker 5: I think you can kind of explain both of them.
- 3:41Speaker 5: They only lost each one by one run. The first
- 3:44Speaker 5: one was a return home spot, and you know, I
- 3:45Speaker 5: talked about how difficult that is, especially when you're traveling
- 3:48Speaker 5: across country, have to adjust to the time zone, and
- 3:51Speaker 5: then you have the distractions that might come into play.
- 3:53Speaker 5: So Tampa lost that game. Then they lost again yesterday
- 3:57Speaker 5: in a game where I thought maybe losing that win
- 4:00Speaker 5: streak that they had would hang them over into the
- 4:02Speaker 5: next game, and maybe that is what happened there. Baltimore
- 4:05Speaker 5: is showing up in this series, There's no doubt about that.
- 4:07Speaker 5: And I'm not saying they're gonna not be motivated here.
- 4:09Speaker 5: But Tampa Bay is the better team. They're really good
- 4:12Speaker 5: at home typically and they're now in a spot where
- 4:16Speaker 5: they're on the verge of potentially getting swept in the series,
- 4:18Speaker 5: although again they have to play tomorrow as well.
- 4:21Speaker 4: I think you'll get the effort out of Tampa Bay here.
- 4:23Speaker 5: Man. They're still the best home team in baseball. I'm
- 4:26Speaker 5: pretty sure based on their home record. Their bullpen is
- 4:30Speaker 5: in decent shape coming into this one. The only is
- 4:32Speaker 5: three guys out of the bullpen yesterday Baltimore used five,
- 4:36Speaker 5: and Tampa Bay is ranked higher in bullpenal though they're
- 4:39Speaker 5: ranked second, and I don't think they're that good, but
- 4:41Speaker 5: I do think they have a bullpen edge in this
- 4:43Speaker 5: game over Baltimore, who is thirteenth. Although if you wanted
- 4:47Speaker 5: to take the bullpen's out and just focus on starting pitching,
- 4:50Speaker 5: I'm not gonna disagree with going Tampa Bay in the
- 4:52Speaker 5: first five here either, but I think the price is
- 4:55Speaker 5: probably gonna be higher if you do it that way.
- 4:57Speaker 5: Tampa's the better offense as well, they're sick. I arranged
- 5:01Speaker 5: this by ops. Baltimore is fifteenth, tied with the A's,
- 5:05Speaker 5: and I arrange the bullpen by whip, as you guys
- 5:08Speaker 5: know if you watch my show. But I actually think
- 5:10Speaker 5: Tampa Bay has the starting pitching edge here as well,
- 5:14Speaker 5: which people might not think that by looking at these
- 5:17Speaker 5: surface numbers. Here, Trevor Rodgers is pitching for Baltimore. He's
- 5:20Speaker 5: had the better season over Peralta here, There's no doubt
- 5:23Speaker 5: about that. I don't think he's the better pitcher if
- 5:26Speaker 5: you look the bigger picture of the career and you
- 5:29Speaker 5: look at how these pictures are trending, and we'll look
- 5:31Speaker 5: at the matchup numbers, so I actually think we have
- 5:33Speaker 5: a sneaky edge with Tampa's pitching here. But Rogers, yeah,
- 5:36Speaker 5: he's had a pretty good season. Four point two to
- 5:38Speaker 5: one e RA, one point twenty five whip for Baltimore.
- 5:41Speaker 4: Not too bad.
- 5:42Speaker 5: He is a little bit better on the road four
- 5:44Speaker 5: point seven Roady RA. He had three really good starts
- 5:48Speaker 5: in a row. But then he looks like he's kind
- 5:50Speaker 5: of trending in the wrong direction if you think this
- 5:52Speaker 5: is a trend, because his last outing was kind of
- 5:54Speaker 5: shorter and it wasn't really as good against Minnesota. But
- 5:58Speaker 5: the kicker really is he's not good against Sampa Bay.
- 6:01Speaker 5: In forty eight bats, three seventy five average, one thousand
- 6:04Speaker 5: and seven oh ps, allowed four to four strikeout walk ratio.
- 6:08Speaker 4: So Rogers he has very well.
- 6:11Speaker 5: I would say he has yeah, below average numbers against
- 6:13Speaker 5: Sampa Bay. They've been able to hit him there. Rodgers
- 6:16Speaker 5: overall does have a decent hit right here. It doesn't
- 6:19Speaker 5: really walk that many guys in a strike up rate
- 6:21Speaker 5: is okay, But I'm looking at the matchup numbers, they
- 6:24Speaker 5: don't look that good to me. Throughout his career, really,
- 6:27Speaker 5: he hasn't been that good until last year.
- 6:29Speaker 4: He did have a really good season with Baltimore last year.
- 6:31Speaker 5: For a little bit more than half the season. This
- 6:34Speaker 5: year has been a little bit worse than that. He
- 6:36Speaker 5: was struggling early in the season. He's got a really
- 6:39Speaker 5: average strikeout walk ratio, like right at three strikeouts per
- 6:43Speaker 5: nine or pretty much average as well. I would say.
- 6:46Speaker 5: So he's not a great pitcher. Freddie Peralta pitching for Tampa.
- 6:50Speaker 5: But when he's been good in his career, he's been
- 6:52Speaker 5: the better of these two pitchers, like over the Like
- 6:55Speaker 5: I said, over his career, all of it with Milwaukee
- 6:58Speaker 5: until this year, he was quite good. Until this year.
- 7:01Speaker 5: He has had some real struggles here. He had a
- 7:03Speaker 5: really bad majority of the season with the Mets. I
- 7:07Speaker 5: still kind of think that was just an environment thing.
- 7:10Speaker 5: Maybe pitching for a team it's not in contention wasn't
- 7:13Speaker 5: motivating enough for him. I don't know, so I don't
- 7:17Speaker 5: know how much you want to dig into these numbers here.
- 7:19Speaker 5: He has a five point three to three ERA one
- 7:21Speaker 5: point five whip. Those are bad numbers. His strikeout walk
- 7:25Speaker 5: ratio is not very good, lower than three. He's walked
- 7:27Speaker 5: too many guys this year. His strikeout up er nine
- 7:30Speaker 5: rate is down this year as well. For me, it's
- 7:33Speaker 5: usually above ten throughout his career. But he's not that
- 7:36Speaker 5: old and he hasn't had any significant injury, so you
- 7:40Speaker 5: could see why I've been saying that I don't think
- 7:42Speaker 5: he's this bad, like as bad as he's shown this year,
- 7:45Speaker 5: and he might be turning it around. He's made two
- 7:48Speaker 5: starts with Tampa. The first one was kind of a
- 7:51Speaker 5: bad draw, I would say in Colorado. He did do
- 7:54Speaker 5: well there, but he pitched in the A's Stadium after that,
- 7:56Speaker 5: which is another difficult stadium to pitch in, and he
- 7:59Speaker 5: did well well in that start in the next one,
- 8:02Speaker 5: so he's trending in the right direction.
- 8:04Speaker 4: I would say.
- 8:04Speaker 5: In Tampa did actually win both of those games, so
- 8:07Speaker 5: they gave him a lot of run support there. So
- 8:10Speaker 5: I do think the change of scenery is actually going
- 8:12Speaker 5: to help Paralta. I do think he looks like he's
- 8:14Speaker 5: moving in the right direction. I think he's going to
- 8:16Speaker 5: improve with Tampa Bay. His career tells you he's not
- 8:20Speaker 5: as bad as what we're seeing out of him this year.
- 8:22Speaker 5: And he's been good against Baltimore in his career in
- 8:24Speaker 5: thirty nine at bats two h five average allowed, six
- 8:27Speaker 5: 't eighty five ops, fifteen to five strike out walk ratio,
- 8:32Speaker 5: and you'll get his numbers.
- 8:33Speaker 4: Overall. His issue has been the walks this year.
- 8:35Speaker 5: That's really been well, Actually, he's been too hittable as well,
- 8:38Speaker 5: so my mistakes. So yeah, he's been putting your guys
- 8:41Speaker 5: on base just all over the place.
- 8:43Speaker 4: That's true. Bad season.
- 8:46Speaker 5: Usually the walks are his main issue, but usually it's
- 8:48Speaker 5: not this bad. And again I'm saying I think he's
- 8:51Speaker 5: going to turn it around and maybe have a decent
- 8:53Speaker 5: stretch run here. His strike out rate has been decent
- 8:56Speaker 5: over the course of the season, so he does still
- 8:58Speaker 5: have strike cut ability here. Again, I think maybe it
- 9:01Speaker 5: was a problem with motivation. I guess we'll see but
- 9:04Speaker 5: I'm gonna back Tampa Bay here in this one. Seventy
- 9:07Speaker 5: two percent of tickets, eighty six percent of the cash
- 9:09Speaker 5: on them. They're in the minus one thirty something range.
- 9:12Speaker 5: As I said, they opened a little bit higher than that.
- 9:15Speaker 5: Actually full game total is seven and a half right now,
- 9:19Speaker 5: juice to the over money kind of coming in on
- 9:21Speaker 5: the over in this one. I mean, I can understand why,
- 9:25Speaker 5: Like you could make the argument that there could be
- 9:28Speaker 5: some runs here on both sides, I suppose, but I'm
- 9:31Speaker 5: focusing on the side obviously. Tampa Bay is I think
- 9:34Speaker 5: one of the better plays of the day and the
- 9:36Speaker 5: only side that I have on my card here.
- 9:39Speaker 4: Arizona and Atlanta.
- 9:40Speaker 5: This is the end of this series, and Atlanta is
- 9:43Speaker 5: trying to avoid the sweep at home. These home teams
- 9:46Speaker 5: trying to avoid sweeps. Man, a lot of times you
- 9:49Speaker 5: do want to look their way. Atlanta's had a really
- 9:51Speaker 5: bad series too. Mean, I would score twelve to three
- 9:54Speaker 5: shut out in the first game, then they allowed ten
- 9:56Speaker 5: runs yesterday. Arizona's hot right now and Atlanta maybe kind
- 10:00Speaker 5: of in cruise control mode here. But I think you're
- 10:03Speaker 5: gonna get motivation out of them here because you don't
- 10:05Speaker 5: want to get swept at home, man, you know, and
- 10:07Speaker 5: maybe Arizona gets a little bit high after those first
- 10:11Speaker 5: two wins.
- 10:12Speaker 4: Arizona's playing Boston next.
- 10:13Speaker 5: I don't think they're gonna be like looking ahead or
- 10:15Speaker 5: anything like that, So I'm not too concerned with Arizona
- 10:18Speaker 5: as far as that's concerned. So I think Atlanta is
- 10:21Speaker 5: the situational play here. The problem is, I don't really
- 10:25Speaker 5: love Atlanta necessarily in the starting pitching. Although you'll actually
- 10:29Speaker 5: see the matchup numbers actually are not that bad for
- 10:32Speaker 5: Atlanta here. Atlanta did use three relief pitchers yesterday, some
- 10:36Speaker 5: heavy usage from those guys, lighter usage from Arizona's three
- 10:40Speaker 5: relief pitchers they use yesterday.
- 10:41Speaker 4: Atlanta's still the.
- 10:42Speaker 5: Better bullpen, though their ranked third Arizona's fifth, but I
- 10:45Speaker 5: don't think it's that close. Atlanta's half a run better
- 10:48Speaker 5: in the era, So I think those rankings, even though
- 10:52Speaker 5: I like whit better, I think those rankings tend to
- 10:54Speaker 5: be somewhat misleading in a way. Atlanta's the better offense
- 10:58Speaker 5: there ain't eighth, although Arizona had has been good since
- 11:00Speaker 5: the All Star break. There's seventeenth, tied with the Yankees.
- 11:04Speaker 5: Michael Sraka is getting the start for Arizona. He just
- 11:08Speaker 5: came back from injury. I think in his last start.
- 11:11Speaker 5: He's had a good season two point nine two ERA
- 11:13Speaker 5: one point one whip and this might be Oh. No,
- 11:16Speaker 5: I was gonna say, is this his first time facing
- 11:18Speaker 5: his former team? No, he was on three different teams
- 11:21Speaker 5: after Atlanta.
- 11:21Speaker 4: My mistake. It was all really quick though.
- 11:23Speaker 5: I barely remember any of that, Like, I only remember
- 11:26Speaker 5: him being on Atlanta and then Arizona.
- 11:28Speaker 4: So I don't know.
- 11:30Speaker 5: Maybe he'll still get up for it because Arizona is Orsuzi.
- 11:33Speaker 5: Atlanta is the team where he spent most of his career,
- 11:36Speaker 5: and he's going to pitch against them here. Soroka, Yeah,
- 11:40Speaker 5: so two point nine two e RRA one point one
- 11:42Speaker 5: whip on the season, that's good. He's not as good
- 11:44Speaker 5: on the road four point five to four Roady Ray,
- 11:47Speaker 5: so you might be able to fade him here his
- 11:49Speaker 5: first start back. They I think they kind of limited
- 11:51Speaker 5: his pitch count here. He had some control issues. He
- 11:54Speaker 5: didn't allow any runs against the Rockies. It was at home,
- 11:58Speaker 5: but he did walk too many guys there. Still, I'm
- 12:00Speaker 5: not gonna put too much weight into that because we've
- 12:02Speaker 5: seen what he's done over the course of the season.
- 12:04Speaker 5: Hasn't walked many guys, not a lot of many hits,
- 12:07Speaker 5: a decent strikeout rate.
- 12:09Speaker 4: We can see all that.
- 12:10Speaker 5: The strike out walk ratio is good because he doesn't
- 12:12Speaker 5: walk many guys. So yeah, strikeouts per nine looks all
- 12:16Speaker 5: right as well. So Raka against Atlanta, though, has not
- 12:19Speaker 5: been that good in thirty seven at bats to seventy average,
- 12:22Speaker 5: allowed seven to seventy four ohps, six to four.
- 12:25Speaker 4: Strikeout walk ratio.
- 12:27Speaker 5: So you might be able to look towards Atlanta here
- 12:30Speaker 5: based on both the situation and the specific matchups here.
- 12:34Speaker 5: And so Raka is not as good on the road,
- 12:35Speaker 5: and Bryce Elder is actually better at home, even though
- 12:38Speaker 5: there's still just something in the back of my head
- 12:40Speaker 5: like I can't do it, man, because Soroka is the
- 12:44Speaker 5: better pitcher over Elder, and I don't really want to
- 12:46Speaker 5: back Elder here, and Elder was not good in its
- 12:49Speaker 5: last star but I do think I'm gonna be leaning
- 12:52Speaker 5: towards the Braves.
- 12:53Speaker 4: And this one. Elder four point zero three r A
- 12:57Speaker 4: one point.
- 12:57Speaker 5: Two to five whip mediocre stuff here, but like I said,
- 13:00Speaker 5: better at home three point five to six home last start,
- 13:04Speaker 5: though at home, he got wrecked by the Mets, and
- 13:06Speaker 5: I did actually give out a play on the Mets
- 13:08Speaker 5: in that game. We got that one correct. Elder was
- 13:11Speaker 5: and was not good in that one. He was pitching
- 13:14Speaker 5: pretty well for the few starts prior to that, but
- 13:16Speaker 5: he's got some issues here.
- 13:18Speaker 4: His walk rate is a little bit high.
- 13:20Speaker 5: He allows a lot of home runs, so some of
- 13:22Speaker 5: the contact that he allows us too hard. Doesn't really
- 13:25Speaker 5: strike many guys out. That's kind of a problem. His
- 13:28Speaker 5: hit rate isn't too bad though advanced analytics guys again
- 13:31Speaker 5: have issues with him because he doesn't strike anybody or
- 13:33Speaker 5: he doesn't strike that many guys out. To strike out
- 13:35Speaker 5: walk ratio has never really been that good. It's below three,
- 13:39Speaker 5: and to strike out per nine is in the seven,
- 13:42Speaker 5: so that's some really mediocre stuff. But he's good against
- 13:45Speaker 5: Arizona typically and sixty at bats two hundred average five
- 13:49Speaker 5: twenty eight ohps allowed fourteen to five strike out walk ratio,
- 13:53Speaker 5: So the matchup numbers do seem to support this. I
- 13:57Speaker 5: would lean Atlanta here. Atlanta's trying to avoid the sweep,
- 14:00Speaker 5: They're at home, their small favorite here. Soroka not as
- 14:03Speaker 5: good on the road, Elder better at home. I think
- 14:06Speaker 5: Atlanta will have the better bullpen behind them here, Atlanta
- 14:09Speaker 5: with the better offense, better matchup numbers supporting Elder over
- 14:15Speaker 5: Soroka as well here, So yeah, I would lean Atlanta here.
- 14:18Speaker 5: The money is not agreeing with that though. Atlanta dropped
- 14:21Speaker 5: from minus one thirty one down to minus one nineteen
- 14:24Speaker 5: or so here, and they're the public side seventy percent
- 14:27Speaker 5: of tickets fifty nine percent of cash on them, so
- 14:30Speaker 5: the public's still just playing the team with the better record,
- 14:33Speaker 5: I guess, even though Arizona's kind of been the hudder
- 14:35Speaker 5: of these two teams here, although I think Atlanta was
- 14:38Speaker 5: on a nice win streak not too long ago, so
- 14:42Speaker 5: maybe you know that is also kind of keeping the
- 14:44Speaker 5: public sort of on their side.
- 14:46Speaker 4: But yeah, I would lean to Atlanta here.
- 14:47Speaker 5: The market reed doesn't support it, though, and the money
- 14:51Speaker 5: is coming in on the over for whatever that's worth
- 14:53Speaker 5: at about nine. I don't really have a good read
- 14:57Speaker 5: on the total there, but I think if I was
- 14:59Speaker 5: going to play game, I would just play Atlanta on
- 15:01Speaker 5: the money line market not agreeing with it. Red Sox
- 15:05Speaker 5: and Pittsburgh my Boston Red Sox with the win yesterday,
- 15:09Speaker 5: Sonny Gray, good start from him again yesterday. Man, I
- 15:13Speaker 5: think I was kind of correct with my read yesterday.
- 15:15Speaker 5: I believe I did say Red Sox and first five
- 15:18Speaker 5: under or something like that. In the game, both of
- 15:20Speaker 5: those would have hit. Red Sox won four to nothing,
- 15:23Speaker 5: but they put up three runs in the ninth inning
- 15:25Speaker 5: against Luke Weaver, and really nobody in the Red Sox
- 15:28Speaker 5: lineup was doing a whole lot yesterday except WILLI or
- 15:31Speaker 5: Bray you although you you know it was one nothing
- 15:35Speaker 5: Red Sox leading to the ninth inning. But what I
- 15:36Speaker 5: will say is the Red Sox stranded a lot of
- 15:38Speaker 5: base runners in that game.
- 15:40Speaker 4: So the Red Sox were the better team in that game.
- 15:42Speaker 5: They had a lot of opportunities with the runners in
- 15:44Speaker 5: the scoring position where they completely failed, and Jared Jones
- 15:48Speaker 5: was getting some really crucial strikeouts. I think Jones is
- 15:50Speaker 5: pretty good. This is gonna be a much weaker pitching
- 15:53Speaker 5: matchup here. Paul Skeens was supposed to start this game,
- 15:56Speaker 5: and then it was gonna be Skeens against Sandoval, which
- 16:00Speaker 5: I would say, yeah, the Red Sox would have no
- 16:02Speaker 5: chance to win that game, even though schemes has been
- 16:05Speaker 5: having some issues, Like I think he's hurt Man. There's
- 16:08Speaker 5: something going on. It's velocities down. I don't know what
- 16:10Speaker 5: the deal is. Even though he was able to get
- 16:12Speaker 5: through his last start with a pretty like a quality start,
- 16:16Speaker 5: there's still something wrong with him. But he's not pitching today,
- 16:18Speaker 5: So the Red Sox is gonna avoid him and they're
- 16:21Speaker 5: gonna basically get a Pittsburgh bullpend game here. Problem is
- 16:24Speaker 5: the Red Sox are pitching Patrick Sandoval here, and that
- 16:27Speaker 5: guy sucks. So my first instinct looking at this game
- 16:31Speaker 5: was this pitching blows across the board, so I was thinking,
- 16:34Speaker 5: probably the over might be the way to look at
- 16:36Speaker 5: this game. The Red Socks are gonna have the better
- 16:39Speaker 5: bullpen here, these two guys out of the bullpen yesterday.
