Today’s full slate of baseball games offers lots of opportunities for winning, and one of the best places to win is PrizePicks. Let’s find out who we’re targeting for today.
Season to Date: 4-1-1
Saturday’s Best MLB PrizePicks Player Predictions
Here are the best PrizePicks plays for today’s action.
Corey Seager Over 1.5 Total Bases
Before the season began, Seager was one of the hottest “sleepers” around. After missing a month with a hamstring injury, the 29-year-old has come as advertised. In his last 10 games, he has crossed the 1.5 TB mark six times. He has 20 doubles in 44 games this year, and we only need him to get one in Yankee Stadium to hit this mark.
Today’s full slate of baseball games offers lots of opportunities for winning, and one of the best places to win is PrizePicks. Let’s find out who we’re targeting for today.
Season to Date: 4-1-1
Saturday’s Best MLB PrizePicks Player Predictions
Here are the best PrizePicks plays for today’s action.
Corey Seager Over 1.5 Total Bases
Before the season began, Seager was one of the hottest “sleepers” around. After missing a month with a hamstring injury, the 29-year-old has come as advertised. In his last 10 games, he has crossed the 1.5 TB mark six times. He has 20 doubles in 44 games this year, and we only need him to get one in Yankee Stadium to hit this mark.
He faces Luis Severino, who carries a 6.30 ERA and 1.57 WHIP into the contest, including giving up 2.4 long balls per game. One of those would get us to the mark as well. Either way, Seager is poised to have a good game.
Corbin Carroll Over 9.5 Fantasy Score
As The Welsh likes to say on our Leading Off podcast, “Corbin Carroll is a PrizePicks cheat code.” The 9.5 seems like a big number until I tell you that over the last five games, his PP fantasy scores are 17, 12, 12, 5, and 18. Carroll will face off against the Giants, who are running a bullpen game this afternoon. There are just too many ways for him to collect fantasy points to believe this number is too high, so I’m willing to roll the dice that his incredible rookie season continues.
Pablo Lopez/Reese Olson Over 12.5 Combined Strikeouts
No team has done more damage to my bankroll this year than the Detroit Tigers. No matter what angle I take or which prop I back, they seem to buck the numbers when I lay money down on it. However, this particular combo prop appeals to me for two primary reasons.
1) The current Tigers players who have faced Lopez have an xBA of .081 and have struck out at a 46% clip. Lopez has struck out nine in his last two outings and has a K/9 of 10.5 on the road. Detroit has struck out the third-most in MLB against righties.
2) The Twins are always in play for a strikeout prop. Not to be outdone by their opponents, Minnesota has the most strikeouts against right-handed pitchers in MLB, and Olson’s number on PrizePicks is 5.5. His current K/9 is 8.8, so I think that if he can manage to get through five innings, he can clear that number with the potential for more.
Hogan Harris Under 3.5 Strikeouts
On Sunday, this Southpaw helped carry me to victory by going over his 4.5 number by striking out seven Phillies, and I threatened to buy a Hogan Harris jersey. In baseball, though, you’re only as good as your current matchup, and this is a disastrous one on paper.
You can pick your favorite stat to support this prediction, but my favorite is that the Blue Jays have the fewest strikeouts in MLB against lefties. And I don’t say “fewest” lightly. They have a total of 95 strikeouts against them in 481 at-bats this season. It makes sense – their lineup is stacked with right-handed contact guys who love to face the opposite hand.
On top of that, Harris has a K/9 of 6.7, so it’s a perfect combination of a completely moveable pitcher being faced with an unstoppable force of a lineup. I think he’s going to get rocked early and often, and I would be shocked if he gets to 4 Ks while doing it.
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