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00:00over to the american league where the second best price to win a world series this year was last
00:04year's runner-up that would be the new york yankees but the yanks in comparison to everybody
00:10else around the american league a very favorable number half the price of every other al team to
00:16win a world series seven to one for the yanks and more than half the price to win the american
00:21league pennant as well plus 280 on the bronze bombers the orioles their divisional mates
00:26at a six to one number the astros a plus 850 price and then a slew of teams drs the red
00:33socks rangers and m's all at a 10 to 1 number let's start with the gap between those top two
00:40teams which was really the story of the 2024 nlb campaign how tightly contested would the pennant
00:46race be from the odds perspective between the yanks and the o's is nearly a three dollar then
00:52some gap justified between the pinstripes and the orioles yeah i don't know if it is now on the
00:58outset or the yankees are very talented team yes they are did they lose juan soto but spend some
01:03money make some just make some uh trades that were very shrewd yes they did i'm not worried
01:07about the pitching staff because let's start there looking at the starting lineup on day number one
01:11garrett cole max freed carlos rondon obviously have louise heel and clark schmidt in that lineup
01:17which again colt may be the best pitcher overall in the american league max freed comes over as
01:21that left-handed pitcher that you needed here to stabilize that lineup he comes over from the
01:25atlanta braves you pay him good money and then carlos rodon you're still hoping that he can
01:29actually come back and be the quality pitcher that you signed them big money for but you know what
01:32i'm worried about here not the bullpen devin williams coming over unbelievable closer you'll
01:36be fine there it is the lineup because one soda's out there which did a great job of protecting aaron
01:41judge that's not going to be there so they're projected opening day lineup jason dominguez in
01:45the leadoff spot leaves a lot to be desired there they've been waiting on this kid for a couple
01:49years maybe it turns into be a good one cody bellinger certainly has had his ups and downs
01:53over the past couple years jim carlos stanton who's already telling you right now ben i can't
01:57even swing it back because my elbow is already jacked up then jazz chisholm up and down paul
02:02goldschmidt maybe get something out of the aging veteran there wells volpe and cabrera so when i
02:08look at the yankees in that band box ballpark which is so easy to hit on runs do we get that
02:13offensive surge that we're going to need but the one thing you can lean on is that pitching staff
02:18should be good to go from day number one and that's why their favorites here half of those
02:23six best prices drs to win the american league pennant from the american league east the yankees
02:29the o's and of course the red sox so let's talk about the other divisions here as well from the
02:35american league west you still have the astros obviously a couple of changing faces kyle tucker
02:39now in chicago alex bregman now a member of the red sox it seems like that dynastic run
02:46is starting to fade in h down and yet still that third best price last year a disastrous start for
02:52the scrolls where our joke here was do we need to hide the fork do we need to get the fork out do we
02:57need to put the fork in houston but you see the rangers and the mariners both at a 10 to 1 price
03:03two years ago who was your world series champ that would be the texas rangers so donnie the highest
03:10outlook highest ceiling best pennant bet in the american league from the aos division is which
03:15team yeah you know it's it's funny look at that too because you are looking at the rangers and
03:20saying like do they have a pedigree yes they do and it's a fun lineup if it's healthy simeon sieger
03:25lankford peterson garcia jung carter berger heim like they can really do some damage but you're
03:31also hoping on the back end of rotation let's just say you can luck into some things nathan
03:35neovaldi quality pitcher good starter will be okay for them jacob degrom is on that ross you say ah
03:41could he just possibly stay healthy and i'm not talking about let's go back five or six years
03:45with the new york mets when he was absolutely filthy dominant but can he be a top three starter
03:49in your rotation john gray can do some jobs molly's there bradford they do have some options
03:54here where you can catch lightning in a bottle but one thing i just can't seem to trust though
03:58on a year-to-year basis is the mariners here to be honest so for me out west i look more towards
04:03obviously texas you look at the mariners like they do have pieces of the puzzle but isn't it always
04:08like hey this young really good pitching staff finally gonna take a stand and be dominant and
04:13now we can't be as dominant because we have to win games two to one you get the drift on that so
04:17for me i probably would buy a bounce back on texas here more than i would let you say the seattle
04:22mariners