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- 0:01Speaker 1: Yep. Inside I want to kill myself. We are on
- 0:06Speaker 1: OWN seven run over the last two days after tonight
- 0:08Speaker 1: it was just complete bullshit. So that's that's I'm gonna
- 0:12Speaker 1: start off this show horrible Sunday one and five. I
- 0:15Speaker 1: don't even know what to tell you above that I
- 0:18Speaker 1: just don't want to do this anymore. I have never
- 0:20Speaker 1: seen anything like this. Man with the slump continuing, two
- 0:25Speaker 1: straight losses, not a good day at all. Own four
- 0:28Speaker 1: that have not had a good season. Man with wookends
- 0:34Speaker 1: slump that I'm on, and the slump continues, I've reached
- 0:38Speaker 1: a new pink. Actually, I'm going to burn my browins
- 0:42Speaker 1: hack Man, I don't know what is going on with
- 0:44Speaker 1: the Bruins arch hape? Is that what it is? I
- 0:47Speaker 1: don't even know it's It's March ninth, I think who
- 0:50Speaker 1: even knows? Man, I don't know what day it is anymore.
- 0:53Speaker 1: But I don't even know what day it is anymore. Man,
- 0:55Speaker 1: back with you after the worst day that I could
- 0:59Speaker 1: possibly have, act with you as I always am until
- 1:03Speaker 1: I die, at least oh and two yesterday and yesterday
- 1:07Speaker 1: it did not go well for me. Oh and five
- 1:10Speaker 1: the worst month that I've ever had in my eighteen
- 1:13Speaker 1: years doing this. I don't know what to even tell
- 1:15Speaker 1: you about this anymore. To the slumps, the slump discontinuous,
- 1:19Speaker 1: the slump continues. Somebody fucking kill me, please. I don't
- 1:24Speaker 1: even know what I should do at this point, other
- 1:26Speaker 1: than potentially end it all. What's up, everybody, it's towed
- 1:34Speaker 1: back with you better off dead. It is Monday, July
- 1:39Speaker 1: twenty eighth, the start of a new week. Baby. Uh,
- 1:43Speaker 1: maybe a new streak is continuing because or starting, I guess,
- 1:47Speaker 1: because the one play I gave out on the show
- 1:49Speaker 1: was a winner yesterday Miami and Milwaukee in baseball under
- 1:53Speaker 1: the total that was a winner. The game was low
- 1:56Speaker 1: scoring the whole way. It was decent pitching duels two
- 1:59Speaker 1: to one the eighth inning, I think, and then it
- 2:01Speaker 1: wound up three to two. Luckily it did not go
- 2:03Speaker 1: into extra innings though, because that could be a problem
- 2:06Speaker 1: with the ghost runners and stuff. Unders basically go there
- 2:09Speaker 1: to die. So luckily we did get that. Scott, what's up? Oh,
- 2:12Speaker 1: thank you sir. They might want me to become a regular.
- 2:16Speaker 1: I don't know. Good morning as well. Yes, let's be
- 2:19Speaker 1: gay with today. It's today. Yeah, I don't think I
- 2:23Speaker 1: have anything else to really say about yesterday. Oh, I
- 2:25Speaker 1: will congratulate that christa dude whatever his name was, if
- 2:29Speaker 1: he's back. Very good call in the WNBA from that
- 2:32Speaker 1: guy on the Connecticut Sun. They actually won in a
- 2:36Speaker 1: monster blowout, so my WNBA. So I don't even know
- 2:40Speaker 1: what I'm talking about with the WNBA anymore. Man, even
- 2:42Speaker 1: though I'm actually winning on the WNBA season, I haven't
- 2:45Speaker 1: made a play in probably over a week now in
- 2:47Speaker 1: the WNBA, and I'm not going to today either. The
- 2:50Speaker 1: Connecticut Sun though, who I just mentioned coming off beating
- 2:54Speaker 1: Golden State by thirty one points, that's never gonna happen again.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Connecticut is on a back to back now, I'm playing
- 3:01Speaker 1: at home against Seattle, so I would have to imagine
- 3:04Speaker 1: not a very good spot for Connecticut coming off that
- 3:07Speaker 1: blowout win. They're probably a pretty much an outlier of
- 3:10Speaker 1: a game there. I mean, I didn't really look at
- 3:12Speaker 1: the statistics in this game because I'm like, I'm just
- 3:13Speaker 1: not gonna bet anything or give out any bets. Connecticut
- 3:16Speaker 1: had a ridiculous shooting game fifty three percent from the field,
- 3:20Speaker 1: forty one point four percent from three Golden State unbelievably bad.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Thirty three point nine percent from the field, twenty eight
- 3:27Speaker 1: point one percent from three also pretty low. Golden State
- 3:30Speaker 1: got massacred in the turnover battle twenty four turnovers, so
- 3:34Speaker 1: I mean that game a lot of outlier statistics in
- 3:37Speaker 1: that game, so I would not expect Connecticut to do
- 3:41Speaker 1: better than that in any game for the rest of
- 3:43Speaker 1: the season. Seattle is coming up a pretty bad loss
- 3:46Speaker 1: to Washington, so I expect Seattle to actually show up
- 3:49Speaker 1: in this game. It is a third straight road game, though,
- 3:52Speaker 1: and you're having to lay a huge price with Seattle
- 3:54Speaker 1: off from nine and a half to twelve. Now, I
- 3:56Speaker 1: don't know if there are injuries here in this game,
- 3:58Speaker 1: but I mean I would lean to Seattle, but I
- 4:01Speaker 1: just don't know if you'd want to lay a point
- 4:03Speaker 1: a spread like that. I mean, that is a ridiculous spread.
- 4:07Speaker 1: It's just Samuelson still being out for the season there
- 4:09Speaker 1: for Seattle, which obviously would not be anything that would
- 4:12Speaker 1: increase the line on Seattle. So maybe actual money coming
- 4:15Speaker 1: in on Seattle in that one. That is still the
- 4:19Speaker 1: only way that I would lean in that game. But
- 4:21Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lay twelve and a half points in
- 4:22Speaker 1: that game. Liberty are at Dallas as well, Liberty coming
- 4:27Speaker 1: off losing a wind streak. They had a five game
- 4:29Speaker 1: win streak snapped by the La Sparks at home. Liberty
- 4:33Speaker 1: loss is like a pretty big favorite, but sometimes when
- 4:35Speaker 1: you lose a wind streak like that, it'll hang you over.
- 4:39Speaker 1: So I think it might be a little bit more
- 4:40Speaker 1: of a hangover effect maybe than a bounce back spot
- 4:43Speaker 1: for the Liberty, although they do get to get out
- 4:45Speaker 1: of home start a road trip, which that part of
- 4:47Speaker 1: it should actually be a positive for them, And because
- 4:50Speaker 1: they did lose as a double digit favorite at home,
- 4:52Speaker 1: they might potentially show up focus here. Dallas is on
- 4:56Speaker 1: a back to back staying at home. Dallas got destroyed
- 4:59Speaker 1: yes without Beckers, which I thought that Dallas would step
- 5:04Speaker 1: it up, as I said injured Player theory spot, I
- 5:07Speaker 1: thought they would step it up without Beckers in there,
- 5:09Speaker 1: and they still got blown, blown out, blown out. They
- 5:13Speaker 1: got blown out by the Aces yesterday. So I don't know.
- 5:17Speaker 1: I'm Dallas, They're still on a back to back. I
- 5:20Speaker 1: don't know if Beckers is coming back in this game
- 5:22Speaker 1: or not. We can figure that out right now. I
- 5:24Speaker 1: guess she is still well, she's out but listed as
- 5:29Speaker 1: returning today. That doesn't make any sense, so I guess
- 5:33Speaker 1: keep an eye on that and see if she's gonna
- 5:35Speaker 1: come back or not. If she does come back, I
- 5:37Speaker 1: still think that doesn't really make it that positive a
- 5:40Speaker 1: spot for Dallas though, because if she comes back, they
- 5:42Speaker 1: have to work her back into the rotation. So I
- 5:44Speaker 1: don't love that either. The Liberty are up on the
- 5:47Speaker 1: spread a little bit from eight to eight and a half,
- 5:49Speaker 1: but you're not gonna find me laying these like road
- 5:51Speaker 1: favorites like this for the most part, so it's all
- 5:54Speaker 1: stay away Major League Baseball. I'm gonna give out two plays.
- 5:58Speaker 1: I'm gonna give out a first five innings side, and
- 6:01Speaker 1: I'm gonna give out a full game total, which I
- 6:04Speaker 1: might be a little bit worried about the bullpens in
- 6:07Speaker 1: that game, but hopefully we still get it. The side
- 6:11Speaker 1: is gonna be in this first game, and I'm gonna
- 6:13Speaker 1: skip it for now, and hopefully the market read remains
- 6:17Speaker 1: in agreement with me on that one, because I want
- 6:19Speaker 1: to go with the market man if I can. Like
- 6:21Speaker 1: more often than not, I like to have my like
- 6:25Speaker 1: my sense of the game lineup with what the market
- 6:27Speaker 1: is telling me more often than not Arizona at Detroit.
- 6:31Speaker 1: So we have a lot of new series starting today. Man,
- 6:33Speaker 1: Monday sometimes gonna be a thin baseball card, but today
- 6:36Speaker 1: it's like every team is playing. I think Detroit just
- 6:40Speaker 1: snapped that long loss streak. They had six seven losses
- 6:43Speaker 1: in a row, whatever that was, I think six. They
- 6:45Speaker 1: finally won yesterday, beating Toronto pretty easily ten to four.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Though Detroit did use a decent amount of their bullpen
- 6:53Speaker 1: in that game, Arizona actually used less of their bullpen.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Arizona got smacked by Pittsburgh. They actually just had a
- 7:00Speaker 1: three game series with Pittsburgh where they actually won one
- 7:03Speaker 1: of the games, but they only scored one run in
- 7:05Speaker 1: the entire series. These Pittsburgh series are so bizarre, man,
- 7:10Speaker 1: Like You're just seeing weird like shutouts all over the
- 7:13Speaker 1: place involving Pittsburgh one way or the other. I still
- 7:16Speaker 1: don't really understand it. Arizona going from Pittsburgh to Detroit
- 7:19Speaker 1: might be good for them to just get out of
- 7:21Speaker 1: there could be a decent bounce back spot. So as
- 7:23Speaker 1: far as the scheduling is concerned, it looks like Arizona
- 7:27Speaker 1: could be in a little bit of bounce back spot.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Detroit might be in a good spot as well, though,
- 7:32Speaker 1: because they just snapped that lost streak. So sometimes when
- 7:34Speaker 1: you do that and you get back to winning, it
- 7:36Speaker 1: could give you some new momentum. So both teams are
- 7:40Speaker 1: kind of in a positive spot in my opinion. Detroit
- 7:44Speaker 1: used more of their bullpen, but Arizona has the worst
- 7:47Speaker 1: of the two bullpens, so I think you probably still
- 7:49Speaker 1: have to give Detroit a little bit of a bullpen
- 7:51Speaker 1: edge here, even though they're a little bit less rested
- 7:53Speaker 1: at Eduardo Rodriguez is gonna be the starter for Arizona here.
- 7:56Speaker 1: His numbers on the season are not good. Five point five,
- 8:00Speaker 1: one point six to five whip, None of that is good. Obviously,
- 8:04Speaker 1: He's been pretty much the same home and away. Arizona's
- 8:08Speaker 1: lost four straight starts of his He's been kind of
- 8:12Speaker 1: all over the place. Man. He's coming up an okay
- 8:14Speaker 1: start against Houston where he shut them out for six
- 8:16Speaker 1: and a third innings, but he did walk three guys
- 8:19Speaker 1: in that game. This month, he has a pretty bad
- 8:21Speaker 1: seven point three six ERA, a lot of it because
- 8:23Speaker 1: he gave up eight earned runs against Kansas City, which
- 8:28Speaker 1: is not a good sign. I mean, you're giving up
- 8:30Speaker 1: runs to Kansas City, there's obviously something wrong with you.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Thirteen to five strike out walk race year this month
- 8:35Speaker 1: is not really that impressive either. So e Rod, I
- 8:38Speaker 1: would not say is in very good form right now.
- 8:41Speaker 1: He's going up against Detroit, who are still pretty good
- 8:44Speaker 1: at home despite the recent slide. They have a good offense.
- 8:47Speaker 1: His numbers against Detroit are very weird because only Bias
- 8:51Speaker 1: and Torres. Is that only Bias and Torres have ever
- 8:54Speaker 1: faced him before. Torres accounts for twenty seven of the
- 8:58Speaker 1: twenty nine at bats again and overall they are three
- 9:02Speaker 1: forty five hitters off in three forty five batting average, oney,
- 9:06Speaker 1: three nineteen ops, seven walks, six strikeouts, but almost all
- 9:10Speaker 1: of it is Tores. Torres is nine to twenty seven,
- 9:12Speaker 1: with four home runs off of him, a ridiculous home
- 9:15Speaker 1: run rate, all six of those walks and all seven
- 9:18Speaker 1: of the strikeouts, and buys one for two of them.
- 9:21Speaker 1: So very strange you see one guy with that much
- 9:24Speaker 1: of a sample size. But that means that Erod might
- 9:27Speaker 1: be able to pitch around Torres, and he's actually unfamiliar
- 9:32Speaker 1: to a lot of the other players on Detroit, and
- 9:33Speaker 1: I think Ed Rodriguez was actually on Detroit, right, Yeah,
- 9:37Speaker 1: he was, so before he went to Arizona, he was
- 9:39Speaker 1: on Detroit. I don't know if he's actually faced Detroit
- 9:42Speaker 1: since then, so that could be an extra motivator potentially.
- 9:45Speaker 1: When a pitcher goes up against their former team, sometimes
- 9:48Speaker 1: they aren't motivated a bit. But he's really had a
- 9:51Speaker 1: drop off, man. He was decent. He was actually good
- 9:54Speaker 1: for Detroit in twenty twenty three, and since he's been
- 9:56Speaker 1: on Arizona's numbers have declined massively. So it's hard to
- 10:00Speaker 1: get a gauge on this game, really, man, I mean
- 10:03Speaker 1: obviously that's the reason why I'm not gonna play this game.
- 10:05Speaker 1: And then Detroit has Troy Melton starting. He is a
- 10:09Speaker 1: young pitcher, only has one major league start so far,
- 10:12Speaker 1: which didn't go well against Pittsburgh. He gave up six
- 10:15Speaker 1: runs against that pretty weak lineup. Did strike out seven
- 10:19Speaker 1: and five innings, so that's a good sign that he
- 10:21Speaker 1: had a really high strikeout rate in the game. Did
- 10:23Speaker 1: walk two guys, he gave up two of them runs.
- 10:25Speaker 1: Maybe he was a little bit nervous, but the two
- 10:27Speaker 1: of them runs of course meant that he wound up
- 10:29Speaker 1: giving up more runs than he would have otherwise. It
- 10:31Speaker 1: wasn't a horrible start, though for a debut, I wouldn't
- 10:35Speaker 1: say it actually kind of looks a little bit worse
- 10:37Speaker 1: than it was, Like the strikeout stuff was there. Melton
- 10:40Speaker 1: does have some decent stuff. I mean, if you look
- 10:42Speaker 1: at his scouting in his minor league stats, he's not
- 10:45Speaker 1: that bad, so he might do better here. Obviously, the
- 10:48Speaker 1: d Backs had never seen him before, so when you
- 10:51Speaker 1: have a young talented pitcher, they can have an edge
- 10:53Speaker 1: over the opposing lineup when they haven't been seen before.
- 10:56Speaker 1: The opposing lineup kind of has to figure him out.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Although I know it didn't work out first game against Pittsburgh.
- 11:02Speaker 1: I mean, this game is definitely a stay away for me.
- 11:04Speaker 1: I don't even know what to do with this game.
