Dodgers Favored to Win the NL: Can Mets or Phillies Catch Up?

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00:00the dodgers have won eight of their last nine games for that best mark around the bigs but

00:05when we compare the opening day odds to where things are right now the dodgers are always

00:09going to have that short price so we've had the same conversation that we're going to have at

00:13this moment that we had way back in march back in january back in all these times around the

00:20winning reigning world series champs who can catch la plus 140 now the current price on the dodgers

00:25but still incredibly short the move against the braves two games below 500 after that 0-7 start

00:32they're playing better baseball looking more like the team we expected the phillies backed by a buck

00:37as well the mets have seen the move most in their way 7-1 now plus 490 and the cubbies 22 wins already

00:4512-1 now plus 850 but buy or sell drs the question to you the mets are the dodgers biggest threat in

00:52the national league right now you can probably say yes but i'm going to sell that because i'm going

00:56to go season long at this point i told you like i like the mets lineup one through three it's fantastic

01:00got some good hitting pieces there four through nine but if you're looking at the starting lineup

01:04how do you win typically in the postseason give me that dominant front line starting pitching here

01:08to go toe-to-toe with some of the best bats in major league baseball i don't know if the mets pitchers

01:13will be up to the task all summer long we're only in the month we just started may we got may june july

01:17august and september then into october and you're looking at pitchers there it's like okay let's lean on

01:22you know back in the day uh jacob de grom would be absolutely a dominant front line starter cinder

01:28garlic hey man these guys can make it to the world series and do some damage i'm not saying the mets

01:31won't make the playoff they're a quality team at this point and just looking at the fandole sports

01:35book right now plus 490 price to win the national league second place only behind the dodgers but

01:40then i look at other teams in the same division like the philadelphia phillies you want to have a

01:44one-two punch of let's just say any one given of aaron nola gets it together he's had some

01:48postseason performances you take a look at zach wheeler one of the best pitchers in major league

01:51baseball and then coupled by maybe a christopher sanchez or if ranger suarez does get it together

01:56same thing you can take a look here at the atlanta braves just going over their depth chart chris sale

02:00who's one of the best pitchers in baseball last year with the cy young you take a look at you know

02:03spencer schwellenbach who has had a little bit of a rough run but he has that pedigree being a young

02:08pitcher that can be abdominant stuff grant holmes has been decent spencer strider just goes back to the

02:12ilp's right by the end of the summer i'm trying to line this up by saying it's not who is going to

02:18catch the dodgers in the regular season that's not the question right once you get to the postseason

02:21how can you add up and i just think you need dominant starting pitching to go toe to toe so

02:26for me i like the mets but i think the phillies and also the atlanta braves when they're right if

02:31we're anticipating them to be right i think they're gonna be the challengers as opposed to the mets

02:35says as well as the thirteen that's what's going on slapsing out of the