With another jam-packed slate today, I've dug deep to find value in my MLB same-game parlay predictions.
I'm expecting Trey Yesavage to run through the Baltimore Orioles, while Bryan Woo should miss some bats as the Seattle Mariners face the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Toronto Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage has been impressive since returning from injury. Across six starts, he's compiled a 2.25 ERA, holding opponents to a .207 average. Yesavage has cashed the Under in earned runs allowed in all but one of his outings. He comes up against an inconsistent Baltimore Orioles lineup, and his ERA sits at 1.69 on the road.
Toronto is riding a six-game winning streak against the Orioles, and three of those victories have been on the road. The O's have lost two straight at home. Ernie Clement has cashed the Over in runs in three of his last five games, and his high degree of contact (8.3% strikeout rate) leads to more opportunities to get on base and get driven in by Toronto's bats.
Time: 4:05 p.m. ET
Where to watch: MASN, Sportsnet
Padres vs Nationals SGP: Tatis Stays Hot
The San Diego Padres are riding a four-game winning streak on the road, and they've captured five victories in the last six meetings with the Washington Nationals. Washington has lost two straight, and starter Foster Griffin has allowed 14 earned runs across his last three starts.
Michael King owns a 2.86 ERA on the road this season, and he's given up Under 2.5 earned runs in three of his last four contests. Fernando Tatis Jr. is finally starting to find a rhythm, with four multi-hit games over the last week. He's cashed the Over in total bases in back-to-back contests, and in four of his last five.
Griffin is shaky at times lately, and Tatis is batting .317 against left-handers.
Time: 4:05 p.m. ET
Where to watch: Padres.TV, Nationals.TV
Diamondbacks vs Mariners SGP: Whiffs Against Woo
Bryan Woo has been inconsistent at times this season, but he's still missing a lot of bats. The right-hander has 59 Ks in 63.2 innings, and 34 in 31 frames at home.
Woo has cashed the Over in strikeouts in three of his last four appearances, and the Arizona Diamondbacks are striking out a lot more on the road, averaging 8.60 per game. Woo has a 70.7 first pitch strike percentage. He's getting ahead of hitters, which undoubtedly helps him strike out more opponents.
The Seattle Mariners won the series opener by just one run on Friday, but they've now covered the run line in three of their last four contests. Ryne Nelson takes the hill for the D-Backs, who owns a 4.65 ERA. Julio Rodriguez is in the midst of a five-game hitting streak, and he had three hits on Friday.
Time: 10:10 p.m. ET
Where to watch: Dbacks.TV, Mariners.TV
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SGP picks: 0-3, -3.00 units
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A pitcher's duel between the Minnesota Twins and Pittsburgh Pirates highlights serious value in a scoreless first inning this afternoon.
That matchup headlines my top MLB picks today for the "no run first inning" and "yes run first inning" markets.
Here are my best NRFI predictions and YRFI picks for Saturday, May 30.
Best NRFI/YRFI predictions today
Pick
Odds
/ - NRFI
-108
/ - NRFI
-100
/ - NRFI
-100
Twins at Pirates: NRFI (-109)
It's Mitch Keller vs Bailey Ober on the mound in this matchup, two starters who have had success this season. Keller owns a 3.64 ERA, and he's compiled a 9-2 NRFI/YRFI record this season.
Keller hasn't allowed a run in the first inning in three consecutive appearances. The Minnesota Twins are hitting just .199 in the first stanza, and they've been held scoreless in the opening frame 40 times this year.
As for Ober, he sports a 3.92 ERA and a 10-1 NRFI/YRFI record. In fact, Ober hasn't given up a run in the first inning in nine straight outings. While he has gotten into trouble at times on the road, it's usually later in the game, and the Pittsburgh Pirates haven't scored in the first inning in two of their last three games.
Play this one to -130.
Time: 4:05 p.m. ET
Where to watch: SportsNet Pittsburgh, Twins.TV
Brewers at Astros: NRFI (-100)
While the matchup on the hill here between the Houston Astros and Milwaukee Brewers isn't elite, it's a pair of guys that rarely get into trouble out of the gates.
Brandon Sproat hasn't surrendered a run in the first inning in five consecutive starts, and Houston hasn't scored in the opening inning in three of their last four games.
As for Peter Lambert, he owns a sub-four ERA and a 6-1 NRFI/YRFI record in 2026. Milwaukee's lineup has had minimal success against Lambert, and they've been held scoreless in the first in three straight. The Brew Crew is also hitting just .205 in the opening inning.
Play this to -125.
Time: 4:10 p.m. ET
Where to watch: Space City Home Network, Brewers.TV
Phillies at Dodgers: NRFI (-100)
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies haven't been two teams that score a lot out of the gate this season. They've both compiled 38-19 NRFI/YRFI records, and tonight's clash is expected to be another quiet first.
Jesus Luzardo has historically dominated the Dodgers, holding them to a .168 average across 107 at-bats. He's also allowed a run in the first inning just once this season.
As for Roki Sasaki, he has an 8-1 NRFI/YRFI record in '26, and the Phillies have gone back-to-back games without creating any meaningful offense in the first inning. They're also hitting just .125 against Sasaki, although it's a small sample size of 24 at-bats.
Time: 10:10 p.m. ET
Where to watch: NBC Sports Philadelphia, Sportsnet Los Angeles
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NRFI/YRFI picks: 14-27, -3.35 units
What is a NRFI prediction?
NRFI (No Run First Inning) and YRFI (Yes Run First Inning) picks add a thrilling twist to the start of an MLB game. A NRFI pick is a prediction that no runs will be scored in the first inning. You're predicting that the starting pitchers for both teams will get through the first inning without allowing any runs, whether by striking out batters, inducing ground balls, or through solid defensive play.
A YRFI pick is the exact opposite. You're predicting that at least one run will be scored in the first inning. In this case, you’re hoping for an early offensive burst such as a leadoff walk, a timely hit, or even a home run.
NRFI and YRFI picks add excitement to the early part of a game and offer immediate gratification for those looking for a quick resolution.
