Oh, baby. It feels like Christmas. It is Christmas for us baseball fans. Opening Day is finally here. We’ve got a few PrizePicks player predictions to spice it up. I’ll be here every Thursday and Monday, as we look to build on last year’s success, where the player predictions went 219-134 (62%) throughout the season.
Here are three of my favorite player predictions via PrizePicks for Thursday, March 27th.
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Thursday’s Best MLB PrizePicks Player Predictions
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Oh, baby. It feels like Christmas. It is Christmas for us baseball fans. Opening Day is finally here. We’ve got a few PrizePicks player predictions to spice it up. I’ll be here every Thursday and Monday, as we look to build on last year’s success, where the player predictions went 219-134 (62%) throughout the season.
Here are three of my favorite player predictions via PrizePicks for Thursday, March 27th.
Our PrizePicks Cheat Sheet helps bettors by comparing lines from PrizePicks vs. our daily MLB projections >>
Thursday’s Best MLB PrizePicks Player Predictions
PrizePicks Record: 0-0
Coming off his first Cy Young and a National League-high 225 strikeouts, let’s hope the Braves’ lanky lefty can carry that over into this season. It isn’t the easiest matchup for Chris Sale on paper, facing the San Diego Padres, but he looked sharp in spring training and found at least six strikeouts in 26 out of 29 starts last season.
Sale got his pitch count up to 83 in spring training and finished with nine strikeouts that day. I’d expect him to have a pitch count of around 90 pitches in this one, which should do the trick to get to at least six strikeouts.
This is a surprising opening number for Luis Severino, who has lost his touch for strikeouts. Last season, he ranked in the bottom 12% in CSW% (called-strikes+whiffs%) among starting pitchers, which is right in line with 2023.
Over these two years, he has hit the less than on this line in 34 out of 49 starts (69%). Things didn’t look any different in spring training, as he posted an 8.16 K/9 across 14.1 innings. Severino and the A’s face Seattle, who did strike out a ton last season, but projections don’t have them being nearly as strikeout-heavy, aside from a couple of names in the middle of their order. Even in a better matchup for strikeouts, Sevy is worth fading in his first start of the year.
It’s pretty rare to find a number this low for a hits allowed player prediction, but that’s what happens when it’s Blake Snell with a potentially limited workload. Despite his propensity to either walk or strike out the batter he faces, this number is far too low, even if he hurls just 80 pitches or so.
Snell didn’t look amazing in his final spring outing either, allowing five hits and four earned runs across 3.2 innings pitched (67 pitches).
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