Detroit Tigers @ Cleveland Indians Matchup Preview - August 15th, 2022

Detroit Tigers Insights

• Bryan Garcia was firing on all cylinders in his last outing and allowed 0 ER.

• The Cleveland Guardians have just 1 same-handed RP in their bullpen, so Akil Baddoo has a strong chance of holding the advantage against every reliever all game.

• Miguel Cabrera has a 99th percentile opposite-field rate on his flyballs (42%) and has the good fortune of hitting them towards baseball's 6th-shallowest RF fences today.

Cleveland Indians Insights

• Given that flyball pitchers struggle the most against groundball hitters, Xzavion Curry (42.7% FB% according to THE BAT projections) will be a bit disadvantaged in this game with 3 GB hitters in Detroit's projected batting order.

• THE BAT X projects Austin Hedges in the 1st percentile when estimating his batting average talent.

• Projected catcher Austin Hedges profiles as an elite pitch framer, according to THE BAT projection system.

Betting Trends

• The Cleveland Guardians have hit the 1st Five Innings (F5) Run Line in 47 of their last 80 games (+12.95 Units / 14% ROI)

• The Detroit Tigers have hit the Game Total Under in 57 of their last 103 games (+19.00 Units / 17% ROI)

• Josh Naylor has hit the Runs Under in 11 of his last 12 games (+9.30 Units / 45% ROI)