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Early National League Cy Young Odds Released After Yoshinobu Yamamoto Signing

After free agent sensation Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the odds have been released for the National League Cy Young Award.
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Early National League Cy Young Odds Released After Yoshinobu Yamamoto Signing
Early National League Cy Young Odds Released After Yoshinobu Yamamoto Signing

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With Yoshinobu Yamamoto off the board, having signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the people over at FanDuel have released the latest odds for the 2024 National League Cy Young Award.

Per Rob Friedman, @PitchingNinja, on social media:

1) Spencer Strider, Braves (+550)

2) Zack Wheeler, Phillies (+850)

3) Logan Webb, Giants (+1000)

4) Corbin Burnes, Brewers (+1200)

5) Zac Gallen, Diamondbacks (+1300)

6) Max Fried, Braves (+1400)

7) Kodai Senga, Mets, Justin Steele, Cubs, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Dodgers (+1600)

8) Tyler Glasnow, Dodgers (+1900)

9) Aaron Nola, Phillies (+2500)

10) Freddy Peralta, Brewers, Eduardo Rodriguez, D'Backs, Sonny Gray, Cardinals and Jesus Luzardo, Marlins (+3000)

11) Bobby Miller, Dodgers, Mitch Keller, Pirates and Joe Musgrove, Padres (+3500)

12) Yu Darvish, Padres, Hunter Greene, Reds and Eury Perez, Marlins (+4000)

From a pure gambling standpoint, all of these answers have some degree of value to them. Young pitchers like Greene and Luzardo could take major jumps in 2024 and provide odds that would pay out well. A guy like E-Rod could be pitching for a very good team and could end up with a good record and good peripherals.

While value is always good, don't ignore the top of the board. Strider is a machine, having led baseball in strikeouts this past season. He went 20-5 in 2023 with a 3.86 ERA and struck out a whopping 281 batters. He's just 25 years old and will pitch all of next season at 25.

It's interesting to see the oddsmakers put Yamamoto so high up in the odds considering he's never pitched in the US before, but his stuff is supposed to be that good.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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