A quick recap on last night and boy oh boy that was a nice Friday with the bats. Unfortunately there were about 3 or 4 pitchers who I decided not to roll with that went off and that kept me and us from taking down tournaments last night. But ignoring those implied run totals once again paid off as nobody had the best spot on the slate — Cleveland. No specific trends to point out today other than to keep an eye on these double headers and how teams respond after them. We have more today which means the main slate is shorter than it should be but in a way it might benefit us as lots of games could have rain issues in the afternoon. Main slate tonight locks at 7 PM on both sites and will have the same amount of games — which is only six and does include the Coors Field game. The Houston and Oakland game is NOT going to accrue stats because they decided they wanted a Friday night off last night and used that as their protest game. Side note: I might be the only one who felt this way, but I really felt like all the MLB players were refreshed last night. It’s almost like they have been so drained by the COVID testing and lack of fans in stadiums this season that they mentally needed the break more than anything. It sounds stupid to say this but the pause of not playing games and them focusing on something other than Baseball kind of acted like an all-star break or mid-way pause for them in this short season. Even though the amount of games is less, it’s definitely taken a mental toll on lots of players being crammed in so quickly. WEATHER NOTES WAS at BOS: Light rain in Boston today could really make this slate different as they can easily push it to tomorrow and try to play two without any rain concerns. My hard rule right now is that if they game starts in a delay — STAY AWAY and if the game starts on time then it will be fine. Got it? “Delay, Stay away. On Time, It’s Fine”. That’s as much as we can do to simplify what has been a challenging weather season given the new DH rule. Coors Field is nicer today than last night,…...
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