BY HARRY BONDI
We are very excited for the 2019 Baseball Season for many reasons.
First off, we have bolstered our already best-in-the-business Baseball Handicapping Staff, adding a few analytics guys, as well as a seasoned “old school” handicapper, to join forces with our Chief Baseball Handicapper Frank Drank, who I will always consider the best baseball handicapper on the planet.
Secondly, we have had great success in baseball, including in 2018 when he went 22-10 to start the season, picking up a quick $3,590 for our $100 per game players, and we closed out last season by going 12-6 in MLB postseason as we rode the Boston Red Sox all the way to the World Series winner’s circle.
This season in baseball we have a total of six Season Over/Under Win Best Bets. Three are listed below. If you would like to receive the other three Best Bets, call me right now at 1-877-332-0077 and join the Baseball “Steam Team” through the All-Star Break in July for $1,500.
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Philadelphia Phillies – Under 89.5 Wins
No, we haven’t been too busy handicapping March Madness. We fully realize the moves the Phillies have made in the offseason, highlighted by the blockbuster deal for Bryce Harper. We just don’t think those moves warrant a 9.5 win jump, and that’s how much this team will have to improve from last year in order for us to lose this bet. In fact, just two years ago team lost an astounding 96 games. Now they’re predicted to win over 90? For starters, the Phillies still play in an ultra-difficult division. The Nationals (89.5), Braves (86.5), Mets (85.5) are all pegged to win 85-plus games by oddsmakers. Secondly, we have serious questions about the starting rotation having the depth to lead a team to 90 wins. Ace Aaron Nola is coming off a career year, but even if he can duplicate 2018, the rest of the starters Jake Arrieta, Nick Pivetta, Vince Velasquez, Zach Eflin have bring with them serious question marks. IF all of those starters perform above expectations and IF the defense improves dramatically from last year and IF Bryce Harper produces as every Philly fan hopes, we will most likely be ripping up this ticket come October. But those are some big IFS.
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San Francisco Giants – Under 73.5 Wins
The once proud Giants finished 73-89 last year, a whopping 18.5 games behind the Dodgers in the NL West. And since they did virtually nothing in the offseason either to improve or jettison some of the dead weight on the roster, we’ll call for a decline in wins and another last-place finish. This is an injury-prone team that will be depending on veterans like Evan Longoria, Johnny Cueto, Madison Bumgarner and Buster Posey, all of whom are another year older and didn’t exactly tear it up when healthy in 2018. While the pitching is OK, the offense has the same look as last year when it finished second-to-last in all of baseball in runs scored (603) and home runs (133) while recording the fifth-most strikeouts with 1,467. This has the looks of a team that will be a big “seller” at the trade deadline and we don’t see how they get over the 70-win plateau.
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Toronto Blue Jays – Under 74.5 Wins
This team has all the ingredients for a disastrous season. Tough division. Rookie manager. Disinterested fan base. Shoddy pitching staff. The Jay have lost 175 games the last two seasons, including last year when they went 73-89 with a run differential of -123, which ranked 24th in the entire league. This is clearly a team that’s more concerned with 2020 and 2021, not 2019. Remember, this is an organization that unloaded Josh Donaldson, J.A. Happ, Roberto Osuna, Curtis Granderson and Jaime Garcia last year, so you can fully expect the few top-caliber players (Justin Smoak, Kendrys Morales, Marcus Stroman) on this year’s roster to be on the trading block come late summer and playing for another team in August. From all reports the team has some exceptional young talent – led by third baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. – but that won’t help them win more than 74 games this season and that’s all we’re concerned with as we place this wager