Wednesday MLB Best Bets: Strider Makes Season Debut for Braves

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00:00some major league baseball action on this wednesday drs and some day baseball to get

00:06ready for as well all 30 clubs in action a 15 game full slate on this wednesday and a huge huge

00:14moment for the atlanta braves today in toronto spencer scrider makes his return in his season

00:21debut for atlanta they're a road favorite up in the six against the blue jays what can we expect

00:28out of spencer scrider making his season debut in 2025 yeah that's a tough part the one thing that

00:34we do like is we saw his evolution here getting those warm-up starts down in spring training and

00:38or in the minor league baseball system and strider looked every bit the part but also understand this

00:43schwellenbach came in in good form yesterday going up against that to toronto excuse me toronto blue

00:48jays roster didn't look all that great yesterday and against a lineup that you can basically had

00:53right now because toronto hasn't been a great hitting lineup strider doesn't have any statistics

00:57last year only 42 batters faced you are expecting a good performance also but is he on a pitch count

01:01at this point which will probably get a feel for a little bit later in the day opposite side chris

01:06bassett last year in an average season 73 batters he's faced this season just trying to take a look

01:11to see where bassett actually winds up today on the card actually take a look at this 25 pitchers on the

01:17card today with at least you know one start this season so far 7.04 is the x whip of the worst guy on

01:23the card it's patrick corbin the best guy with his x whip through 18 and a third innings it's actually

01:28chris bassett at 2.63 today so two pitchers here you're expecting a good performance at a strider

01:34bassett has been solid so far this year so why not an under of the seven and a half in this game

01:38between the braves and the blue jays in the return of spencer strider yeah yesterday we did see some

01:44runs as drs shared spencer schwellenbach who in three starts 20 innings of work had only allowed

01:50one earned run entering yesterday's outing against the blue jays responsible for all six runs toronto

01:57did score also not just day baseball but the rubber match of this three game set for spencer

02:03strider five and a half is the k prop the over has the juice he looked great in minor league starts he

02:08looked great in spring training for atlanta just two starts early last year drs

02:13before an elbow injury sidelined him for the remainder of 2024 he did enter the 2024 season

02:21as that opening day favorite to win the national league cy young award we'll see what he has for

02:26a braves team still stuck on just five wins five and 12 this season another return to a starting staff

02:34for clark schmidt he gets the nod today for the yankees and the yankees outside of max freed

02:40need some help in that starting rotation as well the yanks open for the sweep against the kansas city

02:47royals as today at home they're a minus 154 favorite against kc not a ton of offense so far for the

02:53royals this week up in the bronx jason dominguez doing what he can for the yankees yesterday as they

02:59beat the royals four to two over understands at eight and a half donnie what's your thought for schmidt's

03:04debut in this matchup today in the bronx yeah 48 degrees at first pitch 12 mile an hour wind blowing

03:10out to right field which you do like that but chris bubich has been very good on the season this

03:13year 18 and a two-thirds innings pitch how about an era under one and an exit number of 298 now here's

03:19where push comes to shove you look at that yankees lineup that's going to settle up tonight they have

03:23been absolutely sensational with their power numbers against left-handed pitching goldschmidt 286 iso rice

03:28300 judge 722 ellinger 231 volpe 304 chisholm 167 wells 250 grisham 273 just to go over eight of the

03:37nine starters in that lineup today you flip it over to the other side and say okay clark schmidt you're

03:42going to trust him in his first start this is also a team that gets right into pitching talking about

03:45the royals that hasn't got untracked yet in 2025 yet i hate to do an under in the bronx but was

03:51yesterday maybe again today it's been in the first two games of this three game set four round mlb next

03:58a couple of returns today on the bump spencer schrider makes his season debut after an elbow

04:05injury put him on the shelf only two starts into 2024 a year ago he starts today for the braves on

04:12the road in toronto clark schmidt makes his return 16 starts last year for the yankees a 285 era

04:20donnie it's a good news for the yanks of course who during spring training dealt with some bad injury

04:26news garrett cole out for the year and carlos stanton hasn't played just yet clark schmidt on

04:31the shelf he is back today the yankees looking for a three game sweep over the kansas city royals and oh

04:38by the way really max freed yesterday off to a 3-0 start now as the newest new york yankee with a

04:441-8-8 era he's the only guy in the starting rotation this year for the yanks with a sub-5 era to begin

