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00:03 - And then how about we get to the toilet bowl here.
00:05 At the bottom, the two worst teams in Major League Baseball,
00:07 the Oakland Athletics and the Kansas City Royals.
00:10 A combined 74 wins.
00:13 There are four teams in baseball
00:15 that have more wins on their own
00:18 than these two teams have combined.
00:21 34 and 90 Oakland, 40 and 86 Kansas City.
00:26 Paul Blackburn takes the mound as a favorite.
00:30 Total for this game is eight and a half.
00:32 Bad pitchers, bad lineups.
00:34 What in the world do you do with this one?
00:37 - Yeah, the worst lineup seems like it's coming
00:38 from the Oakland perspective.
00:40 Going up against left-handed pitchers
00:41 for the Oakland Athletics hasn't worked out in their favor
00:43 basically the entire year,
00:44 but particularly over the past 30 days,
00:46 there's one guy in the lineup, Shane Langelier,
00:48 who bats in the eight hole.
00:50 He's got a .235 ISO and a weighted on base percentage
00:53 of .432.
00:53 Oh, if he bats in the eight hole,
00:55 everybody else has to be pretty good.
00:56 That's not the case.
00:57 Let me read you the ISO power numbers
00:59 against left-handed pitching
01:00 for the Oakland Athletics lineup
01:01 as we anticipate tonight as for the past 30 days.
01:04 083 Ruiz, 148.
01:06 Gelof, McBride, 083.
01:08 Rooker, zero.
01:09 Kemp, zero.
01:10 Jordan Diaz, 091.
01:11 Sonderstrom, 083.
01:13 And Allen, 118.
01:15 Like, this is a major league lineup where it's like,
01:17 okay, I heard of the name Tony Kemp before.
01:19 And of course, you know, like Rooker,
01:20 and I bet Gelof a couple of times,
01:22 but many people would look at this like,
01:24 this doesn't even have the appearance of a quality roster.
01:27 So I don't know how you can take that there.
01:28 If they don't hit left-handed pitching
01:30 and that's their lineup,
01:31 number one, you're probably already looking here
01:33 towards the Kansas City Royals,
01:34 being a dog, but number two, the eight and a half,
01:36 that doesn't even match up.
01:37 Probably leaning towards the under as well in this game.
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