{"id":11170,"date":"2011-04-15T18:09:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=11170"},"modified":"2011-04-15T18:09:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:09:49","slug":"mlb-vegas-lines-and-sports-predictions-from-handicappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/mlb-vegas-lines-and-sports-predictions-from-handicappers\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Vegas Lines and Sports Predictions From Handicappers"},"content":{"rendered":"

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper<\/a> Matt Rivers has a free pick in MLB on the Minnesota Twins (+122) to Tampa.<\/p>\n

Reasoning: Tampa Bay is a bad baseball team right now and to not have to lay money with\u00a0a far better Minnesota team is fine with me. And yes I know all about\u00a0the recent wins including the Johnny Damon walk-off last night.<\/p>\n

Yes the Rays won yesterday and the two games at Fenway Park but what the heck are the Red Sox right now? Daisuke is a total disgrace and taking those two games doesn\u2019t impress me all that much. They have been better, I guess, but the talent level is still very low and very much lacking.<\/p>\n

After losing Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena in the offseason and now without Evan Longoria the Tampa offense is fairly awful. Every team will have that one game where everything clicks so I do not believe that\u00a0Joe Maddon\u2019s\u00a0Punch and Judy hitters have just all of a sudden found something. They are a bad bad offense right now and just cannot compare with Justin Morneau, Delmon Young, Michael Cuddyer and the Twins. Joe Mauer is on the DL which does hurt but it\u2019s also not the end all as we saw with this team after losing Morneau. Plus I love teams off bad losses as they usually rebound and last night was the epitome of such.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say that I love the on again off again Nick Blackburn. The guy has had some quality moments but he has also had some lean times as well. In terms of upside and overall stuff Wade Davis may be on a higher level. The Tampa hurler had a very successful second half of the season last year and is good. But\u00a0all in all he is not a guy that should be able to dominate the lefty\u00a0bats of the Twinkies and to get Minnesota here, in some revenge,\u00a0at this price is a must play in some way, shape or form.<\/p>\n

I still do not think this Tampa Bay team is very good and\u00a0I\u2019m therefore\u00a0just fine with fading them in a spot like this against the far better team.<\/p>\n

Top expert pick<\/a> on this game: Matt Rivers has Minnesota<\/p>\n

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick in MLB on the Minnesota Twins (+122) to Tampa. Reasoning: Tampa Bay is a bad baseball team right now and to not have to lay money with\u00a0a far better Minnesota team is fine with me. And yes I know all about\u00a0the recent wins including the … Continue reading MLB Vegas Lines and Sports Predictions From Handicappers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11171,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170\/revisions\/11171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}