Kiwoom Heroes vs NC Dinos Prediction, 3/27/2024 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Kiwoom Heroes vs NC Dinos

Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Location: Changwon NC Park in Changwon, South Korea

TV: SPO-2T

Ju Won Kim and the NC Dinos (75-67, 4th in KBO last season) play the Kiwoom Heroes (58-83, 10th in KBO last year) at Changwon NC Park on Wednesday, March 27, 2024.

As a squad, the Kiwoom Heroes scored 4.2 runs per game, which put them at 9th in the league. They earned a total of 607 runs scored while having a team on-base percentage of .331. The Heroes tallied 223 two-baggers as a unit and knocked 61 baseballs out of the stadium. They recorded 576 RBI's as well as 1,323 hits last year, and their team batting average finished at .261. Kiwoom was slugging .353 and struck out 1,096 times, while being walked on 484 occasions.

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Hyung Jong Lee is a hitter who should be able to impact this game for Kiwoom. Lee has hit .272 for his baseball career, with 321 runs scored and an OPS of .775. He has struck out 467 times and has been walked on 233 occasions, which contributes in part to a .354 on-base percentage. In his career, Lee has hit 66 balls out of the park while knocking in 291 runs. He has accumulated a slugging percentage of .421 and he has racked up 950 bases. During his time in professional baseball, he stepped into the batters box 2,593 times and has come through with a base knock 614 times.

The Kiwoom Heroes finished with 3,865 putouts for the previous season, in addition to 1,424 assists and 115 errors. Their fielding percentage held steady at .979 which was 6th in the league and earned 125 double plays. The Heroes swiped 129 bases and were thrown out 45 times, which tells us their caught stealing percentage finished at 25.9%.

The Heroes had an earned run average of 4.41 over the course of last season (9th in the league), and their staff rung up 962 hitters. They walked 532 opposing players and their FIP was 4.96 as a unit during the previous year. Kiwoom conceded 1,339 base knocks (9.4 per 9 innings) and 631 earned runs. Their strikeout to walk ratio was 1.81 and the pitching staff had a collective WHIP of 1.45.

NC had a total of 98 home runs in the previous season and 642 RBIs. They hit 223 doubles, while taking a walk 493 times and putting up 679 runs. The NC Dinos tallied a team on-base percentage of .345 as well as a team batting average of .270 over the course of the prior season. The Dinos had a SLG% of .387 and they had an average of 4.72 runs per contest (3rd in the league). They were rung up on 1,005 occasions (4th in the league) and had 1,321 hits.

Ju Won Kim is a hitter who should be able to impact this game for NC. Kim has earned a walk 92 times while fanning on 254 tries. He has a total of 112 runs in addition to having earned 118 RBIs. His on-base percentage sits at .326 and he has a career OPS of .688. He has gone deep 25 times, as well as 307 bases in total and also a .362 slugging percentage. For the 848 official at-bats in his professional career, Kim has recorded a batting average of .230 with 195 hits.

The NC Dinos twisted 126 double plays and owned a fielding percentage of .976 (10th in Korean baseball). The Dinos racked up 1,339 assists, 130 errors and accounted for 3,844 putouts during the previous year. Out of their 138 tries at swiping a bag, they were successful 96 times and were caught 42 times (30.4% caught stealing percentage).

The Dinos held a team WHIP of 1.306 and had a FIP of 4.33 as a team during the previous year. Their strikeout to walk ratio came in at 2.12 (1,090 strikeouts against 513 bases on balls). They were ranked 10th in the league as a staff in total hits conceded with 1,160. They surrendered 99 dingers and they conceded 4.33 runs per 9 innings (3rd in KBO). The NC pitching staff conceded 617 runs during the previous year while having an ERA of 3.83 (545 earned runs yielded).

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

Guy Bruhn's Pick: Take NC

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