Pull hitting and speed will be the new fads in Major League Baseball this coming season.
If only those rules had been imp꧑lemented ꩲ15 years ago, Jason Giambi and David Ortiz might still be playing.
B𒁏igger bases, pitch clocks, and limits on shifting have changed the way we should view and bet o✤n baseball.
During spring tr♊aining, stolen base attempts were up 65 percent compared to last year, with the success rates also up eight percent.
Teams will run a lot🎃 more, and defensive shifts will no longer hold those pow🐟erful, lefty bats hostage.
With that, we look at one power hitter whꦿo has been a thorn in the Yankees’ side for a fe𒐪w years already.
Yordan Alvarez most RBIs in MLB (+1000, PointsBet)
The only thing that holds anyone back from a Yordan Alvarez M💧ost Valuable Player bet is the mythical sensation that is Shohei Ohtani.
Part of this bet is about the opportunity. Another is abouꦆt🐈 the rule-change effect.
Alvarez was shifted against on 88.3 percent of𒊎 hisꦇ plate appearances last season, the eighth most in MLB history.
He had 27 hits taken away from him due to the shift, the fourth most in all of baseball according tꦦo Baseball Sav🍸ant (hard-hit balls snagged by shortstops or second basemen in the shift).
As for the o♛dds, FantasyPros and Fangraphs project Alvarez to have the fourth-most and fifth🤡-most RBIs in MLB this season, which is likely the reason for these current odds.
But diving into their projections, FantasyPros and Fangraphs expect Alvarez to take 507 and 514 a𒀰t-bats, respectivel🍨y.
That is because of the nagging hand injury he sustained in spring training.꧋ He had recovered as of last week and is back in the starting lineup full-time.
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With those projections 𓄧outdated, we can now project Alvarez to have 540 at-bats, still a lenient🎀 projection, given no model projects injuries.
We canᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ then safely project his RBIs number, using Fangraphs’ model, to 109.2, equal to those of the current favorites, Aaron Judge (+700) 𝓡and Pete Alonso (+750), on PointsBet.
Back Alvare💞z this season as a multi-MVP caliber player in the American League ꦐstarting next year — once Mets owner Steve Cohen brings Ohtani over to the National League.