- 11:06Speaker 1: I mean, we could look at the market read. It
- 11:07Speaker 1: looks like there's a strong market read on Arizona, though
- 11:10Speaker 1: Detroit up for minus one twenty three to minus one
- 11:12Speaker 1: twenty eight as a favorite. There eighty four percent of
- 11:16Speaker 1: tickets on them, but fifty five percent of the cash
- 11:18Speaker 1: coming back on Arizona. I'm still wondering about Arizona's like
- 11:22Speaker 1: mental state though, after you know you're getting up close
- 11:26Speaker 1: to the trade deadline, Arizona traded Josh Naylor away, So
- 11:29Speaker 1: you know that Arizona's basically indicating that they're sellers now
- 11:32Speaker 1: and they're not going for it this year. So again,
- 11:34Speaker 1: it's hard to gauge. I mean, I keep mentioning that,
- 11:36Speaker 1: but that's just the way that it is in Arizona.
- 11:39Speaker 1: I mean, they're still gonna show up and play though,
- 11:41Speaker 1: Like when you're out there in the field, you're not
- 11:43Speaker 1: gonna intentionally lose a game, you know what I mean,
- 11:45Speaker 1: Like you still have pride, you still want to win
- 11:47Speaker 1: these games. So we'll see what happens in that game.
- 11:50Speaker 1: Very very difficult to gauge that game for me, Arizona,
- 11:54Speaker 1: Arizona and Detroit. There Andrew, what's up? Man, couldn't watch
- 11:58Speaker 1: the Angels game of the Brewery only available on Roku. Yeah,
- 12:02Speaker 1: they won, which actually surprised me. Against Seattle. Yeah, I
- 12:07Speaker 1: did not expect them to actually win that game. Lance
- 12:11Speaker 1: Hendrix is at his name. He was actually pretty good
- 12:13Speaker 1: in the game yesterday Colorado at Cleveland. This is another
- 12:17Speaker 1: one of those games. This is a game nobody wants
- 12:19Speaker 1: to watch. Probably a game that you shouldn't be betting.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Cleveland is technically returning home from a road trip, but
- 12:26Speaker 1: they only went to Kansas City, so we really only
- 12:28Speaker 1: have one really long road trip return on Mondays. You know,
- 12:31Speaker 1: That's one of the things I like to look for.
- 12:32Speaker 1: I like to look to fade the Sunday night teams,
- 12:35Speaker 1: and I like to look for teams that are returning
- 12:38Speaker 1: home from long road trips and fade them. Which there
- 12:40Speaker 1: is only really one today, and It's not gonna be
- 12:43Speaker 1: one of the games that I'm getting involved in or
- 12:46Speaker 1: recommending a play on, since, as I keep saying, I'm
- 12:48Speaker 1: not actually betting these games here right now, trying to
- 12:53Speaker 1: get my financial state in order. Here Cleveland, they are
- 12:57Speaker 1: returning home from that road trip a big divisional series
- 12:59Speaker 1: again Kansas City. They did have to play an extra
- 13:02Speaker 1: game on Saturday, they had to play a doubleheader, so
- 13:05Speaker 1: maybe they'll be a little bit extra tired for that reason.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Colorado's coming in from Baltimore. Colorado, I believe just lost
- 13:12Speaker 1: again yesterday. Don't really trust either bullpen or though Colorado's
- 13:17Speaker 1: bullpen is the worst of the two, both offenses are bad,
- 13:20Speaker 1: but again Colorado is the worst of the two. I
- 13:22Speaker 1: think Colorado's starting pitcher is the worst of the two.
- 13:25Speaker 1: Bradley Blaylock really young guy though, so it's possibly he
- 13:29Speaker 1: does get better. It's possibly he's gonna be better away
- 13:31Speaker 1: from home. Eight point six seven e RA one point
- 13:35Speaker 1: seven to eight whip. I mean, that's not very good
- 13:38Speaker 1: at all. Obviously, he has been better on the road
- 13:40Speaker 1: though away from cors Field. It's a small sample size though,
- 13:43Speaker 1: but four point five R in the road the last
- 13:46Speaker 1: two starts this month. He's only allowed three runs at
- 13:49Speaker 1: eleven innings, so that's not that bad. But he also
- 13:51Speaker 1: only has one strikeout, so he's not striking out anybody,
- 13:56Speaker 1: so that's kind of a concern. It looks like he's
- 13:57Speaker 1: not really a strikeout pitcher all. I don't. I just
- 14:02Speaker 1: don't expect much from him at all, man, even though
- 14:04Speaker 1: those starts like look okay on the surface, but I'm
- 14:07Speaker 1: not buying it really up against Cleveland, though, they are
- 14:10Speaker 1: a pretty bad offense, and Playlock has never been seen
- 14:13Speaker 1: by them before, so maybe he does have a little
- 14:14Speaker 1: bit of an edge in that respect against this Cleveland offense.
- 14:18Speaker 1: I think the preferred starter here is definitely slay Chacony
- 14:22Speaker 1: because he has proven himself a lot more than Playlock
- 14:25Speaker 1: has in his young career for Cleveland here three point
- 14:28Speaker 1: seven six e IRA this year, one point two to
- 14:30Speaker 1: three WHIP. Pretty decent numbers there. He's been worse at
- 14:33Speaker 1: home though, four point nine to eight ERA at home
- 14:36Speaker 1: not great. This month, he's been pretty decent three point
- 14:40Speaker 1: nine to five ERA, eighteen to six strikeout walk ratio.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Cleveland has won his last three starts. He's given up
- 14:48Speaker 1: two earned runs a piece in three of these outings,
- 14:50Speaker 1: and then he did give up six in a game
- 14:52Speaker 1: against the A's, but he went eight and the third
- 14:54Speaker 1: innings in that one. He's got at least six innings
- 14:57Speaker 1: in every start this month, so they're really they're letting
- 14:59Speaker 1: him go. Oh man, They basically have him off the leash,
- 15:01Speaker 1: which is something I do kind of like to see
- 15:03Speaker 1: as long as that picture isn't gonna get burned out
- 15:06Speaker 1: or anything like that. And now he's going up against
- 15:08Speaker 1: uh wait, who are they playing again? Oh yeah, Colorado?
- 15:11Speaker 1: Colorado really bad offense CHACONI. I mean, I would expect
- 15:15Speaker 1: him to do okay against them. Uh they only have
- 15:17Speaker 1: ten at bats against the lifetime, they have no extra
- 15:20Speaker 1: base hits, three strikeouts, no walks. They do have a
- 15:22Speaker 1: three hundred average off of them, but three for ten
- 15:25Speaker 1: with no other like statistics isn't really that good and
- 15:29Speaker 1: six hundred ops against him, So I think CHACONI is
- 15:32Speaker 1: still pretty good against them, should do fine. But obviously
- 15:35Speaker 1: if you want Cleveland, you're having to pay a huge
- 15:37Speaker 1: price for it, And even though they do have the advantage,
- 15:39Speaker 1: like I think across the board in this game, other
- 15:42Speaker 1: than the fact that they're returning home, I wouldn't do it.
- 15:45Speaker 1: I mean this price, I mean, should Cleveland be favored
- 15:48Speaker 1: by this much against anybody? Probably not up from minus
- 15:52Speaker 1: two third down for minus two to thirty minus two
- 15:54Speaker 1: twenty seven. They're very public, ninety five percent tickets, ninety
- 15:56Speaker 1: six percent of the cash on them. We do see
- 15:59Speaker 1: money coming in on the under under the nine here
- 16:02Speaker 1: fifty per tickets on the over, seventy percent of the
- 16:05Speaker 1: cash on the under. I mean, you do have two
- 16:07Speaker 1: pretty weak offenses, so that's probably kind of the argument
- 16:11Speaker 1: for the under. And Chacon he looks like he's set
- 16:13Speaker 1: up to do pretty well against Colorado play a lock.
- 16:16Speaker 1: I'm not so sure that he's actually gonna do well
- 16:18Speaker 1: in that game, So I don't think I would want
- 16:19Speaker 1: the under either. No, I do not care about Nascar.
- 16:24Speaker 1: I don't watch it. I don't touch it. Uh, I
- 16:26Speaker 1: don't know how Bubba Wallace won that he wasn't scared
- 16:29Speaker 1: by a noose this time. I guess the under which
- 16:33Speaker 1: you mean the one I gave out yesterday. Yeah, that
- 16:35Speaker 1: worked out pretty well. Boy and miss yet, Oh, you're
- 16:40Speaker 1: saying that I'm gonna have an under on that game?
- 16:42Speaker 1: Is that what you think? Well, we'll see because you
- 16:46Speaker 1: know that I do. I do have a play on
- 16:48Speaker 1: that game, because I listed it in the in the
- 16:50Speaker 1: title here, and I did say one of my plays
- 16:52Speaker 1: is a total. Is it the under in that game?
- 16:55Speaker 1: I don't know. Tampa Bay At Yankees. Yankees finally ended
- 17:00Speaker 1: lost streak there. Yes, well, they had lost three in
- 17:02Speaker 1: a row. I mean they haven't been doing that well though.
- 17:04Speaker 1: The Yankees actually had one of the worst records over
- 17:07Speaker 1: the last month or so. They did beat Philadelphia yesterday.
- 17:12Speaker 1: Yankees still kind of struggling though, man, I mean, their
- 17:14Speaker 1: offense is good, but their bullpen hasn't really been that good.
- 17:17Speaker 1: They used most of their best relievers yesterday's The Yankees
- 17:20Speaker 1: bullpen not exactly in the greatest shape here. Tampa's coming
- 17:24Speaker 1: in off a loss, getting swept actually by Cincinnati. I
- 17:27Speaker 1: think they didn't use as many of their better relievers yesterday.
- 17:32Speaker 1: I did say I liked the under in the first
- 17:34Speaker 1: five innings in that game yesterday, and the whole game
- 17:36Speaker 1: went under. So I actually, I mean, you got to
- 17:39Speaker 1: give the bullpen advantage to Tampa in this game. But
- 17:42Speaker 1: the question, one of the questions is going to be
- 17:44Speaker 1: how early is the bullpen going to get involved in
- 17:47Speaker 1: this game? Because Drew Rasmussen is pitching for Tampa and
- 17:50Speaker 1: he's having a good season. He's actually been their best
- 17:53Speaker 1: starter two point nine to three ERA one point zero
- 17:56Speaker 1: three whip. Tampa is just kind of getting away with
- 17:58Speaker 1: having a whole rotation of like mediocrity basically, and they're
- 18:02Speaker 1: just they're just winning games anyway. So maybe Tampa isn't
- 18:06Speaker 1: gonna be as good for the rest of the season.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Rasmussen has been good though, He's pretty decent on the
- 18:11Speaker 1: road to three point three EER. The question is how
- 18:15Speaker 1: deep is he gonna go in this game? Because he
- 18:16Speaker 1: was going all this you know, the starters workload, and
- 18:19Speaker 1: then they started limiting his pitches way down. He's gone
- 18:22Speaker 1: no more than four innings since June twenty fifth. Now
- 18:27Speaker 1: it looks like maybe they kind of like ramped his
- 18:30Speaker 1: pitch count down so they could get him ready for
- 18:32Speaker 1: the All Star Game. But I don't think they knew
- 18:35Speaker 1: he was gonna be in the All Star Game until
- 18:37Speaker 1: like maybe one start before that, so it kind of
- 18:40Speaker 1: makes sense that that was a shortened start. And then
- 18:43Speaker 1: after the All Star breaking came out and he had
- 18:45Speaker 1: a mediocre start against the White Sox and they let
- 18:47Speaker 1: him go four innings. Is he gonna get ramped up
- 18:49Speaker 1: again and go like five plus innings again? I don't know.
- 18:53Speaker 1: I mean, maybe he will, but that's the question because
- 18:56Speaker 1: right now we don't really know the answer to that.
- 18:57Speaker 1: But he has been pretty good throughout the course of
- 18:59Speaker 1: the season. He just doesn't allow many runs. I mean,
- 19:02Speaker 1: he's allowed no more than four on runs in any
- 19:04Speaker 1: start all season. But if you will, if you like
- 19:07Speaker 1: Rasmussen here, you're gonna want him to get, you know,
- 19:11Speaker 1: deeper into this game than what he has been doing.
- 19:13Speaker 1: He does have good numbers against the Yankees and thirty
- 19:15Speaker 1: one at bats a one twenty nine average allowed. He's
- 19:18Speaker 1: allowed zero extra base hits to them, three point fifty
- 19:21Speaker 1: eight batting average or three fifty eight ops excuse me,
- 19:24Speaker 1: batting average will be bad. OPS that's really good. And
- 19:27Speaker 1: twelve to four strike out walker Racius to Rasmussen has
- 19:30Speaker 1: good matchup numbers even though the Yankees are good at hitting.
- 19:34Speaker 1: So I kind of like Rasmussen in this game. He's
- 19:38Speaker 1: gonna be opposed by the rookie Cam Schlittler for the Yankees.
- 19:43Speaker 1: Here Schlitler have. I think he has two starts now
- 19:46Speaker 1: so far, as ERA four point three five one point
- 19:49Speaker 1: five to five whip is definitely too high. He's been
- 19:52Speaker 1: worse at home five point oh six e r at home.
- 19:54Speaker 1: But again it's only two starts, and really he wasn't
- 19:58Speaker 1: that bad. He went at least five innings and both
- 20:00Speaker 1: of them didn't allow more than the three ear and
- 20:02Speaker 1: runs in either of them. Really, the walk rate has
- 20:05Speaker 1: been his one problem. His strikeout rate is fine, ten
- 20:08Speaker 1: and ten and a third not that bad, but five
- 20:10Speaker 1: walks that's where the problems are coming in. Man, So
- 20:13Speaker 1: he's gotta get his wildness under control a little bit,
- 20:16Speaker 1: and I think he might be able to. I mean,
- 20:17Speaker 1: he is a decent prospect, and obviously, I mean I
- 20:20Speaker 1: don't have to switch to it. But Obviously Tampa has
- 20:22Speaker 1: never faced him before, so Schlittler could have a little
- 20:25Speaker 1: bit of an edge there over Tampa over their hitters
- 20:29Speaker 1: because they haven't seen him before. So the way that
- 20:30Speaker 1: I'm looking at this game is under in the first
- 20:33Speaker 1: five innings because we don't know how long Rastmistin's even
- 20:36Speaker 1: gonna go in this game, but while he's in there,
- 20:38Speaker 1: he does look like he has a matchup edge. Schlitler
- 20:40Speaker 1: may have the matchup edge as well against the hitters
- 20:42Speaker 1: that haven't seen him don't really want anything to do
- 20:45Speaker 1: with the Yankees bulp, and so I think first five
- 20:48Speaker 1: under is the way to look at this. The total's
- 20:49Speaker 1: gone down from nine to eight and a half on
- 20:51Speaker 1: the full game, uh, all the way to juice to
- 20:54Speaker 1: the under, so fairly significant move. Even though we see
- 20:57Speaker 1: sixty percent of ticket seventy percent of the cash on
- 20:59Speaker 1: the over, I'm not sure if I'm buying that. I mean,
- 21:03Speaker 1: I think the public certainly will come in more often
- 21:05Speaker 1: than not on and over in a Yankees game, and
- 21:07Speaker 1: some of the money looks like it is coming in
- 21:09Speaker 1: on the Yankees up for minus one point fifteen to
- 21:11Speaker 1: minus one twenty seven or minus one twenty six now
- 21:14Speaker 1: sixty eight percent of tickets seventy three percent of the
- 21:16Speaker 1: cash on the Yankees. I mean, I'm not sure that
- 21:20Speaker 1: I totally see the argument for that. I mean, I
- 21:22Speaker 1: would not want anything to do with the Yankees bullpen. Obviously.
- 21:25Speaker 1: The huge advantage of the Yankees have is that their offense
- 21:27Speaker 1: is the way better offense, and they're not having to travel.
