Why Betting Against the Former Cy Young Could Be the Smartest Move in Baseball Right Now

Athletics vs. Tigers, 6:40 ET

The Thunder won the NBA Championship on Sunday night. The game was great until it wasn’t. The Pacers lost their leader, Tyrese Haliburton, in the first quarter, and you can make an argument that Pascal Siakam is their actual best player, but Haliburton was making an impact. The Thunder went on to beat the Pacers with relative ease. Now, we get a team with a team with a bit of a parallel taking on another as the Athletics take on the Tigers. 

The Athletics were looking like they might actually have a good year this season. The team was 20-16 on May 5th. I probably don’t need to explain this to you, but that’s a winning record. Since that point in the year, the Athletics are now 32-48, meaning they’ve gone 12-32 over their last 44 games. There was a stretch where the team lost 11 games in a row, and nine games in a row, losing 20 of 21 contests. I suppose if you take that portion of the season out, they actually look like the team they were earlier in the year. I am guessing you won’t find a stretch where they start succeeding and winning 20 of 21 games. They are now more thank likely going to look at trading away their players. One of them could be today’s starter, Luis Severino. Severino is 2-7 with a 4.42 ERA and a 1.34 WHIP. He has been brutal at home, but he has been phenomenal on the road this season with six starts, 38.2 innings done, and just four earned runs allowed. Overall, Severino has held the Tigers to just four hits in 22 at-bats. 

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