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Cubs left-hander Shōta Imanaga was off to such a good start this season. Over his first nine starts he posted a 2.32 ERA and allowed just five home runs in 54.1 innings. Maybe, just maybe, he had put the home-run issue from last year in the past?
Well, nope, or so it now seems. Over his last three starts Imanaga has an 11.49 (!) ERA and eight (!) home runs served up in just 15.2 innings. Perhaps needless to say, the Cubs have dropped all three of those games, including Friday’s 6-5 loss to the Cardinals.
Still, the Cubs might have had a chance to win this game if not for yet another bad outing from Phil Maton, who gave St. Louis the insurance run they needed in the eighth. Do the Cubs still score in the ninth if it’s 5-4 instead of 6-4? Pitch sequencing might have been different. Still, Maton dug the hole deeper and that’s exactly what the Cubs did not need.
More on that later. Let’s start at the beginning, which was actually good.
After the first two Cubs grounded out, Michael Busch and Alex Bregman singled.
This is classic Happ — cold streaks followed by hot streaks. Here’s hoping the hot streak lasts a while.
What did not last was that lead, as Imanaga gave up the first of the three home runs in the bottom of the first, to, of all people, former Cub Nelson Velázquez. Velázquez was playing his first MLB game since 2024. More on that three-run homer from BCB’s JohnW53:
Shota Imanaga also gave up a three-run homer that wiped out a 3-0 lead last season, on Sept. 25 at home against the Mets.
Of the last 10 three-run shots that came with the Cubs up by three, seven have been with the score 3-0.
Kyle Hendricks and Jameson Taillon did it in 2024, three days apart; Jeremiah Estrada and Justin Steele in 2023; and Adbert Alzolay in 202.
Last night’s was just the third of 88 total three-run homers with a 3-0 lead that came in the bottom of the first. The first was off Kerry Wood, at San Francisco in 2000, and the second off Steve Smyth, at Houston, in 2002.
Smyth’s was the 60th of the 88 such homers.
The Cubs took a 4-3 lead in the second. With one out, Dansby Swanson singled. One out later, he stole second and Nico Hoerner walked.
That’s where the game stayed until the fourth, when St. Louis’ Thomas Saggese homered off Imanaga to make it 4-4. And in the next inning, the Cardinals took a 5-4 lead on the third homer off Imanaga, that one by Ivan Herrera.
Cubs pitchers have allowed 82 home runs, most in MLB (Nationals are second-worst with 79). For individual pitchers, Jameson Taillon has served up 19, four more than anyone else (Zack Littell of the Nats, 15). Third is Brady Singer of the Reds with 14, then Imanaga with 13 (tied with five others, including, of all people, Jacob deGrom). None of this is any good for the Cubs, who rank 18th in fewest runs allowed.
More on all the home runs given up by Cubs pitchers this year from John:
This is the eighth game of the season in which the Cubs have surrendered at least three home runs.
Through the first 58 games of previous seasons, they gave up three or more nine or more times in 10 years and eight in seven, including a year ago.
The most were 11, in 1956, 2000 and 2022.
They did it 10 times in 1999 and 2020, and nine in 1959, 1960, 1966, 1994 and 2017.
After the Cardinals took that fifth-inning lead, the Cubs went down meekly in the sixth and seventh, and also in order after a leadoff single by Seiya Suzuki in the eighth.
Ethan Roberts, who relieved Imanaga with two out in the sixth, retired five of the six Cardinals he faced, two by strikeout. Roberts got helped out by this nice defensive play by Busch [VIDEO].
Roberts has been very effective recently and the Cubs can really use another trustworthy reliever.
That’s in part because Maton has become the opposite of “trustworthy.” What’s a good word for that? Don’t answer that question.
Maton allowed a one-out single to Velázquez, then struck out Alec Burleson. Okay so far, but… two more line-drive singles scored the sixth Cardinals run. Craig Counsell had to call on Hoby Milner to bail out Maton, which he did with an infield popup.
Maton, who Jed Hoyer signed after he had a solid year in 2025 split between the Cardinals and Rangers, has been just awful in 2026. He has a 7.64 ERA (5.10 FIP) in 20 appearances, his walk rate is way up (11.6 percent compared to 9.5 percent last year) and he’s already allowed as many home runs (three) in 17.2 innings as he did all of 2025 in 61.1 innings.
This kind of feels like the relief pitching version of the Trey Mancini signing in 2023 — a two-year deal for a guy who didn’t really rate that sort of contract. The Cubs simply cannot use Maton in any more high-leverage situations and if they do and he does this again, they might have to think about just eating the rest of the deal and letting him go.
Now, does that ninth inning go exactly like that if Maton doesn’t give up the run in the eighth? Obviously we’ll never know, but it sure would have been better to go into the ninth down one run instead of two.
The Cubs will look to even up the series Saturday evening in St. Louis. Ben Brown will start for the Cubs and Kyle Leahy goes for the Cardinals. Game time is 6:15 p.m. CT and TV coverage will be via Fox-TV (regional — coverage map, scroll down to the bottom of that link). A reminder that if you subscribe to MLB.TV or MLB Extra Innings, you can watch this game via those services even if it’s not on the Fox affiliate in your market. Announcers: Eric Collins, John Smoltz and Ken Rosenthal.
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - MAY 27: Bryson Stott #5 of the Philadelphia Phillies bats during the ninth inning against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park on May 27, 2026 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images) | Getty Images
There have been some subtle changes in the things Don Mattingly has done different than Rob Thomson this season. There had to be since whatever the team was doing prior to Thomson’s firing was clearly not effective any longer.
One of, if not the, biggest changes has been the usage of Bryson Stott and Brandon Marsh. Lately, they have been in the lineup not matter who is on the mound, left or right handed pitcher. They have responded by hitting much better against southpaws, their weaker side. A lot of that was out of necessity since the team really doesn’t have that much in the way of right handed alternatives for either, but it is nice to see nonetheless.
So far, what has been your favorite thing Mattingly has done that has been different than that of what Thomson did? Maybe it’s the idea of letting Marsh and Stott play more, maybe its in his handling of Andrew Painter or some other reason.
