Check out my Best MLB Picks for today We're set to kick off the weekend with a full slate of baseball on Friday, and there are plenty of teams in action that are beginning their march to the postseason. (Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images) We'll take a look at many of them below, ...
BEST MLB BETS TONIGHT FOR LOS ANGELES ANGELS VS HOUSTON ASTROS It's always fun to look towards teams trying to play the role of spoiler at this point in the season as oddsmakers set heavy lines on favorites who are pushing towards the playoffs against teams that are already out of the ra...
This MLB season was weird. Really weird. 6ySam Miller But if it's irrelevant to know who the best teams are, it's helpful to know what the best teams are best at -- and here the long schedule becomes quite helpful. Each playoff team emerges from the regular season with something it...
Cleveland's lineup hits four-seamers (12th in run value per 100 pitches) far better than sinkers (26th) or any other typical pitch type. Its offense also refused to strike out against lefties in the second half (18.6%, 2nd in MLB vs. 21.7%, 12th against righties). I would have bet ...
On the flip side, Patrick Sandoval was absolutely dreadful on MLB Opening Day and will now face a Marlins lineup which raked against lefties, relative to their overall offensive numbers in 2023. They return their core players this season and should be ready to feast on a soft-tosser with po...
So which players will teams be targeting? Depending on their specific needs, some will have myriad options, while others may be forced to focus on one or two available possibilities. MLB.com looks at the best player currently believed to be available at each position, along with the “Buzz ...
(the 2017 champs) and their archrivals, the New York Yankees. Those three teams split all of the first-place votes with the Red Sox and Astros getting six apiece and the Yankees getting the remaining three.Opening Day on ESPN and ESPN+A new MLB season is upon us, and what bette...
Ohtani, like many lefties, does have some notable platoon splits, in that his regular-season OPS was 261 points worse against lefties than it was righties – not, of course, that “merely slugging .518 against left-handed pitching” makes him vulnerable. Plus, after a relatively slow few ...
According to USAToday.com, on Thursday there are eight games schedule for the Cactus League teams and Ferrell is planning to play in all eight of those games for a great cause. In collaboration between MLB and HBO for cancer awareness, Farrell is going to play all nine positions on the fi...
While their numbers in any split can't be called even remotely close to "good" the White Sox are one of the rare teams who have hit lefties better than righties with around a five-point increase in average to lift their wRC+ up a point higher than the reverse split. ...