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Chad Millman
Sharper Square presented by Hard RockBet. We are part of the Voluum Podcast Network. This is the show that makes the squares sharper, makes the wise guys pay attention. I am Chad Millman. I'm joined as always by my bff, my companion, my compadre professional Better, my co host, Simon Hunter. Hello Simon.
Simon Hunter
Chad. It's in the air, brother. Spring we survived a long winter. We made it.
Chad Millman
We're gonna talk baseball today and we're gonna have one of our favorite guests on the show. And I know he's one of our favorite guests because when we first started doing this show together, you looked forward to him coming on because of your not so secret uber baseball fandom. And I feel like I've become a bigger and bigger baseball fan over the past few years. You and I both. I've fallen in love with the Phillies just because I love the vibe at Citizens Bank. And you and I have gone to games there together, a couple games actually. And, and having visited my kid in Philly at Drexel and going to the games there is just Philly's a phenomenal baseball town. And then the World Baseball Classic. I don't know how much of it you watched, but it was so good and so intense and so competitive and so emotional. It just got me so amped for baseball season in a way that, like, I feel like it will maintain momentum long, long into the season. Especially since, who knows, this may be the last baseball season for a while if these, you know, fuckers can't get out of their own way and stop this labor negotiation fuckery. So I am pumped, brother.
Simon Hunter
Yeah, the baseball. I think it's fair to say this is the best position the league has been in since the Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire Sammy.
Chad Millman
Best position they've been in since they screwed it up and canceled the season in 1990 for.
Simon Hunter
No, no, it was still good. It was still good after that. They just, they did hit a lull there for a little bit though. I think we can all agree. And especially it was the old age of don't throw your bat, don't celebrate, don't talk. And I think everyone was just like, dude, that, that cannot be how baseball is going to be. And you've seen to me, the World Baseball Classic, not so much this year, but the past years, they really did embrace especially the South American country celebrating. Right. And that to me is carried over to the league. That youthfulness, that fun, which is something we've been missing. But the game changer I don't know if we're going to talk about today is definitely the pitch clock. Like that has, yeah, totally changed the sport. Saved it where as a purist, I hated it. I love the mind games of a guy taking 30 to 40 minutes, 30, 40 seconds to throw a pitch. But I have to agree with it. It's, it's better like in July, if I can knock out a baseball game in two hours and it's a good baseball game with four or five runs per team, that's, that's a great day. Rather than it taking four hours, which people will be shocked to know. Red Sox, Yankees, if it was on the big network like espn, that was minimum. It could be a one nothing game. It was gonna be a four hour game. So yeah, the pitch clock, I'll give credit to baseball. They have really figured out. And the biggest stop, I mean we're gonna talk about right now about with, with our guys. Zerillo, the Dodgers, Otani, perfect match. To me, they just him leaving the Angels, going to the Dodgers. What it's done for the sport, it's, it's the best. He is must see tv. Like Trout. Trout was great. You know, say what you want, he was a great player. You have people listening to this. You have to go see Ohtani in person. If you have not seen him hit or pitch, if you have an opportunity, he comes by your city, you need to see this guy. It is, it's like seeing judging person. It's like a superhero playing a sport. So, yeah, I'm fired up for this season, Chad. I really do. There's a couple teams I really like and yeah, the World Baseball Classic. I'm like you. It got me fired up. I know we lost. It's painful still. Venezuela, congratulations. But yeah, it's baseball. It's just it's in such a great spot right now.
Chad Millman
I will listen. Opening night is tomorrow night special Yankees Giants game exclusively on Netflix. But today we get to talk about all of it, including the Dodgers dynasty, including any changes that will impact the game that will impact bettors. He's always one of our favorite guests because he comes in with very, very specific takes on where we can find some real value across the board. One of our favorite baseball betting experts, one of the smartest guys working in media anywhere. Featured on stage with me last year at Sloan's sports analytics conference. Co host of the Payoff Pitch podcast. One of my earliest hires with the greatest cover letter I've ever received as a hiring manager from the Action Network. Welcome back to the show, Sean Zarillo.
Sean Zarillo
Thank you guys for having me. Appreciate the intro chat. I can't believe it's been a year since we did that Sloan conference. It feels like two years ago, but also, I can't believe it's been a year. So I don't know. I'm a completely different person. The capabilities that AI give you and the tools that I can build out now on top of my pre existing models have kind of taken my stuff to a different level, I feel like. So I'm really excited. Wow. I mean, I was implementing that stuff during the WBC kind of quietly behind the scenes. I've had a model that has been built out and kind of refined and constantly updated over five years. But the stuff that I can layer into it now and the tools that I could build out even beyond it are pretty incredible. We had a question about AI at that Sloan conference and the capabilities that it was giving people. I said, I'm not a coder, so it's given me the ability to code and add things that I didn't think I had the tools to do. But even a year, even a year ago, I literally said, like, I don't know how valuable it is right now. Maybe in a year from now it'll be in a place where I feel like it's something I'm using every day. And it's. It is a year from now something I use every day. So. Yeah, all right, well, listen, explain that.
