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- 0:17Speaker 1: You gotta slip in your palm and a hole in
- 0:20Speaker 1: your checks. Black coffee on the felt, man, you look
- 0:24Speaker 1: like a mess. Three teen Parlette turned the dust in
- 0:28Speaker 1: your head.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Now you stare at the chips.
- 0:31Speaker 3: Like they made you this man.
- 0:34Speaker 1: But don't you go quiet? Don't you fade from the floor.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Your name steal mean something on somebody for show? Put
- 0:42Speaker 1: the glass down, baby, look at me?
- 0:46Speaker 3: No, hold on, hold on nothing nice now, hold on,
- 1:00Speaker 3: hold on me, but it don't get the crown. Hold on,
- 1:16Speaker 3: hold on and stay with me.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Now, what's up? Everybody? It's towed back with you With
- 1:30Speaker 2: Toadstool Sports for Sunday, July twenty sixth, we went three
- 1:36Speaker 2: and oh on the show yesterday. I think we'reun What
- 1:39Speaker 2: is it like? A six and one run over the
- 1:41Speaker 2: last few days? Now, obviously I'll take that. We got
- 1:45Speaker 2: the win with the Washington Nationals in the first five yesterday.
- 1:48Speaker 2: They were losing two to nothing, and they immediately turned
- 1:51Speaker 2: it around and scored a bunch of runs. They scored
- 1:54Speaker 2: five runs, maybe all of them with two outs, although
- 1:57Speaker 2: I don't really want to remember what else happened yesterday,
- 2:00Speaker 2: all with two outs. But Washington was able to get
- 2:02Speaker 2: the win. After that, they won the full game as well,
- 2:05Speaker 2: I think five to three. After they were winning five
- 2:07Speaker 2: to two I believe at the end of five. So
- 2:10Speaker 2: either way, that was a winner. Baltimore was a win
- 2:14Speaker 2: in the first five as well. I think they were
- 2:16Speaker 2: up to one at that point. I want to say
- 2:19Speaker 2: it was close, but they had the upper hand. They
- 2:21Speaker 2: won the game as well by one, I think three
- 2:25Speaker 2: to two, and we got the under as well. With
- 2:28Speaker 2: Dodgers Mets, it got a little bit dicey, I guess
- 2:33Speaker 2: at the end because the Mets scored two runs in
- 2:35Speaker 2: the eighth innning. I mean maybe the Dodgers or Dodgers
- 2:39Speaker 2: should have left Yamamoto in longer. I don't know Yamamoto.
- 2:43Speaker 2: The thing about him is he goes deep into games. Man.
- 2:46Speaker 2: He's one of the few pitchers in the league that
- 2:49Speaker 2: still does that. It's like being back in old school
- 2:53Speaker 2: baseball again. Oh yeah, this guy's gonna go at least
- 2:56Speaker 2: seven innings every time he's out there, one hundred pitches
- 2:58Speaker 2: at least whatever. Dodgers' bullpen almost gave it up, but
- 3:03Speaker 2: that game still landed seven. So hopefully everybody got at
- 3:06Speaker 2: least seven and a half on that The total definitely
- 3:09Speaker 2: dropped on that one throughout the day, but hopefully everybody
- 3:11Speaker 2: got to it early enough that you at least got
- 3:14Speaker 2: seven and a half on that, so that was a
- 3:16Speaker 2: winner as well. It was four to one going into
- 3:19Speaker 2: the eighth inning, so I shouldn't have even been that close.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Whatever we move on to today, I'm gonna have three
- 3:27Speaker 2: baseball plays today as well. I like them. Hopefully we're
- 3:31Speaker 2: gonna get it done. People are probably not gonna love
- 3:34Speaker 2: some of my baseball opinions here. That's what I like
- 3:36Speaker 2: because when I go contrarian, that I think that's the
- 3:41Speaker 2: better way to go more often than not. Just go
- 3:44Speaker 2: against the public, man, because the books more often than
- 3:47Speaker 2: not kind of need the public to lose. It's not
- 3:50Speaker 2: like really a hard and fast rule, but I think
- 3:53Speaker 2: if you are if you have a tendency to go
- 3:56Speaker 2: against where the public is, I think that is better
- 3:59Speaker 2: more often than not. Dirty sock, what's up? Yes, thanks
- 4:04Speaker 2: for hanging out trying to bounce back here. I mean,
- 4:07Speaker 2: we had a peak on the season like a few
- 4:09Speaker 2: weeks ago, and we are not back there yet, so
- 4:13Speaker 2: we need to go on another heater here. But yeah,
- 4:14Speaker 2: let's go into baseball here. It's Sunday, so these series
- 4:19Speaker 2: are ending, so there's a lot of afternoon baseball here.
- 4:22Speaker 2: I don't have a play in the night game, so
- 4:25Speaker 2: it's it's gonna be all afternoon games for me here.
- 4:29Speaker 2: The first one up is included at twelve fifteen Eastern
- 4:33Speaker 2: on Peacock, so people can watch this game if they want.
- 4:36Speaker 2: I got to play in this one in Cleveland, Tampa.
- 4:44Speaker 2: This is gonna be under seven. And I know we're
- 4:48Speaker 2: looking at some low totals here, man, but these are
- 4:50Speaker 2: low for a reason. Get on that key number seven.
- 4:53Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure you can find it out there at
- 4:55Speaker 2: a decent price. I would go upwards of even like
- 4:58Speaker 2: minus one twenty to get in an underd seven, so
- 5:00Speaker 2: you can avoid the six and a half. But I
- 5:02Speaker 2: don't think you're gonna have to pay that much for this.
- 5:04Speaker 2: But I thought this was gonna be a play for
- 5:06Speaker 2: me just right away looking at the pitching matchup. But
- 5:09Speaker 2: I do dig into the actual matchup stats and stuff
- 5:13Speaker 2: to really kind of verify that that is what I
- 5:15Speaker 2: want to do here. And by the way, the market
- 5:18Speaker 2: read agrees with all three of my plays today as well,
- 5:20Speaker 2: so I like that as well. But yeah, I think
- 5:22Speaker 2: this is gonna be an under We have a good
- 5:24Speaker 2: starting pitching matchup here. I'm gonna leave the bullpens in,
- 5:28Speaker 2: even though I've said some maybe somewhat negative things about
- 5:31Speaker 2: Tampa's bullpen, but they're decently rested here. The use three
- 5:36Speaker 2: guys yesterday. I don't believe they used their closer yesterday.
- 5:39Speaker 2: So Tampa, by the way, they're on the version of
- 5:41Speaker 2: a sweep as well. Actually, maybe they did use their closer.
- 5:45Speaker 2: I don't even know who their closer is. But they've
- 5:47Speaker 2: won both games in the series here, so Cleveland might
- 5:50Speaker 2: have more motivation here. And it's certainly possible that Cleveland
- 5:52Speaker 2: could win this game today. So but I'm not looking
- 5:55Speaker 2: at the side here as much. But yes, Cleveland is
- 5:58Speaker 2: in one of those spots where they are key to
- 6:00Speaker 2: avoid a sweep, so they could have a little bit
- 6:02Speaker 2: of extra motivation here. Tampa plays Texas next after I
- 6:05Speaker 2: think they're off tomorrow. Then they play Texas. I don't
- 6:08Speaker 2: really know if that's gonna be a look ahead or not,
- 6:11Speaker 2: but Cleveland again may have more motivation here to avoid
- 6:14Speaker 2: the sweep, and looking at what the price is Cleveland
- 6:19Speaker 2: may be a possible way to look in this game, especially,
- 6:21Speaker 2: you think it's gonna be lower scoring, as I always saying,
- 6:24Speaker 2: you're gonna get Cleveland as a big underdog, and their
- 6:26Speaker 2: starting pitcher should be able to match up here. Cleveland
- 6:29Speaker 2: actually has the better bullpen as well, debatably at least,
- 6:32Speaker 2: so there are some some arguments for Cleveland here as well,
- 6:36Speaker 2: but of course I'm going with the under here Cleveland.
- 6:42Speaker 2: If this will load, I hate when this page does this.
- 6:44Speaker 2: Cleveland's bullpen is actually pretty clear right now. They only
- 6:47Speaker 2: use one guy yesterday, so Cleveland's bullpen is in good
- 6:50Speaker 2: shape here. Tampa Bay's bullpen is ranked fourth in baseball,
- 6:54Speaker 2: though I still don't really love their era, but I will.
- 6:57Speaker 2: I'm willing to leave them in in this underqu here
- 7:00Speaker 2: because they're gonna get the full game under a key
- 7:03Speaker 2: number here, and the starting pitching might get us a
- 7:06Speaker 2: little bit deeper into this game as well. Cleveland is
- 7:08Speaker 2: fifteenth than bullpen, but their era is not that bad,
- 7:12Speaker 2: so we leave the bullpens in here. Plus they're rested.
- 7:15Speaker 2: Tampa Bay they do hit well, they're sixth and they've
- 7:17Speaker 2: hit well at home this year, but I'm willing to
- 7:21Speaker 2: bank on them not scoring as many runs in this
- 7:23Speaker 2: game because of the pitching they have to face here.
- 7:25Speaker 2: Cleveland's offense has not been good basically all year. They're
- 7:28Speaker 2: twenty seventh, tied with the Mets and the Mariners right now,
- 7:31Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm willing to go against their offense here
- 7:34Speaker 2: for sure, But really it's about the pitching. We're gonna
- 7:37Speaker 2: back both pitchers here. Parker Messik is pitching for Cleveland.
- 7:41Speaker 2: He's probably their best pitcher, even though he's pretty young.
- 7:44Speaker 2: Two point six eighty R, one point zero five WHIP.
- 7:48Speaker 2: He's even better on the road two point three to
- 7:50Speaker 2: five roadierra with a below two hundred opponent batting average
- 7:54Speaker 2: on the road. Pitched in the All Star Game, which
- 7:57Speaker 2: is a little bit of a concern sometimes so these
- 7:59Speaker 2: young guys first time they pitch in the All Star Game.
- 8:01Speaker 2: He had no issue with that though. He came out
- 8:03Speaker 2: and pitch well again coming out of that, pitch well
- 8:06Speaker 2: against Minnesota, so he's continued to In fact, he pitched
- 8:09Speaker 2: better because he was having some walk issues leading into
- 8:13Speaker 2: the All Star Game. Didn't walk anybody against Minnesota though,
- 8:17Speaker 2: in five to two thirds, and he look at his
- 8:18Speaker 2: overall numbers, this is good low hit rate, walk rate,
- 8:22Speaker 2: pretty low as well. Strikeout rate is like right around
- 8:25Speaker 2: one per inning, which is still pretty good Against Tampa Bay.
- 8:29Speaker 2: He's been able to hold them down in forty two
- 8:32Speaker 2: career at bats twelve strikeouts, two walks, two fourteen average
- 8:35Speaker 2: allowed for eighty eight oh ps. So he has some
- 8:38Speaker 2: pretty good numbers here where I guess you could say
- 8:41Speaker 2: Tampa does not have good offensive numbers against him. So
- 8:44Speaker 2: that's a good sign. I believe he did face them
- 8:46Speaker 2: once this year. Yeah, he faced them at home, held
- 8:49Speaker 2: them to one run in five to two thirds innings
- 8:51Speaker 2: in that one. His numbers, his pitching line was good
- 8:54Speaker 2: in that game back in late April. And we're also
- 8:59Speaker 2: gonna back Drew Asmussen on the other side. Rasmussen was
- 9:02Speaker 2: starting to struggle a little bit, but he's still good dude,
- 9:04Speaker 2: three point two adra point nine to eight whip. Now,
- 9:08Speaker 2: one concern is going to be you gotta start worrying about,
- 9:11Speaker 2: like with Messick, not really with Rasmussen, but with Messik.
- 9:13Speaker 2: You gotta start worrying about the innings pitched count here
- 9:17Speaker 2: with these young guys. But I usually cap at like
- 9:21Speaker 2: about minus at about one hundred and fifty innings, I
- 9:24Speaker 2: start getting worried Messk is not there yet. He's at
- 9:26Speaker 2: one seventeen, so as we move on into the season,
- 9:29Speaker 2: we might just start worrying about these young guys reaching
- 9:32Speaker 2: a point where they're pitching more than they ever had before.
- 9:35Speaker 2: But with Rasmusen, I don't think it's gonna be an issue.
- 9:37Speaker 2: He's a veteran at this point three point two ADRA
- 9:40Speaker 2: for him, point nine to eight whip. He's been in
- 9:43Speaker 2: the cy Young discussion this year until recently he kind
- 9:46Speaker 2: of fell off a little bit. He's got a three
- 9:48Speaker 2: point five one ERA at home, so he's a little
- 9:51Speaker 2: bit worse at home, but that's still not bad. And
- 9:53Speaker 2: I was concerned about him going into the All Star
- 9:55Speaker 2: break because he had two bad starts leading into the
- 9:59Speaker 2: All Star break. He came out and he pitched well
- 10:01Speaker 2: against Toronto coming out of the All Star break. Toronto's
- 10:03Speaker 2: not good offensively, but still that's a good sign that
- 10:07Speaker 2: Rasfilssen was able to put together a good start get
- 10:10Speaker 2: back on track. And he's not facing a good offense
- 10:12Speaker 2: here either. He did face Cleveland once early in the season,
- 10:15Speaker 2: went five innings allowed touring runs. Back in that late
- 10:19Speaker 2: April series. He was fine in that start Raskilson's got
- 10:22Speaker 2: a low hit rate on the season, very low walk rate.
- 10:25Speaker 2: He barely walks anybody. His strikeout rate is also about
- 10:29Speaker 2: one per inning, really similar to Messic and he's facing
- 10:33Speaker 2: this Cleveland offense. They have really not done much against
- 10:36Speaker 2: him in fifty one at bats, one seventy six average,
- 10:38Speaker 2: four forty six ohps, fourteen to five strikeout walk ratio.
- 10:43Speaker 2: I mean that ratio is not great, but really the
- 10:46Speaker 2: numbers across the board are pretty solid. There so or
- 10:50Speaker 2: better than solid. I would say, so, yeah, we're gonna
- 10:52Speaker 2: take the under in this one. It is seven. It
- 10:55Speaker 2: is juice to the under at this point. A couple
- 10:57Speaker 2: of the books are probably gonna give you a little
- 10:59Speaker 2: bit of a beent number on this than some of
- 11:01Speaker 2: the other ones. But I would get this before it
- 11:02Speaker 2: falls to I would not want to go under six
- 11:05Speaker 2: and a half. Really here, uh, seventy one percent of
- 11:07Speaker 2: tickets on the over, sixty nine percent of the cash
- 11:10Speaker 2: and the over. So the money is agreeing with me,
- 11:13Speaker 2: and that the over is public unless the money is
- 11:16Speaker 2: on it. The money looks like it's slightly on Tampa,
- 11:18Speaker 2: but Tampa is public. Seventy nine percent of tickets eighty
- 11:22Speaker 2: four percent of the cash like minus one thirty. Like
- 11:25Speaker 2: I said, I would lean towards Cleveland in this one,
- 11:27Speaker 2: expecting it to be a closer game. You get the underdog,
- 11:30Speaker 2: you get debatably even the better starter, plus the better bullpen,
- 11:34Speaker 2: uh and the motivation trying to avoid the sweeps. So
- 11:37Speaker 2: under is my actual play in that game. Lean to
- 11:40Speaker 2: Cleveland as well, Jack, what's up? Yes, I agree with you, sir,
- 11:46Speaker 2: Thanks for checking out the show. All right, Arizona and Washington.
- 11:52Speaker 2: We got this one right yesterday with Washington with the
- 11:54Speaker 2: first five winner there they won on the full game
- 11:57Speaker 2: as well. These seems to split the series so far.
- 12:00Speaker 2: Red Sox, by the way, did make a trade with
- 12:03Speaker 2: Washington yesterday. They traded Connolly early for Curtis Mead. I
- 12:06Speaker 2: don't know what I think about that man, Mead. He's
- 12:09Speaker 2: hitting well this year. He's the third baseman, which means
- 12:11Speaker 2: the Red Sox are gonna have to move Durban probably
- 12:14Speaker 2: to second base.
- 12:17Speaker 3: Mead.
- 12:17Speaker 2: I mean, he was a guy that was like designated
- 12:19Speaker 2: for assignment when he was on the White Sox like
- 12:21Speaker 2: last year. So I don't know. This season looks like
- 12:24Speaker 2: a fluke for Mead. But he is a right handed bat.
- 12:27Speaker 2: He's got good numbers this year. He could probably take
- 12:30Speaker 2: advantage of Femway Park being pretty good for right handed hitters.
