MLB odds: 2022 Wild Card best bets for Phillies-Cardinals, Mariners-Blue Jays

By Edward Egros
FOX Sports MLB Betting Analyst

The MLB common season has concluded, because of this the Wild Card Round is formally underway beginning on Friday, Oct. 7. 

I will be able to information you thru those playoffs via providing you with day by day learn about fabrics. That homework is composed of previewing every recreation with some bets I love for the day by day slate.

That is the varsity bell, because of this elegance is again in consultation!

Here are my favourite bets for Friday, with odds by means of FOX Bet.

Tampa Bay Rays at Cleveland Guardians (midday ET Friday, ESPN)

For the collection, don’t be expecting a large number of offense. 

Both batting lineups rank in the midst of MLB in wRC+ (Rays at 101, Guardians at 99, with the common being 100). While each ball golf equipment are beginning this best-of-three collection with their aces, what issues extra comes to forcing a glass to throw extra, so they are able to get into the bullpen quicker. Here, the Rays have the benefit. On outdoor the strike zone swing fee, Tampa Bay is 32.5%, and Cleveland is 34.2%. That plate self-discipline has me leaning Rays at the moneyline.

PICK: Rays moneyline (+100 at FOX Bet)

Philadelphia Phillies at St. Louis Cardinals (2:00 ET Friday, ABC)

While each pitchers have achieved an excellent process proscribing hard-hit balls, the starkest distinction between Zack Wheeler and Jose Quintana comes to placing out hitters. Wheeler’s 26.9% ranks some of the best in baseball, whilst Quintana’s 20.2% suggests he is determined by his protection extra to get thru innings. Philadelphia has large questions relating to its protection, however having Wheeler at the mound will save you the questions from turning into issues, a minimum of to begin the collection. I love Philadelphia to win the sport.

PICK: Phillies moneyline (-110 at FOX Bet)

Seattle Mariners at Toronto Blue Jays (4:00 ET Friday, ESPN)

Seattle made a big funding in Luis Castillo, its newly got hurler (a 5-year, $108 million deal). It’s greater than comprehensible, given how neatly he’s pitched for the M’s because the closing date, particularly with how neatly he’s saved pitches within the ballpark. Since August, Castillo’s house run to flyball fee has been 10.3%; remaining yr, it was once 15%. Given how robust Blue Jays bats had been all season, the one approach Seattle has any likelihood of successful this collection is via Castillo having a monster time out, and I’ve him doing sufficient to stay this recreation low-scoring. I just like the Under.

PICK: Under 7 runs scored blended via each groups (-118 at FOX Bet)

San Diego Padres at New York Mets (8:00 ET Friday, ESPN)

Just since the Mets let the department name slip away does no longer imply they have got been enjoying poorly down the stretch. Since September 1st, the Mets have ranked 2nd in anticipated fielding impartial pitching (2.96) and 3rd in wRC+ (116). My query for New York has all the time concerned the well being of the hardest one-two punch in beginning pitching: Scherzer and deGrom. While San Diego is a unique ball membership because the get started of the season on account of their large acquisitions on the Trade Deadline, the Mets are much more impactful when everyone seems to be to be had. Assuming that remains true for this collection, I lean Mets’ run line on this recreation.

PICK: Mets run line (+105 at FOX Bet)

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Edward Egros is a sports activities analytics broadcaster/author, a sports activities having a bet analyst, a knowledge scientist and an accessory professor of statistics at Pepperdine University. These passions have led him to transform a chilly brew aficionado. Edward up to now labored in native tv, particularly on the Fox associate in Dallas masking the Rangers, Cowboys and highschool soccer.  Follow him on Twitter @EdWithSports. 

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