May 29, 2026; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. (13) high fives teammates after hitting a solo home run in the first inning against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park. Mandatory Credit: Katie Stratman-Imagn Images | Katie Stratman-Imagn Images
It’s only been two hits. Two hits over two days. Can you declare someone back from the dead after two hits, especially in such venues as Fenway Park and Great American Ball Park? But did you see the hits though? Let me help you with that. Here’s Thursday in Boston:
As someone who witnessed the home run last night, this ball was crushed loud and far. You can’t really hear it from the audio here. But along the third base side was a flock of loud Braves fans. Acuña’s home run and the robbed Harris II home run lit up the left side of the stadium.
Here is Ronald’s rolling xwOBA. Where this chart starts to dip is May 19th, the day that Ronald returned from the Injured List with a Grade 1 hamstring strain. Is he feeling better now? Is a month a good recovery time for a guy with some other lower body injuries? During Thursday’s game he acquired a .684 xwOBA. I’m guessing last night would be in that neighborhood as well. Even the grounders were loud, especially the one that De La Cruz required a spin and throw to get Ronald.
So is Ronald Acuña Jr. back now? It sure sounds like it. Literally.
With wins in four of their last five, the Chicago White Sox look for a second straight series win when they play the middle game of their 3-game set against the Detroit Tigers.
Last in the AL Central, Detroit is reeling, with 19 losses in its last 23 starts. Despite this, the Tigers are -113 favorites on the moneyline.
My Tigers vs. White Sox predictions and free MLB picks have the White Sox hammering the team with the worst road record in the American League on Saturday, May 30.
Who will win Tigers vs White Sox today: White Sox moneyline (+108)
The Detroit Tigers have hit rock bottom, batting .196 and ranking Bottom-3 in strikeouts over the past two weeks.
That’s crippled their run production (second-worst), and they're facing a Chicago White Sox team that’s Top-3 in run production over the same period.
Chicago has mashed lefties all year, ranking second in homers and Top 4 in slugging and OPS.
Bad news for Detroit’s Framber Valdez, who has struggled with command, allowing 14 earned runs and 21 hits over four starts, ballooning to a 6.10 ERA.
With three of the White Sox's last four wins over Detroit coming by multiple runs, I not only like them on the moneyline, but would hit the alternate run line at +223 for Chicago to win by two or more.
COVERS INTEL: Detroit ranks near the bottom of the majors in run value vs. the four-seam fastball, Anthony Kay’s money pitch.
Tigers vs White Sox Over/Under pick: Over 7.5 (-110)
With good offense comes good run totals, so it’s no surprise the White Six have seen the Over go 7-3-0 in their last 10 outings.
Chicago is also one of baseball’s better scoring teams at home this season, putting up 4.93 runs per game, which ranks sixth.
In three of their last four wins vs. Detroit, the teams have cruised past 7.5 runs.
Detroit puts up far fewer runs, but Valdez’s recent form has helped push the score Over 7.5 runs in three of his last four appearances.
Run line: Tigers -1.5 (+138) | White Sox +1.5 (-144)
Over/Under: Over 8.5 (+117) | Under 8.5 (-122)
Tigers vs White Sox trend
The Chicago White Sox have covered the Run Line in 21 of their last 30 games (+10.40 Units / 23% ROI). Find more MLB betting trends for Tigers vs. White Sox.
How to watch Tigers vs White Sox and game info
Location
Rate Field, Chicago, IL
Date
Saturday, May 30, 2026
First pitch
2:10 p.m. ET
TV
Detroit SportsNet, CHSN
Tigers starting pitcher
Framber Valdez (2-3, 4.28 ERA)
White Sox starting pitcher
Anthony Kay (4-1, 3.96 ERA)
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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - MAY 24: Willson Contreras #40 of the Boston Red Sox tosses his bat after hitting a two-run home run against the Minnesota Twins during the fourth inning at Fenway Park on May 24, 2026 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images) | Getty Images
Adrian Beltre is often pointed to as the best one-year player to don the Red Sox uniform.
Boston signed him to a one-year, $9 million contract for the 2010 season at age 31. All he did in that season was lead baseball with 49 doubles, slug 28 home runs with 102 RBIs while leading all third basemen in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and OPS (.919).
That tremendous season in Boston, though it marked the first of three consecutive playoff absences for the Red Sox, earned Beltre a six-year, $96 million deal with the soon-to-be back-to-back reigning American League champion Texas Rangers.
Fast forward to 2026. Willson Contreras isn’t quite to that level of production and is three years older at age 34. Nonetheless, in what will likely be a short stay in Boston, Contreras is the most productive player in the Red Sox lineup as a rare source of consistent energy and pop.
Contreras ranks third among MLB first baseman with an .894 OPS in ranks in the top-six in several other offensive categories at the position. Given how much inconsistency in personnel the Red Sox have had at that position over the previous two seasons, it’s hard to ask for anything more from the veteran. He hits, plays solid defense, leads in the clubhouse and plays with energy unreflective of a team that’s nine games under .500.
Contreras should be an All-Star with a ticket to Philadelphia in mid-July. He’s made a fantastic impact for a Red Sox team that hasn’t left much to be fondly remembered when this season ends, barring an unrealistic turnaround.
So, what’s his future like in Boston?
That’s weird to ask two months into his first season with a new team, but the reality is that if the Red Sox choose to fully sell at the trade deadline (which they should), Contreras is among the most intriguing names teams could call on.
His contract could sway the trade-or-keep decision each way. Contreras is under contract through the 2027 season with a club option for $20 million in 2028. The Red Sox could keep him as the answer at first base through then or use that to haul a more enticing return from a contender at the end of July.
Contreras is fantastic in a Red Sox uniform. The only question is how long will it last?
May 14, 2026; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; Milwaukee Brewers catcher Gary Sanchez (99) hits a double to drive in a run in the second inning against the San Diego Padres at American Family Field. Mandatory Credit: Benny Sieu-Imagn Images | Benny Sieu-Imagn Images
Once again, the Yankees boast the best offense in the American League. Ben Rice might actually get more MVP votes if they were tallied today than Aaron Judge, and Cody Bellinger has made everyone forget who Kyle Tucker is. Even Trent Grisham has started to hit like a key member of a powerful lineup, and Anthony Volpe has come off the IL looking like the top prospect we always wanted to be.
