How to bet James Wood for NL Rookie of the Year

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Jake Hasan breaks down the betting impact of Nationals' top prospect James Wood getting called up to the Big Leagues and the best times to jump in the market

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00:00I think if James Wood is going to win this award, be live for this award, he's going

00:06to have to do like a Yordan Alvarez from a couple of years ago. He's gonna have to do

00:09a Gary Sanchez from one almost 10 years ago now, and just go insane off the rip, just

00:15Monday debut. I'm talking Monday debut home run, maybe not as Thursday at bat, but in

00:19that game or a couple of extra base heads, he can make up the ground.

00:23I don't think that the, I don't think it's done. I don't think it's over. He has the

00:28opportunity. Now my issue is, are the nationals going to play games and send them back down?

00:35Or can we get a confirmation or do we feel good that he's going to be up the entire year?

00:40I lean towards the latter for a couple of reasons. The nationals are in the playoff

00:44race. They're only a couple of games out of the wild card and they're playing much better.

00:48They kind of remind you of the Marlins from last year where they're exceeding expectations.

00:53They're in the playoff race. The third, I know wildcard is complete crap shoot. So they

00:58definitely have a shot at it. So that makes me think that James would, it'll be up the

01:01entire year because the nationals are ready to return to relevance and return to being

01:06a playoff team in baseball again, because they're there.

01:08Not only James would Dylan Cruz is playing really well at triple a, maybe we see him

01:11in like September and a couple of these guys, Jake Irvin, Mitchell Parker have come up this

01:16year and pitched really well for them. We haven't even seen Joe's. I agree at this year.

01:20He'll probably be back at some point. So it makes me think that the nationals are in this

01:24to go for that third wild card so that they can hang their hat on this and be like, Hey,

01:28we're back. We're a playoff team. We're relevant again. So I guess the question is like, Jake,

01:33are you going to bet James would 200 to one to one NL rookie of the year?

01:36I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. I'm not going to do it right now. I'm not

01:42in this moment. I won 22 central time on Friday before he's even taken a pitch at the major

01:47league level. I'm going to wait till Monday. I know our guy, Matt Pisani is thinking about

01:52going to the game on Monday. So he'll have eyes on boots on the ground. If you will,

01:57I'm going to watch this game. And there are markets that keep rookie of the year open

02:01while the games are happening. I think that if you're interested in James wood,

02:05you go to that market and you go to that book and you have it open.

02:09You can even put it in your account, open the bet, slip, click the button, but you don't have

02:13to hit confirm bet. And then you just wait and you watch and you see how it looks. And if he

02:18hits a double or a triple or a home run in his first at bat, and you're like, yeah, this kid's

02:23got it. Then you hit the button because I'm going to do that. I'm going to think about it. It's a

02:27huge price. How do you not? This NL rookie of the year is a complete cluster right now. Paul

02:33skeins is the favorite as he should be. Nobody is arguing that he's awesome, but if you're going to

02:38try and beat him and you don't love Joey Ortiz at 11 to one, and you don't want to bet Jackson

02:43Merrill at four to one, then here's your opportunity. If you like long prices, you want

02:46to take a shot. You want to spend 10, 20 bucks, then yeah, let's do this. Let's watch the game on

02:50Monday. Let's see how it goes and let's be ready to press the button. I think that's the way to

02:55attack it. I think that's the way to do it. Don't just, because if he goes over three with a couple

03:00of strikeouts on Monday, the price isn't going to change. The price isn't going to move off 200 to

03:05one. It's going to stay the same, especially.

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