- 21:30Speaker 1: They're staying at home, I believe. So that's the other
- 21:33Speaker 1: thing for the Yankees at least. Yeah, they're staying at home,
- 21:35Speaker 1: So Tampa is having to travel in from Cincinnati. But anyway,
- 21:39Speaker 1: first five under I think is maybe the best way
- 21:41Speaker 1: to look in that one. Dodgers are going to Cincinnati,
- 21:44Speaker 1: Cincinnati is staying at home, and they're coming off a
- 21:47Speaker 1: sweep of Tampa. Like I said, so they do have
- 21:50Speaker 1: kind of some momentum right now. I mean, it's not
- 21:52Speaker 1: like Cincinnati's gonna be in a letdown spot facing the
- 21:55Speaker 1: Dodgers here. Dodgers are having to travel in from Boston,
- 21:59Speaker 1: so they do have a little bit travel here. That
- 22:00Speaker 1: was a big series against the Red Sox. Man the
- 22:02Speaker 1: Red Sox were able to take the last two games
- 22:04Speaker 1: of the series. Dodgers, are they gonna be hung over
- 22:07Speaker 1: it all coming into this game. It's possible. Cincinnati, I believe,
- 22:10Speaker 1: used more of their bullpen yesterday, though Dodgers' bullpen is
- 22:14Speaker 1: not that good, so I don't really trust either bullpen
- 22:17Speaker 1: in this game. But I like both starters. I mean,
- 22:20Speaker 1: you're looking at Boyd versus Miss today, which is definitely
- 22:23Speaker 1: a good starting pitching matchup. This one looks to be
- 22:26Speaker 1: pretty entertaining as well, with Yamamoto pitching for the Dodgers
- 22:30Speaker 1: against Burns for the Reds. Yamamoto obviously has been good
- 22:34Speaker 1: throughout the season two point five to five VRA, one
- 22:37Speaker 1: point zero five WHIP. He's better on the road one
- 22:40Speaker 1: point eight to four Roadie Rail, though Cincinnati a difficult
- 22:43Speaker 1: place to pitch, but he's just doing well overall. Man,
- 22:47Speaker 1: He's back and form again. He had one really bad
- 22:49Speaker 1: start against Milwaukee this month, but it didn't really affect
- 22:52Speaker 1: his numbers because he only went two thirds of an inning.
- 22:55Speaker 1: Overall this month, he still has a two point two
- 22:57Speaker 1: to ninety RA and a twenty three to six strikeout
- 22:59Speaker 1: walker show, so he is still pitching well up against
- 23:03Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds. Good numbers, although it's a small sample
- 23:06Speaker 1: size of thirteen six strikeouts, two walks, one fifty four
- 23:11Speaker 1: average allowed four ninety seven ops. So the Reds really
- 23:14Speaker 1: have not done any damage against him. And he's going
- 23:17Speaker 1: up against the rookie Chase Burns, who has bad looking
- 23:20Speaker 1: numbers for sure, six point six y five ERA, one
- 23:23Speaker 1: point six to two whip. But this guy, and it's crazy,
- 23:26Speaker 1: he's from Italy. Man, you would not guess that based
- 23:29Speaker 1: on his name or I guess his appearance. This dude
- 23:33Speaker 1: is from Italy, so he's he's my brother. Man. Burns
- 23:37Speaker 1: has been better at home though, four point zero ninety RA.
- 23:40Speaker 1: But I know his stats look really bad on the season.
- 23:42Speaker 1: But the one thing that he does do is he
- 23:46Speaker 1: racks up a ton of strikeouts. Man. He has thirty
- 23:49Speaker 1: five strikeouts so far in twenty one and two thirds innings.
- 23:52Speaker 1: So if he's able to stop being wild and stop
- 23:56Speaker 1: allowing you know, hits and hard contact, he's going to
- 23:59Speaker 1: be good, man, because he could fool hitters at the
- 24:02Speaker 1: major league levelf he's striking out that many guys, that's crazy.
- 24:05Speaker 1: He struck out ten a piece in his last two starts.
- 24:08Speaker 1: It was against bad offenses in Colorado and Washington, and
- 24:11Speaker 1: the Reds have lost four starts in a row behind
- 24:14Speaker 1: him after they won his first start, and he didn't
- 24:17Speaker 1: get the win in that one. But I like Burns, man.
- 24:19Speaker 1: I think he is going to find a way to
- 24:21Speaker 1: settle this down a little bit and not be as wild.
- 24:23Speaker 1: He does throw really hard, he does have really good stuff,
- 24:28Speaker 1: So I expect Burns to be better at some point.
- 24:31Speaker 1: Will it happen in this game, I don't know. Man.
- 24:33Speaker 1: The Dodgers, obviously they're one of the best offenses in baseball.
- 24:36Speaker 1: They are better at home though than they are on
- 24:38Speaker 1: the road. But this is a pretty offensive park here,
- 24:41Speaker 1: So I do worry about Burns a little bit coming
- 24:43Speaker 1: into this game. But I do like his stuff. I
- 24:45Speaker 1: think he has a very high ceiling. I mean, I
- 24:48Speaker 1: think you still could maybe look at this game as
- 24:50Speaker 1: being a first five inning under play. Here we do
- 24:53Speaker 1: see the total just kind of sitting at nine. I
- 24:56Speaker 1: wouldn't want anything to do with the bullpens, like I said,
- 24:58Speaker 1: But eighty seven percent of tickets on the over and
- 25:00Speaker 1: only sixty percent of the cash on the over, so
- 25:03Speaker 1: it's a public over, which makes sense. I mean, it's
- 25:06Speaker 1: a game in Cincinnati involving the Dodgers. Public will only
- 25:09Speaker 1: want to play it over in this game. But I would,
- 25:13Speaker 1: uh yeah, I would look first five inning under if
- 25:15Speaker 1: I was gonna do that game as well. Atlanta at
- 25:18Speaker 1: Kansas City, Kansas City here, you go, Zach with your
- 25:21Speaker 1: team here. Kansas City did win that series against Cleveland.
- 25:25Speaker 1: They've actually won two series in a row. It makes
- 25:28Speaker 1: no sense, man, They beat the Cubs and then they
- 25:30Speaker 1: beat Cleveland. They're staying at home, so Kansas City at
- 25:35Speaker 1: least has travel advantage here or they don't have to travel.
- 25:38Speaker 1: They did use a lot of their bullpen yesterday yesterday,
- 25:41Speaker 1: that which might be an issue with rich Hill on
- 25:44Speaker 1: the mountain today because he's probably not gonna go that
- 25:45Speaker 1: deep into this game. So I think Atlanta may have
- 25:49Speaker 1: a bullpen edge here in this game. And their bullpen's
- 25:51Speaker 1: not as good as Kansas City's normally. But Kansas City
- 25:55Speaker 1: used too much of their bullpen yesterday. I think the Braves,
- 25:58Speaker 1: I don't believe used as much of their Yeah, they
- 26:00Speaker 1: just kind of let well. Elder got destroyed, so I
- 26:03Speaker 1: apologize for all that. I mean, I don't like Elder,
- 26:05Speaker 1: so I think you can never really bank on Elder
- 26:07Speaker 1: to do well. Ever, But the Braves kind of saved
- 26:11Speaker 1: their bullpen because they knew that game was totally out
- 26:13Speaker 1: of hand. So I actually think the Braves have a
- 26:15Speaker 1: little bit of a bullpen edge here. But of course
- 26:17Speaker 1: they've lost five games in a row and they are
- 26:19Speaker 1: traveling here, so the Braves have some negative momentum here
- 26:23Speaker 1: plus travel, so I don't really love the spot. But
- 26:25Speaker 1: looking at the starting pitching matchup, you got to think
- 26:27Speaker 1: the Braves have the starting pitching edge here. With Spencer
- 26:30Speaker 1: Strider pitching, I mean, he's the much younger pitcher and
- 26:33Speaker 1: the pitcher that has the way better stuff at this
- 26:36Speaker 1: point three point seven to two ERA, one point one
- 26:39Speaker 1: to eight whip, although he has been worse on the
- 26:41Speaker 1: road four point five to five roadyra this month doing
- 26:45Speaker 1: well three point four to two ERA. Is a really
- 26:48Speaker 1: high strikeout rate thirty two strikeouts in twenty three and
- 26:50Speaker 1: two thirds innings. But he's allowed ten walks. He's allowed
- 26:54Speaker 1: three walks or more in five No. Yeah, five of
- 26:58Speaker 1: his last six starts three or more walks. So Stryder,
- 27:01Speaker 1: he's still too wild, man, He's got to get less
- 27:03Speaker 1: wild than that. And in this month, the home runs
- 27:06Speaker 1: have heard. I mean, he's a lot five home runs.
- 27:08Speaker 1: But he's facing Kansas City here, so he might do well.
- 27:11Speaker 1: Kansas City's offense is pretty bad, one of the worst
- 27:15Speaker 1: in baseball really sorry, Zach, and Kansas City is a
- 27:17Speaker 1: more pitcher friendly park, so I'm not expecting Strider to
- 27:21Speaker 1: do really poorly in this game. He has decent numbers
- 27:24Speaker 1: against case C although they haven't really seen that much
- 27:26Speaker 1: of him. They only have four hitters have seen it before.
- 27:29Speaker 1: Sixteen at bats, eight strikeouts, two walks, two fifty average
- 27:33Speaker 1: five eighty three ops. So I think Stryder will be
- 27:36Speaker 1: okay in this game. As I said, he's going up
- 27:38Speaker 1: against Rich Hill, Zach's favorite guy yet Dick Mountain. Both
- 27:43Speaker 1: Dick's are pitching today. Actually, Dick Fits is pitching for
- 27:46Speaker 1: the Red Sox today too. Dick Hill and Dick Fits,
- 27:49Speaker 1: Dick Mountain and Dick Fitz. Rich Hill he was decent
- 27:53Speaker 1: and he's from Boston, by the way, so there's Boston
- 27:55Speaker 1: all around. And rich Hill was on the Boston Red
- 27:58Speaker 1: Sox I think twice during his career he was on
- 28:00Speaker 1: the Red Sox. Rich Hill, as we know, oldest player
- 28:05Speaker 1: in the league. He made one start and he was
- 28:07Speaker 1: decently effective in that start. He has a one point
- 28:10Speaker 1: eighty r and one point six whip. Obviously, the whip
- 28:12Speaker 1: is not very good. The strikeout walk numbers were not
- 28:15Speaker 1: good in that game, but it was against the Cubs,
- 28:18Speaker 1: and the Cubs were a very good lineup, and he
- 28:20Speaker 1: went five innings in that game, which was more than
- 28:22Speaker 1: I expected. He only allowed one earned run, so the
- 28:24Speaker 1: fielding wasn't really helping him. Behind him, he only allowed
- 28:27Speaker 1: six hits, two walks, wasn't great. One strikeouts certainly not great.
- 28:31Speaker 1: Although Hill isn't really a strikeout guy. I mean he
- 28:34Speaker 1: tries to get guys to, you know, just make soft
- 28:37Speaker 1: contact and get a lot of outs that way. Rich Hill,
- 28:41Speaker 1: up against who do we have the braves here in
- 28:44Speaker 1: his career, actually has good numbers against him in fifty
- 28:46Speaker 1: five at Pat's fifteen strikeouts, four walks, two batting one
- 28:51Speaker 1: eighty two batting average, allowed a six h one ops.
- 28:54Speaker 1: Do we trust any of those numbers though, that Rich
- 28:57Speaker 1: Hill has. I mean, he's so old at this point
- 28:59Speaker 1: that I don't know the we could say that he's
- 29:00Speaker 1: the same guy at this point. I really don't know
- 29:03Speaker 1: what we're get. What we're gonna get out of Hill here,
- 29:06Speaker 1: Atlanta is a big road favorite and probably too heavy
- 29:10Speaker 1: a favorite, man. I mean, I know Atlanta has the
- 29:12Speaker 1: better offense. I know Atlanta has the better starting pitcher
- 29:15Speaker 1: on the mountain here. Atlanta probably actually has the bullpen edge,
- 29:18Speaker 1: like I said, as well, just because they're more rested.
- 29:20Speaker 1: But laying a price like this on the road with
- 29:23Speaker 1: an Atlanta team that can't win a game right now
- 29:25Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be that great of an idea to me.
- 29:28Speaker 1: They're down for minus one seventy to minus one sixty five,
- 29:30Speaker 1: but they actually getting ninety six percent of the cash
- 29:33Speaker 1: it looks like right now, which I'm not sure that
- 29:35Speaker 1: I buy that. I don't see what professional money is
- 29:37Speaker 1: going to be coming in on a road favorite like that.
- 29:40Speaker 1: A fifty eight percent of the tickets on Kansas City.
- 29:44Speaker 1: I don't know that Kansas City would really be public either.
- 29:46Speaker 1: I think generally when you see Atlanta here and it
- 29:49Speaker 1: looks like it's still the market is still kind of
- 29:51Speaker 1: indicating that way that Atlanta is kind of an anti
- 29:54Speaker 1: public and professional side here, which I'm I mean, I'm
- 29:57Speaker 1: certainly not going to get involved in it that way.
- 30:01Speaker 1: I think the one thing is professionals keep going with
- 30:04Speaker 1: this thing like, Atlanta is not as bad as their
- 30:06Speaker 1: record looks, and they keep doing that and Atlanta keeps losing,
- 30:09Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, you just have to pick your spots, man, Like,
- 30:11Speaker 1: I agree that Atlanta's talent is a lot better than
- 30:14Speaker 1: what their record is right now. But their record, I mean,
- 30:18Speaker 1: it's really really bad right now. Yeah, it should get
- 30:20Speaker 1: a little bit better than that. But you got to
- 30:22Speaker 1: pick your spots and pick the right prices when they're playing.
- 30:25Speaker 1: And I don't think this is the right price. The
- 30:27Speaker 1: price is wrong. Bob. I still have not watched Happy
- 30:31Speaker 1: Gilmore too though, and unfortunately rip to Bob Barker and
- 30:35Speaker 1: Carl Weathers by the way, although they killed off Chubbs
- 30:38Speaker 1: sorry spoiler in the first one anyway, so they didn't
- 30:41Speaker 1: need Carl Wethers to reprise his role anyway, and that
- 30:45Speaker 1: in that one anyway. Yeah, I don't even know what
- 30:49Speaker 1: I would do with this game, to be honest. Yeah,
- 30:52Speaker 1: I mean it's a tough call in that game. I
- 30:54Speaker 1: don't even know as far as like team totals, what
- 30:56Speaker 1: even makes the most sense Atlanta maybe over their team total,
- 30:59Speaker 1: I mean it's a pretty high total of nine and
- 31:00Speaker 1: a half if you want to fade the Rich Hill
- 31:03Speaker 1: phenomenon here, because I think everybody's kind of like, yeah,
- 31:07Speaker 1: everybody's just kind of thinking like, oh, Rich Hill is,
- 31:10Speaker 1: like you know, it's this whole thing now, it's like
- 31:12Speaker 1: kind of overhyped. Speaking of the other Dick Boston at
- 31:17Speaker 1: Minnesota here, Red Sox starting a road trip here, but
- 31:20Speaker 1: it could be a little bit of a letdown spot.
- 31:22Speaker 1: A lot of times when you start a road trip,
- 31:24Speaker 1: you tend to be focused. But the Red Sox just
- 31:26Speaker 1: beat the Dodgers twice man a big weekend series, and
- 31:30Speaker 1: now they are stepping way down in class here. The
- 31:32Speaker 1: Red Sox just had to face out of the All
- 31:33Speaker 1: Star break. They face Cubs, Philly and the Dodgers, so
- 31:38Speaker 1: they face three of the top four offenses in baseball. Basically,
- 31:42Speaker 1: now they have to step way down in class to
- 31:44Speaker 1: face this weak Minnesota offense. And Minnesota also does not
- 31:48Speaker 1: have a good bullpen. Red Sox have the better bullpen,
- 31:51Speaker 1: but both bullpens saw a lot of usage yesterday, so
- 31:53Speaker 1: I don't trust either bullpen first of all coming into
- 31:56Speaker 1: this game because of the rest scenario, Like guess you
- 31:58Speaker 1: have to give the Red Sox the bullpen edge just Overall,
- 32:01Speaker 1: their bullpen has been better than Minnesota's. The Red Sox
- 32:04Speaker 1: have the better offense, but their offense is way worse
- 32:08Speaker 1: on the road than it is at home, so that
- 32:10Speaker 1: kind of evens it out a little bit too. Dick
- 32:12Speaker 1: Fitz pitching for the Red Sox here, he's not been
- 32:15Speaker 1: that good four point eight six ERA one point two
- 32:18Speaker 1: to seven whip. He's better on the road though, three
- 32:20Speaker 1: point eight road ERA. Last start was a road start,
- 32:25Speaker 1: and it wasn't good against Philadelphia. He gave it four
- 32:28Speaker 1: runs and three and a third innings because he gave
- 32:30Speaker 1: up two bombs, but he did have four strikeouts no walks,
- 32:33Speaker 1: so his command has been okay this month. He has
- 32:35Speaker 1: an eleven to two strikeout walk race here this month.