Just don’t mention Austin Wells.
Or JC Escarra.
The Yankees have the best offense in the AL, but only the Angels and Pirates have gotten less offensive production from their catchers. You accept that your catcher will very rarely be a top-half-of-the-lineup hitter, especially when that catcher is an above-average or better fielder. You can’t really accept a 59 wRC+ or .557 OPS no matter how good the defender is.
Now I’ve advocated all season for Austin Wells to simply not swing the bat, because he does walk a lot and is seeing a career-low rate of pitches in the zone. I think he should take this weekend in Sacremento and just stand there in the batter’s box, see what happens, can’t really do worse than you’re doing. However, I also think the Yankees might be wise to bring in an outside option, preferably someone hitting from the right side that can work as a true tandem. But who would those options be?
The initial problem with the catching market is how beat up, or more specifically, broken some key parts of it are. Two of the immediate possible solutions are on the IL with broken bones, Ryan Jeffers with a busted hamate and Sean Murphy out until July with a broken finger. Jeffers is a pure rental, and despite the injury might still be the best overall option. He’ll earn just over $3 million from the time he returns — likely the first week of July — until the end of the season, had a sparkling 166 wRC+ across his first 150 plate appearances this year, and while that won’t hold up, Jeffers has posted a 110 mark in the two seasons previous to this, so he’s no slouch at the plate.
We’re also fairly good at diagnosing, treating, and recovering from broken hamates. You don’t want anyone to break that little hand bone, but returning from the injury is more manageable than, say, consistent soft tissue injuries in the legs. The biggest downside that I see with Jeffers is the Regression Monster, if we assume he’s closer to a 110 wRC+ hitter than a 166 (he is), he’s going to hit at a lower level to bring that mark down. Fortunately for his career, he’s handled lefties to the tune of an .851 OPS, more than 350 points better than what Wells and Escarra have managed against southpaws.
Murphy and his behind should be a name Yankee fans are familiar with, as he was an excellent catcher with the A’s and has been solid over parts of four seasons with Atlanta. He’s under contract at $12.17 AAV through the end of 2028, but while he was a two-win player and above-average hitter for the position last season, he’s been on the IL twice already to start 2026, with that broken finger and earlier this season with a hip injury. I’m not putting any stock in his -72 wRC+ across just 14 plate appearances, but I’m putting stock in the health challenges. Drake Baldwin is the catcher of the now and future for Atlanta, so they might be willing to get out of that final year and a half for Murphy but I’m very, very worried about that body holding up.
The rest of the market doesn’t really seem very promising. You need a catcher good enough to be an upgrade, on a team that has a reason to move him, and the Yankees care about their budget regardless of whether we do. Jake Rogers is terrible, Travis d’Arnaud isn’t an upgrade, ditto on Kyle Higashioka. There just isn’t a lot of other opt-
Yo Soy Gary, indeed.
Yes, Gary Sánchez has a 131 wRC+ as the backup catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. I know it’s tempting to think about that swing chugging line drives into the gap at Yankee Stadium. Gary perhaps broke my heart more than any Yankee in the post-dynasty years. However, I have already issued an opinion on the matter:
There’s also the small matter of the Brewers being atop the NL Central, and likely looking to add pieces at the deadline. Maybe a deal could be swung where the Yankees give a current need for a current need, but from Milwaukee’s perspective they could probably get that need from somewhere else.
I don’t expect the Yankees to make a deal for a couple of weeks yet, even if I do expect some kind of move coming well before the actual trade deadline. Injuries and ineffectiveness are the current bottlenecks in the catcher market though, so for right now we’ll just have to hope Austin Wells stops swinging the damn bat.
The weekend is here, and that means there’s plenty of baseball on deck.
My MLB player props for Saturday, May 30, home in on Michael Harris and Ian Happ, two of the hottest hitters in the majors, as well as Toronto Blue Jays starter Trey Yesavage.
Best MLB player props today
Player
Pick
Odds
Michael Harris II
Over 2.5 HRRBI
+123
Ian Happ
Over 1.5 HRRBI
-111
Trey Yesavage
Over 6.5 strikeouts
-105
Michael Harris II Over 2.5 hits + runs + RBI (+123)
Michael Harris II has been on a tear over the past seven days, batting .400 with 10 hits and seven RBI in six outings. The Atlanta Braves center fielder has cashed in 3+ hits, runs, and RBIs in three of his last four games, and he’ll feast against the Cincinnati Reds tonight.
Singer’s favorite pitch is his sinker, which he goes to nearly 46% of the time, but it’s been a stinker. Opposing teams are hitting .322 vs. that pitch, while Harris himself is batting .343 when he sees it.
Atlanta has scored 18 runs over its last two contests while averaging 5.29 runs per game this season, third-best in MLB. Harris will get on base plenty vs. the Reds, and his teammates will have no problem driving him home.
Time: 7:15 p.m. ET
Where to watch: FOX
Ian Happ Over 1.5 hits + runs + RBI (-111)
This prop feels like a steal at close to even money, and there’s even an argument to take a swing at Over 2.5 H+R+RBI for Ian Happ at +183.
The Chicago Cubs outfielder has been one of the deadliest sluggers in the majors this week 11 RBI in five games and a dinger in each of his last three outings. Happ has recorded 2+ hits, runs, and RBIs in four straight contests and will enjoy a favorable matchup tonight.
St. Louis Cardinals starter Kyle Leahy was crushed for seven hits, two homers, and five earned runs by the Reds last time out, and the right-hander has a subpar 4.44 ERA and 1.58 WHIP on the season.
The switch-hitting Happ has really enjoyed batting vs. righties this year. He owns a .923 OPS vs. right-handers and 24 of his 31 RBI have come against them.
Happ is crushing the four-seam fastball against righties for a .364 BABIP and 3.1 wRAA, and that happens to be Leahy’s most common pitch (31.7%).