- 16:42Speaker 5: They did use Chapman though, even though they had a
- 16:44Speaker 5: four run lead. I don't know if I liked that
- 16:46Speaker 5: move or not, but he hadn't had any work in
- 16:49Speaker 5: a while. However, maybe they should have let him rest
- 16:52Speaker 5: more because they might actually need him to come in
- 16:54Speaker 5: for a save situation at some point, and you kind
- 16:57Speaker 5: of want to rest him as you're going down the
- 16:59Speaker 5: stretch run here sort of as much as you can
- 17:02Speaker 5: because he's old.
- 17:03Speaker 4: So I don't know, or you know, maybe.
- 17:05Speaker 5: The Red Sox should I don't know if they should
- 17:07Speaker 5: switch to a different closer. I don't know if I
- 17:09Speaker 5: want to go that far, but I don't know. Chapman
- 17:12Speaker 5: seems to allow guys to get on base quite a bit,
- 17:14Speaker 5: though I don't think he did yesterday. Pittsburgh used three
- 17:17Speaker 5: relief pitchers yesterday. Luke Weaver was terrible in the ninth inning.
- 17:21Speaker 5: Maybe not the greatest pick up for them. There's a
- 17:23Speaker 5: reason why the Yankees got rid of him and then
- 17:25Speaker 5: the Mets traded him away at the trade deadline. Here,
- 17:28Speaker 5: Pittsburgh is not a good bullpen really. They're twenty third.
- 17:31Speaker 5: The Red Sox are number one, so Red Sox have
- 17:35Speaker 5: a bullpen advantage here. Pittsburgh is the better offense. They're
- 17:38Speaker 5: ranked fourth, and I keep pointing out I think there's
- 17:40Speaker 5: still the number one home offense, although I don't know.
- 17:43Speaker 5: They scored zero yesterday, so I don't know. Sonny Gray
- 17:46Speaker 5: really good performance from him yesterday. Red Sox fourteenth in
- 17:50Speaker 5: offense here. Seems kind of wild to have the Red
- 17:53Speaker 5: Sox ranked higher offensively than the Yankees. Man, because I
- 17:56Speaker 5: just don't think that that's really accurate, but it's kind
- 18:00Speaker 5: of hilarious. The way things are working out right now,
- 18:02Speaker 5: Red Sox are not gonna make it as far as
- 18:04Speaker 5: the Yankees though.
- 18:05Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Yeah.
- 18:08Speaker 5: I don't know, man, I'm not liking what we're seeing
- 18:09Speaker 5: out of the Red Sox recently. Patrick Sandoval remains in
- 18:12Speaker 5: their rotation. He's pitching today. He looks good because he
- 18:16Speaker 5: has a three point three RA, but his whip is
- 18:18Speaker 5: one point seven. I mean, come on, man, he's putting
- 18:22Speaker 5: more than one and a half guys on base per inning. Yeah,
- 18:25Speaker 5: you can't do that. He's getting extremely lucky. He has
- 18:28Speaker 5: a two point nine to three Roady Ray, yet his
- 18:30Speaker 5: opponent batting average both home and road over three hundred.
- 18:34Speaker 4: So yeah, he can't sustain this. He sucks. You look
- 18:37Speaker 4: at his career numbers. They're not very good. He's putting too.
- 18:40Speaker 5: Many guys on base in basically every way you could imagine,
- 18:43Speaker 5: too many hits, too many walks. Strike got rad is fine,
- 18:47Speaker 5: but this is otherwise not good. Strike out walk ratio,
- 18:51Speaker 5: not good. Streke out per nine is like the only
- 18:54Speaker 5: number that he.
- 18:54Speaker 4: Has that's really tolerable.
- 18:57Speaker 5: I would say, although, yeah, like he's had pretty much
- 19:00Speaker 5: all quality starts.
- 19:01Speaker 4: Well not, I wouldn't say that.
- 19:02Speaker 5: A couple of the starts didn't make it five innings,
- 19:04Speaker 5: but he's allowed two reviewer earned runs in all but
- 19:07Speaker 5: one start. So do with that what you want. I
- 19:10Speaker 5: guess the Red Sox had won his first five starts
- 19:13Speaker 5: and then they finally lost one last time out, and
- 19:15Speaker 5: he wasn't really that bad in that one, but it
- 19:18Speaker 5: was against Toronto. He had the lead over Dylan Cease
- 19:21Speaker 5: in that game. Then the Red Sox blew it late
- 19:23Speaker 5: and they had they allowed some unearned runs. Now, Pittsburgh
- 19:27Speaker 5: is unfamiliar with Sandoval. They have three guys so have
- 19:29Speaker 5: faced him nine at bats. He only hit is a
- 19:31Speaker 5: home run from Brandon low Or it seems like the
- 19:34Speaker 5: announcers call him Lao. I'm like, it's Low. Like what
- 19:38Speaker 5: I'm gonna still call him low?
- 19:39Speaker 4: I can't do it, man.
- 19:41Speaker 5: But Pittsburgh, Yeah, they have a one to eleven average
- 19:43Speaker 5: against Sandoval five fifty six ohps five, zero strikeout walk ratio.
- 19:47Speaker 5: So yes, he has been good against them in a
- 19:49Speaker 5: small sample, but I don't trust him. I don't think
- 19:52Speaker 5: there's any way you can and Pittsburgh since they pushed
- 19:55Speaker 5: Skeens back. They're gonna use basically a bullpen game here.
- 19:59Speaker 5: They're using Lake Bashar or wherever you pronounce this guy's name.
- 20:03Speaker 5: They got him at the trade deadline from Miami. He's
- 20:06Speaker 5: had a good season, I mean three point nine to
- 20:08Speaker 5: seventy RA one point oh wait, whip. He was good
- 20:11Speaker 5: at home pitching with Miami at two point three seven
- 20:13Speaker 5: Homi RA. That might wind up going up with Pittsburgh, though,
- 20:17Speaker 5: you know, because Pittsburgh it's not as pitcher friendly here
- 20:20Speaker 5: as Miami Stadium is. It looks like he strouddled a
- 20:24Speaker 5: little bit since coming over to Pittsburgh's last outing was
- 20:27Speaker 5: kind of bad, giving up three runs in three innings
- 20:29Speaker 5: against his former team Miami.
- 20:31Speaker 4: He did not do well there. What I will say
- 20:34Speaker 4: about this game is.
- 20:36Speaker 5: Bashar might not be the I think he will probably start,
- 20:39Speaker 5: and he'll be like an opener, and he'll probably go
- 20:41Speaker 5: about three innings here, I would imagine or something like that.
- 20:44Speaker 5: Maybe they'll let him go a little bit longer because
- 20:47Speaker 5: they probably don't want to use their bullpen that significantly.
- 20:49Speaker 5: I think they do have to play tomorrow too, but yeah,
- 20:53Speaker 5: they do. They're playing Detroit tomorrow. I think a lot
- 20:55Speaker 5: of most teams are playing tomorrow. Unfortunately we have a
- 20:59Speaker 5: longer Monday than we usually do. But what I was
- 21:03Speaker 5: gonna say is, you could play this. If you're gonna
- 21:04Speaker 5: play this game, you could play it as Sandoval must start.
- 21:07Speaker 5: Don't pick a starter for Pittsburgh because it's going to
- 21:09Speaker 5: be some bullpen mix.
- 21:11Speaker 4: Here for Pittsburgh.
- 21:12Speaker 5: You know, uh, Bashar Red Sox have faced him a
- 21:15Speaker 5: little bit. They have five guys who have faced him
- 21:19Speaker 5: six at bats. The only hit as a single from
- 21:21Speaker 5: Wilson Contrera's two strikeouts. No walks to what you want
- 21:25Speaker 5: with that, but it's a small sample size on both sides.
- 21:28Speaker 5: The numbers look good, but it's so small I don't
- 21:31Speaker 5: think you read into it at all. Bashar has been
- 21:33Speaker 5: the better of these two pitchers, for whatever that's worth.
- 21:37Speaker 5: You'll get just as overall numbers, but most of it
- 21:39Speaker 5: is coming out of the bullpen. You know, his strike
- 21:41Speaker 5: out rates decent. It's above one per inning, so that's good.
- 21:44Speaker 5: He doesn't allow many hits at all, so he's much
- 21:46Speaker 5: harder to hit than sand of all is.
- 21:48Speaker 4: His walk rate is kind of.
- 21:49Speaker 5: Mediocre, though, But I don't think we really need to
- 21:52Speaker 5: dig into his numbers too much because I don't think
- 21:54Speaker 5: he's gonna be out there that long.
- 21:56Speaker 4: I think the over is still probably the right move
- 21:59Speaker 4: in this game.
- 21:59Speaker 5: If are gonna try to play this game, I don't
- 22:01Speaker 5: want to do it. But the money looks like it
- 22:04Speaker 5: doesn't agree with me. Uh, sixty four percent of tickets
- 22:07Speaker 5: on the over, sixty two percent of the cash on
- 22:08Speaker 5: the under, totals at eight eight and a half. I
- 22:11Speaker 5: guess I don't. I don't agree with the market read there.
- 22:15Speaker 5: I would play the game over. I think you have
- 22:17Speaker 5: lackluster pitching here.
- 22:18Speaker 4: Both ways.
- 22:19Speaker 5: You're gonna get a lot of Pittsburgh's bullpen in here,
- 22:21Speaker 5: and they're not that good. Sandoval's way worse than his
- 22:24Speaker 5: numbers look as far as the side, probably a slight
- 22:27Speaker 5: lean towards Pittsburgh for me, maybe just in the first five,
- 22:31Speaker 5: because the Red Sox do have a bullpen edge eighty
- 22:34Speaker 5: nine percent of tickets, ninety two percent of the cash
- 22:36Speaker 5: on the Red Sox. They're a small favorite in the
- 22:38Speaker 5: Pickham range, they're public.
- 22:40Speaker 4: It looks like they did flip.
- 22:41Speaker 5: It looks like it was gonna be minus one twenty
- 22:43Speaker 5: if it was Skiens, which seems like a really low
- 22:46Speaker 5: price on a Skiens game, to be honest, like that,
- 22:49Speaker 5: if it was Skiens, I might be coming in on
- 22:52Speaker 5: Pittsburgh here, to be honest, although this seems like there's
- 22:54Speaker 5: something not right with him. But since the pitching change
- 22:58Speaker 5: was announced, the Red Sox flipped to the favor because
- 23:00Speaker 5: of that. I don't think Sandoval should be a road
- 23:03Speaker 5: favorite really against anybody, So Pittsburgh first five might be
- 23:06Speaker 5: a way to look. Although Pittsburgh might be a favorite
- 23:09Speaker 5: in the first five because the odds makers know Sandoval's
- 23:12Speaker 5: terrible and the Red Sox bullpen is good. So if
- 23:15Speaker 5: you're gonna fade the Red Sox pitching, probably you should
- 23:18Speaker 5: be limiting it to the first five and then Bashar
- 23:22Speaker 5: or however he pronounce his name, probably be out there
- 23:24Speaker 5: for at least the majority of the first five innings
- 23:27Speaker 5: for you.
- 23:27Speaker 4: If you do it that way, I guess all right.
- 23:31Speaker 5: Yankees Toronto. The Yankees are trying to avoid getting swept here.
- 23:34Speaker 5: Toronto beat Cam Schlitler yesterday with a three to one
- 23:37Speaker 5: win two days ago and a four to one win yesterday.
- 23:40Speaker 5: Yankees offense continuing to struggle. This has been a low
- 23:44Speaker 5: scoring series. Man with two struggling offenses.
- 23:47Speaker 4: I don't know how else to put it.
- 23:49Speaker 5: Yankees have the better bullpen here, and they should have
- 23:52Speaker 5: a significant bullpen advantage here because the usage was less
- 23:55Speaker 5: these four guys, but really their better relievers didn't come
- 23:58Speaker 5: into the game yesterday and it was somewhat lighter used
- 24:01Speaker 5: as Toronto used a bullpen game yesterday and somehow beat
- 24:05Speaker 5: Schlittler with it.
- 24:06Speaker 4: Not good, not a good sign for the Yankees offense.
- 24:11Speaker 5: Toronto used seven relief pitchers in that effort, so their
- 24:15Speaker 5: bullpen is not in good shape here.
- 24:17Speaker 4: Yankees are number four in.
- 24:19Speaker 5: Bullpen whip, but then the number two era, which I
- 24:22Speaker 5: think is I think basically that is what they are
- 24:24Speaker 5: the second best bullpen. Toronto is sixteenth, so they're not
- 24:27Speaker 5: a bad bullpen, but you can see that they're really
- 24:30Speaker 5: overworked right now. Yankees have the better offense, as much
- 24:34Speaker 5: as they've been struggling. Their seventeenth tied with the Arizona.
- 24:37Speaker 5: Toronto is dead last thirtieth. Starting pitching, though, does favor
- 24:42Speaker 5: Toronto here. Ryan Weathers is pitching for the Yankees, so
- 24:46Speaker 5: not one of their better starters.
- 24:48Speaker 4: He's not been that bad.
- 24:49Speaker 5: Three point six to nine e Ra one point two
- 24:51Speaker 5: to one whip he's actually a little bit better on
- 24:54Speaker 5: the road three point three to five roady RA.
- 24:57Speaker 4: He's been decent.
- 24:58Speaker 5: Pretty much for the whole seas man. His hit rate's
- 25:02Speaker 5: not too high, doesn't really walk that many guys. His
- 25:04Speaker 5: strike out rate is actually pretty good and he gets
- 25:07Speaker 5: a lot of ground balls, so looking at it overall,
- 25:09Speaker 5: strike out walk ratio is actually the best that it's
- 25:11Speaker 5: been in any season in his career, and this is
- 25:14Speaker 5: the longest season that he's had, so that's not bad
- 25:18Speaker 5: for him. His strike out walk ratio, I was gonna say,
- 25:20Speaker 5: I think that or starguts for nine, I mean, is
- 25:22Speaker 5: probably at its highest as well, and that is basically
- 25:26Speaker 5: the case as well. Yes that's true, so yeah, do
- 25:30Speaker 5: with that what you want. But Weathers has had his
- 25:32Speaker 5: best season this year. However, he's not good against Toronto
- 25:36Speaker 5: and thirty seven at bats even though this is not
- 25:38Speaker 5: a good offense three point fifty one average allowed one
- 25:40Speaker 5: thy seventy one oh ps nine to one strike out
- 25:44Speaker 5: walk ratio. Good ratio there, but the rest of these
- 25:46Speaker 5: numbers not good. So Toronto might actually be able to
- 25:50Speaker 5: do some damage here offensively against him and Toronto is
- 25:53Speaker 5: going with Dylan Cees here, So the Yankees should be
- 25:56Speaker 5: the more motivated team here because I try to avoid
- 25:58Speaker 5: the sweep even they're they're not going to miss the
- 26:02Speaker 5: playoffs the Yankees, you know, but believe it or not,
- 26:04Speaker 5: Toronto is in like a five way tie for the
- 26:09Speaker 5: last wildcard spot right now.
- 26:10Speaker 4: It's completely insane.
- 26:12Speaker 5: I think it's a five way tie between like Minnesota, Toronto, Baltimore,
- 26:16Speaker 5: Texas and is it Detroit Maybe I forget something like that,
- 26:21Speaker 5: And yeah, Seattle isn't really too far back from that.
- 26:24Speaker 5: It's the al is insane, man Like, nobody is really
- 26:29Speaker 5: exert Like I don't know what's what's the word I'm
- 26:31Speaker 5: looking for. Nobody is nobody has emerged as the team
- 26:35Speaker 5: that's gonna take that last wildcard spot. So I don't know, though,
- 26:39Speaker 5: you know, knowing the Red Sox, they might just completely
- 26:41Speaker 5: fall apart.
- 26:42Speaker 4: I have no idea. But Cease is pitching here.
- 26:44Speaker 5: The Blue Jays will at least probably have motivation here
- 26:47Speaker 5: because why wouldn't you when it's a series against the Yankees.
- 26:50Speaker 5: But also technically they can make the playoffs, so technically
- 26:54Speaker 5: they're a tie for the last spot right now. Two
- 26:57Speaker 5: point four ERA, one point seven width for c He's
- 27:00Speaker 5: obviously having a really good season. Not as good at
- 27:02Speaker 5: home though, three point zero four home RA, but still
- 27:05Speaker 5: good numbers. Had some command issues last time with the
- 27:08Speaker 5: Red Sox. Last time against the Red Sox, Red Sox
- 27:12Speaker 5: blew that game. The Red Sox were beating Dylan Cease
- 27:15Speaker 5: with Sandoval in the mound, which is insane to think
- 27:18Speaker 5: about the Red Sox bullpen and some bad fielding kind
- 27:22Speaker 5: of did them in in that game.
- 27:23Speaker 4: That's kind of crazy.
- 27:25Speaker 5: But seas overall he's been good, although, yes, his walk
- 27:27Speaker 5: rate is kind of an issue, but he's very unhittable.
- 27:30Speaker 5: He strikes out a ton of guys. It's just yeah,
- 27:32Speaker 5: he does have some command issues. That's been the case
- 27:35Speaker 5: throughout his career, which does keep his strikeout walk ratio
- 27:38Speaker 5: from really being ever that good. But his strikeoup per
- 27:41Speaker 5: nine is insane. It's really high this year. It's the
- 27:44Speaker 5: highest that it's been in any season over thirteen, which
- 27:48Speaker 5: is really crazy. And he is also good against the
- 27:51Speaker 5: Yankees and eighty nine at bats two thirteen average allowed
- 27:54Speaker 5: six six thirty oh ps, twenty three to ten strikeout
- 27:58Speaker 5: walk ratio. You know, I mean I'm not gonna come
- 28:04Speaker 5: in on this game because I do think the Yankees
- 28:05Speaker 5: are gonna be the more motivated team here, and you
- 28:07Speaker 5: know you're gonna have to pay a price with Dylan Cees.
- 28:10Speaker 5: The money is back in Toronto. It looks like though
- 28:12Speaker 5: somewhat sixty nine percent of ticket seventy six percent of
- 28:15Speaker 5: the cash on them. It's a reasonable ish price if
- 28:19Speaker 5: you do want to try to play Toronto minus like
- 28:21Speaker 5: one twenty or something. If you play Toronto, I would
- 28:23Speaker 5: say take them in the first five only, and maybe
- 28:27Speaker 5: that is actually the best approach in this game, just
- 28:30Speaker 5: to play cease out pitching Weathers in the first five.
- 28:33Speaker 5: You probably have to pay more of a price for it, though,
- 28:36Speaker 5: Like you're probably gonna be looking at like minus one
- 28:38Speaker 5: forty on Toronto if you do it that way, or
- 28:40Speaker 5: maybe even higher. And if it's higher than that, maybe
- 28:42Speaker 5: you do a minus half a run on the run
- 28:44Speaker 5: line there. You need Toronto to score if you do that,
- 28:48Speaker 5: but they might be able to do that a little
- 28:50Speaker 5: bit against Weathers. The money is coming in on the
- 28:52Speaker 5: under as well. The total seven that tells you how
- 28:56Speaker 5: how weak these offenses have been recently. A total of
- 28:59Speaker 5: seven man some of it is obviously the cease factor,
- 29:03Speaker 5: cease and desist.
- 29:05Speaker 4: But still, this is a low It's a pretty low.
- 29:08Speaker 4: It's a little man.
- 29:08Speaker 5: So the oddsmakers seem to think it's gonna be low
- 29:10Speaker 5: scoring the money it seems like it actually agrees with that.
- 29:14Speaker 5: I'm not gonna come in and try to play an
- 29:16Speaker 5: under in that one though, no way. But I think
- 29:19Speaker 5: Toronto first five makes some sense. I think you have
- 29:21Speaker 5: to exclude their bullpen though it's not the better bullpen
- 29:24Speaker 5: and it's the less rested bullpen there. But motivationally, the
- 29:29Speaker 5: Yankees kind of make sense. And if you want to
- 29:32Speaker 5: if you want to take the Yankees, you'll get them.
- 29:33Speaker 4: As an underdog.
- 29:34Speaker 5: And if you do take the Yankees, you should do them.
- 29:37Speaker 5: Do that in the full game. But yeah, I don't
- 29:40Speaker 5: have a great read on that game. But my slight
- 29:41Speaker 5: lean would be Toronto first five. All right, White Sox
- 29:46Speaker 5: and Detroit. Detroit man not on my good side right now.
