{"id":348126,"date":"2025-05-20T15:56:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=348126"},"modified":"2025-05-20T15:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:56:34","slug":"blue-jays-picks-vs-padres-may-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/blue-jays-picks-vs-padres-may-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres vs. Blue Jays prop picks May 20: Look for Dylan Cease to dominate in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After Monday&#8217;s off-day, the Toronto Blue Jays are back in action Tuesday night with a home matchup against the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> Despite going 2-4 on their recent homestand, the Padres (27-18) still have the fifth-best record in MLB. Dylan Cease gets the ball for the visiting Padres, looking to build off back-to-back quality starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Blue Jays picks vs. the Padres on May 20, featuring Cease and George Springer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blue Jays picks vs. Padres<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/sports\/baseball\/competitions\/10065\"><strong>Full MLB betting markets<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/mlb-injury-report\"><strong>MLB injury report<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/top-players\/hitting\/OPS-on-base_plus_slugging\"><strong>MLB player stats<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/standings\/division\"><strong>MLB standings<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best Bet: Cease over 5.5 Ks (-125)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cease has command issues at times, but no one can question the nastiness of his pitch arsenal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seventh-year vet plays off an upper-90s fastball with a slider that has a 43.1% whiff rate (14th-highest among all MLB pitches, per Baseball Savant, min. 50 plate appearances).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from the COVID-shortened 2020 season, Cease has posted a double-digit K\/9 rate every year of his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A simple way to contextualize that is to say Cease averages more than one strikeout per inning. And on most nights, over 5.5 Ks is going to be an attainable number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That has proven true this year, as Cease is averaging 6.4 Ks per outing. He is 7-2 vs. this prop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blue Jays aren&#8217;t a plus matchup for strikeout props, but they aren&#8217;t impervious to the efforts of an ace-calibre arm. Over the past 14 days, Toronto has the 18th-highest K rate (21.4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cease has crested the 200-strikeout mark in each of the past four seasons, and he&#8217;s on track to do it again. Coming off a season-high 10 Ks, I expect another solid outing from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key stat:<\/strong> The Jays&#8217; active lineup has struck out 21 times against Cease in 64 plate appearances (32.8 K%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick pick<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Springer under 0.5 hits (+110):<\/strong> Springer has arguably been the Jays&#8217; best bat so far in 2025, but his numbers have really dropped off following a scorching start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>First 21 games:<\/strong> .349\/.425\/.556<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Past 22 games:<\/strong> .189\/.333\/.378<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Most recently, Springer has gone hitless in seven of his past 13 starts. And I really don&#8217;t like this matchup for him against Cease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned, Cease has a nasty slider. He throws it 55.5% of the time to right-hitting opponents, garnering a .185 BA against the pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Springer is 4-for-27 (.148) with a 48.0% whiff rate against sliders this season. And he&#8217;s just 1-for-6 with three Ks against Cease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Padres vs. Blue Jays picks made at 3:50 p.m. ET on 05\/20\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Monday&#8217;s off-day, the Toronto Blue Jays are back in action Tuesday night with a home matchup against the San Diego Padres. The pregame narrative: Despite going 2-4 on their recent homestand, the Padres (27-18) still have the fifth-best record in MLB. Dylan Cease gets the ball for the visiting Padres, looking to build off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":348111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[452,60],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-348126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-com","category-mlb","tag-mlb-betting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blue Jays picks vs. Padres: May 20 MLB betting | NorthStar Bets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Blue Jays picks vs. Padres for May 20, 2025. 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