Yordan Alvarez has picked up the slack with Kyle Tucker out for the Astros and we expect him to keep rolling in our Rangers vs. Astros MLB picks.
The Astros have bounced back from a slow start in a big way and a big part of that is the play of Yordan Alvarez. He highlights our Rangers vs. Astros betting picks below.
The two biggest keys to Houston turning it around have been nine-time All-Star Jose Altuve and slugger Yordan Alvarez, who’s headed to his third straight All-Star game. He also somehow just keeps getting better each month with a slash line of .355/.512/.710 in July. That doesn’t bode well for Max Scherzer, who’s making just his fifth start of the season and has gotten worse with each outing.
With four other pitches in Scherzer’s arsenal, Alvarez is hitting better than .300 against two of them and has an xSLG of .582-plus against three of them. It’ll be hard for Scherzer to end his streak of giving up moonshots with Alvarez at the plate.It hasn’t just been the Alvarez show with Tucker out. Altuve has been ageless and is batting .331 since the beginning of June. Over that period, he’s averaging 1.
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