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The side and total both reflect a genuine split decision rather than a mispricing: Burke carries a 2.15 xERA over his last 3 starts and has dominated CLE specifically this season (1 and 11 ER allowed across two starts, 8.5 K/gs), but CLE's offense is sitting at 140 wRC+ over its last 6 vs RHP and still strong at 118 over its last 12, so the hot bat and the hot arm cancel out. On the other side, Williams owns a shaky 5.79 ERA and 16.3% walk rate over his last 3 (though two of those three starts were actually solid, with one blowup skewing the ERA), facing a CHW lineup that's cold at 62 wRC+ over its last 6 vs RHP - but that's already baked into his -138 price and CHW's team total. For the props, Burke's strikeout line of 3.5 is a pass because CLE's own last-6 K rate (18.8%) is genuinely low-contact, which argues under even though his H2H Ks vs this club (6 and 11) argue over - the two signals don't agree, and his outs line of 12.5 already sits almost exactly on his recent-start average (about 12.7), leaving no edge. Williams' strikeout line of 6.5 is supported by both his own K rate (37.2%) and CHW's elevated last-6 K rate (34.1%), but it lines up almost exactly with his 6.7 K/gs both recently and vs this specific opponent, so the market already has it priced fairly; his 14.5 outs line also sits in line with his recent average depth with no standout mechanism to push it either way.