Kiwoom Heroes vs KT Wiz Prediction, 5/2/2025 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: Kiwoom Heroes vs KT Wiz

Date: Friday, May 2, 2025

Location: Suwon KT Wiz Park in Suwon, South Korea

TV: SPO-2T

Odds/Point Spread: Kiwoom (+172) KT (-210)

Suwon KT Wiz Park is the site where Min Hyuck Kim and the KT Wiz (16-14, 5th in KBO) will play the Kiwoom Heroes (11-22, 10th in KBO) on Friday, May 2, 2025. The line on this matchup has the Heroes priced at +172 and the Wiz are at -210. The O/U opens at 9.

Kiwoom has a slugging percentage of .352 and have been called out on strikes 294 times, while drawing a walk on 109 occasions. They have accrued 126 runs batted in and 264 base knocks this season, and their team batting average is at .236. The Heroes have accumulated 48 two-baggers as a unit and have hit 25 balls out of the park. They have accounted for 137 runs and hold an OBP of .314. As a team, the Kiwoom Heroes are compiling 4.2 runs per game, which ranks them 8th in the league.

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Yasiel Puig is one batter you are going to want to keep your eye on for Kiwoom. In his career, Puig has hit 243 baseballs over the fence while knocking in 785 runs. Over the course of his pro career, he came to the plate 5,936 times and got on base with a base hit 1,486 times. Puig has a batting average of .285 in his time in baseball, with 844 runs scored and an OPS of .857. He is sitting with a career slugging percentage of .492 and he has a total of 2,568 bases. He has gone down on strikes 1,121 times and earned a walk on 576 at-bats, contributing to a .365 on-base percentage.

The Heroes have stolen 23 bases and have been thrown out 13 times, which means their caught stealing rate is 36.1%. The Kiwoom Heroes are sitting with 861 putouts for the season, as well as 290 assists and 31 errors. Their fielding percentage sits at .974 which has them sitting 9th in the league and have accumulated 27 double plays.

The Heroes are sitting with a team ERA of 5.61 this season (9th in KBO), and the staff has rung up 229 hitters. Kiwoom has given up 362 base hits (11.4 per 9 innings) and also 179 earned runs. They have a strikeout to walk ratio of 1.73 and the pitching staff has a team WHIP of 1.72. Heroes pitchers have conceded 36 long balls and 216 total runs (1st in baseball).

The KT Wiz are sitting with an OBP of .328 in addition to a batting average of .243 on the season. They have been rung up on 222 occasions (9th in the league) and have earned a total of 249 hits. KT has accumulated 15 long balls for the year as well as 112 RBIs. The Wiz hold a team SLG% of .337 and they are scoring 3.90 runs per game (10th in the league). They hit 44 two-baggers, while taking a walk 123 times as well as scoring 121 runs.

Min Hyuck Kim is a batter who should be able to impact this game for KT. In the 2,280 at-bats in his career, Kim has accrued an average at the plate of .294 and has racked up 670 base knocks. He has hit it out of the park 10 times, as well as 806 bases in total and also a .354 slugging %. Kim has tallied a walk 203 times while going down on strikes on 332 attempts. He has compiled 325 runs in addition to having earned 199 runs batted in. His on-base percentage is .356 and he holds a career OPS of .710.

The KT Wiz have turned 19 double plays and have accounted for a fielding rate of .985 (3rd in the league). The Wiz have racked up 308 assists, 17 errors and have earned a total of 837 putouts on the campaign. In their 49 tries at stealing a base, they have had success 36 times and been caught 13 times (26.5% caught stealing percentage).

The Wiz hold a team WHIP of 1.168 and have a FIP of 3.19 as a unit on the year. They currently have a K/BB ratio of 2.84 (256 strikeouts against 90 walks). They have a ranking of 8th in the league as a pitching staff in total hits conceded with 236. They have conceded 21 home runs and they yield 3.19 runs per 9 innings (1st in KBO). The KT pitching staff have conceded 99 runs for the year while having a team ERA of 2.81 (87 earned runs surrendered).

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

Guy Bruhn's Pick: Take Kiwoom (+172)

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