{"id":1455,"date":"2011-03-06T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2011-03-17T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:59:11","slug":"nl-central-overunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/nl-central-overunders\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Central Over\/Unders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nl_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1456\" title=\"nl\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nl_logo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nl_logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nl_logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nl_logo-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nl_logo-342x342.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nl_logo-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nl_logo-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nl_logo.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In the NL Central this year, five of the six teams look like good bets  to beat their Vegas Over\/Under lines for total wins in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers (86.5) with Zach Greinke, Shawn Marcum, and Yovanni Gollordo  fronting their rotation and Prince Fielder swinging for a big contract,  can definitely win 90 games.<br \/>\nThe Reds (85.5) won 91 last year and should have improved pitching this year.<br \/>\nThe Cardinals (82.5) of Albert Pujols and Tony LaRussa always seem to find a way to get close to 90 wins.<br \/>\nThe Cubs (82.5) could ride a rejuvenated Carlos Zombrano to a big year.<br \/>\nThe Astros (72) started slowly but were one of the league&#8217;s most consistent teams from May forward.<\/p>\n<p>The only NL Central team clearly begging you to take the under is the  Pirates (67.5), who did little to improve this offseason and stand to  get manhandled by an up-and-coming division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the NL Central this year, five of the six teams look like good bets to beat their Vegas Over\/Under lines for total wins in 2011. The Brewers (86.5) with Zach Greinke, Shawn Marcum, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[807,806],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-recreation","tag-mlb-nl","tag-nl-central"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}