Nasher likes the Mariners tonight run line -116 over Edwin Jackson and the Tigers.

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I've been following MLB hardball all my life, and I can't think of a bigger hamburger than Edwin Jackson.
How the hell is this Angus Cheeseburger still pitching in the big leagues?
I thought that was the end of Mr. Jackson when the Blow Jays cut his ass.
The Tigers are a laughing stock I get that, but Jackson ain't going to change that.
Why the hell would Detroit take a flyer on this guy.
I'm sure he's a nice family guy with redeeming qualities and all, but pitching isn't one of his redeeming qualities.
OK, you get the point.

Jackson's been a MLB pitcher now for 17 years, SEVENTEEN!
He's 106 and 128 in 17 years.
He has a career ERA of 4.69 and a career WH/IP of 1.46 all of which means he allows almost 5 earned runs a game and allows 14 baserunners per nine innings, for those of you new to this, that's butt ugly.
Want more? He's a home run waiting to happen. Coughs up over 1 per nine for seventeen season.
He's led the league once in his dubious career, that was in losses with 18 six seasons ago.
Yes I understand Jackson's debut with Detroit was nice, doesn't change a thing though.

Find a solid season here, win valuable prizes.

Year	Tm	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
2003	LAD	2	1	2.45	4	3	22	17	6	6	2	11	19	1.273	7	0.8	4.5	7.8	1.73
2004	LAD	2	1	7.3	8	5	24.2	31	20	20	7	11	16	1.703	11.3	2.6	4	5.8	1.45
2005	LAD	2	2	6.28	7	6	28.2	31	22	20	2	17	13	1.674	9.7	0.6	5.3	4.1	0.76
2006	TBD	0	0	5.45	23	1	36.1	42	27	22	2	25	27	1.844	10.4	0.5	6.2	6.7	1.08
2007	TBD	5	15	5.76	32	31	161	195	116	103	19	88	128	1.758	10.9	1.1	4.9	7.2	1.45
2008	TBR	14	11	4.42	32	31	183.1	199	91	90	23	77	108	1.505	9.8	1.1	3.8	5.3	1.4
2009	DET	13	9	3.62	33	33	214	200	93	86	27	70	161	1.262	8.4	1.1	2.9	6.8	2.3
2010	TOT	10	12	4.47	32	32	209.1	214	111	104	21	78	181	1.395	9.2	0.9	3.4	7.8	2.32
2010	ARI	6	10	5.16	21	21	134.1	141	80	77	13	60	104	1.496	9.4	0.9	4	7	1.73
2010	CHW	4	2	3.24	11	11	75	73	31	27	8	18	77	1.213	8.8	1	2.2	9.2	4.28
2011	TOT	12	9	3.79	32	31	199.2	225	92	84	16	62	148	1.437	10.1	0.7	2.8	6.7	2.39
2011	CHW	7	7	3.92	19	19	121.2	134	55	53	8	39	97	1.422	9.9	0.6	2.9	7.2	2.49
2011	STL	5	2	3.58	13	12	78	91	37	31	8	23	51	1.462	10.5	0.9	2.7	5.9	2.22
2012	WSN	10	11	4.03	31	31	189.2	173	90	85	23	58	168	1.218	8.2	1.1	2.8	8	2.9
2013	CHC	8	18	4.98	31	31	175.1	197	110	97	16	59	135	1.46	10.1	0.8	3	6.9	2.29
2014	CHC	6	15	6.33	28	27	140.2	168	105	99	18	63	123	1.642	10.7	1.2	4	7.9	1.95
2015	TOT	4	3	3.07	47	0	55.2	44	25	19	4	21	40	1.168	7.1	0.6	3.4	6.5	1.9
2015	CHC	2	1	3.19	23	0	31	30	14	11	0	12	23	1.355	8.7	0	3.5	6.7	1.92
2015	ATL	2	2	2.92	24	0	24.2	14	11	8	4	9	17	0.932	5.1	1.5	3.3	6.2	1.89
2016	TOT	5	7	5.89	21	13	84	92	56	55	14	41	61	1.583	9.9	1.5	4.4	6.5	1.49
2016	MIA	0	1	5.91	8	0	10.2	13	7	7	2	6	7	1.781	11	1.7	5.1	5.9	1.17
2016	SDP	5	6	5.89	13	13	73.1	79	49	48	12	35	54	1.555	9.7	1.5	4.3	6.6	1.54
2017	TOT	5	6	5.21	16	13	76	86	53	44	20	29	60	1.513	10.2	2.4	3.4	7.1	2.07
2017	BAL	0	0	7.2	3	0	5	11	7	4	2	4	2	3	19.8	3.6	7.2	3.6	0.5
2017	WSN	5	6	5.07	13	13	71	75	46	40	18	25	58	1.408	9.5	2.3	3.2	7.4	2.32
2018	OAK	6	3	3.33	17	17	92	75	37	34	12	37	68	1.217	7.3	1.2	3.6	6.7	1.84
2019	TOT	2	5	9.35	9	6	34.2	53	42	36	13	15	23	1.962	13.8	3.4	3.9	6	1.53
2019	TOR	1	5	11.12	8	5	28.1	49	41	35	12	13	19	2.188	15.6	3.8	4.1	6	1.46
2019	DET	1	0	1.42	1	1	6.1	4	1	1	1	2	4	0.947	5.7	1.4	2.8	5.7	2
17 Yrs		106	128	4.69	403	311	1927	2042	1096	1004	239	762	1479	1.455	9.5	1.1	3.6	6.9	1.94

Now onto the game.
Marco Gonzalez starts for Seattle, he ain't winning any Cy Young Awards anytime soon but at least he's serviceable at 12-9 ERA of 4.25 and a 1.34 WH/IP

There's three factors I like the M's tonight.
1) They are the better team in this spot.
2) Gonzalez is the better pitcher in this spot.
3) Gonzalez is a left handed starter.

Depending on what metrics you use the Tigers are the worst offensive team versus left handed pitching.
Detroit is dead last in runs scored vs. LHP
Detroit has the fewest hit homers v. LHP with 23, take away Castallenos's 4 homers vs. LHP it's 19.
NINETEEN, second fewest is Miami and it's not even close.
Detroit is pretty much rock bottom in all categories vs. LHP

Mariners here on the runline on the road (they are guaranteed a ninth inning at bat.
58 to win 50 for your pal Nasher please.