Yankees Sweep Royals, Now Face Rays in Tampa Showdown

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00:00the yankees completing a sweep in the regular bronx that being yankee stadium this week against

00:05the kansas city royals now they head to tampa to take on the rays basically a pick them minus 112

00:12in favor of the rays minus 104 on the other side for the yanks total of nine donnie do you put any

00:19stock into the fact the yankees are going to be in a very familiar setting now in a road game but

00:25a regular season contest oh it does help no it does because you're used to the sight lines you're

00:30used to being there now the interesting part is like you're not going to be in your home locker

00:34room i guess because that's the tampa bay rays locker room they're probably going to take the

00:37bigger side which the yankees always would have in spring training so that's just a little bit

00:41different but it is nice to be there and also sometimes you go to different ballparks around

00:45the league and no matter if you played there 20 30 or 40 times throughout your career you still

00:49know the dimensions like this is yankee stadium like like hey you know the rules down here and

00:53if i wonder if i can hit the ball to this porch because no it's the same as your home ballpark

00:57so i do think quickly there ben it is an added advantage there at yankee stadium being yankee

01:01stadium south and steinbrenner field but if we do match up the game itself you take a look at that

01:05placard right there it's minus 112 like you are getting the slightly better pitcher in taj brother

01:10the reason i say that we're too early in the season to determine you want to look at pure pedigree over

01:14a lifetime of a career yeah taj bradley's supposed to be the better pitcher now bradley comes in this

01:18game 3.71 era 3.12 x fit which is really good warren comes in with 14 innings pitch with a 5.14

01:25era which is bad but it has an acceptable x vip of 3.70 here's going to be the issue last year will

01:31warren 54 batters which isn't a lot against lefties he got tattooed 58 batters against righties he got

01:37beat up a bit you take a look at the lefty batters today which is where the focus will be 30 batters

01:41that will warren is faced the 240 iso and a 341 weighted on base percentage also understand this

01:4677 degree temperatures at first pitch with a wind blowing out to right field that's the short porch

01:51that helps you look in the lineup today brandon lau 176 iso 324 weighted on base percentage against

01:57right-handed pitching that works out jonathan aranda 381 iso 552 weighted on base percentage

02:03that works out meisner 333 iso 512 weighted on base percentage the lefties is where that look would be

02:09for me early on in this game now if we take a look at the opposite side and say well what are the

02:13yankees going to do typically they do well against just about every pitcher they have solid numbers

02:17taj bradley's been electric against left-handed batters so far this season but a little bit leaky

02:22against right-handed batters so you look at that lineup all the way through bellinger struggled

02:26goldsmith has struggled against right-handed batter sweet pitchers excuse me and cabrera everybody else

02:30is positive so you're trying to match up i do have a slightly better pitcher in taj bradley but the

02:35better line it might be for the new york yankees it's just the way you want to factor it in i'm looking

02:39more from a player prop perspective from tampa saying early on in those first five innings i think

02:44some of those left-handed batters can provide power rbis and extra base hits

02:47you