- 12:34Speaker 2: Hopefully it works out. I don't know. I mean, I
- 12:36Speaker 2: like Early, dude, I don't really love the Red Sox trading,
- 12:39Speaker 2: although I know the Red Sox have a lot of
- 12:41Speaker 2: left handed pitchers here, but I don't know. To me,
- 12:43Speaker 2: it seemed like maybe they could have gotten more for
- 12:46Speaker 2: him than this. We'll see what happens, but the Red
- 12:48Speaker 2: Sox are trying to make some deals to try to
- 12:50Speaker 2: win right now, you know, because Early would have been
- 12:53Speaker 2: one of the guys that would have kept for the
- 12:54Speaker 2: future if they were looking towards the future. So even
- 12:57Speaker 2: though he can pitch well right now too, although he
- 13:00Speaker 2: is also hurt right now, but whatever anyway, Arizona Washington here,
- 13:06Speaker 2: Washington does not have a good bullpen. Washington only used
- 13:09Speaker 2: two guys out of the bullpen yesterday, but their bullpen
- 13:12Speaker 2: is still not trustworthy. Arizona has the better bullpen. They
- 13:15Speaker 2: used two guys yesterday. They are fifth in bullpen here,
- 13:20Speaker 2: Era is still above four, but I don't think they're
- 13:23Speaker 2: a bad bullpen. Kind Of like what I said with
- 13:26Speaker 2: Tampa Bay, Washington is definitely a bad bullpen twenty six
- 13:31Speaker 2: and their ERA is over five, so very bad. Washington
- 13:34Speaker 2: is the better offense. They're ranked second in offense. Arizona
- 13:39Speaker 2: has moved up a little bit recently. Their twentieth tiede
- 13:41Speaker 2: with the Red Sox right now, so at least they
- 13:43Speaker 2: are hitting a little bit better. Arizona's gonna be going
- 13:46Speaker 2: with Cole Drake here, who I don't know what to
- 13:49Speaker 2: think about Drake. I mean, he's a very big guy,
- 13:52Speaker 2: a big left handed pitcher. The Red Sox probably should
- 13:56Speaker 2: have him if that's the case, but for whatever reason,
- 13:58Speaker 2: he doesn't throw that hard. Although he looked pretty good
- 14:01Speaker 2: in his major league debut. He said he's made one
- 14:03Speaker 2: start in Major League baseball so far. It was his
- 14:07Speaker 2: previous start five days ago against the A's, who are
- 14:11Speaker 2: a pretty good lineup, and he held them to one
- 14:12Speaker 2: run in five innings, four hits, two walks, five strikeouts.
- 14:16Speaker 2: That was a pretty good pitching line for his major
- 14:18Speaker 2: league debut. They let him go eighty five pitches. I
- 14:21Speaker 2: don't know how much we could take away from that.
- 14:23Speaker 2: I mean, he was better than I thought he would
- 14:24Speaker 2: be in that game, I'll tell you that. So maybe
- 14:27Speaker 2: he is better than I expected him to be, or
- 14:29Speaker 2: maybe he won't do as well here. It's very, very
- 14:32Speaker 2: unpredictable right now because I didn't really expect much from him.
- 14:35Speaker 2: His minor league numbers really didn't look good, so I
- 14:37Speaker 2: don't really know what we're going to get out of
- 14:40Speaker 2: him here. Washington, of course, has never faced it before.
- 14:43Speaker 2: It can be an advantage to the pitcher when they're
- 14:45Speaker 2: facing a lineup that hasn't seen them before. Miles Miekel
- 14:49Speaker 2: has suspicion for Washington. He is not great five point
- 14:53Speaker 2: six ERA, one point three to four whip. I mean
- 14:56Speaker 2: that whip kind of indicates his e RRAM, who should
- 14:58Speaker 2: be actually be a little bit lower than it is.
- 15:01Speaker 2: But he's got a high opponent batting average here. His
- 15:03Speaker 2: ERA at home is quite bad five point nine to two.
- 15:07Speaker 2: He's not trustworthy. Didn't pitch well last time out at
- 15:10Speaker 2: Course Field. He was actually somewhat decent against the Yankees
- 15:15Speaker 2: in the start before that, although he hasn't been striking
- 15:17Speaker 2: anybody out. He was bad in the prior to starts
- 15:20Speaker 2: against Houston against the Red Sox, although in that one
- 15:23Speaker 2: both of those starts they just let him go. Now,
- 15:25Speaker 2: what I will say is that with Washington, if you're
- 15:27Speaker 2: gonna play this game, I think you don't want to
- 15:30Speaker 2: pick a starter on the Washington side because they use
- 15:33Speaker 2: an opener in front of Micholas a lot, so you
- 15:35Speaker 2: might get like pooling starting the game or something like
- 15:38Speaker 2: that for Washington. So that's what I would say, if
- 15:41Speaker 2: you're gonna play this game, I would pick action on
- 15:44Speaker 2: the Washington side because Micholas is going to pitch. It's
- 15:47Speaker 2: just a matter of do they put an opener in
- 15:49Speaker 2: front of him or not. He's got a high hit rate.
- 15:51Speaker 2: His home run rate is high, that's pretty bad. His
- 15:54Speaker 2: walk rate isn't bad. He doesn't really walk guys, but
- 15:56Speaker 2: he doesn't strike guys out either. He just gets hit
- 15:59Speaker 2: a lot. His strike got rate is really low, so
- 16:02Speaker 2: he doesn't fool anybody. Arizona has decent numbers against them. Well,
- 16:06Speaker 2: they have a low batting average where they've hit him
- 16:08Speaker 2: for power fifty at bats two forty average, eight to
- 16:11Speaker 2: fifty five ops, although Ronado specifically does a ton of
- 16:16Speaker 2: that damage though, six for twelve with three home runs.
- 16:19Speaker 2: If you want to look for a player prop hits
- 16:20Speaker 2: pless one hits pless runs plus RBIs over Arnado might
- 16:24Speaker 2: be the way to look here. Seven to one strike
- 16:27Speaker 2: a walk ratio from Mikolas against Arizona. But even though
- 16:31Speaker 2: that's a good ratio, I mean, obviously the rest of
- 16:33Speaker 2: his numbers are a bit bad. And the oddsmakers think
- 16:37Speaker 2: this is going to be a high scoring game because
- 16:38Speaker 2: they put a ten and a half total out there
- 16:40Speaker 2: on this. I mean, maybe they're under selling Drake a
- 16:45Speaker 2: little bit. But the money is coming in on the over.
- 16:47Speaker 2: Seventy percent of the tickets on the under. I don't
- 16:51Speaker 2: really know that the public would come in and play
- 16:52Speaker 2: an under here, but I think did at least probably
- 16:55Speaker 2: shy away from playing an over with a total that high.
- 16:58Speaker 2: Seventy eight percent of tickets on the over, Arizona is
- 17:01Speaker 2: actually favored, which makes absolutely no sense to me. Is like, really,
- 17:07Speaker 2: is that how disrespected Micholas is in the market, Like
- 17:11Speaker 2: this total unknown who was pitching very poorly in triple
- 17:15Speaker 2: A Drake, like you're gonna make him a road favorite here? Yeah,
- 17:19Speaker 2: I don't really buy that. The money is back in
- 17:22Speaker 2: Washington here fifty seven percent of tickets on Arizona sixty
- 17:25Speaker 2: three percent of the cash in Washington I understand the
- 17:29Speaker 2: argument for it. It's just I don't understand how you
- 17:31Speaker 2: can make Arizona the favorite, even though I know they're overall,
- 17:34Speaker 2: that you could make the argument that the better team
- 17:37Speaker 2: overall maybe and with maybe the better pitcher here, I
- 17:42Speaker 2: don't know that you could really make that argument. But yeah,
- 17:45Speaker 2: I think Washington in the first five I guess could
- 17:49Speaker 2: be worth a look here. But I don't know. This
- 17:51Speaker 2: game is just it's really hard to predict. I think
- 17:53Speaker 2: if you're gonna play this game, I think probably the
- 17:55Speaker 2: over makes the most sense. But you're needing to go
- 17:58Speaker 2: over a huge total there, and we did not get
- 18:01Speaker 2: there with our other over in that series, so I'm
- 18:04Speaker 2: not gonna Actually, there's no way I'm gonna try to
- 18:06Speaker 2: touch that game, all right. Atlanta and Baltimore. I have
- 18:11Speaker 2: a stronger opinion on this game. We did get the
- 18:13Speaker 2: win with Baltimore yesterday. They won on They had to
- 18:16Speaker 2: have a walk off to get the win yesterday, but
- 18:18Speaker 2: they were winning at the end of five, so we
- 18:20Speaker 2: were able to get that bet correct on the show yesterday.
- 18:24Speaker 2: Teams have split the series, so both teams probably show
- 18:27Speaker 2: up to try to win this one. Atlanta has the
- 18:31Speaker 2: somewhat better bullpen. They used two guys out of the
- 18:33Speaker 2: bullpen yesterday, Baltimore used three. Baltimore's bullpen has been good recently.
- 18:39Speaker 2: They've moved up a bit. Baltimore is where are they at?
- 18:43Speaker 2: They're eighth now, even though their ERA is still above four.
- 18:46Speaker 2: They've been pitching pretty well recently out of the bullpen.
- 18:49Speaker 2: Atlanta's still ranked number one in whip, although they're third
- 18:53Speaker 2: in u RA behind the Red Sox and the Yankees.
- 18:57Speaker 2: Atlanta is eighth in in offense. They've had the better
- 19:01Speaker 2: offense here Baltimore seventeenth. Atlanta's going with Ronaldo Lopez. I'm
- 19:06Speaker 2: not really sure that this guy's that trustworthy man. I mean,
- 19:09Speaker 2: he's up there in age. I know his ZRA looks
- 19:12Speaker 2: pretty good three point nine to five, but a lot
- 19:14Speaker 2: of that was him pitching out of the bullpen. This year.
- 19:17Speaker 2: He's got a one point three to six whip, which
- 19:19Speaker 2: is not that good. Indicatese his era should probably be
- 19:22Speaker 2: about a run higher than it is. He's been a
- 19:25Speaker 2: bit worse on the road four point two to one.
- 19:27Speaker 2: Roady Ira. He rejoined the starting rotation recently and he
- 19:31Speaker 2: was pitching okay, but his last two starts have not
- 19:34Speaker 2: really been very good. He's not really going deep into
- 19:37Speaker 2: these outings. Atlanta's lost his last three starts, and he's
- 19:39Speaker 2: not facing good offense this year at all. Saint Louis twice,
- 19:43Speaker 2: Mets won San Diego once. That doesn't inspire a lot
- 19:47Speaker 2: of confidence in him for me here, and he's going
- 19:51Speaker 2: up against Baltimore now, who is a better offense than
- 19:53Speaker 2: all of those teams. Lopez against Baltimore has not been
- 19:57Speaker 2: good in twenty at bats. It's not too many at bats,
- 19:59Speaker 2: but they three hundred average against an eight to fourteen
- 20:02Speaker 2: OPS eight to two strike out walk ratio. So I
- 20:06Speaker 2: would I would not want to back Lopez here, and
- 20:08Speaker 2: in fact, I would lean towards backing the Orioles in
- 20:11Speaker 2: this game. Shane Boz is pitching for them. He's not
- 20:15Speaker 2: really that bad. He's got a four point zero five
- 20:17Speaker 2: ERA one point three to seven whips, so his whip
- 20:20Speaker 2: is similar to lopez is, although Boz has the ERA
- 20:25Speaker 2: that looks a little bit worse. Boz doesn't really have
- 20:27Speaker 2: significant splits here home in a way AE those home
- 20:31Speaker 2: opponent batting average is higher, though, so he is worse
- 20:33Speaker 2: at home generally, but he's been pitching pretty well recently.
- 20:37Speaker 2: He hasn't walked anybody in his last two outings after
- 20:40Speaker 2: he had some walk issues for a little while. But
- 20:41Speaker 2: he's been pretty decent for the last month plus at
- 20:45Speaker 2: this point, so he is pitching better here, Boz. His
- 20:49Speaker 2: hit rate is still a little bit too high. His
- 20:51Speaker 2: walk rate is okay. He probably I would want to
- 20:55Speaker 2: get that a little bit further down. His strike out
- 20:57Speaker 2: rate is also okay, So again, he's got some mediocre
- 21:01Speaker 2: numbers here. Like it's not bad. And against Atlanta, they
- 21:04Speaker 2: really haven't seen much of them. They have three guys
- 21:06Speaker 2: who have faced them fourteen at bats and they have
- 21:09Speaker 2: a one forty three average, two eighty six ohps, four strikeouts,
- 21:12Speaker 2: no walks against them, no extra base hits either. So
- 21:15Speaker 2: Atlanta in the small sample size, they have not been
- 21:18Speaker 2: able to do much against Boz. I like Baltimore in
- 21:22Speaker 2: this one. I think they have the starting pitching edge
- 21:24Speaker 2: here probably, you know, they probably don't have the bullpen edge,
- 21:28Speaker 2: even though their bullpen has been better recently. I would
- 21:31Speaker 2: take Baltimore in the first five if I was gonna
- 21:33Speaker 2: play this one. This would not be the last game
- 21:36Speaker 2: on my list by any means. This one was a
- 21:37Speaker 2: consideration for me, and the money is agreeing with me
- 21:41Speaker 2: on this. Sixty percent of the tickets are on Atlanta
- 21:43Speaker 2: fifty three percent of the cash, so the money is
- 21:47Speaker 2: backing Baltimore, you know, more of the high ticket percentages
- 21:51Speaker 2: on Atlanta with less of the money on them. And
- 21:53Speaker 2: Baltimore is a slight favorite here. It's like a pick
- 21:55Speaker 2: em price, so it looks way too easy to play
- 21:58Speaker 2: the Braves, right. The public is going to come in
- 22:00Speaker 2: and play the better record, which is the Braves. That's
- 22:04Speaker 2: not what I would do here in this one. The
- 22:05Speaker 2: money's backing the over eight and a half as well
- 22:08Speaker 2: or nine, for whatever that's worth. I don't really have
- 22:11Speaker 2: a great feel for the total there, but I like
- 22:14Speaker 2: Baltimore in the first five. I wouldn't really disagree with
- 22:17Speaker 2: going full game on them either, because I think their
- 22:19Speaker 2: bullpen can at least kind of match Atlanta's. But I
- 22:24Speaker 2: think the biggest advantage you have is actually the starting
- 22:26Speaker 2: pitching in that one. So I would back Boz and
- 22:29Speaker 2: Baltimore in the first five, and that one if I
- 22:31Speaker 2: was gonna play it, and it was close to making
- 22:33Speaker 2: the cut for me, that was one of the last
- 22:35Speaker 2: ones on my list. It made my short list today.
- 22:40Speaker 2: All right, Cubs in Pittsburgh, this is going to be
- 22:42Speaker 2: a play for me. This one pretty much lines up
- 22:50Speaker 2: for me, although you do have to pay a little
- 22:52Speaker 2: bit of a price for it. You're gonna have to
- 22:53Speaker 2: lay a run line with this. We're gonna take Pittsburgh
- 22:55Speaker 2: in the first five innings minus the half run at
- 22:58Speaker 2: minus one oh five here to get the price down
- 23:00Speaker 2: the money lines, like minus one fifty in the first
- 23:03Speaker 2: five If you want to do that, obviously, I wouldn't
- 23:06Speaker 2: disagree with it. I mean, if you want to go
- 23:07Speaker 2: Pittsburgh full game and get the price down to like
- 23:10Speaker 2: minus one thirty on the money line, you could do that.
- 23:12Speaker 2: But I worry about their bullpens, so I'm gonna stick
- 23:15Speaker 2: to just the starting pitching here. But I do also
- 23:17Speaker 2: like the motivational standpoint here. Pittsburgh's lost three in a
- 23:21Speaker 2: row and they're about to get swept out of the series,
- 23:23Speaker 2: so I think they're gonna have extra motivation here. You're
- 23:26Speaker 2: looking at a home team trying to avoid a sweep,
- 23:28Speaker 2: which is usually a motivated spot here, and it's even
- 23:31Speaker 2: more motivational because they lost eleven and nothing yesterday with
- 23:34Speaker 2: Paul Skeens on the mound. By the way, Skeens I
- 23:37Speaker 2: think allowed five runs in five or six innings yesterday,
- 23:40Speaker 2: so it was not his best start. As I pointed
- 23:42Speaker 2: out yesterday, the Cubs actually do okay against Skeens. But
- 23:45Speaker 2: now that that happened in Pittsburgh lost that game with
- 23:48Speaker 2: Skiens on the mounta and they lost miserably eleven and nothing.
- 23:51Speaker 2: When you get a home team that gets embarrassed like
- 23:53Speaker 2: that at home and they get shut out, I think
- 23:57Speaker 2: you want to look towards that team to bounce back
- 23:59Speaker 2: in the next game, because that is just an embarrassing loss.
