We have regular season baseball. It’s just two games and it seems like it’ll be played like an exhibition basically, but it’s baseball and it counts nonetheless. You know I had to at least take a look at it. If you’re new here, I almost exclusively bet 1 unit per game (bet 1 unit to win X on dogs, bet X to win 1 unit on favorites). I’ll have occasional 1.5 or 2 unit bets, but it’ll probably take some time until I feel that confident about any single game.
The Plays
LAD -1.5 -105
The Games
SDP (Darvish) +165 @ LAD (Glasnow) -180 t8.5 - My numbers make LAD -260, so I like that side a bit more than the books. I’m going to take a shot on LAD by margin. They’re the road team here so I don’t mind the run line as much. If they’re the home team, if leading after 8 they wouldn’t get to bat again, but they’ll have all 9 innings to get the 2 run lead. I think the LAD offense is a bit underrated and they have the potential to bash their way into easy wins. I also think Glasnow is a bit underrated. When healthy, he’s great. I don’t think Darvish is 100% and LAD isn’t a team you want to face when not 100%. Hopefully we can get the season started off with an extra unit in our pocket.
I realize I haven’t done nearly as much Spring Training, fantasy or season preview content as I have in years past. Honestly, I’ve been busy drafting. I’ll have about 30 teams once the season starts and doing those drafts and prep have been how I’ve entertained myself this offseason. No one pays me to write and I don’t have any expectation of this ever being anything more than a hobby, so if I write, I write and if I don’t, I don’t. I mostly write during the offseason just to get things out of my head and I didn’t feel like I had much to say this offseason. Life also got pretty busy, but hopefully that slows down very soon. I’ve got more drafting to do, including my Main Event team, so I’m not 100% ready for Opening Day, but the model is, and the Opening Day preview post is a week away.