Miles Mikolas has had trouble avoiding the hard-hit ball, and Chicago Cubs slugger Seiya Suzuki looks poised to make him pay tonight, per our MLB betting picks.
Miles Mikolas has had trouble avoiding the hard-hit ball all year, and Chicago Cubs slugger Seiya Suzuki looks poised to make him pay tonight, per our MLB betting picks.
Let's start with Mikolas's most significant trouble spot this season: hard-hit balls or batters simply getting the barrel to the ball against him. He'll enter today with a hard-hit rate in the Bottom 10% of baseball and an even worse barrel rate. This has caused his ERA to soar this season. That's good for Suzuki, who tops the Cubs in hard-hit rate at 50% and is second amongst the Cubs in hard-hit rate at 12.3%.
The sinker? Suzuki is yet again in the Top 3 in all metrics, including being first overall in hard-hit rate by a wide margin. For all of Mikolas' issues, he does have the advantage of three of the best four fastball hitters likely being out of the Cubs' lineup today. That gives him a path to having some reasonable success by staying on that fastball throughout., the pitcher who takes the mound for Chicago, but he's had quite an erratic season. Of concern for him today is the Cardinals' ability against left-handed pitching. This has been a highly competitive series recently.
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