04:51good news to get clark schmidt back the san diego padres home win streak to start the year

04:57is snapped at 11 yesterday in extras in 10 innings the chicago cubs hand the padres their first home l of

05:05the season two to one courtesy of a game winning rbi triple from nico horner in extras can san diego

05:12get back in the win column at home some day baseball at petco it's the padres and the cubbies in san diego

05:20an ever so slight favorite minus 122 on that money line total stands at seven and a half what

05:25do you like here in the rubber match today in san diego you take a look at those seven and a half

05:29identical to what you saw last night which easily stayed on the under and also that game went into

05:35extra innings pitching pivetta is on the mound today why do we bring that up 17 innings so far

05:39on this young season for pivetta how about a 1.59 era which actually is translating to a 2.96 x fit

05:45which is really really good you look at the lineup today or at least the anticipated lineup for the

05:49chicago cubs tucker bush creek crow armstrong and miguel amaya have very good statistics iso power

05:55number and power wise with weighted on base percentages against right into pitching the rest

05:59leaves a little bit to be desired you flip it over to the other side boyd who comes into this game

06:02with decent statistics also through his 17 innings pitched a 1.59 era but a slightly elevated x fit

06:09number of 4.22 you look at the lineup however for the padres it doesn't face all that much left

06:15pitching and hasn't done all of that all well so a day game out there at petco which usually the ball

06:20travels a little bit better than at night i'm still going to lean on the under seven and a half

06:23like we saw last night two decent pitchers two lineups that don't present themselves all that

06:28well i don't know if we get to eight runs therefore i'll lean undersize yeah a big bounce back win last

06:33night drs for your philadelphia phillies price harper jt real muto really leading the offensive charge for

06:40the phils to even up their midweek set against the san francisco giants today inside citizen bank

06:46ballpark we've got aaron nola on the mound for the phils against robbie ray and sf minus 146 in favor

06:53of philadelphia total stands at seven and a half what's the play in philly yeah trusting aaron nola in

07:00this spot tonight might be a little bit of a danger zone why you take a look at him on the season through

07:04a 16 and two-thirds innings pitcher 16 and a third innings pitch excuse me about a 550 era not very

07:10good but his xfip is much lower at 3.63 you take a look at that san francisco lineup today as it looks

07:16willie adamas and patrick bailey only ones that are underperforming against right into pitching

07:20everybody else has really good numbers and that should help now the old wild card of this one is

07:25going to be robbie ray because you look at his statistics through 15 and a third innings pitched he's

07:29got a low era at 2.93 but an xfip of 5.44 why because he's pretty wild he walks a lot of batters

07:36he does have some strikeout numbers against left-handed batters but against right he hasn't

07:39done all that well however you take a look at schwarber with great numbers against lefties is

07:44that neutralizes castellanos the only positive batter against left-handed pitching for the

07:48philadelphia phillies in that lineup today hate to do it like the game went over yesterday and this you

07:53know san francisco's got a pretty good lineup looking today i think the phillies do win because i don't

07:56think robbie ray is really up to the competition as he was just a few years back but at the same

08:01time probably controlling under again in philadelphia with that low total of 17 and excuse me seven and

08:05a half yeah drs these two teams have split the opening two games of this midweek set today not

08:11the rubber match there will be a fourth game come tomorrow on a thursday really our last time

08:16to break down the mlb card on this wednesday drs do any other games really stick out to you

08:21no i haven't really handicapped the card overall that much just looking at some of those pitching

08:26matchups where you're trying to factor in like you know the robbie rays or the bad pitchers we

08:29just took a look at patrick corbin bryce miller yesterday was a really good card to sort of knock

08:34around pitchers and they did that but there's still a good 10 pitchers today with an xvip around four or

08:39higher so some things we can chew on but again we're talking about 15 16 10 innings for most of

08:44these pitchers we got a long way to go before you can actually balance those statistics out but it's nice

08:49to see afternoon major league baseball action so all the way through today we'll be having fun and

08:53certainly handicapping those as we go yeah five games in the afternoon hours in their respective

08:58spots the brewers and the tigers in milwaukee the twins host the new york mets in minnesota the cardinals

09:05and the astros and as we shared the padres and the cubs that's at 4 11 p.m eastern time but of course

09:12around 1 p.m pacific time

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