The Toronto Blue Jays starter has recorded at least six punchouts in each of his last five starts, and eight Ks in his second-last appearance. He’s also seen his pitch count steadily increase, topping out at 98 on Monday, when he nearly pitched through the seventh inning. That’s a great sign for the Jays, and for those of us betting the Over.
Yesavage is known for his deadly splitter, which he goes to over 34% of the time. That pitch is getting whiffed 45% of the time, and it’s also a pitch the Baltimore Orioles have not seen much of this year.
Orioles batters have faced just 260 total splitters, the 12th-fewest among all clubs. They’re also swinging at splitters in the zone 80% of the time. Yesavage’s unique release point, combined with Baltimore’s unfamiliarity, will add up to a lot of strikeouts this afternoon.
Time: 4:05 p.m. ET
Where to watch: Sportsnet, MASN
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May 9, 2026; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith (16) in the dugout prior to game against the Atlanta Braves at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images | Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images
“It’s important because you only get two challenges a game, offensively and defensively,” Smith said. “The whole team only gets those two. So the harder I can make it on the other team to challenge pitches, the better. The more strikes I can get and not have to challenge, the better. I think overall, it almost makes it more important, in a way.”
Of Ryan, who struck out eight and walked none in six innings with one unearned run allowed on Thursday, Law wrote, “He should be pitching in someone’s rotation by the start of July, and I don’t mean Oklahoma City’s.”
ST LOUIS, MISSOURI - APRIL 14: JJ Wetherholt #26 of the St. Louis Cardinals rounds the bases after hitting a two-run home run against the Cleveland Guardians at Busch Stadium on April 14, 2026 in St Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Joe Puetz/Getty Images) | Getty Images
As the Cardinals complete their first third of the season, I want to check in on some of the underlying metrics for the Cardinals’ position player core. As a group, it is hard to be anything but happy with the performance thus far. Despite losing Brendan Donovan and Willson Contreras, the team wRC+ has increased from 96 to 101. This improvement is despite some bad luck relative to expected statistics. The team BABIP of .278 is tied for sixth-worst in baseball. The team’s .313 wOBA is below their expected wOBA of .325, which is the sixth-biggest underperformance in baseball. All that to say, things are going quite well in the aggregate on the position player side.
Today I am going to highlight an underlying Statcast hitting metric from each player that I found interesting. Apologies for cutting the list off at the top eight in plate appearances, but I could not identify an interesting hitting statistic for Pedro Pages.
Ivan Herrera
Zone%: 45.6%
Ivan is having a very productive season with the bat, but is getting to his 135 wRC+ in a slightly different way than he did last season. His walk rate has increased from 9.5% to 13.5% to offset slightly lower ISO and BABIP numbers. The walks are not coming from better swing decisions, as Herrera is swinging at slightly more pitches outside the zone, but rather, they are in response to pitchers being much more careful with him. Last season, 50.9% of pitches to Herrera were in the strike zone, but that has dropped to 45.6% this season. While the walks are great, the more nibbling approach from the opposition has had some effect in corralling Herrera’s bat. His batted ball quality is down slightly as his percentile rankings have fallen in average exit velocity (78th percentile to the 49th), Barrel% (68th to 37th), and Hard-Hit% (79th to 55th).
Herrera is being more passive on pitches in the strike zone as his zone-swing% is down 4% and his swing percentage on pitches in the heart of the zone is down from 71.1% to 67.6%. The fact that Herrera has managed to maintain his production despite the relative lack of damage on contact illustrates what a great hitter he has become. Perhaps just a dash of additional selective aggression can push Ivan to even greater offensive heights.
JJ Wetherholt
Contact%: 78.9%
It is so hard to pick one metric to focus on with Wetherholt because he has been so good across the board. Just take a moment to admire his Baseball Savant hitting metrics!
If I had to pick one concern coming into the year, it would have been Wetherholt’s contact rate. He had generally avoided strikeouts by almost never swinging at bad pitches, but even in the minors, he did not have incredible contact rates. In Triple-A, his contact on pitches inside the zone was actually below average. No problem for JJ, he has increased his contact both inside and outside the zone while moving from Triple-A to the majors and is making contact at an above-average rate overall.
Alec Burleson
Hard-Hit%: 47.4%
On the surface, Burleson is having a remarkably similar season as he did in 2025. His walks and strikeouts are each up a bit, but his isolated slugging and BABIP are almost identical to 2025. Add it up and his wRC+ is 126 compared to the 124 he ran last season. While the results are similar, Burleson’s batted ball metrics are all pointing up, most notably, his hard-hit rate has increased from 42.8% to 47.4%. Burly is hitting the ball harder and at better angles than ever. Despite the solid batting line, he is actually underperforming his expected stats.
Had you told me before the season that Burleson had further improved his quality of contact, I would have guessed that he had continued to improve his pitch selection and was swinging at more quality strikes… Instead, Burleson has increased his out-of-zone swing% from 28.8% to 35.7% while decreasing his zone-swing% from 69.1% to 64.3%.
Is this sustainable? I have no idea, but I am done trying to figure out what makes Burleson tick. Do your thing, Burly.
Jordan Walker
Launch Angle Sweet-Spot: 34.5%
Obviously a lot has changed for Walker this year, but the metric that has moved the most is his LA Sweet-Spot improving from the 5th percentile to the 57th. Interestingly, the last time he had any success hitting the ball at these productive angles was his rookie season in 2023 when his LA Sweet-Spot was in the 42nd percentile. His batted ball data isn’t the only thing that has returned to 2023 form. His contact% and zone-swing% are also similar to his rookie campaign.
If you take the rookie version of Walker with passable contact rates and aggression in the strike zone and add in the massive jump he has made in exit velocity (89.4 in 2023 to 94.2 in 2026), you get an MVP candidate.
Masyn Winn
Bat Speed: 69.9 MPH
I had a hard time finding an individual metric that had changed much for Winn year-over-year. His bat speed is the biggest mover, going from 71.1 MPH to 69.9. Most of his batted ball metrics are down a tick and his contact rate has fallen from 84.1% to 78.5%. Still, his xwOBA is tied for his career high at .295 and his walk rate is up from 6.3% to 8.3%. Winn has been known to play through injuries, including the knee injury that kept him out of the lineup for a few games earlier this year, so that may be impacting him a bit. I do not think it is time to start worrying about Winn, but as he stacks seasons as an average to slightly below average hitter, it is getting harder to dream on more offensive upside.