Chad Millman
I know, I know we want to get into it. I know Simon is thinking a lot about this for the off season, for, for his stuff, but explain a little bit because I also have spoken to a lot of bettors who have said they're using it to help sort of make everything faster, but they're not using it to make their Models more predictive. It's not, it's not at that level yet.
Sean Zarillo
So I've found in terms of there's a lot of things that I do that were manual that I can automate that for. Sure. Like speeds me up.
Chad Millman
Right.
Sean Zarillo
And that, that I could see absolutely for most people, like you know, being a time safe. I also for line shopping. I hate line shopping, especially for futures. When you're betting 100 plus futures takes up so much time, I can literally copy and paste all the lines from all the different books, give them, give the AI my projections. Claude. Claude. I found super valuable. Give cloud my projections, give Claude all the, all the odds from like 10 different sports book and say, hey, find me where my biggest edges are. And then I can go and double check it and sure enough all of it matches up. But I could say give it me, give me the best odds, give me the second best odds, what book they're at. So like line shopping where it used to take days, I can now do in hours. And I can have a fully built out spreadsheet of like, here's all your edges, here's where all of the best odds are to bet those things. And I can have it grade them based on the edge size, et cetera. So yeah, like things that used to take me days, I can now do in hours. In terms of like predictive stuff like you said, not necessarily like game changing type of stuff, but there's things that I've always wanted to do that I didn't know how to fully implement or even know how to fully code into the model. One of them being adjusting. For example, a team like the Rockies at home versus on the road. Their offensive quality. When you take weighted on base average for Rockies players, you're going to get a number that's very high because they play in a very offensive driven park. But their offensive quality is not as good on the road as opposed to at home. So what is the relative adjustment there? Well, not only did I figure that out, but I can also layer that into my model now in a way that I wasn't really sure how to code in previously. So in terms of formulas or design or building out the capabilities of doing a Monte Carlo Sim, again something that I didn't come from a coding background, so I didn't know how to do. It's helped me refine things and make things more efficient, but also add tools that I always had the idea for that I wasn't able to fully implement. It's been super valuable and just makes me Able to do more and look at more on a daily basis and kind of cut down how much time I'm spending on managing things.
Chad Millman
That's amazing. Simon, again, like, we didn't prep for this topic, but you and I talked a lot about your thoughts on AI and how we were going to try to use it and learn about it during the off season. Have you been doing any of that? We're going to have a much bigger AI show. Maybe we'll have Zerilla come on for that. But tell me your preliminary thoughts as we're six weeks, eight weeks removed from the season.
Simon Hunter
Yeah. I don't know if you remember, I took AI class in the offseason or during the season last year just to get ahead of it, because I, I, I'd been getting into it, but I'd hired some guys who were, you know, in their early 20s and they were really into AI and I was like, okay, this clearly is, you know, usable. I need to get into it. And I think I'm the same as Sean, where I realized pretty quickly, oh, it's a lot of hype. Like people, people that are worried about it. In certain aspects, it's not there yet. But in other aspects it is where, you know, say I had a team of 10 guys, I easily could let go five of those guys because I don't need them for all the work AI can do in minutes. Right. What used to be grueling work, going through all different websites, give me all the different data, AI cuts into a lot of that. And, you know, the biggest thing is it's hard to trust AI. And I did have an AI model last year that I just didn't use. I didn't trust it enough. I did track it all season. It did really well. And my AI's biggest bet, its favorite bet in the super bowl, was the first half under, which obviously it worked out. But it was one of those things where it helped me get confidence in my own bets, where it's like, okay, not only is the human element of me seeing these things, AI is also trending in the right way. And the more you feed it, that's the craziest part. The more you feed it, the better it gets. And that's the scary part to me is because I am a small operation, these billion dollar companies, these sports books, AI, I don't know how they're going to use it, but it's hard right now to make a living doing this. The edges, I think, are going to keep getting smaller because whatever edge I have And AI is going to be able to spot that for the sports books. Either they'll limit me or they're going to make it their own way of attacking the market that way. So it's a show we can honestly do. Chad two Porter on that one. We could do a whole week of AI talk with different guests because I know so many people in the space that are using it different ways and have different opinions. And the funniest is seeing the old school guys fighting against it where people like me that I embrace change. It makes your life so much easier. It does so much work for you.
Sean Zarillo
So yeah, adapt or die.
