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Home runs. Long balls. Bleacher reachers. Whatever you want to call them, people love watching and betting on home run props during baseball games. So much so, we’ve got a whole article dedicated to just that.
Here are my top two home run prop picks on DraftKings Sportsbook for Thursday’s limited slate: Kyle Schwarber and Junior Caminero.
Let’s break them down.
Let’s not get too complicated to start things off.
Kyle Schwarber is always one of the most popular home run props on the DraftKings Sportsbook — and for good reason. Since the beginning of 2022, Schwarber’s 198 home runs are the second-most in MLB, trailing only Aaron Judge. That’s a lot of winning tickets. Specific to 2026, Schwarber’s managed 11 long balls and a .311 ISO across his first 165 plate appearances of the season. That’s the product of 97th percentile marks in both bat speed (76.9) and barrel rate (19.8%). There’s a reason he just inked a $150 million contract as a 33-year-old DH.
With all that said, for odds lower than 3/1, you need to have a perfect matchup. I think we do on Thursday. J.T. Ginn will toe the rubber for the A’s, a man who has not been able to consistently retire left-handed hitters throughout his time at the MLB level. To wit, Ginn has allowed opposing LHBs to slash .306/.388/.554 with a .408 wOBA in his career. He’s also conceded 1.99 home runs per nine within the split. That’s a sample size of well over 300 lefties, so I’ll go out on a limb and say that’s a real hole in the RHP’s profile.
Two contrasting things can be true at the same time. For instance, I can acknowledge that Junior Caminero isn’t having as good a season in 2026 as he was in 2025; but I can also admit that his home run odds on Thursday are slightly too long. See? That wasn’t that hard.
Last year, Caminero posted a 92nd percentile hard hit rate (51.4%) and a 91st percentile expected slugging rate (.501). He also hit a whopping 45 long balls. This year, Caminero’s Savant page looks far less red, yet the 22-year-old third baseman has still managed a team-high nine home runs in his 155 plate appearances, along with a .508 expected slugging rate specifically versus LHPs — another team-high. Seems perfectly dangerous to me!
The left-hander he’ll face tonight? Rookie Jake Bennett at Fenway Park. Bennett did a good job of mostly keeping the ball on the ground in his first major league outing, but despite that, the former second-round pick still found a way to concede a home run to Carlos Correa, along with a 13.3% opponent barrel rate and a 53.3% opponent hard hit rate. It’s going to take a moment for Bennett to get used to his new surroundings and transition. Unfortunately the giant wall in left field can only cover up so many mistakes.
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