Phillies' Mick Abel Starts Against Cubs: Betting Odds Analysis

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00:00The young buck for the fighters today, Mick Abel gets the start against the Cubs.

00:06It's a minus 108 price, a direct updated Moneyline Pick'em on the FanDuel Sportsbook.

00:12Total DRS, nine and a half. What's the play today at the bench?

00:17No, it's again, you have a couple starts under your belt for Mick Abel,

00:21and they've been really good starts here. So the expectation is he's coming in.

00:24You know what? I'm confident now. Like I've been around the block here a couple times,

00:27faced a couple of major league teams here. I think at Toronto and home against Pittsburgh,

00:31and I handled myself well. Back at home, the double home starts like a whole new environment

00:35where I'm pitching here. But my focus isn't really on Abel and can he hold down the Cubs

00:39or a good lineup. It's the fact that Colin Ray has really not been good over the past month, Ben.

00:43He's 25th out of 27 pitchers on the card, 28 total innings pitched here, 4.82 ERA,

00:49but pretty much a matching X with a 4.61. You look at who he's pitched to, he struggled, Ben.

00:54Last 119 batters he's faced, the total is a .224 ISO and a weighted on-base percentage of .384.

01:00And look at the K rate, 15%. Doesn't strike anybody out. Lefties have gotten the best of them here.

01:05It's a shame that Bryce Harper's not in the lineup, but again, Kyle Schroeder could be able to get down

01:08tonight. The Phillies haven't hit right-handed pitching all that well, and particularly from

01:13their left-handed batters. But this is one of those games where I was wrong on yesterday.

01:17I didn't get five runs out of Cleveland. We didn't. We got four and had a chance to get five,

01:20but didn't get there. But this is one of those, we look at the Phillies going,

01:22there's been struggling at the plate. They should hit. It's 80 degree temperatures

01:26with the wind blowing up in the midfield. They should hit Colin Wright.