Simon Hunter
Exactly. Adapt to die. And I'm really excited to see, like we said, it's. Sean said he was an interesting what it's gonna be like in a year from now. I cannot wait to see what it's gonna be like five years from now because it does feel so early. Like it just. People want it to be instant. AI is a slow burn to me, but all of a sudden it's going to explode. So I'm excited to see what that next step is because right now it's, it's if you know what you're doing as a sports better and you know how to build models, it's the cheat code. Like again, it's making my bottom line easier because I don't need to put as much man hour and pay enough people to do work for me. And it's also raising the amount of money I can make because it's, it's saving me time. And time is money in this profession. So yeah, you can see I'm excited about it. I see all the horrible things about it, people losing jobs and everything like that. But the other side of it is if you are good at what you do, it can amplify that and really help you in many ways, especially saving time, which is to me huge.
Chad Millman
I look, we're going to Matt Mitchell put a pin in that one and he'll put it on the calendar. Maybe it's a week of AI and betting. It's obviously an issue. We got to discuss the clod of Major League baseball is the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise, which dynastic you mentioned, OHTANI. They are plus 220 to win the World Series at Hard Rock. Plus 220. That is absurd. They are the only team below 10 to 1. Their season win total is 102 and a half. You know Zarillo, you talked about this on on payoff pitch. Their greatest advantage is how they treat their roster and how they manage it, postseason versus regular season. Explain what that means.
Sean Zarillo
Yeah, this is a team that, you know, knows that they're probably going to make the playoffs. So they'll not push anybody too hard. One during the regular season, but two in any particular playoff game in order to get an advantage in that specific game. I always think back to Joe Torre with the Yankees and the way he would manage the bullpen during the regular season. It was like, I have to win today at all costs. I'll figure out tomorrow. Tomorrow. And he's pitching Mariano Rivera for the third straight day in the middle of July for a team that's very likely to make the playoffs, win 100 plus games anyway. What's the point of wasting those bullets when you don't need those bullets, when those bullets are not going to help you win the title? Think about Tarek School in the World Baseball Classic and why people were so upset about what he was doing. Being on the team, being off the team. The optics of that were horrible. But also the one game he pitched was against Great Britain. It ultimately added nothing to the win probability for Team usa. Him being on the team wouldn't have mattered if, you know, some relative scrub pitcher had started in his set instead of a two time running Alci Young champion. Because you are expected to win that game, you're going to be a big favorite regardless of who's starting for you. He's ultimately adding nothing to your championship probability and I think that is how the Dodgers view every decision. What can we do to increase our championship probability? Not our probability of winning today or tomorrow, but increasing our probability of being the final team standing at the end of the year. Now you did mention their title odds being around +220. That's not so far off from where they opened last year. They were around plus 250 last year. The best price on them is when I took them when they did not win the number one or number two seed in the National League and ended up number three and they got to around plus 350 before their series plus 320 before their series against the Reds. They had to win best of a three game series there. But essentially the only difference between them getting a buy and then not getting a buy and having to play those two extra. They just needed to win two out of three and then they were right back in the position they would have been had they gotten the buy. So you got odds from plus 250 to plus 320. That was the odds adjustment essentially for them needing to Win a best of two out of three and that was the time that I bet them last year. Now I make them about 30% to win the title this season. So I'm not far off from the market. I think I'm closer to plus 250. Again, the odds are about plus 220. But even though this team and I project them as 101 win team, as does the public projection, they have them at 101.3. Their win totals 102 and a half. Even though that's roughly what I view them as during the regular season, once you get to the playoffs, they project closer to a 110 win team. Because when you get down to roster consolidation and eliminating the needs for depth and all of the pitching injuries that they typically have, they just kind of project head and toes above everybody else in terms of true talent level. Once you consolidate to the 20 or so players you're going to be using as your playoff court, you know when you, when you have a full regular season, you're projecting more of the 40 man roster into the calculus. But once you get to the playoffs, it's really your best 20 or best 22 players or so. So yeah, the Dodgers are, you know, easily the favorite. I know a lot of people have said that they're ruining baseball, that they signed the number one hitter, number one pitcher in Edwin Diaz and Kyle Tucker this offseason on top of a team that's already won back to back titles. They remain a heavy favorite to win the title. But I kind of maintain that it's the team's not investing the owners, not investing their teams, the Pirates for instance, that are causing the gap and the stress and the division. In terms of how people feel about the haves and have nots in this game, a lot of these owners are wealthy. Not all of them invest it back it into their teams. You have seen a team like Toronto pivot to investing a little bit more aggressively. Most people didn't realize that Toronto has a top three richest ownership group in baseball. They just haven't really flexed the pocketbook until the past couple of years. So I think it is incumbent upon the lesser owners to catch up to the Dodgers. But the Dodgers are very much a dynasty. Dodgers haven't won or paced fewer than a 91 season since 2013. Simon and I were talking about it before the show. They made the playoffs every single year dating back to that point one three World Series lost to. This is very much a dynasty. If they win three in a row in this era, you're talking about an all time great team, not just the dynasty.
