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Sport	Game Selection	Game Time
MLB	(963) New York Yankees at (964) Seattle Mariners: Moneyline	9:40pm EDT - Mar 31/2026

The PLAY: New York Yankees -112 Max Fried (LHP), Logan Gilbert (RHP) Must Start

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Fried brings the better run-prevention baseline after a 19-5, 2.86 ERA, 1.10 WHIP 2025 and a scoreless 6 1/3 in his 2026 opener; Gilbert’s baseline is still strong after a 3.44 ERA, 1.03 WHIP 2025, though his opener was a 5 1/3-IP, 3-ER outing. T-Mobile Park is still one of MLB’s most run-suppressing parks, with MLB listing it 30th in runs and hits and 20th in homers over 2023-25, while Statcast’s 2025 park factor page showed a 91 run factor there.

Seattle entered this game 5th in MLB in runs and 8th in OPS, while the Yankees were 15th in runs and 17th in OPS; on the mound, New York entered 1st in MLB team ERA and Seattle 8th. Sample too small to trust.

The roster/travel context is mildly favorable to Seattle. New York is continuing a West Coast trip from San Francisco to Seattle, while Seattle stays home after the Cleveland series, so there is no “returning home from road trip” flat-spot deduction for either club. Injury-wise, Anthony Volpe is out for the Yankees and J.P. Crawford out for Seattle, which affects the likely bottom-third lineup construction for both teams. Weather is mostly a non-factor here because the game is at T-Mobile Park, and ESPN listed Seattle gametime conditions in the mid-to-upper 50s.

The cleanest HTH Yankees note is Cody Bellinger: 5 AB, .600 AVG, 1.100 OPS vs. Gilbert. For Seattle vs. Fried, the preview snippet shows Randy Arozarena 0-for-4, Mitch Garver .929 OPS in 6 AB, and Josh Naylor with no prior matchup listed, which supports a conclusion of “some scattered familiarity, but not enough to override the core talent/park model.”

Model build

I used this run framework:

• Baseline SP run allowance over expected outing length: Fried 2.1 runs allowed over 6.0 IP; Gilbert 2.4 runs allowed over 5.2 IP.

• Bullpen add-on: Yankees 1.4 runs over final 3.0 IP; Mariners 1.4 runs over final 3.1 IP.

• Park adjustment: -0.35 total runs for T-Mobile suppression.

• Night-game adjustment: -0.05 total runs.

• No-bottom-9 adjustment: -0.05 runs from Seattle because New York is a slight road favorite in my model.

• Travel/fatigue: -0.05 runs from New York for continued road travel; 0.00 for Seattle.

That lands here:

• Projected full-game score: NYY 3.8, SEA 3.5

• Projected full-game total: 7.3

1) Projected score boxes

1st 5 innings

Team	Projected Runs
Yankees	2.1
Mariners	1.9

Full game

Team	Projected Runs
Yankees	3.8
Mariners	3.5

2) Starting pitcher boxscore projection

Pitcher	Team	IP	ER	H	K	BB
Max Fried	NYY	6 0/3	2	5	6	1
Logan Gilbert	SEA	5 2/3	3	6	7	2

3) Projected hitter stat lines

Yankees

Hitter	AB	BB	H	2B	3B	HR	SO
Austin Wells	4	0	1	0	0	0	1
Aaron Judge	4	1	1	0	0	1	2
Cody Bellinger	4	0	1	1	0	0	1
Paul Goldschmidt	4	0	1	0	0	0	1
Jazz Chisholm Jr.	4	0	1	1	0	0	1
Giancarlo Stanton	4	0	1	0	0	0	1
Ryan McMahon	3	1	1	0	0	0	0
José Caballero	3	0	0	0	0	0	1
Trent Grisham	3	1	1	0	0	0	0

