Kia Tigers vs KT Wiz Prediction, 5/22/2025 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Kia Tigers vs KT Wiz

Date: Thursday, May 22, 2025

Location: Suwon KT Wiz Park in Suwon, South Korea

TV: SPO-2T

Odds/Point Spread: Kia (+162) KT (-196)

Min Hyuck Kim and the KT Wiz (22-23, 6th in KBO) host the Kia Tigers (22-23, 5th in KBO) at Suwon KT Wiz Park on Thursday, May 22, 2025. The odds on this contest have the Tigers priced at +162 and the Wiz are at -196. The O/U is set at 8.5.

Kia is slugging .380 and have been rung up 334 times, while taking a walk on 196 occasions. They have earned 194 RBI's and 368 base knocks for the season, while their batting average sits at .245. The Tigers have accumulated 91 doubles as a team and have hit 36 balls out of the park. They have 207 runs scored while holding a team OBP of .335. As a squad, the Kia Tigers are earning 4.6 runs per outing, which has them sitting at 6th in the league.

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Hyoung Woo Choi is one batter you are going to want to keep your eye on for Kia. For his pro baseball career, Choi has drilled 403 baseballs out of the park while driving in 1,682 runs. His slugging percentage sits at .531 in addition to having tallied 4,265 bases. In his time in the Majors, he faced a pitcher 9,397 times and has notched a base knock 2,490 times. He has gone down on strikes 1,432 times and earned a walk on 1,154 occasions, which has contributed to a .400 OBP. Choi has accumulated a batting average of .310 for his career, in addition to 1,313 runs scored and an OPS of .931.

The Kia Tigers have earned a total of 1,188 putouts on the campaign, in addition to 449 assists and 33 errors. Their fielding percentage is holding steady at .980 which is 5th in Korean baseball and they have turned 33 double plays. The Tigers have stolen 41 bases and have been caught 13 times, which shows us their caught stealing percentage is 24.1%.

They have earned a strikeout to walk ratio of 1.94 and their pitching staff holds a collective WHIP of 1.47. Tigers pitchers have relinquished 29 home runs in addition to 222 runs in total (4th in the league). Kia has given up 411 hits (9.3 per 9 innings) as well as 199 earned runs. The Tigers have a team earned run average of 4.52 so far this year (7th in KBO), and they have rung up 336 hitters.

KT is sitting with 30 HRs on the season to go along with 174 RBIs. They hit 66 doubles, while walking 190 times and putting up 186 runs. The KT Wiz have tallied a team OBP of .328 as well as a batting average of .244 over the course of the season. The Wiz have a team SLG% of .352 and they tally 3.88 runs per outing (9th in baseball). They have struck out on 340 instances (7th in baseball) and have earned a total of 393 base hits.

Min Hyuck Kim is a batter who should be able to impact this game for KT. For the 2,341 at-bats in his career, Kim has accrued an average at the plate of .295 with 690 base knocks. He has hit the long ball 10 times, with 828 total bases and also a .354 slugging percentage. Kim has drawn a free base 208 times while fanning on 336 attempts. He has scored 335 runs in addition to having earned 204 runs batted in. His OBP comes in at .357 and he also has a lifetime OPS of .711.

Out of their 65 attempts at stealing a base, they have had success 50 times and been caught 15 times (23.1% caught stealing rate). The KT Wiz have turned 35 double plays and have a fielding rate of .984 (4th in Korean baseball). The Wiz have accrued 480 assists, 28 errors and are sitting with 1,293 putouts this year.

The KT pitching staff have surrendered 188 runs for the season while having an ERA of 3.47 (166 earned runs yielded). They have conceded 35 homers and they surrender 3.93 runs per 9 innings (3rd in KBO). The Wiz hold a team WHIP of 1.290 with a FIP of 3.93 as a pitching staff so far this year. Their strikeout to walk ratio sits at 2.39 (376 strikeouts against 157 free passes). They are sitting at 5th in the league as a staff in total hits surrendered with 399.

Who will win tonight's KBO game ATS?

Guy Bruhn's Pick: Take KT (-196)

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