Chad Millman
What do they do to manage the roster during the season that that lives up to that philosophy you just explained where they're not really caring about that day to day improvement of their odds to win a game. It's about improving their odds to win a title. Like pitching, rotations are generally set. Is it about adjusting where who's in the lineup that day? Is it about adjusting batting order? Is it about changing the rotation? What are some decisions they make?
Sean Zarillo
They are load managing Freddie Freeman. Freddie Freeman is getting into his late 30s now, but if you look at the past few years he's played exactly 147 games. And if you figure over the course of a major league season, that means he's sitting about every 10 days. So they're just load managing him. They're just making sure that he's is not exhaustive for the playoffs. He's had some injuries he's dealt with too, but essentially making sure Freddie Freeman gets an off day. Ohtani is going to be pitching again this year for them. I would imagine they may factor in some additional DH off days for him as well. But it really speaks to you know I said, I know you said rotations are set, but the Dodgers, that's not really the case. The Dodgers haven't had somebody clear 200 innings in a very long time. If they have any sort of concern about a pitching injury, they'll just stick a guy in the il. And in fact there was just a few years ago baseball had created, I can't remember it was a 7 day IL or a 10 day IL specifically for pitchers. So that if you needed to stick a pitcher on the IL, they weren't missing three starts, they weren't missing the full 15 days. You could get them back in 10 days. So they would only miss two starts. Well, the Dodgers were manipulating that rule so hard they got rid of it because anybody who was getting hurt for the daughters 10 day, 10 day out and then they're bringing up all of their depth arms to fill those spots. But it was very obvious that they were just kind of using it to load manage their rotation and they were taking this IL spot almost like you would on a fantasy roster to stash dudes so they could bring other dudes up and kind of contribute for a little bit and you're keeping your other guy, your healthy guy, but kind of injured guy in the IL and just sort of giving them a break. So they're great. I mean you have to understand that The Dodgers, managerial group, their GM, etc. All came from the raise when the Rays were overachieving drastically relative to their payroll. And then these guys, Andrew Friedman, the chief among them, went to the Dodgers and they went from 30th or 29th in payroll to 1st by a lot. So now you're talking about combining the smartest GM or managerial group with all of the money. And also they can build out an analytic staff to their likeness as well. You know, people talk about a lot about the salary cap and maybe that can be the way to neutralize things. I disagree. All of the rich teams like the Dodgers, like the Yankees, if they're not able to invest more in their roster, they're just going to invest in more analytics staff. And look, as somebody who's on the analysis data side of baseball, that's not necessarily something that I think is a bad thing because I would like people, more people with my type of background or experience to get opportunities in major league front offices. But it's all to say that the money will just be reallocated and reinvested elsewhere to try to find them other advantages that they're already kind of finding off the field. So yeah, they're brilliantly run, they have a ton of talent, but also they kind of manipulate the rules as much as they can to ensure the guys are healthy for the playoffs, but they have enough depth in their organization that they're not really worried about getting there.
Simon Hunter
That's what's so amazing to me is we knew the cheat code and they started with Moneyball. Boston took it, they messed up. Then Chicago took it from them. Somehow the Cubs screwed up and now the Dodgers have just run away with it there they are just such a well run organization. Like even you talking about right now, it makes me sick as a Phillies fan where it's like, this ain't gonna end in five years. Like this might be unless MLB changes the rules. This might be our lives now for 10 to 15 years. They just have a brilliant front office with an owner that wants to spend money. It's, it's something like, again, Boston, I feel bad for their fan that feels like they had that and it just, they switch ownership groups and it's totally gone away. And so, you know, talking with the National League right now, in the futures market, there's going to be some good value because what you just talked about, everything's so focused heavily into the Dodgers. Are there any surprise teams you like, Are there any win totals that are worth talking about? Like what's Your view right now? The National League future market.