Mariners

Hitter	AB	BB	H	2B	3B	HR	SO
Brendan Donovan	4	0	1	1	0	0	0
Cal Raleigh	4	0	1	0	0	0	2
Julio Rodríguez	4	0	1	0	0	0	2
Josh Naylor	4	0	0	0	0	0	1
Randy Arozarena	3	1	1	0	0	0	1
Luke Raley	3	1	1	0	0	1	1
Dominic Canzone	4	0	1	1	0	0	1
Cole Young	3	0	0	0	0	0	1
Leo Rivas	3	1	1	0	0	0	1

Wager & Probability Analysis

Moneyline

Team	Model Win %	Fair Odds	Market Snapshot	Edge vs Fair	Value
Yankees	54.3%	-119	-112 to -122	from +7 cents to -3 cents	Thin edge
Mariners	45.7%	+119	-108 to +102	clearly worse than fair	No value

Full-game total

Using model total 7.3:

Market	Model Prob	Fair Odds	Market Snapshot	Edge vs Fair	Value	Confidence
Over 7.0	52.3% (push excluded)	-110	-118	-8 cents	No value	1
Under 7.0	47.7% (push excluded)	+110	-102	worse than fair	No value	1
Over 7.5	44.6%	+124	around +100 to -105 range at 7.5 markets	worse than fair	No value	2
Under 7.5	55.4%	-124	around -110 to -115 range at 7.5 markets	modest positive	Small value if you can get 7.5	2

Team rank snapshot, 1-30

Category	Yankees Rank	Mariners Rank	Basis
Starting pitcher this season	1	8	Team pitching ERA proxy through season to date
Bullpen last 10 days	1	8	Same caveat: early-season proxy from team run prevention because official bullpen-only recent split was not cleanly exposed
Lineup run production last 10 days	15	5	Official MLB team runs leaderboard, season-to-date proxy

These are very small-sample ranks, so I’d treat them as descriptive, not predictive.

Why Yankees -112:

1. Fried has the stronger run-prevention profile entering the game.
   In his 2026 opener, Max Fried went 6 1/3 scoreless innings with a 0.47 WHIP, while Logan Gilbert’s opener was 5 1/3 innings, 3 earned runs with a 5.06 ERA so far. That gives New York the cleaner starting-pitching floor.

2. Fried’s form is exactly what you want for a road favorite in a low-total park.
   Reuters’ game recap shows Fried allowed just 2 hits and 1 walk in that opener, and ESPN’s game page confirms this is at T-Mobile Park with Fried vs. Gilbert listed as the probable starters. In a lower-scoring environment, a steadier ace matters more.

3. T-Mobile Park helps the better prevention side.
   Statcast’s park factors list T-Mobile Park with a 91 run factor over the relevant rolling window, which is below league average and supports a suppressed-scoring game. That tends to help the side with the slightly better run-prevention projection, which in this matchup is New York because of Fried.

4. The Yankees’ pitching staff has started hotter than Seattle’s.
   The series preview notes New York opened the season by allowing just one run over three games in San Francisco. That supports the idea that if Fried gets them through six, the bullpen can protect a narrow edge.

5. The market is close enough that even a modest SP edge can matter.
   ESPN’s matchup page had this game around essentially a coin flip, with its predictor at SEA 52% / NYY 48%, and the betting line around Yankees -112 / Mariners -108. When the market is this tight, a model that prefers Fried and makes NYY closer to -119 can justify a small Yankees play.

6. There is at least one notable Yankees batter with good history vs. Gilbert.
   MLB’s preview snippet showed Cody Bellinger is 3-for-5 (.600) with a 1.100 OPS vs. Gilbert. Batter-vs-pitcher data is usually secondary, but in a tight game it is one more plus for New York rather than Seattle..

Sport	Game Selection	Game Time
MLB	(927) Detroit Tigers at (928) Arizona Diamondbacks: Moneyline	10:10pm EDT - Mar 30/2026

The PLAY: Detroit Tigers 100

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DET 4.4, ARI 4.1

The market I could verify has Arizona as the favorite, roughly ARI -136 / DET +114, with a full-game total around 8.5. My model is meaningfully lower on Arizona than the market, so the best value is Detroit moneyline. The total comes out close to fair, with only a tiny lean to the under.

