Tough Wednesday in the Sleeper article for yours truly, with a 0-3 reverse sweep. Let’s rebound on this small six-game slate for this Thursday, April 4th. Here are three of my favorite Sleeper player prop picks for today.
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Thursday’s Best MLB Sleeper Picks Player Predictions
Sleeper Record: 11-9
The Guardians star is not one to strike out very often, so getting this at plus-money is a bonus. Jose Ramirez has a career 12% K% and ranked in the 98th-percentile K% and 94th-percentile in Whiff% last season. He went 95/156 (60.8%) games last season without a strikeout. So far this season he is under this in four of six games. Against today’s starter Pablo Lopez, he is 4-13 without a single strikeout and a minuscule 8% whiff rate. The real test will be against the bullpen. That might only be one or two plate appearances, so he seems worthy of a play today.
Tough Wednesday in the Sleeper article for yours truly, with a 0-3 reverse sweep. Let’s rebound on this small six-game slate for this Thursday, April 4th. Here are three of my favorite Sleeper player prop picks for today.
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Thursday’s Best MLB Sleeper Picks Player Predictions
Sleeper Record: 11-9
The Guardians star is not one to strike out very often, so getting this at plus-money is a bonus. Jose Ramirez has a career 12% K% and ranked in the 98th-percentile K% and 94th-percentile in Whiff% last season. He went 95/156 (60.8%) games last season without a strikeout. So far this season he is under this in four of six games. Against today’s starter Pablo Lopez, he is 4-13 without a single strikeout and a minuscule 8% whiff rate. The real test will be against the bullpen. That might only be one or two plate appearances, so he seems worthy of a play today.
It’s hard to want to take the under on a guy with a strikeout prop this low but after seeing what Michael Soroka did in his first start, it’s not that bad. The guy generated three whiffs in five innings of work against the Tigers. That is a baffling low number and it resulted in zero strikeouts. He allowed seven hits, four earned runs and three walks. Detroit isn’t known as murderer’s row, so the Royals should be able to do some damage here. They’ve been seeing the ball well in the early going with a 107 wRC+. If they can hold Corbin Burnes (three strikeouts) under this mark, they should be able to keep Soroka in check.
Similar to Joe Musgrove’s line yesterday, this seems way off for Tanner Bibee. He has stayed under this mark in 18 of 26 (69%) starts to begin his career. That includes his first start of the season against Oakland where he showed some rust. He went just four innings (88 pitches), while allowing 11 batters to reach base, giving three earned runs and striking out just four. The A’s aren’t one to normally do that to a starter but Minnesota has the bats to do some damage. Early on, that has admittedly not been the case. They do tend to strike out at a sizable clip, however, Bibee has shown more often than not that he is not the guy to exceed this line. Let’s go with the less than here.
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