Tampa Bay, through the heroics of Travis D'Arnaud, came up big keeping the Useless Stat of The Day running hot.
Some people bet overs because the MLB has admitted the balls are juiced and there's never been more home runs hit.
Some people use sabremetrics with a fancy assortment of letters that look like they have no business adjoining each other.
Some people shoot for the stars, trying the impossibility of handicapping bullpens with the myriad of moving parts and manager tendencies and potential game situations.
Some people use situational trends, ERA splits, days of rest, umpire biases, and good luck to them.
Yet, oddly, you can have just as much fun and zero stress throwing darts at teams based on a USELESS STAT OF THE DAY, which has zero actual bearing on the game/s in question and is purely the result of looking at a set of arbitrarily selected parameters based on the whimsical nature of your mind and seeing the results those have parameters have produced looking back in time.
I almost feel like I'm being disrespectful of the efforts of some people's databases of numbers and ratings and performance indicators.
But, there's many ways to skin a cat, and so I push on with another USELESS STAT OF THE DAY:
Sit down before you read this. It's mind blowing stuff.
In 2019 season, favourites of <=-150which lost their last game BUT drew 4 or more walks are 59-22 Straight up, and a staggering 48-33 on the -1.5 runline.
2 teams find themselves qualifying today.
BOSTON RED SOX (Rodriguez) hosting the inept Blue Jays and Aaron Sanhez who couldn't hit the side of Rogers Centre, AND
MINNESOTA TWINS (Perez) against the MLB's perennial laughing stock, the NEW YORK METS. Lefty Jason VarGASCAN will be trying to get past 3.2IP.
I know, I know. Groundbreaking stuff.
Sorry, sabremetricians......these little gems just don't lie. Stick that up your wOBA and ERA+!!!!!
You're welcome, degenerates.