hugh613
Pretty much a regular
YTD: 43-40-4, -0.38
Tuesday:
7/7/2015 8:40 PM MLB Baseball 929 Los Angeles Angels/Colorado Rockies* Over 9½ -130
*Talk about ZERO interest in betting baseball this season, but I'll give it a go tonight... Anyways, seeing the guys in the discussion thread mention how this was Andrew Heaney's first career start at Coors got me to thinking, so here goes:
Anyways, looks like a nice humid night in Denver (with a chance of showers) so hopefully that means the ball's flying tonight and I didn't just write all this in advance of a 2-1 final (d'oh!)
Tuesday:
7/7/2015 8:40 PM MLB Baseball 929 Los Angeles Angels/Colorado Rockies* Over 9½ -130
*Talk about ZERO interest in betting baseball this season, but I'll give it a go tonight... Anyways, seeing the guys in the discussion thread mention how this was Andrew Heaney's first career start at Coors got me to thinking, so here goes:
- Heaney's been fairly brilliant in his two starts since being called up but, at the same time, a) both starts were at home and b) the two starts were against teams in the bottom third in terms of batting average (HOU and NYM), so not necessarily a huge surprise there.
- Those two starts stand in sharp contrast to his numbers from his debut last season with the Marlins (5.83 ERA, 1.33 WHIP in 29.1 IP) and his numbers at AAA Salt Lake earlier this season (4.71 ERA, 1.53 WHIP in 78.1 IP)
- Within this context, Salt Lake is actually kind of instructional in that it's an extreme hitters park in an extreme hitters league (I couldn't find the exact ballpark stats, but given that Salt Lake has the highest ERA (5.58) in the PCL and the second highest BA (.283) in the PCL, probably not a stretch to think the park plays like a bandbox). This, of course, is kind of important in that Heaney got positively smoked in his 6 starts at home this season (6.09 ERA, 1.68 WHIP in 34.0 IP). Probably not an encouraging sign heading into his first career start at the majors most extreme hitters ballpark (that and he got knocked around in all three of his starts on the road last season with the Marlins as well).
Anyways, looks like a nice humid night in Denver (with a chance of showers) so hopefully that means the ball's flying tonight and I didn't just write all this in advance of a 2-1 final (d'oh!)
