what's going on everyone Christian picks.com here with your free picking the Oakland A's versus Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball matchup going down Tuesday September 3rd 2024 just a reminder if you haven't already make sure you're subscribe to our Channel and smash that thumbs up and if you're looking for my Best Bets the games that I love including my daily $19 best bet head on over to piic dogs.com and click the premium picks tab at the top of the page but let's get to this one between the Oakland A's and the Seattle Mariners the Oakland A sting out gin for the start in this one while the Mariners will counter with Luis Castillo and Castillo is still viewed by many for good reason as the Ace of this uh of this Mariners rotation you know he's got a 3.65 ER 11 and 12 record this season 167 strikeouts over 165 in the third Innings of works so pretty much a strikeout per inning and in his last four starts against the Oakland A's I mean the numbers are are not bad you know two earned runs or less and six plus Innings pitched in each of those four wins a 2.73 ER in his last five starts against Oakland so like I said Castillo pitching very very well but my thing here is that I still have a hard time trusting the Seattle Mariners offense behind him because you never know when Castillo is going to have a good start or a bad start and even when he does have the good ones can the offense back him up and yeah they've been able to pick up some wins here and there and you know fire themselves back into the mix in the playoff race but there's still six games out in the AL West and I don't really know how how well they're going to hold up in the uh in the a wild card with how many teams around them are all winning as well and now they're going up against Oakland A's team that is starting to pick up their play against the division you know they play their best baseball at home they're only two games below 500 entering Monday's action and for me the Oakland days offense have been a lot more productive as of late against right-handed pitching you know the Seattle Mariners in terms of their numbers against righties in the last two weeks you know are um well below League average are actually just outside the bottom five hitting 219 the team Ops numbers aren't very great those are bottom five while Oakland just outside the top five in team Ops they're hitting 267 as a team the isolated power numbers are just outside the top five as well and JT ginell he didn't have the best start he gave up four runs on four hits and a pair of home runs in five innings of work it came against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ballpark which is not an easy place for your team to play to begin with or an easy place to pitch for that matter and it's not like the offense didn't back him up in that game as well like I said this offense is producing they they scored nine runs in three straight games in in between the the uh Cincinnati series and the start of the Texas series and I think get could have a decent start here like I said he's going to a pitcher friendly ballpark in Oakland it's going to be you know at least a better environment for him to pitch in and you know even in the three and two-thirds Innings before that you know he had thrown um three and two-thirds Innings of one run ball with one hit so I think that I think gin can pitch well in this this one and I think that the value is with the Oakland A's in this one so I'm going to take the Oakland A's and the plus money in this one that's going to be my free pick but just a reminder if you haven't already make sure you're subscrib to our Channel and smash that thumbs up and if you're looking for my Best Bets you can find those a pck dogs premium why are your pick dogs check out our betting tools they're 100% free they're the best betting tools in the business and tools that you want to make sure that you have in your back pocket when you're making your Best Bets for the day's action thanks for watching see you guys soon