- 29:51Speaker 5: Losing by one run yesterday, you know it was it
- 29:54Speaker 5: was a legitimate loss. They lost a game. They were
- 29:56Speaker 5: not the better team in the game. I don't know
- 29:58Speaker 5: what else to say. Detroit's good. Recently, Chicago has now
- 30:03Speaker 5: sort of started pulling away a little bit in this division.
- 30:06Speaker 4: Again, they're four and a half games up over Detroit.
- 30:08Speaker 5: Like I said, I think Detroit is tied in the
- 30:10Speaker 5: last wildcard spot right now with all those other teams,
- 30:12Speaker 5: and I think out of all those teams, I think
- 30:15Speaker 5: Detroit is the best out of that mix.
- 30:17Speaker 4: And the run differential supports that.
- 30:21Speaker 5: Detroit has a very positive run differential, one of the
- 30:23Speaker 5: best in the entire American League, which is ridiculous to
- 30:27Speaker 5: think about. That tells you Detroit is better than their
- 30:30Speaker 5: record looks, although some of that was back when they
- 30:32Speaker 5: still had school ball and whatever. But they've been playing
- 30:34Speaker 5: pretty well since the trade deadline, except they haven't been
- 30:38Speaker 5: doing well in this series. Maybe Detroit shows up here, man,
- 30:41Speaker 5: they're another home team trying to avoid a sweep here.
- 30:45Speaker 5: White Sox probably will still be motivated here, but maybe
- 30:48Speaker 5: after they've won the series, maybe they do kind of
- 30:51Speaker 5: take their foot off the gas a little bit. The
- 30:53Speaker 5: White Sox here, they do have a big series next
- 30:56Speaker 5: against the Cobs. So they have their Subway Series or
- 30:59Speaker 5: whatever you want to call it, coming up next against
- 31:01Speaker 5: the Cubs, and they've already won this yeraries they already
- 31:03Speaker 5: have a bigger lead over Detroit, So yeah, I mean, situationally,
- 31:06Speaker 5: I think it does favorite Detroit with the situation. The
- 31:09Speaker 5: problem is the pitching matchup definitely does not favorite Detroit here.
- 31:14Speaker 5: So Detroit's another one of those teams trying to avoid
- 31:17Speaker 5: like the Yankees, Detroit trying to avoid a sweet but
- 31:19Speaker 5: they don't have the starting pitching edge here. So it's yeah,
- 31:23Speaker 5: a little bit difficult to try to figure the game out,
- 31:27Speaker 5: like which one of those do you way more heavily right,
- 31:29Speaker 5: like situation slash motivation or the way better starting pitcher?
- 31:35Speaker 5: You know, Detroit used three relief pitchers yesterday. They're probably
- 31:39Speaker 5: gonna need They're both going to be pretty rested here
- 31:42Speaker 5: because it looks like they're basically going with a bullpen
- 31:44Speaker 5: game here.
- 31:45Speaker 4: White Sox use three relief pitchers yesterday.
- 31:48Speaker 5: These teams are ranked pretty closely in both bullpen and
- 31:51Speaker 5: offense Detroit fourteenth, White Sox fifteenth in bullpen and offensively
- 31:57Speaker 5: Detroit twelfth. White Sox are actually up to nine now
- 32:00Speaker 5: again offensively, so they've been doing pretty well recently there.
- 32:03Speaker 5: White Sox are going with Sean Burke. Like I said,
- 32:06Speaker 5: they have the better starter here. He's had a really
- 32:09Speaker 5: good season two point nine to nine ERA one point
- 32:11Speaker 5: oh wait whip. He's established himself as like their best
- 32:15Speaker 5: starter two point sixty three roadyra so he's been good
- 32:18Speaker 5: on the road as well, really good in his last
- 32:20Speaker 5: downing against the reds wasn't really good in his previous
- 32:23Speaker 5: one against the Red Sox, but over the last month plus,
- 32:26Speaker 5: that Red Sox start was like the only bad one
- 32:28Speaker 5: that he had. Weird because he was going back home
- 32:31Speaker 5: because he's from Sutton, mass So, I don't know.
- 32:34Speaker 4: What that was.
- 32:37Speaker 5: But yeah, he's got a low hit rate on the season,
- 32:39Speaker 5: doesn't really walk that many guys. His strike up rate
- 32:41Speaker 5: is nice and high. All that stuff looks good. Strike
- 32:45Speaker 5: out walk ratio close to four, that's good, strike out
- 32:48Speaker 5: for nine above ten that's also good. Numbers against Detroit
- 32:52Speaker 5: are fairly good as well. In thirty at bats to
- 32:55Speaker 5: sixty seven average allowed, six to sixty seven ops five
- 32:58Speaker 5: to three. Strikeout walk ratio is not good, but the
- 33:01Speaker 5: rest of these numbers are good.
- 33:02Speaker 4: So I think Burke should probably do well again here.
- 33:05Speaker 4: He's in the better of his home road splits. He's
- 33:07Speaker 4: good against Detroit.
- 33:09Speaker 5: Detroit is good at home, though typically, so you know,
- 33:13Speaker 5: they do fall into that team trying to avoid the
- 33:15Speaker 5: sweep at home, and they're better at home. But if
- 33:18Speaker 5: you want to back them, you have to back Drew
- 33:20Speaker 5: Anderson and a bullpend game basically against Burke. I wouldn't
- 33:26Speaker 5: really want to do that. Anderson three point nine to one,
- 33:28Speaker 5: ing ra one point three whip. He did go four
- 33:30Speaker 5: innings last time against Cleveland, so they're kind of letting
- 33:33Speaker 5: him go deeper into the game. Maybe it's depending on
- 33:37Speaker 5: pitch count matchup, you know, I mean, everything does kind
- 33:39Speaker 5: of depend on that, but whatever. I wouldn't really trust
- 33:42Speaker 5: him though. The White Sox when they have faced and
- 33:44Speaker 5: they have twelve at bats against him a four to
- 33:46Speaker 5: seventeen average, fourteen to seventeen ops. Yeah, I mean, basically
- 33:52Speaker 5: it looks like it's gonna be a bullpen game. The
- 33:54Speaker 5: motivation is there on the Detroit side. But I think
- 33:57Speaker 5: if I was forced to play this game, I think
- 33:59Speaker 5: I would have to lead to the White Sox. I
- 34:01Speaker 5: just think the pitching is too much of an edge
- 34:04Speaker 5: for them in my opinion, and the money seems to agree.
- 34:06Speaker 5: Seventy nine percent of tickets eighty seven percent of the
- 34:08Speaker 5: cash on them it's basically a pick them price there,
- 34:12Speaker 5: and because it's the Detroit bullpen game, I would basically yeah,
- 34:15Speaker 5: I would just say do it full game. I think
- 34:17Speaker 5: if you do it, you should pick Burke must start
- 34:19Speaker 5: because he's a huge part of that handicap. Don't pick
- 34:22Speaker 5: a starter for Detroit because it's going to be some
- 34:24Speaker 5: sort of bullpen game. Probably it will be Anderson, but
- 34:26Speaker 5: I don't know if that's completely guaranteed. So that's what
- 34:30Speaker 5: I think about that game. Miami in Cincinnati. These teams
- 34:33Speaker 5: to split this series at this point. I mean, I
- 34:36Speaker 5: think Miami, I guess technically is trying to get a
- 34:39Speaker 5: wildcard spot, but I don't know, man, you might be
- 34:41Speaker 5: able to argue these teams are trying to play out
- 34:43Speaker 5: the stretch here as well.
- 34:47Speaker 4: This split the series so far.
- 34:48Speaker 5: Like I said, so, probably some motivation here from both sides.
- 34:51Speaker 5: The Reds bullpen is bad. They used whatever this is
- 34:55Speaker 5: five guys yesterday. Miami used four. Miami will have the
- 34:58Speaker 5: bullpen edge in this game. They're number six, although I
- 35:01Speaker 5: don't think they're quite that good, but they're better than Cincinnati,
- 35:04Speaker 5: who's twenty fifth. I feel like I just repeat myself,
- 35:07Speaker 5: but you know, just going through the process. Miami's number
- 35:10Speaker 5: nine in offense, tied with the White Sox that we
- 35:13Speaker 5: just talked about, Cincinnati twenty third, tied with San Diego.
- 35:17Speaker 5: That's not a good sign. So Miami has the better
- 35:20Speaker 5: offense as well. On the surface, just first glance at this,
- 35:23Speaker 5: Miami has the better pitcher on the mound here too,
- 35:26Speaker 5: Juri Perez. He's definitely the picture with the much higher
- 35:29Speaker 5: ceiling out of the two pitchers today, and the picture
- 35:32Speaker 5: with way more talent. The problem is the matchup numbers
- 35:34Speaker 5: don't really look great for him. But he's had a
- 35:37Speaker 5: good season. This has been like his best season so far.
- 35:39Speaker 5: Three point three to ninety Ray, one point one to
- 35:41Speaker 5: one whip. That's all good. He's not quite as good
- 35:44Speaker 5: on the road three point nine Roady Ray. However, his
- 35:47Speaker 5: opponent batting average on the road is good. It's just
- 35:50Speaker 5: he walks too many guys on the road for whatever reason.
- 35:53Speaker 5: But the batting average is below two hundred there. Perez
- 35:56Speaker 5: has been striking a lot of guys out recently. He's
- 35:58Speaker 5: been in pretty good form over the past last month plus.
- 36:01Speaker 5: Like he's only a lot more than tour in runs
- 36:03Speaker 5: twice in here He's had multiple shutouts in here. The
- 36:07Speaker 5: offense isn't back him very well, like Miami's losing most
- 36:11Speaker 5: of his games, but most of it isn't his fault.
- 36:13Speaker 5: He's got a low hit rate, his walk rate is
- 36:15Speaker 5: not too bad, like he's had problems with walks in
- 36:19Speaker 5: his career, but this year he's kind of figured that
- 36:21Speaker 5: out a bit. And his strikeout rate is high as well,
- 36:23Speaker 5: so these numbers look good. He's got his strikeout walk
- 36:26Speaker 5: ratio right around three, although that's basically in line with
- 36:30Speaker 5: his career number, so I think his strikeout rate kind
- 36:33Speaker 5: of actually has gone a little bit down from what
- 36:36Speaker 5: he's done in the past. Yeah, it's it's around the same.
- 36:38Speaker 5: I guess strike out for nine, so I don't know.
- 36:42Speaker 5: Perez against the Reds though not great in forty four
- 36:45Speaker 5: at bats to seventy three average allowed ninety seven ops
- 36:48Speaker 5: thirteen to four strikeout walk ratio, so the strikeouts are
- 36:52Speaker 5: still there, but he does kind of struggle against the Reds,
- 36:55Speaker 5: and the Red's playing a much more hitter friendly ballpark
- 36:58Speaker 5: than Miami does, so that type of transition might be
- 37:01Speaker 5: a little bit negative for him. He's still overall better
- 37:05Speaker 5: than Nick Lodolo's pitching for Cincinnati.
- 37:07Speaker 4: Lodolo's had some issues.
- 37:09Speaker 5: Four point eight six ERA, one point four to six
- 37:11Speaker 5: whip is definitely not good, although if you look at
- 37:14Speaker 5: his career numbers, he's put up better numbers than this
- 37:16Speaker 5: throughout his career. Not a good season for him, though,
- 37:19Speaker 5: and he's not been good at home. Five point two
- 37:21Speaker 5: seven ERA at home. Came back from injury after missing
- 37:24Speaker 5: a month and had a pretty bad start at the
- 37:27Speaker 5: White Sox. Good command though, five strikeouts, no walks in
- 37:30Speaker 5: four innings, but he got hit around. You give it
- 37:32Speaker 5: three home runs, maybe you could argue you got a
- 37:35Speaker 5: little bit unlucky there. Hasn't really pitched that much this season.
- 37:40Speaker 5: He's got a high hit rate though high walk rate.
- 37:42Speaker 4: None of that is good.
- 37:43Speaker 5: Strike out rate is kind of mediocre. Strike out walk
- 37:47Speaker 5: race just kind of bad here at two that's not good.
- 37:51Speaker 5: Strikeouts for nine some of the worst that he's had
- 37:53Speaker 5: throughout his career. So his numbers, like I said, he's
- 37:56Speaker 5: been better throughout his career, which kind of does indicate
- 37:58Speaker 5: to me he should improve somewhat. But maybe the injuries
- 38:02Speaker 5: really affecting him. I don't know, but he has not
- 38:04Speaker 5: had a good season. However, Miami doesn't hit him well.
- 38:07Speaker 5: In thirty two at bats one eighty eight average allowed
- 38:10Speaker 5: four to seventy six ops.
- 38:13Speaker 4: This is a pass for me, obviously. What do you
- 38:15Speaker 4: do with this game?
- 38:16Speaker 5: When you have Miami has the better offense, Miami has
- 38:19Speaker 5: the better bullpen, Miami has the better starter. As far
- 38:22Speaker 5: as like talent level, Cincinnati.
- 38:25Speaker 4: Has a better starter.
- 38:25Speaker 5: As far as overall matchup numbers, Cincinnati starter isn't good
- 38:30Speaker 5: at home, Perez might struggle a little bit on the road.
- 38:33Speaker 4: Like what does that equate to?
- 38:34Speaker 5: Really, I'm not entirely sure what the best way to
- 38:37Speaker 5: play this game is. I mean, if you look at
- 38:39Speaker 5: if you weigh the matchup numbers, you could say Cincinnati
- 38:42Speaker 5: maybe is the right approach here. If you're gonna play Cincinnati,
- 38:45Speaker 5: you should do it in the first five because their
- 38:47Speaker 5: bullpen is very bad. Seventy four percent of tickets are
- 38:50Speaker 5: on Miami, fifty three percent of the cash on Cincinnati,
- 38:53Speaker 5: So the money does support that. The money's coming in
- 38:55Speaker 5: on Cincinnati. Miami has dropped a little bit down to
- 38:59Speaker 5: the minus eighteen range on the money line. Cincinnati first five, though,
- 39:03Speaker 5: you're probably gonna be looking at looking at.
- 39:05Speaker 4: A favorite price there.
- 39:06Speaker 5: If you do that there, there's probably an argument for
- 39:10Speaker 5: that though, like that Cincinnati in the first five might
- 39:13Speaker 5: actually be the better way to play this. Just looking
- 39:16Speaker 5: at the matchup numbers total in the games, eight and
- 39:18Speaker 5: a half money is coming in on the over. I
- 39:20Speaker 5: don't really disagree with the over either. I think there
- 39:23Speaker 5: are more arguments for the over than the under, Like
- 39:25Speaker 5: Perez might have some issues pitching in this stadium. But
- 39:29Speaker 5: it's just I keep going back to I don't know, man,
- 39:31Speaker 5: Like Cincinnati's offense just isn't that good, but they've been
- 39:35Speaker 5: able to hit Perez, so he doesn't have good matchup
- 39:37Speaker 5: members here. Lodolo has just struggled for most of the season,
- 39:40Speaker 5: hasn't been good at home. Yeah, so the over probably
- 39:44Speaker 5: is a lean for me there, But also Cincinnati in
- 39:46Speaker 5: the first five, I don't want anything to do with
- 39:48Speaker 5: any of that though.
- 39:49Speaker 4: It's it's ugly man.
- 39:51Speaker 5: San Diego and Cleveland on the I mean, this has
- 39:54Speaker 5: looked like an under series, and that's been the case.
- 39:57Speaker 5: Both games, I think have gone under the total. Oh no,
- 39:59Speaker 5: the first went over the total. What did I say?
- 40:01Speaker 5: I forgot that seven to five? That was crazy. I
- 40:04Speaker 5: liked the under in that one. I didn't put it
- 40:05Speaker 5: on my card.
- 40:06Speaker 4: I was close to.
- 40:07Speaker 5: Doing it and it got destroyed, so I'm glad I didn't.
- 40:11Speaker 5: Yesterday was much lower scoring. Cleveland won the game yesterday
- 40:14Speaker 5: six to one. I did give out a lean on
- 40:16Speaker 5: Cleveland yesterday, kind of mad. I didn't put it out
- 40:18Speaker 5: on my card because that was one of the closer
- 40:20Speaker 5: ones for me to putting it on my card. Cleveland
- 40:24Speaker 5: got the.
- 40:24Speaker 4: Wins, so this is an even series here. Now.
- 40:26Speaker 5: Cleveland's still trying to stay alive in the wildcard race. Here.
- 40:30Speaker 5: San Diego is looking pretty good as far as their
- 40:33Speaker 5: wildcard positioning right now. I think, actually, well maybe not,
- 40:36Speaker 5: because it's the National League. There are just too many No,
- 40:38Speaker 5: actually I don't think they are. There are too many
- 40:40Speaker 5: teams in that mix in the NL. So both teams
- 40:43Speaker 5: do have to keep playing hard here. Cleveland used three
- 40:45Speaker 5: relief pitchers yesterday. San Diego is the better bullpen. San
- 40:49Speaker 5: Diego used three as well, but not really they're better
- 40:52Speaker 5: relievers for the most part. San Diego is eighth in bullpen,
- 40:57Speaker 5: tied with the Mets. Cleveland is nineteenth, but they're not
- 41:00Speaker 5: that bad. Their eras at least below four, so I
- 41:02Speaker 5: think they're a little bit better than that would suggest.
- 41:05Speaker 4: But not as good as San Diego.
- 41:07Speaker 5: San Diego twenty third offensively tied with the Reds. Not good,
- 41:10Speaker 5: but Cleveland is worse Cleveland twenty ninth. So Cleveland does
- 41:14Speaker 5: not have the offensive edge here either. They probably don't
- 41:18Speaker 5: have the starting pitching edge here either. Casey My is
- 41:20Speaker 5: this pitcher for San Diego. They got him at the
- 41:23Speaker 5: trade deadline. He's had one bad start for them and
- 41:25Speaker 5: one good start for them so far, a three point
- 41:28Speaker 5: three eighty ra one point zero nine whips. He's been
- 41:30Speaker 5: good on the season. He's not been as good on
- 41:33Speaker 5: the road to four point four to seven. Roady Ra
- 41:37Speaker 5: got battered on the road in his first start with
- 41:40Speaker 5: San Diego at Arizona, but settled down had a nice
- 41:42Speaker 5: outing against Milwaukee after he had a bad second inning,
- 41:45Speaker 5: he settled way down and wound up having a really
- 41:47Speaker 5: nice start there. Good for us because we had the
- 41:50Speaker 5: under here on the show in that game and that
- 41:52Speaker 5: wound up winning. So Maz seems like he's bounced back
- 41:56Speaker 5: from that bad start. I think he's gonna continue pitching
- 41:59Speaker 5: well in my opinion, but he is going up against
- 42:01Speaker 5: a Cleveland team. It's very familiar with him, so he
- 42:04Speaker 5: was just on Detroit. Now he's going back to face
- 42:07Speaker 5: a former divisional foe here. However, maybe that's not a
- 42:10Speaker 5: bad thing because Cleveland's offense isn't good and they have
- 42:13Speaker 5: not been good against mis seventy at bats one to
- 42:16Speaker 5: eighty six, average allowed, five to sixty nine oh ps
- 42:19Speaker 5: eleven to five strikeout walk ratio is the only number
- 42:22Speaker 5: in here that really looks that bad, other than the
- 42:25Speaker 5: fact that I guess Jose Ramirez does do some damage
- 42:27Speaker 5: here against him, and Brian Rokio kind of also does,
- 42:31Speaker 5: but Miz generally does well against him. It looks like
- 42:34Speaker 5: it's a decent matchup for him there, so I don't
- 42:37Speaker 5: think that's bad. My first instinct on this game was
- 42:40Speaker 5: to look at the under here. I thought the under
- 42:42Speaker 5: might wind up being a play for me. The reason
- 42:44Speaker 5: it's not gonna happen is because of this guy, Tanner Biby,
- 42:47Speaker 5: even though generally I like him and I think he's
- 42:49Speaker 5: under the radar because his record looks so bad, but
- 42:52Speaker 5: that's because he's been getting no run.
- 42:54Speaker 4: Support this year.
- 42:55Speaker 5: He's a pretty good pitcher though, three point nine to
- 42:57Speaker 5: ninety RRA one point one to three.
- 42:59Speaker 4: Whip is not bad.
