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Twins vs. Royals: Crucial AL Central Matchup Tonight
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8/12/2024
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After splitting a four-game set this weekend against divisional
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foe, the Twins lost their final two games to Cleveland.
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Another division arrival to start off this week for the
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Twins against the Kansas City Royals. Minnesota a minus 162
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favorite. A total of eight tonight at Target Field in the
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Twin Cities. Pablo Lopez gets to start for Minnesota. On the
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other side for Kansas City, it's Brady Singer. BRS only a
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half game separates these two teams and where they stand in
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those standings. Cleveland has a three and a half game lead
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for the top spot in the American League Central over
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Minnesota, who's a half game in front of KC, but also spot
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two and three in the American League wildcard race. The Twins
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a half game up over the Royals. An important midweek set gets
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underway tonight. That is a big midweek game
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set that's going to shape up. But by the way, when you take
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a look at the Pablo Lopez side of things, his ERA over the
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past 60 days, isn't that bad at 3.88, but one of the better
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X-Fit minus numbers of those past 60 days. So analytically,
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he's the better pitcher than Brady Singer is on the Mount
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today, but also both of these lineups are very good. So if
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we're lining up and saying, all right, 78 degrees in Minneapolis,
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that's very good temperatures for them. Wind slightly blowing
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out to left field. That total that I'm looking at for these
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two good pitchers. I wonder if that sticks tonight and also
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is it more of a playoff atmosphere because of how close
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these two teams are at this point. If I do think the better
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pitcher is Lopez, maybe at a minus 125 minus 135 price point
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would make sense that price points too high for me to take
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the Minnesota Twins. I probably looking more towards the
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underdog in this environment. But as I said, the two lineups
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do present themselves. Well, but both of these pictures also
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probably a slight slight lean to the under. I don't know if
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we get nine runs, but they should approach that seven or
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eight range at that point. But for me that plus 128 that sticks
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out more than the minus 152 price. If I think we're basically
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in a coin flip type of an environment with maybe just home
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field advantage for Minnesota. I probably would lean on the
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Kansas City Royals in this spot here.
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