I like the way KC matches up tonight against Cleveland.
First the starters.
Santana is having a better season across the board (except K's) than Jimmenz.
Santana's ERA is a nice 3.33 the WH/IP ratio is nicer at 1.17
Don't know what happened his last start against Seattle where he didn't make it to the fifth inning, but I am throwing it out.
Indians always have had trouble against Santana.
CLEVELAND INDIANS CAREER STATISTICS VS. ERVIN SANTANA BATTER AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS Mike Aviles 13 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 .077 .077 .077 .154 Michael Bourn 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 Michael Brantley 23 5 1 0 1 4 1 1 .217 .250 .391 .641 Asdrubal Cabrera 31 6 2 1 0 6 2 5 .194 .265 .323 .587 Matt Carson 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 Lonnie Chisenhall 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 .000 .111 .000 .111 Jason Giambi 21 2 2 0 0 3 5 4 .095 .296 .190 .487 Jason Kipnis 17 5 0 0 0 1 1 5 .294 .333 .294 .627 Jason Kubel 21 4 0 0 0 0 0 6 .190 .190 .190 .381 Lou Marson 6 3 2 0 0 1 1 1 .500 .571 .833 1.405 Ryan Raburn 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .500 .000 .500 Carlos Santana 16 4 1 0 0 0 2 3 .250 .333 .313 .646 Kelly Shoppach 5 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 .200 .200 .800 1.000 Drew Stubbs 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .400 .400 .400 .800 Nick Swisher 41 9 5 0 1 4 5 16 .220 .319 .415 .734 Totals 212 43 13 1 3 22 19 47 .203 .278 .316 .594
Jimmenez has lofty strike out numbers, but he's been a pedestrian like pitcher at best all season
3.79 ERA is pretty much average, 1.40 WH/IP is a little high.
He was sharp his last time out against Baltimore, that was coming off back to back losses to the Twins and Braves.
Here's the thing why I like KC in this spot tonight.
Jimmenez walks way too many batters, more than one every two innings.
KC has dangerous stick in the middle of the order, and Hosmer owns Jimmenz at 6/19 .316 2 homers 5 RBI and Butler is also 6/19 .316 and 1 homer.
Bonifacio is the 2 hole tonight is hitting over .300 in the past seven games, and Sal Perez who has been raking all season has been hot as well.
KC is 14-3 in their last 17 as a road fave, a stat I just can not ignore, and are over a .500 team on the road.
I'll gladly take KC with the better starter and the hot sticks in this spot play I really like
KC -107 goes for 3*