{"id":666,"date":"2011-02-20T08:41:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T13:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=666"},"modified":"2011-02-20T08:52:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T13:52:51","slug":"vegas-overunder-wins-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Over\/Under wins for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of Beyond the Boxscore<\/a>, here’s a quick look at Vegas Over\/Unders for teams for 2011.<\/p>\n

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\nFirst thoughts looking at this:<\/p>\n

– The AL East looks all jacked up.\u00a0 The Yankees look high.\u00a0 91 wins versus 86 for the Rays?\u00a0 I don’t think the Rays are going to fall that far.\u00a0 Meanwhile Toronto won 86 games last year … do we think the trades of Marcum and Wells are going to cost them 10 wins?\u00a0 And the Red Sox might actually be low.\u00a0 They come into 2011 healthy and stacked.<\/p>\n

– NL East: 97 wins is tough to argue with for Philly … but why isn’t Atlanta in the 90+ game range?\u00a0 They won 91 last year and should only improve as their young guys get better.<\/p>\n

– Oakland; won 81 games last year, added hitting, has one of the deepest young rotations in the game … and only is predicted to improve a game and a half?\u00a0 I think they’re winning closer to 90 than 80 games this year.<\/p>\n

– An aside about Detroit; what exactly are they getting for their money?\u00a0 $133M in payroll last year bought them a .500 season, and while they have some very bad contracts coming off the books they’re still in the 9-figure range.<\/p>\n

– Milwaukee: this one shocks me.\u00a0 Only 84.5?\u00a0 They added Greinke and Marcum, two guys who will give them a shutdown 1-2-3 rotation.\u00a0 And they have a battering ram middle of the order (Weeks, Fielder, Braun and Hart).<\/p>\n

– Lastly the Nats at 72 wins.\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 3 game improvement over last year.\u00a0 I’d bet the over… I’ll predict that we improve 5-6 games over last year’s team.\u00a0 I think simply the opportunity of getting a few more “competent” starts out of guys like Marquis, Zimmermann, and Gorzelanny versus what we got out of Atilano, Martin and Olsen last year will make a huge difference.\u00a0 Yes we’ve lost some offense, but we’ve also improved defensively across the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of Beyond the Boxscore, here’s a quick look at Vegas Over\/Unders for teams for 2011. First thoughts looking at this: – The AL East looks all jacked up.\u00a0 The Yankees look high.\u00a0 91 wins versus 86 for the Rays?\u00a0 I don’t think the Rays are going to fall that far.\u00a0 Meanwhile Toronto won 86 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonnatsbaseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}