MLB Over/Under Best Bet: Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Miami Marlins, April 16

A surprising event in tonight’s over/below, when Seattle Mariners pulled off the rare performance of hitting a left-handed and a good one on it. We are still fighting for the first victory of the week, and hopefully it will be this Winsday evening in South Beach.

This is where Arizona Diamondbacks and Miami Marlins will play the sandwich in their three-game set. A battle with talented young right-handers is on invoicing after the D-slopes claimed that the opener of the series in a route.

One of these starters is undoubtedly the best of the club’s rotation right now – and I say that even with the greatest affection for Sandy Alcantara. Yes, a legitimate argument can be made that 26-year-old Max Meyer is the cream from Marlin’s crop right now, and the work he has shown so far in 2025 justifies such a belief.

Meyer probably comes the best excursion of his career-i spring during victory last Wednesday-rush Mets over six-plus shutdown rounds and spreads only two hits and two walks. This assignment was a huge progress in the career for Meyer, who represented the first time he gathered a speechless start (including his second MLB assignment three years ago when he went out in the first due to injury).

The overall draft by 2020 to a sensational start this season, after allowing only four combined runs over his three turns. He has also produced a neat 19-to-5 k/BB relationship in the 18 inputs of work while he only gave a single homer.

It is obvious that Meyer’s breakout is here – and it is a good idea to ride him while he shows up. As I detailed before his game last week, this is someone who was already about to lift a year ago with a fantastic April, before Marlins who curiously sent him down to manage his workload (to be fair, it followed his return from Tommy John operation).

Something that can much help Meyer in his efforts is the fact that Ketel Marte (hamstring) is currently on the side of the injured list. While Arizona still has a decent amount of ammunition in its range, this is a big blow considering that Marte may be their overall offensive player. He ended up in third place in the National League MVP vote last season, remembered.

Marte’s absence has been noticed. In Diamondback’s first eight competitions on the year before his absence, they were an average of 6.4 runs per match. In the nine games since, that score has dipped almost two full runs.

At the same time, Brandon Pfaadt gets the ball to the road side. After being a popular sleeping choice of analysts and fans, the third year’s right dealer has come through these forecasting by being a quality start machine. If not for a two-out, sixth inning solo home run in its second outing, Pfaadt would have three quality starts to its name to start the campaign.

Louisville, Kentucky, natives have gone exactly six rounds in all his assignments so far and looked solid every time. Please note that he has registered an impressive 1.06 Whip, which would most easily best his best career brand from last year (1.24) if it stays there. In addition, his slag average against (.242) is considerably lower than it has been in one of his other major league seasons.

Tonight’s date gives Pfaadt a matchup against one of the weakest range around. While Miami has done a little more than expected in the beginning (4.3 runs per match), the fact remains that they have lived at the bottom five of baseballs in runs that did in each of the last four seasons. I do not expect the fish to continue to rise with what they have written on the lineup card daily.

Although this is already a higher than usual sum for a game that originates from Loandepot Park, I still suggest that you move to the absolutely important number of 9 by acquiring half a driving.

Choose: Under 9 (-135, bet365)

2025 MLB Betting Record: 10-9-1, -0.38 unit
Above/below: 9-7-1
Props: 1-1
MLS: 0-1

Each bet rated as if it would win a unit unless otherwise stated.

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