All Star Pitching staffs announced! Wow!

Vituperate · Jul 14, 2013

Here is my all-star play. Under 8 -105 Reduced Juice.

I know that both teams have the league's best hitters but I am just going to ignore that for now. Take a look at how talented and deep the pitching rotations are. I don't know who is going to win but it is Under for me. Best of all, most of these pitchers are coming into this game pitching well (except for Yu).

Take a look at the left handed pitching for the NL. ...Clayton, Corbin, Wood, Lee, Locke and Bumgarner with Chapman coming out of the pen. That is a lot of left-handed talent. That is Deeeeep!

BOL all.

AL Pitchers
RHP Max Scherzer, Tigers
RHP Felix Hernandez, Mariners
RHP Clay Buchholz, Red Sox
LHP Brett Cecil, Blue Jays
RHP Justin Verlander, Tigers
RHP Justin Masterson, Indians
LHP Chris Sale, White SoxRHP Mariano Rivera, YankeesRHP Bartolo Colon, Athletics
RHP Yu Darvish, Rangers
RHP Hisashi Iwakuma, Mariners
RHP Jesse Crain, White Sox
RHP Joe Nathan, Rangers
LHP Glen Perkins, Twins
NL Pitchers
LHP Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers
LHP Patrick Corbin, Diamondbacks
RHP Matt Harvey, Mets
RHP Adam Wainwright, Cardinals
RHP Jason Grilli, Pirates
RHP Jordan Zimmermann, Nationals
RHP Craig Kimbrel, Braves
LHP Aroldis Chapman, Reds
LHP Travis Wood, Cubs
RHP Jose Fernandez, Marlins
LHP Cliff Lee, Phillies
LHP Jeff Locke, Pirates
LHP Madison Bumgarner, Giants

HookEmHorns · Jul 16, 2013

Vituperate said:
Best of all, most of these pitchers are coming into this game pitching well (except for Yu).

Yu is on the DL so you don't have to worry about him

Vituperate · Jul 16, 2013

They didn't need him HookEmHorns...great pitching performances tonight all around. Sale was wicked.

XSPower · Jul 16, 2013

Nice call my friend!!!!

XS :toast:

Vituperate · Jul 16, 2013

Thanks XS but the key was the depth of the staffs on both teams. It didn't hurt to have a home plate ump early in the game widen the strike zone waaay beyond the corners.

hewy · Jul 17, 2013

I hope the White Sox offense gets a lot better in the future because Sale has dominant stuff.

varkeyboy · Jul 17, 2013

hewy said:
I hope the White Sox offense gets a lot better in the future because Sale has dominant stuff.

You're telling me my man. I try to schedule my visits to US Cellular to see Sale pitch. He's just sick. Just needs more run support and he'd be a TOP pitcher in this league...

varkeyboy · Jul 17, 2013

BTW, great call on this total Vituperate. Took the AL + UNDER 8 for a fun all star game parlay. Thanks for the advice. Nice to see dominating pitching. That's 8 straight UNDERS in MLB All Star games. I heard a comment on Chicago sports radio today: "This is the only All Star game where they attempt to play hard defense." So TRUE! Especially because this All Star game matters in the Championship series...

Vituperate · Jul 17, 2013

thanks varkey...you are a major contributor..I am just minor. This play just jumped off the page to me. When new superstars like Fernandez comes in the 6th inning, it was hard to see how even the best hitters can figure them out the first time they face them. Just tailor made for the under.

And Chris Sale pitching to left handed hitters is just not fair. The ball looks like it is about to hit the left handed hitter and ends up outside the plate. They don't have a chance.

HookEmHorns · Jul 17, 2013

Vituperate said:
They didn't need him HookEmHorns...great pitching performances tonight all around. Sale was wicked.

That's what I meant...his last couple of starts were a little shaky and apparently he had an arm problem or something, so we didn't have to worry about him coming in and giving up a few runs.

Great call! :toast: