Orioles at Twins
O/U 13.5
Orioles ML-103
CONF 63%
LLostFinal 5-9
The read
Monday night in Minnesota, and last week's trade still hangs over the whole thing. Dean Kremer pitches for the Twins against the team that raised him and shipped him out seven days ago, and everybody in that other dugout has seen every pitch he throws. Both clubs are hovering right around .500, both chasing the same last playoff spot, and the price says it's a coin flip. When the market can't separate two teams, my job is to figure out if it should.
I think it should. Trevor Rogers has been a lot better than his season line looks — one ugly month in May wrecked it, and since then he's been sharp two months running. Over his last three starts he's gone deep into games, piled up strikeouts, and hasn't walked a single hitter. The underlying stuff says that's real, not luck. Kremer's going the other way, and it's not subtle: he's given up a run an inning over his last three turns, and hitters have almost stopped swinging through him — his miss rate has fallen by more than half over five starts. He's had real trouble with lefty bats all year, and Baltimore runs out a stack of them, plus a guy who hits from both sides. That's a bad lineup to see when your best pitch isn't fooling anyone. And those Baltimore bats finally woke up Sunday in Texas — a two-hit day, two balls over the fence, a three-hit game — after a month of the whole team scratching for runs.
The other side is real and I'll say it out loud. Minnesota is home, they've stacked their lineup with right-handed hitters against a lefty who has been taken deep plenty by that side this year, Royce Lewis has been locked in at this ballpark for two weeks, and Josh Bell looks like he's figured something out. Baltimore's bullpen is the weaker of the two, and a couple of their arms got hit this week. But the Twins have played six games in seven days and used the same relievers back-to-back nights, and I'll take the starter I trust at a price that calls this even. Give me Baltimore straight up. If the pitching matchup is what I think it is, this game never should have been priced even in the first place.
The full analysis
Monday night at Target Field, and the trade deadline walks right back through the door. Dean Kremer takes the ball for Minnesota against the organization that developed him and dealt him a week ago, and the nine men waiting in the other dugout have watched every pitch he owns from the dugout rail. Two clubs at 58-61 and 57-61, both fighting for the same slice of Wild Card oxygen, and the board says take your pick — Baltimore -103, Minnesota -104. When the market calls a game even, the work is finding out whether it should be.
I don't think it should be. Trevor Rogers is not the pitcher his season ERA suggests — he was buried by an 10.31 May and has been a different arm since, a 2.05 June and a 2.37 July, and over his last three trips he's gone nineteen innings with twenty-one strikeouts and not one walk. The expected numbers back the eye test rather than the box score. Kremer is trending the other direction, and it isn't subtle: fifteen earned runs in his last fifteen innings, and a swing-and-miss rate that has fallen off a cliff across five outings — thirty-one percent down to twelve. He's been particularly vulnerable to left-handed bats this year, and Baltimore rolls out Henderson, Holliday, Beavers and Cowser with a switch-hitter in Taveras behind them. That's the wrong lineup to face when your best pitch has stopped missing barrels. And those bats finally showed a pulse Sunday in Arlington — Alonso with a pair, Cowser and O'Neill over the wall, Mayo with three hits after a month of the whole club scraping for eleven runs.
The case against me is real and I'll say it out loud. Minnesota is home, they've built an all-right-handed card against a left-hander who has surrendered ten home runs to that side this season, Royce Lewis has been the best hitter in this ballpark for two weeks, and Josh Bell is swinging like a man who found something. Baltimore's bullpen is the softer of the two units and Suarez and Wolfram both got dented this week. But the Twins have worked six games in seven days and leaned on the same arms two nights running, and I'll take the starter I trust at a price that treats this as a coin flip. Orioles moneyline at -103. If the pitching matchup is what I believe it is, that number should never have been even.
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Props on this game
3Trevor RogersOVER 4.5 Strikeouts Strikeouts-130
LActual 4
Rogers has punched out twenty-one hitters across his last three starts without issuing a single walk — a pace that alone clears this number in two of those three outings. His whiff rate has settled into the high-20s the last few turns, up from the low-20s back in early July, and he's gone over four and a half strikeouts in six of his last eight starts. Minnesota doesn't have a single true left-handed bat in tonight's order — Bell, Lee and Caratini all switch-hit, everyone else bats right — and his strikeout stuff has traveled with him against both sides all summer. The recent form says this is the version of Rogers still on the mound tonight.
Dean KremerUNDER 5.5 Strikeouts Strikeouts-143
LActual 7
Kremer's swing-and-miss rate has fallen off a cliff start to start over his last five turns — thirty-one percent down to twenty-nine, twenty-five, nineteen, and twelve in his last outing. That's not noise, that's a pitcher whose stuff hitters have stopped chasing, and it's showing up in the results: fifteen earned runs across his last fifteen innings. He's gone under this number in six of his last eight starts, and tonight he's doing it in his first look at the lineup that knows him best, the one that developed him and watched every one of these pitches from the dugout before the trade. When swing-and-miss disappears this fast, the strikeouts go with it.
Tyler O'NeillOVER 0.5 Home Runs Home Runs+480
LActual 0
O'Neill has three home runs in his last fourteen at-bats. Five for fourteen with three leaving the yard and an OPS over 1.500 across his last week — numbers that don't need rounding to sound absurd.
He's got four homers in his last fifteen games, and the contact quality backs it up, a twenty percent barrel rate on the balls he's put in play recently. Tonight's pitcher has served up seven home runs across three of his last six turns.
At plus-four-eighty, I only need this to happen every so often for it to pay, and O'Neill is doing it a lot more than every so often right now.
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