Sean Zarillo
So I would say most people expect two of three of the Phillies, Mets and Braves to make the playoffs. The Dodgers obviously are probably going to make the playoffs. Most people expect the Cubs to make the playoffs. So that kind of leaves two spots. Right. So you're talking about the Brewers. I would think it's the Braves. We'll talk about the Braves in a second. Why? I'm low on them. But the brewers, the Pirates, the Giants or the Padres? The Braves and I think the Marlins could be in the mix. That's six teams all fighting for two playoff spots. Now the Braves have had the worst spring of any team. They've lost Spencer Schwellenbach, Hurston Waldrop and Spencer Schreider all to the il. That's three of their five starting rotation members. They also lost jerks in profire to a full season suspension. Reynaldo Lopez, one of their other starters. His velocity is down. And Chris Sales, 37 and hasn't cleared 17070 innings since 2017. So the Braves rotation has fallen apart. Acuna is still an MVP candidate. He looked great this spring. He looked great in the wbc. They still have a lot of offensive talent, but I do think the house of cards with their pitching could absolutely collapse and they don't really have a ton of minor league depth. They could bring up either. So Atlanta is going to have to mash their way to the playoffs. If they don't and I don't think they will or at least I project them closer to 85 wins and think they will be in the mix with other teams. I think it really opens the door for a team like the Marlins or the Pirates to be your surprise playoff team. The Marlins are around plus 700 plus 650. The pirates are around. They were around plus 450. Now they're closer to plus 300. I mean you know the story with skins. But the Pirates actually did invest in their roster this offseason. They were also the off season kings of at least we tried which is the ensuring that you put out a press release that you were in the mix on a player and ultimately didn't get them. They were in the mix apparently on Kyle Schwarber. Didn't get him. It's great to be the great to be the we we almost got them team every off season. But this year they actually did make some trades, added some guys fortified that roster a little bit. So I think the Pirates will be in the mix. But and this is one of the points I really wanted to make. So I'm glad we got to a team like the Pirates. There are two great ways to bet the Pirates and to bet the Rays that I think are flying under the radar relative to their playoff odds if either of those teams make the playoffs. The Pirates haven't made the playoffs since 2015, maybe even earlier. The Rays are in the toughest division in baseball. They have four teams projected to finish. 500 ahead of them. All of those teams are minus money to make the playoffs. The Rays, I said around. They're both teams, both the Rays and the pirates. Around plus 300 to make the playoffs. Their managers to win Manager of the Year are both around 15 to 20 to 1. One matter of the year. If either of those teams make the playoffs, the managers are finishing top two and probably winning. I mean, if the Pirates make the playoffs, their manager is almost certainly winning. Unless a team like the Marlins also makes and then they're fighting for that award again like a team like the Rays. If they make the playoffs, Kevin Cash is probably winning Manager of the Year unless the White Sox also win the playoff or also make the playoffs. So I just wanted to point out that you may have a thesis or an opinion. You may see the most direct way to bet it, which is Pirates to make the playoffs. There may be a much better way to bet it that is so highly correlated to that outcome that you're probably better off betting the other thing, if not both.
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Chad Millman
Zarilo, I don't think anyone that I know has stayed as on top of changes to the baseball as you have and how it impacts not just a team's opportunities to win, but impacts betting lines, impacts run totals, everything down the line. What is the latest on the ever changing world as the baseball turns?
Sean Zarillo
Yeah, we'll find out a week or so into the season if you go on Baseball Savant. If you if you just google baseball savant drag coefficient, you can find year by year the graphs showing how the baseball is fluctuated in terms of the drag date on it, meaning less drag it's going to fly further. More drag it's not going to fly as far. Now this is based upon I believe fastballs thrown, but if you look at the home runs per year correlated with that Data, you can see that baseball has clearly been changing the baseball. Sometimes, unfortunately, they're cycling out old baseballs while introducing new ones. You do have games or instances in a season where they've pulled baseballs from the same game, sliced into those baseballs and found that they are different baseballs. And the pitcher does not know, the hitter, does not know what particular ball is being thrown at them at that release. So you can watch a game, and I've watched plenty of games where a batted ball is hit at the same exit velocity and the same launch angle and does not travel one, does not travel as far as the other. That is almost certainly a difference in the ball and not any difference in weather or anything like that. Assuming it's in a dome. You know, the Texas stadium in particular. I've seen a lot of weird ball travel. So the larger point is MLB changed it 2017, 2019, 2021. Like every two years they've swapped in a different type of ball. 2022 was the most egregious of the three. That was the Aaron Judge home run chase. They used three different balls that year. They used a juice ball, a ball that was probably used in 2021, which was DE juiced, and then the Goldilocks ball. And we have evidence that MLB both for the Home Run Derby and the All Star game, but also for games that Aaron Judge was playing en route to his 60 plus home run season, that MLB was putting a super juiced ball into play, the Goldilocks ball. So not only have they been caught red handed and people don't really talk about it, but we also don't know what ball they're going to use and play the following year. And last year in 2025, the balls were traveling 5ft less than they had in 2024 and home runs went down slightly and then they started coming back up. And if you look at the graph for like over under profitability throughout the season, there's a giant spike to the unders. And then if you kept betting unders, there's a giant downslope because the overs started heading at a ridiculous rate and then it kind of neutralized again. So I think at some point around April or around May, June of last year, MLB started cycling in a new batch of balls and that's the ones that we finished the year with. The question is whether those are the balls to start the 2026 season. So we don't really know until the year starts. But the, the data point that you can measure is the drag coefficient data on Baseball savant, kind of look at where the dots are relative to prior years and you could figure out the expected home run rate.
Chad Millman
What is your evidence that is in the baseball analytics community about the Goldilocks ball for Aaron Judge in his season of 60 plus homers specifically?
