What It Means:

The left-handed hitting Canzone will sit against the Royals' southpaw. Sam Haggerty will join the outfield and hit ninth while Teoscar Hernandez shifts to designated hitter on Thursday afternoon.

numberFire’s models project Haggerty ($2,000) for 9.0 and Hernandez ($2,600) for 10.8 FanDuel points on Thursday. Per our MLB Heat Map, the Mariners' implied total is 5.28 and the game total is 9.0. Zerpa, who will be making his first start of the season on Thursday, has a 7.71 ERA and 4.69 xERA across 9 1/3 relief innings this season, with a 52.8% hard-hit rate, 7.3% strikeout rate, and 2.4% walk rate.