- 24:01Speaker 2: And meanwhile, the Cubs maybe they start looking ahead. They're
- 24:04Speaker 2: playing Saint Louis next. I don't know if that's that
- 24:06Speaker 2: big of a deal. Saint Louis is probably ahead of Yeah,
- 24:10Speaker 2: they're ahead of Pittsburgh in the standings barely, so maybe
- 24:14Speaker 2: that is a series that maybe Chicago will be looking
- 24:17Speaker 2: ahead to a little bit there. They've already won this series,
- 24:20Speaker 2: so I think you're gonna get extra motivation for Pittsburgh here,
- 24:23Speaker 2: and I like the starting pitching to be in Pittsburgh's
- 24:26Speaker 2: favor in this one as well. The bullpen I don't
- 24:29Speaker 2: like Pittsburgh's bullpen, so I'm gonna avoid them. They use
- 24:32Speaker 2: three guys out of the bullpen yesterday, Cubs only use one,
- 24:35Speaker 2: and it was Javi or Asad, who's not really one
- 24:39Speaker 2: of their high leverage, our relief arms. He's a kind
- 24:42Speaker 2: of a spot starter type of guy. The Cubs have
- 24:45Speaker 2: the better bullpen and they're more rested. They're AINK fourteenth
- 24:48Speaker 2: right now. Pittsburgh is twenty fourth, so we'll avoid Pittsburgh's
- 24:52Speaker 2: bullpen here. Both teams have done well offensively, Pittsburgh three,
- 24:56Speaker 2: Chicago four. Pittsburgh usually hits pretty well at home man
- 25:00Speaker 2: and yesterday that was not the case. But I expect
- 25:03Speaker 2: them to bounce back with some runs here because they
- 25:05Speaker 2: get to face Jameson tie On, who has not been
- 25:08Speaker 2: that good. He's had some injuries this year. I do
- 25:10Speaker 2: think he's better than his numbers suggests right now, but
- 25:13Speaker 2: he's not great either. Five point three to eighty array,
- 25:16Speaker 2: one point three to two whip. He's got a six
- 25:19Speaker 2: point two to one Roadie Ray. So he struggled on
- 25:21Speaker 2: the road so far this year, and he hasn't been
- 25:23Speaker 2: good recently either. He just came back from injury so
- 25:27Speaker 2: maybe you give him a little bit of a pass.
- 25:28Speaker 2: He wasn't good at home against Detroit, but maybe because
- 25:32Speaker 2: it was his first start back from injury to give
- 25:34Speaker 2: him a pass. But I usually like veterans like him
- 25:37Speaker 2: when they come back from injury because usually they're ready
- 25:40Speaker 2: to go. But that was not really the case with him.
- 25:42Speaker 2: He struggled through that outing. He may struggle again here.
- 25:46Speaker 2: And he pitched here in Pittsburgh back in late May,
- 25:49Speaker 2: and he was not great in that start, even though
- 25:51Speaker 2: the Cubs actually did win the game. They scored a
- 25:53Speaker 2: lot of runs behind him, but his start wasn't particularly
- 25:56Speaker 2: good there. And he did pitch against Pittsburgh at home
- 25:59Speaker 2: earlier this year and he gave up a lot of
- 26:01Speaker 2: runs in that start too, although he had a lot
- 26:03Speaker 2: of strikeouts. He got a little bit unlucky in that one,
- 26:05Speaker 2: but he still wasn't great. And his overall numbers against
- 26:08Speaker 2: Pittsburgh are not particularly good. They have one hundred and
- 26:11Speaker 2: fourteen at bats against them, so they're very familiar with them.
- 26:14Speaker 2: Two ninety eight batting average, eight twenty three ops, fourteen
- 26:17Speaker 2: to nine strikeout walk ratio, So these are all numbers
- 26:20Speaker 2: that favor the Pittsburgh offense over tie on here and
- 26:24Speaker 2: we're gonna back Braxton Ashcraft, and you know, I like him,
- 26:27Speaker 2: and we did lose in his last start, which was
- 26:30Speaker 2: against the Yankees, but I think he's gonna have an
- 26:31Speaker 2: easier time in this game here at home against the Cubs,
- 26:35Speaker 2: and he's been good, dude. Three point nine to five RRA,
- 26:38Speaker 2: one point one to seven WHIP. I think he's a
- 26:40Speaker 2: solid pitcher here. He's better at home as well, three
- 26:43Speaker 2: point six to eight homey RA. Like I said, he
- 26:46Speaker 2: wasn't good last time out against the Yankees. It was
- 26:48Speaker 2: a difficult assignment in the Bronx. We did lose on
- 26:51Speaker 2: the show. With that game, I thought it was gonna
- 26:53Speaker 2: be a good spot for Pittsburgh, which I know I
- 26:55Speaker 2: think this one is as well. That was after the
- 26:58Speaker 2: Yankees have played a double header, and I thought we
- 27:00Speaker 2: had the pitching edge there. It didn't work out. He's
- 27:03Speaker 2: had a couple of kind of questionable starts in a row,
- 27:05Speaker 2: but if you look at this one against Milwaukee, and
- 27:07Speaker 2: even though wen two starts prior to that against Philly,
- 27:10Speaker 2: he got unlucky in those two starts too. He had
- 27:12Speaker 2: fourteen strikeouts and three walks across those two starts, just
- 27:17Speaker 2: a lot of runs came home against him because he
- 27:18Speaker 2: started allowing a bunch of home runs. But I think
- 27:21Speaker 2: he's gonna be able to kind of settle in and
- 27:23Speaker 2: get this under control. Another one of those starts was
- 27:26Speaker 2: on the road there. He's back at home now. I
- 27:28Speaker 2: think he's going to bounce back and pitch better here.
- 27:31Speaker 2: He's not really at that innings pitch threshold yet where
- 27:34Speaker 2: you really have to worry. He's got a low hit rate,
- 27:36Speaker 2: low walk rate, high strikeout rate. All of his numbers
- 27:39Speaker 2: are good across the board here and against the Cubs,
- 27:42Speaker 2: he's been pretty good in sixty eight at bats. Their
- 27:46Speaker 2: batting average against him is okay, two sixty five, but
- 27:48Speaker 2: he told him to a six to ninety three oh ps,
- 27:51Speaker 2: so they have not really been able to hit him
- 27:52Speaker 2: for power. Nineteen strikeouts, three walks, so a really good
- 27:56Speaker 2: command ratio against them as well. I think he's the
- 27:59Speaker 2: better pitcher. Plus, we're getting the motivated team here, and
- 28:04Speaker 2: the market is agreeing with me on this pretty strongly.
- 28:07Speaker 2: We're gonna take Pittsburgh here, but the way to do
- 28:09Speaker 2: it is to avoid the bullpen. You do have to
- 28:11Speaker 2: pay more for it, but we're gonna bank on Pittsburgh
- 28:14Speaker 2: to be winning at the end of the first five here.
- 28:16Speaker 2: I think they could do that. I think they're gonna
- 28:18Speaker 2: get some offense in this one. And the money again
- 28:21Speaker 2: seems to agree with the Pittsburgh side in general here,
- 28:24Speaker 2: fifty to fifty on the tickets, eighty four percent of
- 28:26Speaker 2: the cash on Pittsburgh though, So that's what we're gonna do.
- 28:29Speaker 2: And the money is also backing the over eight and
- 28:32Speaker 2: a half year nine, which I'm fine with that. I mean,
- 28:36Speaker 2: if the if the market is gonna tell you that's
- 28:38Speaker 2: gonna be a high score, a higher scoring game, that
- 28:40Speaker 2: makes it easier for the home team to cover any
- 28:44Speaker 2: sort of run line like that, if there're gonna be
- 28:45Speaker 2: more runs. So I'm fine with that being the case.
- 28:49Speaker 2: Let's go with Pittsburgh on the run line there, all right.
- 28:53Speaker 2: Toronto and Boston, the Red Sox lost yesterday. This is
- 28:57Speaker 2: what I was referring to at the beginning of the show,
- 28:59Speaker 2: the two out runs. Sonny Gray was pitching a shutout
- 29:03Speaker 2: into the fifth inning and then he couldn't get out
- 29:05Speaker 2: of the inning. Toronto scored five runs in that inning
- 29:07Speaker 2: with two outs, Just absolutely ridiculous. Gray just could not
- 29:11Speaker 2: get out of the inning and then nothing else happened.
- 29:14Speaker 2: Red Sox couldn't score at all. They had to face
- 29:16Speaker 2: Cease yesterday. Though it could be a bounce back here
- 29:20Speaker 2: because the Red Sox, of course, whoever wins this game
- 29:22Speaker 2: is gonna win the series. The Red Sox have been
- 29:24Speaker 2: bad against Toronto this year, though, they're like one in
- 29:27Speaker 2: five or something against Toronto this year, one and six
- 29:30Speaker 2: whatever it is, but or actually it might be one
- 29:33Speaker 2: and seven now, whatever it is. But what I will
- 29:37Speaker 2: say though, is the Red Sox were not playing good
- 29:39Speaker 2: baseball earlier in the season. They're playing better now. This
- 29:43Speaker 2: could be a bounce back for them off of getting
- 29:45Speaker 2: shut out at home, and they're not gonna have to
- 29:46Speaker 2: face doilln't Cease again here, So I am kind of
- 29:49Speaker 2: leaning towards the Red Sox in this game. Here. I
- 29:52Speaker 2: think they will have a bullpen advantage here. The Red
- 29:54Speaker 2: Sox only use Gimboa out of the bullpen, so all
- 29:57Speaker 2: their better relievers got a rest, yes, and they have
- 30:01Speaker 2: the better bullpen in general a though Toronto's isn't bad.
- 30:03Speaker 2: Toronto did rest everybody, so I think Don't Cease might
- 30:06Speaker 2: have gone the complete game yesterday, but I still prefer
- 30:09Speaker 2: the Red Sox bullpen. I mean, you got two almost
- 30:12Speaker 2: completely arrested bullpens here. The Red Sox are number two
- 30:15Speaker 2: in both Whip Andy ray E Ray They're behind the
- 30:19Speaker 2: Yankees and Whip they're behind the Braves. Toronto thirteenth not
- 30:23Speaker 2: a bad bullpen, but not as good as the Red Sox.
- 30:25Speaker 2: Red Sox offense is also a bit better other twentieth,
- 30:29Speaker 2: like I said, tied with Arizona. Toronto's dead last till thirtieth,
- 30:32Speaker 2: so they've definitely struggled offensively. We're looking at Kevin Gausman
- 30:37Speaker 2: pitching for Toronto. He's struggled recently. Man, he's not really
- 30:40Speaker 2: in the greatest of form right now. Hisray is up
- 30:43Speaker 2: to four point five to one, although it probably shouldn't
- 30:45Speaker 2: be that high. I mean, we know that he's a
- 30:47Speaker 2: decent pitcher. He's not getting run support either from this
- 30:51Speaker 2: bad offense. One point to eight whip that's a bit high,
- 30:55Speaker 2: higher than you usually would get from him, So he
- 30:58Speaker 2: is having some issues of those years should probably be
- 31:01Speaker 2: a little bit lower than it is. But he's struggled
- 31:03Speaker 2: on the road five point four to four road era,
- 31:05Speaker 2: so he's not good on the road. He hasn't been
- 31:08Speaker 2: good this month. He's got a six point seven to
- 31:10Speaker 2: five ERA this month, seventeen to ten strike out walk ratio.
- 31:13Speaker 2: None of these numbers are good. And he faced San
- 31:16Speaker 2: Francisco and San Diego on the road. Those are not
- 31:19Speaker 2: good offenses in my opinion, and those are pitcher friendly ballparks.
- 31:23Speaker 2: Wasn't great in those two stars. His walk rates gone up.
- 31:26Speaker 2: Like I said, Toronto's lost seven starts in a row
- 31:29Speaker 2: of his Yeah, I mean, things are not really going
- 31:33Speaker 2: well for Gusman right now. Man, and against the Red Sox,
- 31:36Speaker 2: he struggles. He's got ninety one at bats against him.
- 31:38Speaker 2: They have a two ninety seven average eight fifty four
- 31:41Speaker 2: ohps against them, although they do have twenty four strikeouts
- 31:44Speaker 2: in one walk, so he has a really good command
- 31:46Speaker 2: ratio against him. But they've been able to hit him
- 31:49Speaker 2: pretty well. Jaron Durant hits him well. Wilson Contreras, Yoshida
- 31:53Speaker 2: actually does a ton of damage against him. Those three
- 31:56Speaker 2: guys do a lot of damage against him. So they
- 31:59Speaker 2: need to all be in the line up here, Man,
- 32:00Speaker 2: Red Sox, he just stacked their lineup with lefties today.
- 32:04Speaker 2: That might be what they're gonna do here and the
- 32:06Speaker 2: Red Sox will finally get ron Your Suarez back here.
- 32:10Speaker 2: He was supposed to come back a few days ago,
- 32:12Speaker 2: but it looks like he was sick or something, so
- 32:15Speaker 2: his start his return was delayed for that reason. Suarez
- 32:19Speaker 2: has had a good season though, and of course the
- 32:21Speaker 2: Red Sox were anticipating this one. They traded early because
- 32:24Speaker 2: they kind of knew they were going to get one
- 32:26Speaker 2: of their lefties back, which is Suarez. A three point
- 32:29Speaker 2: one five ERA, one point one to six whip good
- 32:32Speaker 2: numbers here on the season. He is a little bit
- 32:34Speaker 2: worse at home three point eight six homye RA, which
- 32:37Speaker 2: is still not bad. He did struggle his last time
- 32:39Speaker 2: out against Anaheim, but his command numbers were still really
- 32:42Speaker 2: good in that one. And you look at his overall numbers,
- 32:45Speaker 2: he's got a low hit rate, pretty low walk rate here,
- 32:47Speaker 2: high strike gout rates. He's been good this season and
- 32:52Speaker 2: really the last couple of seasons he's been good. And
- 32:54Speaker 2: he also does have really good numbers against Toronto. In
- 32:56Speaker 2: forty three at bats, they have no extra base hits,
- 32:59Speaker 2: one sixteen average, two ninety ops, ten to three strikeout
- 33:03Speaker 2: walk ratio. So Suarez i think he should do well here.
- 33:06Speaker 2: And you know, as I've been saying, I like to
- 33:08Speaker 2: back veteran pitchers that are coming back from the injured
- 33:11Speaker 2: list because a lot of times they get pumped up.
- 33:14Speaker 2: A lot of times the team rallies behind them. Red
- 33:17Speaker 2: Sox might rally after the embarrassing shutout loss yesterday. I
- 33:21Speaker 2: like the Red Sox in this one. That's the way
- 33:22Speaker 2: I would lean. It's not gonna make the cut for
- 33:24Speaker 2: me or anything. Gaussman, by the way, just for posterity
- 33:28Speaker 2: or whatever. He's got a decent hit rate here, his
- 33:31Speaker 2: walk rate's pretty low and his strikeout rate is fairly high,
- 33:34Speaker 2: so his numbers overall are not too bad. But I
- 33:38Speaker 2: prefer the Red Sox situationally here. I think their bullpen
- 33:41Speaker 2: is better and I think they have the better starter here,
- 33:43Speaker 2: So that's the way I would go. They're at about
- 33:46Speaker 2: minus one thirty something here, up to about minus one
- 33:49Speaker 2: forty eighty four percent of tickets eighty seven percent of
- 33:52Speaker 2: the cash, So the Red Sox are public, which was
- 33:54Speaker 2: warning me a little bit, but at least like maybe
- 33:56Speaker 2: the money is kind of coming in on their side too.
- 33:58Speaker 2: A little bit hard to predict or hard to figure
- 34:02Speaker 2: out what's going on with those percentages there. The total
- 34:06Speaker 2: is low at seven and a half, so the oddsmakers
- 34:08Speaker 2: kind of expecting it to be a pitching duel. Money
- 34:11Speaker 2: looks like it's kind of backing the over along with
- 34:13Speaker 2: the public though. I don't have a good feel for
- 34:15Speaker 2: the side though, because it's one of those situations where
- 34:17Speaker 2: I like one pitcher and not the other. So although
- 34:21Speaker 2: generally I would say that these are two good starters
- 34:23Speaker 2: in general, so you know, in that way, maybe an
- 34:27Speaker 2: underkind of makes some sense. But again, I would prefer
- 34:30Speaker 2: playing the Red Sox on the side if I was
- 34:32Speaker 2: gonna play that one. Kansas City at Detroit. Kansas City
- 34:36Speaker 2: was able to get the win yesterday. Every game in
- 34:39Speaker 2: the series has been low scoring and has been decided
- 34:41Speaker 2: by one run. This has been a competitive series. Kansas
- 34:44Speaker 2: City's played I think six straight one run games, which
- 34:49Speaker 2: is pretty ridiculous. Detroit's winning the series two games to one.
- 34:53Speaker 2: Here They're probably gonna show up after losing yesterday. They
- 34:56Speaker 2: don't want to split the series at home with the
- 34:59Speaker 2: awful rule. Detroit used three relief pitchers yesterday. They're the
- 35:03Speaker 2: better bullpen. Kansas City only used two, but Kansas City
- 35:06Speaker 2: is ranked dead last and bullpen whip, they have the
- 35:09Speaker 2: second worst RA to the A's They're very bad. Detroit
- 35:13Speaker 2: is seventeenth. They're a decent bullpen. Both offenses have been
- 35:18Speaker 2: not terrific. Kansas City eighteenth, Detroit nineteenth. These offenses have
- 35:23Speaker 2: struggled in this series and Kansas City has not been
- 35:27Speaker 2: a good offense on the road. Kansas City is going
- 35:29Speaker 2: with luindra Vila here. I think he's better than his
- 35:33Speaker 2: numbers make him look, even though his whip is pretty
- 35:35Speaker 2: bad one point five to six four point eighty six
- 35:38Speaker 2: e array is not great either, and the whip actually
- 35:40Speaker 2: does indicate that ERA should be higher. But he's had
- 35:43Speaker 2: a couple of bad ownings and he has some really
- 35:45Speaker 2: good ones too. He's really young, and I think he
- 35:48Speaker 2: might be better than people think he is, as I
- 35:50Speaker 2: keep saying. And he's also been way better on the
- 35:53Speaker 2: road for whatever reason. Three era on the road, and
- 35:55Speaker 2: I know Kansas City Stadium has kind of become a
- 35:58Speaker 2: more hitter friendly stadiums the walls in but a villa. Yeah,
- 36:02Speaker 2: he's actually pitching fairly well recently. His last few starts
- 36:06Speaker 2: have been pretty good, Like he's been good in the
- 36:07Speaker 2: month of July, and believe it or not, the Royals
- 36:10Speaker 2: have won five of his last six games, and they've
- 36:13Speaker 2: won seven of his last nine. So and one of those,
- 36:18Speaker 2: both of those outings they lost was well, actually one
- 36:20Speaker 2: of them was really bad, the other one he wasn't.
