Placido Polanco Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections
Brian McCann has homered eight times against Ricky Nolasco
In 60 career PAs, Brian McCann has taken Ricky Nolasco deep, by far the highest BvP total on the board today, but we must consider that many of those battles occurred when both playing for NL East teams. Both are regarded as different players now, though McCann still has some pop in his bat. In fact, only five BBE have been recorded by Statcast between the two (91.9 mph aEV). J.J. Hardy has the second most HRs (3) against the pitcher he is facing tonight, but again, his battles against Bronson Arroyo are so far in the past, Statcast was only a glimmer in MLB's eye at the time, without a record of a single one of those batted balls. Among those with at least 10 recorded BBE against a particular pitcher, Xander Bogaerts has the highest aEV (96.6 mph, 11 BBE) against Marcus Stroman. He's even been moved to the leadoff spot tonight and has three extra-base hits in 17 PAs against Stroman, normally an elite ground ball generator, in his career. David Freese (94.6 mph aEV) and Gregory Polanco (94 mph aEV) are next highest on that list against Mike Leake, while Andrew McCutchen has two HRs against him, but just an 85.9 mph aEV on 17 BBE.