Lotte Giants vs NC Dinos Prediction, 4/21/2023 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Lotte Giants vs NC Dinos

Date: Friday, April 21, 2023

Location: Changwon NC Park in Changwon, South Korea

TV: MBC Sports+

Kun Woo Park and the NC Dinos (10-6, 2nd in KBO) host the Lotte Giants (6-8, 8th in KBO) at Changwon NC Park on Friday, April 21, 2023.

Lotte is slugging .354 and have struck out 88 times, while getting the free base on 52 occasions. They have tallied 64 RBI's in addition to 126 base knocks for the year, while their team batting average sits at .264. The Giants have accumulated 16 doubles as a squad and have hit 7 balls out of the park. They have tallied 68 runs scored while holding a team OBP of .339. As a squad, the Lotte Giants are knocking in 4.9 runs per game, which is 4th in baseball.

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Zach Reks is a hitter who should impact this game for Lotte. Reks has hit .205 for his career in baseball, with 5 scored runs and an OPS of .432. He has gone down on strikes 17 times and has taken a walk on 0 occasions, contributing to a .205 on-base percentage. For his pro baseball career, Reks has hit 0 baseballs out of the park while knocking in 3 runs. His slugging percentage is .227 and he has a total of 10 bases. Over the course of his pro career, he stepped up to bat 44 times and got on base with a hit 9 times.

The Giants have stolen 14 bases and have been gunned down 4 times, which shows us their caught stealing rate is 22.2%. The Lotte Giants have accounted for 367 putouts this season, in addition to 127 assists and 11 errors. Their fielding rate is at .978 which puts them in 3rd in KBO and they have twisted 10 double plays.

The Giants have a team earned run average of 6.27 on the year (10th in baseball), and their staff has rung up 106 batters. Lotte has allowed 148 base knocks (10.9 per 9 innings) in addition to 85 earned runs. Their strikeout to walk ratio is 1.61 and the pitching staff has a collective WHIP of 1.75. Giants pitchers have yielded 11 home runs and also 90 runs in total (1st in baseball).

NC has accumulated 10 home runs for the season to go along with 67 RBIs. They have hit 17 doubles, while getting a free base 54 times as well as recording 76 runs. The NC Dinos hold a team on-base percentage of .347 in addition to a team batting average of .267 on the season. The Dinos have a team SLG% of .374 and they average 4.75 runs per outing (5th in KBO). They have been rung up on 147 occasions (1st in the league) and have accounted for 142 base knocks.

Kun Woo Park is a hitter who can be a difference maker for NC. Over the course of the 3,598 official at-bats in his professional career, Park has accrued an average at the plate of .327 in addition to 1,175 hits. He has hit a home run 99 times, as well as 1,750 bases in total and a .486 slugging percentage. Park has drawn a free base 327 times while striking out on 537 attempts. He has amassed 644 runs and notched 549 runs batted in. His on-base percentage is .390 and he also has a career OPS of .876.

In their 14 attempts at getting a steal, they have made it 8 times and been caught 6 times (42.9% caught stealing percentage). The NC Dinos have turned 13 double plays and have notched a fielding percentage of .964 (10th in Korean baseball). The Dinos have recorded 140 assists, 21 errors and have 423 putouts for the season.

The Dinos hold a team WHIP of 1.255 and are the owners of a FIP of 3.38 as a pitching staff for the season. They currently have a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.41 (135 strikeouts against 56 bases on balls). They are sitting at 8th in the league as a staff in total hits relinquished with 121. They have conceded 7 long balls and they relinquish 3.38 runs per 9 innings (1st in the league). The NC pitching staff have given up 53 runs this season while having an ERA of 2.81 (44 earned runs relinquished).

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

Josh Schonwald's Pick: Take Lotte

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