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Voice of Reason
I’ve never bet on this thing before. I started listening to a podcast the other day after they released the rosters. I only made it thru 3 of the teams in my car ride so I still have a ton of things to look at before I can make any kind of educated guesses on who I think will win. Hell, I don’t even know the format exactly, or the teams in what pools. Sounded to me it was a bit like World Cup with the teams coming out of the 1st stage then it going to a single elimination tourney!
Sounds like the Dominicans are the favs, no
Surprises there, they love their baseball! The lineup sounded stacked w guys we know on a 1st name basis, shouldn’t have any problems scoring runs. The starting pitching appears to lack depth after my guy Alcontera, I have no idea how many starting pitchers you need in this tourney, I can’t imagine these guys gonna be allowed to throw 6-7 innings seeing how they not revved up yet. I dunno, this one the things I really have to investigate in the coming weeks. Sounded like they had a pretty good pen which my initial thought Is that could be really important, odds on favs at 2-1 to win it all.
USA has another stacked lineup, could be argued it every bit as good as the Dominicans. They sounded like they had more depth of quality starters but they were mostly old past their prime guys. Another fairly strong pen, just behind Dominicans at 2.5-1
Only other lineup I heard was Japan, their lineup wasn’t exactly full of familiar names but doesn’t mean they can’t hit, plenty of guys playing in Japan could play in the bigs. What I did notice they had were a couple lock down aces and a idea how they might be able to save them for the knockout rounds, again this gonna require research on my part about how all this tourney works! Forget the odds I heard on the japs but could see a case to play them as they in a weak pool to where they can possibly set up their stud pitching for knockout stages!!
Anyways that all I got right now, we have 2-3 weeks to discuss and try to figure out some future bets and game to game winners. Anyone familiar with the format, teams, have ideas about who they like please feel free to join in to the conversation, I’d like this to be a team effort to hopefully make some money before the main season starts!!
Sounds like the Dominicans are the favs, no
Surprises there, they love their baseball! The lineup sounded stacked w guys we know on a 1st name basis, shouldn’t have any problems scoring runs. The starting pitching appears to lack depth after my guy Alcontera, I have no idea how many starting pitchers you need in this tourney, I can’t imagine these guys gonna be allowed to throw 6-7 innings seeing how they not revved up yet. I dunno, this one the things I really have to investigate in the coming weeks. Sounded like they had a pretty good pen which my initial thought Is that could be really important, odds on favs at 2-1 to win it all.
USA has another stacked lineup, could be argued it every bit as good as the Dominicans. They sounded like they had more depth of quality starters but they were mostly old past their prime guys. Another fairly strong pen, just behind Dominicans at 2.5-1
Only other lineup I heard was Japan, their lineup wasn’t exactly full of familiar names but doesn’t mean they can’t hit, plenty of guys playing in Japan could play in the bigs. What I did notice they had were a couple lock down aces and a idea how they might be able to save them for the knockout rounds, again this gonna require research on my part about how all this tourney works! Forget the odds I heard on the japs but could see a case to play them as they in a weak pool to where they can possibly set up their stud pitching for knockout stages!!
Anyways that all I got right now, we have 2-3 weeks to discuss and try to figure out some future bets and game to game winners. Anyone familiar with the format, teams, have ideas about who they like please feel free to join in to the conversation, I’d like this to be a team effort to hopefully make some money before the main season starts!!
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