Sean Zarillo
Yeah, so there's a scientist, her name is Meredith Wills, she's a physicist. She was the one who has been collecting and splicing into these balls and you can find her studies on them that I've read. But essentially it's, it comes down to physics and what is actually inside of the baseballs. And this woman, Meredith, she's sliced into them across again, 2017, 2019, 21, 22, 24 and 25 and has noted the changes in all of those years. So it's not something that I'm doing based off of baseball savant data and ball flight, even though you can use those data points to measure it is actually people physically cutting into the baseballs and measuring them in labs and the flight data and the drag data on them and closed environments and labs and saying, yeah, these are different.
Simon Hunter
And I, I just add on to the crazy drama here is apparently like the Dodgers, the Phillies, the Yankees, these big time clubs, apparently they're more, they give them more often than not those type of balls because they want those, those teams are the big time guys to get these hit. So again, nothing's been proven scientifically on that. But it's like conspiracy theorists, like I love going down these Reddit, these Reddit like deep holes on all these fans theories. People don't even respect Schwaber's home run run because they're like, oh, he was getting juice balls where it's like anyone can hear Schwarber hit the ball. It sounds different. Like there is clearly it doesn't matter if the balls are juice to me for sure, but that's a Phillies fan in me. But I believe it because it's like you watch these Yankees games, these Phillies games, like, oh, that's a short perch or portrait they call it. It's like, is it or is something going on here with these baseballs? Because it is crazy. These, these upticks and, and you know, I haven't read her study, but that's definitely something I'm about to spend the next 10 hours on because that's, that's
Sean Zarillo
really interesting if that is, if there is any, and I don't necessarily buy into that theory, but if there is any truth to that theory with ABS being introduced and umpires having less influence over the games. That would be the one way that you could influence the outcome and you could help the top teams is feeding them baseballs that are maybe a little bit juice and giving the other teams de juice baseballs. Because ABS is going to neutralize everything in terms of called strikes. It's very much incumbent upon the players on the field now when to challenge. So that does neutralize things to a degree.
Chad Millman
Let me ask one more question, because something about this doesn't pass the sniff test. Was this physicist cutting into Aaron Judge home run balls from his historic home run season when just about every ball that he hit, a very small sample size of overall balls was getting collected, was getting potentially sold or given back to him. How many of his specific balls did this physicist cut into?
Sean Zarillo
So 2022 was the year that I believe she tested the most because there was such a different variation in terms of the outcomes in the balls. Now she got. I just pulled it up. She got over 200 baseballs from that year. Nine in the postseason across four playoff rounds, and 11 specifically obtained from Yankee games. And that's how she was able to determine in the Yankee games. Okay, the baseballs were a little bit more. So it's not like Aaron Judge specific at bats. They were like, here, you know, here you go. Here's the Aaron Judge balls. I think it was specific to the Yankee game balls and the playoff balls measuring similarly relative to the regular juice balls and the dead end balls during the regular season.
Chad Millman
That's amazing.
Sean Zarillo
Yeah, it's a great fighting. Google, Google Meredith Wills, Aaron Judge Google Meredith Wills 2022. You can read her whole study and read into it. There's a lot of truth to it.
Chad Millman
All right, so, Zurillo, speaking of, you always come on the show and you will give us really great futures for individual performance. And you've been on it. I think last year, I think last year it was like you gave us Kyle Schwaber. You've given us great home run futures. Talk to us. Give us your individual player futures.