- 43:00Speaker 5: He's pretty good at home three point nine to two
- 43:02Speaker 5: homie RA last time, but he gave up some runs
- 43:06Speaker 5: against Detroit in a gamer.
- 43:07Speaker 4: I think maybe we lost on it.
- 43:09Speaker 5: Under in that one, I don't remember there was an
- 43:11Speaker 5: unearned run that came home against him, though, wound up
- 43:13Speaker 5: giving up five earned runs on five hits and two walks,
- 43:16Speaker 5: so he got a little bit unlucky or most of
- 43:18Speaker 5: the base runners that got on scored against him.
- 43:23Speaker 4: He's struggled a.
- 43:24Speaker 5: Little bit the previous outing two though against the Mets,
- 43:26Speaker 5: just in that they hit three home runs off him,
- 43:28Speaker 5: But he had a ton of strikeouts in that one too,
- 43:30Speaker 5: So I don't know what to think because Biaby was
- 43:32Speaker 5: pretty good for the majority of the month of July.
- 43:35Speaker 5: Looking at his overall numbers here, low hit rate, doesn't
- 43:38Speaker 5: really walk that many guys, but he allows a lot
- 43:41Speaker 5: of home runs though he's a very fly ball heavy
- 43:44Speaker 5: pitcher and he doesn't strike enough guys out. That is
- 43:46Speaker 5: kind of the issue here. His strikeout up walk ratio
- 43:50Speaker 5: is the lowest that it's been in his career this year,
- 43:52Speaker 5: which is not great. So his strikeout stuff has gone
- 43:55Speaker 5: down his strikeouts for nine or the worst that he's
- 43:57Speaker 5: had in his career, so there's something going on there,
- 44:00Speaker 5: or strikeout rate has gotten more so. However, his numbers
- 44:03Speaker 5: still are not that bad. But against San Diego they're bad.
- 44:07Speaker 5: In fifty two at bats, four to twenty three average allowed,
- 44:11Speaker 5: twelve eighty three ohps, eight to four strikeout walk ratio,
- 44:14Speaker 5: these numbers are not good. Man rin hefo hits him
- 44:18Speaker 5: really well in a decent amount of at bats, and
- 44:20Speaker 5: Freddy Furman, not to be confused with Freddy Freeman or
- 44:24Speaker 5: for mean, I don't know, does a lot of damage
- 44:26Speaker 5: to him as well. Not a good matchup for bibing Man.
- 44:30Speaker 5: So looking at all those numbers, yeah, I think San
- 44:35Speaker 5: Diego is probably the right side in that game. Like
- 44:38Speaker 5: I think the motivation will be there on both sides.
- 44:40Speaker 5: Looks like the money somewhat agrees with that, although the
- 44:43Speaker 5: public is also on that side. Seventy percent tickets, seventy
- 44:47Speaker 5: seven percent of the cash. It's basically a pick em price,
- 44:50Speaker 5: and to me, it looks like you're getting the better
- 44:53Speaker 5: of the starting pitching matchup. You're gonna have the better
- 44:55Speaker 5: bullpend behind you as well, and actually the better offense
- 44:59Speaker 5: because Cleveland's is the that bad. So yeah, I think
- 45:01Speaker 5: San Diego is the way to look in that game.
- 45:03Speaker 5: Not that strong of an opinion for me, though. Washington
- 45:06Speaker 5: and the New York Mets on ESPN Unlimited, the Mets
- 45:10Speaker 5: are on the verge of a sweep.
- 45:11Speaker 4: Believe it or not.
- 45:13Speaker 5: Washington seems to be kind of packing it in for
- 45:15Speaker 5: the season. Their offense seems to be dwindling a little bit,
- 45:18Speaker 5: even though there's still the number one ranked offense in ops.
- 45:22Speaker 5: Mets have had a good series, though, But are they
- 45:23Speaker 5: going to overlook Washington in the last game of the series.
- 45:27Speaker 5: I don't know, man, They're playing San Diego next. Maybe
- 45:30Speaker 5: that's a big series just because San Diego is in
- 45:35Speaker 5: the playoff picture whereas Washington is not. So maybe after
- 45:39Speaker 5: winning the first two games, maybe the Mets do start
- 45:41Speaker 5: looking ahead here. Issue is if you want to look
- 45:44Speaker 5: towards Washington because they might be the more motivated team here,
- 45:49Speaker 5: you're not getting the better pitching really, in any face
- 45:51Speaker 5: of the game. If you're trying to play Washington here,
- 45:54Speaker 5: you'll get the better offense behind you, but not the
- 45:56Speaker 5: better pitching. The Mets use two guys out of the
- 45:58Speaker 5: bullpen yesterday, they have the bullpen. Washington also used a
- 46:02Speaker 5: bunch Washington's five, so Washington should be at a pretty
- 46:05Speaker 5: significant bullpen disadvantage here. Mets are eighth ty with San
- 46:09Speaker 5: Diego not bad, Washington twenty sixth in bullpen not good.
- 46:15Speaker 5: Washington is number one in offense though, like I said,
- 46:18Speaker 5: so they're over the course of the season, they've still
- 46:20Speaker 5: been able to do that. The Mets twenty fifth. The
- 46:23Speaker 5: Mets have been at least less bad recently, and the
- 46:28Speaker 5: Mets are going up against Jake Irvin, and that's kind
- 46:31Speaker 5: of the problem again. If you want Washington to try
- 46:33Speaker 5: to avoid the sweep, you have to back the worst
- 46:34Speaker 5: pitcher here with Jake Irvin. Five point seven to ninety RA,
- 46:38Speaker 5: one point three to whip not great. He is better
- 46:41Speaker 5: on the road though, so maybe he is possibly backable
- 46:44Speaker 5: four point three to eighty RA on the road, one
- 46:46Speaker 5: sixty four opponent batting average, so he's been significantly better
- 46:50Speaker 5: on the road. But he came back from injury. He's
- 46:53Speaker 5: made three starts since coming back from injury after missing
- 46:56Speaker 5: like two months, and he hasn't been very good. He
- 46:59Speaker 5: made one decis starting there against Philly he's had too
- 47:02Speaker 5: many walks, really, and the other starts none of these
- 47:04Speaker 5: have gone deep, and the other two starts are both
- 47:06Speaker 5: bad at Atlanta and against the Cubs. Though those are
- 47:09Speaker 5: good offenses, the Mets are not as good as those
- 47:11Speaker 5: two teams, obviously. Irvin has been mediocre against the Mets
- 47:16Speaker 5: in seventy four at bats good, strikeout walk ratio twenty
- 47:19Speaker 5: two to four really good, but seven sixty nine ohps
- 47:23Speaker 5: allowed as a little higher, though the two forty three
- 47:25Speaker 5: average a lot isn't too bad, but he's still allowed
- 47:28Speaker 5: some power to these guys. And as far as Irvin,
- 47:32Speaker 5: you know overall, he's got a low hit rate here.
- 47:35Speaker 5: That's not too bad as walk rate is too high
- 47:37Speaker 5: though strike out rate is fairly good above one per inning,
- 47:41Speaker 5: but the walk rate is too high, so that's knocking
- 47:43Speaker 5: a strike out walk ratio down. So it's below average,
- 47:47Speaker 5: I would say. And strike up for nine is actually good.
- 47:50Speaker 5: It's the highest strike up for nine that he's posted
- 47:53Speaker 5: in his career, so he is striking guys out, so
- 47:55Speaker 5: at least there is that. So there are some okay
- 47:59Speaker 5: signs for Irvin, but not enough that I would want
- 48:01Speaker 5: to trust him at all. Really, and he's going up
- 48:04Speaker 5: against Christian Scott for the Mets, so I think is
- 48:06Speaker 5: the better pitcher here three point four to five. R
- 48:08Speaker 5: Rail Those whip is a little bit questionable at one
- 48:11Speaker 5: point three. Scott better Rray at home three point one
- 48:14Speaker 5: to nine. But his opponent batting average is a little
- 48:16Speaker 5: bit worse at home at two point fifty, I think
- 48:19Speaker 5: is what that was not great in his last outing
- 48:22Speaker 5: against Atlanta, four runs in four innings. Was too hittable there.
- 48:25Speaker 5: Those strikeout walk ratio is still good. He's still striking
- 48:28Speaker 5: guys out, so his strike out rate remains high, very high. Actually,
- 48:34Speaker 5: his hit rate is pretty low. His problem is the walks. Obviously, walks, Yeah,
- 48:40Speaker 5: the biggest issue with him by far. His strike out
- 48:42Speaker 5: rate is quite good, good enough that his strikeout walk
- 48:45Speaker 5: ratio is still good straight ups for nine, very high
- 48:48Speaker 5: at eleven point three. So he's got talent. Can definitely
- 48:51Speaker 5: strike guys out. He's got to do.
- 48:53Speaker 4: Something about his command, man, That's the one thing.
- 48:56Speaker 5: But he does have good numbers against Washington and sixteen
- 48:58Speaker 5: at bats one twentive average allowed, four to ten ops.
- 49:02Speaker 4: Those are good numbers.
- 49:03Speaker 5: Four to two strikeout walk race, You're not good but
- 49:05Speaker 5: the rest of those numbers are good, even though the
- 49:10Speaker 5: Washington side should be the more motivated side.
- 49:13Speaker 4: I don't think I could do it.
- 49:14Speaker 5: The money's actually coming in on the Mets seventy five
- 49:16Speaker 5: percent of tickets, eighty seven percent of the cash on
- 49:18Speaker 5: the Mets. I think I probably still agree with the Mets.
- 49:21Speaker 5: But the price is kind of insane and minus one's
- 49:24Speaker 5: sixty six or whatever. But the oddsmakers are telling you
- 49:27Speaker 5: something with that price, right, like, why would the Mets
- 49:29Speaker 5: be that heavily favored. The oddsmakers are telling you they
- 49:32Speaker 5: don't think the Mets are as bad as their record looks.
- 49:35Speaker 5: They think Scott has an advantage over Irvin to that degree,
- 49:39Speaker 5: and I might agree with that. And I think the
- 49:42Speaker 5: Mets do have the bullpen edge as well. They don't
- 49:43Speaker 5: have the hitting edge. I think they have the pitching
- 49:45Speaker 5: edge throughout this game. You have to lay the minus
- 49:48Speaker 5: one run line with the Mets, but that might be
- 49:51Speaker 5: the approach in this game. Man. I certainly don't want
- 49:54Speaker 5: to do it because the price does seem high to
- 49:56Speaker 5: me and it's not a great like it's not a
- 49:59Speaker 5: great spot at least for the Mets, you know, So
- 50:02Speaker 5: I'm definitely avoiding it. But matchup. The matchup supports the
- 50:06Speaker 5: Mets situation, not really. Philadelphia at Minnesota is another situation
- 50:12Speaker 5: with a home team trying to avoid a sweep, although
- 50:14Speaker 5: the first game was in the Field of Dreams Field,
- 50:17Speaker 5: so it wasn't really in Minnesota Stadium. But Minnesota followed
- 50:20Speaker 5: up that seven to one loss with a nine to
- 50:23Speaker 5: one loss at home yesterday, So yeah, Lozarno had the
- 50:27Speaker 5: upper hand in that one. I'm not too surprised by
- 50:29Speaker 5: that outcome, really, though. I thought pre Lip would probably
- 50:32Speaker 5: be a little bit better in that game. But Minnesota,
- 50:35Speaker 5: they're trying to avoid the sweep.
- 50:36Speaker 3: Here.
- 50:36Speaker 5: Both teams probably motivated because both teams are trying to
- 50:39Speaker 5: make wildcard spots. Minnesota maybe a little bit extra motivated
- 50:44Speaker 5: because they're one of those home teams trying to avoid
- 50:46Speaker 5: a sweep. If you're gonna try to play Minnesota, you
- 50:50Speaker 5: gotta avoid their bullpen. They used four relief pitchers yesterday.
- 50:54Speaker 5: Their bullpen is bad. Philadelphia's is not that much better.
- 50:57Speaker 5: They only used two guys out of the bullpen yesterday.
- 50:59Speaker 5: But I don't think you get back Minnesota's bullpen. They're
- 51:02Speaker 5: worse and less rested. They're twenty eighth out of the bullpen.
- 51:05Speaker 5: The Phillies are eighteenth, but Philly's era is still not good.
- 51:09Speaker 5: In the mid Forest offensively, Minnesota has been the better team.
- 51:13Speaker 4: They're thirteenth.
- 51:14Speaker 5: Philadelphia has moved up, I think slightly recently their twentieth
- 51:17Speaker 5: right now.
- 51:18Speaker 4: They struggled a.
- 51:19Speaker 5: Lot of the season though, and they're not as good
- 51:20Speaker 5: on the road Philadelphia. I don't think they have the
- 51:23Speaker 5: starting pitching at ye. When I first looked at this though,
- 51:25Speaker 5: I was like, this is a very bad pitching matchup,
- 51:29Speaker 5: you know. Like to me, my first instinct about this
- 51:31Speaker 5: game was to look at the over and maybe that
- 51:34Speaker 5: is still.
- 51:34Speaker 4: The right way.
- 51:36Speaker 5: Andrew Painter is pitching for Philly. Not a good season
- 51:40Speaker 5: for a man. I think he's been up and down
- 51:42Speaker 5: between the miners and the majors. I don't know if
- 51:44Speaker 5: there might have been an injury in there too. This
- 51:46Speaker 5: is rookie season. I'm pretty sure it has not gone well.
- 51:49Speaker 5: Six point two seventy RA, one point five to three WHIP.
- 51:52Speaker 5: He's been somewhat better on the road in some ways
- 51:55Speaker 5: five point nine to five ROADRA, but a higher.
- 51:57Speaker 4: Opponent batting average on the road.
- 52:00Speaker 5: He's been maybe a little bit better since I think
- 52:03Speaker 5: they brought him back up from the Miners after about
- 52:05Speaker 5: a month and he's had a couple.
- 52:07Speaker 4: Of decent starts in here.
- 52:09Speaker 5: He's been better at least, but the walks are still
- 52:11Speaker 5: a problem here. His hit rate is still a problem
- 52:14Speaker 5: over the course of the season. He's a lot too
- 52:16Speaker 5: many home runs, the walk rates too high. The strikeout
- 52:19Speaker 5: rate isn't even really that good, So there's still really
- 52:21Speaker 5: not a lot to like here. Bad strikeout walk ratio,
- 52:24Speaker 5: strikeouts for nine not impressive, So not much to like
- 52:28Speaker 5: other than Minnesota hasn't seen him before, so that might
- 52:30Speaker 5: be a little bit of an extra advantage to him
- 52:32Speaker 5: because he has the unfamiliarity there. But I can't trust
- 52:36Speaker 5: Painter here. Dean Kreamer is pitching for Minnesota, and I
- 52:39Speaker 5: think he might be the better starter here. Well, I
- 52:42Speaker 5: mean probably he is, even though maybe Painter has some
- 52:47Speaker 5: ceiling there, like maybe he starts to improve because he's
- 52:50Speaker 5: really really young. Creamer, we know what he is at
- 52:52Speaker 5: this point, right like he's thirty. He's established. We know
- 52:55Speaker 5: he's a mediocre pitcher. Five point two to five yr
- 52:58Speaker 5: ra this year doesn't really tell the whole one point
- 53:01Speaker 5: one to seven whip is actually pretty good. And he's
- 53:03Speaker 5: been a good home pitcher this year three point one
- 53:05Speaker 5: to three home ERA. But he mostly pitched with Baltimore.
- 53:10Speaker 5: Like his whole season pretty much was with Baltimore. It
- 53:12Speaker 5: was a short season. He pitched a little bit in April,
- 53:14Speaker 5: and then I think he was injured. And then he
- 53:16Speaker 5: came back and pitched throughout July, and he was not
- 53:18Speaker 5: good in July. Baltimore traded him away and he's actually
- 53:22Speaker 5: been okay and its two starts with Minnesota. Was decent
- 53:26Speaker 5: at Kansas City, and then he was really good against
- 53:28Speaker 5: his former team Baltimore. Like I said, I think he
- 53:30Speaker 5: was motivated to go up against the team that got
- 53:33Speaker 5: rid of him.
- 53:34Speaker 4: He really shredded Baltimore.
- 53:35Speaker 5: It was a seven inning, one hit performance there, one run,
- 53:38Speaker 5: allowed seven strikeouts, one walk. He might regress a little
- 53:42Speaker 5: bit from that because Creamer is not that good. He
- 53:45Speaker 5: is good against Philly though, in forty one at bats,
- 53:48Speaker 5: one ninety five average five point thirty five ops allowed
- 53:52Speaker 5: nine to four strikeout walk ratio. Now, Painter remains kind
- 53:56Speaker 5: of a mystery. I don't know what we're gonna get
- 53:59Speaker 5: out of Creamer. After that big performance of his and
- 54:01Speaker 5: his last owning al though at least for him, he
- 54:03Speaker 5: didn't throw that many pitches in that outing. Minnesota has
- 54:07Speaker 5: the motivation here trying to avoid the sweep, and I
- 54:11Speaker 5: think they do have the starting pitching edge here Creamer
- 54:13Speaker 5: over Painter or even though it's probably not the better
- 54:15Speaker 5: of the two jobs. I don't know, man, well, I
- 54:19Speaker 5: don't know. He's a milkman. I like myself a milk Sameli,
- 54:23Speaker 5: a milk connoisseur teen Creamer, although yeah, I don't love
- 54:27Speaker 5: Creamer because he played for the Israel team in the
- 54:30Speaker 5: World Baseball Classic. But whatever, my lead in this game
- 54:33Speaker 5: would be Minnesota in the first five. I think they
- 54:37Speaker 5: do have the better starter here, better matchup numbers, and
- 54:40Speaker 5: the motivation, So that is the way I would play this.
- 54:42Speaker 4: You gotta avoid their bullpen.
- 54:44Speaker 5: Philly is a small favorite, basically a pick them price
- 54:48Speaker 5: for the game, but Minnesota will likely be a favorite
- 54:50Speaker 5: in the first five.
- 54:52Speaker 4: I don't know what the price will be.
- 54:53Speaker 5: It might be minus one twenty, minus one thirty, but
- 54:55Speaker 5: I think that is the right.
- 54:56Speaker 4: Way to play.
- 54:57Speaker 5: This is money line. Minnesota first five eighty four percent
- 55:00Speaker 5: of tickets, ninety percent of the cash on Philly, so
- 55:04Speaker 5: the money slightly indicating on Philly, but they're very public,
- 55:07Speaker 5: so I don't really know if it means that much
- 55:10Speaker 5: money is also back in the over pretty strongly, sixty
- 55:13Speaker 5: four percent of tickets, ninety percent of the cash on
- 55:15Speaker 5: the over nine and a half. It's on it's above
- 55:18Speaker 5: that key number, you know, so you have to lay
- 55:19Speaker 5: the hook if you're gonna do that the nine and
- 55:21Speaker 5: a half. But I still agree with the over. I
- 55:24Speaker 5: think it's mostly bad pitching throughout that game. Both bullpens
- 55:28Speaker 5: are bad generally. I don't think either starter is really
- 55:30Speaker 5: that good, So the over my first instinct in that game.
- 55:33Speaker 5: I think does still make some sense in that one
- 55:35Speaker 5: as well. All right, Saint Louis and the Cubs, which
- 55:41Speaker 5: is an ABC games that's nationally televised, the nationally televised
- 55:46Speaker 5: afternoon game, big divisional matchup kind of. I mean, Saint
- 55:49Speaker 5: Louis is refusing to go away, so there is that,
- 55:52Speaker 5: and they might have extra motivation because they're playing against
- 55:55Speaker 5: a team that's above them in the standings. Cubs trying
- 55:58Speaker 5: to maintain a wildcards, but it's highly likely they're gonna
- 56:02Speaker 5: get one. They have a really good record, so I
- 56:03Speaker 5: don't see the Cubs not making the playoffs.
- 56:05Speaker 4: I think that would be a bit insane. These teams
- 56:08Speaker 4: is split.
