Chicago White Sox vsKansas City Royals Prediction
The Kansas City Royals are 22-24 at home this season and the Chicago White Sox are 23-21 on the road this season. This is a close match-up with both teams having a 45 to 55 percent chance of winning based on 10,000 game simulations generated one play at a time by the AccuScore Simulation Supercomputer. Royals' starter Mike Minor is forecasted to have a better game than White Sox' starter Dallas Keuchel. Mike Minor has a 51% chance of having a Quality Start (QS) while Dallas Keuchel has a 42% chance of a QS. If Mike Minor has a quality start the Royals has a 74% chance of winning. His simulated strikeout to walk ratio is 4.4 and he has a 27% chance of having a 5 to 1 K/BB ratio. When he has a 5/1 ratio the Royals win 57%. In Dallas Keuchel quality starts the White Sox win 68%. He has a 26% chance of having a 5 to 1 K/BB ratio and if he does his team wins 68% of simulations. In simulations we tracked the batter for each team that was most productive based his average hits, walks and RBI per simulation. The most productive batter for the Kansas City Royals is Carlos Santana who averaged 2.31 hits+walks+RBI. He has a 39% chance of having a big game with 3+ Hits, Walks, RBI and if he has a big game the Royals have a 64% chance of winning. The most productive batter for the Chicago White Sox is Edwin Encarnacion who averaged 2.32 hits+walks+RBI. He has a 39% chance of having a big game with 3+ Hits, Walks, RBI and if he has a big game the White Sox have a 60% chance of winning.