Sacramento Athletics vs Milwaukee Brewers Prediction, 4/20/2025 MLB Picks, Best Bets & Odds

Game: Sacramento Athletics vs Milwaukee Brewers

Date: Sunday, April 20, 2025

Location: American Family Field in Milwaukee, WI

TV: FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin

Odds/Point Spread: Sacramento (+126) Milwaukee (-152)

The Milwaukee Brewers (10-9) will play the Sacramento Athletics (9-10) at American Family Field on Sunday. The moneyline on this game has the Athletics at +126 while the Brewers are at -152. The total is 8. The starting pitchers are Jeffrey Springs and Quinn Priester.

As a unit, the Sacramento Athletics are earning 4.6 runs per outing, which has them sitting at 9th in MLB. They have a total of 88 runs scored while having a team on-base percentage of .314. The Athletics have recorded 30 two-baggers as a team and have hit 27 balls out of the park. They have accounted for 84 RBI's in addition to 164 hits on the season, and their team batting average sits at .252. Sacramento is slugging .435 and have been called out on strikes 128 times, while being walked on 59 occasions.

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They have earned a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.10 and their pitching staff holds a collective WHIP of 1.46. Athletics pitchers have given up 22 home runs and also 93 runs in total (26th in MLB). Sacramento has relinquished 170 hits (9.0 per 9 innings) and also 82 earned runs. The Athletics are sitting with a team earned run average of 4.34 on the campaign (24th in the league), and the staff has rung up 166 hitters. They have walked 79 batters and their FIP sits at 4.30 as a team over the course of the season.

Athletics bullpen pitchers have come into the game with runners on 21 times as well as having 15 appearances in high leverage situations. The relievers have a total of 12 holds over the course of the season (18th in baseball). The Athletics relievers have earned a save rate of 66.7% and have entered the game in 21 save situations. They have accumulated 6 saves this year and have blown 3 of their 9 chances to save the game. The relievers have inherited 33 base runners so far this year with 21.2% of those players ended up crossing the plate. The Athletics have dispatched 63 relievers to the hill this year.

The New York Yankees are sitting with 510 putouts over the course of the season, as well as 138 assists and 15 errors. Their fielding percentage is holding steady at .977 which has them sitting 26th in professional baseball, and they have turned 12 double plays. The Athletics have turned 67.3% of baseballs in play into outs out of their 1,530 innings on the diamond, which ranks them 27th in the majors.

Springs has taken the mound for 333 innings and is sitting with 379 punch outs in his pro baseball career. His earned run average is 3.46 (128 earned runs allowed) and his WHIP is 1.258. He has allowed 305 base knocks (8.2 hits per 9 innings) and has had 114 walks. Springs (26-13 career record) has a FIP of 3.41 and he has faced 1,409 hitters during his time in the major leagues.

The Brewers hold a team SLG% of .383 and they have an average of 4.84 runs per game (6th in the league). They have hit 23 doubles, while taking a walk 61 times and notching 92 runs. Milwaukee has hit 21 HRs on the year to go along with 83 runs batted in. They have struck out on 165 instances (13th in the league) and have 149 hits. The Milwaukee Brewers are sitting with a team OBP of .307 and a team batting average of .235 on the year.

The Brewers have a WHIP of 1.328 in addition to having a FIP of 4.71 as a squad on the campaign. Their K/BB ratio is 8.60 (161 strikeouts vs 77 free passes). They have a ranking of 15th in baseball as a pitching staff in total hits allowed with 145. They have yielded 27 dingers and they give up 5.06 runs per 9 innings (26th in MLB). The Milwaukee pitching staff have surrendered 94 runs so far this season while having an ERA of 4.47 (83 earned runs allowed).

Milwaukee has had relief pitchers step onto the hill in 4 save chances and they have recorded 2 saves. They rank 25th in the league with a save percentage of 50.0%, and they have sent 67 relief pitchers to the hill this year. Their relief pitchers have come in 15 times in high leverage situations in addition to 17 occasions with runners on. Milwaukee relief pitchers have an inherited score rate of 45.8% out of 24 inherited runners. With 18 save situations, the Brewers have accrued 13 holds in addition to 2 blown saves.

In their 1,509 innings played, the Brewers have earned a defensive efficiency of 72.2% (7th in baseball). The Milwaukee Brewers have gotten 11 double plays and have a fielding percentage of .981 (24th in the majors). The Brewers have recorded 128 assists, 12 errors and have accumulated 503 putouts so far this season.

In his MLB career, Priester has surrendered 121 hits while he has totaled 77 punch outs in 109 innings pitched. He has allowed a total of 70 ER's while earning a WHIP of 1.529 and having a FIP of 5.7. His strikeout to walk ratio is 1.67 and he has faced 495 hitters in his MLB career. Priester (7-9 career record) has a 5.77 ERA while giving up 10.0 hits per 9 innings.

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

Guy Bruhn's Pick: Take Sacramento (+126)

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