Blue Jays vs. Guardians Preview: Toronto Looking Strong

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00:00now to cleveland the blue jays and the guardians facing off tonight in the land and toronto an

00:06ever so slight favorite against the guardians in cleveland minus 122 that price on the blue jays

00:12now working in favor of toronto as you see with the updated numbers total up by a hook as well

00:17at nine it's warm everywhere more offense expected perhaps in cleveland yes and here's what i like

00:24about this too eric lauer's one of those slimy pitchers over the past couple years that lefty

00:28that doesn't really have great stuff but somehow gets guys out he actually has a pretty good era

00:31over the past 30 days 19 innings pitch 1.42 xfip of 3.78 i'm going to stay away from you i'm going to

00:38focus on logan allen the left-handed pitcher today for the guardians if we look at the card today 28

00:42total pitchers here at least five innings pitch over the past month he comes in at 26 of 28 pitchers

00:4822 innings over the past month a 491 era and a 499 xfip number you take a look at that lineup today for

00:55the toronto blue jays their past month against right excuse me left-handed pitching it's been

01:00spectacular springer has struggled miles straw struggled and class a everybody else so you're

01:05looking at six of the nine batters with elevated numbers but here's what i like even better you

01:09take a look at a picture like logan allen on the season 294 batters he's faced ben how about this

01:15only a strikeout rate of 17 if you fast forward that to this month here it drops to 16 over the past 30

01:21days okay he's not striking guys out which means the ball won't play well how do the toronto blue

01:26jays here line up against a pitcher doesn't strike anybody out what happens if i told you david schneider

01:30is at 23.8 which isn't terrible he's the highest everybody else is a green light in that lineup to

01:37put the ball in play that's usually how good things happen so you might want to say to yourself well

01:41can toronto win this game yes and maybe there could be a slight favorite here at the minus 110 price

01:45i look at the eight and a half and say i don't know if i want to go with that because it's

01:48maddening sometimes taking the guardians with that offense that should be so much better i look at the

01:53toronto blue jays knowing 87 degree temperatures you're going to minimum get nine at bats automatically

01:58because you're the away team why not take a team total in the toronto blue jays here to take a look

02:02at also maybe with a focus of even though he's a left-handed pitcher he does struggle with both

02:06lefties and righties here looks like a good matchup for toronto to get some base knocks tonight

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