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Kansas City Royals Insights

• Kansas City Royals – Moneyline (+165)
  The Kansas City Royals infield defense profiles as the strongest out of every team today.
  Explain: Defense is an integral part of preventing hits and runs.
• Jac Caglianone – Over/Under 1.5 Total Bases (+150/-195)
  Jac Caglianone has seen a big increase in his exit velocity this year; just compare his 93.1-mph average to last season’s 89.4-mph average.
  Explain: Hitting the ball hard increases the chances of either a home run or the ball landing in fair territory for a hit before a fielder can get to it.
• Bobby Witt Jr. – Over/Under 1.5 Total Bases (+130/-170)
  Bobby Witt Jr. has an 89th percentile opposite-field rate on his flyballs (35.2%) and is a great match for the park considering he’ll be hitting them out towards baseball’s 6th-shallowest RF fences in today’s game.
  Explain: This player’s skill set matches up particularly well with the park he’s in today, which may lead to better-than-usual performance.

Cleveland Guardians Insights

• Parker Messick – Over/Under 18.5 Pitching Outs (+135/-175)
  Generating 17.9 outs per outing this year on average, Parker Messick checks in at the 93rd percentile.
  Explain: A pitcher who averages more outs per start than his Outs prop may be a good bet to go over, and visa-versa for the under.
• Chase DeLauter – Over/Under 1.5 Total Bases (+120/-155)
  The leading projection system (THE BAT X) estimates Chase DeLauter’s true offensive skill to be a .320, suggesting that he has experienced some positive variance this year given the .034 discrepancy between that mark and his actual .354 wOBA.
  Explain: Players that are overperforming should be expected to play worse going forward, which can create value on prop Unders if the lines are too heavily weighing the lucky, to-date overperformance.
• Parker Messick – Over/Under 6.5 Strikeouts (+105/-135)
  According to the leading projection system (THE BAT), Patrick Bailey (the Guardians’s expected catcher in today’s game) profiles as an elite pitch framer.
  Explain: Pitch framing is a catcher’s ability to make a ball look like a strike to the umpire, “stealing” strikes for his pitcher. This leads to more positive outcomes (like strikeouts) and fewer negative ones (like walks or earned runs).