Tuesday April 1st
Yankees FF +0.5/-105 (1.05 to win 1.00)
LOSE
Keeping with the tradition of taking favorites on Opening day. The Yankees will go against former Orioles pitcher Scott Feldman. While he enjoyed success against the Yankees last year, it was a totally different team decimated by injuries. This year should hit the ball much better, and features many players that have fared well against Feldman in the past.
Probable Starters are in bold.
Scott Feldman (hou) - throws R vs. nyy - 7:10 PM ET - Minute Maid Park
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On the other side Sabbathia had a down year last year which varied far from his typical averages the past five to ten years. He said last year he was battling nagging problems with his throwing elbow. Sounds like a pretty poor excuse since he never went on the DL I believe, but considering the anomaly of a year he had last year I’d give him the benefit of the doubt. Facing an Astros squad he has little familiarity with. I’d give Sabbathia the edge in this matchup.
I wanted to take the -1.5 RL but there’s not enough bang for my buck and the ML isn’t all that appealing to me (though I almost took it) the FF seemed like a good middle ground to me.
Braves ML +108 (0.93 to win 1.00)
WIN
Will take the Lefty vs A Brewers team that hasn’t faced him yet. As Brewers players have combined six at bats against him. Maybe they’ll get to him?On the flip side, despite the two hit complete game shutout Lohse had against this braves team last year seems like anomaly given what this Braves team has done against him in the past. I’ll be betting for reversion to mean, thinking the Braves rebound from their shutout, and Lohse puts in a performance that is more typical of what he has done in past games vs the Braves.