There’s no sugarcoating it. Through the first couple of weeks, the picks have been poor from yours truly. Let’s try to come up with a winning day. Here are three of my favorite PrizePicks player props for Thursday, April 11.
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Thursday’s Best MLB PrizePicks Player Predictions
PrizePicks Record This Season: 5-12
There’s no sugarcoating it. Through the first couple of weeks, the picks have been poor from yours truly. Let’s try to come up with a winning day. Here are three of my favorite PrizePicks player props for Thursday, April 11.
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 This Season: 5-12
This is a steep line to cross for any starter, but Skubal is unlike most. His stuff is filthy, and he generates strikeouts at an elite rate. Last season, he had a 32.9% K% in 80.1 innings pitched.
Skubal looked sharp last outing against the A’s with nine punchouts and shouldn’t have any trouble finding plenty in this contest either. The Twins own the second-highest K% (28.2%) on the season. It’s a small sample, but the Minnesota roster has combined for a 37.5% K% in 48 plate appearances against Skubal.
The Tigers still possess a pretty pathetic lineup. Their 95 wRC+ isn’t all that bad so far, but taking on Pablo Lopez presents a different challenge than any other ordinary pitcher.
Last season, Lopez ranked in the 93rd-percentile in xERA, 95th in chase%, and 87th in K%. He’s an elite hurler and should make easy work of Detroit much the same way as he did last season. The Tigers own a combined 199 xwOBA and 29.2 K% in 65 plate appearances against Lopez, who struck out at least seven batters in 21 of 32 starts last season.
Quintana is not a strike-out guy and never has been with a career 7.96 K/9. He has been held under this mark in both starts this season, and the Braves love to face him. The Braves own a .359 xwOBA and 17.3 K% across 156 combined plate appearances against Quintana. Atlanta possesses one of the most fearsome lineups in baseball and there’s a decent chance they knock the veteran lefty out of the game early.
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