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Yes, which is why my actual results yesterday were better than the system results, since I used Baltimore and did not use Florida. Ideally though, you should wait until the last possible minute if a game is close, but life doesn't always allow for that.
For record-keeping purposes however, I have to use lines from covers for sake of consistency, as they have always been my stats source. The last-three-year records were all based on bullpen ERA pulled from covers each day and based on their lines.