{"id":730120,"date":"2026-06-19T15:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/730120\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:06:25","slug":"friday-mlb-home-run-picks-athletics-shea-langeliers-in-great-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/730120\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday MLB home run picks: Athletics&#8217; Shea Langeliers in great spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sutter Health Park in Sacramento and Coors Field in Denver are two of the best launching pads in Major League Baseball. And the good news for home run prop bettors is that there are games at both parks on Friday. It&#8217;s not a coincidence I&#8217;ve got a dinger play from each game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/martech.cbssports.com\/bt\/redirect\/prod?b=draftkings&amp;c=sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"mtech-link\">Bet home runs at DraftKings, where new users get $200 in bonus bets with a $5 wager:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/betting\/news\/mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLB betting<\/a>, particularly home run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/betting\/news\/prop-betting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">prop betting<\/a>, should take a look at what SportsLine expert Matt Severance is playing for Friday&#8217;s games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the past four <a href=\"https:\/\/cbssports.com\/mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLB<\/a> seasons, I&#8217;m up $1,681 on my MLB picks. You can find more of my picks\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsline.com\/experts\/16230\/adam-thompson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">at SportsLine<\/a>, and in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsline.com\/insiders\/sign-up-for-sportslines-new-discord-server\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">member-exclusive SportsLine Discord server<\/a>, a community of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/betting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sports betting<\/a> enthusiasts and SportsLine experts.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, my home runs picks were the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/MIL\/milwaukee-brewers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brewers<\/a>&#8216; rising young star <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/26643926\/jackson-chourio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Chourio<\/a> at +490 and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/DET\/detroit-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tigers<\/a> journeyman <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2933175\/matt-vierling\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Vierling<\/a> at the nice price of +920. Again, I&#8217;m trying to find at least one lesser-known player for these picks each week and that was clearly Vierling last Friday. He didn&#8217;t even play despite having pretty good career splits off the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/CLE\/cleveland-guardians\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardians<\/a>&#8216; starting pitcher. As for Chourio, he entered last Friday&#8217;s matchup vs. the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/PHI\/philadelphia-phillies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phillies<\/a> red-hot and did have a hit and an RBI but didn&#8217;t go deep. I&#8217;d bet Over 1.5 total bases on any player you&#8217;re backing to hit a home run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/martech.cbssports.com\/bt\/redirect\/prod?b=betmgm&amp;c=sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"mtech-link\">Bet home runs at BetMGM Sportsbook, where new users can get up to $1,500 in bonus bets here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Top MLB home run picks for Friday, June 19Shea Langeliers, Athletics (+304, DraftKings)<\/p>\n<p>First pitch between the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/LAA\/los-angeles-angels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angels<\/a> and Athletics in Sacramento is at 9:40 ET. I have never been to California&#8217;s capital city and highly doubt I ever will (unless the Kings get good, which is a giant LOL) but it&#8217;s apparently typical weather there in that it&#8217;s hot and winds are blowing out at the minor-league Sutter Health Park.<\/p>\n<p>When you get major offensive production from a catcher, you already have an edge over your opponent. And Langeliers has 19 homers with a career-high OPS of .870. He is one dinger shy of a fourth straight 20-homer season, which is great for a catcher these days. The Athletics will put Langeliers at DH sometimes to keep him fresh. He homered Thursday to extend an on-base streak to 11 games. During that run, he has three homers and his 19 on the season rank second among big-league catchers behind Colorado&#8217;s <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/26911639\/hunter-goodman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Goodman<\/a> (21)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Langeliers has done well off Angels pitcher <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2826021\/jose-soriano\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Soriano<\/a>, a major trade candidate, at 7-for-14 with two homers and two doubles, good for a whopping 1.605 OPS. Soriano was arguably the best pitcher in the AL through early May but has come largely crashing back to earth. The righty has surrendered nine homers in 2026. It&#8217;s his first time this year pitching in Sac-Town.<\/p>\n<p>Also consider Athletics outfielder <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2932293\/lawrence-butler\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Butler<\/a>, who is 5-for-18 off Soriano with two homers and a double.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/martech.cbssports.com\/bt\/redirect\/prod?b=fanduel&amp;c=sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"mtech-link\">Bet on home run props and more at FanDuel Sportsbook and get up to $350 in bonus bets:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bryan Reynolds, Pirates (+310, FanDuel)<\/p>\n<p>The first pitch from Coors Field between the Pirates and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/COL\/colorado-rockies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rockies<\/a> is set for 8:40 ET and obviously it&#8217;s usually good hitting conditions in Denver &#8212; and finally getting hot there so the ball should be flying. Pittsburgh is rolling offensively at the moment, totaling 18 runs in back-to-back wins at another hitter-friendly park in Sacramento on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure who is technically the worst pitcher in the majors, but Rockies lefty <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2135246\/kyle-freeland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Freeland<\/a> is up there at 1-7 with a 7.98 ERA and 14 homers allowed in 12 starts. If you had wagered $100 on the Rockies to win each of Freeland&#8217;s starts, and I don&#8217;t know why that might occur, you would be down $470. At Coors, batters are hitting a robust .324 off Freeland, who is a Denver native. He is going to give up a crooked number or two because that&#8217;s just who Freeland is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pirates outfielder Bryan Reynolds has been a good player on a bad franchise for a while. It seems like the 31-year-old is always mentioned in trade rumors yet never goes anywhere. This year, he has team-best offensive WAR of 2.9 with 10 homers and a .872 OPS. The dude is raking in June at .305 with four homers and a .981 OPS and enters with a nine-game hitting streak. The baseball is a beach ball to Reynolds right now with three multi-hit games in the past four.<\/p>\n<p>He is 3-for-13 with a double off Freeland. Not the best career numbers, but consider the hot streak and location. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/martech.cbssports.com\/bt\/redirect\/prod?b=caesars&amp;c=sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"mtech-link\">Make MLB prop picks and more at Caesars Sportsbook and to double your winnings:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sutter Health Park in Sacramento and Coors Field in Denver are two of the best launching pads in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,684,5343,51,52,53,91056,2092,3875,3508,1022,4810,56,1387,59,4,3226,163,27390,7234,164,27387,27388,25,64,13078,3442],"class_list":["post-730120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-betting","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-home-run-picks-june-19","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-jose-soriano","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-lawrence-butler","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-matt-vierling","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-mlb-best-bets","tag-mlb-home-run-props","tag-mlb-odds","tag-mlb-picks","tag-mlb-player-props","tag-mlb-props","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sacramento-athletics","tag-shea-langeliers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730120","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=730120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}