Ozzie Albies' career numbers against Kyle Freeland make him the key player prop in Braves-Rockies clash

The Sunday shot paper often looks packed. Every squad plays almost each Sunday, truthful you person a batch of games to take from. As a sports bettor, that’s a bully point because you person opportunities for nan books to make mistakes. However, it besides takes longer for you to measure each game. Let maine do nan activity for you and springiness you a risky, but fun, look astatine a crippled betwixt nan Braves and nan Rockies.

The Braves travel into nan crippled pinch a beardown grounds for nan year, and nan commencement that everyone hoped they would get disconnected to aft nan unsmooth past season. It is astonishing what tin hap erstwhile you don’t person changeless injuries to your team. In fairness, location are still immoderate missing pieces, but Atlanta has been capable to navigate those amended than it did past year. It is only nan commencement of May, and nan NL East looks for illustration theirs to lose.

Atlanta Braves pitcher Spencer Strider delivers a transportation successful nan first inning against nan Arizona Diamondbacks successful Atlanta connected April 5, 2024. (John Bazemore/AP)

To make matters worse for nan teams chasing them, they are sending retired a awesome starter to nan mound, Spencer Strider. This will beryllium nan play debut for Strider, and I person to expect that nan Braves will beryllium alternatively cautious pinch him. Last season, he turned successful 23 starts and accumulated 125.1 innings complete nan season. He didn’t person a awesome year, going 7-14 pinch a 4.45 ERA and a 1.40 WHIP. The bully news for him is that he gets to travel backmost against a soft-hitting Rockies team. However, they are 8-for-32 wide against him, but only person 2 RBIs and 14 strikeouts.

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The Colorado Rockies were expected to beryllium nan worst squad successful shot by astir analysts. That hasn’t proven to beryllium nan case, arsenic it seems for illustration they person immoderate conflict successful them this year. Before we commencement printing playoff tickets, nan squad is still nether .500 and won’t sniff nan postseason. However, for a squad that won 43 games past twelvemonth and didn’t person 15 wins until June 16th, they are astatine slightest up of that pace.

Colorado Rockies pitcher Kyle Freeland delivers a transportation successful nan first inning against nan Toronto Blue Jays astatine Coors Field. (Ron Chenoy/Imagn Images)

There are a number of reasons nan squad is performing amended — pride, amended hitting and amended pitching, etc. To me, 1 feline specifically stands retired who has had a bully commencement to nan season, and that is today’s starter, Kyle Freeland. For nan year, Freeland is 1-2 pinch a 3.48 ERA and a 1.11 WHIP. I’ve been a Freeland instrumentality for galore years and deliberation he has been buried a spot pinch nan Rockies. He was ne'er apt to beryllium an Ace pinch a club, but he astir apt could’ve been a reliable limb and moreover a postseason starter. He only has 1 commencement astatine location this year, but it was a very bully one, going 6.1 innings and allowing conscionable 1 tally connected 3 hits.

The bad news for nan Rockies and Freeland is that nan nine has feasted connected his pitching complete nan years. Collectively, nan Braves are 45-for-137 against him, starring to a .328 average. Ozzie Albies is nan feline I’m locked successful connected for 3+ full bases and whitethorn moreover do 4+ and 5+ arsenic he is hitting 11-for-24 pinch 4 extra-base hits against Freeland.

Atlanta Braves' Ozzie Albies and Eli White observe aft scoring connected a double by Matt Olson during nan 2nd inning against nan Los Angeles Dodgers successful Los Angeles connected April 2, 2025. (Kevork Djansezian/AP)

Another 1 worthy playing is Mauricio Dubon, who is 7-for-19 pinch 4 extra-base hits disconnected of Freeland. Albies will beryllium an charismatic play, but I’m going to do a Same Game Parlay for a spot of Sunday nosy pinch 2+ full bases from Albies (3+), Dubon, Mike Yastrzemski and Austin Rile. That pays retired astatine 12:1.

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