Colorado @ TEXAS
Colorado -1½ +136 over TEXAS

BEST LINES:  Pinnacle -1½ +136 BET365 -1½ +130 SportsInteraction -1½ +130 5DIMES -1½ +131

Posted at 10:00 AM EST.

3:05 PM EST. One thing we like to do is check ESPN’s and Yahoo’s Fantasy waiver and pick-up wire, as it gives us an idea of whose stock is low and whose is high. Jon Gray (RHP) has been sent to the waiver wire in some leagues because of his 5.68 ERA. If you play in fantasy and he's available or you can get him at a big discount, jump at the chance to do so. He's one of the few starters in all of baseball that owns tremendous skills against both lefty and righty bats. He has been victimized by a near-40% hit rate against both of them but that’s just plain old bad luck. Gray has put up a hit rate of 32% so we shouldn't assume that he will remain as hittable (unlucky) as he has been, especially with his elite skill foundation. Gray has 91 K’s in 76 frames, a 50% groundball rate, a 14% swing and miss rate and he’s walked just 26 batters all year. He’ll now face a Rangers’ squad that has struck out (686 times) more than any team in baseball.

Hello and welcome back to our old friend, Yovani Gallardo. Gallardo was one of our favorite fades for years when he was racking up decent surface stats but lousy underlying numbers and now the pitching desperate Rangers will throw him in the fire with nothing to lose. This past off-season Gallardo settled for a partially-guaranteed contract with a Brewers organization that drafted and developed him. Soon after being informed that he wouldn’t make the team, Gallardo was released by Milwaukee. After just five days back on the open market, the righty found a new home with a rebuilding Reds’ organization that was in desperate need of starters after Anthony DeSclafani and Brandon Finnegan’s landed on the DL. Gallardo was released by Cincinnati too because they watched him pitch a couple of rehab games. This is Gallardo’s sixth team in the past five years. He’s been kicked to the curb by the Rangers (2014), Orioles, Mariners, Brewers and Reds and if he gets more than one start for Texas, we’d be shocked. You'd be hard-pressed to find less attractive back-to-back-to-back-to-back seasons on these pages than Yovani Gallardo. This is a starter with an xERA of 7.44 over the past four seasons. Throw in a 4% swing and miss rate, a 23% groundball rate with shaky command and you start to get a clearer picture of how brutal this stiff is. Gallardo has worked two innings out of the Rangers bullpen to get his feet wet again but he walked four batters and here we are. His disaster chasms cannot be ignored and all we can say is don’t be around him when it gets uglier.

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Our Pick

Colorado -1½ +136 (Risking 2 units - To Win: 2.72)

San Diego under 83½ -105
Boston under 79½ -110