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1. 100,000♦ Angels
2. 50,000♦ Indians
1. I do understand that the Angels are not great and will miss K-Rod for sure but the Mariners are terrible without Ichiro. I don't care if Seattle has been overachieving and off to the quality start, this team is still terrible talentwise and well overvalued today.
The Mariners have very little offense without their star outfielder and Carlos Silva is awful and can implode with the best of them at the drop of a hat. Certainly I cannot promise a gem from Shane Loux as the guy is not exactly Cy Young and still has a ton to prove but in no way shape or form do I feel he is inferior to Silva and all in all the Halos are the far superior overall team.
On Sunday the Angels finished off a winning series against the Red Sox and were as close to being in a fight as a team could be when Josh Beckett threw a bit too far inside against Bobby Abreu. Baseball is not a total team type of a game, I understand that, but I don't think that comraderie the other day will hurt anything as we saw in that games' upset win over the 170 chalk Sox.
Anaheim's bullpen is far better than Seattle's even without Rodriguez closing games out. Arrodondo, Shields and Fuentes still form a quality pen and after losing JJ Putz the Mariners do not really boast all that much.
Loux probably will give up some runs today there is no doubt about it as he is an inexperienced but yet fairly old 29 year old which says something but Silva is not a guy that's good at all and could get blasted by Vlad, Kendrick, Hunter, Napoli and the visiting Angels.
Mike Scioscia's team should be giving a decent sized price and they're rerally not. I'm not complaining about it!
2. Kyle Davies just hurled an absolute gem in Chicago and the Royals are not a bad team at all but I'll take this price back and take my chances with the Indians, who when push comes to shove are still better than Kansas City.
Cleveland certainly was very slow out of the gate as they lost their first five games but with Sizemore, Hafner, Martinez, DeRosa and others the Tribe are going to be just fine when all is said and done. Eric Wedge has a squad full of talent that can definitely get to Davies. Let's face it, the former Brave is not exactly a feared hurler no matter how good that first outing was and no matter how much people say he is about to have a breakthrough season. Yes the righty has some good stuff but he also has been lit up at times and to get a price like this back with Cleveland is a no-brainer.
Carl Pavano was the opposite of Davies in that first outing as he was horrific. I am not exactly putting my full trust in Pavano as the guy is an oft injured career underachiever who may be pitching his way out of the big leagues but he also could be alright here and at this sweet enough takeback it is just too good to not give it a go.
Pavano probably will go no more than five innings but Davies will get hit and with Kerry Wood now in the Cleveland pen and believing these visitors can definitely win this game I'm all about the Indians here.
1. 100,000♦ Angels
2. 50,000♦ Indians
1. I do understand that the Angels are not great and will miss K-Rod for sure but the Mariners are terrible without Ichiro. I don't care if Seattle has been overachieving and off to the quality start, this team is still terrible talentwise and well overvalued today.
The Mariners have very little offense without their star outfielder and Carlos Silva is awful and can implode with the best of them at the drop of a hat. Certainly I cannot promise a gem from Shane Loux as the guy is not exactly Cy Young and still has a ton to prove but in no way shape or form do I feel he is inferior to Silva and all in all the Halos are the far superior overall team.
On Sunday the Angels finished off a winning series against the Red Sox and were as close to being in a fight as a team could be when Josh Beckett threw a bit too far inside against Bobby Abreu. Baseball is not a total team type of a game, I understand that, but I don't think that comraderie the other day will hurt anything as we saw in that games' upset win over the 170 chalk Sox.
Anaheim's bullpen is far better than Seattle's even without Rodriguez closing games out. Arrodondo, Shields and Fuentes still form a quality pen and after losing JJ Putz the Mariners do not really boast all that much.
Loux probably will give up some runs today there is no doubt about it as he is an inexperienced but yet fairly old 29 year old which says something but Silva is not a guy that's good at all and could get blasted by Vlad, Kendrick, Hunter, Napoli and the visiting Angels.
Mike Scioscia's team should be giving a decent sized price and they're rerally not. I'm not complaining about it!
2. Kyle Davies just hurled an absolute gem in Chicago and the Royals are not a bad team at all but I'll take this price back and take my chances with the Indians, who when push comes to shove are still better than Kansas City.
Cleveland certainly was very slow out of the gate as they lost their first five games but with Sizemore, Hafner, Martinez, DeRosa and others the Tribe are going to be just fine when all is said and done. Eric Wedge has a squad full of talent that can definitely get to Davies. Let's face it, the former Brave is not exactly a feared hurler no matter how good that first outing was and no matter how much people say he is about to have a breakthrough season. Yes the righty has some good stuff but he also has been lit up at times and to get a price like this back with Cleveland is a no-brainer.
Carl Pavano was the opposite of Davies in that first outing as he was horrific. I am not exactly putting my full trust in Pavano as the guy is an oft injured career underachiever who may be pitching his way out of the big leagues but he also could be alright here and at this sweet enough takeback it is just too good to not give it a go.
Pavano probably will go no more than five innings but Davies will get hit and with Kerry Wood now in the Cleveland pen and believing these visitors can definitely win this game I'm all about the Indians here.
