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Doug Upstone Offers Winning MLB Trends + Free Friday (7-1-22) Baseball Pick

by Doug Upstone - 6/28/2022

MLB betting trends Marco Gonzales Seattle Mariners

 

THE TRENDS:

--Part of handicapping is looking ahead to schedules where teams could shine or create their own dumpster fire. Here are three teams to look for this week. The Houston Astros already have one of the best records in the American League. And starting on July 4, they could add to that with four home games against Kansas City followed by three contests in Oakland.

 

--The Chicago Cubs are having a terrible year and reportedly are considering moving assets for draft picks. Things don’t expect to get any better for the Cubs, who are 15-20 in the road unis, playing three times in Milwaukee and having four tilts at Dodger Stadium.

 

--Hard to fathom it is less than three years ago Washington won the World Series. The Nationals are now one of the worst clubs to bet on. After a home game on July 4 vs Miami, The Nats hit the road to Philadelphia and Atlanta, sporting a 15-22 away mark.

 

THE VIDEO:

 

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THE PICK:

Free MLB Pick – Take Seattle over Oakland (10:10 p.m., Friday, July 1)

After trading away several key players in the winter and spring, it was a given in spring training it was going to be a long year for the Oakland A’s. That apathy has carried over to the Athletics fans, who are tired of this process.

Oakland opened up a four-game division series with Seattle Thursday, and James Kaprielian is their expected starter to start the holiday weekend. After a solid 8-5 campaign in 2021, the A’s right-hander is 0-5 with a super-sized 5.88 ERA.

Seattle was not as good as their 90-72 record of a year ago. However, they should not be below .500, either, which is primarily due to their 26th-ranked scoring offense, which is only three spots ahead of Oakland in three in the big leagues.

Marco Gonzales is supposed to take the ball for the Mariners. And after a slow start, he has a high-quality 3.31 ERA on the season, despite a 4-8 record. In fact, Gonzales’s ERA was 2.90 in June, yet, Seattle lost four of his five starts. Expect the M’s bats to ignite against Oakland pitchers and Gonzales does the rest in victory.

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Doug Upstone's handicapping style by units is more conservative than some other handicappers but he's a big proponent of it's not how much you win but how much you keep and he doesn't have 23 No. 1 monitored titles, 97 Top 10 finishes and 28 Capper of the Month awards (latest March 2022 for NBA) by accident.

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