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Charlie
Charlie
86 wins is quite a drop from the 101 the Braves won last year. The key for the Braves is how well they play at home, last year's 55-26 was second only to the Giants in the NL. With 4 decent starers in RHP Russ Ortiz, LHP Mike Hampton, LHP Horacio Ramirez, and RHP John Thomson backed up by a healthy John Smoltz in relief, over 86 might just be a steal. Bobby Cox is no fool, he will have this team competitive even in what shapes up as rebuilding year.
wil.
wil.
Those 'ovetr/under' numbers from LVSC appear below:
TEAM Open
NY YANKEES 101.5
BOS RED SOX 97.5o-130
CHI CUBS 92.5
ANA ANGELS 91.5
HOU ASTROS 91.5
PHI PHILLIES 91.0o-130
SEA MARINERS 90.5
OAK A'S 89.0
ATL BRAVES 86.0u-130
STL CARDS 85.5
SF GIANTS 85.5
MIN TWINS 84.5
FLA MARLINS 83.5
CHI WHITE SOX 82.5
TOR BLUE JAYS 82.5
ARZ DBACKS 82.5u-130
SD PADRES 82.0
LA DODGERS 81.5
BAL ORIOLES 81.0
KC ROYALS 80.0o-130
NY METS 80.0u-130
COL ROCKIES 73.0
CLE INDIANS 72.0
MON EXPOS 71.5
TEX RANGERS 70.0u-130
CIN REDS 70.0u-130
TB DEVILRAYS 69.0
PIT PIRATES 66.0
MIL BREWERS 65.0
DET TIGERS 65.0
Charlie
TEAM Open
NY YANKEES 101.5
BOS RED SOX 97.5o-130
CHI CUBS 92.5
ANA ANGELS 91.5
HOU ASTROS 91.5
PHI PHILLIES 91.0o-130
SEA MARINERS 90.5
OAK A'S 89.0
ATL BRAVES 86.0u-130
STL CARDS 85.5
SF GIANTS 85.5
MIN TWINS 84.5
FLA MARLINS 83.5
CHI WHITE SOX 82.5
TOR BLUE JAYS 82.5
ARZ DBACKS 82.5u-130
SD PADRES 82.0
LA DODGERS 81.5
BAL ORIOLES 81.0
KC ROYALS 80.0o-130
NY METS 80.0u-130
COL ROCKIES 73.0
CLE INDIANS 72.0
MON EXPOS 71.5
TEX RANGERS 70.0u-130
CIN REDS 70.0u-130
TB DEVILRAYS 69.0
PIT PIRATES 66.0
MIL BREWERS 65.0
DET TIGERS 65.0
Charlie
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by wilheim:
86 wins is quite a drop from the 101 the Braves won last year. The key for the Braves is how well they play at home, last year's 55-26 was second only to the Giants in the NL. With 4 decent starers in RHP Russ Ortiz, LHP Mike Hampton, LHP Horacio Ramirez, and RHP John Thomson backed up by a healthy John Smoltz in relief, over 86 might just be a steal. Bobby Cox is no fool, he will have this team competitive even in what shapes up as rebuilding year.
wil.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I agree totally with what your saying.
Having said that, I like to look only at the UNDERS in these props.
There is ONE I loooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvve UNDER!!
86 wins is quite a drop from the 101 the Braves won last year. The key for the Braves is how well they play at home, last year's 55-26 was second only to the Giants in the NL. With 4 decent starers in RHP Russ Ortiz, LHP Mike Hampton, LHP Horacio Ramirez, and RHP John Thomson backed up by a healthy John Smoltz in relief, over 86 might just be a steal. Bobby Cox is no fool, he will have this team competitive even in what shapes up as rebuilding year.
wil.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I agree totally with what your saying.
Having said that, I like to look only at the UNDERS in these props.
There is ONE I loooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvve UNDER!!
A's under looks good to me. If any of their big three starters gets hurt they will have a tough time making .500 this year. They have slowly but surely degraded into the AL version of the Dodgers, nice rotation, good pen, zippo on offense. To complete the mess all they would have to do is bring back Ben "Mr. batting .220" Grieve. With the A's down and the hype getting heavy on the Angels, I think the Rangers with the A-God distraction gone might be a fair value on the over. The A's have regularly eaten the Rangers up, if they can just break-even with them they will improve. The Rangers aren't that bad of a team, with less focus on one player I think they just might improve. In any case 70 wins is sort of the divider from horrible to just bad teams.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Chuck Sims:
In the article it states the AL East is shaping up into a "3 way horse race". Has this man been drinking? Neither Tor nor Balt are going to contend. The AL East is so clear cut a 2 team race that to suggest anything else I would question their credibility.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
You are forgetting about Tampa Bay.
In the article it states the AL East is shaping up into a "3 way horse race". Has this man been drinking? Neither Tor nor Balt are going to contend. The AL East is so clear cut a 2 team race that to suggest anything else I would question their credibility.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
You are forgetting about Tampa Bay.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Chuck Sims:
STRONG Under 84½ on the Padres. Ryan Klesko is in left field. STRONG Over 99 on NYY.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
hopefully you are wrong. i am holding a pair of future tix on the padres:
35-1 to go to the WS (now 8-1)
75-1 to win th WS (now 22-1)
the NL West shapes up this way:
Dodgers/Rocks "battle" for 4th/5th
D'Backs get 3rd
Padres/Giants battle for the top spot
STRONG Under 84½ on the Padres. Ryan Klesko is in left field. STRONG Over 99 on NYY.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
hopefully you are wrong. i am holding a pair of future tix on the padres:
35-1 to go to the WS (now 8-1)
75-1 to win th WS (now 22-1)
the NL West shapes up this way:
Dodgers/Rocks "battle" for 4th/5th
D'Backs get 3rd
Padres/Giants battle for the top spot
