St. Louis Cardinals vs Toronto Blue Jays Prediction, 9/13/2024 MLB Picks, Best Bets & Odds

Game: St. Louis Cardinals vs Toronto Blue Jays

Date: Friday, September 13, 2024

Location: Rogers Centre in Toronto, ON

TV: Bally Sports Midwest

The St. Louis Cardinals (73-72) are headed to Rogers Centre on Friday where they will play the Toronto Blue Jays (69-78). The pitchers taking the mound are Erick Fedde and Kevin Gausman.

As a team, the St. Louis Cardinals are scoring 4.1 runs/g, which is 24th in MLB. They have accounted for 594 runs while having a team on-base percentage of .310. The Cardinals have hit 223 two-baggers as a team and have hit 148 baseballs out of the park. They have 564 RBI's as well as 1,213 base knocks on the season, and their team batting average comes in at .246. St. Louis owns a slugging percentage of .388 and have been called out on strikes 1,191 times, while being walked on 422 occasions.

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They have a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.82 and their pitching staff has a collective WHIP of 1.27. Cardinals pitchers have surrendered 160 long balls and 659 runs in total (19th in baseball). St. Louis has yielded 1,222 hits (8.5 per 9 innings) and also 596 earned runs. The Cardinals have a team earned run average of 4.15 so far this season (19th in the league), and the staff has rung up 1,174 hitters. Their pitching staff has walked 417 opposing batters and their FIP sits at 4.02 as a unit this year.

Cardinals bullpen pitchers have stepped onto the hill with opponents on base 149 times in addition to having 163 appearances in high leverage situations. The bullpen have a total of 92 holds this season (5th in the league). The Cardinals relief pitchers have compiled a save rate of 66.2% and stepped onto the hill in 166 save situations. They have compiled 49 saves so far this season and have not converted 25 out of their 74 chances to save the game. The relief pitchers have inherited 205 base runners this year and 35.6% of them crossed home plate. The Cardinals have sent 461 relief pitchers to the mound this year.

The Cardinals have turned 69.7% of balls in play into outs out of their 11,643 innings on the field, which has them sitting 17th in professional baseball. The St. Louis Cardinals have a tally of 3,881 putouts for the season, as well as 1,354 assists and 66 errors. Their fielding percentage is holding steady at .988 which ranks 4th in professional baseball, and have earned 134 double plays.

Fedde has taken the ball for 613 innings and has racked up 490 strikeouts in his pro baseball career. Fedde (29-42 career mark) is the owner of a FIP of 4.81 while facing 2,671 hitters during his time in the major leagues. His ERA is 4.89 (333 ER's allowed) and he has a career WHIP of 1.433. He has allowed 639 base knocks (9.4 hits per 9 innings) and has 240 free passes.

Toronto has accumulated 148 home runs over the course of the season as well as 593 runs batted in. They have notched 262 doubles, while getting a free base 460 times and putting up 621 runs. The Toronto Blue Jays hold an on-base percentage of .314 as well as a batting average of .242 on the year. The Blue Jays have a team slugging percentage of .395 and they are recording 4.22 runs per outing (20th in baseball). They have been called out on strikes on 1,121 occasions (25th in the league) and have accounted for 1,188 base hits.

The Blue Jays are sitting with a team WHIP of 1.272 with a FIP of 4.48 as a pitching staff over the course of the season. They rank 18th in the league as a pitching staff in total hits surrendered with 1,194. The Toronto pitching staff have surrendered 676 runs so far this year while having a team ERA of 4.33 (622 earned runs relinquished). Their K/BB ratio is 8.30 (1,200 strikeouts against 452 bases on balls). They have allowed 194 HR's and they relinquish 4.70 runs per 9 innings (22nd in the league).

Toronto relievers hold an inherited score percentage of 32.6% out of 221 inherited base runners. Their bullpen pitchers have stepped onto the mound 114 times in high leverage situations in addition to 141 occasions with runners on. Sitting with 137 save situations, the Blue Jays have compiled 79 holds in addition to 20 blown saves. They rank 15th in MLB holding a save percentage of 63.6%, and they have dispatched 492 bullpen pitchers onto the field so far this year. Toronto has had relief pitchers step onto the hill in 55 save chances and they have tallied 35 saves.

Out of their 11,649 innings on the field, the Blue Jays have accumulated a defensive efficiency of 70.5% (9th in professional baseball). The Toronto Blue Jays have turned 113 double plays and hold a fielding percentage of .983 (23rd in MLB). The Blue Jays have racked up 1,215 assists, 86 errors and have 3,883 putouts so far this year.

In his pro baseball career, Gausman has surrendered 1,667 base hits and he has 1,753 K's in 1,699 frames. Gausman (100-102 record in his career) has a 3.87 ERA and has given up 8.8 hits per 9 innings. He has allowed a total of 730 ER's while earning a WHIP of 1.263 and having a FIP of 3.8. His strikeout to walk ratio is 3.66 and he has faced 7,139 hitters thus far in his career.

Who will win tonight's MLB game against the spread or moneyline?

Josh Schonwald's Pick: Take Toronto

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