MLB Opening Day is here and this season we are going to be bringing you our PrizePicks MLB player props for each main slate. Today's board features some juicy strikeout props we are going to be targeting to kick off the season.

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Adam Wainwright Over 4.0 Strikeouts

Oh boy, there is maybe no bigger Wainwright mark than me over the past few seasons as the veteran righty has been an absolute monster when pitching at home, posting a 2.84 home ERA over the last three seasons. He has been especially dominant against the Pittsburgh Pirates whom he is 8-0 against over the last three seasons. Last season against the Pirates he was a ridiculous 4-0 while allowing just one run over 30.0 innings. The Pirates are a team that did not strikeout a ton last season but in his four starts against them last season he posted strikeout totals of five, seven, eight and nine. Pittsburgh is looking like a bottom-of-the-barrel team here once again this season with a lineup that doesn't exactly spark too much fear in any opposing pitcher. With Wainwright on the mound at home I think he hits this over once again.

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Adam Wainwright Strikeout Totals vs Pirates in 2021

 

Yu Darvish Over 5.5 Strikeouts

Another juicy strikeout total here with Yu Darvish and his strikeout prop total of just 5.5 strikeouts against a woeful Arizona Diamondbacks lineup. Darvish last season boasted a 10.8 K/9 on the year and averaged 6.63 strikeouts per game. He faced the Diamondbacks five times last season and hit the over on this total in three of those five games. Those two misses came over the final two months of the season when Darvish really struggled. That said, this is a new season and he is coming off a strong spring training which saw him finish with 14 strikeouts over 11.1 innings while allowing just three runs. Again, Arizona's projected lineup today is absolutely nothing to write home about and is one of the reasons they have one of the lowest projected win totals in baseball this season.

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Yu Darvish 2021 Game by Game Strikeout Totals

 

Corbin Burnes Over 17.0 Outs

This one is as simple as it sounds. We need Corbin Burnes to pitch six innings today against the Chicago Cubs. Burnes is the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner and last season he pitched at least six innings in 68-percent of his starts. He faced the Cubs twice in 2021 and finished with 18 and 24 outs in the two starts, six-innings and eight-inning respectively. The Cubs lineup is far from what it used to be with the likes of Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant and Kyle Schwarber, and Javier Báez no longer on the team. Instead, Burnes just needs to navigate is way around Ian Happ, Nick Madrigal, Frank Schwindel…you get the point. Let's lock this one in and look to see the Burnes defending his Cy Young Award in dominant fashion.

Corbin Burnes 2021 Total Outs By Start

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