Nick Martinez and Long-Shot MVP Bets for Tampa Bay

So they list about 25 guys, right? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Yeah, about, I'll just say about 25 guys. The one guy they don't list is the guy I would have taken a flyer on for Tampa Bay. And that's Nick Martinez. Now that he's starting game one in a position to start. Oh, for MVP? I'm sorry, for MVP. Okay, interesting. I wonder, you know, is that just because he would have been part of the 25 even if he wasn't starting game one, right? So I don't think it's like, well, they just didn't realize he was going to be pitching. They got Johnny DeLuca, Shane Drohan, Dustin May. So they got a lot of long shots. Every time this site does something like that, I take note of it. Right. I think the fall for me has got to be Rasmussen because the odds of him having a big impact in game seven would be minimal. Like, the odds of him being Madison Bumgarner at this point in game seven for the Giants and pitching five innings, I think, is eliminated with him not going in game one. So, in terms of odds, that's the one that would drop for me. You know, look, Nick Martinez is a good pitcher. I don't know, Scott, if he would – look, for him to win the MVP, let's just call it what it is. He's got to win Friday night, correct? Got to win Friday night. that has to that has to happen if not you could just tear that ticket up uh Yandy Diaz is is the guy the long shot for me he's not even a huge long shot but that's the longer shot for me why scott because he's not all or nothing he puts the ball in play doubles gap to gap kind of guy you'll remember guys who are on bases home runs do win this award but let's be real you know if we're talking tampa bay side because i don't think there's a ton of value on anybody in milwaukee but uh you know Caminero really hadn't done a ton i know he had that big home run and it went off and he was you know rounding the bases and all that but he really hadn't done a ton up until then whereas Yandy Diaz seemingly was on base every single time he was there so Contreras on the brewers yandi on tampa those would be the two guys for me if you nail game one and nick martinez wins game one you're holding a great ticket but if not you tear that thing right up that's that's That's a do-or-die ticket right there. How about Mizorowski at 8-1? Nothing worse than holding on to a starting pitcher and he gets yanked out to the fifth inning, right? Yeah, not only that, but Miz is not going seven innings in any of these games, I don't think. They turn it over to the bullpen. Yeah, I just don't think a pitcher wins at this go-around. Rasmussen was super interesting to me before this news, yes. I was like, wow, because that guy I could see pitching three times in the seven-game series. How can they pull that off now? I don't see it. Yeah, his odds went up to 20-1. Caminero, 750. I think both bullpens. It's so easy to go to a pitcher because, okay, you get three wins, right? But with both bullpens being so good, I just don't see these guys going more than five-plus innings. Not in Milwaukee. Not in Milwaukee, no. None of those guys. Anderson, Mizell, any of the pitchers. I was going to say Freddy Peralta, but now with his pitch, now he's up to 40-1. chances are he's only going to go one i i but Scotty he goes four innings you know like i mean they're i i know they've been pushing him to five and five and a half recently but he's he's been a short guy he's been a 12 and a half out guy would you sign up next year you can take the risk that they fixed them or is he going to go back to last year's bet i i i think he probably is going to go for deeper money with another team would be my guess i mean this is if i'm not mistaken this is a very poor pitching market i think Nick Martinez by the way is a free agent after the season too but it's a very poor pitching market and and you you've got to become a free agent and take the money if you can this year i mean the top free agent offensively or one of them is Randy Rosario not that he's not a good player he had a really good year but i mean think about that i mean scott where is the Garrett Cole's and the judges and the correas and like the strasburgs like the mega the trey turners the mega 300 machado guy there's no guy out there this year nobody none sunny gray but as great as he was and i'm a red sox man he was phenomenal this year right but you know you really can't count on that