Jason Storm
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159-108-1 Overall Record
MLB Predictions: Tampa Bay Rays (-115) vs. Boston Red Sox (+110) Over-Under 9.5
After opening the season with a sweep of the New York Yankees, the Tampa Bay Rays have lost 4 of their last 5 and are in danger of being swept by the Boston Red Sox today.
It has been a lopsided series thus far with the Red Sox winning the two game by a combine score 25-7. They have accumulated 31 hits over these two games.
Below is the projected starting line up for the Rays. Please keep in mind that this is not official. I am doing this just so you can see some of the names in case you missed the off season acquisitions and departures. BJ Upton is out on the DL.
Desmond Jennings, Carlos Pena, Evan Longoria, Matt Joyce, Ben Zobrist, Luck Scott, Jeff Keppinger, Jose Molina, Sean Rodriguez
The Red Sox are without Jacoby Ellsbury who was placed on the DL with a separated shoulder. Carl Crawford is still on the DL also. Here is their projected line up.
Mike Aviles, Dustin Pedroia, Adrian Gonzalez, Kevin Youkilis, David Ortiz, Cody Ross, Ryan Sweeney, Jared Saltalamacchia, Darnell McDonald
The pitching match up is two young lefties: Matt Moore versus Felix Doubront.
Matt Moore, not the quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, but instead the pitcher for the Tampa Bay Marlins, takes the mound for them today in his 2nd start of the season.
Although Moore is rather inexperienced he has had a good start to his young career. The 6’2 southpaw in 4 career starts has a 1-0 record with a 2.81 ERA. That’s impressive. However, his first start of 2012 wasn’t perfect. He really struggled with control. He walked 5 batters, which in turn elevated his pitch count. He threw 104 pitches in 6.2 innings of work. This could
Besides the added extra base runners that could result in more runs.
Even with that last game where he didn’t have great control, Matt Moore has great potential. His strike out to walk ratio is 19-8. He is a big strike out guy and that goes a long way in tough situations, and I expect his ability to get strike outs could be the difference.
Felix Doubront will always be making his 5th career start, but Doubront has more experience than his counterpart because of his time as a relief pitcher. Still, its about the same. What is most telling to me is Doubront’s inability to strike out or finish hitters. In his first start and appearance of the 2012 MLB Season, Doubront was ahead 0-2 or 1-2 in 14 of his 22 batters, yet two of his 3 walks came from the hitters he was ahead. Not to mention 2 of the 4 hits he allowed came from hitters he was ahead in the count.
Doubront doesn’t have the nasty factor to fool guys. Hitters were taking their time to see his pitches and then doing their damage. His 35 career strike outs isn’t bad compared to his 21 career walks. But it doesn’t compare to Moore’s 19ks in just 16 innings of work.
I like the Rays to back their young and talented left hand pitcher and give him his first victory of the season, allowing his Rays to avoid the sweep.
Pick: Rays -115

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Texas Rangers vs Boston Red Sox: Free MLB Picks
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17Apr2012
Jason Storm
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159-109-1 Overall Record
MLB Predictions: Texas Rangers (+112) vs. Boston Red Sox (-119) Over-Under 8
Gearing up for an baseball lovers dream series, the Texas Rangers head into Fenway to take on the Boston Red Sox after starting the season out 8-2. Both teams look to be in an upward swing with the Rangers winning the last 4 games and the BoSox almost sweeping the Rays in a 4 game series.
The Rangers have moved to the top of the division with great starters and a good pick up bullpen. Rolling into this game on a high note Colby Lewis comes in hot with a 1-0 start with a 6 2/3 shut out in his last game against the M’s. His super low ERA of 1.42 is sick but surely expected to rise a little when facing the heavy hitters of the Fenway Favorites, and yet they still stand a high chance of walking away with a W because of the playing of Boston. With Crawford and Youkilis out someone has to pick up the slack against the better pitchers of the league and that falls mostly on Pedrioa and Ortiz. WIthout these guys leading in hits it’ll be tough to see them touch Lewis.
Not to be outdone though we have Jon Lester the Lefty ready to send some of the Rangers home feeling very unwelcome. Sure hes 0-1 this season but he still KO’d 10 in his last game against the power slugging Blue Jays. The Red Sox have dropped 6 out of last 10 match ups against the Rangers and with Lester throwing the way he has I see some tough competition. While his ERA sits at 2.40 leading into this series you cant but help to think the hitting squad that features Hamilton, Young and Beltre are just gonna take sliders and inside pitches all game.
Below is the projected starting line up for the Red Sox. Please keep in mind that this is not official. I am doing this just so you can see some of the names in case you missed the off season acquisitions and departures.
Mike Aviles, Dustin Pedroia, Adrian Gonzalez, David Ortiz, Jason Repko, Cody Ross, Ryan Sweeney, Nick Punto, Jarrod Saltalamacchia,Darnell McDonald
A few huge injuries are hitting the Red Sox hard, like Carl Crawford, Kevin Youkilis (Q), and Jacoby Ellsbury
Below is the projected starting line up for the Rangers.
Ian Kinsler, Elvis Andrus, Josh Hamilton, Adrian Beltre, Michael Young, Nelson Cruz, David Murphy, Craig Gentry, Mike Napoli, Yorvit Torrealba
Not to be outdone by their opponents the Rangers have only one bullpen pitcher on the DL, which really shouldn’t account to much.
As great as the pitching duel in this match up is you have to look at the hitter in overall scores this year alone. The batting average of the Red Sox sits at a .269 which is slightly better than the .267 of the Rangers but the HRs over in Texas seem to be soaring with the 3rd best HR count sitting at 15 entering week 2. They have both been knocking out pitchers pretty steady with about the same OPS.
The key overall will be which pitcher will falter first and even though Lester is the veteran I still see Lewis being the better outcome here. With Texas on point I see this game being nowhere near a blow out but enough to put a nasty scar on future meet ups especially from two AL playoff contenders. We all know bad blood lingers in Boston from past match ups, so they better pray for some power hitting god to overcome Lewis and the rest of the Rangers.
I’ll take the Texas Rangers to start out this series in Fenway
Pick Rangers +112

