Kansas City Royals vs Texas Rangers 3/15/2023 Picks Predictions

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15 March 2023

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The Kansas City Royals will meet with the Texas Rangers in MLB action in Surprise Stadium in Surprise, AZ, on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, at 4:05 PM ET.

After capturing the World Series title in 2015, the Kansas City Royals began a protracted and laborious reconstruction.

They ended there in 2022, completing with a 65-97 record, with the Tigers having a stronger record than them by one game.

The Royals will be expecting that their young and promising players can make some quick contributions, but overall, it seems sensible to anticipate that they will continue to lose at the same rate that was seen in the previous several seasons.

Although that may seem like a very gloomy picture for the squad, there are still grounds to be optimistic about the future.

Let’s look at three audacious predictions for the Royals in the 2023 season and see if they are successful in climbing out of their division’s bottom now that Spring Training began for them.

One of the few players from the Royals’ World Series-winning squad from 2015 is Salvador Perez, and he continued to improve with age.

Perez made a good campaign in his limited appearance in 2020 after sitting out the entire 2019 season. This prepared the ground for Perez’s unexpected major league-leading 48 home runs and 121 RBIs in 2021.

Perez struggled to remain healthy in 2022, which brought him back to earth, but he still managed to blast 23 home runs over 114 games.

Yet, Perez suddenly emerged as one of the top power hitters in the game after hitting normally between 20 and 25 home runs during his career.

The Royals’ primary objective in 2023 will be the development of their young core, as was already mentioned. Brady Singer and Bobby Witt Jr. are two of their top young talents.

It wouldn’t be shocking to see them succeed in moving forward in 2023 after good campaigns from both guys in 2022.

Witt, one of the most talented young players in the league right now, had a solid 2022 campaign (.254 BA, 20 HR, 80 RBI, 30 SB,.722 OPS), which helped him place fourth in the voting for AL Rookie of the Year.

Singer joined the team in 2020 and had a relatively dismal 2021, but after a fantastic 2022 (10-5, 3.23 ERA, 150 K, 1.14 WHIP), he will be the team’s strongest starter going into 2023.

The Kansas City Royals are 2-3 in their previous 5 contests against the spread.
The Kansas City Royals are 37-44 in their previous road contests against the spread.
The totals went OVER in 5 of the Royals’ previous 5 contests.

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Expecting a starter to miss no more than 12 starts seems like the kind of pessimistic outlook that Rangers supporters would not be too eager to accept.

When it comes to Jacob deGrom, one shouldn’t be too choosy. The 34-year-old’s previous two seasons were severely hampered by injury, and during that time he only made 26 starts.

However, take note that no addition was made to his performance in 2023. When deGrom takes the mound, dominance usually follows.

The two-time National League Cy Young Award winner should only require 20–25 starts for Texas to recover its $185 million investment.

DeGrom’s ERA in the 11-game sample size from the previous season was 2.13, and in the similarly abbreviated 2021 season, it was an unbelievable 1.24. Numbers like those are not intended to be there in this decade.

The Texas Rangers are 3-2 in their last 5 contests against the spread.
The Texas Rangers are 47-34 in their road matches against the spread.
The totals went OVER in 2 of the Rangers’ last 5 matches.

Kansas City Royals vs Texas Rangers. The MLB pick for this game is the Texas Rangers. The two optimistic predictions mentioned above can’t change the fact that the Royals are still a relatively bad team.

Both their starting lineup and pitching staff lack significant players, and while there is a chance that some young players could advance, it currently appears as though Kansas City is in the midst of yet another rebuilding season.

The Texas Rangers will win to a predicted score of 6-3.

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