- 36:22Speaker 2: But the Royals are winning with him on the mound
- 36:24Speaker 2: right now, which is ridiculous. His hit rate is very average,
- 36:28Speaker 2: it's one per inning. Strike gout rate is decent. His
- 36:31Speaker 2: walk rate it's too high though, that's been his main
- 36:33Speaker 2: issue is the walks. But again, when you're a young
- 36:36Speaker 2: guy like that, I think that is correctable, like fixing
- 36:39Speaker 2: your wildness issues. So I think a Villa better than
- 36:43Speaker 2: we think that he is at the very least. And
- 36:44Speaker 2: Detroit hasn't really seen him. They've four guys who have
- 36:47Speaker 2: faced him, one for four is what they are against them.
- 36:51Speaker 2: Vir Ling has the only hit, which is a double.
- 36:53Speaker 2: They have a strikeout, no walks, So do with that
- 36:56Speaker 2: info what you want. But a Villa is pretty unfamiliar
- 36:59Speaker 2: to Detroit here, and Detroit's gonna be going with fromber Valdez,
- 37:03Speaker 2: who is definitely on my shit list right now. Valdez
- 37:07Speaker 2: not having the greatest season here four point five to
- 37:09Speaker 2: seven e RA one point three eight whip. He is
- 37:11Speaker 2: better at home though, four point one to four home
- 37:14Speaker 2: the RA. We tried to back him on the road
- 37:16Speaker 2: last time because he had good numbers against the Cubs
- 37:18Speaker 2: and he was horrific in that start. I don't even
- 37:21Speaker 2: know what that was. He was good in the previous
- 37:24Speaker 2: start and maybe he will bounce back. But there are
- 37:26Speaker 2: some red flags here. Two of his last three starts
- 37:28Speaker 2: have been bad. But if he's gonna alternate good and
- 37:32Speaker 2: bad starts, he should be good here. So we will
- 37:34Speaker 2: say he's back at home, where he is better over
- 37:38Speaker 2: the course of the season. His hit rate is too high,
- 37:40Speaker 2: his walk rate is okay, his strikeout rate is low.
- 37:43Speaker 2: His strikeout potential seems to have gone down a little bit,
- 37:45Speaker 2: though he is inducing a lot of ground balls, which
- 37:48Speaker 2: usually does mean you're gonna get outs. You just have
- 37:50Speaker 2: to have good infielders behind you. He's been good against
- 37:54Speaker 2: the Royals, though they have seventy two at bats against him,
- 37:57Speaker 2: one ninety four average, five point thirty two oh ps,
- 37:59Speaker 2: twenty one to three strikeout walk ratio, so Valdez has
- 38:02Speaker 2: kind of dominated the Royals when he's faced them, and
- 38:05Speaker 2: I think he has faced them once this year and
- 38:07Speaker 2: he was good in that outing. I mean, it might
- 38:10Speaker 2: sound a little bit crazy, but I think maybe the
- 38:12Speaker 2: first five under might be the way to play this game.
- 38:15Speaker 2: I think both starters might actually do better than you think.
- 38:18Speaker 2: But the totals high. It's at nine or nine and
- 38:21Speaker 2: a half, so the odds makers are not really expecting
- 38:23Speaker 2: it to be low scoring. The money is backing the over.
- 38:26Speaker 2: We have sixty eight percent of tickets on the under,
- 38:28Speaker 2: sixty nine percent of the cash on the over. Really
- 38:31Speaker 2: not something I want to touch, but I think if
- 38:33Speaker 2: I had a lean in that game at all, it
- 38:34Speaker 2: would be first five under. I think maybe the pitchers
- 38:38Speaker 2: are a little bit undervalue there, and you can see
- 38:39Speaker 2: what the matchups look like, and the matchups to me,
- 38:42Speaker 2: look like they favor the pitchers a little bit. They're
- 38:45Speaker 2: not the bullpens, though we cannot include Kansas City's bullpen
- 38:49Speaker 2: in anything. Detroit's also favored very heavily. Kansas City is
- 38:52Speaker 2: just getting very disrespected in the market. All they're probably
- 38:56Speaker 2: the worst team in the American League. But Detroit's minus
- 38:59Speaker 2: one ninety with Valdez on the mound. I don't know
- 39:03Speaker 2: about that. I mean, that price seems like it's too high,
- 39:06Speaker 2: and the money seems to agree with that. Eighty eight
- 39:09Speaker 2: percent of the tickets on Detroit seventy seven percent of
- 39:11Speaker 2: the money, So the money indicators are kind of indicating
- 39:15Speaker 2: towards Kansas City and against a public Detroit side there.
- 39:19Speaker 2: If you're gonna try to play Kansas City, you gotta
- 39:21Speaker 2: do it in the first five though. There's no way
- 39:23Speaker 2: you want to deal with their bolt pens. So I
- 39:25Speaker 2: would take like the Kansas City run line in the
- 39:27Speaker 2: first five. I was really gonna do it that way.
- 39:30Speaker 2: Maybe you'll be able to get there with that one.
- 39:32Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, that's not a game I want
- 39:34Speaker 2: to get involved in. But yeah, first five under would
- 39:38Speaker 2: be my strongest opinion in that game. To Dodger's Mets,
- 39:42Speaker 2: we got the underwright in the game yesterday, the Mets
- 39:44Speaker 2: trying to avoid the sweet peer. Soto is out. Like
- 39:47Speaker 2: I said, he got hurt the other day, left calf strain.
- 39:50Speaker 2: I expect that he won't be out for that long,
- 39:52Speaker 2: but he is out right now. He missed last night's game.
- 39:55Speaker 2: We were able to get the win on the under
- 39:56Speaker 2: yes today. Both games in the series have been low scoring,
- 40:00Speaker 2: this game maybe won't be able. I thought the first
- 40:03Speaker 2: game of this year is going to be higher scoring.
- 40:04Speaker 2: Sasaki was actually way better than I thought he would
- 40:07Speaker 2: be in the first game yesterday. Was like an elite
- 40:10Speaker 2: pitching matchup. So obviously we took the under in that
- 40:12Speaker 2: game yesterday. Although when it's that elite, a lot of
- 40:16Speaker 2: times you don't want to play the under because it
- 40:17Speaker 2: looks too obvious. But that one made sense to me.
- 40:20Speaker 2: We got it right now. The Mets might show up
- 40:23Speaker 2: with some effort here because they're trying to avoid getting
- 40:26Speaker 2: swept here, the Dodgers might just start looking ahead of
- 40:29Speaker 2: the Who are the Dodgers playing next? I don't think
- 40:31Speaker 2: they're playing anybody that important next though, so I don't know.
- 40:34Speaker 2: I forget who the Dodgers are playing next. But they
- 40:36Speaker 2: still might overlook the Mets, you know, because the Dodgers
- 40:39Speaker 2: have already won the series. They're playing Seattle next, so
- 40:43Speaker 2: it's kind of a big interleague matchup. I guess maybe
- 40:47Speaker 2: they'll start looking ahead to that, so motivationally, you could
- 40:51Speaker 2: maybe look towards the Mets here in this one. The
- 40:53Speaker 2: Mets bullpen is decent enough that they can match up
- 40:56Speaker 2: with the Dodgers' bullpen these two guys. Yesterday the Dodger
- 41:00Speaker 2: used four, so the Mets actually have the better bullpen
- 41:03Speaker 2: rest situation here. Dodgers are ranking seventh and bullpen the
- 41:06Speaker 2: Mets are tenth. The Mets. Again, there's not much separating
- 41:10Speaker 2: these two bullpens, so they're both decent bullpens. Obviously, there
- 41:15Speaker 2: was a lot separating the offense Dodgers and number one offensively,
- 41:19Speaker 2: and they're very good on the road as well, usually
- 41:21Speaker 2: but not really in this series of the Mets are
- 41:23Speaker 2: twenty seventh, tied with Cleveland, and at Seattle, Mets have
- 41:28Speaker 2: struggled offensively. They're gonna be facing Emmett Sheen here is
- 41:32Speaker 2: pitching for the Dodgers. Shean he's better than his era
- 41:35Speaker 2: makes him look. Five point one to three ERA one
- 41:37Speaker 2: point twenty seven whip is not that bad. He's a
- 41:40Speaker 2: talented pitcher man. He's just had some he's had some issues.
- 41:44Speaker 2: He's been bad on the road though, five point seven
- 41:47Speaker 2: to one Roadier race. You don't really want to back
- 41:49Speaker 2: him on the road. Kind of struggled in his last
- 41:51Speaker 2: start against Philly. He was too hittable at least in
- 41:53Speaker 2: that game. Although his command numbers are pretty good, so
- 41:58Speaker 2: hit ability might be a bit of an issue for him.
- 41:59Speaker 2: The Dodgers have been losing a lot of his games.
- 42:02Speaker 2: They've lost seven of his last eight. That's not a
- 42:05Speaker 2: good sign. Man. If you're backed by a really good
- 42:07Speaker 2: offense and you're losing all your games, yeah, that's not good.
- 42:10Speaker 2: He still has a fairly low hit rate here though,
- 42:12Speaker 2: a pretty low walk rate, and his strikeout rate is high,
- 42:15Speaker 2: so his numbers across the board are actually pretty good.
- 42:18Speaker 2: It's I think it's kind of been a little bit
- 42:20Speaker 2: of luck with him or bad luck with him. He's
- 42:22Speaker 2: a lot a lot of home runs, and that's really
- 42:24Speaker 2: been the main issue here. His home runs, Like, yeah,
- 42:27Speaker 2: the long ball is really what's getting to him here.
- 42:30Speaker 2: Against the Mets, they haven't really seen him. They only
- 42:32Speaker 2: have a Bashet and Semion and the only guys who
- 42:34Speaker 2: have seeing him. There's only one hit in there that
- 42:36Speaker 2: were combined one for four single from Semion, and they
- 42:40Speaker 2: have one strikeout, no walk in there. So he's unfamiliar
- 42:44Speaker 2: to the Mets. So he might be able to pitch
- 42:45Speaker 2: okay because he has unfamiliarity here, But I worry about
- 42:49Speaker 2: it because he hasn't been good on the road. He's
- 42:51Speaker 2: gonna be going up against the veteran Freddy Peralta, who's
- 42:54Speaker 2: also on my shit list. Par Alta. This has not
- 42:57Speaker 2: been a good change of scenery for him. Man. He
- 42:59Speaker 2: was a good starter when he was on Milwaukee, and
- 43:02Speaker 2: now he's on the Mets and he's not having a
- 43:04Speaker 2: good season. Five point oh one ERA, one point four
- 43:07Speaker 2: to six whip. That is not good. Although he does
- 43:10Speaker 2: win the home road splits here, he's better at home
- 43:12Speaker 2: four point oh eight Homeye, Ra, he tried to back him,
- 43:15Speaker 2: I think on the road last time, I think I
- 43:17Speaker 2: gave out an under because I thought he was going
- 43:19Speaker 2: to get up for that game, or at least it
- 43:20Speaker 2: was a lean for me. I forget if I actually
- 43:22Speaker 2: made it a play. I thought he was going to
- 43:23Speaker 2: get up for playing his former team Milwaukee, because a
- 43:26Speaker 2: lot of times a player, a pitcher will get up
- 43:28Speaker 2: to pitch against the team that got rid of him.
- 43:31Speaker 2: That's not what happened. He was bad in that outing.
- 43:34Speaker 2: Yet again, Peralta has not been good recently. Dude, I
- 43:37Speaker 2: don't know what else to tell you. His strike out
- 43:39Speaker 2: rate is still pretty good, though you look at his
- 43:42Speaker 2: overall numbers here. His hit rate is too high, his
- 43:44Speaker 2: walk rate is a bit too high, strike out rate
- 43:47Speaker 2: is good, so he is fooling some guys here. Still
- 43:50Speaker 2: he's striking guys out, but he's been a bit too wild.
- 43:53Speaker 2: That's really been his main issue is the I mean,
- 43:55Speaker 2: that's been his issue throughout his career as wildness, but
- 43:58Speaker 2: it's been even worse this year. And he has been
- 44:00Speaker 2: too hittable on top of that. So he's having some
- 44:03Speaker 2: issues here. He's been decent against the Dodgers though, in
- 44:06Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five career at bats to twenty
- 44:09Speaker 2: eight average, seven to twenty nine ops. That's not too bad.
- 44:11Speaker 2: He sell them at a low average, although they have
- 44:13Speaker 2: hit him for power and they have drawn a lot
- 44:15Speaker 2: of walks against him. Thirty two strikeouts seventeen walks. That's
- 44:19Speaker 2: not exactly good. That's not a good ratio. But I
- 44:21Speaker 2: would say he does generally have decent like numbers against
- 44:26Speaker 2: la I think he generally has a little bit of
- 44:28Speaker 2: the upper hand here. Now the oddsmakers are expecting it
- 44:32Speaker 2: to be high scoring, though the total is nine. Money
- 44:35Speaker 2: is backing the over very strongly. Fifty five percent of
- 44:38Speaker 2: tickets on the under ninety three percent of the cash
- 44:40Speaker 2: on the over I don't have a great feel for
- 44:44Speaker 2: the total here, you know. I mean the money is
- 44:48Speaker 2: strongly indicating on the Mets, and maybe that's how I
- 44:51Speaker 2: would look here. A lot of it would be the price,
- 44:53Speaker 2: but just the motivational standpoint that you get with the
- 44:56Speaker 2: Mets here, and I think at the very least Paralda
- 44:58Speaker 2: should be able to match up against she And you
- 45:00Speaker 2: would think, like you would think that the Mets just
- 45:02Speaker 2: throughout this game, they should be able to somewhat match
- 45:05Speaker 2: the Dodgers, except I know their offense isn't as good,
- 45:07Speaker 2: but they're pitching should be kind of on even footing
- 45:11Speaker 2: with the Dodgers in this game, you know what I mean,
- 45:13Speaker 2: both starting pitching and bullpen. We have eighty seven percent
- 45:16Speaker 2: of tickets on the Dodgers, eighty seven percent of the
- 45:18Speaker 2: cash on the Mets. So it looks like there's a
- 45:19Speaker 2: big pros versus Joe's market here, and the Dodgers are
- 45:22Speaker 2: laying like minus one fifty something here on the road
- 45:26Speaker 2: with Shean as their pitcher. I think the Dodgers are
- 45:30Speaker 2: overpriced here, man. I think it's just because they're the Dodgers,
- 45:33Speaker 2: and just because the Mets have been really bad this season,
- 45:36Speaker 2: but there's probably some value looking towards the Mets there.
- 45:39Speaker 2: I mean, you could turn it into maybe a run
- 45:40Speaker 2: line type of situation if you want to really do that,
- 45:45Speaker 2: make it a plus one run line or something. Maybe
- 45:47Speaker 2: on the full game. I think that would be my
- 45:49Speaker 2: best opinion in that game would be to do something
- 45:51Speaker 2: like that, find some way of playing the Mets, you know,
- 45:55Speaker 2: full game run line type of thing. All right, San
- 45:58Speaker 2: Diego and Miami. Miami lost again yesterday, even though Uri
- 46:02Speaker 2: Perez was pitching. Miami's now lost eleven games in a row.
- 46:06Speaker 2: I believe it was with maybe twelve now I don't
- 46:08Speaker 2: even know what this is, but Miami does fall into
- 46:11Speaker 2: this category of trying to avoid a sweep. Now they're
- 46:14Speaker 2: at home and trying to avoid a sweep. So usually
- 46:17Speaker 2: teams are very motivated, and that's spot. And they just
- 46:19Speaker 2: fell below five hundred for the first time probably sits
- 46:24Speaker 2: very early in the season, so that usually is the
- 46:27Speaker 2: motivator as well. When you fall below five hundred, you
- 46:30Speaker 2: don't like to look at that right now. You're a
- 46:32Speaker 2: losing team. You really want to if you've been a
- 46:34Speaker 2: winning team most of the season. You really want to
- 46:36Speaker 2: get back on the winning side, you know what I mean.
