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Why the Texas Rangers Are a Team to Watch in the Second Half
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All right, D.R.S., a playoff team that we expect to be there.
00:04
Who are you looking at to make the postseason in either league?
00:08
Yeah, we'll keep it in Texas again.
00:09
And this is sort of a double down to starting the season
00:11
where the expectations for me, the Rangers possibly could
00:13
make it to the World Series.
00:15
Boy, they haven't played to their expectations,
00:17
but they haven't played bad baseball as of late.
00:19
Only one game back of crossing over the 500 mark.
00:23
And if they do that and Corey Seager playing better baseball
00:25
and them just staying healthy, there's too much talent on that team.
00:28
Like Nathan Eovaldi healthy for the second half.
00:30
Jacob DeGrom pitching like he always thought he could
00:33
as a front-end rotation guy.
00:35
What's to say that the Rangers can't make it to the playoffs?
00:38
We're not even a minus money price anymore.
00:40
You take a look at a plus 330 on the Rangers to make the playoffs.
00:43
I'll take a flyer on that.
00:45
I love it, D.R.S., and it kind of goes and correlates
00:48
with my team to watch, which is Texas as well.
00:51
Now, the Rangers have a more difficult schedule
00:54
than most coming down the home stretch.
00:56
Sixth hardest in all of MLB.
00:59
But right now, D.R.S., Texas, where it stands,
01:03
they're only three and a half back of a wildcard spot.
01:07
And the Rangers are trailing a team in their own division,
01:10
the Seattle Mariners, by three and a half games
01:12
for that third and final wildcard spot.
01:16
There's only one team sandwiched in between Texas and Seattle
01:19
as well with that three and a half game difference,
01:22
and it is the Tampa Bay Rays.
01:24
D.R.S., my playoff team is the San Diego Padres.
01:27
Right now, that third wildcard team,
01:29
a half game in front of their divisional mates
01:31
in the San Francisco Giants.
01:33
And for all the reasons you think the Padres can win a World Series
01:37
are all the reasons I think San Diego will solidify that spot
01:41
as a wildcard team in the second easiest schedule
01:44
in the National League post-All-Star break.
01:47
D.R.S., your team to watch is who?
01:50
It's going to be the Rays.
01:51
You just can't quit this team, Ben.
01:53
We don't even know their household names at this point.
01:55
Multiple All-Stars, though, looking to step up on the biggest stage,
01:57
playing in a nice environment that you bet them on team totals.
02:00
You bet the game total to the over, hitting props on the Rays.
02:03
That's a team I want to watch because, number one,
02:05
they're fun to bet on.
02:06
They play in a great atmosphere.
02:08
And number two, I think there's a legitimate chance
02:10
they have a chance and a path to make it to the playoffs,
02:12
50-47 in the season.
02:14
Give me a good second half here, Tampa.
02:16
I'll be watching.
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