Guardians @ Rays

The read

• Rasmussen on the bump for a rested Rays club fresh off a sweep, against a Cleveland team that had to skip its own starters just to get here.
• Rasmussen sits around a 2.67 ERA and 0.91 WHIP and just carried a no-no into the 8th vs the Yanks; Griffin is at 5.19 in nine Cleveland starts. That gap is way past our 1.5 bar, and Cade Smith worked all five ALDS games.
• The -169 tax is real and a 6.5 total means one swing can flip it, but the Guards are running on fumes after a Saturday Game 5 and we'll pay for the better arm every time.