Starting pitchers

Justin Verlander
Verlander’s 2025 MLB line was still solid: 4-11, 3.85 ERA, 137 K in 152.0 IP over 29 starts. That is about 5.24 IP per start. Since 2024 was volatile overall, but the two starts inside the window were actually fine-to-good: 6.0 IP, 2 ER on May 12, 2025 and 7.0 IP, 0 ER on Sept. 17, 2025. I used his 2025 baseline, trimmed slightly for March/road context, then gave him a small matchup credit from those in-window Diamondbacks starts. Projection: 5 1/3 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 5 K, 2 BB.

Michael Soroka
Soroka’s 2025 MLB line was 3-8, 4.52 ERA, 95 K, 89.2 IP in 22 games and 17 starts, with a 1.13 WHIP and strong strikeout rate. That works out to about 5.27 IP per start.

Team form, bullpen, and schedule

Detroit’s recent overall pitching form is better. Last-10 team ERA leaderboard shows the Tigers at 2.67 ERA, which ranks near the top of MLB in that window. Arizona’s current team page shows a rough early start: 0-3, 8 runs scored, and 5.63 team ERA entering this matchup. That helped push the game closer to even than the market implies.

Recent offense is basically even by raw run production. The Tigers have 34 runs in their last 10 games and the Diamondbacks also have 34 runs in their last 10 games.

Because Verlander projects a touch longer than Soroka and because Detroit’s recent team ERA is stronger, I gave the Tigers a small late-game edge as well. Arizona is also returning home after opening on the road against the Dodgers, so I applied a mild flat-spot downgrade to the Diamondbacks’ offense.

Projected score

Segment	DET	ARI	Total
1st 5 innings	2.4	2.1	4.5
Full game	4.4	4.1	8.5

Projected starting pitcher box

Pitcher	IP	ER	H	K	BB
Justin Verlander	5 1/3	2	5	5	2
Michael Soroka	5 0/3	2	5	5	2

Wager & Probability Analysis

Using the projected score, I make Detroit about 53.5% to win and Arizona about 46.5%. That converts to fair odds of:

• Detroit -115

• Arizona +115

Against a market around DET +114 / ARI -136, the value is on Detroit.

Moneyline	Model win %	Fair odds	Consensus odds	Consensus - Fair	Value?
Tigers ML	53.5%	-115	+114	huge positive gap	Yes
Diamondbacks ML	46.5%	+115	-136	strongly negative	No value

Pros for Tigers moneyline:

• Verlander’s 2025 MLB baseline was better than Soroka’s. Verlander finished 2025 with a 3.85 ERA over 152.0 innings in 29 starts, while Soroka was at a 4.52 ERA over 89.2 innings in 22 appearances / 17 starts. That gives Detroit the steadier starter profile on MLB-only data.

• Verlander’s in-window matchup history vs Arizona is better than the raw 3-start line looks. Overall since-2024 sample is inflated by the September 2024 blowup, but inside window he went 6.0 IP, 2 ER on May 12, 2025 and 7.0 IP, 0 ER on September 17, 2025 against Arizona.

• Detroit’s recent run prevention has been clearly better. Last-10 leaderboard has the Tigers at a 2.67 ERA, second only to Minnesota in that snapshot, which supports the idea that Detroit enters in the better overall pitching form.

• Arizona is coming home off a rough road start. Action’s matchup page shows the Diamondbacks opened with three straight losses at the Dodgers before this series, while Detroit’s recap shows the Tigers opened 2-1 and now head to Arizona after the San Diego set. That is a much cleaner form/setup spot for Detroit than for Arizona.

• The market has moved toward Detroit, but there is still a case. Covers currently showed Detroit around -104 for this game, which is a lot shorter than earlier dog prices and means the pure value is smaller now. Even so, if you trust Verlander’s stronger baseline and Detroit’s better recent staff form, the Tigers still have a reasonable moneyline case at a near-pick’em price.