It’s the third Saturday of the 2025 Major League Baseball regular season. We continue to amass plenty of information after the first two full weeks of play, so we can make educated plays and start building a nice bankroll going forward.
We’ll take a look at the evening slate, giving you a handful of MLB PrizePicks player predictions for Saturday, April 12th.
Our PrizePicks Cheat Sheet helps bettors by comparing lines from PrizePicks vs. our daily MLB projections >>
It’s the third Saturday of the 2025 Major League Baseball regular season. We continue to amass plenty of information after the first two full weeks of play, so we can make educated plays and start building a nice bankroll going forward.
We’ll take a look at the evening slate, giving you a handful of MLB PrizePicks player predictions for Saturday, April 12th.
Our PrizePicks Cheat Sheet helps bettors by comparing lines from PrizePicks vs. our daily MLB projections >>
Saturday’s Best MLB PrizePicks Predictions
Kyle Hart and the San Diego Padres host the Colorado Rockies at 8:40 p.m. ET at Petco Park. The 32-year-old Padres southpaw is not a great strikeout pitcher, per se. He had four strikeouts in his only home start against the Cleveland Guardians on March 3st1, but he also served up two solo home runs in five innings.
Hart also had a rough go against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field last time out on Sunday, coughing up five runs and two hits with four walks while retiring just two batters. Hart should be champing at the bit to get back in there, especially at home against a bad team.
The Rockies strike out more than any team in the National League with 143 strikeouts in just 13 games. They’re second in the Majors behind only the Boston Red Sox (147). Technically, the Rockies have more strikeouts per game (11). Hart should be able to get at least six punchouts if he can stick around a while.
While the Los Angeles Dodgers are World Championship contenders, they’re also a very free-swinging team. Dodger Blue has struck out 134 times through 15 games, which is 8.9 strikeouts per game. The Dodgers have won all three meetings against the Cubs this season, including two wins in Japan, and a 3-0 victory against the Cubs in the series opener on Friday. Even in a 3-0 win, the Dodgers struck out nine times in the series opener.
Brown has had a difficult time keeping the ball in the park in the early going, allowing two homers in the past nine innings in a road start against the Athletics and a home relief appearance against the San Diego Padres last Sunday. The good news is that Brown has at least five strikeouts in each of his two starts and his lone relief showing. That includes five strikeouts in just 2.2 innings in Japan on March 18th against the Dodgers.
Mookie Betts has cobbled together a six-game hitting streak, while reaching base in seven straight games. He has at least one single in each of those six outings. Betts has never faced Ben Brown, who we’re still hoping can manage at least five strikeouts.
Betts has struck out just four times in 45 at-bats, so he’s unlikely to help us with the Brown pursuit of five or more strikeouts, but he is a good bet to notch at least one single.
Nico Hoerner was hitless with a strikeout in three at-bats in Friday’s series opener against the Dodgers, dropping his batting average to .300. He is a terror on the base paths.
Hoerner and teammate Pete Crow-Armstrong have each logged six stolen bases, tied for second-most in the Majors behind Pittsburgh outfielder Oneil Cruz. Hoerner is the better bet between the two, as he has a .373 on-base percentage (OBP) to just .273 for Crow-Armstrong. There is a much better chance for Hoerner to get on base, and therefore a much better chance he’ll be able to swipe a base at Chavez Ravine in the middle game of this series on Saturday.
Jacob Wilson is facing lefty Mets pitcher David Peterson. Wilson looks to extend his hitting streak to 15 games. He has been on fire out of the box, posting a .377 batting average (20-for-53) with three doubles, two homers and eight RBI with just two strikeouts. He has a .925 OPS, too.
Wilson doesn’t have a ton of experience this season against southpaws, but he is 2-for-5 with a double and a run scored with a .600 slugging rate and 1.000 OPS. It’s a small sample size, but keep rolling with Wilson, striking while the iron is hot.
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