Lawrence Butler Total Hits Props • Oakland
Lawrence Butler has primarily hit in the back-half of the lineup this year (73% of the time), but he is penciled in 1st on the lineup card in this game. The #7 venue in the game for boosting base hits to left-handed hitters, via the leading projection system (THE BAT), is Angel Stadium. The wind projects to be blowing out to CF at 8.1-mph in this contest, the 2nd-best of the day for batters. Lawrence Butler has made big gains with his Barrel% recently, bettering his 12.4% seasonal rate to 21.4% in the last two weeks' worth of games. In the last two weeks, Lawrence Butler's exit velocity on flyballs has seen a big rise, from 95-mph over the course of the season to 103.9-mph lately.