Sean Zarillo
Yeah, Kyle Schwaber is back on the list this year. RBI 35 to 1. I made him 21 last year for RBI Leader. He's 35 to 1 this year. It was 50 to 1 last year. So I'm 50. Fine. Betting it at 35 to 1 still. You know, my general takeaway this year, I didn't project these out last year. I haven't projected these out in previous years. I found that there's much bigger edges in general on the milestone props as opposed to category leader props. Now the odds aren't going to be as enticing a lot of the times, but you can still find 9 to 1, 10 to 1 shots on guys to get 200 plus strikeouts that I think should be closer to plus 450 or plus 500. So the general takeaway and analyzing the futures market this year was much more value in the milestone and ladder Props than there is in the outright leader props. The biggest edges I found on out like outright leader props was Ohtani RBI leader at 14 to 1. Now I did mention he may sit a little bit more this year but in terms of projections he is above Aaron Judge for RBI home run. I think he's also 5 to 1. There was value in that number too. Obviously the more long shot leader props are a little bit more interesting. Stolen base leader Chandler Simpson is five to one. I like him. But Victor Scott at 25 to one I think is a good bet as well. You know there's, there's a number of like correlated player portfolios I that I built. I think the, the most interesting market maybe because the, the totals are so low for win totals or for pitcher wins. I should say the winner of pitcher wins is only going to get 20 right or 22 at most. You know, compared to saves or strikeouts or hits or home runs like the gap is so much more compressed and everything is a little bit more random. But Logan Webb at 20 to 1 from her Valdez at 30 to 1, George Kirby at 50 to 1, I think those are all great bets because what I found doing research into pitcher wins, the correlation between the wins leader is just as high as the correlation between the guys who finished highest in quality starts wins just kind of come down to luck and how many runs your your offense scores for you. Quality starts isn't even the best measurement of a good start for a pitcher, but it is a good measurement for putting your team in position to win and giving your. I mean you could have a 450 ERA for the season and still have a quality start because it's three runs and six innings. So quality start isn't necessarily the best measurement of like you're a good pitcher, but it is a really good measurement for you gave your team a chance to win. And if they gave you four runs or three runs, you're probably going to get that one if you threw five innings. So Web 20 to 1, Valdez 30 to 1 Kirby 50 to 1. That might be my favorite grouping of like long shot bets for pitcher wins or just in general for any category because again like the the range of outcomes for pitcher wins is so compressed and all those guys are 20 to 1 or better. You also do if you dead heat as well, you end up splitting the odds. So if two of them win, you'll end up cashing both tickets. You'll just split the odds on both of those. So I don't. I think that's a, that's a pretty interesting approach. The guy added most recently, and I think there still may be value out there from a player prop perspective or from a player word perspective, is Kevin McGonagall of the Tigers. He's my favorite for a rookie of the year right now. It's unclear as to whether or not he's going to make the Tigers opening day roster. It seems like at worst he'll be up within two weeks. They're going to maybe delay the service time, you know, manipulate that. The thing that people, a lot of people have not realized in analyzing this, if you finish top two in ale in rookie of the Year in either league, you lose the year service time anyway. So if you're going to wait two weeks to bring up a guy to gain that year of service time and then he ends up finishing first or second rook of the year, then you waited two weeks for nothing. So I think McGonagall is going to be on the Tigers opening day roster either playing shortstop or third base. He's not like a Bobby Witt 3030 shortstop where he has like insane power and speed. He is the 20, 26 archetype that I am most looking forward to analyzing and trying to capture the value of going forward. He's a swing decision. Monster swing decisions is the ability to swing at strikes and not at balls and to swing at good strikes and not close strikes. The swing at strikes in the heart of the zone and to not swing at balls or close pitches and to put quality of contact on those pitches. That is the process stat that I think people overlook the most now or would like to capture the most in terms of figuring out offensive quality. Because yes, like you could have a great season, you know, or less great season just by nature of variance and like your bat was you know, a tenth of an inch away from like making perfect contact and as a result you hit into an out instead of hitting home run, right? Like this year you may get all of the best outcomes as a result. Next year you may get the wrong side of all those outcomes. And one year a guy hits 40 home runs, the next guy, next year it's 20. You know, generally like if you're projected to hit 30 home runs plus 10 or minus 10 on either side of that is an acceptable range of outcomes for a player. The swing decision guys I think are much safer investments, but also much safer offensive teams and process and swinging at good pitches to swing at and avoiding bad pitches to swing at. When we get into the playoffs, when you watch the wbc, you could really see it with the quality of plate appearances that guys were taking and the teams that were more effective. Italy was, Italy was probably the best example. The reason why Italy made it to the final four of the wbc. If you watch their bats, they were spitting at balls and they're swinging at strikes and that was like the entire offense philosophy. And I know that sounds really simple, but it's really hard to do. Not chasing pitches is really hard to do and swinging at pitches that are in the zone every time they're in the zone is really hard to do. And then making sure the bat is on the ball and the hand eye coordination is another layer. Layer on top of it. That's really hard to do. And the point is that Kevin McGonagall is like the best prospect we've ever seen at those skills. The power and speed are pretty good, but he's more of like a 2020 guy at best. He's not, not going to go 30, 30 or 40, 40, but he's probably going to hit.290 and have a really high on base percentage because his swing decisions are so elite. So he's six to one right now for rookie of the Year. I think his floor is incredibly high. Incredibly high. It's just a matter of whether the counting stats get surpassed by somebody else. But McGonagall right now ale Rick of the year, I would lock that in. It's the most recent award bets I made, so that's why I'm bringing it up. J.J. weatherholt in the NL, similar case. Probably not as good as McGonagall, but another really good swing decisions guy who may not have like the aesthetically pleasing athleticism that you would want, but a very safe floor.
Chad Millman
All right, before we get out of here, I love that analysis on swing decisions. That's, that's, that's why baseball becomes more and more interesting every year for me.
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Chad Millman
Giants Yankees Any thoughts? Opening Day Any thoughts for people who might be listening to this very soon and want to get in some action?
