Tonight's parlay is Twins moneyline vs. Tigers & Yankees -1.5 vs. Orioles, Ross Spielfogel got paid for our last hit. More info below on a chance to win up to $100 👇

Around The League

The NBA playoffs have all of our attention (bye bye Brooklyn), but today we're going to do a quick MLB check-in. With about a tenth of the major league season in the books, a few of the game's biggest stars have already begun to shine ⭐️

• Shohei Ohtani debuted a new look to great effect

• The Royals rocked their new City Connect unis

• Gerrit Cole found his "F-You" fastball, striking out nine in his best start of the season

• Miguel Cabrera earned his 3000th hit on Saturday against the Rockies

• Byron Buxton smoked the longest walk-off homer of the Statcast era with this 469-foot bomb

Cabrera and Buxton will face-off today, take a look at the lines 👇

Tigers vs. Twins Betting Preview (subject to change)

• Spread: Twins -1.5 runs

• Moneyline: Twins -144 (bet $144, win $100), Tigers +122 (bet $100, win $122)

• O/U: 7.5 total runs

Miggy's Moment

Becoming the third Tiger and 33rd major leaguer to tally 3000 hits, Miguel Cabrera put what could be the final exclamation mark on what has already been a no-brainer first-ballot Hall of Fame career 🏆

The two-time AL MVP has run up these incredible accolades over the course of his two-decade career 👇

• Won the American League Triple Crown in 2012, one of 10 to ever win the Triple Crown in either league, and the first to do it since 1967

• 2003 World Series Champion

• 2x American League MVP

• 7x Silver Slugger

• 2x AL Hank Aaron Award

• 11x All-Star

His power production fell off a cliff in 2018, but the approach is as true as ever. His picture perfect swing remains a top instructional tool around baseball. For a window into the texture of peak-Miggy's talent, check out Matthew Futterman's contemporary profile on the game's greatest hitter of his era here 📋

Buxton Is Bashing

Last season, Byron Buxton, the second overall pick in the 2012 draft, opened up the year on a tear, batting .426 through April with eight homers and 29 hits in just 68 at bats, earning the American League Player of the Month. Finally, it seemed as though the star prospect from Georgia had finally achieved a level of sustained health to make good on his hyper-rare potential 🔥

Unfortunately, hip and hamstring strains forced him out of the lineup, before being hit by a pitch in his return, fracturing his wrist and costing him the rest of his season. At that point, Buxton had run up an extensive list of physical maladies in his short career 🤕

• Sprained thumb, knee contusion, back spasms, groin strain, migraines, strained wrist, fractured toe, concussion-like symptoms, bruised right wrist, shoulder surgery, sprained foot, hamstring strain, hip strain & a fractured hand

Entering the 2022 season, the Twins decided to cash-in on Buxton's immense talent, albeit at an availability induced discount, inking Buxton to a seven-year, $100M contract. So far it's paid off, as Buxton has opened the 2022 season playing like an MVP, even while missing a week after banging his knee on a slide into second base. Among players with at least 40 at bats, Buxton leads all of these categories 👇

• Homers (6)

• Slugging (.946)

• OPS (1.361)

• wOBA (.580)

• wRC+ (296)

• ISO (.595)

While it won't be possible for him to continue hitting this well, let's hope he can stay healthy and continue to ride the high of what was likely his greatest weekend as a professional baseball player

For My Parlay Gurus

Today's series-opener between the Tigers and Twins features a pair of pitchers in their first season with new teams. The Tigers just signed Eduardo Rodriguez to a five-year $77M free agent deal, whereas Chris Paddack enters his third start as a Twin

Paddack's been up-and-down, with lesser lows, but Rodriguez has been consistently mediocre throughout his career. I've got the Twins winning, along with the Yankees covering behind Luis Severino -- check it out 👇

• Twins moneyline vs. Tigers: -154

• Yankees -1.5 vs. Orioles: -140

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