| Range | W | L | P | +/- (Units) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yesterday | 1 | 2 | 0.00 | -1.40 |
| Last 30 Days | 23 | 23 | 0.00 | +6.59 |
| Season to Date | 23 | 23 | 0.00 | +6.59 |
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N.Y. Mets team total over 4½ -116
[FONT=arial !important][FONT=arial !important][FONT=arial !important][/FONT][FONT=arial !important][FONT=arial !important]Jon Garland has a couple of decent starts but both came against the Padres. He now faces a tough opponent in the Mets, who lead the NL with 6.3 runs scored per game. It will not help Garland either that this game is at Coors Field, annually the friendliest hitting environment in baseball (+43% runs scored). Let’s also not forget that Garland didn’t pitch in 2012. The 33-year-old Garland's physical woes were obviously contributing to a skills deterioration that saw his GB% plunge to 39% and his strikeout rate, control and xERA (4.68) all at the low-end of a five-year range. Once a marginal rotation option at best, Jon Garland has not returned from the dead and will be exposed sooner rather than later as the true stiff that he is. Play: Mets over 4½ (Risking 2 units to win 1.72). [/FONT][/FONT]
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Chicago +110 over TORONTO
[FONT=arial !important][FONT=arial !important][FONT=arial !important][/FONT][FONT=arial !important][FONT=arial !important]Colby Rasmus is not having a good year. However, on Tuesday he looked sharp when he drew a walk, hit a bomb, stole a base and got another base hit. At that point he was 2-2 and in the ninth with the score tied 2-2, Jays manager John Gibbons lifted him for a pinch hitter. The pinch hitter was Rajai Davis, who has hit .240 the past two years and who promptly struck out. Here’s a guy (Rasmus) that is having his best game of the year and looking to get out of a funk and that idiot Gibbons removes him in favor of Rajai Davis. Jays went on to lose 4-3 and Rasmus went 0-4 with 4 K’s in last night’s 7-0 loss. It may seem like a small thing but it wasn’t and neither was walking Adam Dunn and his .120 batting average to lead off the 9th inning followed by another walk to Paul Konerko. Incidentally, those two walks came in to score in the ninth. The point is, the Blue Jays are a mess. Toronto’s manager makes every wrong decision and the players are not responding to his “I’m one of the boys” philosophy. Jose Reyes' absence may affect more than just the lineup, too. Emilio Bonifacio's struggles in the field have been well-documented and now the Blue Jays' pitchers are facing the prospect of taking the mound with an up-the-middle combo of Maicier Izturis and Bonifacio behind them for the foreseeable future. The Blue Jays aren’t going to turn this thing around until they dump Gibbons and add some useful everyday players to their roster. They are a weak team with weak hitting, a weak defense and perhaps the worst manager in baseball.[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=arial !important]Chris Sale has the skills of CC Sabathia but he’s eight years younger and 110 pounds fewer. Sabathia-like durability is now the last hurdle to true stardom for Sale. Sale’s horizontal pitch movement was one of the best in the game. His horizontal slider movement last season was the highest of any LHP SP with at least 60 IP. Only Matt Moore got more horizontal movement on his changeup than Sale among LHP. Sale is a true Cy Young candidate and the fact that we get a tag on him against this reeling team make him and the South Side an automatic play. Get out the brooms. Play Chicago +110 (Risking 2 units).
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