Sunday
We lost our play on Chicago last night as the Royals won 2-0 with Guthrie getting the complete game shutout. My other bet against the Royals this season saw Erwin Santana do the same thing. While this is unlucky to an extent, I’d like to link here to a quick item on Guthrie and the secretly terrible White Sox offense.
You don’t usually see a guy with 1111 innings of a certain level of production become something significantly better in their 30s. At least not without a major change in their pitch mix either by adding a pitch or using what he has differently. There hasn’t been any of that with Guthrie which made his improvement even more suspicious. This split of his innings as a Royal definitely stood out:
Guthrie ERA
WHIP
K%
BB%
vs. CWS 35.7
0.50
0.81
21%
2%
vs. Rest 87.7
4.21
1.31
14%
7%
I won’t go through all the metrics on the White Sox, but they are only ahead of the Marlins this season in runs scored, and they play with a DH.
As far as how the sketchy soccer games ended up, Cagliari and Chievo drew 0-0. Levante tried a little more against Mallorca and finished 1-1 and Zaragoza won 3-0. Maybe we need to be betting on these after all? Will have a look again next week.
Nothing in baseball or leftover soccer games today.
