Toronto Blue Jays vs Kansas City Royals Prediction, 4/5/2023 MLB Picks, Best Bets & Odds

Game: Toronto Blue Jays vs Kansas City Royals

Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Location: Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, MO

TV: Bally Sports Kansas City

Odds/Point Spread: Toronto (-200) Kansas City (+170)

Kauffman Stadium is the location where the Kansas City Royals (1-3) will take on the Toronto Blue Jays (1-3) on Wednesday. The odds on this game have the Blue Jays at -200 while the Royals are at +170. The betting total is set at 8.5. The pitchers taking the mound will be Alek Manoah and Zack Greinke.

Toronto has a slugging % of .371 and have struck out 33 times, while drawing a walk on 20 occasions. They have accrued 17 runs batted in and 42 hits so far this year, while their batting average is sitting at .294. The Blue Jays have accumulated 8 two-baggers as a team and have hit 1 ball out of the park. They have a total of 20 runs scored while having a team OBP of .381. As a unit, the Toronto Blue Jays are knocking in 5.0 runs/g, which puts them at 14th in baseball.

The Blue Jays have a team ERA of 7.64 so far this season (29th in baseball), and their staff has struck out 30 batters. They have accumulated a K/BB ratio of 2.31 and the pitching staff has a collective WHIP of 1.94. Blue Jays pitchers have given up 7 home runs and 31 total runs (28th in baseball). Their pitching staff has walked 13 opposing batters and their FIP sits at 5.58 as a team this year.

The Blue Jays have converted 57.8% of balls in play into outs out of 297 innings, ranking them 30th in the majors. The Toronto Blue Jays have amassed 99 putouts at this point in the season, as well as 37 assists and 2 errors. Their fielding rate is holding at .986 which is 17th in pro baseball, and have earned 6 double plays.

Manoah has pitched in 311 frames and has tallied 310 strikeouts so far in his career. Manoah (25-9 win-loss mark in his career) sits with a FIP of 3.59 while he has gone up against 1,266 opposing batters in the major leagues. His ERA is 2.71 (94 ER's allowed) and he has a career WHIP of 1.036. He has given up 230 hits (6.6 hits per 9 innings) and has had 93 walks.

The Royals have a team slugging % of .317 and they earn 3.25 runs per contest (24th in the league). They have notched 6 doubles, while walking 16 times as well as racking up 13 runs. Kansas City has recorded 3 HRs this season as well as 13 runs batted in. They have been rung up on 36 occasions (15th in the league) and have earned a total of 22 hits. The Kansas City Royals have recorded a team OBP of .284 in addition to a batting average of .179 on the season.

The Kansas City pitching staff have allowed 16 runs over the course of the season while holding an ERA of 3.75 (15 earned runs yielded). They have relinquished 3 home runs and they concede 4.00 runs per 9 innings (11th in baseball). The Royals are sitting with a team WHIP of 1.528 and have a FIP of 3.97 as a unit this year. They have earned a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.00 (34 strikeouts vs 17 walks). They rank 17th in the league as a pitching staff in total hits surrendered with 38.

The Kansas City Royals have gotten 5 double plays and own a fielding percentage of .993 (10th in pro baseball). The Royals have racked up 32 assists, 1 error and have amassed 108 putouts for the season. In their 324 innings played, the Royals hold a efficiency on defense of 66.1% (22nd in professional baseball).

So far in his MLB career, Greinke has allowed 3,055 base knocks while totaling 2,886 K's in 3,252 innings. Greinke (223-142 win-loss record in his career) has a 3.42 earned run average while allowing 8.5 hits per nine innings. He has allowed 1,237 ER's while holding a WHIP of 1.167 and a FIP of 3.5. His strikeout to walk ratio is 3.90 and he has gone up against 13,307 batters during his MLB career.

Who will win tonight's MLB game against the spread or moneyline?

Tony Sink's Pick: Take Toronto (-200)

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