- 32:38Speaker 1: He's only allowed more than three or in runs twice
- 32:42Speaker 1: this season, but the Red Sox have lost almost all
- 32:45Speaker 1: of his starts and lost all but two of them,
- 32:48Speaker 1: so things aren't really that great for fits. Against Minnesota,
- 32:53Speaker 1: he has decent numbers in a small sixteen at bat
- 32:56Speaker 1: sample size. He only is one strikeout against them though
- 32:58Speaker 1: in one walk, but he's on the two point fifty
- 33:01Speaker 1: batting average and forty four ohps, so his numbers against
- 33:05Speaker 1: Minnesota are pretty good. He's going up against Simeon Woods Richardson,
- 33:09Speaker 1: who has mediocre numbers four point one four ERA, one
- 33:12Speaker 1: point three seven whip not something that I like. Three
- 33:16Speaker 1: point one to two ERA at home though, so he
- 33:18Speaker 1: is better at home over the past month. His two
- 33:22Speaker 1: point five to five ERA looks good. And the fact
- 33:24Speaker 1: that he hasn't allowed more than three or runs in
- 33:27Speaker 1: any start going all the way back to early June,
- 33:29Speaker 1: that looks like he's pitching well. But I would kind
- 33:31Speaker 1: of counter that, even though Minnesota's actually won four of
- 33:34Speaker 1: his last five games. It's like, well, that means Woods
- 33:36Speaker 1: Richardson is pitching well, right? I don't think so, man,
- 33:40Speaker 1: because this month he has a twelve to eleven strikeout
- 33:44Speaker 1: walk RACEIO. That's not good at all. He's walking way
- 33:46Speaker 1: too many guys. He walked five guys last time out
- 33:49Speaker 1: against the Dodgers. There he walked a burger. There, the
- 33:53Speaker 1: five guys against the Dodgers. I know it's a good
- 33:55Speaker 1: Dodger lineup, but still that's not good. He failed to
- 33:57Speaker 1: go five innings in each of his last two starts,
- 34:00Speaker 1: including one against Pittsburgh, where you put too many guys
- 34:02Speaker 1: on base mostly via the hit six hits in four
- 34:05Speaker 1: and two thirds, so he's not really actually in good
- 34:08Speaker 1: form right now, So I don't think I'm gonna put
- 34:11Speaker 1: much trust in Woods Richardson here. Red Sox really haven't
- 34:15Speaker 1: seen him. The only Bregman has seen him, and Bregman
- 34:17Speaker 1: has hit him well two for five, home run and
- 34:20Speaker 1: one strikeout against him, no walks. Although it's such a
- 34:23Speaker 1: small sample size, there's nothing you can really take away
- 34:26Speaker 1: from that other than you got a lot of unfamiliarity here. Actually,
- 34:29Speaker 1: really kind of from both pictures against these lineups, there's
- 34:32Speaker 1: a lot of unfamiliarity. The money looks like it's kind
- 34:36Speaker 1: of come in towards the Red Sox. Minnesota has dropped
- 34:38Speaker 1: from minus one to twenty three down to minus one
- 34:40Speaker 1: oh seven fifty three percent takes fifty eight percent of
- 34:43Speaker 1: the cash coming in on the Red Sox, so it
- 34:45Speaker 1: looks like the Red Sox are taking some of the
- 34:47Speaker 1: money on the side. The totals kind of just sitting
- 34:49Speaker 1: at nine and a half juice to the under. Eighty
- 34:52Speaker 1: three percent of the tickets are on the under and
- 34:54Speaker 1: seventy seven percent of cash on the under, so it
- 34:56Speaker 1: looks like it might be a public under in this game.
- 35:00Speaker 1: I actually don't hate the over in this game because
- 35:03Speaker 1: I don't really trust either starting pitcher that much. They
- 35:05Speaker 1: might not go that deep into this game either, and
- 35:07Speaker 1: then you're gonna have to get some overworked bullpens into
- 35:09Speaker 1: this game. Although again, the offenses aren't really that formidable.
- 35:13Speaker 1: Red Sox on the road they aren't very formidable, So
- 35:17Speaker 1: tough game to read. Man Cubs Milwaukee will skip because
- 35:21Speaker 1: that's gonna be one of my best bets, which you
- 35:23Speaker 1: probably already know what it is. Philadelphia at the White Sox.
- 35:26Speaker 1: The White Sox just lost to the Cubs twice, two
- 35:29Speaker 1: out of three. White Sox and they had to use
- 35:32Speaker 1: some of their bullpen yesterday. White Sox bullpend isn't even
- 35:34Speaker 1: good anyway. Their offense is obviously not good, so Philadelphia
- 35:38Speaker 1: is stepping way down in class here. But they are
- 35:40Speaker 1: coming off a couple of big series where they actually
- 35:42Speaker 1: won both series against the Red Sox and Yankees. So yes,
- 35:46Speaker 1: Philadelphia is stepping down a class to face a way
- 35:49Speaker 1: worse team in the White Sox. But they also might
- 35:51Speaker 1: be in a little bit of a hangover spot because
- 35:52Speaker 1: they're coming off those two big series but maybe it
- 35:58Speaker 1: doesn't even matter that much because philadelph I mean, even
- 36:01Speaker 1: though their bullpen is bad, I mean the White Sox
- 36:03Speaker 1: bullpen is also bad. Like which one of the bullpens
- 36:05Speaker 1: is worse? I don't know, White Sox. This is offense.
- 36:08Speaker 1: White Sox have the second worst offense ops wise and
- 36:11Speaker 1: all of Baseball. White Sox are a bottom bullpen, so
- 36:15Speaker 1: they're actually worse than Philadelphia's bullpen, not by a whole lot,
- 36:18Speaker 1: but by some Philadelphia's bullpen ERA is worse though I
- 36:21Speaker 1: have this arranged by Whip, so both bullpen's not very trustworthy.
- 36:26Speaker 1: But Philadelphia probably is gonna have their starter go deeper
- 36:29Speaker 1: into this game because it is Christopher Sanchez, and he's
- 36:32Speaker 1: been probably the best pitcher all season that did not
- 36:36Speaker 1: make the All Star Game. His numbers are really really excellent.
- 36:39Speaker 1: Two point four ERA, one point zero nine WHIP. He's
- 36:42Speaker 1: been even better on the road two point one seventy
- 36:45Speaker 1: R in the road. He is coming off a complete
- 36:48Speaker 1: game against the Red Sox, were he only allowed one
- 36:50Speaker 1: run and struck out twelve and didn't walk anybody, only
- 36:53Speaker 1: four hits allowed to absolute domination of the Red Sox.
- 36:58Speaker 1: Did throw over one hundred pitches though, which he only
- 37:00Speaker 1: done that believe one other time all season. So does
- 37:03Speaker 1: that mean he's gonna be overworked and kind of have
- 37:05Speaker 1: a worse start here. I mean, it's hard to have
- 37:08Speaker 1: a better start than that, But I don't know, because
- 37:10Speaker 1: he threw over one hundred pitches in a pretty similar
- 37:12Speaker 1: start against the Giants and did not have any sort
- 37:15Speaker 1: of letdown really after that. All he did get a
- 37:17Speaker 1: little bit wild in the start after that with three walks.
- 37:20Speaker 1: But even so, he's been really, really consistent. Man. He's
- 37:23Speaker 1: allowed one run a piece in every one of his
- 37:27Speaker 1: last six starts. He hasn't allowed more than two earned
- 37:30Speaker 1: runs since May, and any started when he did that
- 37:32Speaker 1: he allowed three earned runs a couple of times. He's
- 37:34Speaker 1: allowed more than three earned runs one time all season.
- 37:38Speaker 1: Philadelphia has been winning behind him as well. What is that?
- 37:42Speaker 1: They've won six of his last nine starts this month,
- 37:45Speaker 1: three out of four this month, thirty one to four,
- 37:48Speaker 1: strikeout walk ratio one point one to ninety RA. I
- 37:51Speaker 1: think we get it. I mean, Sanchez is pitching at
- 37:53Speaker 1: an elite level right now, and he's facing this really
- 37:57Speaker 1: bad White Sox lineup. White Sox haven't seen a lot
- 38:00Speaker 1: of them. They only have three hitters we've ever seen
- 38:01Speaker 1: him before. They only have twelve at bats, so they
- 38:05Speaker 1: do have a three thirty three averages, six sixty seven ops,
- 38:08Speaker 1: no extra base hits, no walks, one strikeout. So I
- 38:11Speaker 1: still think Sanchez is gonna come in and pitch well here.
- 38:13Speaker 1: I mean, the only hitter that's really done anything against
- 38:16Speaker 1: him is Taylor three for seven, So I think Sanchez
- 38:19Speaker 1: should be fine in this game. He's going up against
- 38:22Speaker 1: Davis Martin, who has been okay for the White Sox
- 38:25Speaker 1: three point eight to nine ERA, one point two four
- 38:28Speaker 1: whip better at home three point oh two ERA. I
- 38:31Speaker 1: believe he just came back from injury. He was out
- 38:33Speaker 1: for more than a month, came back and had kind
- 38:35Speaker 1: of a shaky start at Tampa. He walked four guys
- 38:38Speaker 1: in five innings, but he did help hold them to
- 38:40Speaker 1: three earned runs three strikeouts. It was an okay start,
- 38:45Speaker 1: not great. Against Philadelphia. Martin basically hasn't been seen only
- 38:50Speaker 1: Kepler has seen him before. He's zero for two off
- 38:52Speaker 1: and so Martin actually pretty unfamiliar to Philadelphia because Philadelphia
- 38:56Speaker 1: isn't kind of this like hangover letdown spot. I mean
- 38:59Speaker 1: I'm thinking looking towards an under in this game actually
- 39:02Speaker 1: kind of makes some sense, although I wouldn't want to
- 39:05Speaker 1: involve the bullpens in that. So maybe a first five
- 39:07Speaker 1: under again in this game makes sense. Total has dropped
- 39:10Speaker 1: a little bit. It was juiced heavily on the over
- 39:14Speaker 1: eight and now it's juiced less on the over eight
- 39:16Speaker 1: fifty eight percent of tickets on the over ninety four
- 39:18Speaker 1: percent of the cash on the under, though, so it
- 39:19Speaker 1: doesn't look like the money is agreeing with that and
- 39:22Speaker 1: coming in on the under. Philadelphia is a huge favorite
- 39:24Speaker 1: and minus two ten on the road very public. I
- 39:27Speaker 1: don't think you would want anything to do with Philadelphia
- 39:30Speaker 1: as far as the side is concerned there, even though
- 39:32Speaker 1: yes they do have an advantage pretty much across the board,
- 39:35Speaker 1: especially offensively obviously, but the better starting pitcher as well.
- 39:41Speaker 1: But if it's a low scoring game, laying a price
- 39:43Speaker 1: like that on the road might not be the way
- 39:45Speaker 1: to go. Miami at St. Saint louis starting to struggle. Man.
- 39:49Speaker 1: They lost the last two games against San Diego split
- 39:52Speaker 1: the series after winning the first two. I don't think
- 39:55Speaker 1: they used a ton of their bullpend yesterday, but McGreevy
- 40:00Speaker 1: unfortunately did not pitch well because I thought that he
- 40:02Speaker 1: was the right side yesterday. He didn't pitch well yesterday.
- 40:05Speaker 1: Miami might be in a bad spot here because they
- 40:07Speaker 1: had actually won twice against San Diego and then they
- 40:10Speaker 1: beat Milwaukee twice. They were on a four game win streak,
- 40:13Speaker 1: and they lost the win streak yesterday, and like I say,
- 40:15Speaker 1: with a bad team like Miami, Miami, by the way
- 40:18Speaker 1: I think the record is, I think they're worse than
- 40:21Speaker 1: the record in indicating man, Miami, they're like almost a
- 40:24Speaker 1: five hundred team, I don't think they're even close to
- 40:26Speaker 1: that good. I think they're definitely worse than that. Although
- 40:30Speaker 1: their bullpen actually has been kind of mediocre, their hitting
- 40:33Speaker 1: has been kind of mediocre. But after they lost that
- 40:35Speaker 1: win streak, I think they're in a bad spot after that.
- 40:38Speaker 1: A lot of times the team like that will be
- 40:40Speaker 1: hung over after they lose a win streak like that,
- 40:42Speaker 1: coming down from that big series against Milwaukee. Although Saint
- 40:46Speaker 1: Louis does still have a pretty good record, I do
- 40:49Speaker 1: like Miami starting pitcher better. As far as the bullpens
- 40:53Speaker 1: are kind of a wash man. They're both kind of
- 40:55Speaker 1: mediocre bullpens on the offense I think is probably in
- 40:58Speaker 1: favor of Saint Louis Miami. Their offensive numbers aren't that bad,
- 41:03Speaker 1: but they don't really score that much, so I think
- 41:05Speaker 1: Saint Louis has the better offense. I do think Miami
- 41:08Speaker 1: has the better starter here. Edward Cabrera pitching pretty well
- 41:11Speaker 1: right now overall this season three point four to eighty RA,
- 41:14Speaker 1: one point two to four WHIP. Those are good numbers.
- 41:16Speaker 1: He's been worse on the road though, four point three
- 41:18Speaker 1: to five ROADRA, so I don't know if we want
- 41:21Speaker 1: to trust him on the road, but he is definitely
- 41:23Speaker 1: in good form right now this month two point six
- 41:26Speaker 1: six ERA and very impressively a twenty three to one
- 41:29Speaker 1: strikeout walk ratio. One of the things about Cabrera he's
- 41:33Speaker 1: usually a bit too wild because he's a good strikeout guy.
- 41:36Speaker 1: He can throw hard. But if his wildness isn't a
- 41:39Speaker 1: factor anymore, no walks in his last three starts, we
- 41:43Speaker 1: might be onto something here. Cabrera might actually be good.
- 41:45Speaker 1: Just why. As far as the Red Sox trade targets
- 41:48Speaker 1: were going, I thought Cabrero was one of the better
- 41:50Speaker 1: guys to target for them. It was like, they're not
- 41:53Speaker 1: even gonna be making any deals even of that level though,
- 41:55Speaker 1: So I don't know if the trade rooms swirling around
- 41:58Speaker 1: are gonna get in Cabrera's at all, but he's probably not.
- 42:02Speaker 1: I don't know, because he's been pitching well. And again,
- 42:03Speaker 1: these pitchers might want to look good to you know,
- 42:06Speaker 1: help their trade stock if they want to go to
- 42:08Speaker 1: some team that's more competitive. He's really had one bad
- 42:12Speaker 1: start this month, which was the one start he didn't
- 42:14Speaker 1: go five innings against Baltimore. He didn't even walk anybody
- 42:17Speaker 1: in that game, just got a hit kind of hard,
- 42:19Speaker 1: give up eight hits. But other than that, he has
- 42:21Speaker 1: been really good recently up against who are we playing here?
- 42:24Speaker 1: I don't even remember now, Yeah, who was this up against?
- 42:29Speaker 1: Saint Louis. Yeah, that's right, I dude. I mentioned in
- 42:32Speaker 1: that It like completely slips my mind. He has good
- 42:35Speaker 1: numbers against Saint Louis. It's a small fourteen at bad
- 42:38Speaker 1: sample size though, five strikeouts, one walk, one of them
- 42:41Speaker 1: run allowed to Brendon Dunovan, one forty three average overall
- 42:45Speaker 1: five fifty seven ops. So I would say Cabrera, I
- 42:48Speaker 1: think he is in line for another good start here.
