It's difficult to see and understand these types of things when you are living in the day to day grind.
The Devil Rays are a once in 100 years team. Yes, I will say that right now.
Now the question is, what will you do when faced with this level of excellence?
If I told you at the start of the season that there was a team that had a high chance to win 115-120 games, how would you decide to play it?
A smart person would realize that the EV (expected value) given there required them to play every single game as over the season it would prove very profitable.
But the books don't want that. They don't want you to play a game every day that has an 80-90% probability to win. They want you playing coin flips or maybe 60% shots at best. They want you to play a lot of games.
What I have seen here on Covers is people trying to catch a falling knife and predict when the streak ends as if that is some kind of achievement.
The boring, non exciting grind of playing a once in a 100 year team seems to not attract the attention seekers.
It's early in the season. You will still see the books putting out lines like today's -130 with the Rays on the road in Toronto.
Like the Blue Jays and Berrios are some kind of real competition to a 100 year team.
Don't reach your hand out toward the falling knife, my friend.
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