Alright so I’m on a MLB player prop heater. That’s what it’s called when you are just mowing down MLB player prop bets. When you’re on a heater, you have to keep betting. It’s kind of like on NBA Jam back in the day. When a guy was on fire, you wouldn’t let someone else take a shot. That would be dumb. This is basically the same thing only better. As a rule of thumb, when I’m on a heater, I like to attack the very first game on the slate. It makes me feel good and I like to feel good. The Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks are squaring off at 2:20pm ET on MLB Network so that’s where I’m heading.
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Alec Mills over 4.5 strikeouts (+148)
Line available at FanDuel at time of publishing
Now I didn’t want to take this MLB player prop since it’s in a same game parlay I have already advised but I have to do it. It’s early enough in the day that we can always pivot if things go south so there is that. DraftKings and BetMGM has Mills at 3.5 (-150 at DraftKings and -135 at BetMGM) but I will go with 4.5 +148 at FanDuel.
Since the All-Star break Mills has thrown at least 81 pitches in each start. Two of those starts saw him go 90-plus. In each of those starts Mills has struck out at least five guys. He fanned nine Cincinnati Reds, so he does have a decent ceiling.
The Diamondbacks flat out can’t hit. That’s just a fact. On the road, they are second-worst in MLB in OPS only to the Colorado Rockies who are a historically bad road team. They strike out 27% of the time away from home and Zach Davies fanned eight of them yesterday, which is crazy.
The only thing I don’t love is the fact that Merrill Kelly is pitching for the Diamondbacks. He strikes out enough (17 times in 42 plate appearances) but he isn’t a complete pushover. They like to let him bunt, which I hate because it ruins a perfectly good strikeout. Kelly has whiffed at least once in his last three games so we do have hope. I think this is a great MLB player prop bet.
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