Satyr
Paster of Muppets
Ok, these are the early thoughts.
Tigers -1
I'm capping some bases at the moment, and the Tigers made it on my shortlist immediately, Verlander is solid, and the Brewers are 9-18 in last 27 games, Suppan has had some sub par starts in the past month and the Brewers just aren't doing the job at the moment. The price isn't that appetizing and I did get burned on some runline plays lately so I might be tempted to take the -1 line.
Angels ML
Love the Angels too, just don't see what these Reds have, absolutely no heart this year. Escobar had one sub par start, then a great one, time for another great one I think, he's not that shaky this year, and the Halos are blazing right now. I just hope they'll take their chances unlike that game against St Louis, when they failed to score with 4 runners on and 0 outs, I think it was 4-3 Halos at that point, that was the turning point of the game, as Pujols blasted a 3 run homer shortly afterwards and St Loo took the lead.
The Reds are nowhere that good right now, guys like Hamilton, Griffey jr and Freel, they're just not producing enough to cope with the Angels.
The thing is, they won their game against Sabathia, and that was because the Indians are slowing down when putting runs on the board is concerned. Angels aren't.
Arizona / Washington
As far as dog plays are concerned, I'm leaning both the Snakes with Webb (at that price I don't care how hot Yankee bats are, we're talking ace pitcher, NL Cy Young) and the Nationals with Bowie, who has been quite efficient, and when you look at it, the Nats aren't weaker than the O's in terms of consistency this year. The O's are in a hole, Cabrera had 1 good start after a few bad ones, I don't think him starting warrants such price to be honest.
A's
I also made a mental note some time ago to fade Oswalt no matter what, this guy hasn't been as sharp as he used to be (I'm sure he'll bounce back just not now), and the Astros are clueless. These guys aren't hitting at all and playing against the A's who have been finding ways to win and are 8-2 in June (nothing new there haha
) I have to take a shot with the A's and quite solid Kennedy, who has had a similar problem as Oswalt in terms of run support (or lack of).
That's what I'm looking at as of now, I might add something and not take something else but these are the early leans.:cheers: :dance3: money;
Tigers -1
I'm capping some bases at the moment, and the Tigers made it on my shortlist immediately, Verlander is solid, and the Brewers are 9-18 in last 27 games, Suppan has had some sub par starts in the past month and the Brewers just aren't doing the job at the moment. The price isn't that appetizing and I did get burned on some runline plays lately so I might be tempted to take the -1 line.
Angels ML
Love the Angels too, just don't see what these Reds have, absolutely no heart this year. Escobar had one sub par start, then a great one, time for another great one I think, he's not that shaky this year, and the Halos are blazing right now. I just hope they'll take their chances unlike that game against St Louis, when they failed to score with 4 runners on and 0 outs, I think it was 4-3 Halos at that point, that was the turning point of the game, as Pujols blasted a 3 run homer shortly afterwards and St Loo took the lead.
The Reds are nowhere that good right now, guys like Hamilton, Griffey jr and Freel, they're just not producing enough to cope with the Angels.
The thing is, they won their game against Sabathia, and that was because the Indians are slowing down when putting runs on the board is concerned. Angels aren't.
Arizona / Washington
As far as dog plays are concerned, I'm leaning both the Snakes with Webb (at that price I don't care how hot Yankee bats are, we're talking ace pitcher, NL Cy Young) and the Nationals with Bowie, who has been quite efficient, and when you look at it, the Nats aren't weaker than the O's in terms of consistency this year. The O's are in a hole, Cabrera had 1 good start after a few bad ones, I don't think him starting warrants such price to be honest.
A's
I also made a mental note some time ago to fade Oswalt no matter what, this guy hasn't been as sharp as he used to be (I'm sure he'll bounce back just not now), and the Astros are clueless. These guys aren't hitting at all and playing against the A's who have been finding ways to win and are 8-2 in June (nothing new there haha
) I have to take a shot with the A's and quite solid Kennedy, who has had a similar problem as Oswalt in terms of run support (or lack of).That's what I'm looking at as of now, I might add something and not take something else but these are the early leans.:cheers: :dance3: money;
