Oswald Peraza Total Hits Props • LA Angels
Oswald Peraza is penciled in 1st in the lineup in today's game, which would be an upgrade from his 98% rate of hitting in the bottom-half of the lineup this year. Built 602 feet above sea level, American Family Field has the 8th-highest elevation in MLB, which tends to lead to higher offensive output. Oswald Peraza hits a high percentage of his flyballs to center field (38.4% — 77th percentile) and is fortunate to face the league's 8th-shallowest CF fences in today's matchup. In the past two weeks, Oswald Peraza's 55.2% rate of hitting balls at a base hit-optimizing launch angle (between -4° and 26°) shows big improvement over his seasonal rate of 39.6%. Based on Statcast metrics, the leading projection system (THE BAT X)'s version of Expected wOBA (.264) may lead us to conclude that Oswald Peraza has experienced some negative variance this year with his .226 actual wOBA.