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Minnesota Twins Insights

• Minnesota Twins – 1st Five Innings (F5) Moneyline (+110)
  Dean Kremer projects for an average of 2.95 earned runs in today’s game, as forecasted by the leading projection system (THE BAT X).
  Explain: THE BAT X is a highly sophisticated projection system that accounts for a multitude of factors like ballpark, weather, umpire, defense, and more.
• Trevor Larnach – Over/Under 0.5 Total Bases (-135/+105)
  Trevor Larnach has been lucky this year, putting up a .363 wOBA despite the leading projection system (THE BAT X) estimating his true talent level to be .322 — a .041 deviation.
  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.
• Rating 4th-highest in baseball since the start of last season, Minnesota Twins batters jointly have posted a 15.6° launch angle on their hardest-hit balls (an advanced metric to study power ability).
  Explain: If you hit the ball hard but straight at the ground, it doesn’t do you any good. A player that is skilled at lifting his hardest hit balls into the air stands the best chance of turning them into extra-base hits or home runs.

Kansas City Royals Insights

• Noah Cameron – Over/Under 4.5 Strikeouts (-150/+115)
  Noah Cameron’s slider percentage has dropped by 5.2% from last year to this one (14.9% to 9.7%) .
  Explain: Because sliders are one of the most effective pitches to use, a pitcher who alters his pitch mix to use them less often may see less success as a result, particularly if he uses his fastball more instead.
• Michael Massey – Over/Under 0.5 Hits (-205/+160)
  Michael Massey has primarily hit in the back-half of the batting order this season (78% of the time), but he is projected to bat 5th in the batting order today.
  Explain: The higher in the order a player bats, the more plate appearances he will get and the more opportunities he will get to hit the Over for every market. A player who hits higher in the order than he normally does may provide extra value opportunity since the market may be based on him hitting lower.
• Kansas City Royals – 2H Moneyline
  The Kansas City Royals bullpen grades out as the worst in Major League Baseball, according to the leading projection system (THE BAT).
  Explain: Most bettors only consider the starting pitcher, but a weak bullpen sneakily creates an easier matchup for the opposing offense and boosts a game’s runs.

Betting Trends

• Over/Under 8.5 Game Total (-120/+100)
  The Kansas City Royals have hit the Game Total Under in 14 of their last 22 games (+6.55 Units / 27% ROI)
• Minnesota Twins – Over/Under 1.5 1st Five Innings (F5) Team Total (-155/+120)
  The Minnesota Twins have hit the 1st Five Innings (F5) Team Total Under in 8 of their last 10 games (+6.00 Units / 54% ROI)
• Josh Bell – Over/Under 0.5 Singles (-110/-120)
  Josh Bell has hit the Singles Over in 17 of his last 25 away games (+9.95 Units / 38% ROI)