- 56:09Speaker 5: The Cubs lost yesterday mostly because Joshua bye As I
- 56:12Speaker 5: think is his name. I think he's from Boston as well,
- 56:15Speaker 5: the Cardinals prospect they called up, hit three home runs
- 56:18Speaker 5: in his major league debut. I don't know if he's
- 56:21Speaker 5: gonna continue to be that good, but that was one
- 56:24Speaker 5: of the best major league debuts for a hitter that
- 56:26Speaker 5: we've ever seen, so that was one of the big
- 56:29Speaker 5: storylines yesterday. Saint Louis generally not a good offense, though
- 56:34Speaker 5: Saint Louis also not the better bullpen here. These three
- 56:36Speaker 5: guys out of the bullpen yesterday. Cubs also did it
- 56:39Speaker 5: a little bit lighter usage, and the Cubs are the
- 56:42Speaker 5: better bullpen. They are tenth here and Saint Louis is
- 56:47Speaker 5: twenty first. Hitting wise, the Cubs have been better as well.
- 56:50Speaker 5: They're third, even though I know Saint Louis is the
- 56:53Speaker 5: talk of the town right now, or Saint Louis is
- 56:54Speaker 5: the talk of major League baseball really because of that
- 56:57Speaker 5: bye As performance, But I would, you know, bring that
- 57:02Speaker 5: level of hype down a bit because their offense still
- 57:04Speaker 5: isn't good. They're twenty six. Even if he improves their
- 57:07Speaker 5: offensive bit, he's not gonna hit three home runs in
- 57:09Speaker 5: every game. Starting pitching, I think, does go to the
- 57:12Speaker 5: Cubs here as well, So I think the Cubs have
- 57:14Speaker 5: an advantage like basically everywhere in this game, bullpen, hitting
- 57:18Speaker 5: and starting pitching. No shade to a Hunter Dobbins pitching
- 57:22Speaker 5: for the Cardinals here. I like him, but he's a
- 57:25Speaker 5: very mediocre pitcher. Three point four era looks pretty good,
- 57:28Speaker 5: one point three to one whip is not that good.
- 57:30Speaker 5: He's been basically the same home and away, so he
- 57:33Speaker 5: is pretty consistent. He's basically not going to kill you
- 57:37Speaker 5: for the most part. When he goes out there. He'll
- 57:39Speaker 5: give you somewhere around five innings and allow a couple runs,
- 57:43Speaker 5: maybe a few runs, mediocre stuff, but generally that's what
- 57:47Speaker 5: he'll give you, like a mediocre start. He's got an
- 57:50Speaker 5: okay hit rate here, does walk too many guys. Just
- 57:53Speaker 5: strike out rate is okay as well, a lot of
- 57:55Speaker 5: mediocre stuff here. Kind of a low strikeout walk ratio
- 57:58Speaker 5: because the walk numbers high strike up for nine isn't
- 58:01Speaker 5: too bad here, so at least there is that against
- 58:04Speaker 5: the Cubs, he has not been good though forty at
- 58:07Speaker 5: bats against some three hundred average, allowed eight seventeen ops
- 58:10Speaker 5: nine to one at strike out walk ratio is the
- 58:13Speaker 5: only good thing in those numbers. There.
- 58:16Speaker 4: Edward Cabrera pitching for the Cubs.
- 58:17Speaker 5: I forgot about him. Man. He's been good throughout his career,
- 58:22Speaker 5: but he has not had a good season with the Cubs. However,
- 58:25Speaker 5: he's been injured for a while, and you know, veteran pitcher,
- 58:29Speaker 5: which he is. I like veteran pitchers coming back from
- 58:32Speaker 5: the injured list, man, because they've worked their way back.
- 58:35Speaker 5: Usually they're pumped to get out there to give you
- 58:36Speaker 5: a good start. I know some guys don't like it
- 58:38Speaker 5: and they worry about, oh, the guy's gonna be shaky.
- 58:41Speaker 5: But I think if he's gone through all his rehab
- 58:43Speaker 5: and he's about to start, he's a veteran, he's kind
- 58:45Speaker 5: of done this thing before. I think they tend to
- 58:48Speaker 5: actually give you a better start. Like they're excited to
- 58:51Speaker 5: get back out there, they want to do well. A
- 58:53Speaker 5: lot of times the team gets a little bit extra
- 58:55Speaker 5: motivated because, oh, yeah, we're getting one of our starters back.
- 58:58Speaker 5: You know a guy who's had a good care Cabrera's
- 59:00Speaker 5: career has been better than what his numbers look like
- 59:02Speaker 5: this year. Five point one era, one point four whip.
- 59:05Speaker 5: That's pretty ugly. And I know he's going from being
- 59:08Speaker 5: in Miami, who had a more pitcher friendly park, to
- 59:12Speaker 5: playing in Wrigley here, but I think Cabrera should be
- 59:15Speaker 5: better than what he's shown so far. He hasn't been
- 59:18Speaker 5: that good at home though, five point seven to one
- 59:20Speaker 5: homie area that is just a Wrigly hasn't really been
- 59:23Speaker 5: his thing man. And before he went down, yeah, he
- 59:25Speaker 5: was having some walk issues stuff like that. His hit
- 59:28Speaker 5: rate was not great. It was average for the most part.
- 59:32Speaker 5: Walk rate was a little bit high. Strike cut rate
- 59:34Speaker 5: was just okay, so not great here, strike got walk
- 59:38Speaker 5: race SHO was a little bit down from what it
- 59:39Speaker 5: was last year. Straight gouts for nine a bit down
- 59:43Speaker 5: from this has been. Like why I like him is
- 59:45Speaker 5: because he's been a really good strikeout pitcher throughout his career.
- 59:47Speaker 4: At least this year.
- 59:49Speaker 5: His strike cut rates gone down, so that doesn't look great.
- 59:53Speaker 5: He's facing a pretty weak Saint Louis offense here, but
- 59:57Speaker 5: Saint Louis's offense they've done okay some it's he doesn't
- 1:00:01Speaker 5: really have much of an advantage over them. I wouldn't
- 1:00:03Speaker 5: say they have much of an advantage over him either though.
- 1:00:06Speaker 5: They have six hitters to have faced some twenty eight
- 1:00:08Speaker 5: at bats two eighty six average seven to thirty nine ops.
- 1:00:11Speaker 5: So that ops is lower than that seven point fifty
- 1:00:14Speaker 5: cutoff that I look for by a little bit.
- 1:00:16Speaker 4: So they haven't really hitten for much power.
- 1:00:18Speaker 5: Burlison does have a home run off him, seven strikeouts,
- 1:00:21Speaker 5: one walk, Yeah, I mean, I think my lee would
- 1:00:26Speaker 5: be to the Cubs here after losing yesterday, possible bounce
- 1:00:30Speaker 5: back there. I think the Cubs do have the better
- 1:00:31Speaker 5: starter on the mound, they should have the better bullpen,
- 1:00:34Speaker 5: and hitting the money doesn't agree with that. One eighty
- 1:00:37Speaker 5: three percent of tickets sixty nine percent of the cash
- 1:00:39Speaker 5: on the Cubs. It is a TV game, so a
- 1:00:41Speaker 5: lot of times there's more public influx on those TV
- 1:00:44Speaker 5: games because people like to bet games that they're gonna watch,
- 1:00:47Speaker 5: you know. So there's gonna be a little bit more
- 1:00:49Speaker 5: public money on this game. And it's a divisional matchup,
- 1:00:52Speaker 5: you know, with decent markets going on in this game,
- 1:00:56Speaker 5: like decent TV markets or whatever in these cities. Eighty
- 1:01:01Speaker 5: three percent of ticket, sixty nine percent of the cash
- 1:01:02Speaker 5: on the Cubs. Like I was saying, minus one seventy
- 1:01:05Speaker 5: is about the price on them. It is kind of
- 1:01:07Speaker 5: a high price, which maybe isn't totally warranted. So the
- 1:01:11Speaker 5: money is coming in against the Cubs. I think the
- 1:01:14Speaker 5: Cubs will get the win.
- 1:01:15Speaker 4: I don't love the price.
- 1:01:17Speaker 5: I think if I was gonna play it, I would
- 1:01:19Speaker 5: probably be making like a minus one run line with
- 1:01:22Speaker 5: the Cubs there to get that price down.
- 1:01:25Speaker 4: I definitely do not want to do it, though. All right,
- 1:01:27Speaker 4: I'll be right back.
- 1:01:28Speaker 5: Five more games to talk about then, WNBA as well,
- 1:01:31Speaker 5: five more baseball games. One more play in here. You
- 1:01:34Speaker 5: might be able to guess what it is, and it's
- 1:01:36Speaker 5: a it's a very toad to play. I will tell
- 1:01:38Speaker 5: you that, and then WNBA. I'm avoiding, but I will
- 1:01:42Speaker 5: talk about it as I usually do.
- 1:01:44Speaker 4: I'll be right back.
- 1:01:49Speaker 5: Yep. Inside, I want to kill myself. We were on
- 1:01:54Speaker 5: OHN seven run over the last two days after tonight.
- 1:01:56Speaker 5: It was just complete bullshit.
- 1:01:59Speaker 4: So that's that's how I'm gonna start off this show.
- 1:02:01Speaker 4: Horrible Sunday one and five.
- 1:02:03Speaker 5: I don't even know what to tell you above that
- 1:02:06Speaker 5: I just don't want to do this anymore. I have
- 1:02:08Speaker 5: never seen anything like this.
- 1:02:10Speaker 4: Man with the slump continuing.
- 1:02:12Speaker 5: Two straight losses, not a good day at all. Own
- 1:02:15Speaker 5: four next have not had I had a good season.
- 1:02:20Speaker 5: Man with wookends the slump that I'm on, and the
- 1:02:24Speaker 5: slump continues.
- 1:02:25Speaker 4: I've reached a new peak. Actually, I'm gonna burn my
- 1:02:29Speaker 4: Bruins hack.
- 1:02:30Speaker 5: Man, I don't know what is going on with the
- 1:02:32Speaker 5: Bruins arch hape? Is that what it is? I don't
- 1:02:35Speaker 5: even know it's lists March ninth.
- 1:02:37Speaker 4: I think who even knows? Man, I don't know what
- 1:02:40Speaker 4: data is anymore. But I don't even know what data
- 1:02:42Speaker 4: is anymore.
- 1:02:43Speaker 5: Man, back with you after the worst day that I
- 1:02:46Speaker 5: can possibly have, Back with you as I always am
- 1:02:50Speaker 5: until I die at least oh and two yesterday and
- 1:02:54Speaker 5: yesterday it did not go well for me. Own five
- 1:02:58Speaker 5: the worst month that I've ever had in my eighteen
- 1:03:01Speaker 5: years doing this. I don't know what to even tell
- 1:03:03Speaker 5: you about this anymore. Slump series, slump, discontinuous, The slump continues.
- 1:03:08Speaker 4: Somebody fucking kill.
- 1:03:10Speaker 5: Me, please. I don't even know what I should do
- 1:03:13Speaker 5: at this point other than potentially end it all all right,
- 1:03:23Speaker 5: Colorado San Francisco is the next game. As we get
- 1:03:27Speaker 5: into the later evenings slate of games here, these seems
- 1:03:31Speaker 5: to split the series.
- 1:03:32Speaker 4: I was kind of wrong about yesterday. I'm the better
- 1:03:35Speaker 4: pitcher won yesterday.
- 1:03:36Speaker 5: Logan Webb was able to pitch well in that game,
- 1:03:39Speaker 5: even though typically is not good. I guess Colorado, but
- 1:03:42Speaker 5: you saw my handicap yesterday. I struggled to kind of
- 1:03:44Speaker 5: figure that game out, but maybe I should have just
- 1:03:46Speaker 5: simplified it. Oh yeah, Web is better than Lorenzen.
- 1:03:49Speaker 4: Let's not make it hard.
- 1:03:51Speaker 5: But the matchup numbers are kind of against it. But
- 1:03:53Speaker 5: Webb was able to put in another good start. This
- 1:03:57Speaker 5: matchup doesn't exactly have great pitching here. Even though I've
- 1:04:00Speaker 5: said some decent things about Hughes, he is not doing
- 1:04:04Speaker 5: as well recently. I don't like Colorado's bullpen. These two
- 1:04:07Speaker 5: guys yesterday, but they're not good. San Francisco's bullpen is
- 1:04:11Speaker 5: not really that much better, and they used two guys
- 1:04:13Speaker 5: as well. I don't like the bullpens, like I said,
- 1:04:15Speaker 5: Colorado twenty seventh and bullpen San Francisco twenty fourth. Yeah,
- 1:04:20Speaker 5: they've been surprisingly bad out of the bullpen this year.
- 1:04:24Speaker 5: Both these teams are going nowhere, so they're just playing
- 1:04:26Speaker 5: out the stretch, although they'll probably both try to win.
- 1:04:29Speaker 5: You know, it's a divisional series. San Francisco's nineteenth. In offense,
- 1:04:33Speaker 5: they've kind of dropped off again. Like I said, they're
- 1:04:36Speaker 5: not good at home offensively. It's a pitcher friendly park here,
- 1:04:39Speaker 5: and their offensive numbers got kind of overrated by some
- 1:04:42Speaker 5: big road performances they had. What are we talking, oh, Colorado, Yes,
- 1:04:49Speaker 5: obviously the better offense. They're fifth offensively. Gabriel Hughes, like
- 1:04:53Speaker 5: I said, he's getting the start for Colorado. He looked
- 1:04:56Speaker 5: pretty good for a while and I was Eerra is
- 1:04:59Speaker 5: up to five points six to one of those whip
- 1:05:01Speaker 5: is one point two eight, so his whip still does
- 1:05:03Speaker 5: indicate his era shouldn't be this bad. But he's been
- 1:05:07Speaker 5: bad on the road, which is kind of insane. Like
- 1:05:09Speaker 5: he's been significantly better at home in course field. All right,
- 1:05:13Speaker 5: seven point eight. Roady Ray not good. He got beat
- 1:05:17Speaker 5: up in his last start. That's why Arizona. A horrible
- 1:05:20Speaker 5: start in Arizona, skewing his numbers. Though he wasn't very
- 1:05:23Speaker 5: good at home against Tampa to start before that, but
- 1:05:25Speaker 5: really in that start, I think he actually got a
- 1:05:27Speaker 5: little bit unlucky. So he's actually been fairly good, except
- 1:05:31Speaker 5: that last start was really bad, and his walk rate
- 1:05:34Speaker 5: has kind of gone up recently. But overall numbers, his
- 1:05:36Speaker 5: hit rate is okay, his walk number is not really
- 1:05:38Speaker 5: that bad. He's getting a decent amount of strikeouts here,
- 1:05:41Speaker 5: so he's got an okay ish strikeout walk ratio. It's
- 1:05:45Speaker 5: a little bit below what I would really want. Strike
- 1:05:47Speaker 5: out up for nine not too bad, So I don't
- 1:05:49Speaker 5: think he's as bad as his ra makes him look.
- 1:05:52Speaker 5: I think that one start is skewing it. I got
- 1:05:55Speaker 5: some concerns though San Francisco has seen him now, so
- 1:05:58Speaker 5: the unfamiliarity isn't there. Because his first start of his
- 1:06:02Speaker 5: career is actually against San Francisco in Colorado. He only
- 1:06:05Speaker 5: went three innings, but he shut them out for three innings.
- 1:06:07Speaker 5: He had a pretty good outing there, so San Francisco
- 1:06:10Speaker 5: doesn't have good numbers against him. Eight at bats, they
- 1:06:13Speaker 5: have one twenty five average, three forty seven oh ps,
- 1:06:17Speaker 5: one to one at strake out walker ratio. Only seven
- 1:06:19Speaker 5: of their current hitters have faced him. But unfamiliarity is
- 1:06:23Speaker 5: a thing. Man so I think the unfamiliarity that he
- 1:06:25Speaker 5: had the first time around helped him in that start.
- 1:06:28Speaker 5: But now that San Francisco has seen him once, maybe
- 1:06:30Speaker 5: they'll do better against him this time. So that's one
- 1:06:32Speaker 5: thing you have to be concerned about, is that second
- 1:06:35Speaker 5: time a lineup faces a guy, they might do better
- 1:06:37Speaker 5: against him after they.
- 1:06:38Speaker 4: Know what to expect.
- 1:06:40Speaker 5: Blade Tidwell is going to be pitching for San Francisco.
- 1:06:44Speaker 5: I thought he was kind of a converted reliever, but
- 1:06:46Speaker 5: he's still young, and it looks like they might just
- 1:06:48Speaker 5: kind of be seeing how it goes, turning him into
- 1:06:51Speaker 5: a starter. He does have good numbers two point seven
- 1:06:53Speaker 5: to eighty RA, one point one WHIP. He's been really
- 1:06:56Speaker 5: good at home, point seven to one ERA at home.
- 1:06:59Speaker 5: It's a very small sample size though. He was mostly
- 1:07:01Speaker 5: pitching out of the bullpen early in the season in April,
- 1:07:04Speaker 5: and then I'm assuming he was in the minors probably,
- 1:07:07Speaker 5: and then they brought him back up in August and
- 1:07:10Speaker 5: he's made two starts and he's actually been good. He's
- 1:07:13Speaker 5: given up two or fewer runs in both of them.
- 1:07:15Speaker 5: He's got at least five innings in both of them,
- 1:07:17Speaker 5: nine strikeouts, two walks, and ten to two thirds innings,
- 1:07:19Speaker 5: ten hits allowed.
- 1:07:21Speaker 4: One at Texas, which just pitcher friendly.
- 1:07:24Speaker 5: At home was the other one, which is also pitcher friendly,
- 1:07:26Speaker 5: but it was against Houston, who's a pretty good offense,
- 1:07:28Speaker 5: and he did pretty well there as well. The San
- 1:07:33Speaker 5: Francisco lost both of those games because they can't back
- 1:07:37Speaker 5: him up with anything else. Like their bullpend's not good,
- 1:07:40Speaker 5: their offense isn't good. But Tidwell has actually been okay.
- 1:07:44Speaker 5: Looking at his overall numbers, strikeout rate is okay, doesn't
- 1:07:48Speaker 5: really walk many guys. It doesn't look like his hit
- 1:07:50Speaker 5: rate is okay, so he's not really putting many guys
- 1:07:52Speaker 5: on base. Strake out walk Razier is actually pretty good
- 1:07:54Speaker 5: because his walk.
- 1:07:55Speaker 4: Number is so low.
- 1:07:56Speaker 5: Strake out rate is not really that high though Colorado's
- 1:08:00Speaker 5: never faced him, so he might actually do well here
- 1:08:02Speaker 5: against Colorado. As far as the fact that he's unfamiliar
- 1:08:06Speaker 5: to Colorado here, I mean, I don't know what to
- 1:08:10Speaker 5: do with this game, to be honestly, this is one
- 1:08:11Speaker 5: of the most unpredictable games on the board. Like I
- 1:08:14Speaker 5: could see both young pitchers still doing well here. I
- 1:08:17Speaker 5: could see that potentially not happening. If you're gonna play
- 1:08:20Speaker 5: this game. I don't know if you should. If you
- 1:08:22Speaker 5: should definitively pick Tidwell must start here, like Hughes is
- 1:08:26Speaker 5: almost definitely gonna start. Tid Well probably will because that's
- 1:08:29Speaker 5: what he's been doing since they called them back up,
- 1:08:31Speaker 5: So I think they both will start. But if you
- 1:08:34Speaker 5: want to actually make the play and be safe about
- 1:08:37Speaker 5: that and want your play to actually definitely count, probably
- 1:08:39Speaker 5: you pick Hughes must start, and don't pick a starter
- 1:08:42Speaker 5: for San Francisco.
- 1:08:42Speaker 4: But I think Tidwell will.
- 1:08:43Speaker 5: Start and be out there for probably around five minutes,
- 1:08:46Speaker 5: as long as he's pitching all right. The money's coming
- 1:08:49Speaker 5: in towards Colorado seventy eight percent of tickets on San Francisco,
- 1:08:52Speaker 5: seventy eight percent of the cash in Colorado. San Francisco
- 1:08:55Speaker 5: around minus one thirty or so. I don't have a
- 1:08:58Speaker 5: good read on the side at all money saying Colorado.
- 1:09:01Speaker 5: I would say if you do that, you should exclude
- 1:09:03Speaker 5: their pullpen. Though if you do Colorado, you should just
- 1:09:06Speaker 5: take them in the first five. You'll probably still get
- 1:09:08Speaker 5: them as an underdog. Money is coming in.
- 1:09:10Speaker 4: On the over at eight and a half.