- 46:38Speaker 2: So I think you're gonna get an effort out of
- 46:39Speaker 2: Miami here. Now there are some problems with that. Miami
- 46:43Speaker 2: their bullpen. Actually the bullpen isn't used because Uri Perez
- 46:47Speaker 2: pitched yesterday, so Miami only used one relief pitcher. So
- 46:51Speaker 2: actually that's not a problem. San Diego used more of
- 46:53Speaker 2: their bullpen yesterday. They used three guys. I think generally
- 46:57Speaker 2: San Diego is the better bullpen. They ranked eleventh, ough
- 46:59Speaker 2: Miami me six, but San Diego is the better era.
- 47:03Speaker 2: I think San Diego's bullpen is better, but Miami's is
- 47:06Speaker 2: not that much worse. Miami is the better offense. They're
- 47:09Speaker 2: an ninth, tied with the Yankees. Do I think they're
- 47:13Speaker 2: actually as good offensively as the Yankees. No, but the
- 47:15Speaker 2: Yankees have struggled recently offensively, But we know San Diego
- 47:21Speaker 2: is not that good. They're twenty six. They've been a
- 47:23Speaker 2: little bit better recently, but there's still a struggling offense.
- 47:26Speaker 2: And San Diego is going with Walker Buehler here. I mean,
- 47:29Speaker 2: he is definitely beatable, especially on the road. He's not
- 47:32Speaker 2: having a good season. Five point two to three RA
- 47:34Speaker 2: one point four to three whip. He's really pretty much
- 47:37Speaker 2: been bad since his Tommy John surgeries and whatever. I
- 47:41Speaker 2: think he's the reason he's sticking in the league is
- 47:44Speaker 2: because he looks somewhat good at times, because he used
- 47:47Speaker 2: to be good, and he's a veteran, so I think
- 47:49Speaker 2: teams are expecting, Oh, at some point he's gonna bounce
- 47:51Speaker 2: back to his previous form. It looks like that's never
- 47:54Speaker 2: gonna happen, but I think teams are just banking on
- 47:59Speaker 2: the possibility of that happening at this point. He's been
- 48:03Speaker 2: bad on the He's been decent at home in San
- 48:05Speaker 2: Diego's a pitcher friendly ballpark. He's been bad on the
- 48:08Speaker 2: road though, six point h five roadyr now Miami is
- 48:11Speaker 2: a pitcher friendly park as well. But Bueller's not pitching well, dude.
- 48:15Speaker 2: He's got a fourteen to fourteen strike out walk ratuer
- 48:18Speaker 2: this month that is terrible, and an eleven point eight
- 48:21Speaker 2: eight ERA this month that is not good. Even in
- 48:23Speaker 2: his last start, where he looks like he pitched okay
- 48:25Speaker 2: against the Braves and he picked up a win, he
- 48:28Speaker 2: walked a ton of guys in that start, Dude. He
- 48:30Speaker 2: was not really that good in that one. His hit
- 48:33Speaker 2: rate is a little bit too high as well. His
- 48:35Speaker 2: walk rate, as you could gas is already it's way
- 48:38Speaker 2: too high. His strike out rate is mediocre. So yeah,
- 48:41Speaker 2: I mean, he's not pitching well. Most of it is
- 48:44Speaker 2: his walks. He is a walker against Miami, though he's
- 48:48Speaker 2: actually been pretty good. Although they only have eleven at
- 48:50Speaker 2: bats against him, They only have one hit, a single
- 48:53Speaker 2: from Auto Lopez. They have three walks, one strikeout oh
- 48:56Speaker 2: ninety one average as you could get from what I
- 49:00Speaker 2: already said in three seventy seven ops. So Bueller does
- 49:04Speaker 2: actually have good numbers against Miami, but I'm not sure
- 49:07Speaker 2: that's enough.
- 49:08Speaker 3: Man.
- 49:08Speaker 2: Bueller might struggle here. I mean again, he's been bad recently,
- 49:11Speaker 2: bad on the road. Miami's going with Jansen Junk. Junk
- 49:15Speaker 2: was good at the beginning of the season. He's not
- 49:17Speaker 2: pitching well right now though he's in bad form too.
- 49:21Speaker 2: He's got a five point zero nine y R now
- 49:23Speaker 2: one point three to five whip Way, worse numbers than
- 49:25Speaker 2: he had earlier in the season. He does have the
- 49:28Speaker 2: better of the home road splits here, though he is
- 49:30Speaker 2: better at home four point three six homey RA but
- 49:33Speaker 2: he struggled last time out at Houston. He's had eight
- 49:36Speaker 2: strikeouts seven walks. Since returning from injury. Things have not
- 49:41Speaker 2: gone well. Man. He was starting to pitch poorly before
- 49:43Speaker 2: he went down, and since he's come back, his wildness
- 49:46Speaker 2: has been a major issue. He hasn't pitched well since
- 49:50Speaker 2: coming back. He's got a high hit rate on the
- 49:52Speaker 2: season at this point. His walk rate is okay. His
- 49:54Speaker 2: strike out rate is fairly low, so he doesn't really
- 49:57Speaker 2: strike guys out. He's not great. He might be better
- 50:00Speaker 2: of the buller though. Against San Diego, though he's really
- 50:03Speaker 2: struggled eleven at bats. I know it's a small sample,
- 50:05Speaker 2: only four hitters have faced him. They've done some damage though,
- 50:09Speaker 2: three sixty four average, nine oh nine ops two, zero
- 50:13Speaker 2: strikeout walk ratio. I mean, situation, it looks like you
- 50:16Speaker 2: should maybe want to back Miami. And I wouldn't disagree
- 50:21Speaker 2: with the Miami side here, but I mean, obviously there
- 50:25Speaker 2: are there are concerns about it, you know which I
- 50:27Speaker 2: just showed you the matchup pitching. Matchup numbers don't look great.
- 50:31Speaker 2: The form of the picture doesn't look great. Fifty six
- 50:34Speaker 2: percent of tickets are on San Diego, so the public
- 50:37Speaker 2: looks like they're backing San Diego. The actual money looks
- 50:39Speaker 2: like it is backing Miami. In agreement with me, eighty
- 50:42Speaker 2: percent of the cash on Miami, they were about minus
- 50:46Speaker 2: one thirty on the money line. Yeah, I mean, if
- 50:49Speaker 2: I was gonna play this game, I guess that's what
- 50:52Speaker 2: I would do and just back Miami in the full game.
- 50:54Speaker 2: I mean, their bullpen could probably match up here, and
- 50:57Speaker 2: the motivation should be there at least to try to
- 51:00Speaker 2: break this horrible losing streak. Nobody's gonna want them here,
- 51:03Speaker 2: but this might be the spot where maybe Miami is
- 51:05Speaker 2: able to break it because they're up against a weak pitcher,
- 51:08Speaker 2: but he does have the matchup edge against them, so
- 51:10Speaker 2: I worry about that. And the money is also backing
- 51:13Speaker 2: the under in this game under eight and a half.
- 51:15Speaker 2: I would lean over in this game personally. I mean,
- 51:20Speaker 2: these are not good starting pitchers here, so I would
- 51:22Speaker 2: not try to back an under in that game. I
- 51:25Speaker 2: think the over makes more sense. Probably. My preference would
- 51:28Speaker 2: still actually be to play Miami, though, but it seems
- 51:31Speaker 2: pretty risky. Maybe they'll do it, though, you know, I mean,
- 51:35Speaker 2: I'd like to be on Miami, like as an actual
- 51:37Speaker 2: play when they actually break this losing streak. But you
- 51:40Speaker 2: gotta do what you gotta do, man. You can't take
- 51:42Speaker 2: the risk just to feel good about it, you know
- 51:45Speaker 2: what I mean, and be like, oh, I was right
- 51:46Speaker 2: they broke the losing streaking. I could still say I
- 51:48Speaker 2: was right because that's my opinion on the game at least,
- 51:51Speaker 2: so there you go. Not many people will have that
- 51:54Speaker 2: opinion today. As in Minnesota, I've been very wrong about
- 51:58Speaker 2: this series. I thought this was gonna be a high
- 51:59Speaker 2: score warning series, and instead we've had four runs scored
- 52:02Speaker 2: in two games total. Two games combined have not gone
- 52:08Speaker 2: over the lowest totally you'll ever see in the in
- 52:11Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. Ridiculous because you have two really bad
- 52:15Speaker 2: bullpens here. Maybe this game will finally go over the total.
- 52:19Speaker 2: I don't know, man, Man, I wouldn't want to bank
- 52:21Speaker 2: on it, but it's crazy that you've had. Each team
- 52:23Speaker 2: has won by a score of two and nothing in
- 52:25Speaker 2: the series so far, with Minnesota kidding the win yesterday
- 52:28Speaker 2: tune and nothing behind. Who even who pitched for Minnesota.
- 52:32Speaker 2: I don't even remember who pitched for them yesterday, I forget.
- 52:36Speaker 2: I don't think it was any of their better pitchers, right.
- 52:38Speaker 2: Joe Ryan was supposed to pitch today, but I think
- 52:40Speaker 2: they pushed him back because Connor Prelip is coming back
- 52:43Speaker 2: from injury. So I guess they decided to just put
- 52:45Speaker 2: him out there and rest Joe Ryan. I guess. I
- 52:48Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know what the deal is. I'm
- 52:50Speaker 2: curious now I gotta remember who pitched. Oh man, Oh
- 52:54Speaker 2: that's right. Minnesota went with a bullpend game yesterday and
- 52:57Speaker 2: they and they shut out the A's. Are you kidding me?
- 53:00Speaker 2: You gotta be kidding me. That's crazy, dude. And the
- 53:03Speaker 2: A's actually went with a bullpen game. Do they put
- 53:05Speaker 2: an opener in front of Barnett? So that game was crazy, crazy, unpredictable, man,
- 53:11Speaker 2: although I would have predicted way more runs to come
- 53:14Speaker 2: home in that game, which I think I did on
- 53:16Speaker 2: the show yesterday. The A's used four relief pitchers. Their
- 53:19Speaker 2: bullpen is very bad. Minnesota used four as well. Their
- 53:22Speaker 2: bullpen is also very bad. The A's are twenty eighth
- 53:26Speaker 2: and they have the worst bullpen in the RA and Minnesota
- 53:28Speaker 2: is twenty ninth in bullpen. So yeah, you're looking at
- 53:31Speaker 2: two bad bullpens here. You're looking at two capable offenses.
- 53:35Speaker 2: They're actually both tied in twelfth right now in ops,
- 53:40Speaker 2: so yeah, I mean the offenses should have the upper
- 53:42Speaker 2: hand in the series, but has not happened. Jeffrey Springs
- 53:46Speaker 2: is pitching for the A's here. He's been decent for them,
- 53:50Speaker 2: but he's not pitching well this year, although he was
- 53:53Speaker 2: if I remember correct, that he pitched well for them
- 53:55Speaker 2: on the road last year. He just really struggled at home.
- 53:57Speaker 2: And of course as we look into his numbers, he
- 53:59Speaker 2: is still better on the road because pitchers just can't
- 54:02Speaker 2: pitch in that a stadium. It's awful, and the Red
- 54:04Speaker 2: Sox have to go there next, So isn't that great?
- 54:07Speaker 2: Springs five point nine to sixty RA, one point four
- 54:10Speaker 2: to two whip. Those are not good numbers, but like
- 54:12Speaker 2: I said, he is at least better on the road
- 54:14Speaker 2: than he is at home five point zero three road
- 54:17Speaker 2: y RA, So he does pitch better when he's away
- 54:19Speaker 2: from that horrible stadium. Pitch alright, last time out at Arizona,
- 54:24Speaker 2: wasn't pitching well leading into that game. Though he's got
- 54:27Speaker 2: a high hit rate on the season, that's not good.
- 54:29Speaker 2: His walk rate is okay, his strikeout rate is pretty low.
- 54:32Speaker 2: It doesn't really strike guys out. He allows a lot
- 54:34Speaker 2: of fly balls, which again is another part of the
- 54:38Speaker 2: reason why he's really bad in that a stadium, he's
- 54:40Speaker 2: a lot a ton of home runs. He might have
- 54:42Speaker 2: allowed the most home runs in baseball, so farm twenty
- 54:45Speaker 2: seven already, that is very bad. He's been good against
- 54:48Speaker 2: the Twins though, he's actually pretty much dominated them forty
- 54:52Speaker 2: at bats decent sample there. They have no excer base hits,
- 54:55Speaker 2: fourteen strikeouts, three walks, one twenty five average three to
- 54:59Speaker 2: eleven oh ps, So Springs has actually been good against Minnesota.
- 55:04Speaker 2: Pre Lip, like I said, is coming back from Minnesota. Now,
- 55:08Speaker 2: I do like to back pictures when they come off
- 55:09Speaker 2: the DL if they're veterans, but he's not a veteran.
- 55:13Speaker 2: He's he's a rookie, so he's the opposite. So I
- 55:16Speaker 2: don't know how he's gonna respond to coming back from
- 55:18Speaker 2: injury and pre Lip he looked pretty good or early
- 55:20Speaker 2: in the season, but he's been struggling as well. He's
- 55:22Speaker 2: got a five ERA one point three to seven whip.
- 55:25Speaker 2: He's better at home, though significantly his opponent of batting
- 55:29Speaker 2: average is way better at home, and he's got a
- 55:31Speaker 2: four point one to five homey ra, which is decent.
- 55:34Speaker 2: Actually was okay in his last couple of starts before
- 55:37Speaker 2: he went down, so he was actually kind of coming
- 55:39Speaker 2: back into form then he got injured. His hit rate
- 55:42Speaker 2: is right around one per inning, which is very average.
- 55:44Speaker 2: His walk rate is pretty average as well. I would
- 55:47Speaker 2: say strike out rate decent, so he does have the
- 55:49Speaker 2: ability to strike guys out more than one per inning.
- 55:52Speaker 2: That's a good sign that he does have stuff that
- 55:55Speaker 2: can fool hitters. And the A's have never faced him before,
- 55:58Speaker 2: so he does have that advance of having the unfamiliarity
- 56:01Speaker 2: against the A's here. Still not so sure that's gonna
- 56:04Speaker 2: be enough though. The totals high again here at ten.
- 56:08Speaker 2: The money is back in the over sixty three percent
- 56:11Speaker 2: of tickets on the under seventy eight percent of the
- 56:12Speaker 2: cash on the over, So the money is saying over
- 56:15Speaker 2: in this game. I mean, I don't really disagree with
- 56:19Speaker 2: the over. I think at some point something's got to give, man,
- 56:23Speaker 2: and maybe the floodgates will open here in an afternoon game,
- 56:27Speaker 2: where should be I assume somewhat warm weather. It's cooled
- 56:30Speaker 2: off here in Boston, so I don't know maybe it
- 56:32Speaker 2: is not that hot in Minnesota right now either, even
- 56:34Speaker 2: though we're in the middle of summer. It was down
- 56:36Speaker 2: in the fifties here last night, So I don't know,
- 56:40Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean I would have a slight lean
- 56:42Speaker 2: towards the over in that game. And the money's back
- 56:44Speaker 2: in the A's actually, you know what I mean, First
- 56:49Speaker 2: five under actually might kind of make sense in a
- 56:52Speaker 2: way in this game because Springs, both pitchers are in
- 56:56Speaker 2: their better home roads split Springs has been good against
- 56:58Speaker 2: Minnesota again, he's obviously better on the road, and pre
- 57:02Speaker 2: Lip has the unfamiliarity at you So actually, first five
- 57:05Speaker 2: under actually might make some sense in that game. And
- 57:07Speaker 2: the money is backing the A's here eighty percent of tickets,
- 57:10Speaker 2: seventy one percent of the cash on Minnesota at like
- 57:12Speaker 2: minus one fifty. I mean, I can kind of understand
- 57:16Speaker 2: the argument, right Like Springs has some h he has
- 57:20Speaker 2: a decent sample size that we've seen against Minnesota, and
- 57:23Speaker 2: he's been good against Minnesota, so you might be able
- 57:25Speaker 2: to put more weight into that sample size there, and
- 57:28Speaker 2: you're getting the A's at a big underdog price, like
- 57:30Speaker 2: they're getting very disrespected in the market here. Maybe the
- 57:34Speaker 2: a's first five might make some sense here in this
- 57:37Speaker 2: one to maybe have the upper hand of the pitching matchup.
- 57:40Speaker 2: I'm not sure if I would really want to do that,
- 57:42Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean pre Lip Minnesota and pre Lip
- 57:45Speaker 2: probably should not be favored by that much really against anybody.
- 57:48Speaker 2: So the A is getting very disrespected. The oddsmakers are
- 57:52Speaker 2: considering them to be one of the worst teams in baseball.
- 57:54Speaker 2: So I think the Royals are still probably the worst
- 57:59Speaker 2: team in the A, and I still probably think Colorado
- 58:01Speaker 2: is the worst team in baseball. But do what you
- 58:05Speaker 2: want to do with all that, Colorado. Speaking of which,
- 58:07Speaker 2: they're playing in Milwaukee here. Milwaukee got the win yesterday
- 58:11Speaker 2: to bounce back after losing the first game of the series,
- 58:15Speaker 2: so we have a rubber match in the series, so
- 58:17Speaker 2: both teams probably will have motivation here. Colorado used two
- 58:21Speaker 2: guys out of the bullpen to name Milwaukee use three.