Nolan Gorman
Contact Rate: 65.6%
Gorman has shaved his K% from 33.8% to 29%, but this modest improvement is not backed up by his underlying contact data. Both his in-zone and out-of-zone contact rates have decreased, and his overall contact rate has fallen from 69.2% to 65.6%. This is the fourth-worst rate in baseball among qualified hitters.
Unfortunately, there are no exciting numbers to point to that hint at Gorman regaining his power stroke. Gorman’s improved defense has made him easier to watch this year, but he is running out of time to figure things out offensively.
Victor Scott II
Groundball%: 49.4%
2026 has not gone the way Victor Scott II hoped. He talked in the offseason about focusing less on power with more of a line drive approach. To his credit, he has gotten the ball out of the air much more. His groundball% has increased from 38.6% to 49.4%. In isolation, this might be a good thing for a player with Scott’s profile, but most of the groundballs are still going to the pull-side where he does not have a chance to use his speed to leg out infield hits. His opposite-field groundball percentage of 5.7% is virtually unchanged. After putting up a 39 wRC+ in March and April, his May wRC+ of 69 is at least trending in the right direction.
Nathan Church
Chase%: 45.8%
Church chases more pitches outside the zone than almost anyone in baseball, so the fact that he has been able to provide a decent batting line (90 wRC+) is quite impressive. Church was close to average in Triple-A last season with a 41st percentile chase rate, so hopefully he can get some semblance of discipline as he gains experience at the major league level. Church is still a bit of a mystery as a player, but if he is going to be a starting caliber player, he is going to have to clean up the plate approach.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - MAY 24: Rafael Devers #16 of the San Francisco Giants celebrates in the dugout after his grand slam home run against Chicago White Sox in the fifth inning at Oracle Park on May 24, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images) | Getty Images
Good morning, baseball fans!
Another week of San Francisco Giants baseball is drawing to a close, which means it’s time to pick our Player of the Week!
Sometimes you have to make decisions in life that aren’t necessarily easy. This week, I wanted to feature two players who had huge moments for the Giants this week. But I can only pick one for player of the week, so I’m going to have to give today’s honors to Rafael Devers, who had the better week overall (and you’ll see the other one tomorrow).
Devers came up HUGE in Sunday’s 8-5 win over the Chicago White Sox, with two hits, a run, and five RBI. However it was his at-bat in the bottom of the fifth inning of what was, at the time, a tied game with bases loaded.
He did the thing we all pretended we were doing in our backyards, or neighborhood lots, and he cleared those bases with a grand slam to give the Giants the four runs they would need to take the win in that game.
Who is your pick for Player of the Week?
What time do the Giants play today?
The Giants play game two of this three-game series against the Colorado Rockies tonight at 6:10 p.m. PT.
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - MAY 27: Kyle Schwarber #12 of the Philadelphia Phillies hits a single during the fourth inning against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park on May 27, 2026 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images) | Getty Images
I find it funny that anything you read about Justin Wrobleski said he didn’t strike anyone out this season, yet in the first inning last night, he struck out the side. The only reason for that is simple: that’s baseball.
May 14, 2026; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Kyle Harrison (52) has a mound visit with catcher Gary Sanchez (99) in the fourth inning against the San Diego Padres at American Family Field. Mandatory Credit: Benny Sieu-Imagn Images | Benny Sieu-Imagn Images
Jacob Misiorowski has vaulted himself into the Cy Young conversation by allowing one run in five May starts combined. He leads the league in strikeouts, strikeouts per nine, and hits per nine. He’s also throwing harder than literally any starter we’ve ever seen. (Probably.)
And yet, despite Misiorowski’s unhittable stuff and 1.83 ERA (220 ERA+)*, his teammate, Kyle Harrison, actually has a lower ERA. After six scoreless innings against the Cardinals on Tuesday, Harrison’s ERA dropped to 1.57 (256 ERA+). While Harrison’s peripheral numbers aren’t quite at Misiorowski’s level, they’re still good, and the results are obviously there.
* A quick reminder on ERA+: it’s a way of measuring ERA while accounting for the league environment of the time, with 100 as average, 110 as ten percent above average, 90 as 10 percent below average, etc.
Misiorowski and Harrison are both really good. There are plenty of pieces out there breaking down why. My purpose here today isn’t to analyze their play as much as it is to do what I love doing: look back at history.
I do not expect Misiorowski and Harrison to maintain ERA+ numbers of 220 or higher for the entire season. To say that would be unprecedented would be an understatement: in full-length AL/NL seasons since 1900, only 16 qualified starters total have had an ERA+ of 220 or higher. Still, I was curious about historic pitching partnerships. What are the best single-season teammate pitching duos in baseball history? Who might we say Misiorowski and Harrison are “chasing?”
To create my long list of candidates, I looked for “qualified” starters who finished in the top five in the league in ERA+ and also had a teammate in the top 10. (Right now, Misiorowski ranks fourth in the league; Harrison, who is a couple innings short of qualifying, would be third.) I came up with a little formula—nothing fancy, but a way of ranking these duos to see who came out on top. (I assigned points based on average ERA+, average bWAR, and ERA+ rank in the given season.) I was pleased with the results, and I’m going to share the top seven-ish duos here, then add a couple others that stood out.
7. Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander, 2019 Astros
The 2010s were a weird time for the Astros. They’d tanked as hard as anyone has ever tanked in the first half of the decade—three consecutive seasons with at least 106 losses between 2011 and 2013—but that tank job actually bore fruit, and by 2015 they were back in the playoffs. They won the World Series in 2017, which also started a more-or-less unprecedented run of seven straight years in which they made it to at least the ALCS. They were back in the World Series in 2019, a series which they lost in seven games to the Nationals… and then shortly after the season, news of the sign-stealing scandal that benefitted them in the 2017 and 2018 seasons rocked the baseball world.
