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loophole

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back refreshed from a few days at the beach with the day off today to coast back into baseball (another bottle of barbancourt bites the dust jack). totals still doing well - 7-1-1 posted on the forum this past week - so as long as they stay hot i'll try to keep posting. two so far for today:

fla/tb over 9o: number here at 9 in tampa so starts off a little low imo, with no half run dh adjustment, probably based on public's negative perception of buc's o and positive perception of a j burnett. but burnett a little off form of late, L3 6.89 era, 16.08 mba, 2-1 over. night era 4.71. last time out he gave up 6 runs @ phi in 3.1 innings, throwing 80 pitches.
sturtz not faring much better, L3 5.03 era, 13.27 mba, 2-1 over (6-3 over L9); 7.12 era at home; 7.14 era at night. only one quality start in L4 and coming off a 121 pitch outing @ ny five days ago.
marlins o has been solid, hitting .286 vs righties L10, averaging 4. 8 rpg, 5.5 vs righties. 6-3-1 over L10.
bucs hitting .266 vs righties, scoring 4 rpg L10, 4-6 o/u. may not jump out at you, but remember 7 of the 10 games were against bos and nyy (mussina, pettite, clemens, nomo, martinez - you get the picture - top two staffs in the al).
fla 25-15 over on the road this year, bucs 23-16 @ home. both bullpens under full strength.


atl/bos under 9-u: here we get the half run for the al park with two recently hot pitchers starting. burkett is having a career year - L3 1.77 era, 8.41 mba, 0-3 under; 2.26 era and 3-7 under on the road; 2.39 era and 5-11 under on the year.
arrojo seems to have made the switch to starter without missing a beat - L3 2.08 era, 9.69 mba; 3.62 era @ home.
braves hitting a measely .249 vs righties L10 and have been completely shut down in 4 of last 5 vs righties, hitting well under .200 in those 4 games. the 5th game was against phillies' person who hasn't exactly been on fire lately.
red sox doing better L10 vs righties, hitting .300, but that has been against cle, tb and tor, three mediocre staffs at best. not thinking they'll fare so well against burkett.
bos 16-23 under @ home this year, atl 23-20 under on the road, but 4-5-1 L10. these teams genarally play under games against each other, going 2-7 under over the last two seasons. 3 games TY in atl: perez beat castillo 4-3 (posted total 9); burkett shut out nomo and the sox 8-0 (:cool:; arrojo beat maddux 9-5 (7-). winds dropping off tonight 5- 10 mph out to right.


umps unknown but unless someone really horrible pops up behind the plate playing these two for one unit each. good luck to all.
 

loophole

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yeah tball, foots must be creeping into my brain, obviously bucs references meant to be d-rays. sorry about that. here's one more total for tonight.


tex/sd over 9-u: this play is based a little more on a hunch that can't be completely justified by the numbers. those looking at helling's recent form charts and the padres' hitting at home vs righties must justifiedly think ol' loophole has been in the sun too much over the fourth. but i look at helling's stats over the L3 - 1.66 era over 21.2 innings - and think this is not the helling that i have come to know. no way he can keep those numbers coming. of course 2 of his last 3 were against ana who couldn't hit my right-handed pitching right now. helling has a 5.30 era this year, 5.98 on the road, 5.19 at night, and is coming off back to back 120+ pitch games over the last 10 days. this cat is due to give up some runs. and there ain't much relief in that ranger bullpen.
padres might not seem like the team to bring helling back to earth with their weak hitting vs righties @ home, but somehow they are 26-12 over @ home this year and 14-3-3 over the L20 @ home.
jarvis, at 5.36 era on the year, 5.40 at night, 4.91 L3, is 6-3-1 over his L10 and just not the guy i see cooling off the hot ranger bats, who are averaging 7 and a half rpg over the L7 vs righties.
caution: this play is not for the faint of heart as just a hunch feeling that texas bats stay hot and helling does not, and that combo results in double-digit runs here tonight. one more unit.
 
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