- 58:24Speaker 2: Milwaukee definitely has a better bullpen, though they are ranked
- 58:28Speaker 2: ninth in bullpen. Colorado is not good. They're twenty seventh
- 58:32Speaker 2: hitting wise, Colorado is still has been good other fifth overall,
- 58:36Speaker 2: Milwaukee seventh, so both teams have had good offenses. Pidgeon
- 58:40Speaker 2: matchup is a pretty big mismatch here, and Milwaukee is
- 58:43Speaker 2: a massive favorite in this game for that reason, which
- 58:47Speaker 2: again you can't lay a price like the one that's
- 58:49Speaker 2: on Milwaukee here. But Freeland, Kyle Freeland is pitching for
- 58:53Speaker 2: the Rockies. He has not been good at all. Seven
- 58:56Speaker 2: point two eighty RRA, one point five to six whip
- 58:59Speaker 2: not good. Somehow, he's even worse on the road away
- 59:02Speaker 2: from course field hiss era goes up to eight point
- 59:04Speaker 2: too eight. I don't even get it, man. He's actually
- 59:09Speaker 2: had good command this month twenty two to three strike
- 59:11Speaker 2: out walk ratio, but he's allowed too many hits. He's
- 59:14Speaker 2: a lot, a bunch of runs, a bunch of home runs.
- 59:16Speaker 2: I mean, none of that is really good except the
- 59:18Speaker 2: command has been good. But I mean, yeah, your command
- 59:21Speaker 2: can be good, but if you're also putting pitches right
- 59:24Speaker 2: over the plate and you're being too hittable, that's not
- 59:26Speaker 2: a good thing. Even though yeah, I do like his
- 59:29Speaker 2: command numbers actually, but his hit rate is It's been
- 59:32Speaker 2: the case all season. His hit rate is way too high.
- 59:35Speaker 2: He's allowed too many home runs. His walk rate isn't
- 59:38Speaker 2: bad though his walk rates low. His strike out rate
- 59:40Speaker 2: is somewhat okay, but yeah, he's just way too hittable.
- 59:44Speaker 2: He's not very good, although against Milwaukee his numbers are
- 59:49Speaker 2: kind of more mediocre. In ninety six at bats, two
- 59:51Speaker 2: fifty average, seven to ninety one OPS is still pretty
- 59:54Speaker 2: it's a bit high. Twenty two to seven strike out
- 59:57Speaker 2: walk ratio. These numbers are pretty mediocre. I would say
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: across the board, Milwaukee probably has the slight upper hand
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: against them offensively. Milwaukee, obviously, if they're favored by as
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: much as they are, you know that means Jacob Mizierowski
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: is pitching, which he is. He's been excellent. I think
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: he's the best pitcher in baseball at this point one
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: point five to seven point seven to seven whip. He's
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: been even better at home one point four to nine
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: home he raven those home batting average allowed is actually
- 1:00:26Speaker 2: a little bit worse. I don't know what happened in
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: his last down. He only went four innings. I don't
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: know if there was rain delay or I don't know
- 1:00:33Speaker 2: what the hell happened in that game. But he had
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: allowed nowher and runs against the Mets, obviously they wouldn't
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: have taken him out yet. Uh sixty five pitches in
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: I'm not really sure what went on there, but Missierowski
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: has had a good season the entire season. Man, he's
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: got an extremely low hit rate. His walk rate is
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: low as well. His strike gout rate is very high.
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: So if there's anything to pick at, it's that he's
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: a little bit wild. But even that hasn't really been
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: much of an issue at all, and he's been good
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: against Colorado. Has faced them in twenty eight at bats
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: one forty three a average, allowed four or four ops
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: nine to three strike out walk ratio. See, as expected,
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: he's been really good. Milwaukee should win this game, but
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: obviously you cannot lay minus three point fifty or whatever
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: with them, and that's ridiculous. Ninety one percent of tickets,
- 1:01:18Speaker 2: ninety five percent of the cash on Milwaukee. I mean,
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: I don't really see any reason to really back Colorado
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: here though, even though Milwaukee is public. Whatever. If you're
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: gonna back Colorado would be just because the total is
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: really low. At seven and a half, you're expecting it
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: to be a low scoring game, and maybe Colorado just
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: won't lose by that much and maybe you could take
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: them like plus two and a half on the run
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: line or something to hope they don't lose by more
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: than two. I I would not do it. I mean,
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: I don't see a great way of playing this game
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: at all. I mean, maybe you could lean into Mizierowski
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: dominating Colorado and you could take the Rockies under their
- 1:01:53Speaker 2: team total. Seems a little dangerous though, I mean, especially
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: if the game becomes kind of a blowout. Then the
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: problem is that Colorado might just put up a garbage
- 1:02:02Speaker 2: time run or two, and then you're gonna lose your
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: play because if they score more than like two runs,
- 1:02:07Speaker 2: you're probably gonna lose that. So again, that's why I
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: don't really like these team totals under I guess you
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: could play Milwaukee over their team total, but then you're
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: losing one of the best advantages Milwaukee has, which is
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: their starting pitcher. There just isn't really much of a
- 1:02:20Speaker 2: way to play this game. Man. The money's also back
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: in the over seven and a half, I mean, seven
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: and a half does seem low, given the fact that
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: one of the two pitchers is terrible, Like that's how
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: good Missierowski is that he alone makes the total dis low.
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: Like that means that if Missierowski was up against a
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: decent pitcher. This total would be like six. I mean,
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: it's so ridiculous, but yeah, Freeland, I don't think should
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: ever really be involved in a game with a total
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: that low, which again, that is kind of an indicator
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: that maybe Milwaukee team total over makes some sense. I
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: don't know if I'd really want to come in and
- 1:02:53Speaker 2: play the over in the game, although it might happen.
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: I mean, Milwaukee might get you most of the way
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: there on their own in that game, So I don't know. Man,
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: it's it's not really a game that is playable unfortunately.
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: All Right, I'm gonna be right back and then I'll
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: talk about the rest days. I have one more play
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: to give out, which is another total, and you could
- 1:03:12Speaker 2: probably guess what it is if you look at the
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: remaining games. But I'll be right back. Yep. Inside, I
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: want to kill myself. We're on own seven run over.
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: The last two days after tonight it was just complete bullshit.
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: So that's that's how I'm gonna start off this show.
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: Horrible Sunday one and five. I don't even know what
- 1:03:36Speaker 2: to tell you above that I just don't want to
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: do this anymore. I have never seen anything like this, man,
- 1:03:43Speaker 2: with the slump continuing. Two straight losses, not a good
- 1:03:47Speaker 2: day at all. Own four, I have not had a
- 1:03:52Speaker 2: good season, man, with bookends slump that I'm on. The
- 1:03:56Speaker 2: slump continues. I've reached a new peak. Actually, I'm going
- 1:04:01Speaker 2: to burn my browins hat Man, I don't know what
- 1:04:04Speaker 2: is going on with the Bruins, Archie, is that what
- 1:04:07Speaker 2: it is? I don't even know it's March ninth, I
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: think who even knows? Man, I don't know what day
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: is anymore. But I don't even know what data is anymore.
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: Man's back with you after the worst day that I
- 1:04:19Speaker 2: could possibly have, Back with you as I always am
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: until I die at least oh and two yesterday and
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: yesterday it did not go well for me. Own five
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: the worst month that I've ever had in my eighteen
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: years doing this. I don't know what to even tell
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: you about this anymore. The slump, the slump discontinuous, The
- 1:04:40Speaker 2: slump continues. Somebody fucking kill me, please. I don't even
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: know what I should do at this point, other than
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: potentially end it all all right. Next game is Houston
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: and the White Sox on ESPN on limit to The
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: White Sox also fall into this category of home team
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: trying to avoid a sweep, so they should be a
- 1:05:05Speaker 2: little bit extra motivated here, although I think Houston is
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: only playing like Anaheim next or something, which I know
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: it's a divisional series, but I don't know if they're
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: really going to look ahead to a team like Anaheim.
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: White Sox should be a little bit extra motivated here though,
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: though the White Socks don't exactly have the best starting
- 1:05:22Speaker 2: pitcher on the mound here for the job. Both bullpens
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: are pretty mediocre. Houston used three guys yesterday, White Sox
- 1:05:30Speaker 2: used two again. Houston, they're nowhere near as bad as
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: they were at the beginning of the season out of
- 1:05:36Speaker 2: the bullpen though. They're nineteenth, so they're a decent bullpen
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: at this point. The White Sox are eighteenth. Yeah, so
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: we're looking at okay bullpens here. Both offenses have been
- 1:05:46Speaker 2: reasonably capable Houston eleventh, White Sox sixteenth. I would say
- 1:05:50Speaker 2: mediocre offenses. Starting pitching here is kind of interesting. Houston
- 1:05:54Speaker 2: is going with Renelle Blanco, who has a really bad
- 1:05:57Speaker 2: looking seven point seven to one era. However, his whip
- 1:06:00Speaker 2: is one point seven. He's mister pine Tar by the way,
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: so he got suspended for pine tar last year. If
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: you look at what he's done the last couple of seasons.
- 1:06:08Speaker 2: Though before he got hurt last year, he was pitching well,
- 1:06:11Speaker 2: like he's way better than these numbers make him look,
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: and his whip is still good. This year's just his
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: ERA is way high, so he got unlucky. He's only
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: made one start so far. I was against Miami. He
- 1:06:22Speaker 2: gave up four runs and four to two thirds innings,
- 1:06:24Speaker 2: but he only gave up two hits and three walks
- 1:06:26Speaker 2: and had a lot of strikeouts eight strikeouts. He was
- 1:06:29Speaker 2: inefficient with his pitches though, eighty six pitches, but he's
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: not as bad as that amount of runs makes him look.
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: So I think he might be an undervalued pitcher right now.
- 1:06:39Speaker 2: Just because it's such a small sample size, his era
- 1:06:41Speaker 2: is extremely misleading. Right now, all the White Socks only
- 1:06:45Speaker 2: have two hitters have ever faced and Ben and Tendy
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: and vargas usual suspects there, and they're zero for three
- 1:06:50Speaker 2: with a strikeout against him. Some Blanco has some unfamiliarity
- 1:06:54Speaker 2: against this lineup, and this lineup has never had a
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: hit off of him or reached base off of him,
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: so he's hard to get, man, I think Blanco might
- 1:07:03Speaker 2: match up pretty well here. If you're gonna play this game,
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: I would be aware that the White Sox may put
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: an opener in front in front of Fetti here, So
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: the White Sox you may want to play action with
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: the White Sox side. You might want to pick Blanco
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: must start, but don't pick a White Sox starter here.
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: Fetti is likely going to pitch here, but again, they
- 1:07:22Speaker 2: might just put an opener in front of him, because
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: they've done that a lot this year. Fetti has not
- 1:07:26Speaker 2: been great. Four point one six ERA, one point four
- 1:07:29Speaker 2: whip is not good. He's been better at home though,
- 1:07:32Speaker 2: two point nine to one home he array is pretty
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: good actually, and he's been better recently, although he's not
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: going deep into his outings here. But he is actually
- 1:07:41Speaker 2: pitching decently recently as we can as we do that
- 1:07:46Speaker 2: rhyme again, the White Sox have won his last four
- 1:07:48Speaker 2: starts and he's allowed three or fewer earned runs and
- 1:07:51Speaker 2: all those outings and a bunch of recent outings, some
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: of them not going deep into the game. But yeah,
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: he's at least pitching better than he was before. His
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: hit rate is still a little bit high. As walk
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: rate is okay, his strikeout rate is very low, so
- 1:08:04Speaker 2: he's not really fooling anybody, and he's still not really trustworthy,
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: but at least he's kind of serviceable right now. Like
- 1:08:11Speaker 2: he's not the way he's pitching right now, he's not
- 1:08:12Speaker 2: going to completely ruin the game for you. His numbers
- 1:08:15Speaker 2: agains Houston are actually pretty good in fifty one at
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: bats one seventy six average, five to eleven ops, fifteen
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: to four strikeout walk ratio. I mean, the White Socks motivationally,
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: they should show up here, and you could maybe look
- 1:08:30Speaker 2: that way just because of the motivation, and if you're
- 1:08:32Speaker 2: gonna play the White Socks, I guess maybe you could
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: try to go full game on this because they probably
- 1:08:36Speaker 2: have the slightly better bullpen. It's a Pickham price, but
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: I kind of like the first five under in this one.
- 1:08:44Speaker 2: I don't love the bullpens. Well, I mean you could
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: go full game actually too. I mean, it's right on
- 1:08:49Speaker 2: that key number of nine. But the oddsmakers are kind
- 1:08:51Speaker 2: of telling you they think it's gonna be a higher
- 1:08:53Speaker 2: scoring game. And the money is back in the over
- 1:08:55Speaker 2: eighty four percent of tickets on the under seventy seven
- 1:08:57Speaker 2: percent of the cash on the over. I don't really
- 1:09:00Speaker 2: want to go against a market read like that if
- 1:09:02Speaker 2: I don't really have a really strong feeling about it.
- 1:09:05Speaker 2: But both starting pitchers look like they actually match up
- 1:09:08Speaker 2: well here, so I could see the argument for an
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: under here, even the first five or maybe even full game,
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: because the bullpens aren't even really that bad. So yeah,
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think i'd want to be on
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: and over in that game, but I think under either
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: first five or full game might even make the most
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: sense here. And then the money's back in Houston. Fifty
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: seven percent of tickets on the White Sox, sixty six
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: percent of the cash on Houston. I think the public
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: is still backing in the White Sox just because I
- 1:09:33Speaker 2: think they're still leading their division maybe and their record
- 1:09:36Speaker 2: is still pretty good and better than Houston, so the
- 1:09:38Speaker 2: public is still coming in on them. And you know,
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: like I said, motivation should be on the White Sox
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: side because they're a home team trying to win a sweep,
- 1:09:45Speaker 2: which is usually a pretty strong motivational angle, but the
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: money back in Houston, and maybe they're right. I mean,
- 1:09:51Speaker 2: I think if you just you know, if you just
- 1:09:54Speaker 2: zoom out a little bit and don't dig into all
- 1:09:56Speaker 2: these matchup numbers and stuff. Even though both pictures look
- 1:09:59Speaker 2: like they have good match whatever. Blanco is better than fetti,
- 1:10:03Speaker 2: like that's just the thing there. So Houston should have
- 1:10:06Speaker 2: a bit of a matchup edge there. So yeah, maybe
- 1:10:10Speaker 2: like Houston first five could be worth maybe a little
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: bit of a lean there, but yeah, I think under
- 1:10:16Speaker 2: makes the most sense there. Maybe still first five under
- 1:10:20Speaker 2: Cincinnati at Saint Louis. These teams have split this series
- 1:10:24Speaker 2: so far. Each team has won one game. Saint Louis
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: won at seven and nothing yesterday. These teams have both
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: struggled to hit recently, and I don't really like either
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: bullpen either. Saint Louis used one guy out of the bullpen,
- 1:10:37Speaker 2: so they're rested. At least Cincinnati used two so the
- 1:10:40Speaker 2: bullpen's are rested. But these are not trustworthy bullpens. Saint
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: Louis Is twenty second, Cincinnati twenty fifth. Don't like these bullpens.
- 1:10:47Speaker 2: The offenses, like I said, have been struggling as well.
- 1:10:50Speaker 2: Cincinnati twenty seconds Saint Louis twenty fifth not good. The
- 1:10:54Speaker 2: pitching matchup is a pretty mediocre pitching matchup here Andrew
- 1:10:58Speaker 2: Abbot is pitching four Cincinnati. He's been decent for them
- 1:11:03Speaker 2: since they've had him, which has been his entire career,
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: but his whip is pretty bad this year. Is RRA
- 1:11:07Speaker 2: is still pretty good at three point eight nine. One
- 1:11:10Speaker 2: point four whip is kind of a problem, though he's
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: putting too many guys on base. However, he's been significantly
- 1:11:16Speaker 2: better on the road, so he's starting to struggle at
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: Cincinnati's Great American Ballpark, which is pretty hit or friendly,
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: but he's got a two point eight to eight roadie
- 1:11:24Speaker 2: I Ray, so he's pitching better on the road. Pitch
- 1:11:27Speaker 2: well last time out in Seattle, which is a pitcher
- 1:11:29Speaker 2: friendly park. Saint Louis is also a pitcher friendly park though,
- 1:11:32Speaker 2: and Yeah, Abbott, he's been okay really throughout the season.
- 1:11:36Speaker 2: Like he doesn't allow that many runs, that's the thing,
- 1:11:38Speaker 2: and his worst starts were all really early in the season.
- 1:11:41Speaker 2: So he is pitching a little bit better right now.
- 1:11:43Speaker 2: He's got a reasonably low hit rate here. His walk
- 1:11:46Speaker 2: rate is way too high though. Strike out rate is
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: nothing special, but he's not a strike up pitcher. But
- 1:11:51Speaker 2: the walk rate, he's got to figure that out. That's
- 1:11:54Speaker 2: his one issue is he's given away free passes all
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: over the place. He's been good against Saint Lewis, though
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: I think he's pitched against him once this year maybe
- 1:12:03Speaker 2: and did pretty well. But he's got good numbers against
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: some seventy four at bats, one seventy six average for
- 1:12:08Speaker 2: forty oh ps, twenty to six strikeout walk ratios. He's
- 1:12:11Speaker 2: been good against Saint Louis. Actually I was wrong. He
- 1:12:14Speaker 2: did not pitch against them this year, but he's been
- 1:12:16Speaker 2: good against him in the past. So Abbot looks like
- 1:12:19Speaker 2: he has a good match up here. I think he's
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: probably the better pitcher here too, over Kyle lay Hee,
- 1:12:24Speaker 2: although lay He has kind of been serviceable as well.
