#angels

#angels

The Royals are 4-7 in games they were listed as the moneyline favorite, winning 36.4% of those games. Kansas City has entered the game as underdogs 13 times this season and won three, or 23.1%, of those games.

Max Fried, with a record of 2-0 and a 1.93 ERA, will start for the Yankees against the Angels, looking to secure his fifth straight quality start.

The Angels defeated the Astros 3-0 yesterday, with Jose Soriano getting the win (6.0 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 7 K) and Mike Trout leading the way offensively (going 1 for 4 with a home run and an RBI).

Matthew Boyd gets his second start of the spring, and we should see him try to push to three innings as he readies to pitch for Team USA. The lefty looked okay the last time out, punching out four of the five batters he retired. He did allow five hits, though four of them were singles.

Last season, the Angels were on FanDuel Sports Network West, owned by Main Street Sports. The company has been in a rough financial spot for a while and recently missed some payments to teams. In response, the Angels and the eight other teams who were signed with Main Street terminated their deals last month. Six of those clubs will now have their broadcasts handled by Major League Baseball itself, though the Angels are (for now) one of the holdouts.

The 29-year-old Okamoto is coming off a season where he appeared in just 69 Central League games for NPB's Yomiuri Giants. The infielder hit .327/.416/.598 in 293 trips to the plate for Yomiuri last year. That was good for an otherworldly 210 wRC+, as he slugged 15 homers with 21 doubles while posting identical 11.3% strikeout and walk rates. That scorching hot half-season isn't reflective of Okamoto's overall body of work, but his numbers are still impressive even over a larger sample.