Santiago Espinal Total Hits Props • Cincinnati

According to the weather forecast, the temperature and humidity for this contest will be the 2nd-best for pitching of all games on the slate today. Santiago Espinal has a 79th percentile opposite-field rate on his flyballs (34.1%) and will have to hit them out towards the league's deepest RF fences in today's matchup. Playing on the road generally weakens batter stats in all categories due to the lack of home field advantage, which should be the case for Santiago Espinal today. Last season, Santiago Espinal had a launch angle of 11.3° on his highest exit velocity balls, but this season he experienced a significant decline to just 8.1°. Based on Statcast metrics, the leading projection system (THE BAT X)'s version of Expected Batting Average (.248) implies that Santiago Espinal has experienced some positive variance this year with his .273 actual batting average.