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Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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4.94 |
-153 |
o8.0 -118 |
-1.5 +109 |
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4.52 |
+146 |
u8.5 -112 |
+1.5 -116 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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5.16 |
+130 |
o8.5 -103 |
+1.5 -161 |
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5.01 |
-140 |
u8.5 -107 |
-1.5 +146 |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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5.07 |
+101 |
o8.5 +101 |
-1.5 +162 |
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4.58 |
-104 |
u8.5 -110 |
+1.5 -168 |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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5.47 |
-112 |
o9.0 -109 |
-1.5 +146 |
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4.78 |
+107 |
u9.5 -126 |
+1.5 -160 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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4.42 |
-106 |
o7.5 -121 |
-1.5 +149 |
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4.17 |
+101 |
u8.5 -125 |
+1.5 -168 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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4.17 |
-114 |
o7.0 -110 |
-1.5 +152 |
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4.32 |
+107 |
u7.5 -137 |
+1.5 -168 |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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6.49 |
-155 |
o9.5 -121 |
-1.5 +101 |
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5.50 |
+144 |
u10.0 -114 |
+1.5 -112 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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4.20 |
+180 |
o8.5 -112 |
+1.5 -112 |
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5.35 |
-194 |
u8.5 +101 |
-1.5 +101 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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5.36 |
-142 |
o8.5 +105 |
-1.5 +119 |
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3.94 |
+132 |
u8.5 -115 |
+1.5 -131 |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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3.37 |
+250 |
o7.5 +114 |
+2.0 -125 |
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5.14 |
-265 |
u7.5 -122 |
-2.0 -104 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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4.04 |
-116 |
o7.0 -120 |
-1.5 +146 |
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3.57 |
+104 |
u7.5 -122 |
+1.5 -168 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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4.26 |
+105 |
o8.5 -110 |
+1.5 -190 |
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4.58 |
-120 |
u8.5 -105 |
-1.5 +169 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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5.62 |
-148 |
-- |
-- |
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3.88 |
+134 |
-- |
-- |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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4.42 |
+115 |
o8.0 -110 |
+1.5 -183 |
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5.22 |
-130 |
u8.5 -118 |
-1.5 +165 |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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3.84 |
+134 |
o7.5 +102 |
+1.5 -168 |
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4.27 |
-145 |
u7.5 -110 |
-1.5 +146 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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5.20 |
+110 |
o8.5 -102 |
+1.5 -185 |
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5.00 |
-126 |
u8.5 -105 |
-1.5 +176 |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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5.74 |
+101 |
o9.0 -115 |
+1.5 -209 |
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5.09 |
-112 |
u9.5 -114 |
-1.5 +140 |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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4.75 |
+140 |
o8.0 -115 |
+1.5 -150 |
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4.64 |
-155 |
u8.5 -124 |
-1.5 +136 |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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5.16 |
-161 |
o8.0 -115 |
-1.5 +104 |
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3.45 |
+140 |
u8.5 -120 |
+1.5 -118 |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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5.19 |
-161 |
-- |
-- |
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4.15 |
+140 |
-- |
-- |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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4.66 |
-136 |
o7.5 -110 |
-1.5 +126 |
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4.03 |
+120 |
u7.5 -105 |
+1.5 -142 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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4.59 |
+150 |
o9.0 -110 |
+1.5 -140 |
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5.61 |
-168 |
u9.5 -124 |
-1.5 +126 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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6.58 |
-183 |
-- |
-- |
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5.51 |
+146 |
-- |
-- |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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5.23 |
-168 |
-- |
-- |
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3.74 |
+140 |
-- |
-- |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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3.19 |
+226 |
o8.0 -110 |
+1.5 +110 |
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5.61 |
-265 |
u8.5 -122 |
-1.5 -122 |
Predicted Score
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Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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-- |
-112 |
-- |
-- |
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-- |
-112 |
-- |
-- |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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-- |
-148 |
-- |
-- |
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-- |
+124 |
-- |
-- |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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-- |
-200 |
-- |
-- |
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-- |
+158 |
-- |
-- |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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-- |
+129 |
-- |
-- |
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-- |
-209 |
-- |
-- |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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-- |
-126 |
-- |
-- |
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-- |
-103 |
-- |
-- |
Predicted Score
Team |
Predicted Score |
ML |
Total |
Run Line |
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-- |
-142 |
-- |
-- |
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-- |
+109 |
-- |
-- |
Wilyer Abreu stands out as my favorite home run look from the Boston Red Sox against Toronto Blue Jays right hander Jameson Taillon. Taillon enters Monday with the worst pitcher rating on Batters-Box's current season dataset and owns poorly rated matchups in wOBA, ISO and hard contact. He has also struggled badly against left handed hitters, who have generated a near 17% barrel rate and 76.2% elevation rate over his last 60 batters faced. Abreu enters in excellent form, carrying an elite rating while producing a 20% barrel rate, .730 SLG, .433 ISO, 212 wRC+ and 29.4% HR/FB rate over his last 10 games.
