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Sunday, August 27, 2006

World Series Thoughts

1 Arizona Diamondbacks +9000
4 Boston Red Sox +1757
6 Chicago White Sox +840
7 Cincinnati Reds +2144
10 Detroit Tigers +590
11 Florida Marlins +7000
14 Los Angeles Angels +4414
15 Los Angeles Dodgers +1536
17 Minnesota Twins +1042
18 New York Mets +315
19 New York Yankees +324
20 Oakland Athletics +1170
21 Philadelphia Phillies +3205
23 San Diego Padres +2746
24 San Francisco Giants +5339
26 St. Louis Cardinals +953
28 Texas Rangers +10000
29 Toronto Blue Jays +10000

It's late August and pretty good idea to start looking for World Series values. Personally, I like the American League team to win it all so that will take out half of the field. Next I eliminate Yankees, AL favorite, and take No#2 Tigers. From there I go with Twins to come up in Wild Card. AL Central is playing the toughest baseball and this division should produce the Champion. White Sox can get hot in September, but clearly not the best in this group currently so 2 teams from Central is my strong picks.

2nd tier pick is Boston, similar to White Sox in Central, but twice the value in AL East. Boston has the cast of characters to knot this up with the Yanks come September and they will remember the sweep, it should be another classic.

Dark horse pick is Angels. Although Oakland may prevail in the West you have to love the value of LA Angels with good young arms, solid pen, speed, pretty balanced. It's the wild wild west, go with the Angels.

Picks look like this.
DET +595 for 5 units/return (2975 - 350) +2625
MIN +1042 for 2 units/return (2084 - 650) +1434
BOS +1757 for 1 unit/return (1757-750) +1057
LAA +4414 for 0.50 units/return (2207-800) +1407

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