- 1:12:27Speaker 2: A three point five to ninety ray one point three
- 1:12:30Speaker 2: to five whip, it's not that bad, and lay He
- 1:12:32Speaker 2: has been better at home, so both pitchers are in
- 1:12:34Speaker 2: the better home road split here two point nine to
- 1:12:37Speaker 2: four homy array For lay He, he's actually been pretty
- 1:12:41Speaker 2: good over his last several starts. Really, he's he's actually
- 1:12:45Speaker 2: turned it around and pitched pretty well, so he's not
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: been that bad recently. He's not a strikeout guy though,
- 1:12:52Speaker 2: kind of like Abbot, he doesn't really strike anybody out.
- 1:12:54Speaker 2: His hit rate is right around one per inning, which
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: is not great. His walker rate is actually okay, he's
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: less walk heavy than abb it is Yeah, I mean
- 1:13:03Speaker 2: Lay he might actually be able to do al right
- 1:13:05Speaker 2: here the Reds, though they've hit him in the past
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: fifty two at bats three zero way to average nine
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: eighteen ops eight six strikeout walker SiO so Lay he
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: has struggled against the Reds. He's actually faced them twice
- 1:13:17Speaker 2: this year, once on the road, once at home, and
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: he wasn't particularly good in either outing, so his matchup
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: might be a little bit of an issue there. Although
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: when I first looked at this, I was thinking, you know,
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: you have the better of the home road splits here,
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: like possibly a first five under made some sense there
- 1:13:36Speaker 2: By the way it looks like Hunter Green didn't pitch well,
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: I guess it's a good thing I didn't give out
- 1:13:39Speaker 2: Cincinnati in the first five. I was considering it. Maybe
- 1:13:44Speaker 2: we'll be able to back Green in the future and
- 1:13:46Speaker 2: find some value there. But anyway, I was thinking first
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: five under in this game made some sense. Cincinnati and
- 1:13:53Speaker 2: Saint Louis here eight and a half is the full game.
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: I wouldn't trust the bullpens, but we have sixty one
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: percent of tickets ninety one percent of the cash on
- 1:13:59Speaker 2: the under. You get the better of the home road
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: Split's the first five undermakes some sense, but I think
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: my preference would be Cincinnati in the first five here,
- 1:14:08Speaker 2: bouncing back after getting shut out yesterday. Abbott has the
- 1:14:11Speaker 2: better matchup numbers here, and I think he's the better
- 1:14:14Speaker 2: pitcher overlay he so I think that might be the
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: way to go. And you get Cincinnati as an underdog,
- 1:14:19Speaker 2: it'll probably be slighter in the first five, but still
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: Saint Louis full game is minus one thirty something. You'll
- 1:14:25Speaker 2: probably still get Cincinnati as an underdog in the first five,
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: and the money agrees with this. Saint Louis seventy two
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: percent of the tickets, sixty nine percent of the cash
- 1:14:33Speaker 2: on Cincinnati. I think that's probably the way to go
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: first five. If you get Cincinnati as a dog and
- 1:14:38Speaker 2: you're getting probably the better starter, seems like that probably
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: is the best way to play that game. Cincinnati first
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: five money line, next game up. If you couldn't have guessed,
- 1:14:49Speaker 2: if you didn't guess that already, this is gonna be
- 1:14:50Speaker 2: my last play. Seattle in Texas. And yes, I know
- 1:14:59Speaker 2: I'm doing this again and things have not worked out
- 1:15:01Speaker 2: recently trying to go with these unders in Texas recently.
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: But that's what we're doing here under seven Seattle, Texas.
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: I think we have a very good pitching matchup here.
- 1:15:10Speaker 2: We're still taking advantage of what is a typically pitcher
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: friendly ballpark here in Texas. Texas just typically plays low
- 1:15:17Speaker 2: scoring games here. They don't hit as well here, they
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: pitch better here. I think we got two really good
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: starting pitchers here. Like I said, so I like this
- 1:15:25Speaker 2: to go under. You're right on that key number seven.
- 1:15:27Speaker 2: I found it even money out there, and there were
- 1:15:29Speaker 2: some seven and a half so you had to pay
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: like minus one thirty four. It basically, if you find
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: like minus one twenty something, you know, maybe it's worth
- 1:15:39Speaker 2: getting the hook there under seven and a half. But
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: I'll just go I'll go under seven at least for now. Actually,
- 1:15:43Speaker 2: let me look, let me see if there's a better
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: number on the seven and a half here right now.
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: Probably there's not going to be, but let me check.
- 1:15:55Speaker 2: I see minus one twenty four at FD. I'm just
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: gonna stick with the seven. I mean, I don't know,
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: I mean sometimes I will go up to about minus
- 1:16:06Speaker 2: one twenty five, but I don't know. I might cut
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: it off at minus one twenty here for that. You know.
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: Of course, if it lands exactly, seven will push, and
- 1:16:15Speaker 2: it is possible because seven is the key number here.
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: But I like the starting pitching here. We're gonna keep
- 1:16:20Speaker 2: the bullpens in even though Texas has struggled recently, but
- 1:16:23Speaker 2: they're pretty rested here and their better at relievers are
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: all available here today. They only use two guys yesterday,
- 1:16:29Speaker 2: so I think we can back the bullpens here. Seattle
- 1:16:32Speaker 2: used two guys as well. Plus we're also banking on
- 1:16:34Speaker 2: the starters to go deeper into this game than the
- 1:16:37Speaker 2: first five innings, kind of rescue the bullpens a little bit.
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: Seattle didn't use anybody that good out of the bullpens
- 1:16:42Speaker 2: yesterday either, so I think the bullpens are ready to
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: go here. Texas won the game seven to one yesterday.
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: They've actually they're on the verge of sweeping the series,
- 1:16:52Speaker 2: by the way, so Seattle might be a little extra
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: motivated here because they've fallen two and a half games
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: behind Texas. Now, Texas leading the division's probably gonna be
- 1:17:00Speaker 2: a little bit extra motivated here Texas. I don't know
- 1:17:02Speaker 2: if they're gonna be looking ahead though to Tampa Bay.
- 1:17:06Speaker 2: But I think Seattle might have a little bit of extra
- 1:17:08Speaker 2: motivation here just because they've fallen behind and they are
- 1:17:11Speaker 2: on the version of the sweep here. But anyway, I
- 1:17:14Speaker 2: think both bullpens should be gained for this. I mean,
- 1:17:17Speaker 2: the better relievers didn't come into the game yesterday. Texas
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: has been a good bullpen recently. I just don't know
- 1:17:23Speaker 2: what's happening to them recently. They've been a good bullpen
- 1:17:26Speaker 2: in the recent years, I should say, but right now
- 1:17:29Speaker 2: they've fallen to sixteenth. But I'm still willing to back
- 1:17:31Speaker 2: both bullpens here. I also think Seattle's is good. They're twelve,
- 1:17:35Speaker 2: so I think we can overcome the bullpens here hopefully
- 1:17:38Speaker 2: and hopefully they don't have to pitch that much and
- 1:17:40Speaker 2: the better relievers arrested today. Offensively, Texas has actually been
- 1:17:45Speaker 2: better fourteenth tied with the Giants. Still, I don't think
- 1:17:48Speaker 2: the Giants are really that good. I'm not really sure
- 1:17:50Speaker 2: Texas is that good either. Seattle has been a big
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: problem though. Like I said, they're twenty seventh, tied with
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: Cleveland and the Mets. If that's the case, you know
- 1:17:57Speaker 2: you're not doing something right offensively. So Seattle's offense has
- 1:18:01Speaker 2: really struggled. But look at the starting pitching here, man,
- 1:18:04Speaker 2: and you could go first five with this two, but
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: you're gonna be looking at like three three and a half,
- 1:18:09Speaker 2: which I don't really love. So I'd rather be on
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: the key number in the full game when you at
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: least have bullpens in ourn't total disasters here, but yeah,
- 1:18:16Speaker 2: we're gonna back both pitchers here. Logan Gilbert pitching for
- 1:18:19Speaker 2: the Mariners. He's been good three point three eighty RA
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: point nine to eight WHIP. He's started to pitch better
- 1:18:25Speaker 2: at home finally, which was expected. But he's been good
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: on the road all season two point two to three
- 1:18:30Speaker 2: ROADI al right, so we could definitely back him on
- 1:18:32Speaker 2: the road. He's pitching well recently, really good command numbers recently,
- 1:18:36Speaker 2: high strikeout rate, low walk rate. He's going deep into
- 1:18:39Speaker 2: his outings. He's got at least six and a third
- 1:18:40Speaker 2: or at least six innings excuse me, in every outing
- 1:18:43Speaker 2: for his last seven outings, so he is going pretty
- 1:18:46Speaker 2: deep into some of these games. He's got a low
- 1:18:48Speaker 2: hit rate, low walk rate, high strikeout rate, good numbers
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: across the board here. Did pitch against Texas twice this season,
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: early in April, and he was pretty good in both
- 1:18:58Speaker 2: those outings. He went eleven and a third innings total
- 1:19:01Speaker 2: and allow of four total runs there and had twelve
- 1:19:04Speaker 2: strikeouts and one walk, So yeah, his command was on
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: point there. A lot of few, too many hits there
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: about whatever. I mean, he pitched pretty well, and he's
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: good against sexast generally one hundred and twenty at bats,
- 1:19:17Speaker 2: so even though they're really familiar with him, they really
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: have not done well against him. Two seventeen average, six
- 1:19:22Speaker 2: pot two ops, thirty eight to seven at strikeout walk ratio,
- 1:19:25Speaker 2: So yeah, Gilbert has got good numbers against them. Texas
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: is going with Jacob de Gram. He's still solid man,
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: even though he's an old man at this point. He's
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: pitching well. A three point seven six ERA, one point
- 1:19:37Speaker 2: zero five whip. He's been better at home three point
- 1:19:40Speaker 2: one six homy ra with a sub two hundred opponent
- 1:19:43Speaker 2: batting average at home. Struggled a bit in his last
- 1:19:45Speaker 2: downing against the White Sox, but he still had good
- 1:19:47Speaker 2: command numbers there, So I'm going to consider that to
- 1:19:49Speaker 2: be a little bit more of an outlier. The last
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: time he did something similar to that, he bounced back
- 1:19:53Speaker 2: and pitched well the next time against Miami, even though
- 1:19:56Speaker 2: he'd actually thrown over one hundred pitches in the bad
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: start against the Podres and still bounce back fine, So
- 1:20:03Speaker 2: I'm fine with the going with him here. He did
- 1:20:05Speaker 2: face Seattle twice as well early in April. He only
- 1:20:09Speaker 2: went nine innings across those two starts, but he only
- 1:20:11Speaker 2: allowed five hits in one run across that entire span
- 1:20:15Speaker 2: and had a nine strike ups and three walks, so
- 1:20:18Speaker 2: he's still pitched pretty well in both those outings. His
- 1:20:21Speaker 2: team won both of them. They're both low scoring too.
- 1:20:24Speaker 2: He's got a low hit rate, low walk rate, high
- 1:20:26Speaker 2: strikeout rate, so he's got all good numbers across the
- 1:20:29Speaker 2: board as well. And yeah, as you could guess, he's
- 1:20:31Speaker 2: been pretty good against Seattle. Just the ops is a
- 1:20:34Speaker 2: little bit high because they have some power off him.
- 1:20:37Speaker 2: But other than Mitch Garver who's two for two with
- 1:20:39Speaker 2: two of them runs, there wasn't really anybody in this
- 1:20:41Speaker 2: line that really except for I guess Julio Rodriguez has
- 1:20:45Speaker 2: done some damage here. But other than that nobody else
- 1:20:47Speaker 2: really has ninety nine at bats two twenty two average
- 1:20:50Speaker 2: very low there. Seven to twenty seven ops is still
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: below that seven to fifty threshold thirty three to thirteen
- 1:20:57Speaker 2: strike up walk ratio. I mean, that's not that good
- 1:20:59Speaker 2: of a ratio, but still his numbers are pretty good
- 1:21:01Speaker 2: here across the board. I expect good pitching in this game,
- 1:21:05Speaker 2: and the money seems to agree with me. Here. We
- 1:21:06Speaker 2: have eighty one percent of the tickets on the over,
- 1:21:09Speaker 2: because I think the public just kind of thinks, well,
- 1:21:13Speaker 2: you know, seven's a low number, and they just have
- 1:21:16Speaker 2: a tendency and not want to go under that really
- 1:21:18Speaker 2: low number, but we're gonna do it. And the money agrees.
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: Fifty six percent of the cash on the under. So
- 1:21:23Speaker 2: the money does agree with this, and the money's also
- 1:21:25Speaker 2: agreeing with Seattle. I don't disagree with that. Gilbert has
- 1:21:28Speaker 2: the better of the matchup numbers, Seattle has the better bullpen,
- 1:21:31Speaker 2: and Seattle's got the motivation here, so I also do
- 1:21:34Speaker 2: agree with Seattle. I have fifty five percent of tickets
- 1:21:36Speaker 2: on Texas, eighty four percent of the cash on Seattle.
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: It's like a pick em price there. I think Seattle
- 1:21:42Speaker 2: might still be the better team even though they're behind Texas.
- 1:21:45Speaker 2: I mean the standings seattle to me at some point,
- 1:21:50Speaker 2: just the talent level they have. At some point it's
- 1:21:52Speaker 2: going to turn around. Like WU is not going to
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: continue to be this bad. He was bad again yesterday.
- 1:21:57Speaker 2: But I don't know. I don't know what's going on
- 1:21:59Speaker 2: with WU and road struggles. But whatever, we don't have
- 1:22:01Speaker 2: to worry about WU here though. We're going with Gilbert,
- 1:22:04Speaker 2: so under is my play in that game though, But yes,
- 1:22:07Speaker 2: I lean Seattle as well Anaheim and San Francisco. Anaheim
- 1:22:13Speaker 2: is trying to avoid getting swept here. San Francisco's put
- 1:22:15Speaker 2: up some offense here. And I made a mistake. I
- 1:22:17Speaker 2: said that it was a walk off double for Devers
- 1:22:20Speaker 2: the other day. It was actually a single because it
- 1:22:22Speaker 2: was originally ruled a ground rule double, and then I
- 1:22:25Speaker 2: don't know what there was. There was some replay review.
- 1:22:28Speaker 2: It doesn't even really matter. I mean, it was gonna
- 1:22:30Speaker 2: be a walk off RBI either way. It's just the
- 1:22:32Speaker 2: ground rule double would have scored two runs, but like
- 1:22:35Speaker 2: who cares it was instead it was in the ballpark,
- 1:22:38Speaker 2: so it wound up being ruled a single in one
- 1:22:40Speaker 2: run scored, but I don't know. It was kind of weird.
- 1:22:43Speaker 2: But whatever, San Francisco's on the verge of sweep peer.
- 1:22:47Speaker 2: They're playing Milwaukee next. They might look ahead to that,
- 1:22:50Speaker 2: and that's a pretty big series against Milwaukee, so San
- 1:22:52Speaker 2: Francisco might start looking ahead. So I think the situation
- 1:22:56Speaker 2: to me favors Anaheim here, but you can't really back
- 1:22:58Speaker 2: Anaheim's bullpen. They're not really that good. Anaheim only us
- 1:23:02Speaker 2: two guys yes today out of the bullpen, but the Giants,
- 1:23:04Speaker 2: I think do have the better bullpen, even though they
- 1:23:06Speaker 2: haven't been that good this year. They use two guys
- 1:23:09Speaker 2: as well. Giants are twenty third. Angels are actually twenty
- 1:23:12Speaker 2: first and actually have a better bullpen e Ray, but
- 1:23:15Speaker 2: I don't really trust that number. I still think the
- 1:23:18Speaker 2: Giants probably have the slightly better bullpen. Giants have had
- 1:23:21Speaker 2: the better offense. They're fourteenth, like I said, tie with
- 1:23:24Speaker 2: the Rangers. Angels are twenty third. I don't think either
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: offense is really that good, and this is more of
- 1:23:30Speaker 2: a pitcher friendly ballpark. But I think you get back
- 1:23:33Speaker 2: Anaheim in the first five here because you're getting Jose
- 1:23:35Speaker 2: Soriano and he is still one of their better starters,
- 1:23:38Speaker 2: even though he has had some issues, but his overall
- 1:23:40Speaker 2: numbers are pretty good. Three point four to three ERA,
- 1:23:43Speaker 2: one point two to five WHIP just like last year.
- 1:23:45Speaker 2: He's better on the road three point one to one
- 1:23:48Speaker 2: road ERA, So for whatever reason, he's pitches better on
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: the road. But he was good at home last time too.
