{"id":363215,"date":"2025-08-15T12:50:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=363215"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:50:42","slug":"rangers-vs-blue-jays-best-bets-august-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/rangers-vs-blue-jays-best-bets-august-15-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers vs. Blue Jays best bets Aug. 15: Bet on Vladimir Guerrero Jr. during hot streak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Toronto Blue Jays begin a three-game weekend series with the Texas Rangers on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> Texas is in poor form, losing seven of eight games ahead of today&#8217;s contest with the AL-leading Blue Jays. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/chris_bassitt\/pitching-stats\">Chris Bassitt<\/a> gets the start at home, and the veteran righty&#8217;s been electric at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Blue Jays best bets vs. the Rangers for Aug. 15, featuring predictions on Bassitt and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/vladimir_guerrero_jr\/batting-stats\">Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blue Jays best bets vs. Rangers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best bet: Bassitt over 17.5 outs (-130)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a distinct difference between Bassitt at home and on the road:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Home: 8-0, 2.56 ERA, 9.8 K\/9<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Away: 3-6, 6.39 ERA, 7.0 K\/9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, the Rangers are visiting and they&#8217;ve been ice cold over the past eight games, averaging just 2.8 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things haven&#8217;t been pretty all season for Texas. The club ranks 25th in runs per game (4.1) and 29th in on-base percentage (.299). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of that works in favour of Bassitt keeping his pitch count down and going deep into this ballgame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over his last seven home starts, he&#8217;s averaging 96 pitches thrown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key stat:<\/strong> Bassitt is 6-1 against this line in those contests, finishing with exactly 17 outs (5.2 innings) in the outlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"insights\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/sports-hub\/baseball\/mlb?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=sportsbook_mlb\">Full MLB betting markets<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"insights\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/mlb-injury-report?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=injury_reports\">MLB injury report<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"insights\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/top-players\/hitting\/OPS-on-base_plus_slugging?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=stats_pages\">MLB stats &amp; standings<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jays vs. Rangers picks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Guerrero over 1.5 total bases (+110):<\/strong> It&#8217;s officially Guerrero season as the slugging first baseman seems to light MLB on fire as the weather heats up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out his stats over the last 25 games and where they rank in the AL:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1.174 OPS (1st)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>.386 batting average (1st)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>73 total bases (1st)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That includes cashing this wager 16 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacob deGrom starts for the Rangers, and it&#8217;s certainly not the best matchup, as the 37-year-old is putting up a prime 2.86 ERA this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Guerrero has seen him well in the limited sample size. He has two hits in six at-bats with one strikeout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rangers&#8217; ace hardly surrenders free passes as his 5.7% walk rate ranks in the 87th percentile, per Baseball Savant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s good news for this wager and tells me Guerrero will at least have a few offerings to get a hold of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blue Jays best bets made at 12:32 p.m. ET on 08\/15\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays begin a three-game weekend series with the Texas Rangers on Friday. The pregame narrative: Texas is in poor form, losing seven of eight games ahead of today&#8217;s contest with the AL-leading Blue Jays. Chris Bassitt gets the start at home, and the veteran righty&#8217;s been electric at Rogers Centre. 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