Below are stacks to consider for Friday’s full, 15-game slate.

Houston Astros

Perhaps the only reason that there are two teams with an expected run total in Vegas higher than Houston tonight is the fact that Carlos Correa is on the DL and George Springer and Alex Bregman are day-to-day (though there’s a decent chance one or both are back in the lineup tonight). Because absent those injuries, it’s hard to find any reason to dislike the Astros tonight.

For one, they’re unquestionably the best offense in baseball with a 130 wRC+ that dwarfs the 111 wRC+ of the second place Dodgers. Lest you think they’ve tailed off recently, Houston’s wRC+ in the last 30 days is 154. Second, they’ve got a great matchup tonight against right-hander Jordan Zimmermann who has a 5.81 ERA this season (5.30 xFIP) and a 7.11 ERA in his last four starts (5.19 xFIP). Oh, and the Astros have a 133 wRC+ vs. RHP this season.

In addition to Zimmermann making for a good matchup, Detroit’s bullpen is terrible. They’ve been awful all season and aren’t getting better of late with a league-worst 5.38 xFIP in the last 30 days.

Even if Springer and Bregman don’t make it back into the lineup tonight, the Astros still have six hitters with a wRC+ vs. RHP this season of 127 or higher (min. 99 PA). And that’s not counting left-handed Derek Fisher who has been filling in recently. Fisher has a 115 wRC+ in 29 PA this season, and he had a 144 wRC+ in Triple-A prior to his callup.

The Astros are chalky to be sure, but there’s just no ignoring how good of a play they are tonight.

Texas Heat

It’s July, so you know it’s going to be hot in Texas, but it’s going to be particularly hot tonight when the visiting Orioles take on the Rangers. Yours truly will be idiotically braving the 99-degree game time temperature for the small chance that Adrian Beltre has a four-hit tonight and surpasses 3,000 hits. Why not just go the game on Saturday when Beltre is more likely to crack 3,000, you ask? Well, because there’s a wedding on Saturday. But I digress…

Not only is it going to be extremely hitter-friendly to the max hot in Texas tonight, but both teams will also be sending some pretty hitter-friendly starters to the mound.

Baltimore will go with Chris Tillman who owns an ERA over 7.00 in 13 starts this season. You could point to his 3.31 ERA over his last three starts as a sign of improvement, but his 4.93 in those three starts isn’t all that encouraging. Texas has seven hitters who have been at least one percentage point better than league average against right-handed pitching this season per wRC+. Beltre has been their best hitter against righties, and Joey Gallo has displayed by far the most pop among them, so those are good places to start with a Texas stack.

On the flip side, Andrew Cashner will start for the home team. Cashner has an xFIP over 5.00 for the season, though he has managed to maintain an ERA in the mid-threes thanks to a respectable ground ball rate. But in his last four starts his ERA has crept above 4.00, and he continues to not be able to miss bats at anything close to an average rate. Trey Mancini and Jonathan Schoop have easily been Baltimore’s best hitters against right-handers this season, while Seth Smith, Adam Jones and Chris Davis have all been a bit above average.

Cincinnati Reds

Let’s try to get a bit less chalky here.

The Reds are in Miami tonight, which would normally be a bit of a turn off since that represents a negative park shift for Cincy hitters. But other factors are more than enough to mitigate the ballpark. Most importantly, Miami will send Vance Worley to the mound to start. Worley has only started four games this season and has not started a game since June 9. In those four starts, he has an ERA of 7.71 and has only amassed 16.1 innings pitched.

It's reasonable to assume that the guy averaging barely more than four innings per start and coming from the pen to make his first start in more than a month and a half might not go too deep into the game tonight. Presuming that’s the case, Cincy should get to see plenty of Miami’s bullpen, which has struggled of late. Miami’s pen joins Detroit’s as the only bullpens with an xFIP over 5.00 in the last 30 days. Miami’s pen has also been used heavily recently as one of only five pens to have thrown more than 90 innings in the last 30 days.

The building blocks for a Reds stack should be Joey Votto and Scooter Gennett who have wRC+ marks of 163 and 155 vs. RHP this season. When Cincy faced a right-hander on Wednesday, Gennett hit in the two-spot right in front of Votto. Gennett hit there only because Zack Cozart has been out of the lineup for a few days. Ideally, Cozart and his 134 wRC+ would return to the lineup and to the two-spot tonight, pushing Gennett back to the five-spot. Adam Duvall or Eugenio Suarez would likely hit clean up in that scenario, and both guys have been average or a bit better against righties this season.

Seattle Mariners

The M’s have a stack-friendly matchup tonight against Rafael Montero due to Montero being a good matchup for both left- and right-handed hitters. Montero has faced 150 lefties between this year and last, and they have combined to put up a .372 WOBA against him. This season, Montero has faced 132 righties who have a combined .373 wOBA against him.

Montero’s friendliness to right-handers is important because Seattle has several right-handed hitters with good numbers without the platoon advantage that you’ll want to consider for an M’s stack. Nelson Cruz, Jean Segura and Mitch Haniger are all righties with a wRC+ vs. RHP between 120 and 130 this season. Lefties Robinson Cano and Ben Gamel join their right-handed teammates in that wRC+ range vs. RHP. Kyle Seager is also above average against righties, and catcher Mike Zunino is right at average as well, which is certainly good enough to make him an option at the thin catcher position.