Anyone who is on here much knows I am a Tarik Skubal believer (and anyone who saw my credit card bill from peak covid knows I was buying the kids 1st Bowman cards like a demon though you shouldn't invest n pitchers). Anyway he may be the best lefty in baseball right now and outside of Sal the Royals haven't hit him much. He is in peak form and I could see him running up the punchouts a bit today and only going around 5 2/3 and leaving with a gooseegg on the scoreboard. He did not give up a run in 4 of 6 starts and of his 6 ER, 4 came in one rough start when he was pitching on very irregular rest

The Jays lineup, like last year, remains an exercise in futility and the guys in the middle are simply not getting it done. The guy on the mound for them isn't pitching close to how he did when he was in the Cy Young conversation. The Dodgers starter is inexperienced but I expects the bats to rally around him. Toronto has no chemistry, players are coddled and yet another manager will be fired in-season. Going to be fading them in the dog days of May. Once again they are highly overrated

This was always a bad match-up for Lakers, who looked like a team ready for their season to end in fourth quarter Game 3. We are coming up on a dozen straight wins for the Nuggets over them (most by 8+ points), they sent the Lake Show home last year and AD is running out of gas in the second half every night. Nuggets still havent played their best game but know how important a quick series and more rest can be. Lakers can't defend all of their perimeter options and The Joker is in their heads. This series is due for a 15-point stinker and I believe this will be it. Crowd knows its over too. Lakers would be better off on road.

Still in auto-fade mode with the White Sox. Scrapped one together on Friday but that an anomaly. Rays getting Josh Lowe back. Sox only have 4 wins all season. Sox running out another kid pitcher probably before he's ready who the league is starting get a book on. Rays will bounce back after embarrassing night

Everything I thought about this series was wrong, and I'm looking to cash differently now. KD is not the defensive length monster he was vs MIN regular season, Wolves have adjusted and Suns lack of any inside presence other than Nurkic is a major problem, as is Grayson Allen's injury and KAT rounding back to form. KD had 6 games in reg season where he was +21or better and 3 were against MIN (+79 in total). He's -44 after 2 games! ANT was 13/33 from floor in those 3 reg season games and couldnt get shot off; he's 17/36 thru 2 games and +34. Wolves bench been way better and switch to a road venue doesn't scare me as much with how well they defend.