Thursday

doubleparring · Jul 27, 2006

<HR style="COLOR: #2b295e" SIZE=1> Nats -101
Hernandez pitching well lately and Nats a good day team

Braves under 10
Braves not to hot against lefties and the Marlins are holding teams under 3 rpg over L7, Olsen is pretty solid

Cubs +120
I like the way they are hitting lately. Just a feeling on this

Rockies under 9.5
Fogg and Williams pitching pretty well

Orioles over 10
Hernandez 3-1 o/u vs O's, Lopez 4-1 o/u vs KC

Tor over 9.5
Jays hit righties hard, all 3 games went over last set

TKE683 · Jul 27, 2006

Once, Hernandez would have been the easy winner of the Most Likely To Be A Met competition. But two front-office men who have spoken to the Mets now call that talk "overblown." The Mets need "a quality power arm," says one NL executive. "And he's not it." Hernandez has been so unsightly lately (7.29 ERA in his last eight starts), the Nationals are having a tough time convincing clubs that Hernandez will be able to flip the switch back on if he goes to a contender. "If he can still turn it on," says an official of one no-longer-interested club, "he'd better start turning it on now [just to prove he still can]." There has been talk that the Mets have shifted their attention to Baltimore's Rodrigo Lopez. But one executive who has spoken with GM Omar Minaya says: "I wouldn't bank on that, either."