Jason Storm
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160-109-1 Overall Record
MLB Predictions: Tampa Bay Rays (106) vs Toronto Blue Jays (-113) Over-Under 8.5
In the 3rd match up of the series, the defending AL Wildcard Champions take on the Blue Jays of Toronto in sure to be both spoiler teams in the AL Playoff picture later this year. Both at this point have taken a game in the 3 game series and both try and take a rubberneck victory.
The recent steps both teams have taken in the past few years have set them up for an actual run in the AL East, easily MLB’s toughest division. The Rays have shown they can hang with the top gunners of the division but what about the Blue Jays? They stuck it out until after the All-Star Game last year then quickly let distance get the best of them. This year I think they will both battle it out for the Wild Card.
Enough about the past a future, you guys want to see some actual stats and reasons to pull for who. Well you are in the right place.
The Rays have been taking an interesting start to the season sweeping the Yankees in the opener and then almost getting swept by the Red Sox. While doing damage the team is at .500 and should be playing better than they are. They only rank in the top 10 for OPS and thats right at 10. Not bad but also not terrible. Biggest thing for the Rays
is the greta pitching they have set up and the highly praised bullpen Joe Maddon has set up for them. Power hitting may be the best option for them in this game.
But lets not forget whos up to pitch: Jeremy Hellickson. A guy that has really come out of his shell last season and this year looks to be the real deal. With only 5 KOs and a 3.29 ERA he doesn’t seem like that great of a pitcher but its early and after the way he played last season I can totally put my faith in this Ray. Only thing that scares me is the heavy hitter for the Blue Jays. No one just takes it on the chin from Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion.
Now as for the Blue Jays, Henderson Alvarez has a better ERA of 2.77 but only has 4 KOs and is starting his first game this season. It will be interesting to see how he plays up to the former Devil Rays. With the Rays hitting not really doing much until the 2nd game scoring 12 runs, I could see the score again running up fairly high but the Jays
sticking in. Henderson could surprise us just like Matt Moore in the playoffs last season with the Rays.
Below is the projected starting line up for the Tampa Bay Rays. Please keep in mind that this is not official. I am doing this just so you can see some of the names in case you missed the off season acquisitions and departures.
Desmond Jennings, Ben Zobrist, Carlos Pena, Evan Longoria, Luke Scott, Jeff Keppinger, Reid Brignac, Matt Joyce, Jose Molina, Sean Rodriguez
Tampa Bay Rays Major Injury Report – Sam Fuld, Bj Upton
Below is the projected starting line up for the Toronto Blue Jays
Yunel Escobar, Kelly Johnson, Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion, Adam Lind, Brett Lawrie, Rajai Davis, Omar Vizquel, J.P. Arencibia, Colby Rasmus, Jeff Mathis, Eric Thames
No Injuries for the Blue Jays
My overall prediction is that they Rays with just a little more heart and a better pitcher will take the “W” with an early lead from the 3rd inning. Hellickson will bring the heat and the Rays will move back above .500 and continue their way into the top of the AL East
I’ll Take the Tampa bay Rays in this game to finish this series out
Pick Rays +106

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1. Выиграть хороший посев Оклхоме
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3. Ожидает хорошей защиты от Оклы
4. Считает , что набьют более 100

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