- 42:50Speaker 1: In my opinion, I like him better than Andre Polante,
- 42:53Speaker 1: who I don't think is very good for Saint Louis.
- 42:55Speaker 1: Four point nine one ERA, one point three seven whip ARCA,
- 43:00Speaker 1: what's up man, thanks for hanging out. Polonte worse at
- 43:05Speaker 1: home as well, five point zero three ERA at home
- 43:08Speaker 1: hasn't been good recently. He's allowed five or more earned
- 43:11Speaker 1: runs in three straight starts. Saint Louis has lost five
- 43:14Speaker 1: starts in a row of his so he is obviously
- 43:16Speaker 1: not pitching well at all. Six point seven five ERA
- 43:19Speaker 1: this month, twelve to seven strike at walker ratio. All
- 43:22Speaker 1: of that is real bad. So I would not want
- 43:25Speaker 1: anything to do with Polante. Oh and Polante against Miami.
- 43:28Speaker 1: I think he does actually have good numbers against Miami though,
- 43:31Speaker 1: because their offense again is not very good. Uh it's
- 43:34Speaker 1: only seven at bats, only three of their hitters have
- 43:37Speaker 1: seen him, but they're only one for seven with a strikeout,
- 43:39Speaker 1: so one forty three average, two eighty six ops. But
- 43:43Speaker 1: I don't trust Polonte here. I think Cabrera obviously is
- 43:45Speaker 1: the pitcher that's in the way better form, So starting
- 43:49Speaker 1: pitching wise, yeah, I mean you could look to Miami
- 43:51Speaker 1: in the first five innings here, just go with the
- 43:53Speaker 1: starting pitching matchup, which I think is strongly in favor
- 43:56Speaker 1: of Cabrera. I don't love the spot that Miami is in,
- 43:59Speaker 1: and I think once you get into the bullpens, the
- 44:01Speaker 1: advantage is a little bit less for Miami. At the
- 44:05Speaker 1: very least, Miami is public, which is insane. Ninety three
- 44:08Speaker 1: percent of the tickets looks like they have ninety eight
- 44:10Speaker 1: percent of the cash. I don't know if that's accurate.
- 44:12Speaker 1: The line has dropped a little bit on Saint Louis,
- 44:14Speaker 1: down for minus one twenty to minus one fifteen, but yeah,
- 44:16Speaker 1: I'm I mean, if you can get Miami as an
- 44:18Speaker 1: underdog in the first five innings with that starting pitching matchup,
- 44:22Speaker 1: I don't mind that being a look for you there.
- 44:27Speaker 1: I almost don't even hate Miami full game, honestly, in
- 44:30Speaker 1: that game, although at some point I think Miami is
- 44:33Speaker 1: going to get worse. But I think Saint Louis also is.
- 44:36Speaker 1: I think both of those teams have records that are
- 44:38Speaker 1: not indicative of how bad those teams actually are. Washington
- 44:41Speaker 1: at Houston, Houston staying at home, and you gotta think
- 44:45Speaker 1: they're pissed off right now. Man. Houston, they were in
- 44:47Speaker 1: a letdown spot after sweeping Arizona, I think, and they
- 44:50Speaker 1: lost that first game to the A's. But when I
- 44:52Speaker 1: handedgap these games, I actually kind of liked the A's
- 44:55Speaker 1: and I think three out of the four of the games.
- 44:58Speaker 1: So yeah, Houston did lose with Hunter Brown on the
- 45:00Speaker 1: mound in that series, but the series didn't set up
- 45:02Speaker 1: that great for them. But they got to be embarrassed. Man.
- 45:04Speaker 1: They just lost really badly, did the A's. They got
- 45:07Speaker 1: outscored horribly. Two in the series. They got outscored thirty
- 45:12Speaker 1: two to seven. I think in that series of my
- 45:14Speaker 1: math is right there by the worst team in their
- 45:17Speaker 1: division and they're the top team in the division. That's insane.
- 45:21Speaker 1: So you gotta think Houston is pissed. You gotta think
- 45:23Speaker 1: they're gonna come out with a little bit of fire here. Now,
- 45:25Speaker 1: we do have to remember Houston does have some injuries
- 45:28Speaker 1: amongst their position players, so a couple of their better
- 45:30Speaker 1: bats might still be out of the line up here.
- 45:33Speaker 1: Washington is so bad though, I mean Washington. I think
- 45:36Speaker 1: Washington still has a disadvantage across the board in this game.
- 45:39Speaker 1: Washington has a travel disadvantage, and it Houston's gonna be
- 45:42Speaker 1: pissed off. Houston has the better bullpend by far. Washington's
- 45:46Speaker 1: bullpen is awful. I don't think either bullpen saw a
- 45:49Speaker 1: ton of usage yesterday, but Washington's bullpen is the worst
- 45:52Speaker 1: one by far. Big bullpen advantage to Houston, and Houston
- 45:56Speaker 1: still has the better offense, I think, even without some
- 45:59Speaker 1: of those players, and so I think there's no advantage
- 46:02Speaker 1: for Washington at all in this game. Starting pitching also
- 46:05Speaker 1: is significantly in favorite of Houston in this game. In
- 46:07Speaker 1: my opinion. Washington is also coming enough beating Minnesota twice,
- 46:12Speaker 1: so they've actually won two straight. Serious. I don't know
- 46:14Speaker 1: if they're gonna be feeling a little bit high on themselves.
- 46:16Speaker 1: I mean maybe not when you're facing a team with
- 46:18Speaker 1: a good record like like Houston here, but we will say, Zach,
- 46:24Speaker 1: what's something you're gonna moneyline parlay those? I mean, I
- 46:28Speaker 1: hate parlays because they're independent results and the books never
- 46:31Speaker 1: give you, you know, enough value on them in my opinion,
- 46:34Speaker 1: But I mean, if you want to parlay two like
- 46:36Speaker 1: big moneyline favorites to try to get them as cheaper
- 46:39Speaker 1: money lines, I don't really hate that because I do
- 46:41Speaker 1: think both those teams should win these games here I mean,
- 46:45Speaker 1: I think they both have a huge pitching age, which
- 46:47Speaker 1: I'll talk about Texas in a minute. I don't hate it,
- 46:51Speaker 1: but you know me, I mean, I just I don't
- 46:53Speaker 1: do parlays. Again. I just don't think the books give
- 46:55Speaker 1: you good enough odds on the parlay. Something could certainly
- 46:59Speaker 1: go wrong, although I do think that both of those
- 47:01Speaker 1: teams should win. Brad Lord as the listed starter for Washington,
- 47:07Speaker 1: I mean, his numbers are fine on the season, three
- 47:09Speaker 1: point three to nine ERA, one point two to six WHIP.
- 47:11Speaker 1: He's better on the road, a two point eight six
- 47:13Speaker 1: e R on the road. But he's a reliever, man.
- 47:16Speaker 1: He's coming out of the bullpen. He made a start
- 47:18Speaker 1: last time out, and I was surprised he went four
- 47:21Speaker 1: innings in that game. And I got caught because I
- 47:23Speaker 1: think I went with Cincinnati in that game. I couldn't
- 47:25Speaker 1: believe that that Lord only give up one run in
- 47:28Speaker 1: that game. I mean, he's not even good. He only
- 47:29Speaker 1: had one strikeout. And you have a game where Washington's
- 47:33Speaker 1: bullpen is gonna pitch more than half the game, and
- 47:36Speaker 1: they somehow the bullpen didn't even give up any runs
- 47:38Speaker 1: in that game. And that just doesn't make any sense
- 47:42Speaker 1: to me, Man, So I don't think it's gonna be
- 47:43Speaker 1: as good for Lord and Washington's bullpend this time out.
- 47:47Speaker 1: I think they're probably gonna be saying, oh Lord by
- 47:49Speaker 1: the end of this what happened? Because this does not
- 47:52Speaker 1: look good to me Man for Washington here a Lord
- 47:55Speaker 1: against Houston, they've actually never faced him before, and I'm
- 48:00Speaker 1: not sure that's gonna be that much of an edge
- 48:01Speaker 1: for him, to be honest. Maybe you'll see Houston's bats
- 48:05Speaker 1: take a little bit while to get going in this game,
- 48:07Speaker 1: which is one that is one reason why I worry
- 48:09Speaker 1: a little bit about, uh the Houston play there. But
- 48:12Speaker 1: uh so they might be slow to start here, and
- 48:14Speaker 1: they do have a couple of those injuries. But from
- 48:16Speaker 1: Ravaldez obviously is the preferred pitcher here. I mean, he's
- 48:19Speaker 1: been really good two point six seventy RA, one point
- 48:22Speaker 1: one to three whip. He's been really good at home,
- 48:24Speaker 1: one point six sixty RA at home. We're at the
- 48:27Speaker 1: point now where I believe Houston has won thirteen starts
- 48:32Speaker 1: in a row. I believe for Valdez thirteen in a row.
- 48:35Speaker 1: They haven't lost one of his starts since May second.
- 48:38Speaker 1: That's just complete madness. It's completely insane. He's allowed more
- 48:41Speaker 1: than two earned runs over that stretch only twice, and
- 48:45Speaker 1: those were starts where he allowed three and four earned runs.
- 48:49Speaker 1: Those were both on the road. One was against Texas
- 48:52Speaker 1: or their offense isn't that good. One was against Dodgers,
- 48:54Speaker 1: who obviously are really good. This month, he has a
- 48:57Speaker 1: twenty one to three strikeout walk ratio. He's gone at
- 48:59Speaker 1: least six in every start going all the way back
- 49:02Speaker 1: to mid June two point three seventy ra this month,
- 49:05Speaker 1: I mean, we get it. Valdez is pitching very, very
- 49:08Speaker 1: well right now against Washington. He also, I mean, actually
- 49:12Speaker 1: his numbers aren't that good against Washington. In fifty at
- 49:14Speaker 1: bats two sixty average is fine, but in eight nineteen
- 49:18Speaker 1: ops is a little bit high. Man, So he's allowed
- 49:21Speaker 1: some power from Washington. Three guys have home runs against them,
- 49:24Speaker 1: three home runs, six walks to fifteen strikeouts. I mean,
- 49:27Speaker 1: Valdez does get a little bit wild sometimes. Low has
- 49:30Speaker 1: done damage eight for twenty seven, one of the home
- 49:33Speaker 1: runs four walks. But if you can pitch around Low
- 49:35Speaker 1: the rest of the guys, I mean, Bell does okay
- 49:37Speaker 1: four for eleven with a home run and a walk,
- 49:40Speaker 1: but those two guys do like basically all of the damage,
- 49:43Speaker 1: So I think Valdez still will probably pitch pretty well
- 49:47Speaker 1: in this game. I don't think it's worth the price
- 49:51Speaker 1: tag though. Of course Zach is gonna parlay it to
- 49:53Speaker 1: get the price down on it, but of course Zach's
- 49:56Speaker 1: gonna need two independent outcomes to win there. The money
- 49:59Speaker 1: looks like it is coming in on Houston. They're up
- 50:01Speaker 1: for minus two twenty to minus two forty six. Eighty
- 50:03Speaker 1: nine percent take is ninety nine percent of the cash.
- 50:06Speaker 1: A lot of the money coming in on Houston. I mean,
- 50:09Speaker 1: I think the way to go here, and the total
- 50:11Speaker 1: is really low at seven and a half, but I
- 50:13Speaker 1: think maybe you could go Houston over their team total here, man,
- 50:16Speaker 1: even with the injuries there, if they can get to
- 50:18Speaker 1: Lord a little bit and then they can get to
- 50:20Speaker 1: this bad Washington bullpen, I think Houston may be going
- 50:24Speaker 1: over their team total, especially as embarrassed as they might
- 50:26Speaker 1: be after only scoring seven runs in the last four
- 50:30Speaker 1: innings against the A's. But then again, it does mean
- 50:33Speaker 1: Houston's offense is in bad form right now, so that
- 50:36Speaker 1: does kind of matter in baseball as well, So it's
- 50:38Speaker 1: tough to say what I would want to do in
- 50:40Speaker 1: this game, man, I mean it does look like Houston
- 50:42Speaker 1: as the edge, So it's like, still the Houston run
- 50:45Speaker 1: line is still actually kind of tempting in this game.
- 50:47Speaker 1: But you're gonna need them to score enough runs and
- 50:49Speaker 1: they might not get the final at bat in the
- 50:52Speaker 1: ninth inning either, So you got to take all that
- 50:55Speaker 1: into account there. Texas at Anaheim. Anaheim as Andrew men
- 51:00Speaker 1: because that's his team, his wife's team. They did just
- 51:03Speaker 1: beat Seattle last night. They split the series with Seattle.
- 51:06Speaker 1: It was a good game for the Angels, surprising for me.
- 51:09Speaker 1: The only run they gave up was a big dumper
- 51:11Speaker 1: home run was the only run that the Mariners scored yesterday.
- 51:17Speaker 1: Anaheim is still not a good team though. Man, their
- 51:19Speaker 1: bullpen is very bad. Texas obviously has the way better bullpen.
- 51:22Speaker 1: Anaheim does have a better offense than Texas. Texas offense
- 51:26Speaker 1: is terrible. Anheim's offense is mediocre, but the pitching is
- 51:30Speaker 1: heavily in favor of Texas. Here, Texas better bullpen, better starter. Here,
- 51:35Speaker 1: Texas coming up an easy eight to one win. Texas
- 51:38Speaker 1: is hot right now to the one six in a row.
- 51:40Speaker 1: So are they gonna have a letdown here. I don't
- 51:42Speaker 1: think they will, because I mean, Anaheim is still, you know,
- 51:45Speaker 1: kind of creeping up on them in the division. So
- 51:48Speaker 1: I don't know. The game does mean a little bit
- 51:50Speaker 1: more to Anaheim because Texas is ahead of them in
- 51:51Speaker 1: the division, but Texas they're streaking right now, man, So
- 51:55Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to really fade them here.
- 51:57Speaker 1: So I don't disagree that Texas should win this game, though,
- 52:01Speaker 1: I mean they have the momentum here. The starting pitching
- 52:04Speaker 1: matchup is a complete mismatch for Texas here, and the
- 52:08Speaker 1: bullpen is also a complete mismatch. Jacob de Grom pitching
- 52:12Speaker 1: for Texas having a really good season. Obviously, he's been
- 52:15Speaker 1: really good throughout his career two point two eighty RA
- 52:18Speaker 1: point nine whip, a little bit worse on the road
- 52:22Speaker 1: two point seven five ERA, that's still quite good. This month,
- 52:25Speaker 1: he's gone well, he's gone five or more innings in
- 52:27Speaker 1: every start going all the way back to actually I
- 52:30Speaker 1: think every yeah, every start going all the way back
- 52:32Speaker 1: to April this year. Only once has he not done that.
- 52:35Speaker 1: And over the last couple of months he's gone six
- 52:38Speaker 1: or more in all but one start. He's allowed three
- 52:41Speaker 1: or fewer earned runs in all but one start all season,
- 52:44Speaker 1: and that was way back in April. This month, he
- 52:46Speaker 1: has a three point one to three R and twenty
- 52:48Speaker 1: eight to five strike a walk ratio. He's pitching well,
- 52:51Speaker 1: except he has allowed five home runs this month, so
- 52:54Speaker 1: he's got to get that number down. He actually didn't
- 52:56Speaker 1: pitch that well at in this exact ballpark at Anna High.
- 53:00Speaker 1: He was only okay. That was his worst start of
- 53:02Speaker 1: the month. Actually, you give up three on runs in
- 53:04Speaker 1: five innings, five strikeouts, two walks. So is he gonna
- 53:07Speaker 1: struggle against Anaheim in this one because he did last
- 53:11Speaker 1: time out? And that does mean the Angels are recently
- 53:14Speaker 1: familiar with him, But I don't know. I mean, his
- 53:16Speaker 1: numbers are okay against Anaheim, thirty nine at bats. He's
- 53:19Speaker 1: sell him to a very low two oho five average.
