At the beginning of the baseball season many people were saying how good the Blue Jays looked. They were a bad team in 2005, but seemed to forget that they, along with every other team in baseball that wasn’t a power team, come into the season with some growing pains. A few of us were saying they were the best team in baseball but others thought they were still somewhat mediocre.
Since then the team has done pretty well and even picked up a little steam last month. However, when you’re talking about the AL East, the Blue Jays are still the class of the division. If you’re looking for a team that won’t fold to the top ranked Royals, the Blue Jays are still the team to beat. While the Royals might have the higher ceiling, the Blue Jays are the safer bet, the manager has these guys down as a sure thing.
A wise guy once said that when you’re getting that early lead, it’s best to just stay there. The Blue Jays have been very good in the second game of a home series. Last season they swept the A’s in Toronto. If the top two teams finish one-two, the Blue Jays are the odds on favorite to take the division.
A lot of people are beginning to bet the Blue Jays as favorites. I don’t mind this, as the Blue Jays were the favorite to win the World Series last year, but I do notice a pattern of people pushing the Blue Jays as favorites. Is this a case of sports wagering or is there a reason to look at the struggle of the Blue Jays to close last season?
Boyd certainly has his angle, as he was the first major in American League to adopt the road-favorite attitude. The Blue Jays were just 99-186 in the two games against the Yankees and they weren’t favored in either victory. They went 12-5 in the two games as a road favorite, which isn’t the same formula as a team going 8-0 in the two games as a favorite, which surely means the team isn’t as good as advertised.
The most important factor in deciding the outcome of any baseball game is the starting pitchers. The more experience a pitcher has, the more effective he is. The more a team has, the more it benefits. The Blue Jays didn’t exactly have the most experience on the staff last season, but in 2006 they were healthy all season long. The most important thing to remember is that the more experienced a team has, the better it is.
There’s been a lot of talk this week reminiscing about the Poker88, who lost their divisional series last year to the Chicago White Sox. Indians starters were basicallyATHletes last season, with very little pitching experience. Though they were a bad team, the more experienced players were able to help them get into the playoffs. If you’re looking for a team to come from behind and win a division title, the Blue Jays would be a good team to build your team around. You can also bet the farm for players such as Placentalfree on the Las Vegas Reflects list.
The glasses at BettingUnderground.com sure have caught my eye. Is it the players? Is it the management? Is it the location? I for one am not sold on the idea that the Blue Jays prior to last season being a potential contender. There’s no way. I’m not sold on Chris Bosh being the second coming of Joe Torre.I’m not sold that Vijay Singh is a replacement for the extremely mediocre John shuttlecock.I’m not sold that the roof will collapse and I’m not sold that clubhouse chemistry has changed all that much, either. Those things are impossible to predict and the Blue Jays better watch out.
But I’m not done doing my Blue Jays crush. I am done because I love them. And I’m not done betting on them yet. I get the sense that maybe I’m not done placing bets against the Blue Jays, too.
What do you think of the Yankees’ decision to trade their best player, Chien-Ming Wang, to the Mariners for cash? Does this make them ” Edge a Player”, asports handicappingcolumnists like Mike shipments and Andy Pettitte?
BoDog Bookmakers, BoDog.ws: The Yankees have always been buyers when it comes to talent, shopping at the trade deadline, and instances like this are pretty much the only way you can get top talent at the deadline. It’s hard to believe that the Yanks would let a player like Wang go, as his defense might be the type needed to win at second base. While the move makes sense, the deal offends conventional thinking more than it celebrate the Yankees’ recent capabilities.
Do you expect the Detroit Tigers to improve enough to overtake the White Sox for the AL Central?