- 1:09:13Speaker 5: If you go with the over, you should go full
- 1:09:15Speaker 5: game because the bullpens are bad and would definitely help
- 1:09:18Speaker 5: with the over. I was actually kind of thinking an
- 1:09:21Speaker 5: under in the first five though, and the total isn't
- 1:09:24Speaker 5: really that high. It's basically sitting around eight. I think
- 1:09:27Speaker 5: both starting pitchers actually might not do too badly here.
- 1:09:31Speaker 5: First five under might make some sense here in that one,
- 1:09:34Speaker 5: you're probably looking at like a four and a half.
- 1:09:36Speaker 5: I'm not gonna actually do it, but that might be
- 1:09:38Speaker 5: a way to lean that game is really difficult to
- 1:09:39Speaker 5: figure out Texas at the A's. The A's won the
- 1:09:44Speaker 5: first game of this year. Is Texas bounced back with
- 1:09:46Speaker 5: a win yesterday. Texas is trying to make the playoffs
- 1:09:49Speaker 5: here man playoffs. They're right there in the mix there
- 1:09:52Speaker 5: for the wild cards, but I think there also they
- 1:09:55Speaker 5: might also be one of the teams that's tied.
- 1:09:57Speaker 4: I think they are. I forgot to mention Texas.
- 1:09:59Speaker 5: I think they're in that whatever it is, five to
- 1:10:01Speaker 5: six way tie in the American Leaf for the last
- 1:10:03Speaker 5: while card. I think Texas is in that mix as well,
- 1:10:07Speaker 5: so they do a motivation. Texas has more motivation than
- 1:10:10Speaker 5: the A's do As still might want to play spoiler
- 1:10:13Speaker 5: though against a divisional rival, Tech or whatever you want
- 1:10:16Speaker 5: to call a divisional foe.
- 1:10:18Speaker 4: Texas used three relief pitchers just today.
- 1:10:20Speaker 5: The A's used two. But the A's are the lesser bullpen.
- 1:10:23Speaker 5: Texas has been a disappointment from the bullpen this year.
- 1:10:26Speaker 5: The rank twentieth, the A's are still worse. I think
- 1:10:29Speaker 5: they're the worst bullpen in baseball. They're the rank twenty
- 1:10:31Speaker 5: ninth out of thirty based on whip. They're somehow beating
- 1:10:35Speaker 5: Kansas City in that stat but they're I think the
- 1:10:38Speaker 5: worst bullpen. The A's mediocre offense at this point fifteen,
- 1:10:42Speaker 5: Texas is worse than that though.
- 1:10:44Speaker 4: Texas twenty first. Although this is a hitter friendly.
- 1:10:47Speaker 5: Ballpark here at the A Stadium, I think Texas does
- 1:10:50Speaker 5: have the better starting pitcher going here.
- 1:10:52Speaker 4: Cody Bradford.
- 1:10:53Speaker 5: If you look at his career, he pitched back in
- 1:10:56Speaker 5: twenty twenty three twenty twenty four, and he actually put
- 1:10:58Speaker 5: up some pretty good numbers Texas. Then he was hurt
- 1:11:01Speaker 5: and missed all of last year. He's only made two
- 1:11:03Speaker 5: starts so far with Texas this year, but his numbers
- 1:11:06Speaker 5: were really good in twenty twenty four. We'll see if
- 1:11:09Speaker 5: he is able to come back from injury, but he
- 1:11:11Speaker 5: seemed to have pretty good command numbers back when he
- 1:11:14Speaker 5: was pitching before two point three eighty RA this year
- 1:11:17Speaker 5: one point one to five whip that's pretty good so far.
- 1:11:21Speaker 5: Wasn't as good as his road start three point eight
- 1:11:23Speaker 5: six Roady ra still pitch fairly well in both outings,
- 1:11:27Speaker 5: though he had a kind of shortened outing. Didn't make
- 1:11:30Speaker 5: it five innings in the first one at home, but
- 1:11:31Speaker 5: he shut out San Francisco for four and a third.
- 1:11:34Speaker 5: Followed that up with a seven inning, three run performance
- 1:11:37Speaker 5: at Anaheim, but only struck out one guy, which is,
- 1:11:41Speaker 5: you know, a bit curious because he's not a horrible
- 1:11:43Speaker 5: strike up pitcher typically, So I don't know if I
- 1:11:46Speaker 5: love that that low strike out number, but it is
- 1:11:48Speaker 5: one start, So how can you really gauge that much
- 1:11:50Speaker 5: from that had a decent strikeout rate in the other start?
- 1:11:54Speaker 5: I don't know how we gauged this man, you know
- 1:11:56Speaker 5: what I mean, Like he's been good in the past,
- 1:11:59Speaker 5: and that's kind of what I'm looking at hair, because
- 1:12:01Speaker 5: we just don't have a big sample size to look
- 1:12:03Speaker 5: at yet.
- 1:12:04Speaker 4: You got to look at like how much of a
- 1:12:05Speaker 4: fly ball pitcher is he?
- 1:12:06Speaker 5: Though? And he is kind of a fly ball pitcher,
- 1:12:09Speaker 5: which isn't good in the a stadium, so that's one
- 1:12:12Speaker 5: concern with him is he might allow some home runs.
- 1:12:14Speaker 5: He's been good against the A's though, when he's faced them.
- 1:12:17Speaker 5: They have five hitters, will face them twenty three at bats,
- 1:12:20Speaker 5: one seventy four average, five eighty eight ops allowed, six'
- 1:12:24Speaker 5: two strike a walk, Ratio So bradford actually has.
- 1:12:27Speaker 4: Put up good numbers against The.
- 1:12:29Speaker 5: A's a's Have Jacob lopez, going and he's massively struggled,
- 1:12:33Speaker 5: here especially at. Home has a five point three EIGHT
- 1:12:36Speaker 5: era overall this year one point five to six whip
- 1:12:39Speaker 5: is really. Bad he's been bad at, home which you
- 1:12:42Speaker 5: can understand why it's not a good pitching, park but
- 1:12:44Speaker 5: five point eight Seven Homy ray not. Good although his
- 1:12:47Speaker 5: opponent patting, average believe it or, not is actually better at.
- 1:12:50Speaker 5: Home but, yeah it's been a. Struggle, however he's actually
- 1:12:54Speaker 5: been pretty good over his last three. Starts got the
- 1:12:56Speaker 5: walk rate kind of, down hasn't allowed many, runs allowed
- 1:12:59Speaker 5: two or fewer runs in all three of, them two
- 1:13:01Speaker 5: of them at home as, well so he's actually pitching.
- 1:13:04Speaker 5: Better had a good start last time out Against Tampa.
- 1:13:06Speaker 5: Bay so he's actually in better form right, now BUT
- 1:13:09Speaker 5: i don't know if we can really trust that because
- 1:13:11Speaker 5: his overall numbers is so. Ugly he's a fly ball,
- 1:13:13Speaker 5: pitcher which doesn't play well in this. Stadium he's a
- 1:13:16Speaker 5: lot a lot of home. Runs his hit rate is too,
- 1:13:18Speaker 5: high his walk rate is too. High strike out rate
- 1:13:20Speaker 5: is just, okay not a lot to. Like the walk
- 1:13:24Speaker 5: rate is so high that even with an okay strikeout,
- 1:13:26Speaker 5: rate strike gout for nine in the eight which by the,
- 1:13:29Speaker 5: way dropped from last. Year last year he was actually
- 1:13:31Speaker 5: an impressive strikeout. Pitcher this year not so much by the.
- 1:13:34Speaker 5: Way he was On Tampa bay to start his, career
- 1:13:37Speaker 5: so maybe that pumped him up and got him motivated
- 1:13:40Speaker 5: for that start Against Tampa, bay although he probably pitched
- 1:13:42Speaker 5: against him last year or, TWO i would, imagine but maybe.
- 1:13:45Speaker 4: Not but, yeah his strikeout.
- 1:13:48Speaker 5: Walk ratio has gone down this year as. Well at
- 1:13:51Speaker 5: the walk rate has just been a real problem for.
- 1:13:53Speaker 5: Him and again his strike out rate has gone down as.
- 1:13:56Speaker 5: Well but, yeah the strike out walk ratio in the
- 1:13:59Speaker 5: one is really not. Good, however he's actually been good
- 1:14:01Speaker 5: Against texas in his.
- 1:14:03Speaker 4: Career in eighteen at.
- 1:14:04Speaker 5: Bats it's not a huge, sample but most of their
- 1:14:06Speaker 5: hitters have faced him two twenty two average eight sixteen
- 1:14:09Speaker 5: ops allowed five to nine strikeout walk. Ratio though ACTUALLY
- 1:14:13Speaker 5: i take that. BACK i was looking at the batting.
- 1:14:15Speaker 5: Average the batting average is, low but he's allowed some
- 1:14:18Speaker 5: power and a lot of walks to, Them so THE
- 1:14:20Speaker 5: ops is not good and the walk ratio is not,
- 1:14:23Speaker 5: Good SO i take that. Back so looking at this,
- 1:14:26Speaker 5: Game texas is a possible lean. HERE i, MEAN i
- 1:14:29Speaker 5: think you get the motivation With. TEXAS i think you
- 1:14:31Speaker 5: get the better starting. Pitcher probably you get the better
- 1:14:34Speaker 5: bullpen as. Well they got eighty percent of the, tickets
- 1:14:36Speaker 5: so they're. Public the public Knows texas is gonna be
- 1:14:39Speaker 5: the more motivated team most, likely and just they have
- 1:14:42Speaker 5: the better, records so the public will come in that.
- 1:14:44Speaker 5: Way eighty percent of, tickets eighty five percent of the
- 1:14:46Speaker 5: cash On. Texas maybe the money's joining the public in this.
- 1:14:50Speaker 5: Case they dropped a little bit from the opener around
- 1:14:54Speaker 5: minus one, thirty BUT i think that is a way
- 1:14:57Speaker 5: to look in this game Is texas AND i.
- 1:14:59Speaker 4: Probably do also agree with the.
- 1:15:01Speaker 5: Over although the totals at, ten which is a little bit,
- 1:15:04Speaker 5: high but it's right around what you expect from an a's,
- 1:15:07Speaker 5: game but still a double digit total and the money
- 1:15:10Speaker 5: actually coming in on the under in the. Game i'm
- 1:15:13Speaker 5: not so sure about that. Though, BRADFORD i, think did
- 1:15:16Speaker 5: have good matchup, numbers AND i Looked lopez is bad at. Home,
- 1:15:20Speaker 5: YEAH i, MEAN i don't. Know Man texas is probably
- 1:15:22Speaker 5: the better way to play that, game, really BUT i
- 1:15:24Speaker 5: don't have a very strong opinion on. It Kansas city
- 1:15:27Speaker 5: And anaheim.
- 1:15:28Speaker 4: Got a good start From Reed Debt mersey.
- 1:15:30Speaker 5: YESTERDAY i mentioned THAT i Liked anaheim in the first
- 1:15:33Speaker 5: five in the game, yesterday and that would have been
- 1:15:36Speaker 5: a push, though Because anaheim scored their only run. Late
- 1:15:39Speaker 5: But re debtvers was awesome in the game, yesterday So
- 1:15:42Speaker 5: anaheim got the. Win these teams have split this series so.
- 1:15:45Speaker 5: Far it's an ugly. SERIES i, mean both teams are
- 1:15:48Speaker 5: just playing out the. Stretch they're bad, Teams they're both bad,
- 1:15:51Speaker 5: offenses they're both bad. Bullpens Kansas city used two guys
- 1:15:55Speaker 5: out of the bullpen, Yesterday anaheim used one just behind
- 1:16:00Speaker 5: And debt ME'S i think when eight innings in that,
- 1:16:02Speaker 5: Game royals are ranked dead last in. BULLPEN i think
- 1:16:07Speaker 5: they're the second worst, bullpen though in actuality behind or
- 1:16:10Speaker 5: only ahead of the As anaheim not that much better
- 1:16:14Speaker 5: at twenty, second but they are better at.
- 1:16:16Speaker 4: Least Than.
- 1:16:19Speaker 5: Kansas city. Offensively Kansas city is a little bit. Better
- 1:16:22Speaker 5: they're twenty, second which is still not. Good anaheim twenty
- 1:16:25Speaker 5: seven Than anaheim not good offensively at. Home Noah cameron
- 1:16:29Speaker 5: getting the start For Kansas. City he's the more established
- 1:16:32Speaker 5: pitcher in the matchup. Today he's been okay this, year
- 1:16:35Speaker 5: not as good as he was last. Year four point
- 1:16:37Speaker 5: four to five yre rail though one point two to
- 1:16:39Speaker 5: nine whip not too. Bad his numbers are all right,
- 1:16:42Speaker 5: here just not as good as what he did last.
- 1:16:44Speaker 5: Year Strike out walker ratio is actually about the, same,
- 1:16:48Speaker 5: though and his strikeouts for nine have actually increased this.
- 1:16:51Speaker 5: Year so last, year, YEAH i mean that basically just
- 1:16:55Speaker 5: means last year he WAS i don't know what it
- 1:16:58Speaker 5: means this, year excuse this. Year it means he's more.
- 1:17:00Speaker 4: Hittable this, Year, yeah because last year his whip was.
- 1:17:03Speaker 5: Better, Right, Yeah so the only thing that wasn't factory
- 1:17:05Speaker 5: into those other stats is the, Hits and that is.
- 1:17:07Speaker 5: True he's been a little bit more hittable this, year
- 1:17:09Speaker 5: which isn't that. Great his walk rate is, okay strike
- 1:17:12Speaker 5: out rate is all, Right. Cameron he's been pitching all right.
- 1:17:15Speaker 5: Recently last like four starts have been. Okay last one
- 1:17:18Speaker 5: wasn't as, good but it was against The, dodger So
- 1:17:21Speaker 5: i'm not going to really knock him for. That he's
- 1:17:23Speaker 5: been good Against anaheim in the past in nineteen at
- 1:17:25Speaker 5: bats two eleven average six' ninety, one ohps but a
- 1:17:28Speaker 5: six' five strike out walk issues a. Little bit questionable
- 1:17:31Speaker 5: three of those walks, are TROUT though so i think
- 1:17:33Speaker 5: he kind of just. Pitches around him anaheim only has
- 1:17:36Speaker 5: six hitters who. Have, FACED him Overall i think cameron might.
- 1:17:40Speaker 5: PITCH well, here i mean he's not a Bad pitcher
- 1:17:43Speaker 5: and anaheim is not. A Good offense ryan johnson is
- 1:17:46Speaker 5: getting the Start. For the angels he's still a. Really
- 1:17:49Speaker 5: young guy he's definitely STRUGGLED in what i believe is
- 1:17:51Speaker 5: his rookie season, here or no he actually pitched out
- 1:17:54Speaker 5: of the. Bullpen last year didn't do well in, That
- 1:17:57Speaker 5: role either but a small sample size this year six POINT,
- 1:17:59Speaker 5: seven one era one point five to six whip and
- 1:18:02Speaker 5: we have a bigger. Sample size year he, hasn't pitched
- 1:18:04Speaker 5: well although he's been better at home five point three
- 1:18:07Speaker 5: to Four, home the ray so he's significantly. Better at
- 1:18:09Speaker 5: home he's not going deep.
- 1:18:11Speaker 3: Into.
- 1:18:12Speaker 5: His outings man he allowed fewer runs in his, last
- 1:18:14Speaker 5: two outings which, isn't too bad but his walk rate
- 1:18:16Speaker 5: is still. Way too high he's not going deep. Into
- 1:18:19Speaker 5: these outings there's not a lot to like. Here with
- 1:18:21Speaker 5: him he's got a, high hit rate, high walk rate
- 1:18:24Speaker 5: kind of. Low strikeout rate none of. That looks good
- 1:18:26Speaker 5: strike out, walk ratio therefore. Is not good, it's below
- 1:18:29Speaker 5: two which is. Really Not good strike out per nine
- 1:18:32Speaker 5: doesn't look. Very good either it is better as a
- 1:18:34Speaker 5: relief pitcher. Does Have unfamiliarity kansas city has never. Faced
- 1:18:38Speaker 5: him before but with the guy that's just, NOT pitching
- 1:18:41Speaker 5: well i don't think the unfamiliarity, is that helpful YOU know?
- 1:18:44Speaker 5: What i mean like the offense is going to be
- 1:18:46Speaker 5: more likely to. Figure HIM out so i Think Looking
- 1:18:48Speaker 5: at kansas city first five to bounce back and get
- 1:18:52Speaker 5: the win and win this series might be the way.
- 1:18:54Speaker 4: TO look Here i think cameron's. The better starter the money.
- 1:18:57Speaker 5: Seems to agree seventy percent of tickets eighty three per
- 1:19:00Speaker 5: cent of The Cash.
- 1:19:00Speaker 4: On kansas city they're.
- 1:19:02Speaker 5: A small favorite they dropped from an opener minus one
- 1:19:04Speaker 5: thirty basically down into the minus one.
- 1:19:06Speaker 4: Ten range here you're.
- 1:19:08Speaker 5: Gonna have to pay more if you do it in,
- 1:19:10Speaker 5: the FIRST five but i think it will still be a,
- 1:19:12Speaker 5: reasonable money line like maybe close to minus one. Thirty
- 1:19:16Speaker 5: OR so but i think that's how to Play This
- 1:19:17Speaker 5: because kansa city's bullpen is. Just A disaster so I
- 1:19:20Speaker 5: Would play kansas, city first five just play camera And.
- 1:19:23Speaker 5: TO outpitch johnson i think THAT'S the way i would.
- 1:19:25Speaker 5: Play that GAME milwaukee and la we're gonna have a
- 1:19:29Speaker 5: play in. THIS one again i gave it a play
- 1:19:30Speaker 5: yesterday in this game and we got it Right with.
- 1:19:33Speaker 5: The milwaukee side let's go back to.
- 1:19:36Speaker 4: This, series again?
- 1:19:37Speaker 5: Man why not you probably know what this is under seven.
- 1:19:40Speaker 5: And a, HALF you know i like the pitching matchup.
- 1:19:42Speaker 5: In this game that's what we're gonna go with here
- 1:19:45Speaker 5: in the one of the big games. Of the day
- 1:19:46Speaker 5: this is surprisingly this IS Not The, nbc night GAME
- 1:19:50Speaker 5: Although The nbc night game is an. Interesting MATCHUP two
- 1:19:53Speaker 5: this i thought was gonna be, the night game but.
- 1:19:56Speaker 4: It is not they did HAVE a primetime tv, game.
- 1:19:59Speaker 5: Last night though so maybe that's why the schedule, makers
- 1:20:02Speaker 5: are like let's not give them two.
- 1:20:03Speaker 4: In a row but.
- 1:20:05Speaker 5: YOU never, know I mean the dodgers seem to get that.
- 1:20:07Speaker 5: Benefit a lot if it even, IS a benefit. I
- 1:20:10Speaker 5: don't know it's a benefit to. THEIR fan Base i
- 1:20:12Speaker 5: guess dodgers only use one guy out, of The bullpen
- 1:20:14Speaker 5: so i'm fine with, backing their bullpen even though it's not.
- 1:20:17Speaker 4: The greatest bullpen they're.
- 1:20:18Speaker 5: Not that bad milwaukee used two guys but not really
- 1:20:21Speaker 5: any of their, better relievers yesterday so and they're, a.
- 1:20:24Speaker 4: Good bullpen so i'm fine with backing.
- 1:20:26Speaker 5: The bullpens here, Milwaukee's ranked, seventh dodgers twelve but they
- 1:20:29Speaker 5: BOTH have an rra. In, THE threes milwaukee i think
- 1:20:33Speaker 5: is one of the best four. Or five, Bullpens so
- 1:20:35Speaker 5: yeah i'm okay with leaving the bullpens.
- 1:20:37Speaker 4: In this equation we're definitely fading.
- 1:20:40Speaker 5: Some good offenses dodgers, Are number two milwaukee is number where?
- 1:20:44Speaker 5: Are they eleven milwaukee not as much of a, power
- 1:20:48Speaker 5: hitting team although both offices. Are definitely, CAPABLE but again
- 1:20:51Speaker 5: i think good pitching, stifles good hitting and we've, had
- 1:20:55Speaker 5: low games low scoring games in the last Two games
- 1:20:58Speaker 5: here man the first game of the, series ON nine
- 1:21:01Speaker 5: which i think just went. OVER the total i think
- 1:21:03Speaker 5: it was eight and a half. In that game last
- 1:21:05Speaker 5: two games have both gone way under and this definitely
- 1:21:08Speaker 5: looks like an under to me. In this one so
- 1:21:10Speaker 5: that's what We're Going with logan henderson Pitching. For the
- 1:21:14Speaker 5: brewers i'm gonna continue, to, back him man because people
- 1:21:17Speaker 5: still don't. Know his name he's, under the radar and
- 1:21:20Speaker 5: he's pitched Really well for milwaukee between last year. And
- 1:21:23Speaker 5: this year two point EIGHT to eight era point nine.
