Love the Orioles Porcello was extremely shaky last year before returning to AAA to get his stuff figured out. He hasn't been great this year and the O's are off to their best start since 1997. O's have yet to start hitting the ball and I think that will start today against Porcello who in 37 AB they have a .351 average. This is a line up that really did get better in the off season with additions of Lee, Guerrero and Reynolds to name a few. I think Markakis and Adam Jone are going to have huge years with some talent around them and this Baltimore team will do a lot of damage out of the division. Arieta was pretty good last year including a 6 1/3 inning performance giving up just 1 er to the Tigers in Detroit in July. At this point he's still much of an unknown for Detroit and I think they struggle. Porcello also very shaky in April he had an 8.03 ERA last year and 6.23 the year before his ERA on the road is nearly 1.5 runs higher than at home a year ago.
Yankees runline got to love that they absolutely dominate rh pitchers at their own ball park and although I think Baker is in for an improved year I think he will struggle vs. the Yankees on Monday. Teixera is a classic slow starter off to a great start and is 6-12 vs. Baker while Jeter Cano are both over .300 and more importantly the table setter Gardner is 4-6 that means early runs for the Yanks and I think Ivan Nova will get off to a quick start. Twins are just 18-57 in their last 75 overall vs. the Yankees and Baker has been a classic slow starter. The last two years he's had a 5.72 and 9.82 ERA in April. The Twins bullpen struggled in Toronto and their hitting was even worst vs. RHP now they have to face another young RHP with good stuff that they haven't had a lot of exposure to. Remember what Kyle Drabek did.