Guerrero has one career homer against Gray in 13 at-bats, with his average exit velocity near 92 MPH. Gray has coughed up a long ball in three of his last six starts, and in a hitter-friendly park like Rogers Centre, I'll give Vladdy the benefit of the doubt.
Matt Olson finds himself in an excellent spot against New York Mets right hander Christian Scott, carrying an elite Batters-Box rating and 72.2% arsenal coverage. Scott has struggled more against left handed hitters this season, with the last 90 he has faced posting a .500 xSLG and .287 xBA while elevating the baseball nearly 61% of the time. Olson has also been crushing the baseball lately, producing a 50% hard-hit rate, 30.8% barrel rate and 80.8% elevation rate over his last ten games. With strong power numbers across the board, I expect Olson to make plenty of noise tonight.
Francisco Alvarez finds himself in a strong spot against Bryce Elder and the Atlanta Braves. Alvarez enters Monday with an elite Batters-Box rating while covering over 90% of Elder's pitch mix. Across 35 elite ratings over the last three seasons, Alvarez has gone over this prop 57.14% of the time, including six of his last ten. He has also been excellent against right handed pitching, posting a .306 BA, .433 OBP, .612 SLG and .306 ISO over his last 60. Elder has struggled against right handed hitters, allowing significant hard contact and power. At -170 or better, Alvarez remains playable.
The Baltimore Orioles are taking on Dean Kremer in a revenge spot after trading him to the Minnesota Twins on July 31, but let's be honest—the revenge angle doesn't scare me. If anything, Orioles hitters should have an extensive scouting report on Kremer and know his arsenal well. That arsenal includes heavy reliance on his four-seam fastball, a pitch carrying a -2 run value this season. Leaning on a mediocre fastball is a problem against this Orioles lineup, especially with Gunnar Henderson and Pete Alonso, two of the biggest bats at the top of the order, both excellent fastball hitters. The Orioles are trading as a 53-cent favorite on Polymarket, and I price them closer to 55 cents. It's not a massive edge, but an edge is an edge, and that's all we need.
Burleson has hit 16 of his 19 homers against right-handed pitchers while sporting a monster .240 ISO and .414 wOBA. This is also a favorable pitching matchup. Phillies righty Andrew Painter sports a 5.13 xERA and his 1.8 HR/9 is the 13th-highest mark among pitchers with at least 70 innings pitched. Excellent hitting conditions are in the forecast tonight at Busch Stadium, too.
This Over is my favorite bet for this game because Cardinals righty Hunter Dobbins has only made five starts this season, and the Phillies are third in xwOBA with an average of 4.72 runs per game since the All-Star Break. St. Louis is also set for statistical correction at the dish. Despite ranking seventh in hard-hit percentage and third in both squared-up contact and blast-contact rates across the past 30 days, the Cards sit 23rd in BABIP, and they have a soft pitching matchup with Phillies righty Andrew Painter sporting a 5.13 xERA. Favorable hitting conditions are forecast at Busch Stadium tonight, too.
Jackson Chourio is destroying baseballs with four homers in his last seven games and a massive 35.3% barrel rate. Nearly half of his contact has been in the air, while Mize is coming off a rough Padres debut and San Diego’s bullpen has allowed plenty of fly-ball contact lately as well.
