By Stephen Nover Phillies minus $1.50 at Pirates There wasn’t much to gut. But the Pirates dealt Adam Frazier and closer Richard Rodriguez as part of five trades they made leading up to the trade deadline in their eternal quest to become relevant again. Now Pittsburgh is even worse than its 39-64 record since Frazier and […]
By Stephen Nover Diamondbacks minus $1.05 at Rangers One of these two teams has lost 11 of their last 12 games all by multiple runs – and that team isn’t the Diamondbacks. Arizona is 5-3 in its last eight games. Texas is 1-11. The pitching matchup is lefty Madison Bumgarner versus Jordan Lyles. Both pitchers […]
By Stephen Nover Friday, July 23 Yankees minus $1.05 at Red Sox We’re about to find out what the Yankees are made of. The Yankees have suffered a number of gut punches caused by their erratic bullpen, none worse than their 5-4 extra inning loss to the Red Sox on Thursday. Boston came back down […]
By Stephen Nover Angels at A’s Under 9 minus $1.15 (Early Start) Forgotten in the brilliant glare of Shohei Ohtani are the Angels missing Mike Trout and Anthony Rendon, which has hurt their offense. Discount an eight-run game against the hapless Rangers and Mike Foltynewicz and the Angels would be averaging a meager 3.0 runs […]
Cubs minus $1.47 at Diamondbacks Trailing the Brewers by eight games in the NL Central, the Cubs are on the verge of breaking up what has been one of the best cores in baseball for the past six years. Joc Pederson was dealt to the Braves for a minor league first baseman on Thursday. The […]
By Stephen Nover Braves minus $1.37 at Pirates The Pirates are looking to do something they haven’t done all season – win a fourth straight game. I don’t see the 32-53 Pirates accomplishing the task here. The Braves have been one of the more disappointing teams in the league. But they still are nine games […]
