Bryan Armetta shares his two favorite MLB NRFI prop bets on DraftKings Sportsbook for Wednesday\u2019s 15-game slate.<\/p>\n
April is finally here, and the MLB season is officially one week in the books. Wednesday\u2019s action will see several big-time pitchers taking the hill, including Chris Sale, Paul Skenes, Garrett Crochet and Tarik Skubal. What better time than now to place a few NRFI wagers? No runs in the first inning sounds easy enough, but there\u2019s a necessary balance between good value and quality matchups. Finding starters that thrive early, and offenses that struggle, is essential.<\/p>\n
Ahead of today\u2019s MLB contests, here are two NRFI bets<\/a> worth placing on DraftKings Sportsbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n Aces abound this afternoon across Major League Baseball. Few, perhaps none, can match Garrett Crochet\u2019s stuff. Boston\u2019s workhorse is the epitome of consistent. Last season, he posted a 2.59 ERA, 1.03 WHIP and a league-leading 255 strikeouts over 205.1 innings. The lefty had no trouble picking up where he left off, tossing six scoreless, three-hit innings on Opening Day vs. the Reds. Since 2025, Crochet has posted a solid 81.3% NRFI rate. In comparison, Houston owns baseball\u2019s seventh-lowest YRFI rate during that time (26.54%).<\/p>\n The biggest challenge for this bet will be the top half of the inning. Mike Burrows\u2019 Houston debut got off to a rocky start last week. The right-hander coughed up five runs over 5.2 frames against the Angels. With that being said, the 26-year-old delivered a respectable 3.94 ERA last season with Pittsburgh. In addition, he\u2019s notched a stellar 79.0% NRFI rate since 2025. The Red Sox come into this one ice-cold on offense as well. Boston has scored a total of just five runs over its last three matchups. A few quick outs feels more than reasonable for Burrows this afternoon. <\/p>\n As previously mentioned, Tarik Skubal is set to toe the slab on Wednesday. The word \u2018automatic\u2019 is dangerous in a game as unpredictable as baseball. Still, if any pitcher warrants such high praise, it\u2019s this two-time Cy Young winner. Detroit\u2019s face of the franchise has been the sport\u2019s premier arm over the last two seasons. During that time, he\u2019s accounted for a 2.27 ERA, 0.90 WHIP and 10.9 K\/9 ratio. In 2025, he delivered a pristine 87.1% NRFI rate. Skubal begin his 2026 campaign with six innings and no earned runs vs. San Diego. With respect to a capable Diamondbacks offense, it\u2019s impossible to fade the veteran hurler against anyone right now.<\/p>\n Much like Red Sox-Astros, the top half of the inning contains more uncertainty. Still, you could do worse than Arizona starter Zac Gallen. The former All-Star\u2019s stock has dipped a bit in recent years. Still, he remains an effective pitcher when healthy. That wasn\u2019t the case last weekend, a four-inning, four-run letdown. Regardless, the right-hander\u2019s 3.28 career ERA at Chase Field speaks for itself. In comparison, the Tigers scored just 4.32 runs per game on the road last season, 12th-worst in the league. Detroit\u2019s middling offense doesn\u2019t present the most intimidating threat on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Armetta shares his two favorite MLB NRFI prop bets on DraftKings Sportsbook for Wednesday\u2019s 15-game slate. April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,2291,4,1586,3719,18563],"class_list":{"0":"post-657260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-draft","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-draft","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-draft","12":"tag-rail","13":"tag-splits"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116331109819818847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}