Today is the last Friday of the MLB regular season and I truly can’t believe we have reached this point. Most of the races are well in hand and there is not much that still needs to be decided but the Braves and Mets open up a quasi-playoff series today and the Brewers and Phillies are still fighting it out for the last Wild Card spot. Let’s dive into the slate and pick our favorite NRFI bets.
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Two of baseball’s best pitchers going head to head in the first game in a pivotal three-game series to decide the NL East is about everything that baseball fans could ask for. That is what we get tonight in Atlanta. Max Fried takes the mound for the Braves and he is somehow having an even better season than he did last year. He has a sub-three ERA and all of the estimators seem him the same way. He does not walk hitters or allow home runs which is an elite combination for run prevention. He does face a Mets’ lineup that is 10% better than league average against left-handed pitching but his skill set is just too impressive for me to be worried about the matchup. Fried has allowed a 0.215 wOBA the first time through the order.