[stevenash]

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.

[jjgold]

Tremendous write up


How do you not tail ?

[Roscoe_Word]

More excellent analysis. GL, Nasher.

[2daBank]

I feel like everytime I fade that hamburger (whether against him or on the over) he somehow pitches a good game, didn’t use to be that way but the last 3-4 years everytime he pops up I give it a shot and Mfer pitches a gem. Lol., gl Nasher.

[stevenash]

And of course Nasher must battle from behind.

0-2 Detroit, early though.

Thanks to all for the kind words.

[Big Bear]

I had the Mariners and Cubs tonight

[ThaTopMoron]

wow mlb takes no prisoners

i see sea was 5-0 vs tigers for season before this game

that alone would've made me run for the hills in mlb where the most random sht happens

i just looked and it says NY ended the season winning 16 games in a row vs baltimore? 17-2 for season... lol

last game only won by 1 but previous 6 games vs balty they won by at least 3 runs in every game... didn't look back further than those pretty recent games

man if u just sat back and waited to bet NY -2.5 vs balt u would've won 6 in a row then maybe said ok, im done... last game of season series the yanks may not care if they w or lose

mlb is fukked in the head

[TonyPhizzle]

All those stats for nothing lol. Did you know Edwin was 5-0 lifetime vs Seattle with a 1.88 ERA?

[topgame85]

Tough time of year. No one knows anything right now.

[stevenash]

All those stats for nothing lol. Did you know Edwin was 5-0 lifetime vs Seattle with a 1.88 ERA?

Yes, but that 5-0 record spans across the years, both teams have changed and changed again in that time.

I worked for an 'office' when I was younger in college in Boston. That city (Boston) has a ton of sports fans that love to gamble on most anything. (Mo from the 'Simpsons') "if it moves you can bet on it" Too funny but too true.

I learned a lot of things from the two bosses.

The office used to take down meaningless games late in the MLB season when sub .500 teams were playing.
'Buzzy' said to me "Billy (my real name) those games are crap shoots, we can't gauge them, so we prefer not to take any action of those games, plus NFL and NCAA foots are gearing up there's way too much on our tables right now"
Made sense to me. I learned a ton of lessons from Buzzy and Jimmy, that one lesson apparently hasn't sunk in. lol

[jjgold]

Can’t win them
All

Nashy like stats and he enjoys
It

Nothing wrong with it

[stevenash]

^
Nope, I've always had a love affair with numbers and stats etc.
Started when I was six years old.

I love playing with SQL, databases, and excel and all that stuff.

[Dogball]

I watched this game in horror. Seattle had bases loaded with the best hitter up , nothing. Seattle had first and second no outs , nothing. Seattle had runner picked off, caught stealing , pathetically inept at producing what they needed. It was the right play that didn’t win and in bases when we bet on bad teams that’s more likely to happen. Didn’t stop me from using Seattle with dodgers in a parlay ��