Richie Palacios Total Hits Props • Tampa Bay
The #10 park in Major League Baseball for boosting BABIP to lefties, per the leading projection system (THE BAT), is Target Field. Built 840 feet above sea level, Target Field has the 5th-highest altitude in the majors, which usually leads (as a rule of thumb) to more offense. Because of Joe Ryan's large platoon split, Richie Palacios will have an enormous advantage batting from the opposite side of the dish in this game. Richie Palacios has seen a notable increase in his exit velocity on flyballs lately; just compare his 96.6-mph average in the past two weeks' worth of games to his seasonal figure of 90.3-mph.