KT Wiz vs Lotte Giants Prediction, 4/9/2023 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: KT Wiz vs Lotte Giants

Date: Sunday, April 9, 2023

Location: Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan, South Korea

TV: SPOTV2

Sajik Baseball Stadium is the site where Jun-woo Jeon and the Lotte Giants (1-2, 9th in KBO) will play the KT Wiz (1-1, 6th in KBO) on Sunday, April 9, 2023.

KT is slugging .512 and have been called out on strikes 17 times, while being walked on 7 occasions. They have amassed 19 runs batted in and 25 base knocks for the year, and their average at the plate is sitting at .305. The Wiz have accounted for 6 doubles as a squad and have knocked 3 balls out of the park. They have racked up 20 runs scored while holding a team OBP of .352. As a team, the KT Wiz are notching 10.0 runs per contest, which puts them at 1st in the league.

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Jeong-dae Bae is a hitter who should be able to impact this game for KT. In his professional baseball career, Bae has hit 32 balls out of the park while driving in 200 runs. For his time in baseball, he came to the plate 1,997 times and got on base with a hit 456 times. Bae has recorded a batting average of .261 for his career in baseball, in addition to 271 runs scored and an OPS of .710. He is sitting with a career slugging percentage of .368 and he has totaled 642 bases. He has fanned 466 times and has been walked on 199 attempts at the plate, contributing to a .342 on-base percentage.

The Wiz have stolen 6 bases and have been gunned down 1 time, which shows us their caught stealing percentage comes in at 14.3%. The KT Wiz have accumulated 60 putouts on the campaign, in addition to 18 assists and 1 errors. Their fielding rate is currently at .987 which ranks 2nd in Korean baseball and they have twisted 2 double plays.

Their strikeout to walk ratio sits at 1.00 and their pitching staff has earned a collective WHIP of 1.85. Wiz pitchers have surrendered 0 long balls and also 16 total runs (7th in baseball). KT has surrendered 27 hits (12.2 per 9 innings) and also 15 earned runs. The Wiz have a team earned run average of 6.75 so far this season (10th in the league), and the staff has rung up 10 batters.

Lotte has accumulated 1 home runs on the campaign to go along with 13 RBIs. They have notched 4 doubles, while taking a walk 13 times and scoring 13 runs. The Lotte Giants have earned a team OBP of .307 and a team batting average of .210 this year. The Giants have a team SLG% of .300 and they have an average of 4.33 runs per contest (7th in the league). They have been rung up on 16 occasions (9th in KBO) and are sitting with 21 hits.

Jun-woo Jeon is a batter who can be a difference maker for Lotte. For the 5,557 official at-bats in his pro career, Jeon has recorded a batting average of .299 in addition to 1,661 base hits. He has hit a home run 180 times, in addition to having 2,580 total bases and also a .464 slugging percentage. Jeon has drawn a walk 503 times while striking out on 937 attempts. He has accrued 919 runs in addition to having 812 runs batted in. His OBP sits at .362 and he is the owner of a lifetime OPS of .826.

Out of their 2 attempts at getting a steal, they have been successful 2 times and been caught 0 times (0.0% caught stealing rate). The Lotte Giants have twisted 2 double plays and hold a fielding percentage of .990 (1st in KBO). The Giants have 27 assists, 1 errors and are sitting with 76 putouts over the course of the season.

The Giants hold a team WHIP of 1.594 with a FIP of 5.33 as a staff this year. Their strikeout to walk ratio comes in at 1.21 (17 strikeouts vs 14 walks). They rank 8th in baseball as a pitching staff in total hits relinquished with 26. They have allowed 2 home runs and they allow 5.33 runs per 9 innings (8th in baseball). The Lotte pitching staff have relinquished 15 runs for the season while having an ERA of 4.66 (13 earned runs allowed).

Who will win tonight's KBO game against the spread?

Tony Sink's Pick: Take KT

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