KT Wiz vs Kia Tigers Prediction, 4/16/2025 KBO Pick, Tips and Odds

Game: KT Wiz vs Kia Tigers

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Location: Gwangju Kia Champions Field in Gwangju, South Korea

TV: SPO-2T

Odds/Point Spread: KT (-144) Kia (+120)

Sun Bin Kim and the Kia Tigers (7-10, 9th in KBO) host the KT Wiz (9-7, 3rd in KBO) at Gwangju Kia Champions Field on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. The Tigers open this contest at +120 while the Wiz are priced at -144. The total is set at 9.

The Wiz have hit 27 two-baggers as a squad and have smacked 7 balls out of the stadium. KT owns a slugging percentage of .330 and have struck out 123 times, while drawing a walk on 68 occasions. As a unit, the KT Wiz are knocking in 3.5 runs per game, which has them at 10th in KBO. They have 57 RBI's and 133 base knocks for the season, and their batting average is sitting at .238. They are sitting with 59 runs scored while holding a team on-base percentage of .325.

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Mel Rojas is a batter who should impact this game for KT. In his professional baseball career, Rojas has drilled 262 balls out of the park while knocking in 1,055 runs. His career slugging percentage is .461 in addition to racking up 3,244 bases. In his time in the Majors, he stepped up to the plate 7,991 times and has come through with a base hit 1,963 times. He has struck out 1,676 times and earned a walk on 809 occasions, contributing to a .356 on-base percentage. Rojas has hit .279 for his time in baseball, in addition to 1,044 runs scored and an OPS of .817.

The Wiz have swiped 22 bags and have been thrown out 9 times, which tells us their caught stealing percentage is 29.0%. The KT Wiz have a tally of 471 putouts for the season, in addition to 192 assists and 13 errors. Their fielding rate sits at .981 which is 6th in the league and they have turned 13 double plays.

The Wiz are sitting with a team earned run average of 2.81 for the year (2nd in baseball), and their staff has rung up 140 batters. KT has yielded 134 hits (7.7 per 9 innings) and also 49 earned runs. They have earned a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.55 and the pitching staff holds a collective WHIP of 1.20. Wiz pitchers have conceded 13 home runs and 56 runs in total (8th in KBO).

Kia has hit 19 home runs on the season and 80 runs batted in. They have hit 34 two-baggers, while walking 76 times as well as scoring 81 runs. The Kia Tigers have a team OBP of .336 and a team batting average of .247 on the campaign. The Tigers hold a team slugging percentage of .406 and they average 4.76 runs per game (4th in KBO). They have been rung up on 124 occasions (8th in the league) and have tallied 142 hits.

Sun Bin Kim is a batter who should be able to impact this game for Kia. Kim has earned a walk 588 times while striking out on 530 tries. His on-base percentage is .376 and he has a lifetime OPS of .758. Over the course of the 5,417 at-bats in his pro career, Kim has hit .306 with 1,656 hits. He has accounted for 743 runs and racked up 627 runs batted in. He has homered 41 times, with 2,068 bases in total and a .382 slugging percentage.

The Kia Tigers have turned 12 double plays and own a fielding percentage of .981 (5th in KBO). The Tigers have accrued 174 assists, 12 errors and have notched a total of 444 putouts so far this year. Out of their 21 attempts at swiping a bag, they have been successful 15 times and been caught 6 times (28.6% caught stealing percentage).

The Tigers are sitting with a team WHIP of 1.514 and have a FIP of 5.78 as a squad this season. They are currently ranked 5th in KBO as a pitching staff in total hits given up with 158. The Kia pitching staff have relinquished 95 runs for the year and come in with a team ERA of 4.80 (79 earned runs surrendered). They have earned a strikeout to walk ratio of 1.83 (121 strikeouts against 66 free passes). They have relinquished 5 home runs and they allow 5.78 runs per 9 innings (8th in the league).

Who will win tonight's KBO game ATS?

Guy Bruhn's Pick: Take Kia (+120)

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