Leading sports service Matt Rivers has a free MLB pick Wednesday on the Toronto Blue Jays. They are getting 143 to Boston according to BetUs.
It's never a terrible call to back a home dog and especially when doing so against a team that is probably not as good as most people believe. Right now these teams fit that description as the Red Sox are banged up and just not all that. I do like Pedroia and Youkilis but all in all without Ellsbury the visitors have some major issues. Terry Francona's club no longer possesses the power it once did in the middle with Manny and a great Ortiz.
I do really like and respect the heck out of Jon Lester. This kid has survived Cancer and has come up very large in big World Series type spots. But the southpaw has not been great this season and is up against a potentially potent right-handed laden lineup led by a pair of studs in Vernon Wells and Aaron Hill among others. Toronto after 162 games will probably only has about 70 or so wins but Cito's squad has been pretty good early on and has more than enough to win this game up North.
Brett Cecil is a lefty that certainly is far from being trustworthy but is also a guy who had some success in the bigs last season and in that last start and first of the season he struck out a whopping eight Rays batters and was dominant at times. Even Gaston was extremely impressed with that effort and has some confidence in Cecil going into tonight.
Lester is certainly the better starter today and the Sox are still at the very least a good team but I'm not so sure that will mean all that much after 9 innings.
The pick: Toronto at Bodog
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