- 1:21:26Speaker 5: To one whip that's some, really, good stuff man and.
- 1:21:28Speaker 5: He's still young he's been only a little bit worse.
- 1:21:31Speaker 5: On the road three point twenty six roadra doesn't concern me.
- 1:21:34Speaker 5: A whole lot he's still striking a lot. Of guys
- 1:21:36Speaker 5: out he's not really, walking many guys not giving up.
- 1:21:39Speaker 4: That many runs this all looks pretty.
- 1:21:42Speaker 5: Good. To me obviously he's a lot more than. Two
- 1:21:44Speaker 5: hour runs, only one time no two times excyears ago
- 1:21:47Speaker 5: though one was his last Time Out. AT san diego
- 1:21:50Speaker 5: i think we won on the under, in That game if.
- 1:21:52Speaker 5: I'm not mistake That was the. Henderson maz game he
- 1:21:55Speaker 5: saw a lot. Of strikeouts there. He wasn't bad he
- 1:21:57Speaker 5: got a little bit unlucky, in my opinion and didn't
- 1:22:00Speaker 5: giving up two on. Them, runs there overall, good numbers here,
- 1:22:04Speaker 5: low hit rate, low walk rate, high strikeout. Rate everything
- 1:22:07Speaker 5: good nice strikeout walk ratio. Is really nice. Six point
- 1:22:11Speaker 5: three that's. That's really good strike out up for nine
- 1:22:16Speaker 5: these are like. Borderline elite numbers strike up for nine
- 1:22:19Speaker 5: in the elevens like it.
- 1:22:20Speaker 4: Was, last year.
- 1:22:21Speaker 5: Yeah that's good And, against the dodgers he has faced
- 1:22:24Speaker 5: them a little bit twelve at bats and they have
- 1:22:26Speaker 5: not done. Much against him one, sixty seven average five.
- 1:22:29Speaker 5: Hundred oh ps the, only issue here a little bit
- 1:22:32Speaker 5: is the only issue here, is the walks like. A
- 1:22:35Speaker 5: small issue i, guess five strikeouts, three walks here. Small
- 1:22:38Speaker 5: sample size they have no extra base. Hits, AGAINST them
- 1:22:41Speaker 5: yeah i mean you could argue that maybe because they've
- 1:22:43Speaker 5: seen him before and maybe they'll do better against. HIM
- 1:22:45Speaker 5: this time i don't even remember, when THAT was so
- 1:22:48Speaker 5: i don't think they've seen him for at least. Quite
- 1:22:50Speaker 5: a while although, LET me see i could be, wrong
- 1:22:53Speaker 5: ABOUT that but i don't even know if it.
- 1:22:55Speaker 4: Was This year really. Actually it was it Was, back
- 1:22:59Speaker 4: in may so it.
- 1:23:00Speaker 5: Wasn't that recent he pitched well in that when He
- 1:23:02Speaker 5: shut the Dodgers out in milwaukee, for five innings did have,
- 1:23:05Speaker 5: those three walks but had a lot, Of strikeouts there
- 1:23:08Speaker 5: so that. Was that, outing but yeah it. Wasn't that
- 1:23:11Speaker 5: recent so he's a good enough pitcher that he should
- 1:23:14Speaker 5: be able to overcome, whether or, not you Know whether
- 1:23:17Speaker 5: the dodgers are familiar with them or not, at this
- 1:23:19Speaker 5: point And We're back guitaric schooball on the, other side
- 1:23:22Speaker 5: here which seems like. An obvious move two point nine
- 1:23:25Speaker 5: three ra point nine. To three whip we know he's
- 1:23:28Speaker 5: one of the best. Pitchers In baseball the dodgers made
- 1:23:31Speaker 5: waves by getting him at. The trade deadline he hasn't
- 1:23:33Speaker 5: been as good of a home pitcher this year three
- 1:23:35Speaker 5: point seven to one, home he ara but his opponent
- 1:23:37Speaker 5: batting average is, still really low both. Home and away
- 1:23:40Speaker 5: most of That.
- 1:23:41Speaker 4: Was with detroit he's.
- 1:23:42Speaker 5: Made two, STARTS so, far i Believe, with the dodgers
- 1:23:46Speaker 5: and he did pretty well in. Both of them he
- 1:23:48Speaker 5: went at least five innings and both of them allowed
- 1:23:51Speaker 5: three or, fewer earned runs and both of them, had twelve.
- 1:23:53Speaker 5: Strikeouts four walks not elite, by any, means but good
- 1:23:57Speaker 5: and one of Them Was, at wrigley field which is
- 1:23:59Speaker 5: not really that. Easy to do and Then, HE was,
- 1:24:01Speaker 5: yeah i mean he was a little Bit Worse against
- 1:24:02Speaker 5: kansas city.
- 1:24:03Speaker 4: Here at home maybe that's a, little bit. CONCERNING but.
- 1:24:07Speaker 5: WHATEVER i mean i just think maybe he just went
- 1:24:09Speaker 5: out and went through the motions. IN that one, i
- 1:24:11Speaker 5: DON'T know but i think he'll step it up for
- 1:24:13Speaker 5: a big. Game like this milwaukee also has not done
- 1:24:16Speaker 5: well against him. In the past they have seventy one at.
- 1:24:18Speaker 5: Bats against him he has a ridiculous twenty nine to
- 1:24:21Speaker 5: three strikeout walk, ratio against them a one ninety, seven
- 1:24:24Speaker 5: average allowed which is really low for how big the
- 1:24:26Speaker 5: sample size is four eighty. Three, Ops allowed yeah milwaukee
- 1:24:30Speaker 5: has not done well. Against school ball so we'll take
- 1:24:33Speaker 5: the under. In THIS one and i believe the market is,
- 1:24:41Speaker 5: agreeing with this or it was at least earlier. In
- 1:24:43Speaker 5: the day we're still getting market Agreement With the. Tampa
- 1:24:46Speaker 5: bay play, by the way let me see no more
- 1:24:49Speaker 5: market agreement on The Under in San, diego, and cleveland
- 1:24:51Speaker 5: though WHICH looked like i wanted to, do THAT earlier
- 1:24:54Speaker 5: but i decided to. Not do that but this will,
- 1:24:57Speaker 5: be a play and the money looks like it strongly,
- 1:25:00Speaker 5: with this under you might have to. Go. UNDER seven
- 1:25:02Speaker 5: now i found a good price. ON this, earlier i
- 1:25:05Speaker 5: mean this, is, The thing man IT sucks because i
- 1:25:07Speaker 5: do this show and. The market moves even though it's
- 1:25:10Speaker 5: only been like AN hour since i. Found this, NUMBER
- 1:25:13Speaker 5: you know i would still do it.
- 1:25:14Speaker 4: At under.
- 1:25:16Speaker 5: SEVEN you can i think you can find about a
- 1:25:17Speaker 5: minus one, twenty out there probably somewhere.
- 1:25:22Speaker 4: On the under seven.
- 1:25:22Speaker 5: AND a, half i mean at worst it'll, be UNDER
- 1:25:25Speaker 5: seven but i would still be okay. With doing that
- 1:25:28Speaker 5: sixty percent of tickets, on the under ninety four percent
- 1:25:31Speaker 5: of the cash. On the unders the money, Agrees with
- 1:25:33Speaker 5: this but seven and a half is of course better
- 1:25:35Speaker 5: because seven is. A key number so that's a key,
- 1:25:38Speaker 5: half run there because if it's a three, to three
- 1:25:40Speaker 5: tie you got to. BREAK the tie i would pay
- 1:25:42Speaker 5: up to probably about minus one twenty five maybe to
- 1:25:46Speaker 5: get the under seven, and a half maybe minus one
- 1:25:48Speaker 5: twenty two or. Something like that it looks like you
- 1:25:50Speaker 5: can find that. Number out there though eighty seven, percent
- 1:25:53Speaker 5: of tickets ninety five percent of the Cash, on the
- 1:25:55Speaker 5: dodgers they're about. MINUS one eighty i don't have a great.
- 1:25:58Speaker 5: FEEL for that i think. A venue thing it's one
- 1:26:01Speaker 5: of those situations where if you think it's an underdog.
- 1:26:03Speaker 5: Type Of, game AND milwaukee like, i said yesterday has
- 1:26:05Speaker 5: been really Good at THE dodgers reason i think they
- 1:26:08Speaker 5: have won like six of their last seven or seven
- 1:26:10Speaker 5: of their last Eight, at the dodgers And you're getting
- 1:26:13Speaker 5: milwaukee is a, big underdog price and they probably do have,
- 1:26:16Speaker 5: the better bullpen and their starter might be good Enough
- 1:26:18Speaker 5: to dual schoolble here at. THE very least i think
- 1:26:21Speaker 5: Another lean towards milwaukee kind of makes sense. Here As
- 1:26:25Speaker 5: well getting milwaukee is a pretty, big underdog here like
- 1:26:28Speaker 5: a run line play that seems to make a, lot
- 1:26:30Speaker 5: of sense like plus one and a Half on the.
- 1:26:33Speaker 5: Milwaukee RUN line but i still like the over better or,
- 1:26:37Speaker 5: the under excusing don't, listen to me the under obviously
- 1:26:40Speaker 5: under under under under that. Is the play it's on.
- 1:26:43Speaker 5: The board, there but yes the market agrees With me
- 1:26:46Speaker 5: under Milwaukee and The, dodgers are dodgers. YOU know me
- 1:26:49Speaker 5: i like taking a lot of, unders as well so
- 1:26:51Speaker 5: that looks like AN under that i would be, on,
- 1:26:53Speaker 5: AND indeed Yes i Am seattle and HOUSTON is the
- 1:26:57Speaker 5: nbc game.
- 1:26:58Speaker 4: At night here.
- 1:27:00Speaker 5: This is.
- 1:27:01Speaker 4: An interesting one it's.
- 1:27:02Speaker 5: A playoff battle houston still needs to maintain their Lead
- 1:27:05Speaker 5: In the al west here and or at least make
- 1:27:08Speaker 5: sure they're going to. Be a wildcard seattle is in,
- 1:27:11Speaker 5: desperation MODE here, like i said trying, to win Here
- 1:27:14Speaker 5: trying to they could potentially still, get the division but
- 1:27:17Speaker 5: they're closer. TO the Wildcard i think seattle's maybe only
- 1:27:20Speaker 5: two games out of the wildcard or, something like that which,
- 1:27:23Speaker 5: seemed maybe three which seems kind of crazy because the record.
- 1:27:26Speaker 5: Doesn't look good they've had a very battle. Offense this
- 1:27:29Speaker 5: year seattle could have won both games. In the series
- 1:27:32Speaker 5: first game was an extra Inning win for houston despite
- 1:27:36Speaker 5: being in a, return home spot And then the mariners
- 1:27:38Speaker 5: were able. To win yesterday both games are, ridiculously high
- 1:27:41Speaker 5: scoring which seems a little bit. Insane to me on
- 1:27:44Speaker 5: my first instinct looking at the starting pitching in this
- 1:27:46Speaker 5: game was under, in THIS one and i probably do
- 1:27:49Speaker 5: still agree, with THAT sentiment but i have some. Reservations about,
- 1:27:54Speaker 5: It for sure seattle's bullpend and they've actually been kind.
- 1:27:58Speaker 5: Of struggling recently these two guys out of, THE bullpen
- 1:28:00Speaker 5: yesterday i still think they're Pretty good though houston. Only
- 1:28:03Speaker 5: is one houston has completely turned their. Bullpen season around.
- 1:28:07Speaker 5: They're ranked eleventh they're fine out.
- 1:28:09Speaker 3: Of the.
- 1:28:09Speaker 5: Bullpen seattle's SEVENTEENTH in their earra is going. Up to
- 1:28:12Speaker 5: four i've been saying they're, a GOOD bullpen which i
- 1:28:15Speaker 5: still think they. Are, ALL year yeah i would still
- 1:28:18Speaker 5: be okay with back in. The bullpen's here if you
- 1:28:20Speaker 5: are going to be looking towards an under or, Something
- 1:28:22Speaker 5: like that. Houston, is seventh offensively they've, Been good offensively.
- 1:28:25Speaker 5: Seattle has not. Seattle's twenty eight seattle's had some major,
- 1:28:29Speaker 5: offensive issues here so. That does help if you're looking at,
- 1:28:33Speaker 5: an under here We're not, In seattle Here, we're in
- 1:28:35Speaker 5: houston so we're in a more hitter front of The.
- 1:28:37Speaker 5: Park Than seattle brian wu Is. PITCHING for Seattle. I
- 1:28:41Speaker 5: like wu i think he's like a borderline elite pitcher.
- 1:28:44Speaker 5: In my, opinion you see you saw what he did
- 1:28:46Speaker 5: the last. Couple of seasons he. Had great numbers this
- 1:28:49Speaker 5: year not. Really as much four POINT one five era
- 1:28:52Speaker 5: is by far the worst that he's had, over that
- 1:28:54Speaker 5: stretch excepting his kind of shortened rookie season that's kind
- 1:28:59Speaker 5: of similar.
- 1:28:59Speaker 4: To those numbers but he has a one, point one whip.
- 1:29:02Speaker 5: Which is still a lot better, than that season not
- 1:29:05Speaker 5: as good as it was the last two seasons where
- 1:29:07Speaker 5: he had a, sub one whip and it's because he
- 1:29:10Speaker 5: hasn't bitchwall. On.
- 1:29:11Speaker 4: The road man his whip is.
- 1:29:12Speaker 5: Still good overall he's, still good overall but he's had
- 1:29:15Speaker 5: major issues on the. Road this year he pitches really really,
- 1:29:19Speaker 5: well at home which Makes sense because seattle's a very
- 1:29:21Speaker 5: pitcher front, of The park but wu was such a
- 1:29:23Speaker 5: good pitcher it's insane to see how bad he's been.
- 1:29:26Speaker 5: On the road six point Two, To two rodeo and.
- 1:29:29Speaker 5: That's MY concern and i mentioned, that LAST time and
- 1:29:31Speaker 5: i should have just gone with it THE under which
- 1:29:33Speaker 5: i think Was.
- 1:29:34Speaker 4: Against the yankees maybe he had a really.
- 1:29:36Speaker 5: Good start, in that one so he was good on
- 1:29:39Speaker 5: the road and, his last start and that was my
- 1:29:41Speaker 5: main concern with THAT under lean i still, leaned that
- 1:29:44Speaker 5: way should have actually put it, on my card especially
- 1:29:47Speaker 5: BECAUSE the under i gave out in that. Series was
- 1:29:49Speaker 5: HORRIBLE wu though i mean almost a three hundred batting
- 1:29:53Speaker 5: average allout.
- 1:29:54Speaker 4: On the road this.
- 1:29:54Speaker 5: Isn't good all the, last time out he was Good.
- 1:29:56Speaker 5: Against the yankees it was only a, five, inning performance
- 1:29:59Speaker 5: though but he did shut them out. For five innings
- 1:30:01Speaker 5: he was a little bit inefficient, with his pitches but
- 1:30:04Speaker 5: his entire pitching line is. Pretty good otherwise he's been pitching,
- 1:30:07Speaker 5: well this month at least over his, last two starts
- 1:30:11Speaker 5: but he was kind of struggling before that towards The,
- 1:30:14Speaker 5: end of july and again it was road starts that
- 1:30:17Speaker 5: were doing the. Damage, to him like he's really had
- 1:30:20Speaker 5: a couple of good road, starts this season and the
- 1:30:23Speaker 5: one of them was. That LAST outing but i, STILL
- 1:30:25Speaker 5: don't really i can't trust him on the. Road, right
- 1:30:27Speaker 5: now man THAT'S the issue i.
- 1:30:28Speaker 4: HAVE with them.
- 1:30:29Speaker 5: I like him i.
- 1:30:30Speaker 4: Think he's a. Very good pitcher he's got a low,
- 1:30:31Speaker 4: hit rate here he doesn't.
- 1:30:32Speaker 5: Really walk anybody his strike out rate is still pretty,
- 1:30:35Speaker 5: decent here overall still has a pretty good strike, out
- 1:30:39Speaker 5: walk ratio though not as good as it was the.
- 1:30:40Speaker 5: Last two years and actually he's kind of regressed since
- 1:30:44Speaker 5: his very excellent.
- 1:30:45Speaker 4: Twenty twenty four.
- 1:30:47Speaker 5: His strike up for nine is similar and actually it went,
- 1:30:51Speaker 5: up last year and it's actually closer to last year
- 1:30:53Speaker 5: than it was in that twenty. Twenty four campaign he's
- 1:30:55Speaker 5: not a huge, strike up pitcher but Decent numbers against
- 1:30:59Speaker 5: houston or good as you, could probably guess well maybe,
- 1:31:02Speaker 5: you shouldn't assume but, ninety at bats, two hundred average
- 1:31:05Speaker 5: five ninety, four ohps allowed twenty nine to six.
- 1:31:08Speaker 4: Strikeout walker ratio those, are. Good numbers.
- 1:31:10Speaker 5: OBVIOUSLY you, KNOW i again i still would be Okay
- 1:31:14Speaker 5: with backing woo. IN this one i, JUST you know
- 1:31:17Speaker 5: i have my. HESITATIONS with it i don't really want
- 1:31:20Speaker 5: to actually make it a PLAY because it's wu on
- 1:31:22Speaker 5: the road and that. Really Concerns me hunter brown is
- 1:31:25Speaker 5: on the Other. SIDE for houston i. Think he's good
- 1:31:27Speaker 5: he's got a. Lot of talent his issue has been the.
- 1:31:30Speaker 5: Wildness the walks he's got a three point SIX to
- 1:31:33Speaker 5: eighty ra one point, twenty seven whip and it's that
- 1:31:36Speaker 5: whip is a little bit high because. Of The walks
- 1:31:38Speaker 5: man last year he had an, excellent season though but still.
- 1:31:41Speaker 5: Had some wildness but he was just basically like unhittable
- 1:31:46Speaker 5: almost last year and had a, lot of strikeouts which
- 1:31:48Speaker 5: is usually. What he does he's trying to bounce back
- 1:31:50Speaker 5: from having some. Injuries and stuff but overall he's had an.
- 1:31:52Speaker 5: Okay season here he's been a little bit worse at
- 1:31:55Speaker 5: home though four point one to. Seven homie rays walk
- 1:31:58Speaker 5: issues have been a, concern at home and there's.
- 1:32:01Speaker 4: Still an issue he's still walking.
- 1:32:03Speaker 5: Too many guys his last couple outings don't inspire, that
- 1:32:06Speaker 5: much confidence even though they. Were okay outings houston lost.
- 1:32:09Speaker 5: Both of them like he didn't allow, that Many runs
- 1:32:12Speaker 5: but houston lost. Both of them he only made it
- 1:32:14Speaker 5: five innings, last time out and They were Against Toronto,
- 1:32:17Speaker 5: and san Francisco And the san francisco Game Was.
- 1:32:20Speaker 4: In san francisco that's.
- 1:32:22Speaker 5: Concerning because those are bad offenses and that was a
- 1:32:24Speaker 5: pitcher Friendly Park, In San francisco so brown you expect
- 1:32:28Speaker 5: him to come out and kind of dominate, offenses like
- 1:32:30Speaker 5: that and that's not really. What he did he's got a.
- 1:32:32Speaker 5: Low hit rate he's still really. Hard to hit he
- 1:32:34Speaker 5: still strikes out a.
- 1:32:35Speaker 4: Lot of guys.
- 1:32:36Speaker 5: That's all good the walks, or the issue that's what we're,
- 1:32:40Speaker 5: looking at here and it's been such an issue that
- 1:32:42Speaker 5: his strike out walk ratio has. Gone way down it
- 1:32:45Speaker 5: was at least above three last couple of seasons or really.
