Guardians Host Reds in Intriguing Intrastate Matchup

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00:00we go out to cleveland drs the odds for the opener of this matchup cleveland a minus 152 home money

00:06line favorite total is eight and a half who's that starting pitcher for cincy wade miley is still

00:15doing it and major league baseball gets the start today for the reds as they try to continue this

00:20win streak yeah sometimes you got to take a leap of faith game here and this might be just one of

00:24those games and i'm going to explain it to you what that means it means when the pitcher should

00:28get hammered but a lineup that hasn't hit those type of pitchers here you say i don't care what

00:33the numbers are he will get hit today here's the reason why 68 69 degree temperatures which you

00:38like nine mile an hour winds blowing out to center field you like that cleveland is though really a

00:44pitcher's ballpark not really necessarily a hitter's ballpark but wade miley got brought up for one start

00:48so far this season absolutely got cooked it's like okay you can't really take too much out of that and

00:54also this is one of those appearances where you take look at a baseball team then and you say well

00:58why is wade miley starting it's called cheap franchises that's the syndrome that we're going

01:02to talk about now we're like well we have kids that might want to come up but let's bring wade

01:07miley who made his debut in major league baseball in 2011 to pitch in this game which doesn't make

01:11any sense and again he showed you already through one start made it like two innings and got hammered

01:16so let's get a little bit deeper into these details because you usually need a runway for the guy

01:20like all right we'll put a veteran there if we need a spot starter too we can always use this guy

01:24he's had seven starts in minor league baseball this season then three of those starts in a ball

01:30a ball you know what that means the 17 and 18 year old counting let's just call it 18 year olds that

01:35you're going up against he's had 19 innings pitched ben 19 earned runs so four starts in triple a

01:42three in single a every inning he's average giving up a run so i look at this and say all right well how

01:48do i use this to my advantage the one thing that we love about the guardians is the ability to have a lot

01:52of switch hitters in that lineup which means they can stack the deck with either lefties or righties

01:56on any given day they're going to use a ton of right-handed batters in this game but understand

02:00this quan has struggled over the last month against lefties so has angel martinez jram as the only

02:06batter in that lineup that is above average numbers with iso power number and weighted on base percentages

02:10fry santana arise rodriguez nailer and wilson all have poor numbers here but it's one of those leap of

02:17face where i say miley is a tomato can he's meant just to start a game so i don't have to burn a

02:22pitching arm there's no reason to believe that even though the numbers aren't telling you right now

02:27you should be back in the guardians on offense i'm telling you i'm probably going to back the

02:31guardians today the numbers don't make sense from a guardians perspective but you can't run wade

02:35miley out here who's getting hammered by single a teams that we can't get four to five runs on him

02:41from a guardians perspective that's the way i'm leading in this game so focused on the guardians

02:45even though as i said again numbers don't look great for the guardians but the pitcher is so bad

02:50you got to be able to hit the guy

02:51you got to be able to hit the guy

02:52you got to be able to hit the guy