Exploring MLB Home Run Race Odds and Upcoming Matches

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00:00Tampa Bay 50 and 43 they are seven to one I kind of think it's a little wide open here to be honest

00:06with you as we head toward the deadline all right so uh home run race let's get an update here

00:11I mean look Aaron Judge is the favorite I gotta tell you Matt isn't it kind of strange here to

00:16see the favorite two home runs behind I know Judge can get hot and do things at any time but

00:20you don't see this that often in July Aaron Judge minus 155 to be Major League Baseball's home run

00:27champ he's got 34 home runs Cal Raleigh plus 130 has 36 home runs I mean what are we doing here we

00:35factoring in the fact that he's a catcher right like it may be wear down or something in the second

00:39half very unusual odds here yeah I think that's what it is I assume it's what it is it has to be

00:45obviously there's people who just there's probably more Yankees slash Aaron Judge fans out there who

00:50who want to bet on him too but yeah I think that's what it is you know and we've seen that before it's

00:54not as if that's just some sort of you know wives tale that catchers tend to wear down a bit in the

01:00second half not all of course but it often happens and it zaps them maybe a little bit of their power

01:05offensive prowess overall so I think that's what people are looking at but I tell you what with with

01:10the way he's swinging the bat and the way he's putting the balls in the seats I don't necessarily

01:14know if you could completely count on that so I actually think there's some value there I mean

01:18you know get plus money on the guy who's in the lead the way he is uh it's not it's not that bad

01:23of a deal but you know I think it's going to be a real fun race and and it's exciting because these

01:28are you know obviously you've got some of the big you know two big stars in there whether it's Judge

01:33or Otani and then you have this incredibly likable player with a great nickname and a fun story

01:37so I think it's going to be a fun race down the stretch yeah I think so all right so uh Cleveland

01:43Matt last week on the show oh my gosh they're out they're done they've lost seven in a row eight in

01:49a row nine ten all right throw the Guardians out and then they beat Houston three games in a row in

01:54Houston I mean that isn't this a nice lesson for everyone out there when your team is doing poorly

01:59don't give up it's a long season every team's going to go through streaks now 10 games in a row

02:05to lose and come back and make the postseason I gotta say that seems to be a stretch but Cleveland

02:10still is going to win their 80 something games right yeah yeah I mean they're just a solid team

02:15and they're in the kind of division where obviously you have the Tigers who are who are kind of running

02:18away with things but those the rest of those teams aren't exactly world beaters and and they can beat

02:23up on those teams even though they're kind of evenly matched with say the Twins and the Royals but

02:26I think that they're a quality team we know that they're just a solid team that seems to find a way

02:32to win games every single year and they can't quite get over the hump but at the same time you're just

02:38looking at them to to win enough games get in the playoffs make a splash I think they have the

02:42talent to do that and they they're certainly the kind of team that can do that and we've seen do it

02:46before let's get to Houston real quick their total right now on FanDuel's 93 and a half they're gonna

02:54win the West it's just a matter of them winning the pennant or the World Series let's flip over Luke

02:59to the odds to win it all I'm sorry to win the AL Detroit is the favorite Houston is right there

03:06with the Yankees is it a three-team race for you Matt or should we include those final two

03:11no it's a three-team race for me I think those are the most talented teams they got the experience

03:16and they got the players so I think they're going to be the ones that are going to come through and

03:20be there at the end maybe it's a little boring for a lot of people but that's kind of how I see it

03:24going down the stretch