Lotte Giants vs KT Wiz Prediction, 5/16/2024 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Lotte Giants vs KT Wiz

Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024

Location: Suwon KT Wiz Park in Suwon, South Korea

TV: TVING

Dong Hee Yoon and the Lotte Giants (13-26, 10th in KBO) travel to Suwon KT Wiz Park on Thursday, May 16, 2024, where they'll take on the KT Wiz (18-24, 7th in KBO).

Lotte has a slugging percentage of .400 and have been rung up 323 times, while taking a walk on 124 occasions. They have 171 RBI's in addition to 381 base knocks on the year, and their team batting average is .269. The Giants have tallied 71 doubles as a team and have hit 29 balls out of the park. They have tallied 183 runs and hold an on-base percentage of .335. As a team, the Lotte Giants are scoring 4.6 runs per contest, which has them at 10th in KBO.

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Dong Hee Yoon is one batter you are going to want to keep your eye on for Lotte. Yoon is sitting with a batting avereage of .278 in his time in baseball, with 77 scored runs and an OPS of .690. He has struck out 99 times and earned a walk on 44 at-bats, contributing to a .329 on-base %. In his pro baseball career, Yoon has hit 4 balls over the fence while driving in 55 runs. He has compiled a slugging percentage of .361 in addition to having tallied 197 bases. In his time in the Majors, he came to the plate 600 times and got on base with a base hit 152 times.

The Lotte Giants have accumulated 1,051 putouts thus far, in addition to 405 assists and 33 errors. Their fielding percentage is currently at .978 which ranks 6th in the league and have accumulated 38 double plays. The Giants have swiped 32 bases and have been caught 17 times, which means their caught stealing rate is 34.7%.

The Giants have compiled a team earned run average of 5.19 this season (6th in baseball), and their staff has struck out 300 hitters. Giants pitchers have conceded 42 home runs in addition to 219 total runs (5th in baseball). Lotte has allowed 409 base hits (10.5 per 9 innings) as well as 202 earned runs. They have earned a strikeout to walk ratio of 1.97 and their pitching staff has a collective WHIP of 1.60.

The KT Wiz have compiled a team OBP of .353 and a batting average of .283 so far this year. They have been rung up on 334 instances (2nd in KBO) and have totaled 434 hits. KT has a total of 44 home runs this year to go along with 218 runs batted in. The Wiz have a team SLG% of .416 and they average 5.49 runs per game (4th in KBO). They have recorded 63 two-baggers, while walking 161 times and putting up 236 runs.

Seong Ho Cheon is one batter you are going to want to keep your eye on for KT. Cheon has tallied a free base 21 times while striking out on 55 plate appearances. His on-base percentage is .343 and he has earned a has a OPS in his career of .699. In the 289 at-bats in his baseball career, Cheon has recorded a batting average of .287 and has racked up 83 base knocks. He has recorded 57 runs and has 21 runs batted in. He has gone yard 1 times, with 103 bases in total and a .356 slugging %.

The KT Wiz have turned 34 double plays and hold a fielding percentage of .981 (3rd in Korean baseball). The Wiz have recorded 387 assists, 29 errors and have accumulated 1,135 putouts for the season. Out of their 63 chances at stealing a base, they have made it 53 times and been caught 10 times (15.9% caught stealing rate).

The Wiz have a WHIP of 1.603 in addition to having a FIP of 6.30 as a pitching staff on the year. They currently have a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.19 (329 strikeouts against 150 walks). They are sitting at 1st in KBO as a pitching staff in total hits allowed with 456. They have yielded 51 dingers and they concede 6.30 runs per 9 innings (10th in KBO). The KT pitching staff have allowed 265 runs over the course of the season while holding an ERA of 6.02 (253 earned runs allowed).

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

Josh Schonwald's Pick: Take Lotte

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