Giants vs. Tigers: A Pitching Duel in Detroit Today

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00:00Really good pitching matchup today in the Motor City between the Tigers and the Giants.

00:04As the ace for San Francisco, Logan Webb gets the nod in ace number two,

00:09or at least their second starter for Detroit.

00:11Jack Flaherty out there on the bump.

00:13Total standing at seven.

00:15Pretty good juice on the over DRS.

00:17What can we expect today in this Detroit duel?

00:20Yeah, take a look at the minus 118 price.

00:21Wait a second.

00:22Detroit's one of the better teams in the American League.

00:23Why would they be underdogs?

00:25They have the better pitcher on the mountain.

00:26And it's Logan Webb.

00:27You take a look at on the season so far.

00:28252 batters that he has faced.

00:30Having an ISO power number against of only 077 and a weighted on base percentage of 266.

00:35Over the previous 30 days, 109 batters that he's faced.

00:39Having an 088 ISO power number and a 274 weighted on base percentage.

00:43Now, over the past 30 days, he's faced 41 left-handed batters.

00:46194 ISO weighted on base percentage 329.

00:48Those are elevated from what we saw over the first half of the Major League Baseball season.

00:52You got a lot of really good left-handed batters, as we talked about earlier in the show here,

00:55for the Detroit Tigers.

00:56There's Kerry Carpenter, Colton Keith.

00:58You take a look at Riley Green, Zach McKinstry, Trey Sweeney.

01:01They'll be able to combat him.

01:01But here's the issue that's going to be a little bit tougher.

01:03San Francisco Giants, that offense, which was, for me, a little bit more advantageous over the first,

01:08let's just say, month of the season than the second month of the season.

01:11You take a look at Jack Flaherty.

01:12He can be hit.

01:13You take a look at his last 83 batters that he's faced at 312 ISO and a weighted on base percentage of 412.

01:19That's incredible here.

01:20But the fact is, somebody's got to be able to detonate that guy, and that means a lineup that should be able to produce.

01:25Now, temperatures today are going to be okay.

01:2769 degrees, you'll take that.

01:28But the wind blowing in from right field at double digits at 10 miles per hour, that's going to hurt.

01:32So if you're saying to yourself, are you going to get a lefty batter or a righty batter here to attack Jack Flaherty?

01:36You look at the lineup, Elliot Ramos, 60 at-bats here, a 212 ISO and a weighted on base percentage of 482.

01:42Makes some sense.

01:43Willie Adamas has had a very good start to the season.

01:46His last 69 at-bats against right-handed pitching.

01:48How about a 322 ISO and a weighted on base percentage of 402?

01:51After that, though, Wilmer Flores does have a weighted on base percentage that's decent.

01:55Tyler Fitzgerald, but nobody else here.

01:57Like Jung-Hoo Lee, one of my favorite batters to start the season, has really been on a downturn.

02:0164 at-bats band against right-handed pitching.

02:03How about a 113 ISO and a 250 weighted on base percentage over the past month?

02:07That's why you're seeing the favorites here, saying, all right, it's going to be the Giants have the better pitcher on the mound.

02:11You should be able to hit Flaherty, but there's a lot of question marks in that lineup.

02:14If that lineup was firing on full cylinders, you might be looking at minus 130, minus 135 as a favorite towards the Giants.

02:20It's hard to take that Giants lineup, but I do always trust the pitching.

02:23So I'm going to take the San Francisco Giants as the slight favorite, even though I really like this Detroit team.

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