The weekend is here, and the aces are wild on this Friday night slate. There is a boatload of quality arms set to take the ball this evening. However, I’ve narrowed it down to my top five player props as there are multiple ways to back or fade the men on the mound tonight.
Pablo Lopez Over 5.5 Strikeouts (-157)
Pablo Lopez has had an excellent season as he’s been the back end of a formidable one-two punch at the top of the Marlins rotation. Tonight he gets a Braves lineup that is very dangerous, but when they are not doing the damage, they swing and miss quite a bit. Atlanta enters this matchup with the third highest strikeout rate in the majors. Lopez has gone over this total in half his starts, so with the matchup added into the coin flip probability, this line has a bit of value on it.