- 1:23:53Speaker 2: He's been pretty good this month. He looks like he's
- 1:23:56Speaker 2: in pretty good form right now. Over his last like
- 1:23:59Speaker 2: four stars, he's been pretty good. Pretty high strike out
- 1:24:03Speaker 2: rate there. Strike gout rate on the season is fairly high.
- 1:24:05Speaker 2: Hit rate is low. His problem is the walks. He's
- 1:24:08Speaker 2: just way too wild. He's got a very high walk rate.
- 1:24:11Speaker 2: He's got to get that under control. Literally, but he
- 1:24:13Speaker 2: induces a lot of ground balls, and really, if he
- 1:24:15Speaker 2: stopped walking people, he'd be a very good pitcher. But
- 1:24:18Speaker 2: I think he could do it here. Although the Giants
- 1:24:21Speaker 2: do have some decent numbers against him, it's only an
- 1:24:24Speaker 2: eight at bats and it's only a riaz Ariaz has
- 1:24:27Speaker 2: all three hits that the Giants have against them, one
- 1:24:29Speaker 2: of them is a double, So they have a three
- 1:24:31Speaker 2: seventy five average, one thousand ops, one strikeout, two walks,
- 1:24:35Speaker 2: and eight at bats against them between Arias En Devers,
- 1:24:37Speaker 2: who does have a couple of walks, but he's unfamiliar
- 1:24:40Speaker 2: to the Giants for the most part, so I don't
- 1:24:42Speaker 2: think you put much weight into that very small sample size.
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: Soriano's good on the road, he's unfamiliar to the Giants.
- 1:24:48Speaker 2: He's in decent form right now. I expect Soriano will
- 1:24:51Speaker 2: pitch well here and you'll get at least some motivation
- 1:24:54Speaker 2: from Anaheim to try to avoid the sweep. The Giants
- 1:24:57Speaker 2: are going with Carson wizen Hunting. I don't know exactly
- 1:25:00Speaker 2: how they're gonna play this, So if you want to
- 1:25:01Speaker 2: play this game, I would probably select Soriano must start,
- 1:25:04Speaker 2: but don't pick a Giant starter because they might put
- 1:25:07Speaker 2: an opener in front of wizen Hunt. I don't know
- 1:25:09Speaker 2: what they're gonna do. Wizen Hunt's still a young pitcher.
- 1:25:12Speaker 2: He struggled a bit last year. He made five starts
- 1:25:15Speaker 2: last year. They probably won't put an opener in front
- 1:25:17Speaker 2: of him, though, because it looks like all seven of
- 1:25:19Speaker 2: his appearances he's actually made the start. This year, he's
- 1:25:23Speaker 2: made two starts. He's got a three point three eighty
- 1:25:25Speaker 2: RA but a one point four to one whip is
- 1:25:27Speaker 2: not that good. Hasn't a looted that many runs. He's
- 1:25:30Speaker 2: gone at least five innings in each of his starts,
- 1:25:31Speaker 2: but he's had issues with command. He's got a six
- 1:25:34Speaker 2: to six strikeout walker ratio on ten and two thirds innings.
- 1:25:37Speaker 2: That's not good. So he's obviously getting a little bit lucky.
- 1:25:40Speaker 2: He's putting too many guys on base. He faces Atlanta
- 1:25:42Speaker 2: on the road to Colorado at home, where I don't
- 1:25:47Speaker 2: think Colorado hits as well when they're away from cores.
- 1:25:49Speaker 2: That's typically the case, So I don't know what to
- 1:25:52Speaker 2: put into those I don't know how much weight to
- 1:25:54Speaker 2: put into those games. Really. Wizen Hunt does have unfamiliarity
- 1:25:58Speaker 2: here against the Angels. They haven't seen him before, but
- 1:26:00Speaker 2: I don't know that that's really gonna be enough. I
- 1:26:02Speaker 2: think he's not as good as a Zra makes him look.
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: So I'm gonna lean towards Anaheim in the first five here.
- 1:26:08Speaker 2: That's the way I would play this. I would back
- 1:26:10Speaker 2: Soriano and get the motivational edge from Anaheim, trying to
- 1:26:14Speaker 2: avoid the sweep but avoid their bullpen. Sixty percent of
- 1:26:17Speaker 2: tickets around the Giants, so the Giants are actually public.
- 1:26:20Speaker 2: That's crazy because the Giants have a bad record, so
- 1:26:23Speaker 2: they're not gonna be public very often. But they are
- 1:26:25Speaker 2: here because Anaheim is a very weak team. But fifty
- 1:26:28Speaker 2: percent of the cash on Anaheim, I think that's the
- 1:26:30Speaker 2: way to look here. You're gonna get them. Probably you're
- 1:26:32Speaker 2: gonna have to pay a favorite price for them in
- 1:26:34Speaker 2: the first five, but it's gonna be pretty cheap. Nonetheless,
- 1:26:38Speaker 2: the line on the full game is around to pick them,
- 1:26:40Speaker 2: and the money is playing the over eight and a
- 1:26:42Speaker 2: half as well. I don't really have a good feel
- 1:26:44Speaker 2: for the total there, but yeah, I think Anaheim in
- 1:26:47Speaker 2: the first five makes the most sense. And then the
- 1:26:49Speaker 2: night game NBC and Peacock, Yankees and Phillies. I thought
- 1:26:53Speaker 2: yesterday's game would be higher scoring. Weathers actually pitched really
- 1:26:56Speaker 2: well for the Yankees yesterday. Philly is trying to avoid
- 1:26:59Speaker 2: the sweep and they should win this game, but they're
- 1:27:02Speaker 2: favored by quite a bit here. Philly has one of
- 1:27:05Speaker 2: their best starters on the mound here today. Of course,
- 1:27:07Speaker 2: they've lost four games in a row. This has been
- 1:27:09Speaker 2: a very low scoring series here, which you think would
- 1:27:12Speaker 2: play into Phillies' hands a little bit because one of
- 1:27:14Speaker 2: the biggest advantages the Yankees should have here is their offense,
- 1:27:17Speaker 2: but their offense has struggled recently. Yankees did use their
- 1:27:20Speaker 2: closer yesterday. They used three guys yesterday. Philly's bullpen is
- 1:27:24Speaker 2: nowhere near as good, though, and they use six guys
- 1:27:26Speaker 2: out of the bullpens. That's not great for Philly here.
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: They went basically with a bullpen game yesterday, I'm pretty sure,
- 1:27:33Speaker 2: so that's really not good, although they somehow stifled the
- 1:27:37Speaker 2: Yankees still and held them to one run pretty deep
- 1:27:39Speaker 2: into the game yesterday. Yankees have the best bullpen era
- 1:27:43Speaker 2: in baseball. They ranked third in whip right now, so
- 1:27:46Speaker 2: they're a good bullpen. Phillies are not. Phillies are twentieth
- 1:27:49Speaker 2: and they're less rested. The Yankees do have a better uh,
- 1:27:52Speaker 2: they have a bullpen advantage here for sure. Yankees still
- 1:27:55Speaker 2: have an offensive edge. They're ninth right now, tied with
- 1:27:58Speaker 2: Miami not playing well right now. Philly is better at
- 1:28:01Speaker 2: home offensively, but there's still twenty fourth, so there is
- 1:28:03Speaker 2: still an advantage there to the Yankees, but the pitching
- 1:28:06Speaker 2: is a big edge towards Philly here. Yankees are going
- 1:28:09Speaker 2: with Will Warren, who was supposed to start the other day.
- 1:28:12Speaker 2: He's not awful, but he's the lesser of the two
- 1:28:15Speaker 2: pitchers here. He's got a four ERA one point three
- 1:28:17Speaker 2: to seven whip isn't that great. He is a bit
- 1:28:19Speaker 2: worse on the road four point two four road ERA.
- 1:28:23Speaker 2: Only pitch a two thirds of an inning last time
- 1:28:25Speaker 2: out against Pittsburgh. That might have been a relief appearance.
- 1:28:28Speaker 2: I'm not sure what that was. It was only four
- 1:28:30Speaker 2: days ago, so he's kind of on shorter rest here.
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: His hit rate is a little bit high here, as
- 1:28:35Speaker 2: walk rate's okay. Strike out rate is decent, So yeah,
- 1:28:38Speaker 2: I mean he's got some decent numbers, mediocre numbers up Philadelphia.
- 1:28:43Speaker 2: Their numbers against him are pretty much average thirty one
- 1:28:46Speaker 2: at best two fifty eight average seven to forty eight ohps,
- 1:28:49Speaker 2: which is right around that seven point fifty threshold there.
- 1:28:52Speaker 2: So he doesn't really have the upper hand over Philly.
- 1:28:54Speaker 2: Philly doesn't really have the upper hand over him either.
- 1:28:57Speaker 2: Ten strikeouts five walks is not a good ratio. But
- 1:28:59Speaker 2: war And is gonna have to match up against Christopher Sanchez,
- 1:29:02Speaker 2: and like I've been saying, Phillies when they have Sanchez,
- 1:29:06Speaker 2: Wheeler or Lozardo on the mountel. I know the Yankees
- 1:29:09Speaker 2: were able to beat lozarda with Schlitler the other day.
- 1:29:11Speaker 2: But when the Phillies have one of those three guys
- 1:29:13Speaker 2: on the mound, their record is very very positive, so
- 1:29:17Speaker 2: they win most of those games. Although as I did
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: point out both yesterday and the day before that, the
- 1:29:22Speaker 2: Yankees have a much better run differential than Philly does. Here,
- 1:29:25Speaker 2: Philly's got a negative run differential, so they're not as
- 1:29:28Speaker 2: good as the record looks. And maybe they're favored by
- 1:29:31Speaker 2: too much here, But I would not really want to
- 1:29:33Speaker 2: play the Yankees here. I think the Philly should have
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: the motivational ledge to try to avoid the sweep at home.
- 1:29:38Speaker 2: Here they're you know, they should be favored at the
- 1:29:41Speaker 2: very least, and they have the better starter here in Sanchez,
- 1:29:44Speaker 2: who's in the cy young running obviously two point six
- 1:29:47Speaker 2: five RRA one point one to nine whip. Sanchez has
- 1:29:50Speaker 2: been really good at home one point zero three e
- 1:29:53Speaker 2: RA at home, with a lower than two hundred batting
- 1:29:55Speaker 2: average at home, he was pitching kind of poorly recently,
- 1:29:59Speaker 2: had one really starting against Kansas City, but he was
- 1:30:01Speaker 2: pretty good after that. Against Detroit, he was bad in
- 1:30:04Speaker 2: the All Star Game. But the All Star Game is meaningless, dude,
- 1:30:06Speaker 2: so I kind of just throw that out. And then
- 1:30:08Speaker 2: coming out of that, he had a tough matchup against
- 1:30:11Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and it looks like he didn't do well
- 1:30:13Speaker 2: because it was a high scoring game. But he bitched
- 1:30:15Speaker 2: pretty well in that one. The fielding wasn't very good
- 1:30:17Speaker 2: behind him. You only allowed touring runs though, had seven strikeouts,
- 1:30:20Speaker 2: no walks, and against any lead offense like the Dodgers. Yeah,
- 1:30:24Speaker 2: that tells me that Sanchez is he's coming back into
- 1:30:27Speaker 2: form here, man. I mean, I don't think it's really
- 1:30:29Speaker 2: much of a problem. His hit rate is a little
- 1:30:32Speaker 2: bit too high though, believe it or not, more than
- 1:30:34Speaker 2: one per inning. His walk rate is low tho on
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: and that's been kind of an issue of his in
- 1:30:38Speaker 2: the past. But he's got his control really under wraps here.
- 1:30:42Speaker 2: And his strikeout rate is pretty high too, So those
- 1:30:45Speaker 2: numbers are good. Numbers against the Yankees are pretty good here.
- 1:30:48Speaker 2: In forty five at bats, they have a two hundred
- 1:30:50Speaker 2: average five p fifty four ohps against him, twelve to
- 1:30:53Speaker 2: four strikeout walk ratio, so his numbers pretty good there.
- 1:30:56Speaker 2: Against the Yankees. He's the better starter there. The problem
- 1:31:00Speaker 2: is the price is pretty up there, man. I mean,
- 1:31:03Speaker 2: this is probably the biggest underdog price you're gonna see
- 1:31:05Speaker 2: on the Yankees, like all season. Uh, Philadelphia is minus
- 1:31:09Speaker 2: one ninety almost here, minus one eighties. You're never gonna
- 1:31:13Speaker 2: see the Yankees are that big of an underdog price,
- 1:31:16Speaker 2: and Philly is still public seventy two the tickets, seventy
- 1:31:19Speaker 2: eight percent of the cash on them. Although, as I
- 1:31:21Speaker 2: was just saying, though, I would not want to play
- 1:31:23Speaker 2: the Yankees here though Philly is at home trying to
- 1:31:26Speaker 2: avoid the sweep. The one thing you do have going
- 1:31:28Speaker 2: for the Yankees is the price is very high on Philly,
- 1:31:31Speaker 2: and the Yankees are probably the better overall team with
- 1:31:35Speaker 2: the better bullpen and hittings. That's really what you have
- 1:31:37Speaker 2: going if you want to play the Yankees here, But
- 1:31:38Speaker 2: I don't think I would. I think you have the
- 1:31:40Speaker 2: better starting pitching obviously here, and you have the motivational
- 1:31:44Speaker 2: edge for Philly. I think if you're gonna play this game,
- 1:31:46Speaker 2: I think you lay the run line with Philly in
- 1:31:49Speaker 2: the first five. I think that's the way I would play.
- 1:31:51Speaker 2: Just take advantage of the starting pitching matchup and lay
- 1:31:54Speaker 2: I don't know what the price is gonna be on it.
- 1:31:55Speaker 2: Think you might have to lay like one run in
- 1:31:58Speaker 2: the first five and then if they're up one you'll push.
- 1:32:01Speaker 2: At least that might be the way to do it.
- 1:32:03Speaker 2: It seems a little dangerous, though, it's still gonna be
- 1:32:06Speaker 2: a bit of a high price, So I think that's
- 1:32:07Speaker 2: what I would do, and the money's playing the over eight.
- 1:32:10Speaker 2: Hear no good field for me on the total there.
- 1:32:13Speaker 2: This is gonna be the night game. A lot of times,
- 1:32:15Speaker 2: the home team is more motivated in these you know,
- 1:32:18Speaker 2: national TV night games or whatever you want to call it.
- 1:32:20Speaker 2: It's not an ESPN game anymore. It's peacock. But yeah,
- 1:32:24Speaker 2: I'm I think Philly should be the more motivated, motivated
- 1:32:28Speaker 2: team here and have the starting pitching edge. Although if
- 1:32:30Speaker 2: you're gonna play them in the first five, the price
- 1:32:32Speaker 2: is gonna be even higher than what it is in
- 1:32:35Speaker 2: the full game, So it's a bit concerning. But I think,
- 1:32:38Speaker 2: you know, if I had any lean on that game
- 1:32:40Speaker 2: at all, it would be some sort of Philadelphia first
- 1:32:42Speaker 2: five play there. Anyway that's gonna do it. My players
- 1:32:46Speaker 2: today are two unders with low totals here. One is Cleveland,
- 1:32:49Speaker 2: Tampa Bay under seven. We're gonna play Pittsburgh Pirates in
- 1:32:53Speaker 2: the first five, laying the half run to get that
- 1:32:56Speaker 2: price down. I think they have the edge there, motivational
- 1:32:59Speaker 2: andtch up. And then we have another under, like I said,
- 1:33:02Speaker 2: another low total under seven in Seattle, Texas. That's gonna
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- 1:33:41Speaker 2: have a little bit of a shorter border though there
- 1:33:42Speaker 2: is still a decent amount of baseball, and then WNBA
- 1:33:45Speaker 2: will come back on Tuesday. The All Star Game for
- 1:33:50Speaker 2: WNBA was yesterday. I know it was some high scoring
- 1:33:53Speaker 2: boring bullshit. I know. I saw one clip where Asia
- 1:33:56Speaker 2: Wilson didn't even have to try and just just stuffed
- 1:33:59Speaker 2: Angel Like Angel Reese tried to go up and shoot
- 1:34:03Speaker 2: over her and against her. Asil Wilson didn't even try.
- 1:34:05Speaker 2: She was just like whatever, rejected and then just started
- 1:34:08Speaker 2: laughing like man, Angel Reese. Yeah, I mean she is
- 1:34:13Speaker 2: not a good offensive player. I'll tell you that much.
- 1:34:16Speaker 2: Asiel Wilson is one of the best players in the WNBA.
- 1:34:19Speaker 2: But it's WNBA. No one cares. That's gonna do it?
- 1:34:23Speaker 2: NA could do? What's up? Yeah, I am in the
- 1:34:25Speaker 2: middle of trying to catch up on Bob's Burger's here.
- 1:34:28Speaker 2: They should never have a fire, Jimmy Pesto. It's getting
- 1:34:31Speaker 2: a little bit worse. But I like the show in general,
- 1:34:33Speaker 2: and I like John Benjamin. I think he's a very
- 1:34:35Speaker 2: good voice actor. Show's still generally pretty funny. That's gonna
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- 1:34:45Speaker 1: If the docs starts talking, hand me the phone, that's somebody,
- 1:34:51Speaker 1: and so that somebody.
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