Sean Zarillo
Yeah, nothing for opening night for the Giants game. There are a couple of angles I was eyeing for the official opening day on Thursday and one of them I think is interesting because if you look at the team total analysis, it's like completely opposite. So the Minnesota Twins are a team that the public projection market is really high on this year. They have them at about 77 and a half wins. I have them at 70.6 again, 77 and a half versus 70.6. Their win total is 72.5. This is a team who is probably going to sell off a lot of pieces at the trade deadline they did last year they had to sell off minority shares of their ownership. So not only did they not invest in their roster, they were actively looking for investors into their team so that they could pay their roster. So this is not a team that's going to be adding pieces. It's only a team that's going to be selling pieces. As a result, I'm under their win total. I bet their win total under. But right now this is a 78 win team. A team that should play if all the pieces are on the roster. A team that should be close to.500. Joe Ryan is starting for them on opening day. Joe Ryan is an all star caliber pitcher. Pablo Lopez got hurt for them so relative to their other starting pitchers, Joe Ryan is significantly better. So when Joe Ryan is pitching, this is like an 85. One team or an 81 team. Joe Ryan was able to start every game right. This is closer to an 85. One team, not a 78. One team. They're playing the Orioles on opening day. I believe their number is close to plus 130. I make that game right around a coin flip, so I will be betting the Twins almost certainly on opening day. It was my biggest projected edge when I first opened up the numbers. I just think they're being under projected right now, probably relative to end of season expectations, not necessarily who they are, especially with Joe Ryan on the mound. So Twins opening day around +130ish. I probably like that down to about +115 and then the under 8 and a half, I believe between the brewers and White Sox. I haven't bet it yet, but I think I made that about 7.8. And for some reason I always end up on the excuse me, on the under on the first game of the brewers season at home. So I'm sure producer Matt will be excited to hear that he gets the fire and under at one of the teams he sports on opening day.
Chad Millman
Oh my God. Matt Mitchell. You give him in an under for any kind of day baseball midweek he is, we might not even see him that day.
Sean Zarillo
I bet under eight and a half, so I'm sure he'll be searching for an alt under 7 and a half at plus money. I'm sure he's laughing as I say this too, because I'm sure he already is.
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This episode kicks off MLB Opening Day week with Chad Millman and Simon Hunter joined by baseball betting expert Sean Zerillo. The trio breaks down the current landscape of Major League Baseball, analyzes the dominant Dodgers dynasty, explores how AI is revolutionizing sports betting models, and shares a host of actionable Opening Day and futures bets. The conversation covers how teams manage for October, the ever-changing baseball itself, and sports betting edges for the upcoming season, making this episode a must-listen for sharp baseball bettors.
“He is must-see TV... If you have not seen him hit or pitch, if you have an opportunity, you need to see this guy. It’s like seeing a superhero.” (06:06, Simon)
“They’re load-managing Freeman. [Pitchers]—if they have any sort of concern about a pitching injury, they’ll just stick a guy in the IL.” (20:57, Sean Zerillo)
“Things that used to take me days, I can now do in hours... I can literally copy and paste all the lines... have [AI] find me my biggest edges.” (09:39, Sean)
“The more you feed it, that’s the craziest part. The more you feed it, the better it gets. And that’s the scary part.” (13:26, Simon)
“The Braves have had the worst spring of any team... their rotation has fallen apart.” (24:47, Sean)
“If either of those teams make the playoffs, their manager is almost certainly winning.” (27:10, Sean)
“MLB was putting a super juiced ball into play, the Goldilocks ball, for the Home Run Derby, All-Star Game, and games that Aaron Judge was playing.” (33:20, Sean)
Individual Futures & Milestone Props:
“He’s above Aaron Judge for RBI... more projected value.” (41:36)
Longshot Pitcher Wins Plays:
Rookie of the Year Callout:
“[McGonigle] is like the best prospect we’ve ever seen at those skills... His floor is incredibly high.” (45:28, Sean)
“I think they’re being under-projected right now... Twins opening day around +130ish—I probably like that down to about +115.” (50:59)
“Their greatest advantage is how they treat their roster... what can we do to increase our championship probability, not our probability of winning today.” – Sean Zerillo (16:02)
“Adapt or die.” – Sean Zerillo (14:15)
“Swing decisions is the ability to swing at strikes and not at balls and to swing at good strikes and not close strikes... that is the process stat I think people overlook the most.” – Sean Zerillo (44:14)
This episode mixes actionable futures advice with deep context on how both MLB teams and professional bettors are changing with the times—whether it's elite roster management or advanced analytics powered by AI. Zerillo's breakdowns make the Dodgers’ edge clear while also revealing under-the-radar value on teams like the Pirates or Marlins and player props driven by next-gen stats like “swing decisions.” Both casual fans and serious bettors will come away with not just picks, but with a sharper understanding of how to approach MLB in 2026.
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