World Series Game 1 Preview: Brewers vs. Rays Odds

Friday, we've got the World Series. And while nobody has been announced as the starters, minus 160, minus 165 tells me we're likely getting the matchup we think we're going to get here, which is Rasmussen versus Miz. And my same fear is that, I mean, if minus 160 for a guy that in the postseason, Craig it's four innings four and a half innings is what we've gotten out of Miz, it's not like the Dodgers and Padres didn't make him work and again we're at the point of the season where this is he's not a guy that's used to throwing 200 plus innings a year, this is we're getting to that point where arms might well might become a little fatigued and my question is is that where Miz is at right now where if he only gives me three or four innings oh man in a seven game series now i gotta get the bullpen who's also worked a lot i gotta get them involved early and it's you know which one of these starters can can go the longest i think is where we're at here yeah i mean the Rays don't typically score a ton of runs when they do it's Caminero and so at least for Miz's point of view it is that righty righty matchup uh with your most powerful impact player and look if Caminero goes nuts then it doesn't really matter i mean and that's what he did all season hitting close to 50 home runs or whatever he had almost winning the MVP, he still could win the MVP, I don't think he will, but but I think that the Rays will do most of their damage probably, I would guess against lefties, did I get that right? I think that's what we were talking about last week, yeah, so yep yeah so so uh yeah no I I I think the Brewers have the clear advantage in game one you know we'll we'll check on what you're saying it's not unreasonable to think that if their bats are quiet through three innings through four innings through five innings you know then that's that could be a problem for Milwaukee but then it all goes back to for me it goes back to the same thing if milwaukee was down one nothing in the sixth i think they'd love it because that's what they've done all season long the down one nothing so if the rays are gonna win i think they gotta be up a few runs going into the late innings because milwaukee uh the brewers are just so dangerous and then of course with the bullpen they have they just shut teams down so uh i think we're gonna get less home runs in this series than what milwaukee showed against la i thought that was an anomaly i think of the four games three went over the total and i certainly don't think a lot of world series games are going to go over the total but the brewers were putting up some big offensive numbers up on la and i don't see that happening against Rasmussen he's been too good to get hit and what are we looking at probably a low scoring tight game that is decided by the bullpens on friday that that's at least the way that it would appear to me and the Rays bullpen is not a slouch by any means but no the brewers have just had this this fortune laden games Garrett Mitchell and Bowers, like I don't know a lefty lefty doesn't matter home runs like i it feels like the Brewers are kind of this team of destiny, it really does, it really does. Now who would your favorite be for MVP if you were looking here who do you think is the World Series MVP, is it? I mean, it's not like Caminero, even Diaz. I mean, these guys have had monster at-bats for Tampa, too, across the board. So who's the... Take a look. Yeah, I mean, 6-1 Contreras right now. What do we got? I don't think it's a pitcher. I'll just say that right now. I don't think it's a pitcher. Well, a pitcher, if it was a pitcher, it would be a seven-game World Series, right? That's what it would have to be for that to be. yeah unless unless unless Milwaukee or Tampa brought back one of their guys for six which also is not impossible but i don't see i don't see that being Misurawski by the way it would be Rasmussen I agree Misurawski is a guy that they were going to be a lot more careful with because the Brewers by the way Joe they do nothing every year at the deadline they're always playing toward next year so you think they're going to blow Misurawski out in October no chance of that it could be Peralta go back to that guy for a sec sorry yeah um let's take a shot on two guys let's take a shot on the Tampa Bay side with Yandy Diaz do that i like that i think you know all-time Ray favorite Ray yeah it was really good in the ALCS boy NL that is a tough one that is a tough one, Bowers with the platoon splits is not, I can't do that even though it's a great story, I think I think you're betting on that great story, it is Joe, you're probably right it is contrarian, probably right if it's gonna be like he's the guy it feels like he would be the guy right, like if Milwaukee everything seems to revolve around uh around him here but Tampa Bay wide open, a little wide open a little wide open for Tampa Bay, yeah look look on paper on paper Caminero is by far and away their most impactful best player, what has Caminero done? he had the one hit last night, that's it, like that's really it when it comes down to it, like he had the big hit you know with the with the pounding his chest after cool good for him totally i have no issue with that a lot of fun but from a production standpoint it's not like Junior Caminero was Freddie Freeman in the in the in any of the playoffs i agree a couple of big hits that's it Yandy Diaz has been the one that's just keeps getting on base he keeps singling keeps doubling keeps driving in runs he does maybe maybe that is the better option