Mucho Macho Man will take most of the money here and Dominguez will try to control the pace from the rail position. Tackleberry will contest the lead and provide sufficient pace to keep Mucho Macho Man from setting soft fractions. Jackson Bend will stalk and engage Mucho Macho Man in the stretch and can put him away with his best effort. I'm taking Jackson Bend as a value play at 5-2 or higher.

I had been scouting around the ESPN website looking for information and noticed that it contains each team's OPS. Also, it contains OPS against for the pitching staff. I found that when I subtract OPS against from a team's OPS and ranked the result within division, the ranking within the team's division bears a very high correlation to that team's ranking in its division. Interestingly, Chicago's ranks ahead of Detroit's differential.