Amidst it all, the 2019 Astros had one of the best rotations of all time. Cole and Verlander finished first and second in all of baseball with a 185 and 179 ERA+, respectively. In bWAR, Verlander was third and Cole fifth, while in fWAR, Cole was first and Verlander fifth. Verlander just edged Cole in Cy Young voting; he got 17 of 30 first-place votes, and Cole got the other 13. They won a combined 41 games and struck out a combined 626 batters, and neither had a WHIP over 0.895.
If that wasn’t enough, Zack Greinke was on that team, too. He finished ninth in the league with a 154 ERA+.
Neither Cole nor Verlander was great in the World Series, though. Cole went 1-1 with a 3.86 ERA, but Verlander really struggled: he went 0-2 with a 5.73 ERA in two starts and had nine strikeouts to six walks in 11 innings.
6. Dolf Luque and Eppa Rixey, 1923 Reds
I promise I won’t get super deep into old dudes you’ve never heard of, but I’m just spitting out what the formula gave me.
This is an unbalanced duo: Luque had an all-time good season, while Rixey was run-of-the-mill good. But it was a down year for pitchers, so even though there’s a 62-point split between them in ERA+ (Luque at 201, Rixey at 139), Rixey still finished third in the league, so that’s kind of weighing heavily on this rating.
Luque was just mowing everyone down. In one of the major outlier seasons in baseball history, he went 27-8 with a 1.93 ERA (201 ERA+) and led the majors in both bWAR and fWAR, wins, ERA, ERA+, and shutouts, and led the NL in FIP, hits per nine, and homers per nine. He had one other good season in 1925 (though not nearly on this level), and several others I’d call “solid,” but he was really only a superstar in 1923. The Reds were good at 91-63, but finished second to the Giants in the NL.
Rixey made the Hall of Fame in 1963. He’s what I’d call a “dubious selection,” but he won 266 games in a 21-year career, and that didn’t include a peak season lost to World War I.
5. Hal Newhouser and Dizzy Trout, 1946 (and sort of 1944) Tigers
I swear this is true: I ranked 127 different duos with my formula, and the 1944 and 1946 seasons of Newhouser and Trout came out right next to each other, at 5th and 4th, respectively. I’m going to essentially ignore the 1944 season; most of the league’s stars were in the military, but Newhouser was deemed unfit due to a congenital heart defect. He was probably the best player left in the league during the time, and won back-to-back MVPs in 1944 and 1945. Detroit won the World Series in ‘45.
Luckily for Newhouser’s Hall of Fame case, he was just as good in 1946, when the stars returned. In 1946, Newhouser went 26-9 with an AL-leading 1.94 ERA (190 ERA+) and 8.5 K/9, an astronomical number for the era. He earned 9.7 bWAR, and led the AL in FIP, WHIP, and H/9. Only Ted Williams’ brilliant return season kept Newhouser from winning a third straight MVP.
Trout also didn’t fight in the war. He was just as good as Newhouser in 1944 but not nearly as good in 1945. In 1946, Trout went 17-13 with a 2.34 ERA (157 ERA+) and 7.6 bWAR, an excellent season, but really his only year that I’d call “good” that occurred outside of the war years.
Detroit finished second in the AL in 1946, 12 games back of Williams’ 104-50 Red Sox.
4. Mordecai “Three-Finger” Brown and Orval Overall, 1909 Cubs
I’m happy to talk about this one just because Orval Overall is one of the great baseball names.
The Cubs had a dynasty in the second half of the 19-aughts. They won three consecutive pennants from 1906-08, and the World Series in ’07 and ‘08. This is the “Tinkers-Evers-Chance” team, and while a casual glance suggests they just had a ton of really good pitchers, it seems more likely that they had a historically good defense that was particularly well-suited to the baseball of the time. To illustrate the point: the 1907 Cubs had five of the top seven players in all of baseball in ERA+. That seems to me to be far more a reflection of their defensive prowess than the talent of guys like Overall, Carl Lundgren, Jack Pfiester, and Ed Reulbach.
Still, we need to acknowledge the numbers these guys put up, and the season that grades out best is 1909. Mordecai “Three-Finger” Brown, so called because of a farming accident in his youth, is one of the great Deadball pitchers and a solid Hall of Famer. He peaked from 1906-1909; in ’09, he led the majors in innings pitched and wins (27) and had a 1.31 ERA (193 ERA+). Overall was almost as good that year, and went 20-11 with a 1.42 ERA (179 ERA+) and led the majors with 205 strikeouts and 6.5 K/9. He was a very solid pitcher from 1907-09 but was essentially out of the league after the 1910 season despite being only 29 years old.
But the 1909 Cubs, though they went 104-49, failed to win the pennant for the first time in four years. The winners that year are among the best teams of all time: the 1909 Pirates, led by the great Honus Wagner, went 110-42 (.724, the third-best winning percentage ever).
A brief historical curiosity: the team that actually had the two starters with the best combined ERA+ in the history of baseball is the 1907 Cubs. The aforementioned Pfiester and Lundgren had ERA+ numbers of 214 and 211 that year. But sometimes bWAR doesn’t make any sense to me, so let’s play “which one of these players is worth 5.7 WAR and which is worth 1.7?”
By the way I’ve framed the question, you can probably guess that Pfiester, who has better numbers, is the one with 1.7 WAR.
I don’t get it, but that’s the number one season of all time for combined ERA+ of the top two qualified starters on a team. In addition to the 1909 duo discussed above which has the second-best combined ERA+ ever, the 1906 Cubs duo of Brown and Pfiester is also seventh. I think the lesson here is that Tinker, Evers, Chance, catcher Johnny Kling, and third baseman Harry Steinfeldt were all quite good with the glove.
3. Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte, 2005 Astros
I don’t know about you, but I just don’t like these guys. I became a baseball fan in the late ‘90s and turned 17 in 2005 and Clemens and Pettitte mean two things to me: Yankee dynasties and PEDs. I don’t like either.
