Messick aims to stay hot in Cleveland

by Lauren Auerbach

Today’s Overview/Schedule/Weather: Easter Sunday has a packed slate of 16 games, due to a weather-related doubleheader between the Cubs and Guardians. The first tilt of that series will get the day started at 1:10pm ET. Weather could impact a handful of games today. The MIA@NYY and LAD@WAS contests each have a chance of rain over 85%, and SD@BOS has a 55% chance of rain; four games are projected for 15+ mph wind (CHC@CLE, BAL@PIT, TOR@CWS and STL@DET). We also have five games with totals of 9 runs or more. 

 

Notable Starts: 

Parker Messick only has 45.2 innings under his major league belt, but it’s hard to argue with the results. He maintains a 3.38 xERA, 1.25 WHIP and 20% K-BB in that stretch, and has already...

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