MLB Baseball Picks - May 24, 2016

Sitting alone atop the always competitive AL East, the Boston Red Sox send David Price (6-1, 5.53 ERA) to the mound in the series opener against the Colorado Rockies. Price aims to silence the Rockies hot bats and pickup his seventh win of the summer season and lower his high ERA simultaneously.

 

The Red Sox possess one of many top offenses in every one of baseball and are lead by Xander Bogaerts who's batting .346. In what is probably his final season, David "Big Papi" Ortiz is batting .329 with 11 Home Runs and 37 RBI's. Jackie Bradley Jr. is an additional player to watch for Boston and is hitting .342 with 8 Home Runs and 33 RBI's.

 

Boston has been paced by the guy who's retiring by the end of the year, David Ortiz, who's hitting .329 with 11 homers and 37 RBIs so far. The real star at this time may be Jackie Bradley Jr, who's hitting .342 with eight homers and 33 RBIs on the year and happens to be in the midst of a 27 game hitting streak. The Red Sox have averaged 6.68 rpg and have allowed 4.56 rpg at home this year. On the mound Boston is a huge bit substandard while they can be found in ranked 18th in the league in ERA at 4.07, while also ranking 14th in WHIP at 1.30. At home Red Sox starters have an ERA of 4.78, while their pen has an ERA of 3.07.

 

Taking the hill for the Red Sox will undoubtedly be David Price, who moved 6-1 with a 5.53 ERA in nine starts this year, including 2-1 with a 4.34 ERA in his last three starts overall and 3-0 with a 6.75 ERA in five starts at home. Price is 16-10 with a 3.39 ERA in 37 career starts through the month of May, during interleague play he moved 11-10 with a 3.42 ERA in 26 starts. He's faced the Rockies twice and is 0-2 with a 5.93 ERA in those games.  

 

Boston Red Sox -1.5

The Red Sox high priced free agent starter David Price hasn't had the year he hoped for his ERA but he has been delivering wins. Price gets another big offensive output using this HOT hitting Red Sox bats.