On Friday, August 25 at 8:10 PM ET, Leody Taveras and the Texas Rangers will match up with starter Sonny Gray and the Minnesota Twins at Target Field, airing on BSN.
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Player Prop Odds for Taveras
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -150 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -114 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -107 |
| Strikeouts | 0.5 | -145 |
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Stats and Trends for the Minnesota Twins
- Gray (6-6) will take the mound for the Twins, his 26th start of the season.
- The right-hander’s last start was on Saturday, when he tossed 6 2/3 innings while giving up four earned runs on four hits in a matchup with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 33-year-old ranks fifth in ERA (3.08), 28th in WHIP (1.203), and 21st in K/9 (9.3).
- The Twins have a 9.6 K/9 this season as a staff, which is best in baseball.
- The Twins have the seventh-best ERA (3.94) in the majors this season.
- The Twins have a combined WHIP of just 1.212 as a pitching staff, which is the third-best in baseball this season.
- With 152 homers allowed, the Twins rank 16th in the league at preventing long balls.
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Leody Taveras Stats vs. the Twins
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/24/2023 | Pablo Lopez | 1-for-4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 8/22/2022 | Sonny Gray | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 8/21/2022 | Joe Ryan | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0/0 | 1 |
| 8/20/2022 | Chris Archer | 1-for-5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3/0 | 0 |
| 8/19/2022 | Dylan Bundy | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | 1 |
| 7/9/2022 | Devin Smeltzer | 2-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 7/8/2022 | Sonny Gray | 0-for-2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
Taveras Stats and Trends
- Taveras has reached base with a base hit 67 times this year in 110 games played (60.9%), including multiple knocks in 25.5% of them (28 times).
- He has hit a long ball in 10.0% of his games this season (110 contests), going yard in 2.8% of his trips to home plate.
- He has scored a run in 37.3% of his 110 games this year. That includes more than one run scored in 10.0% of those contests (11).
- Taveras has driven in a run in 36 of 110 games this year, including multiple RBI in 13 of them. He has also plated three or more of his team’s runs in seven contests.
- In 56.4% of his 110 games this season, he has struck out (62 times). He’s also had 25 games with multiple Ks in 2023 (22.7%).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 53 | GP | 57 |
| 30 (56.6%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 37 (64.9%) |
| 15 (28.3%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 13 (22.8%) |
| 20 (37.7%) | Games w/1+ Run | 21 (36.8%) |
| 8 (15.1%) | Games w/1+ HR | 3 (5.3%) |
| 19 (35.8%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 17 (29.8%) |
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