How is this possible guy?
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Loving every minute of the train wreck and watching them collapse...
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Yankees +270 at DraftKings to miss the playoffs:
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Yankees continue to flail here for a short while - then start some timely winning to ultimately make and lose ALCS convincingly (5 games).
That's the playbook. If I could bet that scenario exactly today, I would.Comment -
They must have an easy schedule the rest of the season as their starting pitching is weak...who do you trust on that staff currently with Cole done for the season?
+270 seems like good value for them NOT to make the playoffs.Comment -
One word, pitching.
It begins and ends with pitching, and the NYY don't have it.
They don't have a Cole Hammel, a Skubal, a Skenes, a Garret Crochet...
And their bullpen is just a cut above pedestrian.
No team wants to face a Hammel, or a Skubal...
The Yankees don't have any starter that makes the opposition say "Oh crap, we have to face this guy..."
Ask yourself this: when was the last time a power-hitting team with little or mediocre pitching won a WS?
Bash Brothers? Nope, go up and down the line, bet you won't find many.
Long story short (which I am not capable of doing)
Pitching wins, almost always have, and almost always will.Comment -
Yankees are allowing fewer runs per game than the Blue Jays, with near identical defensive efficiency. Toronto does play half their games in Rogers Center. If Yankees have had mediocre pitching this year, so does the division leader.
Yankees are clearly ahead of Toronto in run differential. The entire difference in the standings are that the Blue Jays are +5 in one-run games while the Yankees are -1. And in those 19 loses, it's the offense that's the problem, only averaging 2.68 runs scored.
Last year, the Dodgers won the World Series, giving up only slightly fewer runs than league average (4.23 compared to 4.39; 13th out of 30) while playing in Dodger Stadium and with the second highest defensive efficiency. That's pretty mediocre pitching.
Teams make the playoffs every year with equal or worse pitching than the Yankees have.Comment -
Guys did you ever think where slayer14 went?Comment -
I reached out to the CS gang at DK. I was curious as well.
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Gonna post more guys from now on, and some bets plays.Comment -
who’s william?Comment -
I've eliminated all teams that currently have less than a 50 percent chance of making the AL playoffs.
The Yankees currently have a 67.9 percent chance of reaching the postseason.
67.9 percent is 2/3 (not quite)implied odds -150.
Who in their right mind would lay -285 (or whatever the number is now) on a -150 prop?
(Source: Baseball Reference)
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Texas gets the last playoff spot and leaves the Yankees on the outside looking in...Yankees starting pitching depth is pretty rough, I like Texas pitching much better. That is my hope anyhow, nasher.
I've eliminated all teams that currently have less than a 50 percent chance of making the AL playoffs.
The Yankees currently have a 67.9 percent chance of reaching the postseason.
67.9 percent is 2/3 (not quite)implied odds -150.
Who in their right mind would lay -285 (or whatever the number is now) on a -150 prop?
(Source: Baseball Reference)
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Texas at Cleveland, the final weekend of the season.
Those three games should be interesting.
I have no problem with Texas and all, but I'm all about the pitching. After de Grom and Eovaldi, the Rangers have pretty much nothing.
I would have liked to see them pick up another starter before the deadline.
Seattle's the team to beat out West.
Kirby and Logan Gilbert are 100 percent healthy, and Bryce Miller joins the rotation again in 7 -10 days.
These control numbers (WH/IP) are outstanding, and so is the SO: BB ratio.
Their starters can carry a team if the hitting slumps.
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