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Astros at Rangers Prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends and stats for May 16 — It's Friday, May 16 and the Astros (22-21) are in Arlington to take on the Rangers (24-21). Lance McCullers is slated to take the mound for Houston against Nathan Eovaldi for Texas.
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Rockies at Diamondbacks Prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, trends and stats for May 16 — Its Friday, May 16 and the Rockies (7-36) are in Phoenix to take on the Diamondbacks (23-21). — Carson Palmquist is slated to take the mound for Colorado against Corbin Burnes for Arizona.
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Twins at Brewers prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, and stats for May 16 — Its Friday, May 16 and the Twins (24-20) are in Milwaukee to take on the Brewers (21-23). — Joe Ryan is slated to take the mound for Minnesota against Chad Patrick for Milwaukee.
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Angels at Dodgers prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, and stats for May 16 — It's Friday, May 16 and the Angels (17-25) are in Los Angeles to take on the Dodgers (29-15). Jack Kochanowicz is slated to take the mound for the Angels against Dustin May for the Dodgers.
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Pirates at Phillies Prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends and stats for May 16 — It's Friday, May 16, and the Pirates (15-29) are in Philadelphia to take on the Phillies (25-18). Andrew Heaney is slated to take the mound for Pittsburgh against Ranger Suárez for Philadelphia.
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Nationals at Orioles Prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends and stats for May 16 — This weekend, the Washington Nationals (18-27) travel up I-95 to Baltimore to take on the Orioles (15-27). — MacKenzie Gore is slated to take the mound for Washington against Kyle Gibson for Baltimore.
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Tigers at Blue Jays prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, and stats for May 16 — The Tigers (29-15) travel north of the border this weekend for a series in Toronto against the Blue Jays (21-22). — Jack Flaherty is slated to take the mound in the series opener Friday …
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Mets at Yankees prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, and stats for May 16
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White Sox at Cubs prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, and stats for May 16
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Athletics at Dodgers prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, and stats for May 15
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Astros at Rangers prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, and stats for May 15
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Rays at Blue Jays Prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends and stats for May 15
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Twins at Orioles prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, and stats for May 15
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Ranking MLB's Rivalry Weekend matchups: Which feuds burn hottest? — For the first time, MLB is putting some of the sport's top geographical battles together in a rivalry weekend that begins Thursday night. — Because the matchups are built around natural location rivalries …
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Subway Series: The Bronx giraffe has yet to win the Mets' 5-Borough Mascot Race, and some smell a rat — Heading into this weekend's Subway Series, there is a new wrinkle in the Mets-Yankees rivalry. And it has to do with a slow-footed or suspiciously unlucky fake giraffe.
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The Seven MLB Hitters Who Are Raking With Reinvented Batting Stances — It's all in the setup. — Ahead of the 2025 MLB season, Baseball Savant, MLB's Statcast data platform and website, released a new set of stats for the public to use related to batting stances.
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Bruce Bochy passes Sparky Anderson with 2,195th career win for 6th among all-time MLB managers — Bruce Bochy got his 2,195th career win to break a tie with Sparky Anderson for the sixth-most by an MLB manager when the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros 1-0 on Thursday night.
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Jacob deGrom and Rangers get 1-0 win on Jake Burger's homer against Astros and Hunter Brown — Jacob deGrom went eight innings to win his fourth consecutive start for the Texas Rangers, who got Jake Burger's solo home run off Hunter Brown in a 1- win over the Houston Astros on Thursday night …
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Rockies looking past futility mark toward day off and upcoming series against Diamondbacks — ARLINGTON, Texas — The Colorado Rockies left Texas as the first team in baseball's modern era to lose 36 of their first 43 games and hoping an off day in Arizona can help them reset.
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