MLB Player Prop Bets & Home Run Picks Today for Friday, April 26 (2024)

Only two of Mikolas’ batted balls allowed would’ve cleared the fences of Citi Field, so it’s a good thing that the MLB weather report calls for 10 mph winds blowing out through center field.

We’re targeting Francisco Lindor against Mikolas today. The veteran shortstop is no stranger to Mikolas, with four hits (one of which went for extra bases) against him over 11 at-bats.

Lindor is having an okay start to the year. His slash line (.206/.291/.361) isn’t good, but his .265 xBA and .428 xSLG suggest he has gotten unlucky, and there’s no time like the present for his actual stats to start improving.

He’ll also benefit from Mikolas’ struggles against opposite-handed batters, who have slashed .315/.371/.537 this season with eight extra-base hits and two home runs.

The model shows that a wager on Verdugo to stay under 1.5 total bases will cost you only -160 at Fanatics despite costing -180 almost everywhere else. Pinnacle, a sharp book, is charging a whopping -192 for this wager, so don’t expect the price at Fanatics to stick around forever.

You may have questions about how the model works — and whether it’s profitable. To answer the first, you can find out more by perusing our guide to using +EV betting tools, but I’ll give you the rundown: our tools index the odds from across the market; adjust those odds for hold, book sharpness and other factors; and identify a breakeven price point (called “true odds“) for each bet.

Bets like this one, when wagered over a sufficiently large sample, can transform your bankroll — just as they transformed mine! Not every bet will win, and it won’t happen overnight, but we have the results to prove it.

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If you’re a frequent reader of this column, yes, Adolis Garcia (+265 at FanDuel) is once again trading with +EV. But instead of spotlighting him, I want to focus on this Julio Rodriguez bet because we’re beating the market by an absolute TON. We’re getting him at +450 on FanDuel despite every other book listing this bet for +330 or shorter, including Pinnacle, where it’ll cost you +247.

Rodriguez draws Arizona’s ace, Zac Gallen. While Gallen sports a scary 0.53 ERA at home, that number balloons to 7.20 on the road. Gallen has coughed up two home runs and a .370 batting average when playing on the road, and while that’s a small sample, it’s not like the San Francisco or Colorado offenses are all that good.

Every time I use the model to bet on home runs, I have to remind you guys that baseball is a 162-game season. Even if you’re not cashing every one of our model’s home run picks, you don’t need to have close to a 50% win rate to be profitable — these wagers are almost always +250 or longer, allowing you to miss more than a few and still make money. If you’re skeptical of our long-term profitability, just check out our simulations.