As this is being written the Milwaukee Brewers are losing the rubber match in their three game series against St. Louis, not exactly the start they had in mind with Ryan Braun popping off about how this team is better without Prince Fielder. \u00a0 <\/p>\n
Milwaukee Brewers vs Chicago Cubs <\/strong>PITCHING MATCHUP:<\/strong>\u00a0Milwaukee RH Shaun Marcum (2011: 13-7, 3.54 ERA) vs. Chicago RH Chris Volstad (2011: 5-13, 4.89 ERA).<\/p>\n Matchup<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Milwaukee<\/strong><\/p>\n Braun used to be one of those silent stars but now after getting busted for PEDs he has a much larger profile. \u00a0<\/p>\n I liked him a lot better when he was seen and not heard.<\/p>\n The only way the Brew Crew are better this season is if they have better pitching. \u00a0Shaun Marcum was very good in his first year in the National League, pitching a career best 200 innings with a solid ERA. \u00a0He was 2-0 against last year\u2019s bad Cubs team – which hasn\u2019t really improved much – including a win at Wrigley that might have been his best outing of the season. \u00a0April was his sharpest month last year and he is generally a fast starter. [dfads params=’groups=10&limit=1&return_javascript=0′]<\/p>\n Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n The Chicago Cubs have proven two things in their season opening series against Washington and neither are good for them. \u00a0The first is that Washington may actually be \u00a0a contender the second is that reliever Carlos Marmol is as unpredictable as ever – with a blown save and a loss in just two outings. \u00a0<\/p>\n This is the first year of the Theo Epstein era and I feel like things will get better, it just might be a while.<\/p>\n Starting for the Cubs in the series opener against division rival Milwaukee is Chris Volstad, acquired from the Marlins when the Marlins inexplicably wanted to take on mercurial Carlos Zambrano. \u00a0Volstad is coming off a 5-13 season and has never delivered on the promise he showed as a rookie. \u00a0<\/p>\n One thing to note is that he has pitched better against Milwaukee than any other National League team – posting a 1.71 ERA over 4 starts.<\/p>\n O\/U Pick: Milwaukee Brewers (1-2) vs. Chicago Cubs (1-2) As this is being written the Milwaukee Brewers are losing the rubber match in their three game series against St. Louis, not exactly the start they had in mind with Ryan Braun popping off about how this team is better without Prince Fielder. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":35226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[108,3882,111,2724,54502,1534,6878,346,502,8910,11208,29828,14228,27450,3775,691,1028],"class_list":["post-50282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-baseball-handicapping","tag-baseball-lines","tag-baseball-picks","tag-brewers","tag-brewers-cubs-gambling","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs","tag-gambling-lines","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukee-brewers-vs-chicago-cubs","tag-mlb-baseball-previews","tag-mlb-free-pick","tag-mlb-odds","tag-mlb-predictions","tag-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107939,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50282\/revisions\/107939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMonday April 9
\nWrigley Field
\n7:0PM
\nMoneyline: \u00a0Milwaukee -130, Chicago +110
\nO\/U: \u00a0Not currently listed
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\nScore Prediction: \u00a0Chicago 5 – Milwaukee 4<\/strong><\/p>\nView The MLB Cappers Leaderboard For 2011 \u00a0– Picks Packages for 2012 On Sale! \u2014\u2013><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"