{"id":16030,"date":"2011-06-08T15:28:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T20:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16030"},"modified":"2011-06-08T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T20:28:50","slug":"rookie-sensations-duffy-hosmer-and-the-royals-take-on-toronto-blue-jays-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/rookie-sensations-duffy-hosmer-and-the-royals-take-on-toronto-blue-jays-betting-preview-16030\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Sensations: Duffy & Hosmer and The Royals take on Toronto Blue Jays – Betting preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Blue Jays (31-30) AT Kansas City Royals (26-35)<\/strong>
\nJune 8, 2011 at 8:10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 TOR -120, KC +100<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 TOR -105, KC -114<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 9.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 9.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 Tor.- C. Villanueva; KC- D. Duffy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jose Bautista is batting .348 on the season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Blue Jays haven’t beaten the Royals in consecutive games in almost 5 years.\u00a0 Tonight will offer them another chance at it.\u00a0 After winning last night 8-5, the Blue Jays will counter with Carlos Villanueva who is 3.0 with a 2.72 ERA on the year, and is 2-0 with a 4.70 ERA in three starts since he joined the rotation on May 23rd.<\/p>\n

He gave up 2 runs in 5 1\/3rds innings work in a 8-4 win over the Orioles on Friday.\u00a0 He wants to last longer into games, but he did throw a season high 90 pitches and is getting stronger.\u00a0 This is his first career start against the Royals, but he did have two relief appearances against them, including one with the Brewers in 2007.<\/p>\n

Danny Duffy will make his fifth career start for Kansas City today.\u00a0 He’s 0-1 with a 4.43 ERA.\u00a0 Duffy did great last season at the AA level and has a fastball that gets into the mid 90s, along with a solid change up, and a decent to good breaking ball.\u00a0 It’s definitely the stuff of a solid rotation starter but how good Duffy gets is anyone’s guess.<\/p>\n

He’s only logged an average of 90 innings each of the last few years, however, so this season will be a big test for him.\u00a0 His PECOTA Projection is for a 6-5 season with 75 IPs and a 4.41 ERA.\u00a0 It seems to be a fair prediction as of right now.<\/p>\n

Manager Ned Yost knows Duffy can pitch.\u00a0 “His stuff is really, really good.”\u00a0 but he added, that sometimes Dufffy gets “over-amped.”\u00a0 If you’re going to complain about a player, surely that is one of the least of your worries.<\/p>\n

The Royals have another great rookie in Eric Hosmer, who is batting .410 with 9 RBIs over a 9 game hitting streak.\u00a0 Yost attributed it to his versatility:\u00a0 “We keep talking about it; he’s a kid that makes adjustments.”<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER In 8 of Toronto’s last 10 games and it has also gone OVER in 6 of their last 8 on the\u00a0 road.\u00a0 The Blue Jays are 8-4 SU in their last 12 on the road and they are 2-4 SU in their last 6 against Kansas City.\u00a0 The Blue Jays are 2-4 SU in their last 6 against the Royals and the total has gone UNDER in 7 of their last 10 against Kansas City.\u00a0 The Blue Jays are 2-5 SU in their last 7 on the road against the Royals.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 1-5 SU in their last 6 games and they are 1-5 SU in their last 6 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER In 7 of Kansas City’s last 10 games against the Blue Jays and the Royals are 4-2 SU in their last 6 against the Blue Jays.\u00a0 The Royals are 5-2 SU in their last 7 home games against the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

Carlos Villanueva may have the better record, but it could be argued that Duffy has the better “stuff” once he adjusts to pitching at the major league level.\u00a0 The total is set very high at 9.5 and neither pitcher looks to be the type to shut down a team at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto Blue Jays (31-30) AT Kansas City Royals (26-35) June 8, 2011 at 8:10 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 TOR -120, KC +100 Current Line:\u00a0 TOR -105, KC -114 Opening Total: 9.5 Current Total:\u00a0 9.5 SP:\u00a0 Tor.- C. Villanueva; KC- D. Duffy The Blue Jays haven’t beaten the Royals in consecutive games in almost 5 years.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[38,223],"class_list":["post-16030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16032,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16030\/revisions\/16032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}