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, and all fantasy advice is geared toward ESPN 10-team leagues with standard scoring<\/a>.<\/p>\nNote: All information is accurate as of the time of publication. For updates, including what you might have missed from last night, as well as any breaking news that might impact today’s MLB slate, be sure to check out the latest fantasy baseball news<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jump to: Pitching notes<\/a> | Hitting notes<\/a> | Betting tips<\/a> STARTING PITCHERS FOR SUNDAYPitchers to stream on Sunday<\/p>\n Ian Seymour<\/a>‘s last start of the season is either a good streaming opportunity, or a great one. The Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> visit the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> in their regular season finale. There is a chance that the Blue Jays have clinched the AL East, in which case they’d bench many of their regulars. Even if they are still playing for the division title, Seymour is putting the bow on an impressive rookie season, sporting a 2.85 ERA and 1.08 WHIP, with 57 strikeouts in 53 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n Cole Ragans<\/a> and the Kansas City Royals<\/a> are playing for nothing but pride as they close out the season in Sacramento against the Athletics<\/a>, who are also just playing out the string. After Ragans posted a career-high 186 1\/3 innings last season, there were two trains of thought. He either finally shook the injury-probe label, or the big jump in workload was a health risk for this season. Sure enough, the left-hander missed three months with a strained rotator cuff. Ragans returned in mid-September to make three starts, with his last to close out the season. He punched out 10 in five innings when he pitched last week, so even if the Royals restrict his pitch limit, Ragans is capable for racking up decent punchouts against the strikeout-heavy Athletics lineup.<\/p>\n Pitchers to avoid on SundayToday’s best matchups for pitchers<\/p>\n Chicago Cubs<\/a> pitchers vs. Cardinals hitters San Francisco Giants<\/a> pitchers vs. Rockies hitters Washington Nationals<\/a> pitchers vs. White Sox hitters Today’s worst matchups for pitchers<\/p>\n Baltimore Orioles<\/a> pitchers vs. Yankees hitters Minnesota Twins<\/a> pitchers vs. Phillies hitters Detroit Tigers<\/a> pitchers vs. Red Sox hitters Hitters to stream on SundayHitters to avoid on Sunday<\/p>\n Teams secured of October baseball will likely bench their starters, or at best leave them in for only one or two at-bats. It’s best to avoid players on teams that have already punched their postseason tickets.<\/p>\n Today’s best matchups for hitters<\/p>\n Boston Red Sox<\/a> LHB vs. Tigers pitchers San Francisco Giants LHB vs. Rockies pitchers Houston Astros<\/a> RHB vs. Angels pitchers Today’s worst matchups for hitters<\/p>\n Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> LHB vs. Braves pitchers Cincinnati Reds<\/a> RHB vs. Brewers pitchers Seattle Mariners<\/a> LHB vs. Dodgers pitchers Betting tips<\/p>\n Best\/worst pitcher\/hitter matchups and betting projections are generated by THE BAT X, a system created by Derek Carty using advanced methods like those used in MLB front offices, accounting for a variety of factors including player talent, ballparks, bullpens, weather, umpires, defense, catcher pitch-framing, and lots more. Betting projections for every player, team, and game can be found at EV Analytics.<\/p>\n Note: Expected Value is a measure of how good a bet is, factoring the probability that it will win versus the odds the book is providing. If you were to wager $1.00 100 times on a bet with an Expected Value of $25, you would win some and you would lose some, but in the end you would expect to come away with $25 in profit on your $100 investment.<\/p>\n Today’s top HR prop bets<\/p>\n Henry Davis<\/a> | OVER 0.5 HR (+600)<\/a> Yandy Diaz<\/a> | OVER 0.5 HR (+600)<\/a> Jonathan Aranda<\/a> | OVER 0.5 HR (+700)<\/a> Today’s top pitcher prop bets<\/p>\n Freddy Peralta<\/a> | OVER 4.5 K (-150)<\/a> Luis Gil<\/a> | UNDER 5.5 K (-130)<\/a> Today’s top YRFI\/NRFI bets<\/p>\n Pirates @ Braves | YRFI (-100) Orioles @ Yankees | YRFI (-115)
Reliever depth chart<\/a> <\/p>\n
Offense: B | Park: B | Umpire: C | Temperature: C | Wind: A+ | Home
The average pitcher would post a 3.48 ERA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
Offense: A | Park: C | Umpire: C | Temperature: B | Wind: D | Home
The average pitcher would post a 3.58 ERA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
Offense: A | Park: B | Umpire: B | Temperature: D | Wind: B | Home
The average pitcher would post a 3.64 ERA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
Offense: F | Park: B | Umpire: C | Temperature: D- | Wind: D | Away
The average pitcher would post a 5.61 ERA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
Offense: F | Park: C | Umpire: C | Temperature: D | Wind: C | Away
The average pitcher would post a 5.22 ERA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
Offense: C | Park: F | Umpire: C | Temperature: D | Wind: D | Away
The average pitcher would post a 5.14 ERA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
SP: B | Bullpen: C | Park: A | Umpire: C | Framing: D | Temperature: B | Wind: B | Home
The average hitter would post a .349 wOBA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
SP: A+ | Bullpen: A+ | Park: C | Umpire: C | Framing: C | Temperature: D | Wind: B | Home
The average hitter would post a .343 wOBA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
SP: A+ | Bullpen: B | Park: C | Umpire: C | Framing: B | Temperature: C | Wind: B | Away
The average hitter would post a .341 wOBA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
SP: F | Bullpen: C | Park: C | Umpire: B | Framing: C | Temperature: B | Wind: C | Away
The average hitter would post a .262 wOBA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
SP: F | Bullpen: C | Park: D | Umpire: D | Framing: D | Temperature: C | Wind: C | Away
The average hitter would post a .276 wOBA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
SP: F | Bullpen: F | Park: F | Umpire: B | Framing: C | Temperature: D | Wind: B | Home
The average hitter would post a .276 wOBA in this matchup.<\/p>\n
Projection: 11% chance of this bet hitting, with a $13.30 EV
One reason to bet this: High temperatures are strongly correlated with more offense (and fewer whiffs), and the weather forecast expects this game to have the second-hottest weather (83 degrees) of all games on today’s slate.<\/p>\n
Projection: 15% chance of this bet hitting, with a $2.76 EV
One reason to bet this: Last year, Diaz had an average launch angle of 1.3 degrees on his highest exit velocity balls, while this season it has significantly increased to 5.2 degrees.<\/p>\n
Projection: 13% chance of this bet hitting, with a $2.00 EV
One reason to bet this: The ninth-shallowest centerfield dimensions among all major league stadiums are found at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n
Projection: 80% chance of this bet hitting, with a $51.23 EV
One reason to bet this: My projection system ranks American Family Field as the second-best park in MLB for strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Projection: 65% chance of this bet hitting, with a $18.93 EV
One reason to bet this: Yankee Stadium profiles as only the No. 22 park in the game for strikeouts, according to my projections.<\/p>\n
Projection: 52% chance of RUN with a $4.48 EV<\/p>\n
Projection: 54% chance of RUN with a $0.76 EV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 28, 2025, 07:32 AM ET Check out all of our starting pitcher rankings and other lineup selection…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-175541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}