- 53:22Speaker 1: They do have some power off of him, though, in
- 53:24Speaker 1: five walks and thirteen strikeouts, so their OPS is a
- 53:27Speaker 1: little bit high against Jacob de Grom seven fifty seven ops.
- 53:33Speaker 1: Two of the three on runs were from uh Darnau, though,
- 53:36Speaker 1: so if he can pitch around him, he might be alright.
- 53:38Speaker 1: I'm still expecting him to do pretty well though de Grom,
- 53:41Speaker 1: and he's up against Jack Kohanowitz, who cannot get his
- 53:45Speaker 1: shit together man six point zero three ERA one point
- 53:48Speaker 1: six to three whip. Now, Kohanowitz was actually just down
- 53:51Speaker 1: in the minor, so I think he's just coming back
- 53:53Speaker 1: up to the majors. But he's been really bad and
- 53:56Speaker 1: six point six five RRA at home really really bad.
- 54:00Speaker 1: They send him down to the miners early this month
- 54:02Speaker 1: after he got wrecked by this exact Texas team. So
- 54:06Speaker 1: even though de Grom wasn't really that good in that
- 54:08Speaker 1: game against Anaheim in this stadium, Kohanowitz was way worse,
- 54:12Speaker 1: and he gave up eight runs to this really bad
- 54:14Speaker 1: Texas line. I've been two and two thirds innings. He
- 54:16Speaker 1: allowed eight hits and three walks. I mean that is
- 54:21Speaker 1: just awful. So that performance got him sent to the miners.
- 54:24Speaker 1: I haven't looked to see what he was doing in
- 54:25Speaker 1: the miners, but I'm not gonna trust cohanawitz Man. I'm
- 54:29Speaker 1: not ready for to say that he's gonna do anything.
- 54:31Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they worked with them in the miners
- 54:32Speaker 1: and figured out something that was wrong with him, but
- 54:35Speaker 1: he hasn't been good throughout his career. His numbers are
- 54:38Speaker 1: not good against Texas and sixty five at bats four
- 54:41Speaker 1: walks to three strikeouts three twenty three average seven to
- 54:44Speaker 1: seventy eight ops. Even though de Grom there are some
- 54:47Speaker 1: stats in there that you might not like. With d
- 54:49Speaker 1: Grom against Anaheim Kohanowitz, all of his stats are way worse.
- 54:53Speaker 1: So obviously that's the reason why Texas is this massive
- 54:57Speaker 1: favorite here. The open open money line was minus one
- 55:01Speaker 1: twenty five, but I think probably anahim at a different
- 55:03Speaker 1: starter listed, so I think once Cohanowitz was listed, the
- 55:06Speaker 1: number went way up to minus one ninety. That's how
- 55:09Speaker 1: bad he is. Ninety three percent of tickets, ninety four
- 55:12Speaker 1: percent of the cash on Texas. Texas is going to
- 55:14Speaker 1: be public. I mean, they have the better record in
- 55:16Speaker 1: they're hot right now, so the public will only want
- 55:18Speaker 1: to look towards them in some way. I worry about
- 55:22Speaker 1: Texas offense because it is not good, but they have
- 55:24Speaker 1: gotten to Kohanaw It's enough that I think they should
- 55:27Speaker 1: be able to get this done. I mean I might
- 55:31Speaker 1: even agree with like looking towards the Texas run line
- 55:33Speaker 1: in the swim because I do think they have a
- 55:35Speaker 1: huge pitching edge throughout all all of this game. But again,
- 55:39Speaker 1: is Zach's going with the money line parlay there? I mean,
- 55:43Speaker 1: I agree with both sides at the very least that
- 55:45Speaker 1: we got going on there with Houston and Texas. The
- 55:47Speaker 1: Texas parlay there, I worry about the price tag that's
- 55:50Speaker 1: on it though. The Mets at San Diego. San Diego
- 55:54Speaker 1: is the team it's returning home from a long road trip.
- 55:56Speaker 1: I mentioned there was one team that was they were
- 55:58Speaker 1: out on the East Coast. They actually went to Washington, Miami,
- 56:01Speaker 1: and Saint Louis. They have not been back at home
- 56:03Speaker 1: since before the All Star Break, so usually it is
- 56:06Speaker 1: a bad spot man for a team when they've been
- 56:09Speaker 1: on the road for so long and then they return home,
- 56:11Speaker 1: they have to get back to family life. It tends
- 56:13Speaker 1: to be a distraction. But maybe it won't be as
- 56:16Speaker 1: much of a distraction because the Mets have one of
- 56:18Speaker 1: the best records in the league, so San Diego might
- 56:21Speaker 1: not be distracted for that reason. But it is still
- 56:22Speaker 1: a travel spot return home spots not the greatest spot
- 56:26Speaker 1: for San Diego. But at least they're facing the Mets
- 56:30Speaker 1: because that's gonna have their attention. But also, the Mets
- 56:34Speaker 1: played last night, so you know me, I like to
- 56:36Speaker 1: look to fade teams that were in the Sunday night
- 56:39Speaker 1: game at ESPN because it's a big televised game, and
- 56:43Speaker 1: you know, the team has a quick turnaround time because
- 56:45Speaker 1: they had to play at night, where all the rest
- 56:46Speaker 1: of the team's basically played in the afternoon yesterday, so
- 56:49Speaker 1: the Mets have a shorter turnaround time. But San Diego
- 56:52Speaker 1: is having to travel in from Saint Louis, whereas the
- 56:56Speaker 1: Mets are already on the Pacific coast, so they already
- 56:58Speaker 1: have adjusted to the time zone. So they're just they're
- 57:01Speaker 1: going down from San Francisco to San Diego, so fairly
- 57:05Speaker 1: long trip down the coast, but still they already have
- 57:08Speaker 1: adjusted to the times on. The Mets are streaking right now.
- 57:11Speaker 1: They've won seven games in a row, and sometimes you
- 57:13Speaker 1: don't want to jump in front of a streak like that.
- 57:15Speaker 1: But they did use a lot of their bullpen last night.
- 57:18Speaker 1: It was a big game they got that win. Both
- 57:20Speaker 1: teams are in bad spots, man, They're both in spots
- 57:23Speaker 1: that I would want to look to fade those teams,
- 57:25Speaker 1: and unfortunately they're playing each other, which really sucks. San
- 57:28Speaker 1: Diego has the better bullpen, and they didn't get used
- 57:31Speaker 1: as much last night, so San Diego does or yesterday.
- 57:34Speaker 1: So San Diego does have a bullpen edge in this game.
- 57:37Speaker 1: They may very well have a starting pitching edge too.
- 57:40Speaker 1: Frankie Montas is pitching for the Mets. He just came
- 57:44Speaker 1: back from a long injury, so he hasn't made that
- 57:46Speaker 1: many starts this year. He's been mediocre four point six
- 57:50Speaker 1: to two ERA, one point three whip. He's been pretty
- 57:53Speaker 1: bad on the road, seventy r in the road, but
- 57:55Speaker 1: this is a pitcher friendly park here. He's actually been
- 57:57Speaker 1: better in his last three starts. The Mets have won
- 58:01Speaker 1: all of those games. Thirteen to two strikeout walk ratio
- 58:04Speaker 1: across those three starts still kind of ramping up. He's
- 58:07Speaker 1: at least got at least five innings in each of them,
- 58:09Speaker 1: but he hasn't made six innings in any of them.
- 58:12Speaker 1: Three point eight sixty RA across that span. There did
- 58:16Speaker 1: have one start against the Yankees, which was the most
- 58:18Speaker 1: difficult start out of all of Meat did the least
- 58:21Speaker 1: well in that one, but he still did okay enough
- 58:23Speaker 1: that they won the game, and he got a lot
- 58:25Speaker 1: of run support in that one. So he is pitching Okay,
- 58:28Speaker 1: I mean he's facing the Giants, who aren't a very
- 58:30Speaker 1: good offense, but they actually or excuse me, not the Giants.
- 58:32Speaker 1: What am I saying? They just face the Giants. Sorry,
- 58:34Speaker 1: he's facing San Diego. San Diego's offense has actually struggled
- 58:38Speaker 1: for quite a while now. Montas actually has done really
- 58:41Speaker 1: well against San Diego in eighty three at bats, twenty
- 58:44Speaker 1: five strikeouts, three walks, two seventeen average at five thirty
- 58:48Speaker 1: three oh ps, So Montas might actually do well here.
- 58:51Speaker 1: Even though I don't like the Mets once it gets
- 58:53Speaker 1: later into this game, as they you know, tire out
- 58:55Speaker 1: and they have a kind of overworked bulpend I think
- 58:58Speaker 1: the advantage shifts to San Diego later in the game.
- 59:01Speaker 1: The Mets do have the better offense, though San Diego
- 59:05Speaker 1: hasn't been that good since their hot start to the
- 59:07Speaker 1: season Middal. Then they are better at home, so that's
- 59:10Speaker 1: something to keep in mind as well. San Diego is
- 59:12Speaker 1: way better at home than they are on the road,
- 59:13Speaker 1: and the Mets are below five hundred on the road,
- 59:16Speaker 1: so that might be somewhat of an advantage to San
- 59:18Speaker 1: Diego with the home road dichotomy there. Dylan Cees his
- 59:22Speaker 1: pitcher for San Diego. He hasn't been that good this
- 59:25Speaker 1: year man four point five to ninety RA one point
- 59:27Speaker 1: three whip. He was way better last year. He hasn't
- 59:30Speaker 1: been better at home, though again it's a pitcher friendly park.
- 59:33Speaker 1: Three point four to EIGHTYRA at home this year. He's
- 59:37Speaker 1: pitching somewhat better this month, I guess, or the last
- 59:40Speaker 1: couple of starts he's been better, allowing only two hour
- 59:43Speaker 1: runs across those last two both on the road, but
- 59:45Speaker 1: they were against Miami and Washington, so not good offenses.
- 59:49Speaker 1: Fifteen to three strike out walk ratio over that span.
- 59:51Speaker 1: This month, twenty seven to six strike out walk racio
- 59:55Speaker 1: is pretty good, so, I mean, his strikeout rate is
- 59:57Speaker 1: still there. His walk rate has kind of gone down
- 59:59Speaker 1: a little bit. Four point eight four ERA this month
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: is still not good. I mean, he got hammered by
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: Philly and Arizona, but those are two good offenses. So
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: he is up against another good offense here though, in
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: the Mets. So what is he gonna do against the Mets?
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: In his career, he hasn't been that good against the Mets.
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: A sixty one at bats, He's given up five home
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: runs to them. Of the three of them are Lindor
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: nineteen to four strike a walk ratio is not bad
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: two seventy nine average eight ninety seven ops though, so
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: they have hit him for a bit of power. So
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: I don't even know if we could trust Cease either
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: here man. So I think early on in this game,
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: I actually think that Montas probably has the starting pitching edge,
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: even though it looks like the Mets are very public
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: seventy five percent of tickets only fifty six percent of
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: the cash. I mean, the public, they're gonna come in
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: on the team that they saw just win the Sunday
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: night game, the team that's hot right now, winning a
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: lot of games right now, the team with the better offense,
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: that's the Mets. The public will come in on them.
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: First five innings, I think maybe makes sense to take
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: the Mets. I think later on in the game, though,
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: the advantage does kind of shift to San Diego, even
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: though they are in that dreaded return home spot. San
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: Diego is down for minus one thirty to minus one
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: twenty six. It's not often that I'll say that I
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: think the team that'll do better in the first five
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: innings might be the team to lose. The overall game.
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: But this could be a game like that, But usually
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: you want those things to kind of coincide. But that's
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: a difficult game to figure out. Pittsburgh at San Francisco.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: Of course, San Francisco had to play last night, so
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: they have a quick turnaround time. But they're not traveling,
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: so at least San Francisco doesn't have to travel. Pittsburgh
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: is having to travel from home, so Pittsburgh's having to
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: cross a bunch of time zones, so they have to
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: get used to the Pacific coast. So it's not really
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: a great spot for either team either here, even though
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: Pittsburgh starting a road trip, usually you are focused to
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: start a road trip. You know, Pittsburgh has momentum right
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: now to coming off a couple of home wins. So
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: it could be a good spot for Pittsburgh, but it
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: could also be a bad one. I mean, you have
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: to kind of balance that out, like they're a good
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: aspects to it and bad aspects to it. Mitch Keller
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: is pitching for Pittsburgh. He's having a pretty good season
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: three point five to three ERA, one point one to six,
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: WHIP two point ninety RA on the road, he does
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: pitch well on the road this month, He's been good
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: as well, two point one ERA in four starts Pittsburgh
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: has won four of his last five starts twenty to
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: five strike a walk ratio, so he is pitching well
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: right now. Mitch Keller up against the San Francisco Giants.
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: He's done pretty well as well in fifty eight at bats,
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: nineteen to four, strike a walk ratio, two forty one
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: average allowed, and six fifty two ops, so Keller could
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: be in line for a decent start here. Man. Obviously,
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: San Francisco has the better bullpen, but they saw him
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: more bullpen usage yesterday and they have a less rest here,
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: so San Francisco's bullpen advantage isn't as much as it
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: would be otherwise the fact that their bullpen is the
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: way better bullpen. They basically had a bullpen game yesterday,
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: So I don't know if we trust San Francisco's bullpend either.
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: And we got Carson Wizn't on wizen Hunt pitching for
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: San Francisco here. He is making his major league debut,
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: and I had to look up who this guy is, man,
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: And you know, guys in major league debut a lot
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: of times they can fool major league hitters, man, because
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: those hitters haven't seen him before, so the hitters don't
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: know what to expect. That could be the case here now,
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: wizen Hunt, his numbers are not good in Triple A though. Okay,
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: so in Triple A this year his e RA I
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: think is like above four and his whip is like
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: one point three something, so that's not that good. His
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: strikeout walker ratio is okay, it was like eighty or
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: something strikeouts and like twenty something walks. That's not too bad.
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: But wizen Hunt, I worry, man, I worry about those
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: Triple A numbers. Man. You know your e raras in
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: the fours, your whip is one point three. That's very
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: mediocre at best, so he's not dominating in Triple A.
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: Wizen Hunt is a very weird profile though. So he
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: is a lefty. Sometimes he's lefties for whatever reason don't
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: actually throw his hard and that is the case with
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: wizen Hunt. He does out of fastball that blows guys away.
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: He throws the fastball in like the low nineties. But
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: I guess his primary pitch it's a fastball, but it's
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: like a moving, like two seam fastball. So his deal
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: is his movement, and I guess he has a change
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: up that's considered to be like the best change up
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: that like has ever been seen. Basically, he has a
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: change up that's rated higher than like any like I
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: looked at scouting reports on like MLB dot com. They
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: have like ratings on every pitch. They give this guy's
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: change up a seventy, which is like the highest rating
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: that I've seen for any pitchers, like any single pitch
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: for any pitcher. I think, So this guy has this
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: ridiculous change up that I guess looks the same as
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: his fastball coming out of his arm, and then it
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: has this weird sinking movement to drop out of the zone,
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: and I guess it's a pitch that is in like
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: the low eighty mile an hour range and it fools hitters.
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: But he doesn't really have anything besides the fastball and
- 1:04:53Speaker 1: change up, So it's almost like he's like Keith Folk
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: or something. It's almost like he should be like a reliever,
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: almost because I guess he does throw a slider in
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: a curve ball as well, but I guess they're not
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: very good pitches and he has trouble controlling them so
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: I don't know what we're gonna get out of wizen
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: Hunt here, man. I mean, he does have the advantage
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: of having a really weird pitch. Arsenal and Pittsburgh is
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: a bad offense and they haven't seen him before. Both
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: these offenses are pretty bad, jay Mane, what's up? Man?
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: Thanks for coming back. At least I got that one
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: right yesterday, that one play. Hopefully you played GINN and
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: Fantasy by the way, how older was terrible? Gin was good? Yes, sir, Fantasy.
