{"id":630225,"date":"2026-04-25T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/630225\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:38:16","slug":"shohei-ohtani-among-top-mlb-home-run-picks-for-saturday-april-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/630225\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani among top MLB home run picks for Saturday, April 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday is another loaded day of\u00a0MLB<\/a>\u00a0games with all 30 teams taking the diamond across 15 games on Saturday, April, 25. That many games on tap means there are plenty of\u00a0MLB betting<\/a>\u00a0opportunities for bettors, such as MLB home prop bets<\/a>. We’ve identified two big-name sluggers who are red-hot in the home run department for our top MLB HR picks of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For even more MLB expert picks and predictions, make sure to see what the\u00a0SportsLine Projection Model<\/a>\u00a0has to say.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Best home run picks for Saturday, April 25Ronald Acuna Jr., Braves (+525, BetMGM)<\/p>\n

It’s surprising to see Acuna off to a cold start, especially considering the Braves have been spectacular in all phases to begin 2026. Atlanta hosts the Phillies<\/a> this weekend after sweeping them last weekend, and there will be a lot of eyes on this matchup on Saturday because Zack Wheeler<\/a> is set to make his first start of the year for Philadelphia. Wheeler, a perennial All-Star and two-time Cy Young runner-up, is back after undergoing surgery late last season. We wouldn’t normally be targeting players against Wheeler especially if they’re off to a colder start like Acuna is but the 2023 National League MVP has great power numbers against Wheeler, taking him deep four times in 49 career at-bats. No player on Saturday has homered off their opposing starting pitcher more than Acuna has off Wheeler. Add in that Wheeler is making his first start of the year and had a 5.85 ERA in five rehab starts while giving up three home runs in 20 innings and this feels like a good time to target Acuna to go deep.<\/p>\n

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Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers (+169, Caesars)<\/p>\n

Ohtani is as good of a bet to homer on a given night as anyone in baseball considering he’s swatted 114 dating back to 2024, and he gets a favorable matchup on Saturday against the Cubs<\/a>. Chicago’s Colin Rea<\/a> doesn’t give up a ton of home runs — or fly balls, even — and he’s off to a good start to 2026 with a 3.00 ERA. But Rea has one of the worst average exit velocities (91.4 mph) of qualified pitchers in the game and in eight career at-bats, Ohtani has taken him deep twice. Add in that Ohtani hasn’t homered since April 12 and this feels like a good spot for the reigning MVP to leave the yard.<\/p>\n

Place MLB player prop bets, including Murakami to homer, with the Caesars Sportsbook promo code<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images Saturday is another loaded day of\u00a0MLB\u00a0games with all 30 teams taking the diamond across 15 games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[4996,64,63,615,5158,288607,1187,591,300373,48834,9925,102024,2365,305388,305386,305387,7304,5149,305384,305385,305383,85,50577],"class_list":["post-630225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-betting","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-colin-rea","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-home-run-props","tag-mlb-odds","tag-mlb-picks","tag-mlb-props","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-ronald-acuna-jr-hr-props","tag-ronald-acuna-jr-odds","tag-ronald-acuna-jr-props","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-shohei-ohtani-hr-props","tag-shohei-ohtani-odds","tag-shohei-ohtani-props","tag-sports","tag-zack-wheeler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}