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4:10 PM EST. Dallas Keuchel (LHP) and the Houston Astros need no introduction as the reigning World Series Champions. There is no doubt Houston is loaded with homegrown talent and they are capable of scoring runs in bunches at any time. However, you are going to pay a premium to back the Astros because they are one of the top teams in the majors. Keuchel is a former Cy Young winner with all the tools, but if we were going to nitpick, he has seen some regression early on this season. Keuchel's strikeout rate is down while is strand rate percentage is up. His groundball rate is down as well, which means his fly-ball rate has increased and he's giving up more hard-hit balls than just about ever before. All of those little things can add up, which makes Keuchel an interesting target against the underachieving/undervalued Indians.

It's not often we get to take back a price on a stud like Corey Kluber (RHP). Kluber has not allowed more than three runs in each of his nine starts on his way to posting a 6-2 record with an ERA of 2.34 and a WHIP of 0.89. The former Cy Young winner has 61 punch-outs in 65.1 frames while issuing just 10 walks and limiting opposing batters to just a .191 average. In his last three starts covering 20.1 frames, Kluber has 14 K’s and just one walk. The Indians' stock is low because they are only 1½ games up on both the Tigers and Twins for the AL Central lead when many preseason prognostications had them pegged to be the clear front-runners in that division. It has been 40 starts since the last time that Kluber was a pooch and it might be 40 more before this opportunity comes around again.

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