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Posted at 3:45 PM EST. 

10:05 PM EST. The Angels return home from an East Coast trip, they’re going nowhere this year and they had a day off yesterday. That doesn’t set the Angels up well for this opener and neither does Ricky Nolasco on the hill. Nolasco’s stellar control remains intact but so does his sub-par K-rate and HR issues. He’s just another overpaid stiff that is usually around the plate with pedestrian stuff. Nolasco has been and will continue to be in the bottom tier of starting pitchers.

The Phillies were very competitive all of last year and with a year under their belt, things were supposed to be even better this year. It hasn’t been and now with their stock low and their form getting better, the Phillies could offer up some great profits the rest of the year. As badly as everything has seemed to go, not much of what the ongoing rebuild is built around has changed. Aaron Altherr has added to his stock price. Maikel Franco has seen his diminish. Both guys are ongoing projects though but both are hugely talented; ditto for the rotation trio of Jerad Eickhoff, Nick Pivetta and Aaron Nola. Based on the line here, this market is fully unaware of how talented Nola is.

Nola has posted a 3.17/2.96 ERA/xERA split through 16 starts with an elite 107 K’s in 99 innings. He has a terrific K-rate, an elite groundball rate of 50% a 14% swing and miss rate and he also has great control. Even in a home park that increases home runs from both sides of the plate, Nola is so good that his numbers are unaffected. This is one of the best pitchers in baseball getting a tag against Ricky Nolasco and frankly it’s absurd. Invest.

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