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: You know I haven't done in a while. Though I'm
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: decent at Fantasy. I think I'm better at I've been
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: doing this for over an hour now. We're on the
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: last couple of games I haven't given out. I have
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: two best bets that I haven't given out yet though,
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: but I'm talking about the second and last game here.
- 1:05:45Speaker 1: We're on these late night Pacific coast games here. Anyway,
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: in this game, it looks like initial movement on the
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: money line was on the Giants for minus one to
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: fifteen to minus one twenty seven. They got sixty four
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: percent of the tickets on them, but seventy five percent
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: of the cash. It looks like it's coming back on Pittsburgh,
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: even though on Action Network I actually saw they're like
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: indicators are actually saying San Francisco head market indicators, including
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: the sharp money move on the money line here, but
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: we can see that here anyway, according to the pregame numbers,
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: though here it looks like Pittsburgh is getting the money,
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: and Pregame uses like a different set of books that
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: I think actually care more to professionals. So I think
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: it's easier to see where the professional money is actually
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: coming on this site than on Action Network, which Action
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: Network brings in all the you know, public books, you know,
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: the all the online books, the DraftKings or whatever is this,
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: I don't think takes it as much into account as
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: far as I know. So anyway, the money might be
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: coming back on Pittsburgh here. I don't necessarily disagree with this,
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: because again I think San Francisco they're at the rest
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: disadvantage here when the Pittsburgh did have to travel cross country,
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: which is a concern. San Francisco's bulp and is completely
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: wiped out after yesterday, and Mitch Keller is the He's
- 1:06:58Speaker 1: at least the predictable all of the two pitchers here,
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: I think, and I think we can predict that he's
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: probably gonna pitch fairly well in this game. Uh, it's
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: possible that you maybe want to look towards an under
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: in this game, maybe early on, because I really don't
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: even think you want much to do with these bullpens
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: on either side really, so you could say, maybe Kell
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: will pitch well, and maybe wizzen Hunt will fool Pittsburgh's
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: hitters enough, and they're not a good offense, so maybe
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: an under, and it is an under friendly ballpark as well,
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: first five inning under might make sense in this game.
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: The total has a little bit more juice now on
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: the under eight seventy percent of the tickets. It says
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the cash on the under. I
- 1:07:35Speaker 1: don't buy that, but maybe the money is indeed coming
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: in on the under in this one. Someone picked up Gain.
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: Oh god, I hope you. I hope you got who
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: else was good yesterday? Irvin? But I didn't expect Irvin
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: to do that well, but he did. And then one
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: of your one of the other guys pitched well. I
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: forget who though you went? Oh, Hendrix pitched pretty well.
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: You went under seven and a half on which game?
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: On on this Pittsburgh San Francisco game, you went under
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: seven and a half. Yeah, I mean I would say
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: that's a little bit bit iffy. First five innings though,
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: if you do do that on that game, if you
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: have to go under three and a half, that's a
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: little bit iffy as well. You had Ben Brown. He
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: actually did well yesterday, didn't he? The g Men? The
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: Giants is I've never heard anybody call the San Francisco
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: Giants the g men. Actually, it seems so weird to me.
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: It's only the New York Giants. I think Ben Brown
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: did do well for you yesterday though against that bad
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: White Sox lineup. Brown actually had a good start for
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: one Seattle at the A's now here this final game,
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: the A's, I mean, I think they could be in
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: a letdown spot here. Man. They're actually returning home from
- 1:08:44Speaker 1: a long road trip too. So it's actually San Diego
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: and the A's both returning home from long road trips.
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: The A's went to Cleveland, Texas and Houston, so they're
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: having a return home and they're not a good home
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: team either. The A's. They have this you know, weird
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: Triple A stadium they're playing and they don't have a
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: home advantage at all. They really seem to have a
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: home disadvantage. Actually, they play really poorly at home. They're
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: twenty and thirty one at home. Mariners actually have a
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: better offense on the road because their home stadium is
- 1:09:12Speaker 1: very pitcher friendly, but this is one of the most
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: hit or friendly parks that's out there. So I think
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: Seattle actually probably has the offensive edge here, even though
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: the A's offense isn't that bad either. But will we
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: see some scoring in this game, I don't know, Because
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: I actually like the starting pitching matchup two. Seattle definitely
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: has a bullpen edge here. The A's bullpen is horrendous,
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: So overall, I do think Seattle does have the advantage
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: in this game. I think they probably have the better
- 1:09:37Speaker 1: of the two starters, too, but I think both starters
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: line up to maybe pitch okay in this game. So
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: it's a crazy game with a lot of things going
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: on here, or like generally, I would say you want
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: to fade the A's though, because they are in that
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: bad return home spot. And I do think that because
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: Seattle has the bullpen advantage here and because they play
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: better on the road and the A's don't play well
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: at home. I do think Seattle might be worth the
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: look in this game. Luis Castillo pitching for Seattle pretty
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: consistent for them three point three ERA, one point two
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: to four WHIP. He's doing worse on the road though,
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: four point seven to four ROADRA, so he pitches a
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: lot better in that pitcher friendly ballpark in Seattle. He
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: is pitching really well right now this month two point
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: two eighty RA, twenty eight to four strike at walk ratio.
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: Seattle had won five games in a row behind him
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: until he had a kind of bad start against Milwaukee.
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: Give up a lot of hits at least, but the
- 1:10:27Speaker 1: fielding failed behind him and he couldn't get out of
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: one of those innings. And I think I actually lost
- 1:10:31Speaker 1: an under that I gave out on that game, if
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: I remember correctly. So that game not entirely his fault.
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: Castillo up against the A's does have pretty good numbers.
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: In a big sample size of eighty at bats. He
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: has a dominant twenty nine to two strike aut walk
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: ratio against him, a two hundred batting average allowed five
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: ninety five ops. So Castillo pitches pretty well against the
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: A's man and he's going up against J. P. Sears,
- 1:10:57Speaker 1: who's having an ok season four point two nine eighty
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: one point two to five whip. He is worse at
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: home in this stadium though, he's giving up a lot
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: of home runs. Thirteen of the twenty two that he's
- 1:11:07Speaker 1: allowed this year have been in this stadium. Five point
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: six' one era at home not good. His recent form
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: isn't that bad though. He has a twenty four to
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: four strikeout walk ratio of this month, which is not bad,
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: so his command has been there. He actually hasn't allowed
- 1:11:21Speaker 1: a lot of hits, but he's allowed four home runs
- 1:11:24Speaker 1: over the last three starts, so that's been again the problem,
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: allowing too many home runs four point five yra this month. Overall,
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: he's not pitching that badly though. Against Seattle, he actually
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: has good numbers and a huge one hundred and nine
- 1:11:36Speaker 1: at bad sample size. They only have eighteen hits off
- 1:11:39Speaker 1: him twenty six strikeout, six walks. He's selling them to
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: a ridiculous one sixty five batting average of forty eighty
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: two ops. You almost never see a sample size that
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: big where a starting pitcher has held that offense to
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: that low a batting average and ops. So Sears basically
- 1:11:55Speaker 1: dominates Seattle's offense, which is kind of insane to think about.
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: This game has a lot going on. I think overall,
- 1:12:02Speaker 1: I do lean to Seattle because it is the bad
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: spot for the A's. You don't have to lay a
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: price to minus one twenty on the road. If you
- 1:12:08Speaker 1: do want Seattle, I think you would have to go
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: full game on this because you want Seattle's bullpen advantage
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: to be working for you. There, the A's bullpen is terrible.
- 1:12:18Speaker 1: Sixty percent of the tickets seventy eight percent of the
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: cash on the A's though I'm not sure I agree
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: with that. I could see the under in the first
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: five innings as well. I mean, of course we have
- 1:12:26Speaker 1: a high total. It's at this A's stadium. The totals
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: at ten. The juice on the under is actually become
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: a little bit less into some of the money has
- 1:12:34Speaker 1: kind of moved towards the over a little bit. But
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: I see fifty three percent of tickets on the over
- 1:12:38Speaker 1: ninety two percent of the cash on the under. So
- 1:12:41Speaker 1: it looks like the public kind of wants the over
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: here still. They think Seattle Raleigh, all right, we're gonna
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: get some offense here Oakland or the A's their stadium,
- 1:12:49Speaker 1: you know, very offensive, conducive. But I think the way
- 1:12:52Speaker 1: is to look at this game again, her first five
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: innings under. I like how both starting pitchers actually match
- 1:12:57Speaker 1: up here. That at the A's stadium might be a
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: little bit dangerous though, So I think Seattle money line
- 1:13:02Speaker 1: might be a better way to look at that game.
- 1:13:05Speaker 1: Your pitchers for today are who Eflyn and who else? Well,
- 1:13:10Speaker 1: I'm about to talk about e Flyn right now, man,
- 1:13:12Speaker 1: because we're about to hand it. We're about to headed
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: to That was the rundown. I always forget to put
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: my graphic up on the screen here that I made
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: not that long ago. We're moving into the best bets now, man.
- 1:13:24Speaker 1: Least that under that I gave out on the show
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: Hit yesterday, And I was right about one of the
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: two first five unders that I said were almost plays.
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Arizona one was good. Sorry, as Paul Skeens
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: actually went way over his strike up prop total, so
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: I apologize for that. I thought it was a little
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: bit questionable. But anyway, that game did go under in
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: the first five. The Cleveland and Royals game, I think
- 1:13:47Speaker 1: I want up pushing on the four. If you got
- 1:13:49Speaker 1: the four there e flyn Sears, Castillo, Mizerowski, Keller and
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: Slade say CHACONI I mean, I don't hate any of
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: those pitchers today. Actually, they all look like they match
- 1:14:03Speaker 1: up decently in my opinion, I think. I mean, you
- 1:14:05Speaker 1: can go back and watch my show. I talked about
- 1:14:07Speaker 1: every single one of them. If you want to see
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: what I showed with all their numbers. I just look
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: at ESPN batter versus picture though you can see what
- 1:14:15Speaker 1: I thought about them. But Zach Eflin might be the
- 1:14:18Speaker 1: most questionable of these. But guess what I'm doing, man,
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: I'm going the Orioles first five innings money line here.
- 1:14:24Speaker 1: That's one of my two plays here. Man, the Orioles.
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: I think they have some advantages in this game, man.
- 1:14:30Speaker 1: I mean they're staying at home. One thing is Toronto's
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: been so hot recently, and I don't think they're as
- 1:14:34Speaker 1: good as their ridiculous record looks. Toronto. They're not quite
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: as good on the road. They're twenty six and twenty
- 1:14:39Speaker 1: six on the road. Baltimore is only twenty four and
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: twenty six at home. So the Jay's being on the
- 1:14:46Speaker 1: road here. The team's home road records are not that different.
- 1:14:50Speaker 1: The fact that we get this game at Baltimore here,
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: So that's where I'm kind of starting here. So I
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: think this line is gonna look a little bit misleading. Man.
- 1:14:57Speaker 1: When the public looks at this, they know how hot
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: Toronto's and they know what Toronto's done recently against the Yankees
- 1:15:03Speaker 1: and whatever, But it looks like Toronto is a public
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: road underdog almost at this point, with eighty three percent
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: of the tickets only sixty one percent of the catch.
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: So the public is pouring in on Toronto looking like,
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: oh my god, how do I get such a cheap price?
- 1:15:16Speaker 1: And you're gonna look and see Bassett has a way
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: better er than e Flyn. It looks so easy to
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: take Toronto. But the money line has already flipped Baltimore
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: from plus one oh four to minus one oh eight.
- 1:15:26Speaker 1: So this is reverse line movement coming in against the
- 1:15:29Speaker 1: public side of Toronto here. So I think there is
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: actual money coming into Baltimore, and I actually agree with it.
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: I mean, Toronto is having to travel, so they're coming
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: up a huge couple series. Man. They just played Giants
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: Yankees Detroit. Those are huge series against teams with good records,
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: and they just finally lost that win streak that they had.
- 1:15:48Speaker 1: They'd won four in a row against the Yankees in Detroit,
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: finally lost. They won both of those series still, but
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: when a team loses a win streak like that, a
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: lot of times it'll hang them over into the next game.
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: So I think it's a spot for Toronto for that reason.
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: I think they might not pay full attention to Baltimore
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: here because it is the team with the best record
- 1:16:06Speaker 1: in the AL East against the team of the worst
- 1:16:08Speaker 1: record in the AL eas So it's possible Toronto has
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: their foot off the gas pedal a little bit here,
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: so I don't like that either. Toronto does have the
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: better bullpen, though they didn't use that much of their
- 1:16:18Speaker 1: bullpen yesterday, so that's why I'm going first five here,
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: even though I would still agree if you went Baltimore
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: full game, I'm not gonna disagree with that. I think
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: the situation sets up such that it makes sense. But
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: I think it's a bigger advantage, and you get almost
- 1:16:30Speaker 1: the same price on Baltimore in the first five innings.
- 1:16:33Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit cheaper, like you can
- 1:16:35Speaker 1: find it around minus one oh four on the full game.
- 1:16:38Speaker 1: But I'll take Baltimore's bullpen out of the equation because
- 1:16:40Speaker 1: their bullpen is way worse. I mean, I do have
- 1:16:43Speaker 1: the pitching stats up here. Baltimore twenty fifth in bullpen
- 1:16:46Speaker 1: whip bullpenny ray is pretty bad as well. Toronto fourth
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: in bullpen whip, although their bullpenny ray is actually a
- 1:16:53Speaker 1: little bit worse than that too, but Toronto still has
- 1:16:55Speaker 1: a significant bullpen edge, So we'll take that out and
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: I will look at the starting pitching matchup, and I
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: think this matchup is not anywhere near his lopside. As
- 1:17:04Speaker 1: it looks on the surface, it looks like it's way
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: lopsided towards Bassett, but I'm not buying it. Bassett, Yeah,
- 1:17:09Speaker 1: three point eight eighty ra really good this year, eleven
- 1:17:12Speaker 1: to four record. I mean, his offense has helped him out.
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: His one point three whip though that's kind of high.
- 1:17:17Speaker 1: It's telling you that something is going on here man
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: a Bassett. I mean, look at his career stats, man,
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: I mean, he's never been quite this good. I mean
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: his numbers last year as numbers actually were significantly worse
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: than that. It looked like he was kind of falling
- 1:17:33Speaker 1: completely off the rails, although he was pretty good I
- 1:17:36Speaker 1: guess for a while up until last year, which was
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: only his second year with Toronto, So I don't know,
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: you know, we should expect Bassett might regress a little
- 1:17:44Speaker 1: bit back towards that. Yeah, he's pitched well recently twenty
- 1:17:47Speaker 1: four to four strike a walk ratio. This month, Toronto
- 1:17:50Speaker 1: has won four of his five starts, two of them
- 1:17:53Speaker 1: against the Yankees, although those were actually the starts where
- 1:17:56Speaker 1: he gave up the most runs. He gave up four
- 1:17:58Speaker 1: home runs in those two starts, and kind of, I
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: don't know, in a way, he got a little bit
- 1:18:01Speaker 1: lucky because he did walk three guys in one. He
- 1:18:06Speaker 1: a lot eleven hits across those two, only allowed six
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: runs total, but it could have been worse for him
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: in those And then he did well against White Sox
- 1:18:14Speaker 1: San Francisco, and he had kind of a tune up.
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: I wouldn't going into the All Star break to kind
- 1:18:19Speaker 1: of help him remain on schedule there, which I actually
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: liked that Toronto did that. I already pitched one inning
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: out of the bullpen against the A's. But yeah, overall,
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: twenty four to four strike a walk ratio this month
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: two point three to ninety RA. Yeah, all that is good.
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: He's actually in good form right now. I get that
- 1:18:33Speaker 1: he hasn't walked anybody in his last two starts or
- 1:18:37Speaker 1: in that relief appearance against the A's. Against Baltimore, though,
- 1:18:43Speaker 1: surprisingly because Baltimore's offense isn't that good, Toronto does have
- 1:18:46Speaker 1: the better offense. But again, I think Toronto's gonna regress
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: a little bit. Man. I don't think Toronto is as
- 1:18:51Speaker 1: good as the record looks. I don't think they're better
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: than the Yankees. Basketting against Baltimore surprisingly not good. Ninety
- 1:18:59Speaker 1: seven a bad. They have a big sample size against him.
