NL Rookie of the Year Watch

More positive movement overnight:

Baldwin from +100 to -110
Horton from +125 to +130
Collins from +400 to +500

Tonight is a big game for the Rookie of the Year. We face Horton tonight and he has four more starts remaining this season after that - and next one will also be against us. Would be nice for us to put a significant dent in his ROY hopes ... and still find a way to lose. But I won't be greedy at this point, the main goal tonight should be to knock Horton out of the race.
 
Yup. If Baldwin goes off tonight (say 3-4 with a homer) and we put up 5+ runs on Horton, Baldwin that would go a long way to locking up ROY, assuming no cold streaks for Drake or some massive hot streak for Collins. Collins has actually fallen hard back down to Earth, with a .557 OPS his last 17 games.
 
looking briefly at Cade Hortons pitches and he is another guys living the good life. I guess he has a deep arsenal and that helps, but man he doesn't really have a plus pitch to fall back on. His X stats are pedestrian and I assume he is loving the great defense the Cubs have right now. Here is to the Braves owning his ass his next two starts and especially Drake taking him deep a few times to cement this down.
 
It is pretty beneficial to get to face this kid again in such a short amount of time. If we don't manage to hit hard tonight, we'll get a good beat on him for next week,
 
As you'd imagine, big shift overnight.

Horton back to the favorite, going from +130 to -115.
Baldwin from -110 to +160.
Collins from +500 to +550.
 
Baldwin could go 4-4 tonight with 2 homers and it'll change again. If Baldwin can hit 5 more homers and get to 20 he'll secure it for sure.
 
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