Cubs vs. Twins Preview: Minnesota Poised to Dominate

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00:00So, day baseball in Chicago, the rubber match between the

00:06Cubbies and the Twins. Minnesota won game one. The

00:09Cubs respond yesterday. The new acquisition from Tampa Bay.

00:14Three RBIs yesterday for the Cubs. The Twins, a road

00:18favorite today though. Minus one thirty-six. What do you like

00:21inside the friendly confines? Yeah, we were seeing sixes out

00:25there in some outlets with two good pitchers on the mound but

00:27always the joke is like unless it's 30 miles an hour blowing

00:30in, you can't really say it's going to be worth a few runs

00:34like two to three runs and yesterday, they went over the

00:36total. Not today. Similar conditions, Ben. Seventy-seven

00:39degrees at first pitch. Twelve mile an hour winds blowing in

00:42but you do have Ryan who I believe is the better pitcher

00:44today over Assad. If you look at Assad's last 60 days of

00:47Major League Baseball, he's got a 113 XFIT minus which is

00:49slightly elevated. Has a decent ERA 3.19 with those future

00:53metrics that we like to see. A 4.59 XFIT number and a

00:574.65 Sierra number tells me the better team and the better

01:00pitcher on the mound will be from Minnesota side. I'll go

01:03Minnesota today in this game.