4 teamer, 1 unit bet pays 8:
Under 8 (+100) Texas/Houston (Minor/Morton)
Over 8 -120 Milwaukee/N.Y. Mets (Anderson/Harvey)
Cleveland Indians -235 (Garcia/Kluber)
Anaheim Ducks -140
Texas/Houston-4:05 pm Minor (Morton -- Minor is coming along real nicely, we read here of his progress. But he faces formidable Houston today (who not been all that formidable bats of late, tho not as bad as Rangers bats)...we notice in advance metrics two excellent pens here...Morton has been lights out at home (vs Balt and SD). He has 8 unders in his last 10 starts...So I'm on that Under
Toronto/Cleveland-4:10 pm Garcia (Kluber -- Garcia 4.25 FIP with 3 different teams (!) last season, across 157 innings. He's had a problem with homers and that issue came up in last start...Kluber - 0.65 WHIP so far!
Philadelphia/Tampa Bay-6:10 pm Arrieta (Archer -- Arrieta's velocity been on steady decline (along with his FIP, etc) last few seasons. But he was hitting 95 and 96 in spring games, and ok velocity his first start this season, where he settled down after bad initial inning and retired 10 last 11 batters....Archer pretty blah so far this season, he should have a really decent game soon, might be today. But Phillies and their bats doing well of late, but team don't have the defense Arrieta relied on so much with Cubbies and he was worse on the road...so I really dunno what to do here..
Milwaukee/N.Y. Mets-7:10 pm Anderson (Harvey -- Anderson 3.58 FIP last season, better down the stretch, contained his homer problem - which seems to be rearing it's ugly head in his otherwise decent starts this season...Harvey posted worst ERA ever for Mets pitcher (with at least 15 starts) last season, coming off of Tommy John surgery (2013) and 2 operations to fix symptoms of thoracic outlet syndrome - which we read is a very tough thing for pitchers to recover from. He's been blah so far this year, which is pretty darn good by his recent standards!, in large part because team is taking him out before batters see him a 3rd time, then lean on the excellent bullpen. But these Brewers ain't playing anywhere near as good as da Mets (bats and pen) and at this price, you just have to take the way better (and home) team....and the over
L.A. Angels/Kansas City-7:15 pm Richards (Junis -- Richards' been improving his ER each his 3 starts this season, but not much else good about them. He still having problems with command, who knows why...he was able to pitch around it vs Rangers bats, he should be able here too...Junis -- as you know I've been betting Junis all along, this last start he had a no-hitter into the 7th, but only 3 SO and not all his pitches working out that well. Besides his luck - but we read here we shouldn't consider him all that lucky with his LOB% and such...I'm on KC, as I think Junis will outpitch Richard and Royals seem to get it up with Junis on the mound...and looking at that under
Under 8 (+100) Texas/Houston (Minor/Morton)
Over 8 -120 Milwaukee/N.Y. Mets (Anderson/Harvey)
Cleveland Indians -235 (Garcia/Kluber)
Anaheim Ducks -140
Texas/Houston-4:05 pm Minor (Morton -- Minor is coming along real nicely, we read here of his progress. But he faces formidable Houston today (who not been all that formidable bats of late, tho not as bad as Rangers bats)...we notice in advance metrics two excellent pens here...Morton has been lights out at home (vs Balt and SD). He has 8 unders in his last 10 starts...So I'm on that Under
Toronto/Cleveland-4:10 pm Garcia (Kluber -- Garcia 4.25 FIP with 3 different teams (!) last season, across 157 innings. He's had a problem with homers and that issue came up in last start...Kluber - 0.65 WHIP so far!
Philadelphia/Tampa Bay-6:10 pm Arrieta (Archer -- Arrieta's velocity been on steady decline (along with his FIP, etc) last few seasons. But he was hitting 95 and 96 in spring games, and ok velocity his first start this season, where he settled down after bad initial inning and retired 10 last 11 batters....Archer pretty blah so far this season, he should have a really decent game soon, might be today. But Phillies and their bats doing well of late, but team don't have the defense Arrieta relied on so much with Cubbies and he was worse on the road...so I really dunno what to do here..
Milwaukee/N.Y. Mets-7:10 pm Anderson (Harvey -- Anderson 3.58 FIP last season, better down the stretch, contained his homer problem - which seems to be rearing it's ugly head in his otherwise decent starts this season...Harvey posted worst ERA ever for Mets pitcher (with at least 15 starts) last season, coming off of Tommy John surgery (2013) and 2 operations to fix symptoms of thoracic outlet syndrome - which we read is a very tough thing for pitchers to recover from. He's been blah so far this year, which is pretty darn good by his recent standards!, in large part because team is taking him out before batters see him a 3rd time, then lean on the excellent bullpen. But these Brewers ain't playing anywhere near as good as da Mets (bats and pen) and at this price, you just have to take the way better (and home) team....and the over
L.A. Angels/Kansas City-7:15 pm Richards (Junis -- Richards' been improving his ER each his 3 starts this season, but not much else good about them. He still having problems with command, who knows why...he was able to pitch around it vs Rangers bats, he should be able here too...Junis -- as you know I've been betting Junis all along, this last start he had a no-hitter into the 7th, but only 3 SO and not all his pitches working out that well. Besides his luck - but we read here we shouldn't consider him all that lucky with his LOB% and such...I'm on KC, as I think Junis will outpitch Richard and Royals seem to get it up with Junis on the mound...and looking at that under