- 1:19:01Speaker 1: They have a two to ninety nine batting average against
- 1:19:03Speaker 1: him eight fifty five ops. So the twenty six to
- 1:19:06Speaker 1: six strike a walk ratio is good. But Baltimore does
- 1:19:09Speaker 1: hit him pretty well, man, Bassett. I mean the way
- 1:19:11Speaker 1: that he pitches. Uh, he can fool some batters and
- 1:19:15Speaker 1: not others because he doesn't throw hard. He throws a
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: lot of different like moving fastballs, but he throws in
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: the low nineties. And the way that he does it
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: is he takes kind of like one pitch and he
- 1:19:25Speaker 1: puts different movement on it. So he has like several
- 1:19:28Speaker 1: different fastballs basically, and that's basically what he does. But
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: some offenses can hit him, and I think that this
- 1:19:34Speaker 1: is not the mismatch that it looks like here. Man.
- 1:19:36Speaker 1: And by the way, if this game is tied through
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: five innings and we got the money line here, then
- 1:19:40Speaker 1: it'll be a push. So that's okay too. Zach Efflyn,
- 1:19:43Speaker 1: as we said, pitching for Baltimore, his numbers aren't good,
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: although his whip isn't that much worse than Bassetts five
- 1:19:48Speaker 1: point seven to eighty or one point three seven whip.
- 1:19:50Speaker 1: I think the whip is a better indicator than the era. Man. Yeah,
- 1:19:54Speaker 1: he's been bad both home and away, but he's been
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: on the injured list, man, so he's coming back from injury,
- 1:20:01Speaker 1: and he is a veteran. And a lot of times
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: when a veteran comes back from injury, yeah, sometimes they
- 1:20:05Speaker 1: have to work their way back in. But when it's
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: a veteran like that and they're used to that type
- 1:20:09Speaker 1: of thing, I actually think that they've become undervalued coming
- 1:20:13Speaker 1: back from injury, and they get excited they want to
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: be back out there. I think he is gonna be
- 1:20:16Speaker 1: excited they get to face, you know, the team that's
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: winning their division right now. I think he's gonna come
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: out and want to play with some intensity here. Baltimore
- 1:20:25Speaker 1: did lose his last four starts before he went on
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: the injury list. He did have a couple of real
- 1:20:29Speaker 1: bad starts there, but his last start wasn't that bad
- 1:20:31Speaker 1: against Cleveland, who is not a very good offense against. Yeah,
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: Toronto is a better offense than that, I said Baltimore,
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: I met Toronto. Toronto is not a you know, they're
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: definitely a better offense than Cleveland. But Efflyn, if you
- 1:20:45Speaker 1: look at his numbers against Toronto in his career, he
- 1:20:48Speaker 1: does actually have good numbers against him, which is why
- 1:20:49Speaker 1: I'm doing this. I think the matchup edge. Looking at
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: the matchup numbers, it is not the mismatch that you
- 1:20:54Speaker 1: would think it is towards Bassett, and it might actually
- 1:20:56Speaker 1: favor Eflyn. Here big sample size eighty four, he has
- 1:21:00Speaker 1: a fifteen to one strike out walk ratio against him.
- 1:21:03Speaker 1: E Flyn usually does have good command, but his problem
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: usually is he allows too much hard hitting. But really,
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: nobody really on the Jays has really done that much
- 1:21:12Speaker 1: damage against him except Vlad Guerrero seven for twenty one
- 1:21:15Speaker 1: with two one runs at a walk. And that's one guy.
- 1:21:18Speaker 1: If you can pitch around Vlad Guerrero, the rest of
- 1:21:20Speaker 1: these guys haven't done that much damage against him. He's
- 1:21:22Speaker 1: telling the team to a two twenty six average six
- 1:21:26Speaker 1: forty ops. So I actually kind of like Eflyn in
- 1:21:29Speaker 1: this game, and I like the fate of the public
- 1:21:31Speaker 1: here man. So I'm gonna go Baltimore first five innings
- 1:21:34Speaker 1: in that game. If you know me, if you watch
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: my show, I am a contrarian man. I go with
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: a lot of contrarian plays. And that's where we're going
- 1:21:42Speaker 1: with that one Evelyn series, Castillo, ms Keller and Slade. Yeah,
- 1:21:47Speaker 1: I already read that. Yeah that's right, I do. Yeah,
- 1:21:48Speaker 1: I like e Flyn today. Yeah, Bassett on the road,
- 1:21:51Speaker 1: well yeah, I mean what did I What did I
- 1:21:53Speaker 1: say his numbers were on the road you went over
- 1:21:56Speaker 1: in this game? Yeah, I mean I don't know about
- 1:22:00Speaker 1: the total. I don't have a good read on the
- 1:22:01Speaker 1: total in this game. It's Westburg Bobblehead Night, all right.
- 1:22:05Speaker 1: So that means that that Baltimore has like a promotion
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: where they're gonna get more asses in the seats here.
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: I mean that'd be good on a Monday night. Man,
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: Let's get let's get a crowd there. The total is
- 1:22:16Speaker 1: high in this game at nine and a half, which
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: does indicate that the oddsmakers are telling you they think
- 1:22:20Speaker 1: it will be a high scoring game. I do see
- 1:22:23Speaker 1: money coming towards the under though, fifty tickets on the
- 1:22:26Speaker 1: over sixty percent of the cash of the under, but
- 1:22:28Speaker 1: again I don't have a good read on that. I
- 1:22:30Speaker 1: think the market read is definitely towards towards the Oriole
- 1:22:36Speaker 1: side here. Bassett, I forgot to mention this. Bassett is
- 1:22:38Speaker 1: way worse on the road. His erased three runs higher
- 1:22:41Speaker 1: on the road. I think I forgot to mention that
- 1:22:43Speaker 1: five point six six ERA on the road, whereas Efflyn
- 1:22:46Speaker 1: is eras bad both home and away, so he doesn't
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: have significant splits. But Bassett is way worse on the road.
- 1:22:52Speaker 1: So we have that split working for us too in
- 1:22:55Speaker 1: this game. So Baltimore is one play, and then you
- 1:22:58Speaker 1: already know what my other play is. Man, it is
- 1:23:00Speaker 1: indeed the under in Cubs Milwaukee, where I think that
- 1:23:03Speaker 1: the public's gonna come in and look at this Cubs
- 1:23:06Speaker 1: Milwaukee man two teams that are known for their hitting.
- 1:23:09Speaker 1: Even though it is miss starting for around Milwaukee here public,
- 1:23:13Speaker 1: I think it's still gonna look at this and want
- 1:23:15Speaker 1: to go over on this game. Although it does look
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: like the ticket percentages on the under to the two
- 1:23:19Speaker 1: and of eighty nine percent, which does worry me a
- 1:23:21Speaker 1: little bit, but ninety six percent of the cash on
- 1:23:25Speaker 1: the under. The total slightly ticked up from seven a
- 1:23:28Speaker 1: half juice to the over to eight juice to the under.
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: Not really a significant move, though. I could see going
- 1:23:34Speaker 1: under first five innings because if you want to take
- 1:23:36Speaker 1: the bullpens out of the equation, because we saw some
- 1:23:38Speaker 1: bulpen usage yesterday, including Milwaukee did use their closer yesterday
- 1:23:42Speaker 1: and Miguel, So if you did want to go first
- 1:23:46Speaker 1: five inning under, I wouldn't hate that either. But I
- 1:23:48Speaker 1: saw mostly three and a half's out there, and you
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: know me, I don't like the three and a half
- 1:23:52Speaker 1: as much, so I decided to go full game and
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: suck it up. And when I do that usually what
- 1:23:58Speaker 1: I'm saying is I think the starters are gonna get
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: us maybe through like the sixth inning, hopefully in this game,
- 1:24:02Speaker 1: on both sides of this, and then we don't really
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: need the bullpen to pitch as much in this game
- 1:24:08Speaker 1: with two starters that are this good, A lot of
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: times I'll do that and I'll just fuck it and
- 1:24:12Speaker 1: go full game under on this. Both both teams bullpends
- 1:24:16Speaker 1: are not that bad, although yes, I know both teams
- 1:24:19Speaker 1: offense is are pretty good. But Milwaukee's offense is worse
- 1:24:22Speaker 1: at home, and I believe the Cubs offense isn't as
- 1:24:24Speaker 1: good on the road either. I would have to check that,
- 1:24:26Speaker 1: but I think that is the case. So I think
- 1:24:28Speaker 1: the offensive splits home and away are working for us
- 1:24:31Speaker 1: for the under here, I saw on Action Network like
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: a lot of the money was coming in on the under,
- 1:24:37Speaker 1: and again somebody mentioned it earlier. This looks like the
- 1:24:39Speaker 1: best pitching matchup of the day man and people might
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: not realize that it might fly under the radar because
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: Matthew Boyd basically doesn't get any of the accolades. But
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: his numbers this year insane two point two ERA, one
- 1:24:50Speaker 1: point zero one whip really really good, slightly worse on
- 1:24:54Speaker 1: the road two point four five ERA, but I'm not
- 1:24:56Speaker 1: too concerned about that. The way he's been pitching this
- 1:24:59Speaker 1: month is absurd. He has a zero point six seventy
- 1:25:02Speaker 1: RRA this month. He's allowed zero earned runs in four
- 1:25:05Speaker 1: of his last five outings. The Cubs have won all
- 1:25:08Speaker 1: of those, which you know, does make sense. The won
- 1:25:12Speaker 1: the one where he gave up two runs as well.
- 1:25:14Speaker 1: He has not allowed more than two arn runs going
- 1:25:15Speaker 1: all the way back to late May, and that was
- 1:25:18Speaker 1: the only time all season that he allowed more than
- 1:25:20Speaker 1: three earned runs in any starts. He's been really consistent
- 1:25:24Speaker 1: and Milwaukee, I believe, hasn't even faced him this year,
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: so that might be an extra edge for the Cubs
- 1:25:29Speaker 1: because Milwaukee hasn't faced him, and Boyd, I don't even
- 1:25:31Speaker 1: think he was on the Cubs until this year. Yeah,
- 1:25:33Speaker 1: he was on Cleveland last year and only made eight starts,
- 1:25:36Speaker 1: so Boyd hasn't really been around for a while. It's
- 1:25:38Speaker 1: crazy that he's doing this too, because his career numbers
- 1:25:41Speaker 1: would indicate that he cannot be doing this at the
- 1:25:44Speaker 1: age of thirty four, but he is. I don't know how,
- 1:25:47Speaker 1: but that is what's going on. He actually was good
- 1:25:49Speaker 1: for Cleveland last year too, but Milwaukee hasn't seen him
- 1:25:53Speaker 1: at any point recently, and his numbers against Milwaukee are
- 1:25:56Speaker 1: dominant in thirty three at bats. I know it's a
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: small sample size, but he has eleven strikeouts against them,
- 1:26:01Speaker 1: no walks. Yes, Contreras does have a home run Offen,
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: but other than that, he's really held them down to
- 1:26:07Speaker 1: a one eighty two batting average of four to eighty
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: five ohps. That's dominant numbers from Matthew Boyd here, and
- 1:26:12Speaker 1: he's pitching dominantly right now as well. With what was
- 1:26:16Speaker 1: this strikeout walk ratio this month twenty six to three. Yeah,
- 1:26:19Speaker 1: I mean he's absolutely dominating man and then miss Zierowski
- 1:26:24Speaker 1: on the other side, the miz I am the mizuh
- 1:26:28Speaker 1: is pitching for the Brewers here. I mean he's a
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: rookie and he's already you know, he's already getting the hype.
- 1:26:34Speaker 1: Two point four five RRA, point nine two whip. I
- 1:26:37Speaker 1: know he's hyper. I think this total is a reasonable
- 1:26:39Speaker 1: total to go under here, but yeah, he's been excellent.
- 1:26:42Speaker 1: Point nine two whip. Anything below one is insane. Two
- 1:26:45Speaker 1: point four five VRA. He's been insane at home with
- 1:26:48Speaker 1: a point five six ERA at home in more innings pitch.
- 1:26:54Speaker 1: They did limit him a little bit around the All
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: Star break. Well, I guess actually he got taken out
- 1:26:59Speaker 1: of the game against Mets, because that was like his
- 1:27:01Speaker 1: one bad start. He got shelled by the Mets, who
- 1:27:04Speaker 1: are a good offense. But then he bounced back and
- 1:27:06Speaker 1: had a dominant start against the Dodgers going into the
- 1:27:09Speaker 1: All Star breaks, even though there was the All Star
- 1:27:12Speaker 1: kind of distraction there. I think he wasn't named to
- 1:27:16Speaker 1: the All Star team until right before the game, so
- 1:27:18Speaker 1: I think he was without that distraction against the Dodgers.
- 1:27:21Speaker 1: He came out of the All Star breaking. I think
- 1:27:23Speaker 1: they kind of just limited him just because they kind
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: of wanted to ramp him up again. They don't want
- 1:27:28Speaker 1: to burn him out. But he went three and two
- 1:27:30Speaker 1: thirds against Seattle, didn't allow any runs, seven strikeouts, one walk.
- 1:27:34Speaker 1: So he's still absolutely dominating as far as his strikeouts
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: are concerned. His forty strikeouts so far in twenty nine
- 1:27:41Speaker 1: to third and he's pitched fifteen hits allowed. He's not
- 1:27:44Speaker 1: allowed a lot of hits. Twelve walks is a little
- 1:27:46Speaker 1: bit high, but his walk rate has gotten better recently.
- 1:27:48Speaker 1: He's only walked too or yeah, two over those last
- 1:27:52Speaker 1: two starts in nine to two thirds, and so that's
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: a little bit lower and compared to nineteen strikeouts in
- 1:27:59Speaker 1: that span twenty one to five strike out walker right
- 1:28:01Speaker 1: here this month, and he has ERA a little bit
- 1:28:03Speaker 1: higher this month four point zero five, all because of
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: that one start against the Mets. But I think he's
- 1:28:08Speaker 1: gonna do well here the Cubs, yes, they have a
- 1:28:10Speaker 1: good offense, but if he can do well against the Dodgers, man,
- 1:28:14Speaker 1: And I believe that was on the road too. I
- 1:28:15Speaker 1: know it was at home. Never mind, because I was
- 1:28:17Speaker 1: gonna say the Dodgers do really well at their home stadium.
- 1:28:20Speaker 1: That was in Milwaukee. But even so, this is also
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: at home for miss here. And yes, the Cubs are
- 1:28:26Speaker 1: a good offense. But miss Yarowski is a legit talent.
- 1:28:30Speaker 1: He's probably the best out of the rookie pitchers here. Man,
- 1:28:33Speaker 1: he can really really fool major league hitters. He throws
- 1:28:37Speaker 1: one hundred miles an hour. Maybe he might be the
- 1:28:39Speaker 1: fastest throwing starter in all of baseball here, So he
- 1:28:43Speaker 1: can definitely get it done against any lineup that's never
- 1:28:46Speaker 1: seen him before. So I'm gonna go under in this game,
- 1:28:49Speaker 1: and I'll suck it up and include the bullpens. I mean,
- 1:28:51Speaker 1: if you want to go under in the first five
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: I would try to find a four, even though you
- 1:28:55Speaker 1: probably have to go about minus one twenty to get
- 1:28:57Speaker 1: it under four with these starting pitchers, because everybody knows
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: how good the starting pitchers are. So I actually think
- 1:29:02Speaker 1: you get a little bit of value maybe in going
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: the full game and just sucking it up with the
- 1:29:07Speaker 1: bullpends and hoping that the starters get you a little
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: bit deeper into this game and we go under the
- 1:29:11Speaker 1: full game total there. So that's what I'm going with there. Yeah,
- 1:29:16Speaker 1: miss very good at home, and that's what we get here.
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