- 1:32:48Speaker 5: Throughout his career this year, it's below two so he's
- 1:32:50Speaker 5: having some major. Walk issues here strike out rate is still, pretty,
- 1:32:55Speaker 5: good HERE though, Like i said Brown against the mariners
- 1:32:58Speaker 5: actually has not done that well in ninety one at
- 1:33:00Speaker 5: bats two, sixty four average seven to eighty ops allowed
- 1:33:04Speaker 5: twenty six to fifteen strike. Out walk ratios so again
- 1:33:07Speaker 5: the walks coming into play as An. ISSUE here Wu
- 1:33:11Speaker 5: i think wu is the better pitcher man like he's
- 1:33:13Speaker 5: the guy that puts fewer. Guys on base he doesn't
- 1:33:16Speaker 5: walk guys very very concerning though his road. Numbers very
- 1:33:21Speaker 5: concerning but last year was good for, our last, outing
- 1:33:25Speaker 5: excuse me was good for him. On the road my
- 1:33:27Speaker 5: first instinct on this game. Was the under the totals
- 1:33:31Speaker 5: at eight sixty percent of tickets, on the over eighty
- 1:33:33Speaker 5: seven percent of the cash, on the under money is
- 1:33:36Speaker 5: coming in. On the under looking at who, THE pictures
- 1:33:39Speaker 5: are i still don't. Disagree WITH that like i think bullpens,
- 1:33:44Speaker 5: are alright here both starting pitchers are.
- 1:33:46Speaker 4: GENERALLY good pictures i still think the under is a.
- 1:33:50Speaker 5: Decent opinion here the better Way might be seattle believe.
- 1:33:54Speaker 5: It OR not and, i don't, know You know maybe
- 1:33:56Speaker 5: seattle first five if you don't want to rely, on
- 1:33:58Speaker 5: their bullpend because maybe they don't have a.
- 1:34:00Speaker 4: Bullpen Edge anymore here.
- 1:34:02Speaker 5: SEATTLE first five i think you Get motivation with seattle
- 1:34:05Speaker 5: because they're just in. Total desperation mode and you saw.
- 1:34:08Speaker 5: The matchup numbers the matchup Numbers do support wu as the.
- 1:34:12Speaker 5: Better pitcher HERE it's just i DON'T know if i
- 1:34:14Speaker 5: could do it with. His road numbers with the initial
- 1:34:16Speaker 5: move seemed To.
- 1:34:17Speaker 4: Be towards seattle.
- 1:34:18Speaker 5: Houston was minus one thirty four and they're down to
- 1:34:20Speaker 5: minus one sixteen now seventy three, percent of tickets eighty
- 1:34:23Speaker 5: three percent of The cash on houston's the money looks
- 1:34:26Speaker 5: like maybe it's coming Back in on houston. A little bit, I,
- 1:34:28Speaker 5: don't know seattle you'll probably get them If you play, seattle,
- 1:34:32Speaker 5: first five though it's probably Gonna be maybe seattle is
- 1:34:36Speaker 5: a favorite in the, first FIVE though but i think
- 1:34:39Speaker 5: that might be the better way, To play this. Seattle
- 1:34:42Speaker 5: FIRST five but i do still agree. With the, under
- 1:34:45Speaker 5: but yeah it's not gonna make make the, cut, for me.
- 1:34:49Speaker 5: No thank you and that is the, baseball Board, here
- 1:34:53Speaker 5: mister pinsey what's up and theys. For hanging out THEN,
- 1:34:56Speaker 5: we Have wnba which i'm. Not INTERESTED in. These wnba
- 1:34:59Speaker 5: games two of them are, Pretty ugly Games chicago at
- 1:35:03Speaker 5: seattle being. ONE of them a couple of early. Evening
- 1:35:06Speaker 5: games here. Seattle bad team i'm mad at them because
- 1:35:10Speaker 5: they were not able to get the job done for
- 1:35:12Speaker 5: us in. Their last game they were not Good. Enough
- 1:35:14Speaker 5: against portland they're. Staying at home their only win in
- 1:35:19Speaker 5: their last like twelve game stretch or whatever this was
- 1:35:21Speaker 5: thirteen game stretcher was against the team, They're. Playing Today
- 1:35:24Speaker 5: chicago so chicago actually just came In here To seattle
- 1:35:28Speaker 5: and seattle won and that was their Only win since,
- 1:35:32Speaker 5: june twenty seventh Or no, since july. Sixth my mistake
- 1:35:37Speaker 5: so they definitely have the Ability. To beat chicago chicago is,
- 1:35:39Speaker 5: not That good but chicago might be able to make
- 1:35:42Speaker 5: the adjustments man and actually show up. And change things
- 1:35:45Speaker 5: Chicago did beat Seattle back In chicago. ON july fifteenth.
- 1:35:49Speaker 5: I don't know i don't have much of a read.
- 1:35:51Speaker 5: On this though seattle's coming off kind of a disappointing
- 1:35:53Speaker 5: Lost a. Bad portland team They do have dallas on
- 1:35:56Speaker 5: deck which might be a little bit of. A look ahead.
- 1:36:00Speaker 4: Chicago is concerned if this.
- 1:36:01Speaker 5: Would even low chicago is Already on, the pacific coast
- 1:36:04Speaker 5: so they don't have to adjust to the, time zone
- 1:36:06Speaker 5: here so that's. Good for them they're not, at, that
- 1:36:09Speaker 5: disadvantage which, by the way they were at that disadvantage
- 1:36:12Speaker 5: when They, lost IN seattle and I mentioned That i
- 1:36:15Speaker 5: liked seattle, in that one.
- 1:36:16Speaker 4: So that's interesting it was a really Bad spot for chicago.
- 1:36:19Speaker 5: In that game chicago had had a Close, call WITH
- 1:36:21Speaker 5: indiana which i gave out as a winner on the
- 1:36:24Speaker 5: show prior to THE last WINNER i think i HAD,
- 1:36:26Speaker 5: in the wnba although my plays are.
- 1:36:29Speaker 4: Kind of sporadic chicago then had To.
- 1:36:31Speaker 5: Go to seattle they had to Adjust to the, pacific
- 1:36:33Speaker 5: time zone And They had golden, state ON deck so
- 1:36:36Speaker 5: i thought it was. A bad spot it was. A
- 1:36:37Speaker 5: sandwich spot THE only reason i Didn't give out seattle, in,
- 1:36:40Speaker 5: that game Unfortunately was that seattle was also in a
- 1:36:43Speaker 5: bad spot returning home from, the ROAD trip so i
- 1:36:46Speaker 5: didn't like. Either Side there but CHICAGO got caught i
- 1:36:49Speaker 5: think in the sandwich part of the. Reason they lost
- 1:36:52Speaker 5: They Went to golden state and they. Got blown out
- 1:36:55Speaker 5: they might bounce. Back from that They Do have, new
- 1:36:56Speaker 5: york next which is a bigger Game but, than seattle
- 1:37:00Speaker 5: here but they did just lose here in the Same venue.
- 1:37:03Speaker 5: To seattle before then you can see that it was.
- 1:37:05Speaker 5: A worse spot like having to adjust to the time
- 1:37:08Speaker 5: zone and. In a sandwich neither of those are the
- 1:37:10Speaker 5: case here. IN this, game i mean if you want
- 1:37:12Speaker 5: to argue it's a sandwich Because It's between Golden State, And,
- 1:37:15Speaker 5: new york yeah it's between two bigger games that they
- 1:37:18Speaker 5: Got Annihilated. By GOLDEN state so i don't consider this
- 1:37:21Speaker 5: to be a sandwich because it was not one of
- 1:37:23Speaker 5: those huge effort games you're.
- 1:37:25Speaker 4: Really gonna be in a.
- 1:37:25Speaker 5: Letdown spot, AFTER so yeah i think looking at, THIS
- 1:37:30Speaker 5: game overall i Would. Lean to chicago the money doesn't
- 1:37:33Speaker 5: agree with, me, at all though and. They're heavily public
- 1:37:35Speaker 5: they moved up from a one point favorite to a
- 1:37:37Speaker 5: two and a, half POINT favorite though i don't know
- 1:37:39Speaker 5: if there were.
- 1:37:40Speaker 4: Some injuries Going, ON in seattle.
- 1:37:41Speaker 5: I don't know ninety percent of tickets eighty eight percent
- 1:37:43Speaker 5: of The, cash on chicago so they're a public side
- 1:37:46Speaker 5: with less of the money coming. In on them so
- 1:37:48Speaker 5: the market read Does. NOT like chicago i would slightly,
- 1:37:52Speaker 5: lean that way but it's not a strong. Opinion at
- 1:37:54Speaker 5: All indiana AND, atlanta on espn WHICH is. The espn
- 1:37:59Speaker 5: doubleheader this is the only good GAME on, the wnba
- 1:38:03Speaker 5: slate if you even want to.
- 1:38:04Speaker 4: Call it that it's two of the better teams.
- 1:38:06Speaker 5: In the.
- 1:38:06Speaker 4: League at least atlanta is coming off.
- 1:38:08Speaker 5: Two straight wins They just annihilated connecticut, on the road
- 1:38:12Speaker 5: and a lot of times they do not like to
- 1:38:14Speaker 5: play on a team that's coming off a blowout win
- 1:38:16Speaker 5: like that because it makes them. Look too good it
- 1:38:19Speaker 5: was against A really, bad, connecticut team though and that
- 1:38:21Speaker 5: was only a single. Game road trip and they're not Going.
- 1:38:24Speaker 5: To overlook indiana you. Know these teams most Teams don't
- 1:38:29Speaker 5: like Indiana Because of soviet, cunningham And Whatever. And caitlyn
- 1:38:33Speaker 5: clark it's. All pretty ridiculous indiana has some. Other Players Here,
- 1:38:37Speaker 5: the kelsey mitchell whatever. Her name is she's having a
- 1:38:39Speaker 5: really Good. Season For indiana This indiana and, boston as
- 1:38:43Speaker 5: well is a good. Player for them they have a
- 1:38:45Speaker 5: lot of good Players on. This indiana team indiana's coming
- 1:38:49Speaker 5: off a couple of Nice Wins against New. York and
- 1:38:51Speaker 5: dallas now they're starting. A road trip they have a
- 1:38:54Speaker 5: little bit less Time off, THAN indiana, does i think
- 1:38:57Speaker 5: but usually starting, a road trip. YOU are folks i
- 1:39:00Speaker 5: don't know how big of a deal That was beating
- 1:39:02Speaker 5: dallas in. THAT last Game i think dallas was a
- 1:39:04Speaker 5: little bit injury played in that. Game, AS well indiana
- 1:39:07Speaker 5: i think did pull away late, in that game though
- 1:39:10Speaker 5: IT'S kind of i think it was kind of a
- 1:39:11Speaker 5: closer game than the. Final score looked let me. Make, sure,
- 1:39:14Speaker 5: that yeah yeah it was until like the fourth quarter,
- 1:39:18Speaker 5: was pretty Close and then.
- 1:39:19Speaker 4: Indiana Pulled away.
- 1:39:21Speaker 5: Maybe indiana is in the slightly, worse spot here although
- 1:39:24Speaker 5: usually you're focused in the first game of, a Road
- 1:39:28Speaker 5: trip but, indiana's coming, off you know some more. Difficult,
- 1:39:31Speaker 5: games here atlanta they are coming off, a blowout win
- 1:39:34Speaker 5: but it was Against a. TERRIBLE connecticut team I would. Lean,
- 1:39:37Speaker 5: atlanta here plus the public probably Slightly sides with indiana
- 1:39:41Speaker 5: because they're, a good offense and that's what, the public.
- 1:39:43Speaker 5: Likes The offense but indiana's defense leaves something to, be
- 1:39:47Speaker 5: Desired here and atlanta is, the better deepfense, AND you
- 1:39:50Speaker 5: know i lean towards better deepfense a lot, of THE
- 1:39:52Speaker 5: times because i think deepfense. Can stifle offense fifty four
- 1:39:57Speaker 5: percent of tickets fifty percent of The, cash on indiana
- 1:39:59Speaker 5: so they were a little public with less of the.
- 1:40:01Speaker 4: Money on them it's about a one and a half Or. One.
- 1:40:05Speaker 5: On atlanta here you might be able to play the
- 1:40:06Speaker 5: money line as well at. A decent price i THINK
- 1:40:09Speaker 5: that's what. I would Do, lean towards indiana or Excuse.
- 1:40:12Speaker 5: Lean towards Atlanta. EXCUSE me Atlanta i like atlanta a
- 1:40:15Speaker 5: little bit. In that, game better defense slightly better spot,
- 1:40:20Speaker 5: in my opinion not, a strong opinion though total's really
- 1:40:23Speaker 5: high at one eighty seven. And a half indiana plays
- 1:40:26Speaker 5: that style where, it's high. TEMPO high scoring i think
- 1:40:30Speaker 5: the side of total is correlated. In this game, IN
- 1:40:33Speaker 5: my Opinion i think indiana and the over are correlated because.
- 1:40:36Speaker 5: That's the style they, want to play, high tempo. Scoring
- 1:40:40Speaker 5: bad defense atlanta wants to, slow it down most likely.
- 1:40:44Speaker 5: Play BETTER defense so i think. Those ARE correlated so
- 1:40:47Speaker 5: i would also probably.
- 1:40:48Speaker 4: Lead to the under.
- 1:40:49Speaker 5: For that reason but the money is coming in, on
- 1:40:50Speaker 5: the over, so and again, You know me i'm not really.
- 1:40:53Speaker 4: A totals guy in any.
- 1:40:55Speaker 5: Sport besides baseball So And then portland phoenix is the
- 1:40:58Speaker 5: other GAME OF the espn dot will head of, the
- 1:41:00Speaker 5: later game although it's not really LATE, it's SEVEN pm
- 1:41:05Speaker 5: but i don't think we really have to worry about
- 1:41:06Speaker 5: the time zone shifting for. These two teams phoenix, is
- 1:41:11Speaker 5: staying well not really. Staying at home they JUST played
- 1:41:14Speaker 5: in la in a, neutral site game but IT.
- 1:41:16Speaker 4: Was in, La but whatever they're Returning.
- 1:41:18Speaker 5: Back to. Phoenix who cares they've had a bunch. Of
- 1:41:20Speaker 5: days OFF hosting an espn game usually you will get.
- 1:41:24Speaker 5: Up for this one thing that we need to know
- 1:41:26Speaker 5: is The. Status of plumb is she actually gonna play.
- 1:41:29Speaker 5: In this game it looks like the, answer is no.
- 1:41:32Speaker 5: She's Still out so plumb is still. Gonna be out
- 1:41:35Speaker 5: phoenix just got HER man from la and, she's hurt
- 1:41:39Speaker 5: again so she's like basically their best player even though they.
- 1:41:43Speaker 4: Just got her.
- 1:41:43Speaker 5: But she's out portland is not, a, Good team though
- 1:41:46Speaker 5: phoenix is the better Team. Even without plumb portland Just,
- 1:41:50Speaker 5: playing ON friday so i think they have they're at.
- 1:41:52Speaker 5: A rest disadvantage portland is they're Coming, in from seattle
- 1:41:56Speaker 5: so the travel is a little bit worse for. Them
- 1:41:58Speaker 5: as well, other than that there's not a whole lot
- 1:42:01Speaker 5: to see here as far as this. GAME is concerned
- 1:42:03Speaker 5: i Would lean to phoenix. Even without plumb They're. Better
- 1:42:07Speaker 5: than portland they're laying.
- 1:42:08Speaker 4: Five and a half here.
- 1:42:09Speaker 5: Now or five it almost looks too Easy to take portland,
- 1:42:13Speaker 5: as an underdog right given what these teams. Records look
- 1:42:16Speaker 5: like the public is not gonna come in and want
- 1:42:18Speaker 5: to lay four. Or Five points but phoenix actually has
- 1:42:21Speaker 5: the Worst record. Than portland does but obviously the oddsmakers
- 1:42:26Speaker 5: Are telling you phoenix is actually. The better team phoenix
- 1:42:29Speaker 5: has had, a difficult schedule they're. The better team portland
- 1:42:32Speaker 5: started out the season a little bit hot because teams
- 1:42:34Speaker 5: Didn't know what portland was gonna. Throw at them but
- 1:42:37Speaker 5: now that everybody's gotten A, look at portland they've. Been
- 1:42:39Speaker 5: more so portland's not good. On, DEEPFENSE either yeah i
- 1:42:42Speaker 5: Would lean. To phoenix here sixty seven percent Of, tickets
- 1:42:45Speaker 5: on portland fifty one percent of The. Cash on phoenix
- 1:42:48Speaker 5: money agrees with me. On that one laying The, POINTS
- 1:42:51Speaker 5: with phoenix i think is, the move there and it
- 1:42:53Speaker 5: is one of, those, ones where yeah it's, a misleading
- 1:42:56Speaker 5: line like the line. Makes no sense it's almost like
- 1:42:59Speaker 5: the books are begging You to take, portland, almost there like,
- 1:43:03Speaker 5: oh my god the team with the better record is.
- 1:43:05Speaker 5: A big underdog it looks so easy. To do that
- 1:43:08Speaker 5: that IS not what. I would do and WE have,
- 1:43:09Speaker 5: NO nfl, today, i believe right let me make.
- 1:43:12Speaker 4: Sure OF that but i.
- 1:43:12Speaker 5: Don't think so it feels Weird on a SUNDAY after
- 1:43:15Speaker 5: the nfl has.
- 1:43:16Speaker 4: Kind of started. But it's, preseason so.
- 1:43:19Speaker 5: Yeah that was the End of, preseason week one and
- 1:43:23Speaker 5: we won't have football again until these Two. Games on
- 1:43:25Speaker 5: thursday so but. It's pre season it is. What, IT
- 1:43:28Speaker 5: is oh i was not, screen sharing, anymore but yes that's.
- 1:43:33Speaker 5: Gonna do it my two plays today. Both in Baseball
- 1:43:36Speaker 5: We have tampa bay on the money line and we
- 1:43:38Speaker 5: have under seven and A Half.
- 1:43:40Speaker 4: In brewers dodgers.
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- 1:44:48Speaker 5: i know, they played yesterday but it was. A preseason
- 1:44:51Speaker 5: game the only thing to really Talk About is jackson
- 1:44:54Speaker 5: dart taking. Too many hits but yesterday that, wasn't his
- 1:44:57Speaker 5: fault like he wound to be, in the tent but
- 1:44:59Speaker 5: it was because his team completely missed all. Their blocking
- 1:45:02Speaker 5: assignments it was a blitz and he, just got wrecked
- 1:45:04Speaker 5: like he had no time.
- 1:45:05Speaker 4: To do anything so that.
- 1:45:07Speaker 5: Wasn't his fault it wasn't, like he, ran you know
- 1:45:10Speaker 5: and didn't get down or something like that or. Did
- 1:45:12Speaker 5: anything stupid it was the blocking just completely failed and
- 1:45:15Speaker 5: he got nailed instantly. By A blitzer so. I, don't
- 1:45:18Speaker 5: know yeah that one. Wasn't his fault but he wound
- 1:45:21Speaker 5: up in the tending and he, came back in so Luckily.
- 1:45:23Speaker 4: For the giants. Seems not serious he, came back in.
- 1:45:26Speaker 5: Threw a touchdown maybe he shouldn't have been out there
- 1:45:28Speaker 5: at all though in preseason game one you don't want him.
- 1:45:30Speaker 4: To get hurt but he, came back in threw a touchdown.
- 1:45:33Speaker 5: And then they. Took him out whatever that's, Gonna do,
- 1:45:37Speaker 5: IT and yeah i think. That's, It Right, yeah. Happy
- 1:45:41Speaker 5: sunday everybody we'll Be back on monday with a shorter board,
- 1:45:45Speaker 5: to break. Down somewhat shorter that's. Gonna.
- 1:45:48Speaker 4: Do it peace.
- 1:45:53Speaker 3: If the, doc starts talking hand, me the, phone that's
- 1:45:57Speaker 3: somebody and. So, that's somebody know you do not have to.
- 1:46:05Speaker 1: Lose this round lone hold.
- 1:46:10Speaker 3: On hold, on nothing nice not. Now hold, on hold
- 1:46:21Speaker 3: on let me. Pull you out that bad, luck by.
- 1:46:29Speaker 2: Time but it don't.
- 1:46:33Speaker 3: Get The, crown hold, on hold on, Stay.
- 1:46:39Speaker 5: With me, now.
- 1:46:44Speaker 1: Hold, on hold on.
- 1:46:49Speaker 2: You're still here