Royals vs. Guardians Matchup Analysis and Player Stats

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00:00Today, at home, inside Kaufman, the Royals, an ever so slight underdog, minus 104, the

00:08Guardians minus 112, that updated money line price, but DRS, it's a virtual pick'em.

00:13Who wins today in Kansas City?

00:14By the way, take a look at this lineup here today, and I'm just going to go over the first

00:18five guys for reason here for those Kansas City Royals, Garcia Witt, Pasquantino Perez,

00:23Michael Massey, one of those names that we haven't heard in quite some time, and Key,

00:28that he's a left-handed hitter.

00:29Now, let's set up this here for Ben Lively.

00:32Over the past 30 days in Major League Baseball, 81 at-bats he's faced here.

00:36A 149 ISO and a 301 weighted on base percentage, and to lefties, which is usually where we

00:41like to play here against right-handed pitchers, he's actually been very good on the season

00:45and also over the past 30 days.

00:47A little bit of trouble here from the right side, but it's not an effective enough number

00:51for I to say, you know what?

00:52It's an automatic victory or play on even a team total or an RBI here for those Kansas

00:56City Royals.

00:57Temperatures here, 79 degrees, wind blowing out to right field at about six to seven miles

01:01an hour.

01:02That helps, but if you're taking a look at Lively's statistics, and not a great pitcher

01:05by nature overall throughout his career, but if you are just looking and say, forget about

01:09the pitcher itself.

01:10It's just a right-hand guy.

01:11You look at that lineup here for the Kansas City Royals, Witt, positive numbers, Pasquantino,

01:15positive numbers, Salvador Perez, a 181 ISO power number over his last 30 days against

01:20right-handed pitching.

01:21Massey, again, just coming back to that lineup here, only five at-bats, but still performing

01:25well.

01:26Pasquantino, 432 weighted on base percentage, Melendez and Renfroe also above, so I like

01:30the way that that lineup is projecting.

01:32Having said that, we know the better overall team here on the card today is the Cleveland

01:36Guardians.

01:37Waka's on the mound.

01:38Take a look, Ben, at his last 30 days.

01:39Only 40 batters he's faced, so not a huge sample size, but look at this, a 105 ISO power

01:44number and a weighted on base percentage of 252.

01:47We should get runs because both of these pitchers could be hit, but I gotta tell you right now,

01:52just the way it sets up, I think the better team is the Guardians.

01:55Just the way I would lean today in this one.