The Under 7.5 leans on muted lineup splits and strong relief work. San Diego owns a 94 wRC+ at home, while Milwaukee sits at 98 on the road. Henderson is dealing, and both bullpens enter in strong form, giving this matchup a clear path to stay tight late tonight overall.
Junior Caminero is in an excellent spot to go deep against Athletics left hander Jacob Lopez. Caminero has homered in nearly 30% of his elite-rated games this season and is the highest-rated Rays hitter on Batters-Box today, covering 80.5% of Lopez's pitches. Against southpaws over his last 60 plate appearances, Caminero owns a .580 SLG, 1.013 OPS and .260 ISO while generating a 51.3% hard-hit rate. He has also produced a 23.1% barrel rate over his last 10 games. With favorable weather in Sacramento, including near 10 MPH winds toward left center, Caminero is worth backing at +225 or better.
Junior Caminero leads the Rays in average fly ball distance by nearly 40 feet over the last 15 games while also pacing the group in barrel rate at 13.6%.
Jacob Lopez has conceded 1.86 homers per nine innings to righties, a full home run more than he allows to lefties. Favorable hitting conditions won't help.
I'd take Caminero to leave the yard down to +186.
Giants starter Blade Tidwell has surrendered a massive .396 wOBA and 1.98 HR/9 to left-handed batters during his career, and Alvarez sports the highest ISO and slugging percentage in the majors against righties among batters with at least 300 plate appearances. The unfavorable hitting conditions forecasted at Oracle Park tonight are also inflating the price for this prop.
Even with the weather forecast calling for unfavorable hitting conditions, the Houston offense is set up to put runs on the board tonight with San Fran righty Blade Tidwell making just his fourth career start. He’s allowed opposing hitters to tee off to the tune of a .386 wOBA and .869 OPS across the first three, after all. Plus, in addition to Houston ranking third in wOBA and sixth in xwOBA across the past two weeks, the Astros also rank ninth in wOBA and fifth in ISO against righties for the year. It’s all added up to Houston playing to the Over in 20 of their last 35 games (+6.85 Units / 18% ROI), too.
Shohei Ohtani's is even better at home (168 wRC+ and .297 ISO) and carries his power regardless of platoon split (11 home runs against left-handed pitchers). The wind will be blowing out to center field, and either Noah Cameron (contact-prone, lack of groundballs) or the bullpen (71 HRs allowed, third most) can be had for a dinger.
Atlanta and Chicago send two of the best lineups in baseball to the dish, and they respectively rank eighth and third in wOBA against lefties for the campaign. The two clubs have also trended to the Over, and I'm particularly expecting White Sox southpaw Anthony Kay to struggle considering he's saddled with the fifth-highest xERA in baseball among the 100 pitchers with at least 60 innings this year.
I'm fading Chicago White Sox lefty Anthony Kay on Thursday. He's sporting the fifth-highest xERA among the 100 pitchers with at least 60 innings, after all. Plus, the Atlanta Braves enter ranked eighth in wOBA against southpaws for the season and sixth in overall xwOBA across the past 14 days.
The Yankees rank Top-3 in OPS, ISO, OBP, xWOBA, and hard hit rate when facing left-handed pitching. The Red Sox have hit righties very well over the past four weeks, sitting ninth in wOBA, ninth in ISO, and fourth in batting average. Play the Over to -120.
Ranger Suarez has started four games against teams ranking Top-10 in OPS vs. left-handed pitching, allowing 13 runs and posting a 6.13 ERA during those games. The New York Yankees lead the majors in OPS against lefties so they’re a prime candidate to cause Suarez problems. Playable to -145.
The Braves have dropped five of six while averaging just 2.8 runs per game and ranking 29th in wOBA without Ronald Acuna Jr. (hamstring), and it’s been a smoke-and-mirrors start for veteran lefty Martin Perez, and there’s serious statistical correction ahead of his .230 BABIP and 80.2% strand rate considering they’re both high-end marks about pitchers with at least 60 innings this season. San Francisco is just the offense to kick-start the regression, too. The Giants are pacing the majors in wOBA and fourth in xwOBA over the past 30 days, after all.
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