Dave Malinsky 9/1
Dave Malinsky
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8:10:00 PM MINNESOTA TWINS (Manship)+135 over Chicago White Sox (Danks)
4* #980 MINNESOTA over CHICAGO WHITE SOX
The floundering White Sox are 2-15 in their last 17 games at the Metrodome, a disaster of a ballpark for a team that brings limited speed and awful defense to the table (only the Nationals have allowed more runs directly off of errors). And in going 1-7 on their current road trip six of their losses have come by multiple runs. So where does this price come from? Starting pitching, just about every penny of it. And in this case the oddsmakers even got the value of the starters in the equation wrong. Does John Danks merit this range? Absolutely not. The Twins actually enjoy seeing his stuff, starting with Michael Cuddyer (11-24, with three doubles and two home runs), and continuing through Justin Morneau (8-24, with two doubles and three home runs), Brendan Harris (8-21 with a pair of homers), Jason Kubel (6-16, with two doubles and a home run) and Joe Mauer (9-24). That is part of why Danks sports a career 5.33 ERA from this mound, and note that does not include four unearned runs in 28.2 innings. With this defense behind him, unearned runs can be a major factor again. Meanwhile Jeff Manship earns little respect for Minnesota in his first Major League start, but that is great for us from a price standpoint. Manship does not have to be asked for all that much here, just make a couple of passes through a lineup that looks a whole lot different without Jim Thome out there, especially with key right-handers Jermaine Dye (17-98 over the last 26 games, with only three of the hits going for extra bases), and Alex Rios (10-56 in a White Sox uniform, with 16 strikeouts and three rbi’s) producing very little these days. Manship then turns it over to a red-hot bullpen that has set-up men Jose Mijares (2.10 with 20 holds) and Matt Guerrier (2.29 with 26 holds) in good stead on our fatigue charts, and while Joe Nathan has worked back-to-back games, he only needed 11 pitches last night to lock up his 35th save, and should be fine here.
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Originally Posted by joey