Clemens was 42 in 2005, so you’ll understand why I think about this season much like I think about Barry Bonds’ seasons of a similar vintage. Old Man Clemens started 32 games, threw 211 innings, and led baseball with a 1.87 ERA, 226 ERA+, 6.4 hits per nine, and 7.8 bWAR. He also led the NL with a 2.87 FIP.
Pettitte was 33 in 2005 and coming off an injury-plagued season. He hadn’t had an ERA+ over 135 since 1997, but in ’05 he went 17-9 with a 2.39 ERA (177 ERA+) and earned 6.8 bWAR.
What’s a little funny about this is that both Clemens and Pettitte were outpaced in fWAR by their teammate, Roy Oswalt. He won 20 games, so he finished higher than Pettitte in Cy Young voting (Clemens, Oswalt, and Pettitte finished 3-4-5). It was quite a trio. The Astros, as a Wild Card team, beat the Braves in the NLDS and the Cardinals in the NLCS but were swept by the White Sox in the World Series.
2. Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw, 2015 Dodgers
People might quibble with the way I’ve put this together because I exclusively used ERA and not anything more advanced than that (and thus bWAR instead of fWAR). That matters quite a bit for a season like 2015, because there is a huge discrepancy in bWAR and fWAR for Greinke that year. By the runs-allowed-based bWAR, Greinke, who went 19-3 with a 1.66 ERA and 222 ERA+, led all pitchers with 8.9 WAR. But he had a FIP that was more than a run higher than his ERA, so by the measure of fWAR, he had only 5.3 WAR, eighth in the league.
Of course, if you use fWAR instead of bWAR, Kershaw moves from third (7.2) to first (8.6), so there’s some balance achieved. Kershaw in 2015 was on one of the great heaters in pitching history: from 2011-17, he finished first, second, first, first, third, fifth, and second in Cy Young voting. He won ERA titles in five of those seven years, and in ’15 he was coming off an MVP award.
Those Dodgers had holes, though. They still won the NL West, but with just 92 wins, and they lost in the NLDS to the Mets. Kershaw and Greinke both pitched well in that series.
Kershaw will certainly be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and Greinke should be.
1. Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, 2001 Diamondbacks
When I started this exercise, the first duo that came to mind was Johnson and Schilling. I suspect that many of you went there first, too. Without having to tweak anything, they came out on top of my automated rankings.
That’s mostly due to Johnson, who was just absurdly good in 2001. That was the third of four straight years in which he won the NL Cy Young, and it was probably his best season: he was 21-6 and led the majors with a 2.49 ERA, 188 ERA+, 2.13 FIP, 1.009 WHIP, 6.5 H/9, 13.4 K/9, and an incredible 372 strikeouts. That’s the most strikeouts in a season in the last 53 years, but when Nolan Ryan struck out 383 batters in 1973, he did it in 326 innings. Johnson did it in 249 2/3.
(Only one other player has struck out that many batters in a post-1900 season: Sandy Koufax, in 1965, had 382 Ks in 335 2/3 innings.)
By the measure of fWAR, Johnson’s 2001 season is the sixth-best ever by a pitcher.
Schilling wasn’t as good as Johnson in 2001, but he was still pretty darn good. He was traded to Arizona halfway through the 2000 season, and while he’d been a very good pitcher with the Phillies in the ‘90s (he’d led the league in strikeouts twice), he ascended to another level in Arizona. It was Schilling who led the league in wins in ’01 with 22, and his 157 ERA+ was, to that point, the best of his career. (He’d surpass that, barely, two years later.) By bWAR, 2001 is Schilling’s best season at 8.8.
This duo is not remembered for what they did in the regular season, though. Their performances in that year’s Fall Classic are truly the stuff of legend. Here’s what they did in the first six games of the series:
Schilling, g4: 7 IP, 1 R, 3 H, 1 BB, 9 K (ARI loses 4-3 in extras)
Johnson, g6: 7 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 7 K (ARI wins 15-2, series tied at 3)
Schilling started game seven and went 7 1/3 innings, struck out nine, didn’t walk any, and gave up two runs. Miguel Batista got the second out in the eighth before handing a 2-2 game over to Johnson, the day after he’d thrown 104 pitches in game six. He got four outs without allowing a baserunner, and the Diamondbacks walked off Mariano Rivera in the bottom of the ninth to win a classic.
This feels right. Johnson is a top ten pitcher of all time, and Schilling is probably in the top 20. They were both at or near their best in 2001, and they have the World Series to add to the legend.
Others of note
The first cut is from the 2002 Red Sox. That’s mostly because of Pedro Martínez, who I think was, between 1997 and 2003, the greatest starting pitcher of all time. But look at Derek Lowe, who was 21-8 with a 2.58 ERA (177 ERA+) in ’02, fresh off three years closing games for Boston.
In the Year of the Pitcher in 1968, Bob Gibson didn’t have a teammate worthy of duo status. But in the AL, the two best pitchers were on the same team: Luis Tiant and Sam McDowell, who both pitched for Cleveland, finished second and third in the league in ERA+.
I thought Koufax and Don Drysdale might be near the top, but their best seasons didn’t quite align. The closest they came was in 1964, but Koufax missed some time that season so his bWAR was a little lower than his other best years, and the formula had them at number 26.
There are two particularly balanced examples from recent history. One is Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee of the 2013 Phillies. They finished with 8.8 and 8.5 bWAR and ERA+ numbers of 163 and 160. The other is the 2017 Nationals, who had Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg with identical 178 ERA+ numbers (Scherzer had a 2.51 ERA, Strasburg 2.52). Scherzer led the NL in both versions of WAR that year and won his third Cy Young. Strasburg was just as good, but in 25 fewer innings.
Of note to Brewers fans is, of course, 2021, when Corbin Burnes and Brandon Woodruff peaked at the same time. Because their bWAR numbers aren’t all that high (they each had 5.3), the formula doesn’t love that season (it’s ranked 48th). But Burnes and Woodruff were second and fourth in the league in ERA+, by far the best showing for any Brewers duo.
Misiorowski and Harrison probably won’t add their names to this list this season (a likely limit on both pitchers’ innings being a major obstacle), but who knows!
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