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MLB Player Props & Home Run Picks Today for Tuesday, August 13

Updated August 13, 2024 | 12:11 pm CDT by Isaiah Sirois
The best MLB player prop bets and home run picks for today, Tuesday, August 13, including a bet for Hunter Greene...

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MLB Player Props & Home Run Picks Today: Tuesday, August 13

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MLB Home Run Pick Today: Yandy Diaz

We’re going with another long shot to go yard today, but I think the price we’re getting at FanDuel is just too good to pass up. I locked in Yandy Diaz to hit a home run at +700 this morning, and, although the price has since dropped somewhat, it’s still worth an investment at the current number. Almost every other book has this bet in the +500 range.

Although Diaz isn’t known as a big-time home run hitter, he is slashing an impressive .337/.377/.529 versus LHPs with three home runs. He’ll rake on LHP Yusei Kikuchi in the Trop tonight, and Kikuchi is allowing RHBs like Diaz to slash .275/.323/.441 with 16 home runs.

Kikuchi has been more beatable than you may think. His .251 xBA (39th percentile) and 10.1% barrel rate (12th) demonstrate that batters are hitting reasonably well against him, especially for power. Although Kikuchi has allowed only 17 home runs on the year, he has coughed up 19 xHR and 18 xHR in the Trop.

Let’s target Diaz to go yard — or to at least record multiple bases. He’s trading at +115 at FanDuel for multiple bags, which is far too generous for a leadoff guy with a .275 xBA (84th) and .417 xSLG (57th) who clearly hits well against LHPs.

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MLB Home Run Pick Today: Yandy Diaz +680 at FanDuel
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MLB Player Prop Pick Today: Hunter Greene

The St. Louis Cardinals are in Great American Ball Park to take on the Cincinnati Reds, and the Reds will turn to RHP Hunter Greene tonight. While Greene has been effective this year, sporting a 27.6% strikeout rate (83rd percentile), the Cardinals may prove to be more of a challenge than some realize.

Since the All-Star Break, St. Louis ranks seventh in strikeout rate versus RHPs (19.4%). It’s a meaningful improvement since they ranked 19th (23.4%) beforehand. Further, from the trade deadline onward, St. Louis ranks an even better fourth in the metric (18.3%).

Anyway, those are my quick projection-based reasons for taking this line. I have some market-based reasons, too. If you don’t know what market-based betting is, read our guide to sports betting strategy. Greene’s odds of staying under 6.5 strikeouts at BetMGM are beating the market, revealing some positive expected value (+EV):

To find +EV, OddsShopper’s sports betting model indexes the odds from every book. Once that’s done, it generates a breakeven price for each bet called “true odds.” With that number, we can estimate the expected value of every wager.

Greene’s true odds of staying under 6.5 total strikeouts clock in at +104, which edges out +110 at BetMGM. Edges like this one won’t transform your bankroll in one night, but they can do so over the long term.

How much of a profit can you expect to make from tailing our +EV bets? Just check out our results page. As of today, our model has dug up 4,411 total strikeout props with an OS Rating of 2 or higher this season. A very nice 2,500 of those bets won, generating a 10.7% ROI for those who tailed.

MLB Player Prop Pick: Hunter Green Under 6.5 Strikeouts +110 at BetMGM
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Isaiah Sirois is a sports betting analyst at OddsShopper specializing in basketball, football and motorsports. Basketball is Isaiah’s favorite sport to handicap, and he has covered NBA, WNBA, NCAA and FIBA markets for OddsShopper and other sites. However, Isaiah’s favorite sport to follow is auto racing, and you can usually find him watching NASCAR or IndyCar on Sundays. He will be a fan of Team Penske and Ford Performance until the end of time. Isaiah graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history from Emory University and briefly attended Vanderbilt Law School before dropping out to work at OddsShopper.

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